Citizen Times Reviews

I was loving CitizenTimes - such an easy way to check the local news and get breaking news stories. Then a week or so ago, my app ‘locked up’ with a screen that says something like “You seem like top news fan” with an offer to send ‘top news’ alerts to my phone. I couldn’t just click off of it and return to the news so I clicked it. Then I got inundated with news alerts. Quickly sick of it, I went to mt settings and reduced the number of alerts. Now, the lock up screen presents after I read one story EVERY TIME I USE CitizenTimes . Because there’s no way to decline, I end up shutting down CitizenTimes and starting it again. Again and again if I choose to keep reading the paper. I enjoy the newspaper and I used to enjoy CitizenTimes …..but this is getting ridiculous.

I love CitizenTimes - just the right mix of news for my needs- but it takes way too long to load, often 30-45 seconds. That little spirally thing and I have become intimate friends. If you can get the articles to load in a decent amount of times like they used to, I’ll give some stars back.

Enjoy reading a paper that gives us the news. Don’t always like the news, but it keeps me informed of local happenings.

This week 4/7/22, CitizenTimes stopped recognizing my active annual subscription which expires in June 22.. Deleting and reinstalling was no help. Tried setting up a new account as suggested in ‘faq’ but can’t complete with cookies disabled.. enabled cookies, still won’t work. Emailed Garnett, but no response.

An app that can’t keep track of its own subscription status should not be downloaded.

CitizenTimes is clean and presents the news in an appealing fashion. I especially like the alert function when breaking stories are added. I do think it needs a search function to be able to get to a story quickly.

I'm most appreciative to CitizenTimes, for staying current with Asheville area news, when away.

I *despise* the model that allows ads to surface even after paying for a subscription. Part of the point of subscribing is so that I don’t have to look at the irrelevant crap.

A good source of local and regional news and events. Convenient and timely

This local coverage is really good and covers a range of topic that are important to know. Also it can be super interesting.

You’ll get more news from Google by searching Asheville News. Ridiculous excuse for an App and newspaper. Don’t waste your money because CitizenTimes is full of useless weeks old articles and maybe 3 current stories with horrible spelling errors and grammatical efforts of people obviously educated locally.

Even when I can’t be in Asheville, the ACT keeps me up to date!

In the past two weeks, every time I sign on to read the paper on my iPad, the entire paper freezes. I can read NY times, WAPO, other mags, but not this paper.

This is a terrible app and is worse on an iPad. The paper is constantly freezing and it becomes too frustrating to read the paper. The tech support is farmed out, so they care little. I have had our account reset numerous fines but with no luck. Canceling the Citizen-Times.

Totally useless app, just interested in getting you to subscribe. Money hungry, for a poor excuse of a newspaper.

I pay for an online monthly subscription and yet can not access the articles on the application. It's very frustrating.

I use CitizenTimes to report missing news paper. And I can never find where I am supposed to report this. It should be an easy thing, but it never is.

The Asheville Citizen Times has been called one of the worst periodicals of note by major news papers, including The NY Times (that’s saying something). If you add the salt of John Boyle’s hilarious journalism, it’s a complete and utte4 failure of a paper.

I’m getting articles for the Pensacola News Journal mixed in with the Citizen-Times since this last update. If CitizenTimes wasn't inadequate enough before, it really is now.

This is without a doubt, of the 20 some odd apps I use every day, absolutely the most of Tuesday and frustrating of the bunch.

Very frustrating trying to resolve subscribing issues over the phone with the overseas call center.

Yep, it's a newspaper app. I open it and it presents local news. A crowning achievement of modern software engineering.

Top stories update periodically other sections do not update for months. It’s still showing me Valentine’s Day stories.

What is right with this website?

Great app

Great!!

I appreciate the C-T approach to community journalism. I feel it does a good job of keeping me in touch with the local issues and events while I am far away from home, which for me is much of the year. I have witnessed some editorial gumption; social sensitivities to injustice, and there's usually a column or two I like to read for amusement. I feel lucky to have access to a paper so largely dedicated to happenings of Asheville and the Asheville area...especially at a time when so many community tabloids have become feckless. Hats off! ( I do miss Susan Reinhart's column...but that's about my only complaint.)

I am enjoying CitizenTimes very much. I like the full edition on my iPad. I get notifications of top stories and it's easy going right to them and reading what articles I want, including back editions. Have loved being able to keep up with news back home, as we have been traveling cross country. And no need to go out to get the newspaper in the rain!

I'd pretty much stopped reading local news since I'd not been getting a newspaper. And for some reason, reading it on my computer just never seemed to work out. But I love this iPad app as I can read it virtually anything/anywhere I have a wifi connection which is almost everywhere.

I find CitizenTimes frustrating to use. It is very hard to find old stories, like if I didn't read the paper yesterday. There is no search feature, which doesn't make sense, and there is no way to make or read comments on stories within CitizenTimes . You have to go to the website to do all three of those things. Who makes a partially functional app?

Much better and easier to use than WLOS's page. Thorough coverage of Buncombe County, Asheville, NC, and National news. A little weak on world news, but most Humans just don't care about, strife and suffering of other cultures...and we Americans don't seem too interested in advancements and forward thinking programs in other countries. Oh well😳

Love getting local news on my device. I like how it's updated and throws in sports scores and weather. I think it's interesting how at the end the top stories are ranked, lets me know how my community is thinking; or at least what they are thinking about.