The Bellingham Herald News Reviews

The Bellingham Herald News Reviews

Published by on 2026-03-04

🏷️ About: Connect to The Bellingham Herald newspaper’s app wherever you are. Subscribers receive the latest local and breaking news from Bellingham and Whatcom County in Washington.


       


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Overall Customer Experience 😎


🤬 Negative experience
64.9%

😎 Positive experience
32.5%

🫥 Neutral
2.7%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 653 combined software reviews.

Is The Bellingham Herald News Safe?
The Bellingham Herald News appears generally safe, but use with caution.
33.3/100

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Is The Bellingham Herald News Legit?
The Bellingham Herald News appears legitimate, though exercise caution.
36.1/100



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Provides high quality local journalism

- Easy to use app

- Direct access to e-print edition



Read 24 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.3 out of 5
Poor App

Seems like my view of the paper is different every time I log on.

Poor local coverage.

Broke!

Looks like the new update borked TheBellinghamHeraldNews ! I cannot even get it to fully download. 😾

Articles aren’t free

For some reason I try to open an article and it’s prompting me to pay for a subscription. It was free yesterday

Like the Herald. Hate the Ap

Suddenly I can no longer read the daily BH on my iPad. It opens but only as a narrow side bar. Irritating.

New app is terrible!

This redesigned app is terrible. There’s also less current articles. I’m going to unsubscribe to this useless “news” app.

To glitchy compared to old app

The new app is not as user friendly as the old app was, I see no real improvement and would rather have the old one back.

Search?

No search functionality apparent. Poor design if you have to search for “search”.

Very buggy

This latest is version is impossible to use. It doesn’t work like an e-edition of the newspaper. More ads. Once you pinch open an article you can’t get back to the full page.

New App is Terrible

It takes forever to load from alert notifications, and trying to share an article ends up sharing an image. I’m considering unsubscribing.

Need help

My subscription does not end until June. I keep getting msg saying my free time is up. I have reported this before and it stops for a short time only. It's a pain Trying to report this is even a bigger pain and very time consuming

No search function

Like they want you to search through old archives and resent issues to find an article from last week. TheBellinghamHeraldNews wastes your time and raises your blood pressure.

New App doesn’t work!

I loved the previous app! This new version freezes up constantly & I don’t like the layout at all. The previous version was much easier to go from story to story in the list on the left. Definitely NOT an improvement at all!!!

BH

TheBellinghamHeraldNews does not work as well as old app. In fact can I navigate thru it & no help.

Poorly managed

Get rid of the pay wall! The Herald has questionable journalistic integrity as-is, there is no way a significant number of people are going to start paying $13/month for a subscription. Competing area news outlets are still free. Revamp your advertising strategy and keep the news available to the whole population, not just people that can afford $150/year for the local paper.

App requires frequent logins while I am trying to read articles.

Once I am logged in TheBellinghamHeraldNews frequently logs me off when I switch articles. Annoying.

freezing, minimal content

I miss reading the "real" newspaper. The critical difference is the old print paper perhaps 50 articles a day, weather, obituaries, births, local news. The new Herald has perhaps 1 local, new, article a day.

More local stories

I know national news is important, but there are plenty of other places where someone can get that. BH I feels needs to have more local news on a daily basis.

Big change

I now like TheBellinghamHeraldNews . I finally found what I was looking for but only by luck. I wanted to read the actual paper and found your other APP the bellingham herald that goes direct to the e-print edition.

Disregard,
I'm on a tablet. The view pane can't be resized. The settings do not work. Option to read the actual paper is gone. Looks like your trying to compete mor with larger news outlets which is saturated. Hope you get this more local.

Great Local News

I love being able to keep up on the latest in our community. The Herald is a foundational institution in Bellingham and it is great to see them continue to strive for high quality local journalism.

My hometown

TheBellinghamHeraldNews is super easy to use, nothing complicated about it and have had no issues so far.

Malware/phishing from the app.

The last few weeks my router has detected and blocked 3 phishing and malware from the Bellingham herald. It does seem to be mostly from TheBellinghamHeraldNews (as that is what I use most) I am not sure if this is a issue the BH has detected but it is concerning. I would hope most everyone removes TheBellinghamHeraldNews asap or BH fixes this.

Paywall lifted for COVID-19, not

If you’re saying you’ve lifted the paywall but can’t deliver on that promise then you should remove your editor's note saying so.

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What happened? Now you have to pay for TheBellinghamHeraldNews content... no warning?

Yes!

Works well and is fairly user friendly.



Is The Bellingham Herald News Safe? 🙏

The Bellingham Herald News appears generally safe, but use with caution. JustUseApp Safety Score for The Bellingham Herald News is 33.3/100.
This assessment is based on our NLP analysis of 653 user reviews. Combined with the app store average rating of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

57.5% of users say app is safe 👍
57.5%

33.7% of users have some concerns ⚠️
33.7%

8.8% of users say app is risky 🚨
8.8%


Is The Bellingham Herald News Legit? 💯

The Bellingham Herald News appears legitimate, though exercise caution. Our NLP models processed user feedback to estimate legitimacy. JustUseApp Legitimacy Score for The Bellingham Herald News is 36.1/100 .
This conclusion is based on analysis of 653 user reviews.

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Pricing Plans Amount (USD)
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Annual Subscription $159.99




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Features

The Bellingham Herald reports on the topics you care about, including local news, weather, traffic, crime and bring you the best of national news.

Subscribers receive the latest local and breaking news from Bellingham and Whatcom County in Washington.

• The local news topics you care about from around the Bellingham area.

• View stunning photos of news coverage and events.

• An app-native eEdition of the printed newspaper, including 60 additional pages in the ExtraExtra section.

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