WIVB News 4 vs Buffalo News from WGRZ

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] WIVB News 4 3/5 · US Notifications: The app functions well. I do miss the ability to watch live from my phone in real time in the mornings. More customization of notifications would be appreciated. I’d like to receive Breaking news & Local news notifications without Sports. My Sports notifications are disabled, but some must be sent anyway when other notification groups are enabled.
2. [R12] WIVB News 4 3/5 · US Looking: Half the time I can’t find what I’m looking for since you changed it a while ago
3. [R63] Buffalo News from WGRZ 3/5 · US New app: Why won’t the weather work consistently. One day you can see a forecast the next you can’t
4. [R71] Buffalo News from WGRZ 5/5 · US Best News Channel: I grew up watching channel 2 news! It’s the best! The best anchors best weather people and the best staff! I live to watch channel 2 because I love everyone’s sense of humor! It’s never boring and makes my day before I got to work!
5. [R20] WIVB News 4 4/5 · US Finding info: When I get notifications on my phone, I can’t get the info on the website. If the news is going to be aired shortly, it won’t be written out. Sometimes I can’t watch and just want to read it. If you send notifications, have the story online.
6. [R47] WIVB News 4 2/5 · US Hard to find things on your app: Hard to find articles after receiving a notice & going back to re-read it. Also why can’t we view a story after its featured on TV on the news?
7. [R65] Buffalo News from WGRZ 5/5 · US Great: Easy to use app
8. [R110] Buffalo News from WGRZ 4/5 · US WGRZ Channel 2: Easy to read the news by scrolling down. Tap to read full story. On many other apps, videos, ads take up entire screen. Cannot even read headlines. Impossible to close out.
9. [R10] WIVB News 4 1/5 · US Update broke it: Since updating, the app flickers when opened then I get a black screen.
10. [R13] WIVB News 4 1/5 · US Constantly crashing: App will not work more then 5 times without crashing once open. Horrible update. Are we going to get a working app anytime soon? Have uninstalled and re-installed twice. Still does it after 4-5 times opening it. Please fix!
11. [R57] WIVB News 4 1/5 · US Outdated news: The news on the home page is never updated timely. I may as well read the paper. Other local apps have up to date news a lot quicker. Come on your better than this
12. [R79] Buffalo News from WGRZ 1/5 · US App freezes: I’ve downloaded the app several times because it freezes after about a week every time. I delete it then redownload it and it’s good for a short while then the process repeats
13. [R4] WIVB News 4 1/5 · US Too Many Ads: Had to uninstall, waaaayyyy too many ads. Pop-up ad when I open the app, timed ad before any video I watch, ads on top and bottom on every page.
14. [R28] WIVB News 4 1/5 · US Bloated with adverts....: 5 minutes of commercials for every 2 minutes of news. This app is overwhelmed by various banners and averts that make watching the news almost impossible and slow on my iPad. Very biased news stories that promote many businesses and government but little real news. Also for every segment I have to unmute the sound until the next segment when I have to unmute it again and
15. [R94] Buffalo News from WGRZ 1/5 · US Ads ruin this app and the user xperience: Especially the fact that every video starts with a mandatory ad ruins the user experience of this app. To make matters worse, there is only one ad that you are forced to watch over and over and over again from Custom Carpet Centers, since they are the only company that advertise here. Not only doesn’t this help Custom Carpet Centers, but neither the app, n
16. [R119] Buffalo News from WGRZ 2/5 · US Too many ads: This app is more about ads than the news it seems.
17. [R45] WIVB News 4 1/5 · US Need an update ASAP: This app has been constantly crashing for the past few weeks. I think an update is needed
18. [R49] WIVB News 4 1/5 · US Awful news app: Crashes doing nothing. No content, Half articles telling you nothing. Advertising set to look like news articles mixed in with news articles. Complete garbage. An embarrassment to humankind.
19. [R64] Buffalo News from WGRZ 1/5 · US Updates are making it worse!: Stop with the “bug fixes” that just create a worse user experience. The 24 hour Future no longer works and hides the radar features as soon as you click on that option, which is the main thing I look at. As well as I still have to keep zooming into my pre-set location to actually see anything useful. Looks like I’m going back to the Weather Channel app.
20. [R73] Buffalo News from WGRZ 1/5 · US What’s wrong with your app?: It worked fine for months then last month it doesn’t work any more. I’ve removed it and redownloaded on TWO separate Roku TVs. It won’t stay on. Oh well. Ch 4 app works great
21. [R83] Buffalo News from WGRZ 5/5 · US West Coast Review: Fantastic app. I have it downloaded on all my devices as well as Apple TV. Out of all the Buffalo News Apps this one is my favor. First of all I love the Good Morning etc greetings depending on the time of day. Secondly I love that you can watch replays of the news 7 days a week. Also enjoy the extra programming and Mass on Sunday at OLOV. I’m a Californian but have a ton o