The Buffalo News App
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How much does The Buffalo News App cost?
Prices are current as of 6 Oct 2026.
2 subscriptions from $29.99
In the United States, The Buffalo News App has 2 subscriptions priced $29.99 – 379.99.
| Subscription | Period | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscriptions | Monthly | $29.99 – 46.99 |
| Subscriptions | Annual | $50.00 – 379.99 |
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| Rating / 5 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 5.0 | — |
| Reviews | 754 | 20K | 12K | 11K | 7.8K | 2.5K | 182 | 101 | 68 | 1 | — |
| Released | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2014 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Monthly price | $42.99 | — | $19.99 | — | — | $19.99 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Annual price | $289.99 | — | $199.99 | — | — | $69.99 | — | — | — | — | — |
The going rate for each plan in United States, in its own currency, shaded from the cheapest price on the row to the dearest.
The Buffalo News App reviews
3.4 out of 5, based on 754 reviews.
What people like
- Easy to navigate and use
- Great local sports coverage
- Read full print paper online
- Good for immediate news updates
What they complain about
- Articles fail to load constantly
- Ads interrupt you constantly
- Support never actually helps
- App crashes on iPad often
Buffalo News App
So much easier to use than traditional reading online.
App is Terrible
Don’t know why but when I am thumbing through the e-edition, you cannot go back a page. App sends you back to front page.
Carl Koester
I use the Buf News app on Monday because I don’t get a paper on Mondays. On Tuesday to Sun I read and enjoy the morning paper with my morning coffee. The app has some challenges for me but I’m able to read the stories with my coffee. I’d prefer to have a Monday paper but make do with the e-version one day a week.
Terrible app support
I have an issue every day with articles not loading. It seems to be 2 or 3 or 4 random stories, they flash on the screen, then it goes to a loading spinner in the middle of the screen. I initially contacted them on 5-26, and have sent 25 emails about the problem. And most of those are replies to their repeated asks about the problem, including probably 10 that ask “what is the specific error message?” I have lost all patience with them, I am sick of asking why they don’t READ THE THREAD. And the replies that say what device, I’ll send you instructions to clear your cache, or reset your router, or make sure you sign in. Cause apparently only random stories will be affected by those issues.
Buffalo News
I am very disappointed that you no longer include DearAbby or Miss Manners columns in the paper. The comic section is terrible as it includes nothing current. We enjoyed Pickles and The Far Side, but they are no longer published. To add insult to injury you raised the price of the paper.
UB
Where’s the UB Bulls men’s BB score?
Worst app ever.
This app has always been a problem and still is. It’s reason enough for me to cancel my subscription.
Notification/Alert System
I do like the app. It has some very nice features: being able to read the print version, the games and comics section, and it’s easy to navigate. I’m not really a sports fan. It seems 8/10 stories I receive are about the Bills, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn that off and just get breaking local and national news. Overall, though, it’s a decent app.
Frustrating
When using an iPad you can only read it if the iPad is horizontal. If you raise the top of the iPad to make it vertical, the page immediately resets and goes to the top. It’s getting worse and is very frustrating
Content
I enjoy the content and the writing of the local writers. The problem I have is that in this day of the internet, why the sports reports and stories don’t show up until two days later instead of the next day is beyond me. I know the print edition is done out of town but the e-edition should be available to those of us that subscribe to e-edition only. Thanks
App works well; great to get local news
I grew up with the Buffalo News and now that I live out of town I still enjoy getting the news online. The app is well organized and easy to use.
Terrible user experience
This is easily one of the worst apps I’ve ever used. The user experience is bad in many way but two things drive me nuts. First, headlines will show up in Twitter but clicking on that link doesn’t give you the option to open the mobile app, like WaPo or The Atlantic. Second, if I open the app once I see a breaking headline on Twitter, I usually can’t find the article. Shouldn’t be that hard to provide a better experience.
Flow
Although I only recently subscribed to the Buffalo news, I have in the past read the Washington Post. The letter newspaper allows one to flow from one article to the next within a section of the newspaper. However, I like that the Buffalo news has a human Voice. The post seems to use an AI voice in contrast.
Making article larger
I can’t expand the page large enough to read it. It keeps snapping back to original size. The app won’t let me go to bottom of page to read it. Tapping on article to different format is only way to read it.
Fair
I read the Buffalo News online every day. The functionality is poor with pages not responding to finger movements commonly. Also, the schlocky advertisements at the bottom of opened pages are annoying. Content is good, but most A section stories come from other news outlets.
Refresh daily
Every day I catch up on the news from my home town while wintering on Hilton Head Island
Biased news reporting
Great paper if you’re a liberal. If you’re looking for fair and honest reporting don’t look here.
Great Sports/NFL Coverage, News weak on Political balanced view
We know we are in New York State led by the Democrats but the news needs to realize there are a lot of Republicans, Independents, & Conservatives out here-don’t forget we are here and we want to read and have our perspective represented. Women can be pro-family,pro-life & feminist. I appreciate the News because we do need people to see what’s happening in their communities-keep on keeping on. : )
Heavily left-sided newspaper
Unfortunately, trying to be as truthful as I can be, this is a heavily left, leaning newspaper, relying on left, leaning writers from other news agencies Gone or the days when you used to get a middle of the road, Newspaper that showed both sides of the equation Now the only thing I read it for is for its sports in crossword puzzles Local news has allowed to be desired since the paper moved it operations to Cleveland, Ohio If you call and complain about not being able to read comments about stories or include your own comments, You were told to allow third-party apps, etc. when you call back and say that it doesn’t work, your assured that they are working on it and that the issue will be resolved within a couple days, that was two months ago I am 72 years old and hold a journalism degree, have worked for a newspaper in my younger days, I am not calling myself a journalist, however, I do remember one of the rules of journalism, be fair, and honest, and show both sides of the argument… so the people can decide It’s a shame the Buffalo News hasn’t picked up and the standards of the old Buffalo Courier express, Instead, their filing the woke journalism of the Gray lady, WAPO etc To heavily opinionated and one-sided!
Bring back local printing
Not sure why, but BN decided to sell to another company out of state who moved printing from being done locally to someplace out of state. Bring back local printing! The app is okay but it lacks in a lot of features and reliability
The Buffalo News is Important for our Region
Everyone in WNY should read the BN to understand our community and get trusted reporting from local journalists as well as articles of importance from syndications. Local news is the only way we can have empower us to make change where it is needed.
BN iPad App is Bad, Very Bad
The new version doesn’t update and therefore I cannot read the articles on my iPad. Forget trying to get a hold of Customer Service because they don’t answer.
Minor complaint
Two things that bug me: The pop ups suggesting stories to read . If I’m interested I read it when I get to it. Sometimes it suggests a story I’ve already read. Second : the embedded adds in the body of the story. I find while scrolling through the story it’s easy to open adds disrupting reading the story.
App doesn’t work
Bad
Notifications are…gone??
This app used to be great about giving you notifications, now they’re gone?? Even after you opt in for them? What happened?
Great coverage
The Buffalo News is a fantastic resource for everything Buffalo. For someone who lives outside the city it provides insight into happenings around Buffalo and the sports coverage is amazing. Particularly for bills fans the sports writers at the News are some of the best in the business.
Subscribed, but unable to access content
Paid money, they took our money, and then we were unable to access content. Took hours to resolve. Zero out of ten, would not subscribe again.
Mixed Fealungs
Good for immediate news. I like the ability to play every article as audio should you choose. The price is listening to a single commercial but otherwise you receive the entire article. The computer voice sounds real but mispronounces some words…seems it should be schooled for common things like reading the call letters of local TV stations as letters and not turning them into words…wivb is not a word nor pronounced wiv b. Can you say W I V B instead? And some stories sit on the front pages for multiple days. And betting ads look just like sports stories and some articles repeat side by side…why twice on the same line? But you do get the full articles of what the app presents (not a summary) and that’s why I use the app daily.
E Edition Problems
I have had a subscription to the News for many years. I changed to the E Edition a few years ago. While I enjoy receiving the News in format of the actual newspaper, I note regularly that many pages of the e edition fail to load. This is a major issue as much of the paper is then unreadable to me. Please work on this so that I am able to read and receive ALL of the News each day. Thanks
What a city!
The Buffalo News keeps me informed on all the ways Buffalo is an amazing city from art galleries to sports.
Unstable
The app on a IPad is ver unstable!! I’m considering not renewing my subscription!
More local events
The app is very useful, but it would be great if it featured even more local events so the Buffalo News remains a hub of local activity. This is something an app can enable perhaps a bit more easily than the print version. Even a few sentences to create public record of the smaller things that are happening will be a vtital record some day. Thank you.
Obituaries
Why can’t I get rid of the legacy advertisements when I try to read the obits. So annoying.
Better than the rest
No, I have not used a big number of similar apps, but this app is superior to others I’ve used over the years. Please, in future do not break this app with fanciful updates that don’t truly improve something. It’s very easy to navigate and functional as is.
Terrible App!
I don’t know what happened - but I keep getting “Subscribe now to read” despite having already entered my username and password. Totally frustrating! I am going to cancel my subscription since I can no longer access the Buffalo News.
Celebrity Birthdays
So what happened to the celebrity daily birthdays in photos. It was locked on March 22nd for a long time?
App continues to log me off
Every time I reopen app I have to log back in but it doesn’t recognize me. Keep getting trouble notice. The only thing that works is deleting and reloading. Frustrating
Elvis
Great job
Still not working…
Your “developer response” means nothing! Look at the history of your app’s review comments… It’s sad for society that news agencies like yours are not reliably available for this generation. Take a look at AP app. Their app might be an interface you could strive for. Sad day for local news.
First day review
I got the app with the $1 for 6 month subscription, and I gotta say from reading these older reviews and comparing it to my current experience, I enjoy this app. Plus with the current bug fixes and updates it’s making the app more usable for tablets. (I’m using an iPad mini.) I enjoy using this as a way to read the print paper on my iPad.
News fan
I live out of the Buffalo market these day, but I can not let go of Buffalo, Erie, and Niagara county. I read the New York Times, a Ukrainian E paper, and the Buffalo News. I stay in touch with Western New York, and importantly the Buffalo Bills. I think it is one of the country’s best papers. The e-Paper is convenient, cheap and easy to operate. Thanks Buffalo News.
Not Refreshing Stories
This app has basically been frozen in time for 3 days. Four days before that the same problem was occurring. How can an organization that wants to be taken as a legitimate, major American newspaper not resolve issues in a timely fashion? Embarrass!
The Buffalo News App price by country
A monthly subscription costs $42.99 in the United States and $43.47 in Canada. 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.
| Country | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | CA$59.99$43.47 | CA$399.99$289.85 |
| United States | $42.99 | $289.99 |
The Buffalo News App FAQ
- Is The Buffalo News App free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 2 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $29.99 (US), across 2 subscriptions.
- How much does The Buffalo News App cost per month?
- Subscriptions is $29.99 – 46.99 (US). The annual plan works out cheaper per month: $50.00 – 379.99 a year.
- Does The Buffalo News App have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is The Buffalo News App cheapest?
- A monthly subscription costs $42.99 in the United States and CA$59.99 (≈$43.47) in Canada, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to The Buffalo News App?
- Buffalo News from WGRZ (4.7 from 20,155 reviews), New York Daily News (4.6 from 11,941 reviews, premium from $19.99) and WIVB News 4 - Buffalo (4.6 from 11,499 reviews).
The Buffalo News App download
Last updated 13 days ago.
The Buffalo News App sells in 2 countries. It was released 14 years and 1 month ago, on 1 Sept 2012. It holds a 3.4 rating from 754 reviews.
Supports 2 languages: English, Spanish.
How much does The Buffalo News App 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 68%
- Annual 32%
Revenue by country
- United States 100%