The Post and Courier vs HCConnect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Post and Courier
Access statewide news and investigations from South Carolina's leading newspaper. Stay informed on politics, business, food, and more with award-winning journalists. Curate your news feed and receive breaking alerts.
- Statewide news access
- Investigative journalism
- Curate news feed
- Breaking news notifications
- E-Paper access
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Statewide news on the go from South Carolina’s largest and most trusted newspaper. Receive instant access to news, investigations, business, politics, food news and more from Post and Courier’s award-winning journalists in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head, Rock Hill, and Aiken Standard. The new and improved Post and Courier app lets you: - Curate the top news most important to you - Register for notifications sent straight to your device as news breaks - Access the E-Paper If you’re a current Post and Courier subscriber, sign in with your account email address and password for unlimited access to the app.
HCConnect
Stay informed about local government news, track community issues, and discover points of interest. This app provides personalized feeds, allows direct reporting of concerns, and offers helpful information for residents and visitors.
- Personalized local news feeds
- Track permits and crime
- Emergency alerts
- Report community issues (M311)
- Frequently asked questions (I Want To)
- Discover local points of interest
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For you, developed by Horry County IT/GIS, HCConnect is a local government first. Improving transparency while providing a direct channel for populace-driven communication and feedback. It's our mission to enable the country's most informed and engaged citizens to date. ------- Inform HCConnect's feeds keep you up-to-date with the latest local news and happenings in your neighborhood. Stay current with county news. Track permits, planning and zoning, and crime within your neighborhood. Receive personalized and localized emergency alerts during times of disaster. Personalize Only see the news that matters to you. HCConnect's feeds are dynamically built for the locations you actually care about. Subscribe to specific neighborhoods, even create and track custom locations to find highly-localized news and happenings in your feed. Engage M311 Putting power in the hands of the user. M311 takes brings community engagement into the digital age. You, the user, can now report issues you feel need attention directly from your phone. Choosing a category and providing relevant information like location and a photo, you're creating an actual case ticket. The ticket is then dispatched to the appropriate department, and we keep you updated with regard to its completion. I Want To I Want To answers your most frequently asked questions, and provides you with details, phone numbers and directions for you next course of action. Explore Visiting for the weekend and looking for a beach access with a shower? Or maybe your a resident looking for a local recreation center. Whatever the need, Explore Horry puts you in touch with the some of the best public points of interest in your area. Get directions, call for more information, and browse features all at a glance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Post and Courier at 4.4 against HCConnect's 3.4. The Post and Courier also leads on ratings volume (3.3K vs 34). HCConnect's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Post and Courier holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Post and Courier has 3.3K ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of The Post and Courier's written reviews are positive against 9% of HCConnect's.
The Post and Courier ships an update every 5 months, HCConnect every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Post and Courier | HCConnect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (3.3K ratings) — better | 3.4 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.9% of reviews — better | 9.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evening Post Interactive, LLC | Horry County Government |
Customer experience
The Post and Courier
HCConnect
Bugs and requests
The Post and Courier
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues
- Freezing and crashing
- Broken links and redirects
- Inconsistent page rendering
Requested features
4 requests- Offline reading mode
- Customizable news feed
- Improved push notifications
- Print and save articles
HCConnect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
The Post and Courier
No in-app purchases
HCConnect
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is The Post and Courier free?
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