# Windsor Star — user reviews > 61 indexed App Store user reviews of Windsor Star by Postmedia Network INC., rated 2.70/5 from 11 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/windsor-star/id406388735/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/windsor-star/id406388735.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (16 of 61) ### 1/5 — Garbage app *2021-03-07* It used to freeze and now it crashes my phone, hard restart everytime ### 1/5 — Should have been beta tested *2021-03-06, version 6.0* Freezes constantly on iPhone 12 Mini since the most recent update. App causes phone to shut down and restart by itself. Some content loads fine while others presents a blank screen and then locks up entire phone. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2021-03-02, version 6.0* Latest version seems to crash my phone with latest iOS. What a pain... ### 1/5 — Crashes my phone *2021-03-01, version 6.0* I have an iPhone 12 max. Periodically, when I click on a story, this app causes my phone to freeze and then restart. This has been happening for several weeks now. ### 1/5 — Crashing since latest update - NO app support *2021-02-24, version 6.0* I used this app daily for years. Since the latest update 2 weeks ago, the app crashes and shuts down my phone completely. Now I see that this iPhone app was the only free version. Is Windsor Star getting greedy for money and crashing it on purpose, so we go to their paid app? I’ll find a better news source before I do that. ‘App support’ only takes you to their paid news version, NOT to support. Feedback button in app leads to obsolete email address. ### 1/5 — Windsor Star *2021-02-22, version 6.0* Terrible app! I want to support local news media but this app isn’t useful! Very frustrating!! ### 1/5 — Crashes my phone *2021-02-21, version 6.0* This app was stable at one point. Currently, it won’t load content properly. This often crashes the entire phone, not just the app. It even crashed while running in the background. Please fix it! ### 1/5 — Restarts the Phone *2021-02-20, version 6.0* The app causes my iPhone to restart when I try to open a story. App was just updated this morning. Ten days ago I wrote the above and no update nor reply from developer. This app will be deleted shortly. ### 1/5 — Does it get any worse? *2021-02-20, version 6.0* ABSOLUTE GARBAGE ### 1/5 — New update crashes *2021-02-16, version 6.0* The new update crashes and restarts iPhone. ### 1/5 — Crashing my phone *2021-02-15, version 6.0* With the latest update, my phone (iPhone 12, only two months old) shuts down and restarts when I try to read a story. ### 1/5 — Junk *2021-02-11, version 6.0* Better go back. The update is terrible. Complete garbage. If I could I would give it a -5 star rating ### 1/5 — No Search function *2020-10-03, version 5.8* So is a news app doesn't have a search function. By the way this app isn’t free. ### 1/5 — Freezing since new apple update *2020-04-17, version 5.5* New update done. Windsor star frozen. Please fix. Still not working. Pls fix. This sucks. Please fix please fix This is a new review. April 17 ### 1/5 — App won’t open *2020-03-22, version 5.3* Every time I try to open it, it shuts down immediately. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2019-12-20, version 4.7* Does anyone who works their actually know what they are doing ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disgusting *2024-08-17* They are now charging people 12.99 a month to see the news. I’m deleting the app. Don’t get it, not worth it. ### 1/5 — Doesn't Work *2024-07-05* I have a subscription. The app doesn't work and will not let me sign in, though I can on my comp with the same info. So, the app doesn't work. ### 1/5 — Thumbs down to the upgrade *2024-04-12* Had this app on my phone for many years and now since the upgrade in 2024 - deleted it. App is now charging a subscription fee and isn’t user friendly either. No thanks. ### 1/5 — Go back to old app this update is terrible. *2024-04-07* Terrible app update was much better before not recommended at all. ### 1/5 — Piece of Junk *2023-04-06* This only thing consistent about this app is how often it doesn’t work. And when you reach out to support the answer is remove and reinstall the app. And when you say you’ve done this they say you may have to do it several times. ### 1/5 — Obit issue *2022-08-06* Obits not loading correctly for over a week now ### 1/5 — Issues when reading news *2021-12-21* For the most of time, the app won’t function properly, as you open a new article, it would automatically load another new page, which has the same content but extremely laggy, and eventually froze. Please fix it asap. ### 1/5 — Garbage app *2021-11-22* Paper media struggling to be relevant should make better app. See Blockbuster for not getting with the times. ### 1/5 — Please update the app *2021-10-22* The app is full of bugs, can’t share, won’t load content often times. I don’t have these issues with other news apps. ### 1/5 — The Windsor Star App Not Functioning *2021-10-04* The Windsor star App has been my go to local news App since it’s inception. However, over the past week it keeps telling me to “reload”. The App is not functioning. I have deleted and reloaded the app countless times and it is still not working! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I like it *2014-12-07* Just like the windsor star but free! ### 5/5 — Great *2014-01-16* Just like having the Windsor Star, but it's on my iPad mini. Surprised no one has reviewed this yet. ### 4/5 — Good app *2011-12-13* Glad comments were implemented ### 3/5 — Share button doesn’t work *2022-02-28* It has not worked for a long time and the report a problem email is invalid. ### 3/5 — iOS 13.1 *2019-10-04, version 4.7* Seems to be issue after iOS 13.1 please fix. ### 2/5 — 2024 Major Update *2024-04-16* The update that occurred recently has only made the app worse. More locked content, display/navigation not as user friendly ### 2/5 — Older app *2024-04-04* I believe that the older app was more user friendly and you also could review obits…. The new app not so. Regards ### 2/5 — Slow, and doesn’t load *2021-03-07, version 6.0* Terrible, when you click on an article it doesn’t load. Like it is frozen ### 2/5 — Update app and policy *2019-10-26* Frozen app - nothing works When it working, there were no news updates on weekends nor Mondays. Why bother with this app? ### 2/5 — Doesn’t update *2019-10-20* 2nd time in 2 weeks. App will not update. Screen touches don’t work --- *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 2026-09-05.*