The Morning Call User Reviews

The Morning Call
The Morning Call
Tribune Publishing Company, LLC

Customer Experience

Positive experience23.2% of reviews
Neutral10.5% of reviews
Negative experience66.3% of reviews

~ Based on 95 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is The Morning Call Safe?

The Morning Call appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Morning Call is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 3,092 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,044 App Store ratings for The Morning Call.

Is The Morning Call Legit?

The Morning Call appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Morning Call is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

New premium subscriber

As a new premium digital subscriber, I have been very happy overall with all the features afforded to me. These features include a very nice, clean layout of the news in The Morning Call app, without ads. I also get the electronic version of the actual paper edition. The one big feature that I don’t think people realize this subscription gets them, is that it includes a whole bunch of newspapers nationwide with the same features as The Morning Call premium digital subscription. You use the same login information with the other newspapers that are included. With all this in mind, it really does provide value for the money spent. Here are the newspapers you get access to:

West

Marin Independent Journal
East Bay Times
The Mercury News
Times-Standard
The Orange County Register
The Chico Enterprise-Record
Lake County Record-Bee
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Oroville Mercury-Register
Pasadena Star-News
Red Bluff Daily News
Redlands Daily Facts
The Press-Enterprise
San Bernardino Sun
Daily Breeze
The Ukiah Daily Journal
The Reporter Weekly Review
Times-Herald
Whittier Daily News
Woodland Daily Democrat
Los Angeles Daily News
The Daily Camera
Carson City Daily Record
The Denver Post
The Fort Morgan Times
Greeley Tribune
Times-Call
Reporter-Herald
Journal-Advocate

Northeast

Boston Herald
Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise
Lowell Sun
The Trentonian
The Daily Freeman
The Saratogian
The Troy Record
Lansdale Reporter
The Times Herald
The Mercury
Daily Times
Daily Local News
The Hartford Courant
Daily Press
The Virginian-Pilot
Morning Call
Oneida Daily Dispatch
Nashoba Valley Voice

Midwest

The Macomb Daily
Morning Sun
Chicago Tribune
Oakland Press
TwinCities Pioneer Press
The Morning Journal
The News-Herald

Southeast

South Florida Sun Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
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Content Refuses to Load

Recently, no articles will load on the app. Instead it only displays an error: “We are currently unable to load this content, try content on another section.”

A newspaper?

The obvious decline in editorial content and staff journalist is disheartening. Except for scanning the Obits and “Peanuts” all of the other reporting can be found elsewhere. There is no genuine editorial content exploring local issues. Restaurant and retail openings/closings dominate copy content. Sad demise of a once great local news source.
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Limited

I love that I can read the Call on my tablet now. Sadly I can't play the games on my iPad or iPhone.

Worthless news except for obituaries

The app has finally stabilized after a number of years of Beta performance. It is really sad to see an historic quality local paper devolve into wireline regurgitation. No attempt to ever provide a balanced perspective. Just call it The Blue Dogma.

Great newspaper

It’s really nice to be able to access this from SC
I’ve lived 3/4 of my life in PA and being able to read how the Leigh Valley is progressing is very interesting to me.
Keep up the great work❣️

Improvements needed

I enjoy reading the Morning Call and we have been subscribers for almost 3 decades, first the paper version and now the digital version. When you updated the digital app a few months ago you made it very hard and frustrating to read the newspaper.
#1. Once you get through the first few pages it becomes very difficult to swipe to the next page. You have to swipe several times and it may work or you have to use 2 fingers to pull in on your current page and then try to swipe to the next page.
#2. It is annoying that you can’t print or email a single article on the digital app. If you try to print you get the whole page and the print is so small you need the magnifying glass to read it. To print an article you have to use the website version of the digital newspaper. However the website version isn’t easy to read because you have the swiping to the next page issue and on my iPad I can get a full page view, however I used to be able to see a full page view.
#3. I like to know what page of the newspaper I am reading. Before you upgraded you would have on the top of the paper page 1 of 26, 2 of 26, 3 of 26….and forward and backward arrows, now you don’t know where you are at in the newspaper and you can’t arrow forward or back, you have to swipe and that is not easy or a reliable function.
I’m not sure why you updated and made it more difficult to read the newspaper, it wasn’t broken, no fix was needed. However, now it is broken and fixes are needed. I hope you read this and heed my comments, put the newspaper back the way it was , you didn’t improve anything.
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Tech Support Needs to be Improved

I have subscribed to the Morning Call for five decades. I find the articles to be informative and balanced. The lifestyles features are interesting, and my husband loved the sports coverage. Since becoming a digital-only subscriber, I have experienced difficulty accessing my subscription. I called the customer service number and I was told twice a technical support person would get back to me. That was weeks ago and no one has contacted me. Very poor customer service.
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Delivery

Non existent

Leftist activists presenting as journalists

I have never liked the Morning Call rag.
I read the headlines to gauge the temperature and sentiment of its “journalists “
Each day they do not disappoint.
Their left wing views are so painfully obvious.
Their reluctance to speak the truth about anything remotely related to President Donald Trump is disingenuous and pathetic.
Remember boys and girls at the Morning Call , he’s now our “rightful” president. Landslide Victory!
I know it disgusts you to acquiesce to this fact, so you continue to punch upwards pathetically as your public laughs at the transparency of your so called journalism.
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Don’t get on line paper anymore and didn’t get Sundays paper this week

Paid for paper and don’t recive it

To many ads to active trying to read a story

Editor or whenever makes decisions they should be fired

Excellent Coverage

I especially like the Evening Call - excellent coverage of national and international events of the day.

Pop-Ups Make It Unreadable

The number of pop-up ads on a single page often makes it difficult if not impossible to read a story.

Unlimited Subscription???

I have unlimited subscription but your alerts all state that I have reached the limit of my free articles and therefore prevent me from reading new alert articles

Too many ads!

The app has so many poorly placed ads that you can’t read the news stories. The ads are pop ups, between every 2-3 lines, and stacked up at the top, bottom, and sides of the page. I’m all for making money but this seems like the ads are just thrown on the page and it make navigation very frustrating.
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Can’t read in landscapre view on ipad

Unlike all the other news apps on my ipad, Morning Call will not rotate to landscape view. Since my ipad is attached to my bluetooth keyboard, turning the thing sideways for morning call is not a welcome thing. Forget it

Subscription failure.

I pay a monthly subscription for the Morning Call, but yet when I go to their app and attempt to read the Morning Call, I am directed to a page that indicates that I am not a subscriber and directs me to another page to pay the subscription.Thus the one star.

No Landscape?

Why would you remove landscape orientation? And the previous version was so much better where articles could be read in a normal page view instead of in a narrow column where you have to constantly scroll.

Why remove landscape mode?

My older mom has gotten the morning call for decades. I was able to get her to learn the iPad and switch from a physical paper to a digital version. All of the apps on the iPad use a landscape view which makes everything easier. The latest update removed this for some reason that makes it much harder for my mom to use. There is no option to switch between both views. Please bring back that landscape view that all tablet apps use.
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