The Modesto Bee | Latest News User Reviews

Name: The Modesto Bee | Latest News
Rating: 4.4 (1134 reviews)

The Modesto Bee | Latest News

The McClatchy Company

📡 News

📰 Magazines & Newspapers

Customer Experience

Positive experience39.4% of reviews

Neutral12.1% of reviews

Negative experience48.5% of reviews

~ Based on 66 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of The Modesto Bee | Latest News. Based on 1.1K reviews and a 4.4/5 average, it highlights the 4 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.

Positive things

⚡Fast and responsive app
📰Comprehensive local news coverage
🔍Easy to navigate and find relevant information
🔖Useful for staying up-to-date on local events

Negative things

🔒Frequent login issues and paywall problems
🐛Bugs and crashes, especially after updates
📱Poor user experience, difficult to read articles
💰Expensive subscription, not worth the cost

Is The Modesto Bee | Latest News Safe?

The Modesto Bee | Latest News appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Modesto Bee | Latest News is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 1,134 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

87.8% of ratings point to a safe experience

6.9% of ratings suggest some concerns

5.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,134 App Store ratings for The Modesto Bee | Latest News.

Is The Modesto Bee | Latest News Legit?

The Modesto Bee | Latest News appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Modesto Bee | Latest News is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Most Recent Highest Rated Lowest Rated

Not much to it

If you aren’t interested in where to find restaurant cockroaches, there’s not much more to it. And the app often doesn’t recognize me as a paid subscriber so I have to go through the hassle of re-logging in

Glrd

3 months ago

Response from developer

We are sorry for the experience you're having. Please reach out to us at wecare@mcclatchy.com with your contact information as we would like the opportunity to help correct. Thanks, Customer Care Team

Paper

I love the paper , go back to 2 x week for hard copy

Joey 209 hi

4 months ago

Response from developer

Dear Valued Subscriber, Thank you for the positive feedback. We currently offer the newspaper in hard copy three days a week by mail: Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. Please reach out to us at wecare@mcclatchy.com with your contact information as we would be happy to assist you. Thanks, Customer Care

Out with the old…

Great update!

TOLIME

5 months ago

Local Transparency

The Modesto Bee is our greatest source of transparency and keeping local politicians accountable. It’s vital our local news survives the age of free internet news nit too mention all the fake garbage foisted upon us. Thank you McClatchy and Modesto Bee reporters for the light you bring in transparency.

GrumpyUACust

5 months ago

Response from developer

Dear Valued Subscriber, Thank you for the positive feedback. Customer Care

Delivery problems

I’ve been trying for a week to get my paper delivered by using this app. After seven days still no paper. So this app appears useless.

ccccghfrdgh

5 months ago

Horrible

I loved this app until the update. It now requires a email and password, often multiple times, on a daily basis with all sorts of pop ups and junk. I will unsubscribe if this continues

Mortimer Z MD

7 months ago

Response from developer

We are sorry for the experience you're having with the app and the login process. Please reach out to us at customerservice@mcclatchy.com with your contact information as we would like the opportunity to help correct. Thanks, Customer Care Team

No choice if you want the Modesto Bee, but app is very poor.

My latest of a long line of frustrations - using the only search function it has, cannot pull up an article from a year ago, despite having the full title and date. Indeed, can’t pull up the edition for that day. Works fine for daily reading and pulling up recent articles, but no real archival capacity.

1h3md6

a year ago

Family Sharing not working

Can’t share subscription with family.

LL2W

2 years ago

Response from developer

We are sorry for the experience you're having with sharing your subscription. You should be able to provide your username and password with a family member for digital access. Please reach out to us at customerservice@mcclatchy.com with your contact information as we would like the opportunity to help correct. Thanks, Customer Care Team

Local news.

Modesto B keeping news locally from being read without subscription or having the app. Next television will be doing the same thing without the app. You need to pay for subscription.

hjc2you

4 years ago

Fixed

Won’t load. Please fix as I pay for the subscription. Update: November 2021 No news feeds since latest update. Please fix.
UPDATE: Disabling private relay worked. Thank you!

todddster

5 years ago

Response from developer

Please check to see if Private Relay is enabled. If it is, disable Private Relay and the news feed should reappear.

This “Beta” version is much improved, but…

This version is much better than the previous version EXCEPT if you inadvertently touch the screen, it takes you to an isolated view of an article. This happens frequently and it’s rather annoying. Why not require a double tap of the screen for those who like the isolated view? I personally NEVER purposely use this alternate view, but I get it accidentally way too often.

wesweb

5 years ago

Beta App is Horrible

The new beta app is terrible. Bring back the ability to do pdf

cdhepcat

6 years ago

App is poorly integrated

I subscribe through iTunes and yet am prompted to subscribe on nearly every article; this still occurs after restoring and checking that it says active subscriber. Trying to read the replica edition takes me through a browser where I have to go through multiple steps to log in again. Since most of the content requires going to the replica edition, this is a problem. The user experience with this app is very poor, especially considering the high price of the monthly subscription for very limited content. The content is great; the app is junk. You need to fix the app so that once authenticated the reader can read smoothly and move to the replica edition within the app.

V steve

6 years ago

Horrible

So to see and get the news in Modesto bee, I gotta subscribe?

All other news outlets, no subscription needed...

No thanks

$15.99 a month or

$160 for the year,,,??

I’ll just tune into the news on YouTube

BLacK-HaRTz

6 years ago

What a joke

I've been using this app for years and now you want to charge a ridiculous amount of money! Especially at a time like the covid 19 pandemic half the news you can read what a joke wouldn't waste my time with this rip off app I will be deleting this app.

gtreass

6 years ago

Delivery problems

I’ve been trying for a week to get my paper delivered by using this app. After seven days still no paper. So this app appears useless.

ccccghfrdgh

6 years ago

Doesn't work after the last update.

App doesn't work since it was updated yesterday.

Oidance

6 years ago

Parent company ruined the app

Paywall and previous app use had 4 stories listed 3 times. Why repeat? No content?
Other news outlets are producing better news. Have eradicated merced sun-star and ModBee.
Not willing to pay $200 a year times two to get news, ModBee and Merced sun star.

More up to date news out there.

Again, multiple stories that last 5 days with a subscription.

tech support user

7 years ago

Pesky add that stays on bottom of page

Pesky add stays on bottom of page

rowser22

7 years ago

Frustrated!!!

Bring back the old edition! I have spent 30 minutes trying to open today’s paper! Still nothing, tell me why I should continue my subscription???

The e edition will not open in the paper format! Help would like to be able to read what I pay for!

stupid paper