Winston User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 67 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of Winston. Based on 256 reviews and a 4.4/5 average, it highlights the 21 positives and 25 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.
Positive things
- 📰Good local journalism
- 👍Easy to read articles
- 📱Convenient for on-the-go
- 📰Comprehensive coverage
- 📰Timely updates
- 📰Good for local news
- 📰Excellent source of information
- 📰Up-to-date reporting
- 📰Great for breaking news
- 📰Convenient for out-of-town
- 📰Easy to find stories
- 📰Quick news access
- 📰Balanced coverage
- 📰Good overview of local news
- 📰Useful information
- 📰Great radar feature
- 📰Nice app
- 📰Good for local news
- 📰Great for Wake Forest updates
- 📰Good UI and user-friendly
- 📰Keeps me in touch
Negative things
- 📱App freezes often
- 📱App crashes constantly
- 📱Poor quality
- 📱Clunky and slow
- 📱Ads look like obituaries
- 📱Limited free articles
- 📱Not a free app
- 📱Subscription needed
- 📱Content is old
- 📱Incomplete articles
- 📱Too many ads
- 📱Erratic page navigation
- 📱No landscape mode
- 📱Body font not adjustable
- 📱Leftist pandering
- 📱Buggy and freezes
- 📱Requires subscription
- 📱Ads pop up
- 📱Doesn't update
- 📱Not enough news
- 📱Unsolicited pop-ups
- 📱Fuzzy facsimile page
- 📱App does not update
- 📱No high school results
- 📱Omitted AP stories
Is Winston Safe?
Winston-Salem Journal appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Winston is 87/100.
This assessment is based on 256 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 256 App Store ratings for Winston.
Is Winston Legit?
Winston-Salem Journal appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Winston is 85/100.
Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
Nice simple app, with hyperlocal investigative journalism.
Though the settings provide for font size adjustments, it only adjusts the heading text and not the body. This should be resolved to make the articles easily readable by customers with less than perfect eyesight.
I have an iPad Pro with S/W version 15.2.1. The ability to move from page to page is totally annoying as I cannot go from page to page without it jumping back to the previous page. It is extremely erratic. It was a continuing problem well before V15. I view on my Pro in the horizontal mode.
This app does not work to read the news. If you click on a story a page full of ads pops up. Might as well use the browser on your phone and not waste the space on your phone for this app.
Why any app created in the last five years would not have a landscape mode is incomprehensible. I always use landscape mode on my iPad and rotating to read the W-S Journal is annoying. Get with the program coders!
One of the worst examples of leftist pandering in recent times. Their op-ed page prints mainly diatribes so disrespectful of a sitting President that at times they tread a very fine line between poor taste and downright treason. Too bad I don’t own a pet shop. Your circulation would increase dramatically.
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I have used the app for a while. The old version took you to a browser for the e-edition. The new one loads in in-app which is nice, but it does not allow you to rotate the device and view the edition in landscape mode. I find this annoying as I read the e-edition on my iPad and prefer landscape mode for this.
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Barely works at all on my iPhone X. It is extremely buggy and almost always freezes while linking to stories from notifications. I would have deleted the App ages ago if I wasn’t invested in the local news.
The “Journal” is doing a good job as a local paper. It covers local, regional, and state matters well, with sufficient national and international coverage. It remains a broad spectrum publication, with a business page; and an editorial section with its opinions, and letters, and columns. It has weekly sections on food, gardening, the home place, the arts, and expanded editorial and business coverage. Sports coverage, particularly local, is thorough, but national sports are not shorted. The paper offers daily puzzles and comics for its readers’ diversion and entertainment. It is worth the subscription.
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Requires monthly subscription if you view more than a preset number of stories a month including including obituaries. This is on top of the revenue they make from the Ads within the app. Really?
Excellent source for information on my home town.
Put complete articles in app. Worst news app ever
Quick look, concise, and timely updates
Good app that gives a quick news, weather and other options for people to access.
Great, up to the minute unbiased reporting
WSJ does a great job of keeping up-to-date on breaking news and local sports.
Love the app. I read the Journal when I'm out of town. Also, I'm retired, so even when I am at home, if I don't want to go out and get the paper in the freezing dark, I can read it in bed from my tablet in comfort.
Easy to read and find the day's stories. If only the print edition would have a nameplate to reflect the importance of this outstanding daily.
I would love for the App to display the paper just like the one that comes to my door, or, give us the option of display
Great way to keep up with local news
