Seattle Times Print Replica Reviews

by Island_dog

App used to work fine for me, but over the past couple of weeks, it has been inconsistent in displaying the current day’s issue (as others have complained of), refuses to allow signing in, sometimes works again after repeatedly quitting app or reinstalling app. We went to online only access because the print edition is way too expensive but will cancel this too, if problems aren’t fixed. And people wonder why newspapers are dying? No one is going to pay for something that can’t be accessed.

by CindyEdge

Twice this week the morning paper wasn’t available online until later in the day -not sure how much later, but it still wasn’t there at 9 AM. Even though I am a long-time monthly subscriber, I am required to re-sign in at least once a week, often more. Today I experienced another of the common problems: the paper is available to a point (for my husband it was page 4, for me it was through the opinion page) and when you flip to the next page it says loading, but it never does load, even if you close and reopen SeattleTimesPrintReplica . They may not be putting the resources into the mobile app to get people to go back to print, but frankly we are talking about cancelling our subscription totally. A morning paper provides yesterday’s news so we don’t get much value out of the paper anyway and these irritations from a lousy app are the last straw.

by Disappointed Subcriber

New print replica app does not email articles properly as old app did. Subject line lists page number, notvarticle name; when you click the link it doesn’t go to the article but to the front page of current edition, not the one in the link, and where you have to log in again. Ridiculous! Then when I want to copy a part of the article to save I cannot get the function to work either. Bring back the prior version. It worked very well.

by Jupiter 5

I try to use SeattleTimesPrintReplica on the rare occasion that my paper doesn’t get delivered. It used to be that it wouldn’t recognize my password, so I would reset it, and then it would work. Until the next time. Now, it won’t recognize my password, like before, but when I select the link to reset my password, it just crashes. I delete and reinstall SeattleTimesPrintReplica . Same thing, it crashes again. If the Seattle Times offers SeattleTimesPrintReplica to paid subscribers it should actually work. It doesn’t.

by Brinem

I have had SeattleTimesPrintReplica for years and pay money for access to it, but it rarely works lately. SeattleTimesPrintReplica thinks that I have signed out and so I have to sign back in and even after I sign back in, it does not download the latest issue, so I quit SeattleTimesPrintReplica and re-launch SeattleTimesPrintReplica and then it thinks that I have to sign in again, and on and on and on.

Lately, I have taken the step of deleting SeattleTimesPrintReplica every day and reinstalling it so that it forces me to login from the start, but now that’s not even working as it tells me that the server is not responsive. This is really shameful service. Be better Seattle Times

by Lorrin0117

Recently, it has become more and more annoying. I see from other comments that I’m not alone. I’m talking about the e-paper’s availability. It’s 6:40am Sunday morning. No electronic paper. I’m reading the hard copy instead.
The comment about flipping to part two of an article and winding up at the bottom of it rather than the top remains after more than two years. I think the Times wants hard copy subscriptions but I’ve moved away from that and don’t want to go back.
This increasing unreliability is most annoying. Nothing has been done to update SeattleTimesPrintReplica in two years. It’s time to renew for another 90 days. I’ll renew one last time and if this continues to get worse, well part company after 24 years.

by Widgetdog

I take the print edition, so I only use the Print Replica app when away from home. The PR version was always marginal - slow to load, login required sporadically, sensitive to touch on an iPad, etc. The recent “update” made it horrible. I can’t advance to the next page without scrolling through all the intervening pages. It’s easier to open the digital version, which I don’t like. VERY slow to load. When I leave the first section to go to Comics in the Sports section, it can take a minute to load. The developers should look at the Wall Street Journal for an intuitive, fast, user friendly digital version of a newspaper.

by Kenmore Reader

I’m not a fan of the new, revised print replica app. I understand the basic concept of making SeattleTimesPrintReplica look and behave more like a magazine; there are several magazines that I read online. But. This is a newspaper, not a magazine. Bring back the links to articles continued from one page to another; I like reading an article all the way through, and scrolling through the pages is tedious. Also bring back headings, so the reader can quickly find a section: Business, Opinion, Mix, Sports. I’d have given the old app 4 stars because of the need to log on so often, as other readers have commented. With the new changes I mention, this new format would earn 5 stars from me.

by Curt3924

Downloaded the paper so I could read it on the plane. But failed because I didn’t have internet. What good is download if you have to be connected to read?
Can’t skip to page 110 if you want to start from where you left off because you couldn’t open the replica without internet. Worse still, it forced me to download again.

by WallaceNRob

I’ve used this for approximately 6 weeks now. Overall, it’s a nice improvement, but still with some minor flaws—and one major flaw... I often download the paper onto my iPad before I have to go offline. Multiple times now, after having downloaded and then going offline, I attempt to open the paper and it shows it has not been downloaded. This is extremely frustrating if you’re say, embarking on a 5 hour flight planning to read the Sunday paper. And most recently, after I downloaded the paper and went offline, when I clicked to open the paper, it asked me to sign in. But I was offline, so I could not sign in! Please fix this!!

Other minor issues are the “section tabs” that don’t always bring you to the correct section. Especially now with some sections combined (i.e. Business). I also miss being able to click the “see STORY, A13” that takes me to the continuation of the story.

by MorganR

The new app is dramatically different, and on the whole, I’m not happy with it.

What’s good:
-Search capability
-Snappy performance

What’s bad

- Print format only available by paging through pages two at a time - there is no way to rapidly navigate back and forth to different sections (like the upper tab interface on the old app)

-If you select an article, it then displays in non-print edition format

-Many times the graphics or photos associated with an article do not display when you select that article (imagine a front page story continued on page 11, with a graphic on page 11. You get to page through to page 11 and see the graphic, or to select the article, and read it in non-print-edition format, often without the graphic). Neither choice is good.

-No way to navigate through the paper without going one page at a time

-When an article starts on one page, and finishes on another, you have to manually flip through many pages

-SeattleTimesPrintReplica is optimized for portrait mode – I use my iPad (and prefer) landscape mode

-You can’t readily flip pages until you zoom out to 100% (but you have to zoom in to read the print of any article). So, flipping pages is a multi-step process (zoom out, flip, zoom in). UGH.

-The search feature is available at the top level, but not when you’re in today’s paper or in an article. ARGH.

by Laruecastex

I have read the Seattle times since 1974 and moved to reading it online when the first print replica came to my iPad. It was never great but this new version is a real adventure. You never know how you will have to navigate from from day to day. Sometimes you can get lucky and a navigation bar appears, not always complete, but it’s there. Other days, as others have mentioned, you have to scroll through the whole paper. I also read the Wall Street Journal on line and suggest Seattle Times ask them for help putting together a good on-line reading experience.

by Pileated

What happened to the Sections feature with the new update, specifically in the Sunday paper? I recently subscribed to the digital issue only. I am disappointed with the new update of SeattleTimesPrintReplica for various reasons. There are improvements in individual article content. It is not as screwed up as it used to be. But the Sunday paper has 116 digital pages. Since only some sections of the paper are of interest to me, now I have to scroll through 116 pages to get what I want? That’s not acceptable. On an iPad Mini the former version was more pleasing to the eye and easier to use. The only thing it needed was closer attention to actual article content.

by Daniel James

Two stars only because you *can* actually read the paper. That said, about 70% of the time I open SeattleTimesPrintReplica it requires me to log in, and 100% of the time I tap on an article it takes me somewhere other than the start of that article. Usually it’s the bottom of the page, requiring me to scroll back up to the top. The same thing happens when I tap the “continued on page...” link. It will take me to that page, but it will be somewhere in the middle or the bottom of the page rather than at the start of where that article continues. Extremely frustrating...

I recently wiped my iPad clean and installed everything fresh (not restoring anything from a backup) and SeattleTimesPrintReplica behavior hasn’t changed.

I like the replica format, but wish The Times would move to Press Reader instead of Olive as it’s a far superior app.

by Thebigeye

I was excited to try the “new” print replica app, since the old one hadn’t been updated in years. I’ve been using it for a week or so. They have the right idea with this new version, but, sadly, it crunches on my iPad battery so hard that the back gets very hot and battery life races toward zero. The previous version did not do that. I hope it’s just a bug that they can fix. Until then I’ll be going back to the web version. It behaves properly and has almost the same functionality when reading the paper.

by Znarkd

Thank you for providing iPhone support in this new version. However, SeattleTimesPrintReplica is missing some things that would make it even better.

If one taps on an article, a non-typeset version of the story displays. Quite often this version will contain formatting errors which I find annoying. For that reason, I usually zoom in on a story to read it.

Missing from this version are the story continuation links. Now one must manually flip pages to continue a story. In prior versions of SeattleTimesPrintReplica , one could click on these links to quickly flip to the correct page. What used to take one app gesture now might take dozens of app gestures on the part of the user— really annoying.

Finding the page where a story continues can also be problematic. Which page is B4? SeattleTimesPrintReplica only lists serial page numbers. Page numbers that are more descriptive would be helpful; i.e. “Page 20 of 124, B4 Sports.”

Looking forward to a future app version that removes these annoyances.

by Walrusmcd

Found SeattleTimesPrintReplica while looking for real news sources (sick of news apps just reposting twitter snips). I was a current subscriber to the times paper edition. Downloaded SeattleTimesPrintReplica , it found my subscription easily, and I get full print editions now! Including back copies. SeattleTimesPrintReplica is great, with digital features overlays to the print, like links to pages, and article continuations, and even an amazing feature to blow up a print article to a digital version for great font and readability (just double click). Very well written app, great simple software .

by Calvibike

It was there yesterday afternoon, and then it disappeared, never to return even after today's paper was loaded to SeattleTimesPrintReplica .

One other suggestion... When I load the paper thru SeattleTimesPrintReplica , and click on comics... It should take me to the front page of the comics. Instead I have to choose some other option on the page, to open the newspaper in that section, then page forward 2 pages in order to get to the start of the actual comics. That's a lot of user entry that isn't necessary, and I would imagine others feel similarly. Thx!

by Rws2029

Well done pdf implementation of the printed newspaper. Very easy to navigate through the articles, and see the complete layout of the newspaper. I prefer SeattleTimesPrintReplica to the other Seattle Times app because I don’t have to suffer the animated ads.

by Dave Shema

Every feature promised back in August 2020 now working consistently for me: Fast downloads, article view, article “continues” links in page view are seamless and intuitive.
I like it.

by Atombrew

I subscribe to the Tacoma News Tribune & Olympian eReplica apps. Despite content overlap, at least the content is downloaded.

I have excellent wifi speeds with my Orbi mesh network, getting download speeds over 200 mbps, but more than half the time the Seattle Times Print Replica hangs up downloading a majority of their individual pages. It just sits there with the download box for each page and one sits and sits and sits without any movement. I pay for this? One would think with Seattle being a hotbed of people with tech knowledge, the Seattle Times could have a seamless app, but it appears Tacoma & Olympia hire more knowledgeable tech-types.

I have tried to contact their web support and just nothing has happened to improve SeattleTimesPrintReplica 's performance. Looks like their last upgrade was over a year ago.

Don't waste your time on SeattleTimesPrintReplica.

by Bumbed In Bellevue

Oy...ready to give up on SeattleTimesPrintReplica. So many times it fails to load, telling me I’m not authorized, or is not available for hours, or gets stuck on the last issue. I gave up on the hard copy because the delivery person refused to get the paper delivered by the specified time. We still see him driving around our neighborhood at 6:30 when the paper is guaranteed to be here at 0500. Oh well, award winning journalism is the brag point but delivery, wether hard or e-copy....pretty darned lame.

by Garyinseattle

Won’t download next days issue and also says can’t find server part of the time. What’s going on this last week I can’t Down load 90% of the time the next days issue yet I can stream all other Apps and have high speed at my home for other Apps and videos

by Mvilleprof

For the last month or so, very difficult to get the current paper to load. Sometimes rebooting the device works, sometimes deleting app, then reinstalling works, sometimes you just have to wait till later in the day to read the ‘morning’ paper. Very disappointed in the attention given to services for digital customers.

by Mrantoinemil

Wow...... You finally updated SeattleTimesPrintReplica where the user can finally go back to past issues. Only took 2 long months to do so! I can't believe no one else said anything about it.

iOS 10 for some reason would only let the user navigate to old issues, but you couldn't go back to the present day edition, even a force quit wouldn't make it work.

by WAJRJ

Like the print look. I’ve grownup with newspapers and still subscribe to the daily Times because I think it valuable and need. SeattleTimesPrintReplica needs to just be updated and looked after. The login issues are annoying but not a deal breaker. Seattle Times this can be a winning app with a bit of time spent on keeping it updated and promoted.

by IMagladry

This issue has been fixed.

Don't good back in the archive because there's no coming forward.

I've had little complain about SeattleTimesPrintReplica; it has done what I want it to do. That changed today.

While, I can go back through the archives, I can't come come forward. I've mirrored the action on going back through the archive by swiping up in many little cations. I've tried tapping, still no joy. The only way I've found to move forward through the archive is to reinstall SeattleTimesPrintReplica . How inconvenient.

iOS 10 specific?

iPad Mini 2 16 gb
iOS 10.0.1
App 2.6.3

by Kelchels

This is a great app! Yes, there are a couple of bugs right now (repeated asks for login, link jumps to bottom of the continued article instead of the top). But this is still an incredibly convenient way to read the newspaper, whenever we want and wherever we are.