ABC13 Houston News & Weather

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. [R15] 4/5 · US Best app. for local and national news: This is my number 1 app to keep abreast of the most updated news and events locally, Statewide and Nationally. It’s easy to manage and maneuver
2. [R31] 5/5 · US The best app ever!!!: I check my phone before i turn on my TV,when news breaks I’m the first to inform my coworkers. Thanks 👁 witness news
3. [R120] 5/5 · US Quick, Reliable, One-Stop Shop for all of your local Houston news!: I like to pop back into the app from time to time, when I feel like I am homesick. Can’t wait for those “Eye on the Gulf” section comes up in hurricane season.
4. [R144] 5/5 · US Everyday all day news source: This my most reliable news source.
5. [R73] 5/5 · US I like the ...: I like the frequent news and weather pop-up notifications I get from Channel 13. And Channel 13's notifications always pop up first.
6. [R108] 5/5 · US News: Good news source! Good for sending notifications about what’s happening in the city!
7. [R76] 5/5 · US Review: I’ve been watching Channel 13 since we had Kitirik, Dialing for Dollars and Larry Kane. Still miss Marvin and Ed Brandon. Eyewitness News is number 1.
8. [R94] 5/5 · US Us and you: Life time viewer , no loss of integrity , the most “Houston “ station on the dial ! It’s greayt
9. [R103] 5/5 · US Award winning in my eyes: I’ve been watching since Dave ward started along with Bob Allen, Marvin Zinder, Shara Fryer, Alma Barrera and now with with Mrs. Rita Garcia, Samica knight along with the Don Nelson and Jan Carson when dialing for dollars existed so there Im happy Now as well because I love, love, Mrs. Rita Garcia, Myra Moreno, and all the younger cast
10. [R115] 5/5 · US Good Ole folks!: I’m 76 years young and have watched Channel 13 for as long as I can remember. My folks also watched. I can’t remember the names to well now days, but I. remember the faces. I really enjoyed Dave Ward and all that team, a teenager I was home from night school for the 10:00 o’clock news. Now for the pass year all the greats are leaving or already gone. With so many new folks out in
11. [R3] 3/5 · US Notifications are not linked: It is so frustrating when a notification shows up on my phone, hit the link, but it only opens your app. The notification should take you to the article mentioned in the notification. Then I search and search and can never find the article. Waste of my time trying to use your app.
12. [R10] 4/5 · US Opening app: Every time I get a notification about an updated story I click on it that seems very interesting and it does not go to that story. Very disappointing.
13. [R8] 2/5 · US Opening a notification doesn’t take me to the story: I have an iPhone 14 and I have this app set up to send me notifications. Any time I click on a notification for a story I want to read, I am sent to the home page of the app but never to the exact story, which I then have to search for. Other apps send me to the exact story and it is frustrating that yours does not. Please fix.
14. [R9] 1/5 · US The notifications are terrible: Every time I receive a notification for a story and click to see the story, it takes me to the home page and the news story I received the notification on is nowhere to be found. What’s the point of sharing a story I will never see or can’t find.
15. [R14] 1/5 · US Freezes constantly: Works great reading three or four articles. Then it freezes up, and the whole phone is useless. Several minutes later, I can minimize the app and kill it. Don't get me wrong, reading the news from KTRK is a highlight of my morning. But I can't do it any longer.
16. [R30] 2/5 · US Crashes A LOT: This app constantly freezes & crashes on iPhone. Also the font is TOO BIG with no in-app way to adjust. Content informative but presentation is a mess.
17. [R39] 1/5 · US New ABC APP: Radar hardly works. Locks up on quiet a few stories. For the day. Not good
18. [R47] 1/5 · US Blue screen of nothing: Used ro be great. Now app opens with a solid blue screen and never changes.
19. [R2] 1/5 · US New update: Just terrible since the new update. Can only see past or future. No longer both combined. Going backwards.
20. [R29] 1/5 · US No navigation: This has been the worst web redesign ever. The layout is awful in that the user can only visualize a single story pane at a time. It is slow and useless.
21. [R34] 1/5 · US Don’t like new version: I liked old version better, it was simpler and more new interesting stories. The new version doesn’t have pictures just colored squares with titles of stories and they don’t add new stories on a daily basis. I have to wait two or three days to read something new. Houston is a pretty big city to have same stories repeated over and over for a couple of days. Please return to
22. [R40] 1/5 · US Functions - ZERO STARS: This is the ONLY news app that does not have the capability to swipe to proceed to the next article! And when you use the arrow, it jumps back to the beginning instead the last feed. News articles disorganized!! BACK TO FOX26 HOUSTON!! ZERO STARS
23. [R24] 2/5 · US Not too thrilled with your app: Whenever I open my app up, I’m always getting some news video playing automatically is if I want to hear it when I just want to see what’s going on in the world not here someone talking especially Donald Trump or anyone else from the Republican national convention and it seems that you are being because all you do is talk about them and talk about them and talk abou
24. [R27] 1/5 · US Live coverage: When I click on a News article, I’m coming into the app to read that article. I’m not coming into the app to be inundated by whatever live coverage you have going on at the time. The option to turn off auto play doesn’t even work. It’s so obnoxious that I deleted the entire app.
25. [R12] 2/5 · US This website needs to be better: Should be much more update on local news that matters. Any headline more than 12 hrs old is no longer news. You need to step it up.
26. [R119] 3/5 · US News: Most of the news is not current, neither is the weather - it’s at least one or more days old
27. [R51] 2/5 · US App is bad now!: The updated app (whenever that was done) may show a new story, but then goes into repetitive mode and you have to scroll past all the repeats to read any updates (and often there is none) and then you “press back” to go to next story and it goes right back to the continuous repetitive top of “news”. Not good and aggravating.
28. [R6] 1/5 · US Audio: No other app has the issue but the audio is not synched up with what they are saying
29. [R19] 1/5 · US Broken: Your app is as broken as your news reporting. Photos and videos don’t load on my iPad or iPhone. My internet speed at home is 1GB. It’s been this way for many months over many updates. I’m fairly certain you don’t care.
30. [R187] 3/5 · US Glitchy: Videos tend to overlap each other.. sound wise. Watching one video and the last video sound is playing behind it .. like some sort of glitch.
31. [R11] 3/5 · US Channel 13 reports: Channel 13 does a decent job reporting local news but the biased opinions of the station’s governing agency is always apparent when addressing President Trump. Shame on you!!!
32. [R16] 1/5 · US Left slanted: Hardly news. It’s so far left.
33. [R37] 1/5 · US Too liberal: Deleting. Shows pix of white and latino suspects and their names but seldom pix of blacks or their names when news of crimes committed. Fake news.
34. [R164] 3/5 · US Just like the paper: It takes a left wing bias in reporting on politics… like all media it reports nobly what they want you to hear, or how they want you hear it.., why I quit being a subscriber years ago….
35. [R36] 1/5 · US Not a fan what so ever: Don’t like this new updated version what so ever. Not user friendly. Can not watch the article while reading it anymore. Can not customize what part of the city I want to focus on.