Name: tucson.com
Rating: 4.55 (4476 reviews)
Author: Star Publishing Company

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Analyst summary

Last verified 17 Aug 2026

tucson.com is a News application published by Star Publishing Company. It holds a 4.6-star average across 4,476 public ratings.

It was last updated 15 Apr 2026. The listing has been on the store for 14 yrs 324 d.

On the listing it is a 9.8 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 tucson.com sits in the distribution of News apps we track. Percentiles are computed over apps with the field observed, not the whole category.

Rating volume 91st pct.

Average rating 49th pct.

Download size 9th pct.

Price 5th pct.

Distribution computed with the category report · Full category report

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Review intelligence

Medium confidence

Users report frequent crashes, paywalls, and excessive ads, making the app difficult to use.

Computed from 100 public reviews, 24 Oct 2011–7 Nov 2025. Sentiment and themes are model-derived from the review text, not categories we imposed.

crashing Negative · 17

paywall Negative · 5

ads Negative · 5

content Mixed · 5

navigation Negative · 4

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

★★★★★

Daily read

I can’t picture a day without The Arizona Daily Star. It keeps me up to date on local an national news.

Enna35 · v5.2 · 7 Nov 2025

★☆☆☆☆

Terrible

Constantly getting notifications for stories that just flat out don’t exist and every interesting story is locked behind a paywall, even though the app is infested with ads!

Toad the Toad · v5.0 · 3 Oct 2023

Trajectory: declining · 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 Featherweight in News Best position observed: #12.
15 Apr 2026 Update Updated to v5.2.2 The most recent version we observed on the listing.
30 May 2011 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

9.8 MB

Minimum iOS

17.6

Devices supported

iPhone 5s and newer · iPad

Age rating

17+

Advisories

Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information · Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References · Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence · Unrestricted Web Access

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

No. 14 Featherweight in News −1, 30d

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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
tucson.com	4.6	4,476	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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