# The Pottstown Mercury — user reviews > 33 indexed App Store user reviews of The Pottstown Mercury by Journal Register Company, rated 4.70/5 from 87 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-pottstown-mercury/id525118208/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-pottstown-mercury/id525118208.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 69 · 4★ 15 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (12 of 33) ### 2/5 — Doesn't update *2014-03-16* This app wouldn't be half bad but the news doesn't update. It shows stories from 2 days ago...not the recent newest stories. ### 1/5 — Mercury App Complaint *2013-08-02, version 4.4.0.0* App crashes, articles dont load and Bizarre Blotter is a bust with just the headline! I am considering deleting it if I dont see some sort of improvement!! ### 1/5 — Inconsistant! *2013-07-20, version 4.4.0.0* Half the time when you touch at item to read the story I get a blank page. ### 1/5 — Old news *2013-07-16* Only a few new articles a day. A lot of grammatical and typographic errors. Ap crashes about 30% of the time. ### 1/5 — White screen *2013-07-14, version 4.4.0.0* I tap the headline to go to the story and get a white screen. ### 1/5 — Meh *2013-07-08* Bizzare blotter never loads anything beyond the basic headlines, and anything involving a video does not load, either. With the latest update, I thought it might improve. The new pop up ads load IMMEDIATELY, but half the time the articles don't, and I STILL don't get videos or bizzare blotter. Quite often the app crashes. I'd give it a zero if I could. Junk, crapoy excuse for a money grab with the advertising. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2013-06-08, version 4.3.0.0* This app is horrible! It's never up to date. If you like your news 3 weeks old then this app is for you ### 1/5 — Bill from rofo *2013-04-22* This app stinks. It does not refresh when it should. I check it 2 to 4 times a day. It's a Friday and I'm still looking at the Wednesday news. They better do something soon to fix this. ### 1/5 — Rather read nothing *2013-04-08, version 4.2.1.0* Horrible paper! It is like ready an unintelligent FaceBook posting. ### 1/5 — Owner *2013-02-08, version 4.1.0.0* This app is awfull dont get it the news is over 3 months old and wont update!!! ### 1/5 — Never updates *2012-10-04* I have to delete and reinstall everyday and then only of I am lucky it will up date to current day. The next time I delete will be my last time to use this app. I travel and do like to keep up on area news. This app not working most if the time does not fulfill my expectations ### 1/5 — Nothing opens! *2012-10-01* It would be nice if the articles actually opened so they can be read. What's the point of having an app that doesn't work? Constantly says "content is loading" then finally says after that "article no longer available" even though it was just published 2 hours ago! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Settings? *2018-09-25* Can’t find any place to say I only want “x”. Or notify if “something important happens” Tried it about 2 years ago and removed it. Good bye again. ### 1/5 — Junk *2018-03-10, version 7.2.16* Old content, crashes ### 1/5 — Lousy!. Don't waste your time! *2016-05-23* Warning: not free. Stops loading articles after about 10 or 12 links are clicked and requests a subscription. How stupid is that? And they wonder why people are turning away from newspapers and embracing other sources of information. Also, it's Riddled with ads and has poor performance. Slow to load. Stay away. Go with a major network news app instead which is free. ### 1/5 — Great job on sucking more *2015-06-21* I use to use the app a lot now it works for a few days and makes you sign into a paid subscription. It won't let you read anything. Don't need local news that bad ### 1/5 — Joe Smith *2014-06-25, version 5.9* A terrible app! ### 1/5 — Doesn't work! *2014-06-11* Freezes or crashes all the time. I like local news but wished it worked. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2014-06-07, version 5.8* Freezes,crashes,not up to date.... Sorry but.... ### 1/5 — Constant crashes *2014-06-03* The only thing that seems to be consistent with this app is that it locks up and crashes constantly. What a disappointment. ### 1/5 — Old content *2014-05-17, version 5.6* The content doesn't refresh. I am going on five day old news. Too many adds ### 1/5 — Gm *2013-08-13* Horrible! I guess it's ok if you want to read maybe 4 local stories a day.. After noon! Content is never ready in the morning, ya know,. When most people would read a newspaper. Half of the articles fail to load., forget trying to read a bizarre blotter or watch a video. May as well go pick up a paper, although that's probably the purpose! Why would they want a flawless app? Then they wouldn't make ANY money. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good news app *2013-07-24* Good app great to keep up on local news. ### 5/5 — Great local news app *2013-06-29* As long as you stay away from the right-wing biased commentary and op-Ed, this is a great local app for news. ### 5/5 — Great app *2013-01-26* This app is great. You can even read sound off! ### 5/5 — Best local news source on the iPhone!! *2012-09-05* I love this app! ### 5/5 — Good app *2012-07-19, version 1.0* Works good ### 4/5 — Love it *2013-07-02, version 4.4.0.0* Nice app ### 4/5 — Handy and easy app to use *2013-06-07* Love having this app to check out the local news. Don't like messing around with a big newspaper. I use this app everyday to see what's going on locally and around the world. ### 3/5 — Needs comments *2013-04-16* Why no comments at the end of the stories? That is the best part. ### 2/5 — App freezes and closes *2015-04-30, version 6.2.65* All of a sudden this app tells me I must create a press+ login ### 2/5 — Add alerts *2014-06-01* Last update ruined this app. There are still no breaking news alerts and now the articles don't update. I open the app and see stories from last week. No refresh button either. Booooooooo --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-23.*