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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. [R3] Spectrum News 3/5 · US Your website is a low quality embarrassing for a big corporation: You should be embarrassed at the low quality of this website so many old stories that never updated headlines written from a day or two before the in accessibility to the visually impaired just so many factors that make this an embarrassment to accompany with so much money and such a low level website
2. [R28] Spectrum News 1/5 · US Not actually “news”.: The local stories have not updated in weeks. That’s not technically what one thinks of as news.
3. [R37] Spectrum News 2/5 · US Always old news: Here we are at 4pm on Sunday and not a word about anything that’s happened today. It’s all stuff from last week. There was a shooting in Kentucky earlier today in case you missed it. A State Trooper was shot. People at a church were shot. The shooter was killed. 🙄🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️
4. [R13] Spectrum News 1/5 · US R: Can’t connect says disable HTTP
5. [R16] Spectrum News 1/5 · US Waste of time. Always a problem, either you’re logged out, don’t have the absolute latest version: One STUPID app. Every time I use it makes me log in again. This app does not retain my login status, waste of my time. Very poor design.
6. [R19] Spectrum News 1/5 · US Poor Performance: A lot of times you click on a story on the app and the story is not available to watch or read. There are a lot of times you open the app and there aren’t even stories to look at and read.
7. [R24] Spectrum News 3/5 · US Crashes: When I tap on a notification the app opens and then crashes ( closes) or it freezes now 2/13/25
8. [R4] Spectrum News 1/5 · US Creepy news host: What’s with that guy who hosts your news? Keeps talking about gop lead shrinking. Is he part of the voter scam too.
9. [R22] Spectrum News 2/5 · US Bias: Spectrum love for democrats is made so obvious in the news.
10. [R33] Spectrum News 1/5 · US Bias: Spectrum News seems unable to breathe a single word absent bias against President Trump. Almost every sentence conflates fact with opinion. It seems your writers either don’t know how to report information distinct from opinion or, they think all of us out here can’t tell the difference. I’m beginning to believe that almost everyone who writes in the public square has this thing that has com
11. [R41] Spectrum News 1/5 · US One sided articles.: Your news articles are rather one sided including your news network on cannel 6 news.
12. [R27] Spectrum News 3/5 · US Lack of Local News: Where is San Diego news? We ARE NOT LA! We have our own government, our own sports, our own issues. Lack of San Diego specific news is very disappointing to say the least. It seems you think we are part of LA. On the contrary, we are the third largest metro area in the state of California. It’s way past time for Spectrum realizes that!
13. [R39] Spectrum News 1/5 · US Don’t live in Columbus: So what good is weather in Columbus if I live in Toledo?
14. [R21] Spectrum News 3/5 · US News app: Spectrum News app is alright but it’s not 5 stars it doesn’t have a widget like other apps and a lot of things that itstill can’t do
15. [R51] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Terrible source for news.: The headlines are always over the top and misleading. Usually notifications are for stories that are either old or irrelevant.
16. [R53] NewsBreak 3/5 · US Frustrated: Too many advertisements. I keep seeing sources i don’t want to see
17. [R54] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Chock full of AI, Trumpsters & Basic Features No Longer Work: Title says it all. 99.99% of all videos on this app are made with AI and intended to deceive. Since their main audience is senile Trumpster seniors, near everyone on the app is inherently incapable of differentiating between whats genuine/real and whats not. Moreover, these ppl will bet their first born child in order to defend these v
18. [R55] NewsBreak 4/5 · US There is so many messages: There is so many messages that they send you
19. [R65] WSB-TV News 1/5 · US Not user friendly: This app a waste of my time. It cuts the story off while the interview is going and just moves to the next story only to do the same thing. Also, most of the videos don’t show when you click on them; you can only hear people talking.
20. [R66] WSB-TV News 5/5 · US Excellent Updates: Excellent News Coverage
21. [R67] WSB-TV News 3/5 · US Stalls a lot: Can’t enjoy the app because it does not stay on or the videos stop frequently. Have to continuously come out of the app and go back in.
22. [R69] WSB-TV News 5/5 · US I appreciate what’s making news, as a former TV anchor in San Francisco, now retired in Marietta, GA: The constant updates and factual information provided by WSB-TV News is a CONSTANT in my life. I thoroughly appreciate how WSB-TV STAYS ON THE JOB…Delivering news we can all TRUST AND BELIEVE . THANKS TO ALL WHO MAKE THAT POSSIBLE.
23. [R79] Patch 2/5 · US Patch needs work: The patch app is too disorganized and the some of the stories are old ( like months old). The writing leaves a lot to be desired, the stories often lack the proper detail or they include details that really have nothing to do with the main story. This App could be really useful if it was organized and held pertinent information.
24. [R81] Patch 3/5 · US Local News: I see the potential but unfortunately there isn’t much to read. It’s also kind of messy and all over the place. Very disorganized but again, I do see it’s potential if the right ppl fix this.
25. [R83] Patch 5/5 · US Great: It’s wonderful to get a little bit of local news and not have a paywall
26. [R84] Patch 3/5 · US More information needed!: I guess because of the lack of staffing the reporting should be more informative!
27. [R93] WHIO News 1/5 · US Worst news app ever: I’ve never seen a worse app on any platform. It’s nothing but ads that block what you try to see, stutter, stop you reading a story, and just generally get in the way of anything you want to do. Whio used to be my go-to. Not anymore.
28. [R94] WHIO News 5/5 · US Great info: Love Todd So I watch all of whip
29. [R95] WHIO News 3/5 · US Update: Often you run stories that are old. Same with the weather. I suggest you update more often. Thank you.
30. [R96] WHIO News 1/5 · US Horrible UI/UX and News Coverage: As a mobile developer I can attest to many of the comments on the user experience front. You receive a notification, tap on it, you are brought to the app but not the story, instead ads are everywhere takes forever to load and the auto playing of unrelated content is absolutely horrible. Good luck finding the arrival of the deep link isn’t valid. Don’t waste your
31. [R107] AL.com 1/5 · US Buggy and paywalled: This app has been buggy for a very long time. It crashes a lot. Most of the articles are behind an outrageously overpriced paywall.
32. [R108] AL.com 5/5 · US Great overall, but ...: Old issue resurfaced. Today is June 5, 2022. With the most recent update, about two weeks ago, ads are again intruding into articles, making reading them difficult. Rarely, one can get through an article uninterrupted , which is wonderful. With the latest update, there is a Close button, which, at least now, usually works, next to the popup ad, but that button evades VoiceOver
33. [R109] AL.com 3/5 · US App Issues: App freezes up constantly. Scrolling stories is difficult due to freezing up issues.
34. [R110] AL.com 1/5 · US Not worth it!: AL.com tries to bait you into subscribing by giving just a little bit of an article without giving up your personal information and agreeing to pay. This is not an honest way of doing business.
35. [R1] Spectrum News 1/5 · US Where’s the weather information: This app is horrible like your news channel is we are having a bad storm and you guys are reporting news that isn’t necessary at this time not good
36. [R2] Spectrum News 5/5 · US Love this!: I like being able to see detailed weather information like the dew point and I like watching the live video feed as well.
37. [R17] Spectrum News 5/5 · US Weather Radar is Excellent: I really like your interactive radar especially the history/present time view and the projected one time forecast which in my location have proven to be remarkedly reliable. Great job!
38. [R48] Spectrum News 5/5 · US Checking spectrum news local stories: Weather alert
39. [R62] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Ads: Cannot watch or read anything without spectrum ad popping up several times. I’m already spectrum customer so I don’t need to be sold over & over again.
40. [R59] NewsBreak 3/5 · US Informative BUT Slow reporting: Very informative however the news always appears to be days and/or hours behind.