Macomb Daily vs POAM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macomb Daily
Access personalized news, save articles for later, and customize push notifications. Enjoy offline reading, a digital replica of the newspaper, and a variety of games. Swipe through articles easily with the new navigation.
- Personalized news recommendations
- Save articles for later reading
- Customizable push notifications
- Digital newspaper replica (E-News)
- Offline reading capabilities
- In-app games (Sudoku, Solitaire, etc.)
- Swipe navigation between articles
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To continue enjoying our app, we kindly request that you log in again after this update. If you're a subscriber, please take a moment to restore your account to ensure uninterrupted access. You can find the “Restore Subscriptions“ button in Settings under Subscriptions. Welcome to a new app experience, we have optimized our app and giving it a facelift! This faster iOS native app now has the following new features: Your News: Provide personalized recommendations for content based on user preferences. Users will be allowed to customize the content they want to engage with by selecting the topics they are truly interested in. By going to the “Your News” tab the user can bypass the noise of all that is published and home in on the content they want Saved Articles: Save feature that allows users to save articles or other content they are interested in for later reading or reference.Push notifications will remind users to read their saved articles or suggest related content Custom Push Notifications: The user can select what topics they want to be notified about which makes for a much less intrusive experience. Top Navigation Bar: A top navigation bar lets the user switch between sections by swiping or tapping. Enews in-app: Desire the newspaper experience? No need to open a separate app! By simply going to Settings and selecting E-News the user can browse the Digital Replica of the day’s paper. Offline Reading: This feature allows users to enable offline reading from Settings. Offline “Reading Preferences” can also be customized for Settings. Swipe Left: Instead of going back to the main section to find more articles, users have the option to simply swipe, immediately opening other articles in the Section. Follow Topics: A user will be shown articles on topics they are following. To follow select “follow” at the article level and related articles will gain relevancy and be shown more frequently. Just as easily “Unfollow” Games: Users can enjoy a variety of games served in app. Games include: Sudoku, Solitaire, Jumble, Crossword, and Puzzles Terms of Use: https://www.medianewsgroup.com/terms-of-use/ https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
POAM
This app offers essential information, contact details, and support documents for members of the Police Officers Association of Michigan. It allows for immediate download of periodically needed resources.
- Member information access
- Important contact details
- Support documentation download
- POAM member exclusive content
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This is an app for POAM members in the state of Michigan. Our app provides information, important contact information, and support documentation periodically needed by members available for immediate download.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: POAM at none against Macomb Daily's 2. POAM also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Macomb Daily's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (174 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Macomb Daily sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. POAM asks for nothing beyond the download.
POAM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Macomb Daily has 174 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Macomb Daily ships an update monthly, POAM every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macomb Daily | POAM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (174 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 174 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Journal Register Company | Police Officers Association of Michigan, Inc. |
Customer experience
Macomb Daily
POAM
Bugs and requests
Macomb Daily
Reported bugs
20 issues- Login errors
- Obituaries missing
- Articles not loading or crashing
- Links to 'continue reading' lead back to the beginning
- App crashes in the middle of reading
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- App takes a long time to open articles
- Ads pop up randomly and disrupt reading
- Accidental calls from ads
- App doesn't work for days
- No content displayed
- Stories not updated
- App crashes on refresh
- No ability to refresh for latest news
- Sports section not updated
- High school sports not updated for months
- News outdated, pre-election articles still in breaking news
- App not updated daily
- Articles from years ago displayed
- No local news option
- Breaking news stories unavailable until reloaded multiple times
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Widget integration on iPhone
- Search archived articles
- Access to archived content
- Area for meetings in Macomb
POAM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Macomb Daily
- Macomb Daily Monthly Sub1 Month trial$11.991 Month
- Macomb Daily Annual Sub1 Year trial$139.991 Year
POAM
No in-app purchases









