The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer

By Philadelphia Media Network, Inc.

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2012-11-14
  • Current Version: 25.3
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 106.37 MB
  • Developer: Philadelphia Media Network, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Score: 4.59834
4.59834
From 15,869 Ratings
Free On itunes

Description

Staying on top of award-winning Philadelphia news is now faster and easier than ever with The Philadelphia Inquirer’s iPhone and iPad app: the official iOS news app for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. With The Philadelphia Inquirer App You Can: • Discover the latest breaking news and important updates with our intuitive news feed and uncluttered reading experience. • Explore the news topics you care about from sports teams like the Eagles and Phillies to local news with our seamless section navigation. • Remember the stories that matter to you with quick action buttons for bookmarking and sharing. • Never miss a story with digital all-access subscriptions, available as an in-app purchase. Additional Features: • Alerts and Notifications - be the first to know with verified breaking news. Easily access breaking news articles with one tap on a notification. • Newsletter signups - stay on top of the news in your email inbox. Sign up for the newsletters you’d like to receive to get the very best of The Inquirer. • Frequent Updates - stay connected with 24/7 coverage and other important news throughout the day. • Log In - use your existing Inquirer account or register a new one. • Customized Feed - customize the news feed to follow the topics that matter most to you. Switch between your custom feed and Latest Headlines with just a tap. • Custom Text Size - read more comfortably with the ability to increase/decrease article font sizes. • Split Screen Support - multitask with The Inquirer app and other apps at the same time on compatible iPads. • Today Widget - quickly access the latest headlines by adding our custom widget to your homescreen or Today screen. • Dark Mode - activate from the Settings tab and the app will switch to dark mode when activated on your device for easier nighttime reading. We'd love to hear your feedback! Reach out to our support team under Settings > Submit Feedback.

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Reviews

  • Great news, great incremental app improvements

    5
    By Tilmann Holzer
    Thank you for being my hometown rag, and stoked to see the dark mode setting in newer versions. I often read news in the dark so it’s a setting I enjoy.

  • Great

    5
    By Roooftop Rob
    Quality programmed app

  • 5 Stars Just for Using App Store Subscriptions

    5
    By bitflipping
    If nothing else, I would give this app 5 stars for letting me subscribe (and unsubscribe) to the Inquirer through the App Store, which means I don’t have to call and fight with a retention specialist if I ever want to cancel. Fortunately, the app itself is fantastic to use. Performs well on iPhone and iPad, and has a great “full newspaper” view that lets you easily find articles you want to read and tap into them for a full page read.

  • Journalism quality, stale stories

    1
    By None#234
    Your writers seem to confuse editorials with straight news. Here’s a quick lesson: except for the editorial page, your writers should refrain from injecting their opinions, using subjective, activist language, and maintaining the delusions that they are the story. PLEASE, just go back to answering the five main questions about the event in the first paragraph and fill in the details. Tell me more about what’s going on on city council, the mayor’s office, taxes, police, urban development. And don’t make your headlines incendiary, either. I can make my own mind about the news and its effect on my life. Also the stories on the app are recycled day-to-day? You seriously can’t update them daily? Your desk is so bereft of noticing real city news that it can’t provide new stories at least twice a day?

  • Deep Link

    4
    By RF13212312
    Why can’t I deep link into the app from inquirer articles posted in other apps/websites? Seems like a huge gap and really drops my usage of the platform.

  • Bit of a Mess

    2
    By Upstate Philly Guy
    I had a previous subscription from kindle. It was simple to use. I could just read the paper from beginning to end. Now I feel like I’m endlessly having to arrow back to go forward. Many articles are repeated for several days and the amount of advertising is ridiculous. I will give it a few more weeks but will probably cancel, which is a shame because I love the Inquirer.

  • Poor Access and Mundane Stories

    1
    By Gullah-Roots
    Unlike the New York Times, when I receive story alerts from The Inquirer, there’s a cumbersome sign-in process etc. that doesn’t work at all. Subscribed readers cannot immediately access the stories. Then, when I try to find the story via the app, your website seems to be full of non-prioritized stories mixed in with goofy sports topics and other mundane articles. It is super frustrating and confusing. Meanwhile, story alerts from the NYTimes are ALWAYS immediately accessible. And although I was impressed with the Inky’s coverage of the escaped Chester County convict that I found within the app this morning, generally I find your stories uninteresting and sketchy. It seems that the story selections and angles are trite, basic and mundane — even on page 1. A scan of the images of Inquirer staffers indicates that the proportion of reporters and editors who are African-descended must be improved. It seems that the paper needs to hire more Philadelphia natives of color with less focus on bringing in others from outside the region with so called traditional European-American perspectives and values. On that note, the “More Perfect Union” project really seemed to suffer from generally shallow story selections and other issues because of what seems to have been the need for more local or native African-descended editors, scholars and reporters — perhaps including a few African-descendants from other locales with at least 15-20 years of working and living in the Philadelphia area.

  • Can not cancel without calling / crazy ‘click bait’ ads

    1
    By RK8287
    Hard to trust a news organization that uses tactics to make it hard to cancel or change your subscription. Really damages the trust I have in them. Can not cancel online or via app. WSJ does the same shady stuff. I assumed inquirer was better than them. The ads are really intrusive. I honestly think they are as bad as pop ups from click bait websites. Makes it very hard to read some articles. Again, lost so much trust in my local paper due to thee shady practices. Other real newspapers do not do this.

  • App could use some tweaks

    2
    By Dinakar A1
    While the content is pretty good, I'm often met with floating table of contents that makes it annoying to deal with. I'm seriously contemplating canceling my subscription and sending the app. What good does this app provide if you can't actually use it?

  • Love the day pass concept

    4
    By aloomba
    Remember when you would just walk up to a news stand and buy a paper for a buck? Then you could read it and move on with life and not have to commit to a billing recurrence just to feel informed for one day? Let us buy day passes all the time! It actually feels like the correct way to sell news.

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