The Baltimore Sun Reviews

The Baltimore Sun is a vital institution for the city and the region, but TheBaltimoreSun is atrocious. Why does it ask me endlessly to log in and redirect, but only for some stories? Why in 2021 am I not able to do so with Touch/FaceID? Why is it full of the absolute lowest quality garbage advertising? The Sun deserves so much better than this.

I have a subscription to the newspaper which includes TheBaltimoreSun , TheBaltimoreSun all of a sudden is stating I no longer have a subscription. I have called and they tell me it is restored but it still does not work! Going to have to cancel the whole thing. It is a total rip off.

TheBaltimoreSun could very well be the worst app in app history. Every time they come out with a bug fix something else goes wrong. Pages out of order, constant locking up, blurred pages, split pages and so on. It’s bad enough reading the Baltimore Sun in general, but the constant failure of TheBaltimoreSun makes it intolerable.

Although I am told otherwise I find it hard to believe Sun staff read TheBaltimoreSun version. Large pictures make it take a long time to navigate. The NYT allows me at a glance to see all the important articles if the day and the decide which to read. Articles are repeated as you scroll. Why are sports considered top stories when there is a sports section? Why are there articles in the middle of the obituary section. I could go on and on. I have been told that fixes are in the works but I am believing this less and less. I am a long time user of TheBaltimoreSun who is seriously considering cancelling.

You can’t read the digital version of the paper and listen to your music because - like a lot of news - they jam your music for advertisements. It’s a shame because I often refuse to read their often high quality content because I almost always listen to music when I read anything. Not giving up music because some dip@ coder somewhere tries to kill my music.

TheBaltimoreSun does not show the stories from today’s paper. It is just a small selection of stories that repeat in a loop, interspersed with multiple ads. There are constant pop up ads that aren’t easily dismissed. You cannot see today’s paper in it’s published format. One can imagine Tribune Media has created a substandard app on purpose to bury the news. Baltimore Brew and WaPo are better bets.

Design is fine when it works, but typically it starts to load and crashes multiple times before I’m able to successfully load it.

TheBaltimoreSun constantly freezes with frequent pop-ups asking me to subscribe (even though I already do). Also, TheBaltimoreSun never shows the latest articles from the front page of the actual paper.

TheBaltimoreSun uses a ridiculous amount of battery when just running in the background. For 1 minute in the foreground and 14 hours in the background, it accounted for 28% of my battery usage.

I like the sun app, but you guys need to increase your high school sports section. High school sports is a big part of the Sun papers history, from box scores and summaries to interviews and weekly rankings. As you can see, I’m a child of the 70’s, but back then I couldn’t wait to read the sports section. Over the years your coverage has waned. Please cover and have more content with h.s. Sports and hopefully your subscription will pick up.

My original sun account was through google. But TheBaltimoreSun won’t let me log in through google. When I try to log in with my email it tells me the account already exists through google and to press the google button to log in, but there is no google button to press. There are only buttons for Facebook and twitter. Not sure how to fix this.

I take my subscription through iTunes, and it seems that I am limited to reading it on my phone. Is there a reason that I cannot read it on my iPad?

High quality local and national journalism. The recent design update is much cleaner, attractive and user friendly. Only dropping one star because TheBaltimoreSun still does not have an integrated weather forecast/radar. When you want to see weather you have to view the desktop site or use a mobile browser. App includes weather related news but not forecasts. Otherwise, this is an excellent news app and my primary source of news. Subscription for unlimited digital access is very reasonable and in the current climate of disinformation, supporting real journalism is tantamount to supporting democratic institutions.

I count on TheBaltimoreSun working, I pay for an all digital and print subscription. For those days when my paper doesn’t arrive on time I try and use TheBaltimoreSun . TheBaltimoreSun is a total failure. Pages missing or out of order, either in landscape mode or full page mode. Please fix it. It’s been broken for over a year.

Baltimore Sun App ver 5.5 on iOS devices - When using TheBaltimoreSun to read the paper in the full page view I cannot scroll down to the bottom of the page. This feature works when viewing in a web browser (I.e. Internet Explorer) but not in TheBaltimoreSun . Overall TheBaltimoreSun functions well.

The Sun is an outstanding newspaper unbiased with broad local regional national and global coverage

One of the most important tasks for every resident of the City is to stay informed. The Sun keeps citizens informed and holds our corrupt politicians to task. The Sun’s writers are talented and thorough and survive on your subscriptions.

The only coverage and watchdog of the legislature, governor and state government and our hometown sports teams including the Terps. Wish they would include MoCo in their coverage. County council gets a free pass from the media.

I enjoy reading the sun through TheBaltimoreSun. Previous older version was terrible but this new redo is great. Easy to read articles, easy to stay logged in. The Sun is great journalism that I’m proud to support!

Today, newspapers face enormous challenges, but in spite of those challenges, these folks turn out a quality product every day. Their reporting is fact based and the opinions and editorials well thought out.