WXYZ 7 News Detroit vs ClickOnDetroit

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] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 2/5 · US Non-functional: I have a problem with the app shutting down every time I try to go to the weather tab. Plus, frequently the forecast on the app doesn’t match the one on tv. The daily and hourly forecasts don’t even match up sometimes. It also wouldn’t let me set up an account.
2. [R4] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 1/5 · US Notification issue!: I toggled/signed up for only sports notifications but I get all types of notifications. Please fix asap!!
3. [R19] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 1/5 · US Don't use it for the weather: I have used this app for YEARS. Since Feb that weather tabs on the link hardly work. I emailed the tech dept. and they had me delete it and redownload it. It worked for a little bit and then would glitch out on me. I emailed them again and they told me to pull down so it can refresh. I have done that, even before I deleted the old app. It doesn't work and it sti
4. [R61] ClickOnDetroit 1/5 · US Annoying notifications: “We're about to tell a local family they have 10 minutes to evacuate their house. Watch live right now to see how they handle it”. Terrible
5. [R12] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 3/5 · US Ups and downs: Was good then went downhill. Then some improvements came... now the app crashes during opening after the last update
6. [R29] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 1/5 · US App updated: The app was updated today to the new version but now it won’t open up just loaded the WXYZ/abc logos and then closes. Need to get a fix for this asap. I have had the app since it came out and has been great till today 10/25/2023. I hope they are working on the fix right now.
7. [R53] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 1/5 · US Worst News App Ever: The app was terrible before but it’s even worse now. Now you have “sign up”, which I’ve tried a dozen times and it won’t let me. It won’t tell me what the issue is either. So much for reading the news. Maybe... just maybe... you’d test your app, and work out the bugs before you launch it.
8. [R70] ClickOnDetroit 1/5 · US One star downgrade: The auto playing video feed and the inability to disable it has brought me to delete the app. Incredibly frustrating to have the video take over as it does at nearly any given point in the day. It seems to be that only a few hours a day no video is being fed to the app. The rest has been a persistent pain to use. Too bad from one of the top news sources in the country.
9. [R57] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 1/5 · US App keeps crashing: App is not any good as it won’t load
10. [R78] ClickOnDetroit 3/5 · US 4-10-2020 Latest version crashes constantly with updated iOS: Updated app, updated iOS on 4-10-2020. Click on Detroit app opens, and then closes. If you push thumb button you see app loading screen and can try to run it, but it just closes again. Please test before pushing out updates. It worked great b4 this
11. [R116] ClickOnDetroit 5/5 · US Broken app: Latest update broke the app can’t use it crashes after 10 seconds.
12. [R46] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 5/5 · US Awesome: Easy to navigate. Keeps me up to date on the news. Can check the weather anytime I need to. And best of all it's free!
13. [R63] ClickOnDetroit 3/5 · US number of ads increasing: I’ve used this app for a long time and recently have noticed an increase in the number of ads. They’re disruptive and long and mostly for mobile phone games I would never play. I would actually pay a small amount of money for an adfree subscription or paid app to get rid of them.
14. [R95] ClickOnDetroit 1/5 · US App Forces Ads: App now forces advertisements when you have viewed about 3-4 news stories and media player is set to play under the default settings, which disrupts other apps if they’re playing. Poorly designed app which is really pushing the ad game to viewers who just want to read about local and national news.
15. [R47] WXYZ 7 News Detroit 1/5 · US Needs better support: The video in this app is completely unreliable. I often times lose the sound during a live broadcast, and the buffering is out of control. Also ads will load and repeat themselves while I struggle to get the news from this app.
16. [R73] ClickOnDetroit 1/5 · US Support stinks, app very buggy and non functional: This app is one of the worst supported news apps around. When they push a headline to you and you click on it you end up at some advertising screen and can’t find the story you were interested in. The search function, if you can find it, does not find the story you want and repeatedly reporting the issue to tech support only yields cricket chirp
17. [R85] ClickOnDetroit 1/5 · US App not working anymore (not on iPhone 16, Roku or Fire stick): App quit working on all my platforms (iPhone, Roku & Fire stick) reached out to WDIV and received zero reply or help with troubleshooting.