High confidence · Latest 60 of 66 total reviews analyzed · Based on 66 reviews. Signal may be noisy.
Mixed
Recent user voice shows a mixed sentiment. Users appreciate local news and weather updates provide essential community information for residents without cable subscriptions and real-time push notifications keep users informed about breaking news and weather alerts throughout the day, but report intrusive advertisements frequently overlap and obscure news article text, making content difficult to read and notification system sends duplicate alerts for the same news story, causing user frustration and annoyance.
Rating: 4.4
Reviews: 66
Confidence: high
How did the latest release land?
Overall
4.1/ 5
★★★★★
(309)Current version
4.8/ 5
+0.7 vs overall
★★★★★
(37)Main signal post-update: local news and weather updates provide essential community information for residents without cable subscriptions.
Review themes
Praise
What users love
- Local news and weather updates provide essential community information for residents without cable subscriptions
- “Users appreciate the ability to stay informed on local events and weather without paying for cable”
- “The app serves as a primary source for community-specific news and weather forecasts”
- Real-time push notifications keep users informed about breaking news and weather alerts throughout the day
- “Alerts are frequently cited as a valuable tool for staying updated on important developments”
- “Users rely on the notification system to receive timely information on weather and local news”
Complaint
Common complaints
- Intrusive advertisements frequently overlap and obscure news article text, making content difficult to read
- “Users report that ads are poorly placed and block the main content of articles”
- “The layout is described as sloppy due to ads interfering with the reading experience”
- Notification system sends duplicate alerts for the same news story, causing user frustration and annoyance
- “Multiple users report receiving identical notifications in quick succession for single stories”
- “The frequency and redundancy of alerts are cited as a negative user experience”
- Deep-linking failures prevent users from navigating directly to the specific news story referenced in notifications
- “Clicking on a notification opens the app but fails to load the intended article”
- “Users find it difficult to locate the specific news story after the app fails to redirect correctly”
Request
Most requested
- Granular notification settings would allow users to select specific alert types like weather only
- “Users request the ability to customize push notifications rather than receiving all alerts”
- “A specific desire for location-based weather alerts is mentioned as a missing feature”
- Live television streaming and casting functionality would improve the utility of the mobile news experience
- “Users express a desire for live broadcast viewing and external display casting options”