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What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R4] CNBC 1/5 · US App won’t load lately: For the last few months I’m having issues where stories just won’t load. I have to reconnect to my wifi to make it work. Sort of annoying I’m assuming it’s tied to their spammy ads and my Unifi system blocking them. App used to work great, but since the spinoff has been bad.
2. [R6] CNBC 3/5 · US Live stream on iPad stopped working: I’m so frustrated I cannot stream cnbc on my iPad. I constantly remove and reinstall but doesn’t help. Worked fine before the split.
3. [R9] CNBC 3/5 · US Live streaming not working.: The app used to be great but when they changed the logo it went downhill. Will try deleting and reinstalling.
4. [R13] CNBC 1/5 · US Videos Freeze: I don’t understand for the life of me how this is a five star rated app. This app is absolutely horrible and has gotten worse since Versant bought out the company. The videos freeze about 20% into it. The charts are incredibly amateur and lag the videos take so long to come out after they’ve been played. Do better this is garbage.
5. [R10] CNBC 2/5 · US CNBC gets worse with each upgrade :( Get Pro, join Club, Ad overload!: CNBC gets worse with each upgrade :( Get Pro, join Club, Ad overload!
6. [R15] CNBC 3/5 · US Good Investment Information: I enjoy listening to the information shared but i gave it a 3 because there are to many commercials for the high price subscription.
7. [R48] CNBC 3/5 · GB Good but thanks: This app is a perfect app for business news. However when it comes to subscription, it’s not cheap. It when you pay for subscription, you have certain expectations. Things like Picture in Picture, doesn’t work well on IOS, PAID SUBSCRIPTION os only consist of live CNBC channel and doesn’t give access to entertainment section of the app. come on, $29.99 a month only give you ac
8. [R7] CNBC 2/5 · US Articles are biased at best, propaganda at worst.: I look at the quotes, whoever writes the articles are left wing activists that are too biased. I don’t watch CNBC anymore because of the bias and lies.
9. [R21] CNBC 3/5 · US News ? Halfway news? Part schmoooze?: CNBC has today’s trumpp live BS trumpcast on live for extended viewing. Waste of time without subtitles or a counter blast of this idiots mindless 4th grade emotional outburst ( a 4th grader from a horriblly dysfunctional family) CNBC does not accurately broadcast the news about the horror show of the GOP, the WH occupant, the cabinet members of presidenti
10. [R24] CNBC 3/5 · US Political bias: Steve Less-man’s Political bias is Disgusting! And a real dis-service to your viewers. Still wrong on tariffs, still wrong on inflation,still wrong on everything due to TDS. Andrew is a child with child views of the world. Sara and Joe are both thoughtful and reasonable and clearly the adults in the room.
11. [R3] CNBC 3/5 · US Metals prices missing: Under Commodities, the entire Metals prices are missing. Does anyone else have this problem?
12. [R5] CNBC 5/5 · US Please Add A stock market Widget For IPhone: This App Is wonderful the Benifits of knowledge is awesome I just wish it had some Widgets for I can see the updates faster thank you
13. [R14] CNBC 4/5 · GB Apple TV is broken: Just launched then crashed immediately please fix 🥺
14. [R19] CNBC 1/5 · US Not compatible with Ipad Pro: App will not allow log in if you are using an ipad pro
15. [R55] Stocks 5/5 · US Thanks: It tells me everything I need to know
16. [R56] Stocks 3/5 · US The more you use it, the harder it gets: I appreciate many things about this app. It is easy to use, there is a lot of information readily available with just a tap or two, and the link to real time news is great. Here are some features I would like to see: 1. Add a sort feature, so you can sort listings alphabetically, by date added, by market cap, whatever. Doing this manually, the only curren
17. [R58] Stocks 5/5 · US Great🦧: I can check my favorite company’s money rate
18. [R68] Yahoo Finance 1/5 · US Advanced chart in mobile app: Completely broken. Why time in x axis , always current day candle not rendering 😒
19. [R70] Yahoo Finance 3/5 · US H/L & 52 wk view nowscrewed up: Please fix the recent change to the iPad version. The high/low and 52 wk views cannot be seen without sliding the side menu over. Why is the stock symbol column so wide? Wasn’t this wide before and everything could be seen without sliding the side menu over. Please reduce the width!
20. [R72] Yahoo Finance 5/5 · US Best of all financial advice: Best financial tracking and best portfolio review and 💯accuracy
21. [R73] Yahoo Finance 3/5 · US Poor recent UI/UX changes.: In a recent iPad update (late June/July 2026 they changed the daily price change to a dollar amount (I.e. +$3.56) which is pretty much useless. Change it back to being a percentage (I.e. +1.23%) or at least make it user selectable. They also ruined the “basic” view for linked portfolios. Instead of seeing all positions now, you only see like 9. You have to switch
22. [R80] The Wall Street Journal. News 4/5 · US Sustainable business went dark: Always have appreciated the quality of reporting especially with the Sustainable Business section. Too bad they took it out.
23. [R83] The Wall Street Journal. News 5/5 · US They solved the comments issue: They finally solved seeing comments in the app. Thank goodness.
24. [R89] The Wall Street Journal. News 4/5 · US Comments?: It’s a great read, these days, but I have to use the mobile site rather than the app because the app, inexplicably in 2026, doesn’t show reader comments.
25. [R92] The Wall Street Journal. News 4/5 · US Please Add Playback Speed Option To Audio: Love the app, love your reporting. Love listening to articles. Please add an option to adjust audio playback speed and make it so my selection is saved so I don’t have to set it for each article. Keep up the great work
26. [R100] MarketWatch 5/5 · US Market watch is good reading: App has some great feature stories that are enjoyable to read
27. [R101] MarketWatch 3/5 · US Decent: I generally like the app. Most articles are written well. Some are useful. I find them much better than others. My main complaint is that the app doesn’t allow for a Dark Mode. In this day and age, not having a Dark Mode is surprising.
28. [R103] MarketWatch 5/5 · US IH: Stock chart
29. [R104] MarketWatch 3/5 · US Jack: Way too many pop up advertisements for subscribers.
30. [R108] The Economist 5/5 · US Thank you for adding Audio Timer!: Thank you for adding Audio Timer!
31. [R109] The Economist 3/5 · US I miss the old audio narrations: The Economist app lost a lot of character when it switched to AI narrators. I didn’t mind that only select articles were narrated and there was some delay. Intentionally absorbing articles is more difficult now.
32. [R111] The Economist 5/5 · US Addition of CarPlay takes this to the next level: So happy to see CarPlay support added to the app. I love the podcasts, but this will help me get thru more of the articles. Please add playback speed controls. 1x is just too slow for me and there are a lot of articles I’d like to get to each week.
33. [R112] The Economist 3/5 · US Notifications don’t work: Somewhat useless if you want to use Notification Center to read articles. Clicking on a notification opens the app, but not the article - so you have to search for the article. Infrequently, the articles shows up after a minute or two (navigating to the beginning if you already started reading). Works fine for browsing via the app though.
34. [R16] CNBC 1/5 · US Livestream never loads: I hardly ever leave reviews and almost never leave negative reviews but this app has been so frustrating. I have to refresh it 30+ times to get the livestream to even load and sometimes it just never does and I can't watch that morning. Then sometimes I have to go through the same process after stops working after a commercial break. No one has time for that. I know it's sp
35. [R22] CNBC 1/5 · US Content great app still stinks: The live stream feature is still not working. I’ve used this app for years. Everything was great but months ago, it will not let you connect through your cable provider. When you hit the button, the wheel just spins and spins for hours. I was hoping after this last update it would be fixed but to no avail.