Name: This is Tucson
Rating: 4.89 (781 reviews)
Author: Star Publishing Company

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Analyst summary

Last verified 17 Aug 2026

This is Tucson is a News application published by Star Publishing Company. It holds a 4.9-star average across 781 public ratings.

It was last updated 19 Nov 2025. The listing has been on the store for 9 yrs 70 d.

On the listing it is a 10.4 MB download, runs on iPhone 5s and newer · iPad.

A summary of the measured figures recorded on this page, kept current as the numbers change.

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Position in category

Each bar shows where This is Tucson sits in the distribution of News apps we track. Percentiles are computed over apps with the field observed, not the whole category.

Rating volume 78th pct.

Average rating 97th pct.

Download size 10th pct.

Price 5th pct.

Distribution computed with the category report · Full category report

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Review intelligence

Low confidence

Users find the app's content and design excellent for discovering Tucson activities and food, but some dislike ads and perceived woke content.

Computed from 10 public reviews, 2 Sep 2016–5 Nov 2023. Sentiment and themes are model-derived from the review text, not categories we imposed.

content quality Positive · 6

ads Negative · 1

app design Positive · 2

tucson focus Positive · 3

woke content Negative · 1

In users’ words · verbatim public App Store reviews, unedited

★★★★★

Info galore!

I enjoy reading all the activities in Tucson and the places to eat. Thank you for the information on #ThisIsTucson

MEGGRANT99 · v1.5 · 15 Mar 2023

★★☆☆☆

Video ads now make this app unusable.

There have been some great articles but ditching this app now because of the intrusive ads.

Angrypurchaser · v1.5 · 5 Nov 2023

Trajectory: stable · recomputed when new reviews arrive · limitations

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Health timeline

A dated record of what has actually happened to this app — launch, updates, price moves and record-board milestones. Every point is a stored observation, never an estimate.

Daily rating & price tracking began 18 Aug 2026; the growth curve fills in here as observations accrue.

18 Aug 2026 Board Entered Best Free in News Best position observed: #12.
18 Aug 2026 Board Entered Featherweight in News Best position observed: #14.
18 Aug 2026 Board Entered Hidden Gems in News Best position observed: #18.
18 Aug 2026 Board Entered Highest Rated in News Best position observed: #12.
19 Nov 2025 Update Updated to v2.0 The most recent version we observed on the listing.
12 Sep 2016 Launch Launched on the App Store Original release date stated on the listing.

Dates are read from the listing and from our own daily observations; the rating curve accrues going forward. How we track.

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Listing & advisories

Download size

10.4 MB

Minimum iOS

18.6

Devices supported

iPhone 5s and newer · iPad

Age rating

12+

Advisories

Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes · Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information · Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence · Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor · Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

Screenshots

5 on the listing

Screenshots are hotlinked from the public store listing and belong to the publisher.

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Rankings this app appears on

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Peer set

Peers are well-rated apps in News, selected by category and rating — not by similarity of description, so the comparison is like-for-like on scale.

App	Rating	Ratings	Price
This is Tucson	4.9	781	Free
Watch Duty: Wildfire & Floods	4.9	46.8K	Free
AJN LIVE	4.9	1,348	Free
The Atlantic Magazine	4.9	133.4K	Free
TrueShort - Stream True Crime	4.9	16.9K	Free
The Bulwark	4.9	1,966	Free
Church News	4.9	85.2K	Free

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Questions this record can answer

How was every figure on this page produced?

Each figure is read from public App Store metadata or computed from it, dated to when we read it, and traceable to a stored row. Percentiles, cadence, longevity and sentiment are derived by us; ratings, prices, sizes and dates are taken as the store reports them.

Why can the star average and recent opinion disagree?

The star average is cumulative over the app’s whole life, so recent opinion barely moves it. Any sentiment figure we compute reads only recent review text, which is why it turns first. Treat a divergence as an early indicator, not a verdict.

What can this page not tell you?

Downloads, revenue, active users, subscription pricing inside the app, and anything about security or data handling. None of those are visible in public store metadata, so we do not estimate them.

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Provenance

Source: Public App Store listing metadata and public customer reviews.
Collection window: Last read 17 Aug 2026. Listing re-read daily; reviews re-read on a slower cadence.
Derived figures: Percentiles, update cadence, longevity and sentiment are computed by us, not supplied by the store.
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