The Modesto Bee User Reviews

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

Is The Modesto Bee Safe?

The Modesto Bee: Local News CA appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Modesto Bee is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 1,226 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

88.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,226 App Store ratings for The Modesto Bee.

Is The Modesto Bee Legit?

The Modesto Bee: Local News CA appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Modesto Bee is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

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

Paper

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

Out with the old…

Great update!

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.
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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.

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

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.
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Family Sharing not working

Can’t share subscription with family.

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.

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!

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.
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Beta App is Horrible

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

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.
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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

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.

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.

Doesn't work after the last update.

App doesn't work since it was updated yesterday.

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.
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Pesky add that stays on bottom of page

Pesky add stays on bottom of page

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!