The State News User Reviews

Name: The State News: South Carolina
Rating: 4.4 (2368 reviews)

The State News: South Carolina

The McClatchy Company

📡 News

📰 Magazines & Newspapers

Customer Experience

Positive experience14.8% of reviews

Neutral8.2% of reviews

Negative experience77.0% of reviews

~ Based on 61 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of The State News. Based on 2.4K reviews and a 4.4/5 average, it highlights the 2 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.

Positive things

🌟Excellent hometown paper
📰Reliable, concise, and balanced news coverage

Negative things

🐛Frequent crashes and stability issues
📱Poor app performance and user experience
🔍Outdated and delayed news content
💰Excessive ads and paywalls for paid subscribers

Is The State News Safe?

The State News: South Carolina appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The State News is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 2,368 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

87.4% of ratings point to a safe experience

5.7% of ratings suggest some concerns

6.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,368 App Store ratings for The State News.

Is The State News Legit?

The State News: South Carolina appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The State News is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

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Room for Improvement

I started reading The State over 50 years ago and I’m glad to see it survive the transition to digital. But the skimpy local coverage is disappointing, and I am frustrated that sections like Business and Local have 4-6 month old articles it the top of the feed.

Smokin' Gamecock

4 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. We will pass on this information to our news team. Thanks, Customer Care

We’ve got a winner!

A GREAT CITY deserves a GREAT Newspaper! South Carolinians are lucky, we have The State!

drewfromThe1975

5 months ago

Going downhill

Too little local news.

Cxhxac

5 months ago

Bad update means app is no longer compatible with iPad

Bad update. Wait before using they have some bugs to fix.

R9876pqr7-443

6 months ago

Motormouth article

Motormouth article will not open in the app.

Carolina Retiree

a year ago

Keeps clocking trying to open articals

Over half of the download keeps clocking. Eventually if I go back they show up. Click on some news articles and the app crashes. Deleted app and reinstalled on iPad and still same issues. It is also getting to where most articles are 2 or more days behind the local or national news on tv.

Jclinebe

2 years ago

Response from developer

We are sorry for the experience you had with your account. 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

The worst app ever created by humankind

You get the same headlines three days in a row. App is not updated. I’m a paid subscriber. I am canceling my subscription. This is a horrible app supporting a horrible “newspaper”. This offering is unfathomable!

Finally, if you expect push alerts to take you to the headlined story, you are mistaken. The IT people operating the news content at The State Newspaper are not paying attention, or they are incompetent. by the way, this is an ongoing problem of several years duration.

60-year reader

2 years ago

Response from developer

Update the app to the latest version 9.1.6.

New layout for e-edition…

is a step back. I like the e-edition to have the layout of a “newspaper.” I called a rep and long story short, she said it would have that newspaper layout on days the paper is actually printed; Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Hasn’t happened.

imjamie1

2 years ago

Response from developer

Please delete and reinstall the app version 9.1.3 this should correct the issue.

Digital Update?

The only days the app will display a “newspaper” e-edition image is on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays? Is that a good guess? And that’s because those are the days it is being printed? I’m sure I’m not the only one that is disappointed with this “update.” I chose the newspaper layout in settings, but of course, it doesn’t work.

imjamie1

2 years ago

Response from developer

Please delete and reinstall the app version 9.1.3 this should correct the issue.

The worst app ever created by humankind

Push alerts absolutely do not bring you the article referenced. let me put it more clearly, the push alert feature is abysmal. I swear to God, I have never seen an app this poorly developed. For God’s sake, you can’t hire somebody who knows how to develop information technology applications?

60-year reader

3 years ago

Response from developer

Update the app to the latest version 9.1.6.

Excellent app

Very grateful for the app though I don’t pay for a subscription. Why you ask? Same articles are free elsewhere.

mount an dew

3 years ago

the state

this is the worst ap ever. you can’t change the size, too small to read. Don’t bother trying

used to read the state

4 years ago

Push Alerts Do Not Work!

I wouldn’t be so critical except that this problem has been going on for years. You get a push alert, you tap it, and you don’t get the push alert story!

I’m deleting this app. It’s worthless. Now the newspaper wants to charge you $70 bucks per month for this crap. This is outrageous.

60-year reader

4 years ago

Response from developer

Update the app to the latest version 9.1.6.

Frustrating

I deleted and re-download the app hoping it would help, but it doesn’t. As a digital subscriber, I opted to first see the updated news, and click on to the e-edition. My Home Screen repeatedly pops up “error fetching feeds”, and “pull to refresh”. What does that even mean?

000309

5 years ago

Response from developer

There is bug where Private Relay is interfering with the app's ability to fetch feeds. Our development team is working to fix this issue. In the meantime, disable Private Relay and the news feed should reappear. Click on Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Private Relay.

Works ok but too many ads

I had a paid subscription to the paper but was still bombarded with advertisements while using the app to include full screen ads.

App crashes intermittently and sends tons of data out while using.

Would suggest they quit trying to monetize paying subscribers the app, real turn off.

strb113

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback, we will share this with our team. To resolve the loading issue, try clearing the cache on the app, and then delete and reinstall. If the issue continues, please provide screenshots and email them to mobile-team@mcclatchyinteractive.com for further assistance.