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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. [R32] 5/5 · US KHON2: Appreciate you! Up-to-date news! Thank you.
2. [R34] 5/5 · US Always there for us!: We always turn to you for knowing what’s up! Thank you for the great service!
3. [R42] 5/5 · US Mahalo, Mahalo, Mahalo: Thank you for the awesome job you folks are doing for the people here in Hawaii.
4. [R83] 5/5 · US Happy lady: The KHON2 AP is always up-to-date and it’s easy to navigate whether it’s the latest news, weather, traffic, sports or local events. KHON has been my favorite TV news station in Hawaii for many years. Now the KHON2 AP is the only local news AP on my phone, great job👍
5. [R104] 5/5 · US Review: Great job with Hurricane updates
6. [R106] 4/5 · US Hurricane Lane coverage: The reporting was very informative. Also 24 hour alerts were helpful for understanding the path of the hurricane and tropical storms.
7. [R109] 5/5 · US Mahalo to our news crew: Great job and super dedication to all of you folks that covered Hurricane Lanes destruction, again Mahalo to you all, keep up the good work. Oh yah get some well deserved rest.
8. [R110] 5/5 · US Great!: The app has been great, easy to access and find my way through it. It’s been especially helpful during this hurricane! I wasn’t always by the tv so to be able to be informed while away and have them updating things whenever something happens is not only helpful but reassuring
9. [R97] 5/5 · US Jersey loves KHON: Very easy to use very well produced application. As someone from Jersey I thoroughly enjoy watching the Honolulu news using this app. It never lets me down.
10. [R120] 5/5 · US Great app: Great app no problems
11. [R10] 1/5 · US Disappointing: I would like to click on the push messages and breaking news notifications and go straight to the story to read it. Has not happened yet. Could be much more user friendly.
12. [R12] 1/5 · US Alerts: This app alerts the user of breaking news. When you open the app to view the news alert it doesn't let you view it. Its Frustrating.
13. [R13] 1/5 · US Worthless, I deleted.: The notification on the the phone are ridiculous and frustrating. You click on it and it send you to watch advertising, after you watch it, still the news on the notification is no where to be found, as you search for it, you are welcome with more advertising. Hello! Developer, your app is very unfriendly user. Fix that.
14. [R16] 1/5 · US Notifications do not take you to the story: Thee most irritating thing about this app is that the notifications take you to a page showing the KHON2 TV schedule rather than the story itself. This app has great notifications and is generally 1st in notifying me about current events which makes this issue even more infuriating. Use the Hawaii News Now app until this is fixed.
15. [R1] 1/5 · US Buggy and stops working: When I click on watch now or livestream or watch living808 it stops playing randomly and asks to reload page. It just ends up playing the same ads over and over and you never get to see the content.
16. [R5] 1/5 · US Ad after ad after ad: It’s an ad clickbait!
17. [R7] 1/5 · US Too many ads: So many ads. Navigation is not easy and having to dismiss all the ads and pop ups is not enjoyable. I understand ads pay for the services but ads shouldn’t be more than news stories.
18. [R11] 1/5 · US Ads make app dysfunctional: So many ads... most of the time, you “swipe up” to close the ad and end up closing the whole app.
19. [R9] 1/5 · US Couldn’t get it to start: After selecting what type of notifications I want to see from the app, the app stays stuck on a loading screen.
20. [R15] 2/5 · US Freezing app: This app freezes frequently in the middle of scrolling due to the amount of video adds
21. [R18] 1/5 · US Need to update: Open the app and it freezes.
22. [R2] 1/5 · US Junk: Now you need to sign up for Nexstar to view live broadcast. It gotten worst!
23. [R6] 1/5 · US LIVE broadcast news is a lie!: KHON was my favorite when I had cable TV and one day I realized I’m paying $80 a month just to watch the news so got rid of cable. From the app where they claim there’s a live news stream it’s always at least an hour behind. This renders it completely useless if you’re trying to use it to check live traffic. HNN app actually is live news and loads a lot quicker.
24. [R20] 1/5 · US Worst news app for Hawaii: Click bait articles and notifications. Some notifications have clear bias and are trying to paint a picture instead of just reporting the facts. Most notifications only take you to the live news section when the news isn’t even airing. Even if I have some news categories like sports off I still get sports notifications. Sports isn’t breaking news stop spamming my phone w
25. [R68] 3/5 · US Too late: Couple of issues. Push notifications for live conferences usually come out AFTER the conferences have started! And when you go to the conference, you suffer through a 30 second commercial! During this time, it’s important we get notifications of a press conference BEFORE they start, and get rid of those commercials!
26. [R82] 3/5 · US Always gotta live stream: Moving to Portland from Hawaii, I wanted to stay updated with news especially with my whole family still being there. I get a notification, but every time I click to open and read, I need to wait for the live stream instead. Is there a way I can just read about the news and not always have to live stream? Being 2 or 3 hours ahead of the time isn’t always helpful.
27. [R22] 3/5 · US Back button: I love how the back button literally never works if you select a notification, on the most sold phone in the world. I don’t expect anybody to actually read this review to change that, but figured I’d shoot my shot :) KHON keep doing your thing. App team for KHON, please contact California. Much mahalos.
28. [R147] 3/5 · US Not bad but annoying: Please add/rewrite the app so that the back page button appears as soon as you start to scroll up. It's very annoying having to scroll all the way back up after reading each article. In all honesty, I wind up reading your competitors news apps due to this issue.
29. [R26] 3/5 · US Love the App but...: It needs to be where the articles are within the app not where you have to open up a link to the website. Also, too many ads on the videos. Hopefully these issues will be fixed on the next update.
30. [R31] 2/5 · US It’s gotten worse: Lately this app has gotten worse. When I tap to read a new story, the video automatically starts to play. I don’t want to forced to deal with the video. I would rather read the story and decide if I want to watch the accompanying video.
31. [R39] 3/5 · US Too much streaming???: Would like to read more articles as oppose to watching videos or listening to podcasts.
32. [R79] 3/5 · US Great news: Every time I see the headlines I want to see the article because it is after it was shown on tv. I would like to read an article pertaining to that news
33. [R122] 3/5 · US Old app was better: Change is not always good. I liked the way the old app was laid out, easy to use. The new app is not user friendly and provides less information.
34. [R134] 4/5 · US A new look but less useful: Harder to find and read news articles. Now lots of other sections I never use and would like to edit out but can't. Weather section not as helpful.
35. [R14] 1/5 · US Less Ads, Please!: I enjoy this app + use the push notifications to track breaking news for the island. But I find it nearly impossible to read stories or browse because of the immense amount of ads on each page. These are the same garbage ads on misc sites - clean out your ear wax, fix your saggy arms - and IMO they don’t have any place on a local news app. Not professional when you have an ad in
36. [R19] 1/5 · US Worst App to Discover Local News: I’m not understanding why I am constantly sent notifications to breaking news stories, but when I click on the story - it takes me to a page with the TV schedule. So I’m left without knowing any further details & in suspense. Even if I try searching for the story under ‘Latest News’ - I cannot find it easily. So I see no point to having a news app that only send m
37. [R23] 1/5 · US Notifications flaw!: When there are notifications sent from this news app and you click on them it only takes you to a live feed of the news currently playing and not to an article about the story. If you get a notification, but then 5-10 min pass before you are able to look at it....then the live stream is over or you have missed the story of interest to you on the live news feed. This is very an