The Daily Caller 9+

I’ve been a big fan of The Daily Caller for years. Until this recent update I have struggled using the app for a variety of user-unfriendly reasons. Often I would be frustrated and forced to close the app and go to the website to finish reading a story. Other times I would just close and go to another of my favorite news apps. I don’t know if you changed app developers or looked at it from a user experience perspective but it’s better and I’m glad.

The news items are great and not just a reiteration of the same contrite storyline. If I could rate them outside of the app I would give them 5 stars. However, over the past couple of months I had to report glitches through the online email address because I couldn’t find a way through the app. First, the search function wasn’t functioning. It would time out. Then state File Unable To Load. Server Error. I never received an automatic reply email. I suppose they received many emails because the problem was resolved. Second, is the same complaint as many others have written about. You get a couple of sentences and it says Read More. You tap on it and it brings you to another page with the exact same thing. Lastly, I’m don’t like all of the advertising either as so many others have written in their reviews. I noticed that the ads became very intrusive once The Daily Caller News Foundation began to a subscription based service. I feel like it’s a punishment to those of us who have been reading their articles since Tucker Carlson days and helped make them popular. I don’t want to pay for a monthly subscription. I understand that they need to make money but the amount of ads are obnoxious. It’s for all of these reasons why I gave the app a one star rating.

I like the Daily Caller a lot. I only have two news oriented apps on my phone and the Daily Caller is one of them. There are so many supposedly “news” outlets these days that gather articles that aim to trigger or just get clicks. The Daily Caller focuses on interesting, informative articles and the overall feel of the app is informative.