The Plain Dealer
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1 subscription from $24.99
In the United States, The Plain Dealer has 1 subscription priced $24.99.
| Subscription | Period | Price |
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| The Plain Dealer Subscription | Monthly | $24.99 |
2 one-time purchases from $2.99
In the United States, The Plain Dealer has 2 one-time purchases priced $2.99.
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The Plain Dealer reviews
4.2 out of 5, based on 4,751 reviews.
What people like
- Great sports reporting and columns
- Images are no longer blurry
- Convenient to read on phone
What they complain about
- Political bias drives readers away
- App crashes when switching apps
- Layout changes ruin puzzle experience
- Hard to adjust text size
35 Year Customer
Thirty five years of home delivery. Will be a satisfied customer for years to come
Terrible coverage
Terrible coverage of the White House Press event attempted assassination What a useless paper
Needs improvement
Love getting the paper this way, and for the most part app is great. The one thing I would improve on is you should be able to one touch select all, and be able to listen to an article. Hard to read on a phone.
Why the change?
Seems you didn’t make things better maybe it’s cheaper for the PD to do it this way no tab at the top and hate the layout
Much improved on the iPad
The new version is a major improvement over the old. It seems the slow refresh, blurry images and text of the past has finally been solved. The navigation seems to work well also once you understand the new interface. One problem that occurs however is the startup in landscape mode. Even though I set the preference to view one page wide, when I pick the paper to read, it initially displays one page but it is very small with lots of space on the sides. A workaround for this is to turn the device momentarily to portrait mode and then back to landscape after which the page displays full width. This should be an easily solvable problem. Update Feb 2026: A couple pain points with this app that I would have hoped to be solved by now but still remain: 1. Why does the app nearly always exit if you momentarily switch to another app or switch off the display and then come back? No other iPad app has this behavior. 2. When you do relaunch it, you have to endure watching the dumb PD logo splash screen again before you “sort of” return to where you were. 3. It eventually does restore you to the page you were on, but only at the top of the page without any zoom you might have had on. It won’t position you vertically on that page where you were. Also, if you try to zoom again within the first 10 seconds or so, the app overrides you and resets the screen to full width! Very annoying! These are easy problems to solve. Please fix them! Took off another star due to these problems.
No Title
Blessed to have the Plain Dealer in my house everyday either in my hand or on my phone. Please do keep up the excellent work. You are needed now more than ever. Later.
Will most likely cancel soon
To sum up the paper articles in one word——-NEGATIVE. Your reporters are socialist who have nothing good to say about our nation. But I can understand that because Cleveland schools are failing, 3 Cleveland professional sports teams are failures, business development is poor ,the airport is really bad compared to others around the country, anybody 60 years old or younger has never experienced a winning culture in Cleveland. But then what do you expect with one party rule of incompetence for so many years. And you wonder why people leave the city??
The new format stinks
Almost impossible to read the paper through - fix it
Dittoe from the last comment
I find it very cumbersome and very difficult and I was just fine the way it was I was able to read the paper now it takes forever to figure it out. Is there anyway to go back to the way it was?
Online blocked
My PD online stopped working. I can log in, but when I try to view the paper it says I don’t have a subscription. I need to subscribe to the PD. My $90 a month payment suggests otherwise. PD chat says there is a glitch somewhere and has been escalated to another department. Can I get a refund for the days I don’t get a physical paper (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday)???
As good as PBS News Hour but with comics and more!
Chris Quinn has taken the paper from average to national quality. Great reporting, great columnists from Larkin to Diadiun with Suddes and Kouba rounding out a great Sunday paper. Sports? Don’t miss Mary Kay Cabot and Terry Pluto. Pluto is also the Renaissance man writing a weekly column about things not sports. Finally they have a world class online experience as good or better than the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Plain Dealer is completely liberal
I have been reading the PD for 50 years. It has become a leftist propaganda paper. Completely devoid of conservative values. The paper has become unreadable. The only conservative article is written by GEORGE WILL. Every single day the PD has a negative article about president TRUMP. HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED more in one year than any president in my lifetime. Start having articles that talk about his success. Otherwise, this paper will continue to lose subscribers and remain irrelevant. Just be fair and unbiased.
New format
In the 2 weeks trying to view the new PD format on my iPad, I have given up, totally frustrated, all but one day. It seems to have a mind of it’s own, restarting, reversing on its own, making it unreadable. Very close to quitting my subscription.
Can’t stand the new format
I have been a reader for over 40 years and if they don’t go back or change the format I will find another newspaper next month
Can’t read all stories based on the structure and layout
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Fantastic app, easy to use
I love using it
Worst App and Site EVER
O.nly a 1 star as you can't give a Zero. Anyone resposible for this abomination should be terminated and the PD should ask for its money back
Half page issues
I don’t like when the PD has a front page half issue or one on inside pages. It makes it hard to hold and read. The first thing I do is remove it and throw it in the garbage
New e edition
The new E addition is difficult to navigate. The old edition you could go to sections very readily. Now you cannot do so very inconvenient.
Disgusted with PD.
Put it back the way it was. It took me 20 minutes to actually start reading the paper.
headers
the old version had headers that could be chose to go to sports extra or or. now their gone …. very disappointing !!!
Democrat Rag
If you favor the GOP, get used to getting beat up everyday. It’s all Associated Press, Washington Post, or the PD writers. It gets old. It’s also the only paper in Cleveland.
Hard to read
Hard to center a single page on an iPad. The previous version was a little tricky, but this one is way worse .
New format
I am not happy with the new on line format. As a subscriber, I have always found the website cumbersome. Cleveland.com and The PD need help with on-line access. Please hire a UX Designer!
Late !
I’m very tired of the enews being posted late. I get an email saying the paper is ready and it’s NOT!
Pages
Where are the page numbers. Can’t tell when your approaching the end ?
Stop trying to advance your personal opinions while calling it “news”!
From news story titles to full news content I have witnessed a continued shift by The Plain Dealer to more far left-wing opinions saturating the supposed news reports. The majority of all readers (whether liberal or conservative) would classify themselves as moderate. We also appreciate receiving our news in a non-opinionated manner. Until The Plain Dealer returns to a more healthy “news reporting” platform without political commentary, you will continue to loose readership due to a lack of trust.
Subpar
Can’t size page to screen. Can’t adjust text size. Please fix.
Bias in reporting
I much preferred the unbiased reporting of the news, as opposed to the current clearly biased reporting. Ok, you guys hate the president. I’m not crazy about him either. Report what government is doing, but please stop reporting in such a way as to bias your readers. Make believe you’re Walter Cronkite, not some despicable counterpoint to Fox News.
PD Problems
PD online is clumsy to access and unnecessarily complicated to navigate. A mess. They should have left it alone.
Layout is the worst
I have been a loyal subscriber for 30 years. We look forward to our Sunday newspaper as it’s the only one we have delivered. My husband and I like to read the newspaper together in the morning, read our horoscopes for a laugh, and then he works on his crossword puzzle why I work on my Sudoku. Today’s layout is impossible for us to do that! The Sudoku is on the same page as the crossword puzzles! Please change it back to the way it was before. Also, there’s no horoscope anymore?
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A monthly subscription costs $4.98 in Turkey and $31.83 in Mexico — 6× more for the same thing. Below is the going rate for each plan in every country that sells it — the middle price of what the app charges there, in the country's own currency with the dollar equivalent beneath it.
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The Plain Dealer FAQ
- Is The Plain Dealer free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 174 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $24.99 (US), across 1 subscription and 2 one-time purchases.
- How much does The Plain Dealer cost per month?
- The Plain Dealer Subscription is $24.99 (US).
- Does The Plain Dealer have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is The Plain Dealer cheapest?
- A monthly subscription costs TRY 244.99 (≈$4.98) in Turkey and MX$579.00 (≈$31.83) in Mexico, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to The Plain Dealer?
- Cleveland News from WKYC (4.7 from 17,237 reviews), cleveland.com (4.5 from 11,639 reviews, premium from $7.99) and The Oregonian News (4.3 from 3,972 reviews, premium from $24.99).
The Plain Dealer download
Last updated 8 months ago.
The Plain Dealer sells in 174 countries. It was released 14 years and 10 months ago, on 11 Nov 2011. It holds a 4.2 rating from 4,751 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does The Plain Dealer make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- Monthly 70%
- One-time 30%
Revenue by country
- United States 100%
- Canada 0%
- Chile 0%
- Mexico 0%