David Garnett
★★★
"I read the comics first. The order of comics when swiping is chaotic"
Version: 3.2.43
A Google user
★
"This app repeatedly hung, with a blank white screen. It worked once, but I could not get it to work a second time. When it did work, the images were blurry to the point where comics were unreadable. Phone is a Nexus 5."
Henry Chace
★★★★
"All the bugs seem to have been fixed with the latest version. It runs a lot better!"
Version: 3.2.43
A Google user
★★★★
"I read it every day 😊"
Version: 2.8.75
Raymond Kawakami
★★★★
"Update 2/5/23 Version 3.8.2. Had to uninstall and re-install app because it was taking forever for the app to start up. Had tried deleting app cache (30+GB!) but that didn`t help. Tip: Page navigation is better if you first pinch the page, bringing up the menu at top where there`s an icon which looks like two pages side-by-side. Tap that and it changes to a single page then the paper will be displayed as a full page (at least on my tablet). Swiping left/right will maintain full page view."
Version: 3.8.2
Tom Winton
★
"Crashes, poor formatting, slow page rendering, frequent requests to download the same day paper again... for a Silicon Valley publisher, it`s frankly embarrassing. Never seems to improve either."
Version: 3.1.85
Mike Demler
★
"Previous version: App hangs, flickers, and crashes. June 2022- same for the ``new & improved`` edition, but it`s worse. They now push ads that obscure the bottom of the page. Default viewing mode is half-page, forcing readers to close the bottom page browser every time. Instead of a page zoom button in the lower right corner, now you must pinch/zoom on every page. Going to the next page resets the view! At least when old one crashed, it reopened where you were. Glad my subscription is expiring!"
Version: 3.8.2
Patrick Alvarez
★
"Crashes constantly."
Version: 3.2.43
M Sullivan
★★
"Too many crashes."
Version: 3.2.33
Sam Klutez
★★★
"Overall a decent app. But since update to V3.2.13 it is almost un-usable due to almost constant crashes."
Version: 3.2.13
Tom Blount
★★★★
"Latest version is easy to use. Familiar format to the print version so easy transition to digital format,"
Version: 3.2.13
A Google user
★★★
"App has been improved a great deal. However, there are still couple of improvements that would make it lot better. -Cannot zoom into a story/picture/comic? So makes it hard to read small text inside a picture or puzzle, e.g., Word Jumble. - lots of items do not open individually when I click on them. Forced to zoom into the page."
Version: 3.8.2
A Google user
★★
"Very slow to load. My paper edition arrives before the online edition is ready. Jumps around for no reason. I can`t believe the newspaper of silicone valley has such a piss poor app. It`s 8 am, and the E edition is still from yesterday. Terrible. And i pay for this..."
Version: 2.7.95
Michael Sherman (Sherm)
★★
"Mangles pages and crashes frequently on my Android tablet."
Version: 3.1.80
Danny Sanchez
★★★★★
"Enjoy reading the Merc on the app! Just wish the sports page on the e-editon would be updated with final scores and box scores..."
Version: 3.5.08
Susan Jamieson
★★★
"Maybe it is just Android, but it the App creates strange formatting on a lot of the articles in either the text showing up weird (esp. when clicking on the News of the Weird), spacing or word-wrapping in the paragraphs, the inset photos& their titles, or the continuation, so it makes it awkward to read. The newspaper needs to be set up as an Online Edition, and not just stringing together screenshots of the print newspaper, which is awkward and seems like more work."
Version: 3.1.85
Michael Tuft
★★★★
"They finally got the app to look like the paper on my tablet. The lines, pictures and words align."
Version: 3.2.33
A Google user
★
"As bad as everyone else says"
Version: 2.5.71
A Google user
★★★★
"mostly a good app. navigation is easy, adjustable fonts.picture and text view. sometimes it crashes and gets stuck switching to the new edition the following day."
Version: 2.8.75
A Google user
★★★★★
"love reading the Mercury News not haveing to get up to go get my paper"
Version: 2.8.75