Dayton Daily News
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| Subscription | Period | Price |
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| The Dayton Daily News ePaper | Monthly | $9.99 |
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Dayton Daily News reviews
4.3 out of 5, based on 2,235 reviews.
What people like
- Covers local sports well
- Feels like a real newspaper layout
- Very convenient for reading on iPad
What they complain about
- Ads take up too much screen space
- App crashes and freezes constantly
- Keeps logging you out repeatedly
- Bookmarks are broken or missing
Nice update to your app
The new app is easy to read and navigate.
Restore old version!
There is nothing good about this new version. A third of the screen is wasted on useless material, as is the opening screen. We pay a lot for the ePaper subscription and shouldn’t have to navigate through all this nonsense.
Horrible new version.
The old version ads were annoying enough - this is crazy - ads take up full top of the iPad screen and can no longer pinch up to maximize the paper - what in the world!
Navigation to articles
New version lost ability to read by article. On Saturday only get a digital version so I would easily select a puzzle and print it. Cannot find a way to do this now. Not clear what was reason for such a major change (no documentation or notification).
Printing doesn’t work
Can’t print the crossword in the new app
Significant improvement
The recently redesigned app is a very welcomed improvement. Thank you for doing such a great job.
New Version - not good
I thought the DDN app was as good as I’ve seen compared to other newspapers. Now they screwed it up. It locks up, you can not view the e-paper and if you go through their web site portal the paper layout/navigation experience is a major step backwards. Not sure how anyone on there e-commerce team can be proud of this release. I like staying current with my college town, but not with this tool. I’ll be canceling my subscription to the paper if it’s not fixed quickly
Less buggy but not great
Biggest annoyance is when you are in article read mode, if you side swipe left-right even the slightest when you intend to scroll up-down, the article reloads and you start at the top. I also don’t like that the page swipe to next page completely locks until the ad loads at the bottom. On some days that can take several seconds.
Sad decline
The app and website are unusable: the newest version of the app opens with a loud, animated ad for a video game — what were they thinking? The ad can’t be skipped, so the app is now useless to me and I am a paid subscriber! Of course, the app forgets logins so maybe DDN thinks I don’t have a paid subscription? …and whose fault is that? The website is incompatible with password managers, so I can’t access my paid subscription content there either. It’s really sad, heartbreaking really, to see the steady slow decline of Dayton’s historic newspaper that now seems to have accelerated. So sad…
App Constantly Crashes
I have no problem supporting small local media and journalism, but I cannot read the paper on my phone without the app crashing multiple times.
On-Line newspaper is best
I did not think I would like an On-Line Newspaper but, because of its cheaper price, I subscribed to the DDN. Reading it for the last month I find it much more convenient, easier to read on my I-pad, and it is always with you assuming you carry a cell phone.
Another nail in the coffin
Latest version makes the epaper worthless. Not only is way too much screen real estate at the top wasted by ads that aren’t even targeted to the reader, the ability to navigate has gotten super twitchy. Can’t share articles at all. Can’t highlight words to lookup. The fact that the “ news” is already two days old makes it a waste. The straight digital stories are still so poorly curated as to be worthless as well. Considering that the NY Times has shown how to run a news site for decades, why the DDN keeps trying to reinvent the wheel is why they will shut down before the end of 2026.
New digital version
Nearly unreadable now. It uses nearly half the screen to advertise the paper that I am ALREADY trying to read. I’ve called twice to complain and each time I’m told it’s being fixed soon but that never happens. I just deleted the app and downloaded again to see if it was a problem with my device. No such luck. Get it together DDN
Interface is problematic
First, when using the “paper” interface and I inadvertently touch the screen it brings up a poor excuse for the page. I have a browser — if I want to read the paper in that manner I’d choose to. The team should allow the user to opt-out of this “feature”. Second, when a customer, who pays real money, chooses to select the “paper” mode every time he opens the app and leaves it in that mode when he exits the app, shouldn’t have to select it each time he opens the app. Remember the state. Third, I would like the local content to be front and center. I know how to subscribe to the NYT, I don’t need their content in the local paper. I know how to access AP news, I don’t need it in my local paper, especially when it’s placed haphazardly throughout. I realize we’re a small town but it’d be great to see all the non locally-sourced news at the back of the paper. The paper is The DAYTON Daily News. Show me news pertinent to the greater Dayton area. Finally, don’t randomly log paying subscribers out of the app. This isn’t hard.
Excellent paper
It has all the elements and range that could be expected for a reader in the Greater Dayton area:
New Version
Your new version sucks. The former version was so easy to navigate. If you think you’ve improved it, you are absolutely wrong. And why aren’t the obits listed under sections? You guys really got this one wrong!
New Version - Terrible
The new version of DDN (ePaper) available from the application is a big step back. You lose about a third of the screen at the top because of advertising and trying to maneuver through the paper is no longer available. You can only select topics and view through the website format, definitely not user friendly. Please bring back the older version that reads more like a paper version. It may be time to drop my subscription.
DDN
Not able to read comics on iPhone-disappointing,
Concise and Comprehensive
I like the breadth of articles included in the news section and coverage of local sports. I also appreciate the coverage of key national stories.
This is Horrible
You have managed to take a perfectly good approach and make it totally unusable. I have even deleted the app and reloaded it and the epaper does not load at all, which is the only part I want.
App crashes
For the past month as I read the paper online via my Apple phone, the paper freezes and then the app inadvertently shuts down. I have to then start over and locate my article. It can happen 3 to 4 times each day.
Update Killed it
The app was working OK for me but I did a dumb thing. I downloaded the latest update and now it doesn't work at all.
Great Newspaper
Nice to have the news in a “paper” layout delivered everyday. DDN does a great job covering the area.
You ruined it!
The new update stinks. It makes the paper unreadable now on the iPad. The space lost at the top is tragic and I pay for the paper - NOT for adds. Full screen articles have gone away and tap to read doesn’t open the article. Sorry to say my husband and I agree we will cancel the subscription.
Latest update broke bookmarks
UPDATE: It's August 2025, a year since I left a five star review congratulating DDN and JN for getting the apps functioning smoothly while simultaneously not fixing what isn't broken. It was wonderful while we had it, but they have recently changed the app, and not for the good. Since the latest update, all my previous bookmarked Articles have been moved to Pages instead of Articles in My Content, and they don't open, except as a blank white screen! In a likely related problem, the bookmark icon is now missing altogether on all current digital app Paper articles so I no longer can bookmark new articles either! Oddly, the bookmark icon does appear for whole pages while reading the Paper, and those bookmarks actually function, though that is of no use to me. Bookmark icons are still available when reading the Live News section, but those bookmarks do not function. I have written twice each to Journal News and Dayton Daily News about the issues, but they have not replied. I use bookmarks heavily, and without being able to bookmark articles anymore, or even access my entire library of previously bookmarked articles, it's made the apps frustrating to use. Might be a complete dealbreaker for me.
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Thank you for fixing what was not broken
Thank you for ruining this app. Now that you've "enhanced"to full-page height, which is how I've read this paper for years. And you're now WASTING 20% of what screen there is with ads. If I could have given you zero stars I would have. PUT IT BACKTHE WAY IT WAS.
Small viewing area
With the latest download the reading area is hard to read with the add space and the reading options. I find the latest download very frustrating!
DDN Website
Paper is very professional. Great writers and great stories. Papers like this are usually found in larger cities where “journalists” tend to gather. Dayton is lucky to have such a paper in their hometown. As a Native Daytonian, who now lives in Tennessee, I still subscribe to my hometown paper. Keep up the good work.
Turn a page, app shuts down
Fix the bugs. I'm tired of having so sign in over and over, and now, you turn a couple pages and the app just completely closes out and sends you to your home page. Why bother with the paper if you don't get the access to read it?
Page
Does not display full page, as it once did.
DDN
I was always a newsPAPER person, but now I thoroughly enjoy having my DDN digital version first thing in the morning.
Huh?
U have to log in or exit the app several times a week to use it. It seems ridiculous that this news org cannot report a Buckeye football game until 2 days later.
App crashing in iOS 14
Since I pay for a subscription to read the epaper I expect it to work consistently. Since the Apple iOS 14 release this app crashes and freezes regularly. Three notifications to Customer Service through the settings page have not produced any improvement. It is becoming as unreliable as home delivery.
Click the “share” button at your own risk
Instead of just copying the link and perhaps the headline, it provides a bunch of unnecessary information and provides a second link to subscribe to the paper. Simple = better
Good when it works
Constantly crashing.
Dayton Daily News price by country
A monthly subscription costs $0.56 in Turkey and $13.34 in Israel — 24× 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.
| Country | Monthly |
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| Albania | $11.99 |
| Algeria | $9.99 |
| Angola | $9.99 |
| Anguilla | $9.99 |
| Antigua And Barbuda | $9.99 |
| Argentina | $9.99 |
| Armenia | $9.99 |
| Australia | A$14.99$10.63 |
| Azerbaijan | $9.99 |
| Bahamas | $9.99 |
| Bahrain | $9.99 |
| Barbados | $9.99 |
| Belarus | $9.99 |
| Belize | $9.99 |
| Benin | $9.99 |
| Bermuda | $9.99 |
| Bhutan | $9.99 |
| Bolivia | $9.99 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | €9.99$11.56 |
| Botswana | $9.99 |
| Brazil | R$31.90$6.12 |
| British Virgin Islands | $9.99 |
| Brunei Darussalam | $9.99 |
| Burkina Faso | $9.99 |
| Cambodia | $9.99 |
| Cameroon | $9.99 |
| Canada | CA$13.99$10.06 |
| Cape Verde | $9.99 |
| Cayman Islands | $9.99 |
| Chad | $9.99 |
| Chile | CLP 6,500$7.10 |
| China | CN¥68.00$10.06 |
| Colombia | COP 27,900$8.90 |
| Congo | $9.99 |
| Congo, Democratic Republic | $9.99 |
| Costa Rica | $9.99 |
| Cote Divoire | $9.99 |
| Dominica | $9.99 |
| Dominican Republic | $9.99 |
| Ecuador | $9.99 |
| Egypt | EGP 179.99$3.56 |
| El Salvador | $9.99 |
| Fiji | $9.99 |
| Gabon | $9.99 |
| Gambia | $9.99 |
| Georgia | $9.99 |
| Ghana | $9.99 |
| Grenada | $9.99 |
| Guatemala | $9.99 |
| Guinea-bissau | $9.99 |
| Guyana | $9.99 |
| Honduras | $9.99 |
| Hong Kong | HK$78.00$9.95 |
| India | ₹619.00$6.46 |
| Indonesia | IDR 149,000$8.34 |
| Iraq | $9.99 |
| Israel | ₪39.90$13.34 |
| Jamaica | $9.99 |
| Japan | ¥1,200$7.52 |
| Jordan | $9.99 |
| Kazakhstan | KZT 3,390.00$7.34 |
| Kenya | $9.99 |
| Kosovo | €9.99$11.56 |
| Kuwait | $9.99 |
| Kyrgyzstan | $9.99 |
| Lao Peoples Democratic Republic | $9.99 |
| Lebanon | $9.99 |
| Liberia | $9.99 |
| Libya | $9.99 |
| Macao | $9.99 |
| Macedonia | $9.99 |
| Madagascar | $9.99 |
| Malawi | $9.99 |
| Malaysia | MYR 41.90$10.32 |
| Maldives | $9.99 |
| Mali | $9.99 |
| Mauritania | $9.99 |
| Mauritius | $9.99 |
| Mexico | MX$169.00$9.91 |
| Micronesia | $9.99 |
| Moldova | $9.99 |
| Mongolia | $9.99 |
| Montenegro | €9.99$11.56 |
| Montserrat | $9.99 |
| Morocco | $9.99 |
| Mozambique | $9.99 |
| Myanmar | $9.99 |
| Namibia | $9.99 |
| Nauru | $9.99 |
| Nepal | $9.99 |
| New Zealand | NZ$14.99$8.82 |
| Nicaragua | $9.99 |
| Niger | $9.99 |
| Nigeria | NGN 3,100.00$2.29 |
| Oman | $9.99 |
| Pakistan | PKR 1,000$3.60 |
| Palau | $9.99 |
| Panama | $9.99 |
| Papua New Guinea | $9.99 |
| Paraguay | $9.99 |
| Peru | PEN 31.90$9.47 |
| Philippines | ₱489.00$7.91 |
| Qatar | QAR 34.99$9.61 |
| Russia | RUB 749.00$8.81 |
| Rwanda | $9.99 |
| Sao Tome & Principe | $9.99 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAR 36.99$9.86 |
| Senegal | $9.99 |
| Serbia | €9.99$11.56 |
| Seychelles | $9.99 |
| Sierra Leone | $9.99 |
| Singapore | SGD 14.98$11.70 |
| Solomon Islands | $9.99 |
| South Africa | ZAR 199.99$12.31 |
| South Korea | ₩12,000$8.50 |
| Sri Lanka | $9.99 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | $9.99 |
| St. Lucia | $9.99 |
| St. Vincent & The Grenadines | $9.99 |
| Suriname | $9.99 |
| Swaziland | $9.99 |
| Switzerland | CHF 10.00$12.32 |
| Taiwan | NT$300.00$9.41 |
| Tajikistan | $9.99 |
| Tanzania | TZS 20,900.00$7.90 |
| Thailand | THB 349.00$10.55 |
| Tonga | $9.99 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | $9.99 |
| Tunisia | $9.99 |
| Turkey | TRY 26.99$0.56 |
| Turkmenistan | $9.99 |
| Turks and Caicos | $9.99 |
| Uganda | $9.99 |
| Ukraine | $9.99 |
| United Arab Emirates | AED 36.99$10.08 |
| United States | $9.99 |
| Uruguay | $9.99 |
| Uzbekistan | $9.99 |
| Vanuatu | $9.99 |
| Venezuela | $9.99 |
| Vietnam | ₫219,000$8.38 |
| Yemen | $9.99 |
| Zambia | $9.99 |
| Zimbabwe | $9.99 |
Dayton Daily News FAQ
- Is Dayton Daily News free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 144 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $9.99 (US), across 1 subscription.
- How much does Dayton Daily News cost per month?
- The Dayton Daily News ePaper is $9.99 (US).
- Does Dayton Daily News have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is Dayton Daily News cheapest?
- A monthly subscription costs TRY 26.99 (≈$0.56) in Turkey and ₪39.90 (≈$13.34) in Israel, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to Dayton Daily News?
- WHIO News (4.6 from 21,188 reviews), Cincinnati.com: The Enquirer (4.4 from 5,066 reviews, premium from $19.99) and FOX19 NOW (4.3 from 3,394 reviews).
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Dayton Daily News sells in 144 countries. It was released 13 years and 9 months ago, on 12 Dec 2012. It holds a 4.3 rating from 2,235 reviews.
Supports 2 languages: English, Spanish.
How much does Dayton Daily News make?
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