Hartford Courant for Android
This app used to be free now it want to charge a subscription fee is not worth a subscription fee. If i want to pay ill buy the paper version which is least expensive.
Tablet is my preferred way to access the Courant. The app's performance is pretty good.
Does what it is supposed to do. Easy to navigate and to scroll through stories.
Loads pretty fast...easy to navigate
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This app makes it possible to stay connected to the state's premier newspaper and the cities and towns within it. Great source of info!
Please add the ability to be able to move the App to the SDcard. Thanks.
Cannot load......
Too many bugs. Article scrolls back to the beginning if the screen rotates. As I read more and more articles, the app slowly grind to a halt. Breaking news articles often fail to load or say I need a subscription (I have one). Need to do better to be worth $4.99/month
Seems to often hang up displaying the story headlines in most categories. Also, after opening and reading a specific story, when you click the back arrow, the index seems to back up a half dozen or more headlines.
I keep getting notifications but when you select them they don't follow to an article or follow to a different article. Also, when reading an article it keeps jumping around. Keeps telling me I have 10 articles or less even though I subscribe and am signed in.
I think the digital format is great. Easy to navigate. Having a hard copy on Sunday works wonderfully. And I always share my paper in our housing community.
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First it was free, then it was pay for "premium" articles, then 10 free articles per month, now it's 10 free total, period. Not paying to read local news. You aren't the only news source in the state.
Every article is so-called "premium". If you don't pay to subscribe, you cannot read any of them.....but if you browse to their website instead you can. Brilliant. Uninstalled.
Gotta pay to read after 10 stories. Bull****
No indicative of a pay-for site
Loading of advertising is slowing the app to a crawl
Easier to read than their digital edition.
Good news app
I will be deleting this app because all of a sudden EVERY story is a "premium" story that you must pay for. Hey Hartford Courant, y'all are not the ONLY source for news...sorry to break that to you.
Clear...complete. wish there were color contrast on sections names. Hard to see.
I downloaded the Courant to keep in touch with my home state, however they are currently requesting more and more subscriptions to view "premium" articles. Distasteful. It's gone from 10% to close to half of the articles are now unavailable to those whom don't pay. Probably gonna start giving my support to the New Haven Register. *update: App uninstalled. Will not support their monetary agenda. I recommend all others find a more reliable source for media.
I used to love this app but lately i've been havin more & more problems with stories not loading & now suddenly u have to pay for it & im not gonna pay to read the news. Deleting this app now. Hartford Courant u SUCK
Now you can only read 10 stories a month lol what a job I will just stick to my news apps for FREE ✌
I have a subscription so that isn't an issue for me. But what is an issue is no ability to view and post comments.
And I am now paying a subscription for this.
Sucks! All stories are locked..
Articles won't show. Used 2 and still no story or articles.
Won't even open up
Every article prompts for the use of premium credits, even though the same articles on the iPhone app are free.
Why would I want to cosidered paying for stories with no information? This is not a free app. Every update gets worse.
It was much better when only some stories were premium. Now, they all are.
Loads very very very very slow since last update
Used to be a handy app to see the news of the day. It is now limited to 10 articles a month unless you pay. I already pay for the paper delivered to my house so they want to milk a few more pennies from me. Instead of making a few more dollars, they lost me as a long time subscriber. Most of the good columnists are gone now anyway as they downsize.
They only allow you to read 5 top stories per montth!!!! Then you have pay for a subscription. I understand that the "newspaper " business is losing money, but come one. I can read those stories online!
To read local news you have to pay? Screw you Hartford Courant. This state is already too expensive, now you want me to pay for news?
I've had the Hartford Courant app for a while, not the most user friendly - everytime I get a news story alert, I click on it, and instead of being taken to that news story, I am taken to the main page, where I then have to search forever to find that story. Well, whatever, it's annoying but I've dealt with it. However, today I went to click on a story alert, and apparently I now have to register in order to see the stories. Guess what Hartford Courant? NOBODY LIKES TO BE FORCED TO REGISTER FOR STUFF!!!! I HOPE EVERYONE UNINSTALLS YOUR APP, YOU FORCEFUL JERKS! HOW ABOUT LETTING US BE ADULTS, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FORCE US TO "MAKE CHOICES"?? Goodbye
Before they updated it it was great now you are forced to register with them to read stories. Don't care for the ads either. Wish I never updated
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I live in Florida 7 months of the year and use the app to get news of CT, especially the UCONN Women's basketball, as we don't get many games on TV. I enjoy the articles about the 2 towns I lived in.