I just installed this app and it doesn't work. you can only look at the front page, nothing else will load. there is no search. I have the tribe app on my iPhone and it works ok but they should be embarrassed about this useless app
20 February 2015
Pretty poor app!
17 February 2015
While the Tribune app is visually adequate, it loads incredibly slowly. It can take several minutes for the news pages to actually load and/or update. Disappointing, as it actually shows promise if it would load in a reasonable period of time.
8 February 2015
An embarrassment to a company that I guess is holding on to delivery hopes
2 January 2015
Get used to that phrase - you'll be seeing a lot of it when you use this app. It took about two minutes to get the opening screen when I launched the app. I scrolled around, clicked on a story, and it came up pretty quickly, so that was OK. But when I clicked on the "More news ..." link, I waited, and waited, and waited. It never did come up. That was last night. Tried it again today, same thing, and this time I timed it. I waited thirty minutes, and "More news..." never showed up.
This app is getting deleted. Maybe the Sun-Times has an app.
23 October 2014
The front section works decently once it finally loads, but if you want to open up news beyond the first page, it doesn't seem to be able to load the news.
5 September 2014
It is difficult to find sports news using this app.
D
23 April 2014
This application shuts down unexpectedly all the time on my surface 2. Rebooting the tablet does not help. Very frustrating. Uninstalling.
4 April 2014
Has potential but needs a fair amount of work. Text should be larger so it is easier to read, tiles frequently so not display, extended lag time pulling news. The default Metro app would be a good template. Would really like to read the Trib on my Win 8 tablet.
1 March 2014
It needs use on the lock scene too
1 February 2014
not "unoriginal" as mentioned in another review. Tribune Company actually owns the LA Times, as well as the Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel and other newspapers. Also, it's very stable, at least on my RT.
19 November 2013
The app works great on my new 8" Lenovo Miix 2. It allows me to read articles both in landscape or portrait mode. My only wish was for a setting within the app where I can use a black background with white text for nighttime reading. Other then that, its a fantastic news app if you are in Chicagoans.
21 June 2013
Stories load slowly and app hangs frequently. Text is not resizable and font is small which makes readability difficult. It is the only Chicago and NWI news app in the store, so improvements are necessary.
16 February 2013
Loads annoyingly slow on surface Rt, used to load quicker. Also subsections like news or sports will often freeze and app crashes.a
Also you can't play videos. Some sections say they are a video but there isn't anything to play.
9 February 2013
Would be an OK app except that the longer article headlines get cut off so that you have to open the article just to read the headline. I'll stick with the internet Tribune site.
27 December 2012
karawek_kobrich@live.com
21 November 2012
Needs
4 November 2012
Needs live tile badly. Offer pay version without ads
3 November 2012
This looks great and should be very functional once content is added. That said I expect a news app to have news. Pictures are great but content is king!
2 November 2012
Need to be able to choose font sizes
27 October 2012
Looks great. However, the actual website has a lot better info.
22 October 2012
This and the LA times app are the same thing, just different content.
If the major newspapers are just going to outsource their content to generic app makers, you might as well just grab an RSS aggregator app instead. At least that way you can pull content from multiple places. As it is, there's nothing special or unique about this app other than branding.
Also - the content loads very slowly.
29 September 2012
iucsjcks
27 September 2012
Overall like the lay out, but would like control of fonts as the NBC site uses.
24 September 2012
Would be nice if this app actually worked, but it never loads...constant crashing.
24 September 2012
Application after a few days stops working. Launches shows splash screen for a split second then jumps back to start screen.
9 September 2012
A few layout issues with the back button over page title on articles with a white background. Also the ads are poorly placed. Looks like they are hap hardly hovering over the text and not thoughtfully place. Glad to see Chicago Tribune getting out a windows app so quick and the design of the main page is great! Can't wait to see where it goes! Will defiantly start reading the Tribune more as I dislike the website. It does crash sometimes/won't launch.
9 September 2012
I am having the same issue it will never open now always crashes...
31 August 2012
needs work. Keep clicking on it and it flashes that it's refreshing that jumps back to the start screen and never starts
30 August 2012
gets same stories from web page but in Metro interface.
App crashed after attempting refresh, restarting didn't recover app
23 October 2015
I just installed this app and it doesn't work. you can only look at the front page, nothing else will load. there is no search. I have the tribe app on my iPhone and it works ok but they should be embarrassed about this useless app
20 February 2015
Pretty poor app!
17 February 2015
While the Tribune app is visually adequate, it loads incredibly slowly. It can take several minutes for the news pages to actually load and/or update. Disappointing, as it actually shows promise if it would load in a reasonable period of time.
8 February 2015
An embarrassment to a company that I guess is holding on to delivery hopes
2 January 2015
Get used to that phrase - you'll be seeing a lot of it when you use this app. It took about two minutes to get the opening screen when I launched the app. I scrolled around, clicked on a story, and it came up pretty quickly, so that was OK. But when I clicked on the "More news ..." link, I waited, and waited, and waited. It never did come up. That was last night. Tried it again today, same thing, and this time I timed it. I waited thirty minutes, and "More news..." never showed up. This app is getting deleted. Maybe the Sun-Times has an app.
23 October 2014
The front section works decently once it finally loads, but if you want to open up news beyond the first page, it doesn't seem to be able to load the news.
5 September 2014
It is difficult to find sports news using this app. D
23 April 2014
This application shuts down unexpectedly all the time on my surface 2. Rebooting the tablet does not help. Very frustrating. Uninstalling.
4 April 2014
Has potential but needs a fair amount of work. Text should be larger so it is easier to read, tiles frequently so not display, extended lag time pulling news. The default Metro app would be a good template. Would really like to read the Trib on my Win 8 tablet.
1 March 2014
It needs use on the lock scene too
1 February 2014
not "unoriginal" as mentioned in another review. Tribune Company actually owns the LA Times, as well as the Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel and other newspapers. Also, it's very stable, at least on my RT.
19 November 2013
The app works great on my new 8" Lenovo Miix 2. It allows me to read articles both in landscape or portrait mode. My only wish was for a setting within the app where I can use a black background with white text for nighttime reading. Other then that, its a fantastic news app if you are in Chicagoans.
21 June 2013
Stories load slowly and app hangs frequently. Text is not resizable and font is small which makes readability difficult. It is the only Chicago and NWI news app in the store, so improvements are necessary.
16 February 2013
Loads annoyingly slow on surface Rt, used to load quicker. Also subsections like news or sports will often freeze and app crashes.a Also you can't play videos. Some sections say they are a video but there isn't anything to play.
9 February 2013
Would be an OK app except that the longer article headlines get cut off so that you have to open the article just to read the headline. I'll stick with the internet Tribune site.
27 December 2012
karawek_kobrich@live.com
21 November 2012
Needs
4 November 2012
Needs live tile badly. Offer pay version without ads
3 November 2012
This looks great and should be very functional once content is added. That said I expect a news app to have news. Pictures are great but content is king!
2 November 2012
Need to be able to choose font sizes
27 October 2012
Looks great. However, the actual website has a lot better info.
22 October 2012
This and the LA times app are the same thing, just different content. If the major newspapers are just going to outsource their content to generic app makers, you might as well just grab an RSS aggregator app instead. At least that way you can pull content from multiple places. As it is, there's nothing special or unique about this app other than branding. Also - the content loads very slowly.
29 September 2012
iucsjcks
27 September 2012
Overall like the lay out, but would like control of fonts as the NBC site uses.
24 September 2012
Would be nice if this app actually worked, but it never loads...constant crashing.
24 September 2012
Application after a few days stops working. Launches shows splash screen for a split second then jumps back to start screen.
9 September 2012
A few layout issues with the back button over page title on articles with a white background. Also the ads are poorly placed. Looks like they are hap hardly hovering over the text and not thoughtfully place. Glad to see Chicago Tribune getting out a windows app so quick and the design of the main page is great! Can't wait to see where it goes! Will defiantly start reading the Tribune more as I dislike the website. It does crash sometimes/won't launch.
9 September 2012
I am having the same issue it will never open now always crashes...
31 August 2012
needs work. Keep clicking on it and it flashes that it's refreshing that jumps back to the start screen and never starts
30 August 2012
gets same stories from web page but in Metro interface. App crashed after attempting refresh, restarting didn't recover app