Seattle Times Mobile

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

Distribution computed with the category report · Full category report

Users are frustrated by the lack of a search function, login problems, and issues with articles and photos not loading.

Computed from 100 public reviews, 27 Jan 2021–13 Jul 2026. Sentiment and themes are model-derived from the review text, not categories we imposed.

Trajectory: declining · recomputed when new reviews arrive · limitations

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 9 Aug 2026; the growth curve fills in here as observations accrue.

1. 11 May 2026 Update Updated to v8.11.0 The most recent version we observed on the listing.
2. 10 Sep 2009 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.

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

• No. 39 Oldest Survivor in News flat
• No. 99 News Kings flat

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.

Source

Public App Store listing metadata and public customer reviews.

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Last read 7 Aug 2026. Listing re-read daily; reviews re-read on a slower cadence.

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Percentiles, update cadence, longevity and sentiment are computed by us, not supplied by the store.

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