WAFB 9News vs WNEP The News Station

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. [R1] WAFB 9News 2/5 · US Unreliable: Too many times a day/week/month the link from headline to article itself does not work. No problem getting the advertisement but not the actual story.
2. [R4] WAFB 9News 2/5 · US Not as good: App used to be much better. Now it’s hard to find things, and there is no rhyme or reason as to the order of stories.
3. [R31] WAFB 9News 1/5 · US Took away too many features: Basically took away any weather updates, Prompting you to download the weather app which I refuse to do. Any article you press to read automatically starts playing a video. I should have the option to do this if I want.
4. [R65] WNEP The News Station 5/5 · US Great local reporting: WNEP provides excellent reporting on regional news, alerts, local happenings, snapshots and the best weather reporting (hey Joe) so we can get through our day. Thank you and keep up the good work.
5. [R7] WAFB 9News 1/5 · US Terrible update: The new format is horrible. It’s not user friendly and hard to find the latest news. Even when you get an alert, if you click on it, go through 3 ads, you still don’t get the article you were trying to get. Terrible. After years of using WAFB exclusively, I’m deleting and moving over to WBRZ 😡
6. [R10] WAFB 9News 2/5 · US Changes made me delete the app: I am and forever will be a WAFB news girlie. But the recent changes to the app has left me frustrated. It seems that some of the weather information is no longer available and a new app is required for specific details on weather. Clicking on the push notifications doesn’t take you to the new story. I’ll have to tune in now because I’m taking a break from this app.
7. [R39] WAFB 9News 1/5 · US Poor Design: When I got notification that my WAFB app was in need of an update I was excited to see the improvements made. I believe, to date, this is the worst update and refresh that WAFB has put out. The amount of ads make me feel like at some point they’re going to ask us to pay for an ad free version. The notifys don’t go away, and the entire layout of the app is confusing, cluttered, and con
8. [R67] WNEP The News Station 1/5 · US Previously useful app is now garbage: No organization, no dates on stories, no way to search. Just an endless scroll of random articles. It’s supposed to be a news app but is now more geared to social media users. Whoever designed it should find another line of work. They sure didn’t have users in mind.
9. [R19] WAFB 9News 2/5 · US Share button doesn’t work: This app takes a long time to load and the share button doesn’t work.
10. [R41] WAFB 9News 1/5 · US Annoying ads and video: The new app is terrible. Videos play automatically, there are way too many ads, and stories are not easy to find. Visually unappealing overall. After having and using the WAFB app for many years, I will be deleting it.
11. [R61] WNEP The News Station 1/5 · US Weather: The latest update messed up the radar. It freezes then jumps ahead.. it sucks
12. [R29] WAFB 9News 1/5 · US Annoying app: This app has obnoxious ads and videos just start playing as soon as you open a story. Sometimes you can’t even see where the video is on the page. This is one of the worst news apps I have. It’s about time to delete it.
13. [R50] WAFB 9News 1/5 · US Disappointed: Ads will likely cause me to abandon your news app.
14. [R81] WNEP The News Station 3/5 · US App great in theory: Your ads completely take away from the app experience. They are WAY longer than they need to be and more often than not they freeze up the entire app. It’s so maddening. I’m going to guess 8 out of 10 times I just close the app because I can’t watch the content that interested me from your notification due to your ads. Please fix this!!! 🙏
15. [R27] WAFB 9News 1/5 · US App deleted for tracking and ads: I don’t normally look at the WAFB app, so when I opened the app today, it forced me to go through several pages with their privacy policy. The App did not allow me to limit cookies or opt out of their privacy policy, which included access to my name, account and tracking personal information. I stayed on the app long enough to write this review, and when I’m don
16. [R64] WNEP The News Station 1/5 · US App update: The new app update is horrible!!! How do you even find anything on it? It’s just an endless scroll of nothing. There’s no drop down menu for you to choose anything. No way to find local and regional sports info. No link to the community events page. No link to the Home and Backyard show/videos. The link for the weather doesn’t do anything. The page doesn’t load. I tried to fin
17. [R68] WNEP The News Station 4/5 · US The weather: I like the app however with this latest update the weather it's a pain. I usually use this app for the weather but with the latest update it gives highs for all week but no lows. As someone who needs to keep an eye on temps for the health of my more temp sensitive plants that I take outside I need to know when to bring them in. I don't always have time to sit here and watch the weathe
18. [R90] WNEP The News Station 5/5 · US Great for people traveling!: Great way to stay in touch with the area while I’m away! I can look at the weather and read what’s doing on in my hometown! I thoroughly enjoy watching News Watch 16 and the app keeps me informed while I’m out of the area ! It’s definitely a win win for me! My only suggestion is I miss the old separate weather app with active radar! It would be nice to either get it ba