Denver Post Reviews

For a paper owned by a company called “Digital First Media”, DenverPost is embarrassing. It is extremely slow to load sections of articles. Opening a notification from DenverPost only works sometimes - other times, you’ll just get sent to DenverPost ’s Home Screen. Opening a notification also clears all the other motivations from DenverPost , so if you had multiple interesting stories saved up on your Lock Screen, you just have to remember what else you wanted to read. Another issue that has cropped up recently is that if you switch apps or interact with a motivation while reading an article, DenverPost will scroll to the beginning of the article, losing your place.

This is the worst newspaper or magazine app I have ever encountered. I have been a long term subscriber to the Denver Post and I have been forced to use this annoying app because the Denver Post has been unable to provide regular newspaper delivery in my town, Carbondale, CO.

Why can’t the Denver Post emulate the apps of the New York Times, the Washington Post, or other major newspapers?

It would take me more Time than I am willing to spend to describe all of the annoying, confusing and ridiculous barriers to reading the news on DenverPost. It needs to be replaced ASAP.

I downloaded DenverPost about a week ago and decided to give it a shot even though there have been a lot of bad reviews. Since using it I haven't had any issues logging into my Denver Post account or reading articles in DenverPost . DenverPost works just how it's intended for me, no complaints with accessing articles or receiving push notifications.

If I compare solid media apps like the Wall Street Journal, LA Times or even regional newspapers to the Denver Post’s app, they are light years better. Those apps give you the option to see the whole pages of the paper, ad’s and all, and flip through it page by page, which I love. Conversely, I can barely stand to read the Denver Post via it’s apps, because the layout is so miserable. Their website is also pretty hideous. How they stay in business is beyond me.

I just want to read an article that was on the front page of print edition about aclu and I can’t find it anywhere and I can’t find how to look at front page of print edition. Doing a search did not list the article. I’ve just had it with the Post’s horrible website/digital edition and apps. Worse than useless. I canceled my subscription for 6 months because of this. I’ve been back less than a week and I’m canceling again.

DenverPost is SO BAD; couldn’t be worse. Two experiences this evening:

I’m looking right at the forced-delivery Sunday paper and trying to send a News section article to my son. I entered headline keywords into DenverPost first. No result. Then I precisely copied the entire headline into the search. No result.

Tried to increase font size on my phone; the slider doesn’t work.

Nice job, Media News Group. First you hollow out the newsroom (but keep the sportswriters; no pandering there …). Then you charge an outrageous subscription price. You MAKE us take a paper paper on Sundays, I suppose to ‘prove to’ your hapless advertisers you have circulation. Your app is ridiculously bad. You SUUUUUCK. I’m gone. We all wish we could rate you ZERO

Now they want to track me and charge me $15 a month to do it.
Most of the apps stories were AP articles anyway
Way too much sports in the NEWS feed and ridiculous partisan adds
And now they want me to pay in order to read local Colorado news stories from the post
I guess I just won’t read the denver post anymore

I like the Denver post. it has everything I need to know … they have gotten way way better. About time! Totally recommend it.

I now have no choice but to cancel my subscription as the only way I can read your online paper is to give you the ability to cross track my online activity. I can only assume this is In response to apple giving users the ability to stop you from tracking us.

Thanks but no thanks

I pay to have Post delivered to my home 7 days a week which supposedly includes digital. So why can’t I read the paper on line? DenverPost is terrible. While traveling I cannot find articles on-line that I later find in the hard copy delivered to my home. You can do better … so do it !!

It isn’t possible to read even a single article without downloading another app that tracks you so they can sell your information. Really sad I can’t read the only remaining newspaper here in Denver without this baloney.

DenverPost just will not work for me. I have have tried reinstalling DenverPost , yet every time I click a link for a story from your daily email it WILL NOT open without the ‘purchase a subscription sign in”. …I know my subscription is valid .,I get the weekly paper no problem but DenverPost is WORTHLESS!

Denver Post is asking for more money for their digital news than the Washington Post and New York Times combined. Its also really frustrating that Post sends a news notification then paywall the article when a user goes to read it. Very poor user experience.

As a newspaper, I’d love to see real new first instead of sports news. I subscribe and am ok with cookies, but with both those things, shouldn’t DenverPost learn what I’m interested in, which isn’t sports? I pay to read the denver post, but mostly just see sports which is really frustrating.

As a sight-impaired reader, I would greatly appreciate if you could allow your app’s font to be further increased by the reader. The slider only allows us to go half way.

Also, every time I open my app to read a DP story, I get some unrelated pop-up. This is very irritating.

Finally, ENOUGH WITH MEOW WOLF, please. You have given them untold acres of coverage and it’s long past time to turn your eyes to less low-hanging fruit. Thank you.
Kate Forgach
Fort Collins

Completely unacceptable to not have an option to not share my data. You fill DenverPost with more than enough ads, the greed is overwhelming.

One of the best news apps i’ve used! highly recommend

I was prompted today to allow my data to be shared in order to log in to DenverPost . I am sorry but I pay very expensive monthly fees for my delivered Denver Post, I am not going to let you sell my data and pay you to do it.

I am out!!!

The latest requirement to allow your affiliates to track my online activity if I log in to read something I paid for is deceptive and violates my privacy. I am done.

I'm a premium subscriber but when I open notifications, I am always directed to the subscription screen. Help!

This has to be one of the worst designed and built apps around. If you leave DenverPost (to perhaps fact check something on the web) when you return to it DenverPost must reload so you must wait. The settings imply that it keeps, several days worth of content on the iPad so why I need to wait is confusing. My Kindle app doesn't do that and you'd think these were close to being the same.
Then there is the continual dance DenverPost takes me through to verify my credentials. It asks for my credentials more frequently than Apple and it still doesn't use Touch ID. I assume since it is good enough for banks, Apple and everyone else that it would be good enough for DenverPost. Oh yeah DenverPost periodically forgets that I entered my credentials. Not sure why but I get asked to enter them, the screen changes to the login screen and then it realizes it really didn't need the credentials and flips back to what I was reading.
Also there is the backend at the newspaper. I can't tell you how many times it has gone out and I've been unable to access the paper but I can tell you it happens way more than it should.
Obviously this is all because the DP couldn't really care about the experience. If we want it we must suffer through DenverPost. What a shame.

Looking at the previous comments I knew it could be a difficult app but decided to wing it and see. DenverPost is indeed flexible and has improved somewhat over the previous versions. The Denver Post has made changes per the customers and it is for the better. It does take a moment to load but only a matter of seconds. This keeps DenverPost light on memory and it isn't there sucking up resources 24/8.
It is best to imagine that this is a bit like a paper. You get some stories for the day but not all the stories. If you read it regularly you will be informed. There is now a means for posting stories to social media. It is not all the social media but who needs thirty icons representing all social media. Interestingly some of the links to stories will side step you onto a browser where the whole internet is ready and waiting.
So long story short. This is a simple but well rounded, flexible app that also happens to be light weight.

I prefer to read the print replica edition and navigation is very difficult. Roughly have the gestures I use on my iPad result in leaving the print replica version for one of the digital displays that is so peppered with pop-ups and ads that focus on the article is challenging. Other digital versions do not allow the reader to understand which stories were deemed important enough to make the print version. The latest inconvenience are pop up notifications about recently posted stories that come up on my iPad and iPhone. Sadly, DenverPost gives me no control over notifications so I don’t know how to turn them off. My one attempt to email for support was completely ignored. I would pay for the extra fee for home delivery except that the paper consistently is delivered after 8 am. Too late to read during the week. I want to receive local news and support local journalism so I continue to subscribe but DenverPost and its predecessor are among the worst I have ever seen.

I have been struggling with this lousy app for many years. While every other publication I read has changed their older apps for upgraded or completely new versions, the poor old Denver Post continues to offer it’s remaining customers this piece of ancient crap that was obsolete about ten years ago. I have had enough. Constant crashes and the ridiculous necessity to continuously log in almost daily have been extremely frustrating. The final insult was The Post’s inability to keep this creaky old piece of junk compatible with the latest version of my phone’s op system. I now receive an SSL error upon attempts to log in. Fortunately my current subscription will expire soon giving me the opportunity to end my life long relationship with what once was the premier newspaper in Colorado.

Hell, these days there aren’t any presses at a newspaper publishing company. So much has changed not just in the printing of a newspaper but in the competition with internet access to news and the loss of advertising as a result. But the Denver Post has done it’s very best to maintain the quality expected from a major newspaper despite these challenges. No, it is not the New York Times but I for one will support our voice of Denver and the Rocky Mountain West! Keep it up, guys.

DenverPost is mediocre at best, but customer service is the real problem. Want DenverPost to serve any actual purpose? You need to have a subscription which you sign up for through a bad web portal. Fine. Need to change/cancel your subscription? You have to call them and wait 15 min + on hold before speaking with someone who is unhelpful at best. This included a long interrogation to verify my identity. After all this, I’m told “Our system is updating so I can’t make that change now”. The entire process seemed intentionally obstructionist and was worse than trying to quit the gym/cable company/etc.

This is a great app for news. Simple yet has most of what I need. (only needs weather for the week and I'd be set) It doesn't bog down my phone like a lot of the other apps do. Don't understand why a lot reviews are so low. Size of font fine and feature to navigate help me to only read what I am want to look at.

It’s unreal how poorly DenverPost is designed. Combined with the browser based version that is so riddled with “Subscribe” pop ups, DP is almost unreadable. I am a paid subscriber and I can’t access DP stories via Facebook, DenverPost has no search function, so I end up googling headlines to read them from other news sources. It almost feels like the tech arm of Digital First Media (DP’s parent company) is intentionally trying to torpedo the paper. The monthly subscription I pay for seems more like a charity donation than paying for a service.

The Denver Post used to put out great articles. Frankly for the price though, they aren’t worth it.

Especially for sports. Their sports coverage is far too opinionated by the likes of Kiszla and his frequently (and obviously) misguided predictions of sports that are meant to catch eyes and disappoint after proving they weren’t worth more than the surprising title he came up with. If you want sports coverage drop the post. They’re over priced for the value. Until they drop Kiszla I will be subscribed and paying for the Athletic.

Just a spinning logo on a black screen on my 12.9” iPad Pro. Replica Edition app works fine, but I like this one better since the layout is more user friendly. I want to support my local paper, and do not want the mountains of paper that I have lived with for years. If they are unable to fix this soon, I will obviously have to cancel my subscription...

I believe Post content to be excellent. As with most regional papers, the decrease in Post journalist content in in favor of news service content is understandable but regrettable. We were Rocky and Post Print subscribers until the demise of the Rocky and this year for the Post. DenverPost does not adequately replace the print product. You must rethink the whole product and try again. DenverPost is to busy trying to track the reader in lieu of offering a quality news product.

Most of the one star reviews are really old, often years old. I use a tiny iPhone SE and the font is fine.

The Denver Post uses real journalists. Their writing is a refreshing change from most web news outlets.

I want the replica Edition, included in my subscription, which auto-renews monthly. Every 2-3 weeks I have always gotten a message “unauthorized to read...sign in”.. which I do then usually opens. Always frustrated by that, but now I can’t get it at all. Starting 5 days ago all I get is a whirring blue expanding circle that goes nowhere. I have reloaded DenverPost , changed password, tried both “log in” and “sign in” links with no success. Terrible experience for a subscriber.

I spent the $52 to support local reporting. I hope a bit of that money goes to improving DenverPost. The most frustrating thing is that longer headlines get cut off with “...” Also there is no caching so without internet access there is no news, even if you had downloaded an article earlier in the day. DP really needs a native app, not just a clunky version of their website.

I have a subscription to the Gazette in Colorado Springs and that app blows the DP app away. DP needs to look at them for how an app should look like. The DP app is confusing, half the links takes you outside DenverPost , and it just is not easy to navigate. Got the DP subscription on a special, unless significant improvements won’t renew.