The State News

🇺🇸 United States
McClatchy Interactive  | 
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11/100
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App Rating
4.7
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Votes
1.74K
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App Age
13y 9m
rating
Last Update
Oct 30, 2025
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iAP
$15.99 - 159.99

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Current App
Category Top Average
Difference
Rating
4.37
4.54
-4%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
1.7K
113.9K
-98%
App Age
13y 9m
11y 8m
+17%
In-app Purchases Price
$88
$65
+35 %
Update Frequency
62d
54d
+15%
Title Length
14
25
-44%
Subtitle Length
0
23
Description Length
1 177
2 404
-51%
Number of Screenshots
1482
1385
+7 %
Size
131MB
102MB
+29 %

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The State News
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Connect to The State newspaper app wherever you are. Receive the latest local and breaking news from Columbia, Richland, Lexington and the Midlands of South Carolina. The State reports on the local topics you care about, including local weather, traffic, crime, sports and national news. Features of the app include: • Breaking news alerts and real-time updates. • The local news and sports topics you care about from around the SC Midlands. • View stunning photos and videos of news coverage and events. • The State newspaper opinions, editorials and columns you love. • Ability to share stories and galleries on Facebook, Twitter or by email. • Edition, a digital destination for the latest news, features, and insights. Like the printed newspaper, it is intended to be a complete report of the day’s news compiled by our editors overnight. Read our Privacy policy here: https://mcclatchy.com/privacy-policy Read our Terms of Service here: https://www.thestate.com/customer-service/terms-of-service/text-only/ For California Residents: To learn more about managing your sharing preferences and Do Not Sell My Info rights visit https://www.mcclatchy.com/ccpa-pp}
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Rating
4.7
1 743 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Jclinebe
08 Feb, 2025
2
Over half of the download keeps clocking. Eventually if I go back they show up. Click on some news articles and the app crashes. Deleted app and reinstalled on iPad and still same issues. It is also getting to where most articles are 2 or more days behind the local or national news on tv.
60-year reader
02 Jul, 2024
1
You get the same headlines three days in a row. App is not updated. I’m a paid subscriber. I am canceling my subscription. This is a horrible app supporting a horrible “newspaper”. This offering is unfathomable! Finally, if you expect push alerts to take you to the headlined story, you are mistaken. The IT people operating the news content at The State Newspaper are not paying attention, or they are incompetent. by the way, this is an ongoing problem of several years duration.
Jclinebe
15 Jun, 2024
1
This update is a mess. Why do you have a google add that covers the bottom of content. Who every cam up with this design should be fired
imjamie1
13 Jun, 2024
1
The only days the app will display a “newspaper” e-edition image is on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays? Is that a good guess? And that’s because those are the days it is being printed? I’m sure I’m not the only one that is disappointed with this “update.” I chose the newspaper layout in settings, but of course, it doesn’t work.
60-year reader
02 Nov, 2023
1
Push alerts absolutely do not bring you the article referenced. let me put it more clearly, the push alert feature is abysmal. I swear to God, I have never seen an app this poorly developed. For God’s sake, you can’t hire somebody who knows how to develop information technology applications?
60-year reader
26 Jul, 2023
1
What is it with this company? They want to charge you more than $70 bucks a month, and they can’t hire someone to help them with their push alerts? This is sick.
used to read the state
02 Jan, 2023
1
this is the worst ap ever. you can’t change the size, too small to read. Don’t bother trying
MrsD2712
20 Apr, 2021
2
There is no place to download if you want to read the paper somewhere there is not internet. Don’t like the layout! What was wrong with showing the newsprint page and an a download?
jrich07
28 Feb, 2021
2
I keep getting linked to PlayStation while scrolling from the stupid ads that I’m not even tapping. Extremely annoying and obtrusive. Somebody fix it, or I’m canceling my subscription.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.7
Voted: 1.74K
App Store Link:
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Magazines & Newspapers, News
Size: 131MB
iAP: 15.99 - 159.99 $
App Age: 13 years 9 months
Release Date: Mar 26, 2012
Last Update: Oct 30, 2025
Version: 10.4.0
Version history
10.4.0
Oct 30, 2025
This hotfix release addresses edge cases where malformed HTML inputs in Edition could cause the app to crash.
10.3.0
Oct 16, 2025
• Text-to-speech functionality added to Edition articles. • Fix for some Edition article templates that wouldn't display on tablet. • Update to Request Account Deletion modal design.
Version history