KHON2 News vs KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma

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. [R12] KHON2 News 3/5 · US It ain’t the app, it’s the notifications.: Ugh! I get a push notice to tune in and I tap the notice. First there’s and advertisement, then a dead end. Live streaming won’t start for 3 minutes!! It’s like the app craps out. Video won’t start. I’ve been trying for 2 years. You can’t go back to the notice because it’s cleared out.
2. [R46] KHON2 News 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.
3. [R72] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 3/5 · US Search Feature Missing: I like that I can watch a live airing as well and lots of random updates that aren’t always covered on the news via tv. But looking for something specific is important. I tried to find a recent story from a notification on my phone but when I clicked on the notification 12-hours later, the page that came up was the live news. Can you please include the search feature agai
4. [R66] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 3/5 · US No navigation after clicking on articles: The navigation bar is lost after I click on a news article. I have to close the app and restart after every article that’s opened. I don’t see any settings that appear to control this.
5. [R1] KHON2 News 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.
6. [R3] KHON2 News 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.
7. [R70] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 1/5 · US New App SUCKS: The new app update that completely redesigned the app is total garbage. A huge down-grade, full of spam advertisements, terrible loading times, ugly layout and sloppy looking articles. Looks more like a knock-off click-bait news source now, not an actual place for reliable information.
8. [R76] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 1/5 · US Updated app sucks: I used to regularly check the King 5 for local news updates and weather. The updated and remodeled app has made the whole experience not worth my time. Clunky, not intuitive, and frustrating. Bye, local news. ☹️
9. [R50] KHON2 News 1/5 · US Need to update: Open the app and it freezes.
10. [R90] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 3/5 · US Problems plus murder ads: This app will test your patience and civility. First, the stream randomly breaks. Often. Even in good coverage areas where other streaming video does not. Being video, the screen must be opened and unlocked to continue listening. Fine, not their fault. But this leaves it susceptible to any and every unintentional button press on a screen chock full of links. Didn’t mean t
11. [R85] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 2/5 · US New App Update/Platform Unusable: I love watching King 5 everyday, starting my day with it, driving to work, going home etc. Ever since they updated the app with this new platform there are so many glitches and I feel like I can’t watch live news anymore. Terrible AI ads, and won’t play through a whole video. Yes I’ve reset my phone, deleted the app/re-downloaded. I’m 25 years old so if it’s diffi
12. [R93] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 3/5 · US Good App, but…: The ads frequently make it lock-up and crash. Keep in mind many people don’t have the newest smartphones and/ or fast wi-fi.
13. [R4] KHON2 News 1/5 · US Junk: Now you need to sign up for Nexstar to view live broadcast. It gotten worst!
14. [R19] KHON2 News 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.
15. [R102] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 1/5 · US WAS good but no longer: This was a great app until the last update which now requires you to sign up for an account. Yeah no, I can watch KOMO without being harassed for my personal details.
16. [R100] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 2/5 · US More ads than content: I had to go through 3 ads to get to a story that didn’t have any actual content.
17. [R28] KHON2 News 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.
18. [R98] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 2/5 · US There is no Quality Control review: Instead of reviewing the updates’ performance on updates on several different phones, the developers keep throwing out updated versions and say they’ve working on it. Here’s an idea, do the QC reviews BEFORE you post the updates. The latest version looks terrible on my iPhone. Sentences are cut off at the edges, once you click on a story there’s no way to go back
19. [R61] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 1/5 · US Horrible update: The redesigned app lacks a basic menu, search bar and dark mode. The ads are invasive. There’s no way to search for a story or find articles about your favorite team. For a news organization that prides themselves on excellence, their app is a massive miss.
20. [R64] KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma 2/5 · US Weather update: I’m not happy with the recent changes to the weather section. I used to read the detailed weather forecast every day, and now it’s nowhere to be found. It’s been replaced by a weather forecaster’s 20-second summary of the weather via shaky handheld phone, which is not insightful at all.