The Mercury News v10.0.50

MediaNews Group, Inc.

Contains ads • In-app purchases

About this app

Developer Description

News, technology, sports, business, lifestyle and entertainment articles

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Welcome to a new app experience, we have optimized our app and giving it a facelift! This faster Android native app now has the following new features:

Your News:
Provide personalized recommendations for content based on user preferences. Users will be allowed to customize the content they want to engage with by selecting the topics they are truly interested in. By going to the “Your News” tab the user can bypass the noise of all that is published and home in on the content they want

Saved Articles:
Save feature that allows users to save articles or other content they are interested in for later reading or reference.Push notifications will remind users to read their saved articles or suggest related content

Custom Push Notifications:
The user can select what topics they want to be notified about which makes for a much less intrusive experience.

Top Navigation Bar:
A top navigation bar lets the user switch between sections by swiping or tapping.

Enews in-app:
Desire the newspaper experience? No need to open a separate app! By simply going to Settings and selecting E-News the user can browse the Digital Replica of the day’s paper.

Offline Reading:
This feature allows users to enable offline reading from Settings. Offline “Reading Preferences” can also be customized for Settings.

Swipe Left:
Instead of going back to the main section to find more articles, users have the option to simply swipe, immediately opening other articles in the Section.

Follow Topics:
A user will be shown articles on topics they are following. To follow select “follow” at the article level and related articles will gain relevancy and be shown more frequently. Just as easily “Unfollow”

Games: Users can enjoy a variety of games served in app. Games include: Sudoku, Solitaire, Jumble, Crossword, and Puzzles

What's New

Bugs and Maintenance

In-app purchases

$11.99 - $139.99 per item

Version Information

Version: 10.0.50
Downloads: 50K+
Updated on: Dec 8, 2025
Released: Nov 23, 2011
Requires: Android 8.0

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The Mercury News users say on Google Play

★★★★★

A Google user

Easy to access the daily news without boring ads

★★★★

J K

Decent enough for a local news site... I am guessing at least some of the complaints are due to being forced to create a free account to keep on reading some of the articles.

★★★

A Google user

Notifications are very annoying. The text describes a new story but selecting it always takes me too an old story, sometimes days old. I then have to search for the new story and can't always find it. A big pain!

★★

E John Feig

Doesn't crash for me, but mobile experience is too simplistic and has poor UX. I subscribed, loaded the app, and pretty quickly decided to cancel my subscription, because the app makes consuming the news quite difficult. The design, particularly on mobile, is bad, take a look at top newspapers like NYTimes, or even the local SF Chronicle. There isn't a quick and easy way to get to important things like election coverage, or filter out stuff I don't want like sports (which eats the front page).

★

Brian H

The search function is fully broken. Typing a text search is painful and tedious. Its constantly double-typing or trying to predict the search. Tried this on three different android phones and made sure my own phones autocomplete and word suggestions was disabled. The ads are annoying and full of political drivel that makes the ap frustrating. Would be great if the Mercury would put some filters on the ads displayed through their app. There are very dishonest and sketchy advertisements.