The Denver Post

Review by eFreeware

The Denver Post app is built for people who already read the paper, or want to: Colorado news, Broncos, Avalanche, Nuggets and Rockies coverage, weather, and the rest of what the newsroom publishes, delivered on a phone. It is free to download from the Play Store and comes from MediaNews Group, the paper's owner. If your day starts with Denver headlines, this is the most direct way to get them.

What you get is broader than a headline feed. The developer has rebuilt the app around a few ideas: a personalized front page you can steer by topic, a saved-articles shelf, a digital replica of the printed edition, offline reading, and even a set of puzzles. That is a lot of surface area for one app, and the review below works through what each part is for and where the trade-offs sit.

The app is ad-supported and also offers in-app purchases. The install base is modest for a metro daily, over 100,000, and the average rating sits at 2.2 from 1,347 ratings.

Reading the news your way

The part I would use most is the Your News tab. Rather than scrolling everything the paper publishes, you select the topics you care about and the app builds recommendations around those choices. The point, as the developer frames it, is to skip the noise and land on the stories that matter to you. For someone who follows the Rockies closely but has no interest in business coverage, that is a meaningful shortcut.

Following topics works at the article level. When you are reading something and want more of it, you tap follow, and related articles become more prominent in what you see; unfollowing is just as quick. It is a lightweight way to tune the feed without filling out a preferences form, and it means the app's front page gets more useful the more you read.

Sections are reached from a top navigation bar, by tapping or swiping. Within a section, swiping left opens the next article instead of sending you back to a list to pick again. These are small decisions, but they shape how the app feels in a quick reading session, and the swipe gesture in particular is the kind of thing you notice only when it is missing.

Saving stories, alerts and the printed edition

Saved articles give you a place to park longer pieces for later. The app also sends push notifications that remind you about items you have saved or suggest related reading. If you would rather control the flow, notifications can be customized by topic, which the developer presents as a way to keep them less intrusive. That is a sensible arrangement: you decide which subjects are allowed to interrupt you.

For readers who want the paper as it was laid out, E-News is the digital replica of the day's edition, reached from Settings. It saves you from opening a separate app for the same content. I would expect this to appeal to longtime subscribers who like the structure of a front page and section order, rather than an endless stream.

Offline reading is also switched on in Settings, and the preferences for it can be adjusted there too. That matters for anyone who reads on a plane, on the subway, or anywhere the signal drops. The combination of saved articles, topic notifications and a replica edition covers most of the ways people actually consume a daily paper on a phone.

A puzzle break between headlines

The app includes a games section with Sudoku, Solitaire, Jumble, Crossword and Puzzles. It is an unusual addition for a news app, but not a strange one: newspapers have carried crosswords and word games for generations, and putting them in the same app keeps everything in one place.

I would not download this app for the games alone, since dedicated puzzle apps exist and cover the same ground. As a companion to the news, though, they make sense. If you read the morning stories and then want ten minutes of Solitaire before getting on with your day, the app does not make you leave to find it.

Setting it up and keeping access

Most of the app's configuration lives in Settings. That is where you turn on offline reading, adjust its preferences, and choose E-News for the replica edition. If you already subscribe to the paper, the developer asks you to restore your account there, under Subscriptions, so that your access is not interrupted. Doing that first is the one setup step worth remembering.

The app is free to download, carries advertising, and offers in-app purchases. Subscribers, in particular, should sort out the restore step before judging what they can open.

The app has been on the Play Store since October 2010 and was last updated in September 2026. The most recent changes added an author view to articles and fixed a message that could appear saying content was unable to load. Both are maintenance-level improvements rather than new features, which is roughly what you want to see from an app of this age.

Who this app fits best

The clearest fit is a Colorado reader who already pays for the paper or reads it regularly and wants the same coverage on a phone. The topic-based feed, the replica edition and the saved-articles shelf all assume you have a standing interest in what the newsroom produces. If Denver sports and local news are part of your routine, the app is organized around exactly that.

It also suits people who like to shape their own news diet. Selecting topics, following subjects from within articles and choosing which alerts you receive put a fair amount of control in your hands. Someone who finds most news apps overwhelming because everything is thrown at them will appreciate that the app asks what you want first.

The games give it a second, lighter audience: readers who want a crossword or a round of Solitaire alongside the headlines. That is a secondary draw, not the main event, and I would treat it that way when deciding whether to install.

What to weigh before installing

Two things give me pause. The first is the rating: 2.2 from 1,347 ratings is low, and while a score like that rarely reflects a single cause, it suggests a fair number of readers have been unhappy with the experience at some point. The second is the ad-supported model combined with in-app purchases, which is common for free news apps but still means the app is not simply free in the way a public radio app might be.

Neither point is a reason to dismiss it. The feature set is genuinely broad, the app has been maintained for well over a decade, and the recent fixes address real annoyances. But I would set expectations accordingly: this is a free, ad-carrying newspaper app, and the value you get from it depends heavily on how much you already care about Denver coverage.

A news app for committed Denver readers

If you read The Denver Post already, the app is the natural place to keep doing it. The personalized Your News feed, topic following, saved articles and the E-News replica cover the main ways people read a daily paper, and offline reading makes the whole thing usable away from a signal. The puzzles are a pleasant extra rather than the reason to install.

If you are not already invested in Denver news, the calculus is different. A 2.2 average rating and an ad-supported, purchase-carrying model mean this is not the app I would pick to sample Colorado journalism casually. For the paper's regular readers, though, it does the job it was built for, and the recent update shows someone is still tending to it.

What's new in version 10.0.62

Added new author view to articles Fixed inadvertent "unable to load this content" message