Bangor Daily News

I’ve been a paying subscriber for several years, because I believe local newspapers are crucial to our society and the BDN is a decent, if not exactly excellent, local paper with an important mission. That being said, this is the worst app I’ve ever used…for anything whatsoever. Holy cr@#. It seems like this was written by an employee’s kid as a summer project about five years ago…and never updated or improved since. Search is a joke, comments are a joke. formatting is a joke…. Come on BDN! How can your readers take you seriously when you can tolerate this app representing you?!

I pay for a BDN subscription. Every time I open the app, it makes me log in to read an article. Every time I log in, I select “stay logged in”. Even though it shows that I’m logged in, every time I select an article? It tells me I’ve reached my limit of free articles and I must log in. Which I can’t do because… you guessed it. I’m already logged in.

Keeps locking up and screen goes black. I have to get out and start all over. Very frustrating.

I’m paying for a subscription but the application isn’t working in Germany. What’s the point?

The overhauled app is definitely better than the old app, but to be honest, the mobile website is still better. For each section on the home page, you see 3 actual news articles and 1 sponsored content (ad disguised as news). Between each section there is also an ad. So quick math on that: 40% of what you see are ads. This is even for a subscriber.

Until they replicate the top local news like on the website, I won’t use the app. Tons of news stories on the website that aren’t on the app!

I enjoy reading the Bangor Daily News and have subscribed for almost a year now. All of a sudden, the app has just stopped working. I’ve deleted it and downloaded it again. Still won’t work. Seriously disappointing.

Now it will not work at all; does not start. I’ve reinstalled multiple times with zero improvement.

Update 6/15/19 The app no longer works at all. Just a black screen that says "Bangor Daily News" on it. And I'm paying for digital service for this?! Shameful. Two months ago: Now that I pay for digital access, it would be nice to have an app that works. It freezes up while reading a story, so I can't navigate out of it. Spam ads pop up regularly, either telling me I'm the lucky winner of a new Something Special, or my iPhone has been compromised and I should "click here" to fix it. This only happens when using the BDN app. On the iPad version, I can't scroll down to continue to read; when I try it goes back to the beginning of the story, repeatedly. Why am I paying a monthly fee for this crap? I'm stupid, I guess, but not stupid enough to "click here" to fix it.

With my iOS upgraded recently, the BDN app will no longer open. Have tried deleting and reinstalling multiple times with no success.