# Vancouver Sun — user reviews > 79 indexed App Store user reviews of Vancouver Sun by Postmedia Network INC., rated 3.10/5 from 17 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vancouver-sun/id406561903/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vancouver-sun/id406561903.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of Vancouver Sun? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Good journalism content - 👍 Supports Canadian news access abroad **Cons** - 🐌 Unfathomably slow loading - 🐌 App is slow and cumbersome - 🐌 Content not updated frequently - 🐌 Relic from the past - 🐌 App is too painful to browse - 🐌 Subscription requires ads to load - 👎 Garbage content/bias - 👎 Cannot select/lookup words - 👎 Drives users crazy - 👎 Ads incessantly violate eyes - 👎 No iPad version - 👎 Awkward to rotate iPad - 👎 Subscription issues - 👎 Terrible app - 👎 Poorly written - 👎 Lacking fundamental features - 👎 Now a paywall - 👎 Horrible app - 👎 Absolute garbage - 👎 Worst app ever - 👎 Paywall ruins experience - 👎 Latest update asks to sign in - 👎 Charged subscription fee - 👎 Unlimited articles/paywall - 👎 Tracking/sharing information - 👎 Lacking local news - 👎 Blank screen after use - 👎 Full of mainstream media lies - 👎 Horrible ad forcing - 👎 Faking clicks on ads - 👎 Designed to do opposite - 👎 Freezes when sharing - 👎 Share to not working - 👎 Scattered and weak versions - 👎 Share pop up broken - 👎 Mediocre content - 👎 Freezes and doesn't update - 👎 Frustrating - 👎 Poor upgrade - 👎 Too distracting videos/ads - 👎 App freezes - 👎 Works for days at best - 👎 Bad and getting worse - 👎 No search function - 👎 Built-in share lacks email - 👎 Blank screen on share - 👎 Useless app - 👎 Can't find server - 👎 Weeks old news - 👎 Pathetic app - 👎 Slow or no load - 👎 Freezes all the time - 👎 Unusable - 👎 Obscure link transfers - 👎 Bugs - 👎 Random settings screen - 👎 Random ad impression message - 👎 Unusable pop-up - 👎 Same stories for days - 👎 Junk app - 👎 Far behind other apps - 👎 Crashes upon sign in - 👎 Update still freezes - 👎 Frozen app - 👎 Constantly freezes - 👎 Terrible app - 👎 Recycled garbage - 👎 Eliminated comments - 👎 Ugly interface - 👎 So slow - 👎 Unstable app - 👎 Gallery picture description problem - 👎 Crashes on regular basis **Commonly reported bugs** - App is unnecessarily difficult to use - Unfathomably slow to load - Content doesn’t seem to get updated more than once or twice a day - Subscription still requires advertisements to load - Doesn’t allow you to select and look up words - Too slow to load - Lacks the most basic device interoperability - Ads incessantly violate your eyes - No iPad version - Very awkward to rotate my iPad to read the app - Way too slow - Cumbersome and slow - Takes too long to load up - Loads slowly or not at all - Top stories loads somewhat slowly - Next sections takes minutes to load each one - Later sections never load - Constantly asked to reenter your password - App is unusable - Lacks the most basic device interoperability - Terrible app - Poorly written - Lacking even the most fundamental features such pull to reload - Subscription still requires advertisements to load - Horrible app - New app is absolute garbage - Worst app ever - Latest update asks you to sign in again using your password - Email to change password not received - Paid subscription to read anything - New update had made the app terrible - Unlimited amounts of articles - Tracking and sharing all my information - Lacking in local news stories and information - Reinstalled app several times and after one use it stalls and I get a blank - Pay for subscription and have for years but when I contact the Sun I receive an email thanking me but they are busy - Full of Mainstream Media Lies - App is unpleasant to use - Horrible way of forcing ads even on paying users - Faking clicks on ads - Article sharing freezes app - App now freezes when the share button is pushed - Freeze, loading duplicate pages - “Share to” no longer working - On iPad and iPhone, “Share to” has not been working - Share pop up has quit working ever since iOS 15 - When you tap on the share link you get a blank screen with no options to share - Mediocre content not viewable after a couple weeks - App freezes and does not update - Frustrating - App keeps freezing and reloading doesn’t help - Complete wast of my subscription money - Poor Upgrade - Worst version of the Van Sun app - Too distracting with all the videos and ads - App freezes - After opening a few articles, the whole app freezes - Works for a few days at best - Then doesn’t update - Bad and getting worse - Video links in articles that bring up unrelated videos - App under iPadOS 15 doesn’t always load all the articles - If you try to share an article, you just get a blank pop-up instead of one that shows messaging options - Awful - App has been awful since day 1 and it just gets worse - No search function - IOS forward button returns a blank box - Built-in share function doesn’t include e-mail as an option - Can’t forward articles in iOS 15 app appears broken - The forward icon just gives a blank screen where nimbly there’s are airplay, iMessage & email etc options - IOS 15. Does not work. - How come all the others do work. - How long before an update? - Impossible to contact. - Canceled my subscription. - Update happened, worse, useless app. - Won’t open :( - “Error Loading Invalid HTTP response (502) …..”. - Can’t find the server - Useless app regularly can’t find the server so news is weeks old. - Pathetic - It’s 2021 and the Vancouver Sun cannot produce a functioning app. - Persistent freezing, slow or no load of stories. - Won’t load and freezes often - Freezes all the time - It won’t load stories - So frustrating I’m canceling my subscription - Has Been! - Used to be a good app now unusable - Freezes constantly and or transfers over to an obscure link - Delete!! - The app is full of bugs - For a while it would always open a settings screen that was filled with techy options that made no sense - It opened randomly without any order and I’d constantly have to close it - Instead I get a random “did ad record impression message” that’s infuriating - It’s clearly not ment to be there and inhibits control of the page behind - So you scroll then it comes up and keeps scrolling till you can close the pop up - It’s unusable - See the same stories for days at a time - Junk - Can’t search for stories in app - Need to step up - Whoever is responsible in leading the app needs to step up their game - This app is far behind so many other apps - I had this app and then deleted it because it's so bad - Crashes upon sign in - Crashes when trying to sign in with Google - Update still freezes - Was hoping the update would fix the issue but still freezing on me - Frozen - The app only works for one day - Then you have to reinstall it to get an update of the articles - Very disappointing! - App constantly freezes - Works for a day or two, then freezes - I am on iPhone XR latest iOS - Expect the app support to have this fixed by now - It’s been doing this for many months - Frozen - Freezes all the time now - Still not working - This app is terrible - Freezes each day - The only way to read the paper is to delete the app and re- install it - App Freezes - I’m having the same issues - Very frustrating!! - Frozen - App just freezes and I need to delete and re download in order to refresh - Sloppy - Same problem as hmlixvan - After working for one day, app freezes and has to be deleted and reinstalled - Started after the most recent iPhone update - App was great before that - Frozen - For past 2 months App is totally frozen - apps been frozen for weeks - It started by freezing sometimes but has been locked up for weeks now - Rebooting or restarting app does nothing - Useless now unless I want to see three week old headline - New update eliminated content - Not impressed with new update - The weekly sections have disappeared - The screenshot provided in the description of the app is not what I see when opening it - New device, updated app - App Freezes Frequently - This app needs an update because it freezes up after a few days - The only solution is to delete the app and reinstall it - It used to be very stable but now it is unusable - App freezes after a day on IPhone - You need to fix a bug that makes the app freeze a day after installing - When I wipe it and reinstall, it works for a day or so - I noticed the issue perhaps a month ago - This is very annoying - App freezes and doesn’t refresh anymore - Useless to buy subscription now as the app can not refresh and freezes all the tine - No way to force a refresh - Need to resolve this if you are going to charge for subscriptions! - App keeps freezing - Unfortunately the iOS app freezes after a few days requiring a blunt force fix of an app instance delete and the a new download to restore the app (temporarily) - Recycled garbage.... - Eliminated readers' ability to comment on news - An app only a mother could love - Very functional, does everything you'd expect it to do - Dims articles you've read - Functionally its faultless - So god damn ugly - Feel dirty looking at it - Embarrassingly bad - So slow - Takes forever to load - Unstable app - Serious technical problems - Can't swipe from one page to the next without repeating numerous times - Considerable on/off flashing of the page - Gallery picture txt description problem - Txt description disappear automatically cause reading problem - Crash - Crashes on regular basis - Trouble opening - Ever since the latest update, my application simply stalls while trying to download the news, then crashes! - Completely frustrated with it **Most requested features** - Adapt to competitor usability - Better Vancouver area coverage - iPad version - Fix app freezing - Fix share pop-up - Fix text description disappearing - Fix crashes - Fix slow loading - Fix login issues - Fix subscription issues - Fix ad issues - Fix search function - Fix portrait mode on iPad - Fix word lookup feature - Fix pull to reload - Fix content update frequency - Improve local news coverage - Improve UI/visual design ## Newest reviews (16 of 79) ### 2/5 — Vancouver Sun news app *2026-06-12* Use many news apps. The content is great but this app is unnecessarily difficult to use. Poorer compared to others. Review ease of use of your competitor’s news apps and please adapt. ### 2/5 — Why does this app exist? *2026-06-02* I subscribe to and read several newspapers online including The Globe and Mail, New York Times and The Guardian. This app is by the worst interface. It is unfathomably slow to load. The content doesn’t seem to get updated more than once or twice a day. Breaking news is best found elsewhere. Overall, this seems like relic from about 10-15 years ago. If only the Globe had better Vancouver area coverage. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t allow you to select and look up words *2024-12-08* Unacceptable for the newspaper of a multicultural city. I can't select a word to look it up in the dictionary. Maybe they’re trying to prevent copying of their content, as if preventing selection of text will stop the few who will do that, while causing all the normal users to suffer. For me it's the dictionary lookups, for some it'll be the Speak selection feature, for others it will be the Translate feature, and for many it will be the upcoming Apple Intelligence summarize feature. Nope, you can't use any of those features with this app. ### 2/5 — Loads slowly or not at all. *2024-10-11* The top stories loads somewhat slowly. The next sections takes minutes to load each one. The later sections never load. You’re constantly asked to reenter your password. Honestly, I’m considering not te-subscribing, because the app is unusable. ### 2/5 — Lack of balance *2024-10-07* The obvious political leaning of Postmedia ruins this news service. A little balance would go a long way and might even increase the credibility of some of the nutbar columnists. More importantly it would almost certainly increase their readership. ### 1/5 — Worst app ever *2024-04-04* I used to look forward to reading the Sun on the app. No longer. Don’t waste your time! ### 1/5 — Was great until $14.99 paywall *2024-03-30* Had to delete :( Please bring back the old version of the app that was similar to The Province. ### 1/5 — Poor update *2024-03-29* Latest update asks you to sign in again using your password. Six times I have been told an email has been sent to allow me to change the forgotten password. To date no email has been received. Will delete when the subscription runs out. ### 1/5 — Long Time User. Deleted now that they charge. *2024-03-27* Have had this app for as long as I can remember and now I have deleted it due to them charging a subscription fee. No more advertising revenue from my daily use. ### 1/5 — Paid subscription to read anything *2024-03-26* The new update had made the app terrible. It was so good before. I would get on and read all the articles and be done. Now there’s unlimited amounts of articles (which sucks as I would rather just read the top ones like the other app had) and on top of that almost all of them require you to have a paid subscription to read the article…. App is garage now. Coming from a guy who doesn’t write bad reviews often. ### 1/5 — Ok seriously *2024-03-23, version 7.0.1* I have enjoyed this app for years and the ads were fine but I am not willing to allow them to track and share all my information. So I simply deleted your app and now read the province. ### 1/5 — Lack of local news *2023-10-28, version 6.3.4* Lacking in local news stories and information ### 1/5 — Full of Mainstream Media Lies *2022-08-30* I only look at this APP to see what you are lying about now so I don’t get blindsided by it. You don’t deserve to be in business as you have no idea what balanced journalism is. ### 2/5 — App is unpleasant to use *2022-06-16* I subscribe because I believe in supporting my local newspaper. However, the app has a horrible way of forcing ads even on paying users and faking clicks on ads. I have never seen anything so bad with other apps. Other papers are building solid digital subscriber support, but this seems designed to do the opposite! ### 2/5 — Article sharing freezes app *2022-03-28, version 6.0.9* The app now freezes when the share button is pushed instead of showing a useless grey article with all the icons missing. They really need to do more testing before pushing out releases. At least the in app email feedback system works again in this version. ### 3/5 — “Share to” no longer working *2022-02-01, version 6.0.7* On iPad and iPhone, “Share to” has not been working for a few weeks. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Subscription still requires advertisements to load *2025-09-28* Even though you pay for a subscription, if you have an add blocker on your network it won’t recognize the subscription. You have to close the app, disconnect from wifi so it just uses cell data, and then re-open the app for advertisements to load. You can enable wifi again after that, Might last a day or 2 before you have to go through it again. ### 1/5 — Garbage content *2025-03-14* This is not journalism. Journalism should be impartial. This is right wing newspaper. This is garbage. I will delete the app and never read their content. | ### 1/5 — Too slow to load *2024-11-05* The previous Vancouver Sun app worked great. This one drives me crazy. It doesn’t show me the articles when I open the app…I have to wait for them to load, then again for each section that I scroll down to I have to wait again for articles to load. I used to read the Vancouver Sun everyday online, but this newer app has taken the joy out of reading it, so I don’t open it much. ### 1/5 — Lacks the most basic device interoperability *2024-11-03* If I like to read articles in portrait mode on an iPad, the app should rotate to this orientation. Really basic user experience overlooked. Ads incessantly violate your eyes as you attempt to read an article. ### 1/5 — Way too slow *2024-10-16* I go to other apps for news now. The new van app is cumbersome and slow and takes too long to load up. It need a lot of work. I will be back when it’s better…. ### 1/5 — Lacks the most basic device interoperability *2024-10-06* If I like to read articles in portrait mode on an iPad, the app should rotate to this orientation. Really basic user experience overlooked. ### 1/5 — No iPad version *2024-07-16* It’s unfortunate that there is not a version for iPads. Very awkward to rotate my iPad to read the app. ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2024-06-01* Poorly written, lacking even the most fundamental features such pull to reload. ### 1/5 — Now a paywall? *2024-05-21* So either download the app and pay a subscription OR just go to Vancouver Sun on your internet browser and read everything for free. Great work! ### 1/5 — What a mess! Why the change? Makes no sense *2024-04-06* This is an absolutely horrible app. The old app was great. The new app is absolute garbage. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — No iPad version *2024-10-29* It’s unfortunate that there is not a version for iPads. Very awkward to rotate my iPad to read the app. So I didn’t renew my subscription. Will renew when iPad version available. ### 5/5 — If there there was a zero star rating that’s what it deserves *2022-12-25, version 6.2.0* I have reinstalled this app several times and after one use it stalls and I get a blank. I pay for the subscription and have for years but when I contact the Sun I receive an email thanking me but they are busy. Weeks later I get another email saying they are working on it. Hah. Lousy service VS! ### 5/5 — Freeze, loading duplicate pages *2022-02-20, version 6.0.8* Thanks! Latest update appears to have fixed this bug ### 5/5 — Great! *2013-04-11* It does the job and gets you all the need to know news so am happy :-) ### 5/5 — Updated Review *2012-06-06* The latest update to the app fixed the slow loading issue. This a wonderful app now. Thanks for listening to the comments! ### 5/5 — Update *2012-01-13* They have fixed the problems I wrote about in my earlier review. This app works really nice now, and I read it every day. One thing I would like to see, would be an option to scroll the pages one column at a time, rather than having to flip three columns (one slide) at a time. No complaints though, the app works great now. It would be nice to have a paid, non-advertising version of the app as an option. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2011-12-27* Absolutely Brilliant App! I'm really shocked that this app does not have any reviews! I'm from the UK but i downloaded it to check out the business news in canada. ### 5/5 — Love it *2010-12-13* Nice to be able to get this, being Canadian and living in the states. Thanks! ### 4/5 — Still awful *2021-10-18, version 6.0.3* IOS 15. Does not work. How come all the others do work. How long before an update? Impossible to contact. Canceled my subscription. Well an update happened, worse, useless app. Buy another newspaper, these people do not care. Canceled my subscription. ### 3/5 — Some good journalism but it is ruined by the app *2025-11-07* A major city such as Vancouver needs a serious newspaper, and many would support it if it had a good app. There are still some good journalists at the Sun who report on subjects in depth. However the app is slow and you have to wait for each section to load, making it too painful to browse through the paper each day for interesting articles. It is sad to see the paper failing for such simple to fix reasons. --- *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 2026-09-10.*