# 13 NEWS KOLD — user reviews > 96 indexed App Store user reviews of 13 NEWS KOLD by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 4.44/5 from 3,238 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/13-news-kold/id449303639/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/13-news-kold/id449303639.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,371 · 4★ 420 · 3★ 162 · 2★ 88 · 1★ 196 ## What do users think of 13 NEWS KOLD? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - ☺️ Great app - 🙂 Works well - 😊 Love this app **Cons** - 😞 Too many ads - 😞 Crashes frequently - 😞 Slow performance - 😞 Lack of local news - 😞 Removed landscape mode - 😞 Unreliable notifications **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch - Notifications not working - Landscape mode not available - Ads cover content **Most requested features** - Add landscape mode - Improve notification system - Reduce ads - Enhance local news coverage - Improve app stability ## Newest reviews (19 of 96) ### 3/5 — No sound *2025-11-09, version 8.0.3* There is no sound or alerts coming in when notifications are pushed. Plz address ### 3/5 — Still freezes on splash page on occasion *2025-10-15, version 8.0.2* It’s still freezing when the ad doesn’t load and it’ll just sit on the splash page. I’ve also noticed when I click on headline notifications, the story is no where to be found. ### 2/5 — Latest update *2025-09-09, version 8.0.1* Did the update and now no longer have Portrait Orientation o my iPad. ### 3/5 — Need horizontal setting *2025-09-03, version 8.0.1* Don’t like the vertical setting ### 2/5 — New format *2025-08-28, version 8.0.0* Sorry - do NOT like your new ! ### 2/5 — Used to be good *2025-08-19, version 8.0.0* Now that it is no longer in the landscape format (I guess after an update) I find it too annoying to use and have deleted it. ### 2/5 — Too much *2025-06-15, version 7.0.16* Too many irrelevant news stories and not local ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2025-04-16, version 7.0.16* Lately, the advertising is getting a little too out of hand. I know it’s a way to generate a little revenue, but seeing one after almost every story? ### 1/5 — Ad Filled Content *2024-12-28, version 7.0.16* This app is so horrible! You can’t even click on a story without an add popping up and not only that the stories are not updated regularly. Don’t waste your time on this junk! ### 1/5 — Trump ads *2024-11-04, version 7.0.15* Was good until I started getting vote for Trump messages from this app. ### 1/5 — Sick of non local “local news break” notifications *2024-10-07, version 7.0.14* KOLD used to be the premier news channel and app in Tucson. Now the app regularly notifies users of breaking news”local” news that is not local or even located in Arizona. ### 1/5 — Not “keeping it Local” *2024-05-12, version 7.0.14* Every time I open an item it has no connection to Tucson. Sure there may be sad news - but it is in Podunk Idaho - not local. House explodes in Michigan? What that to do with Pima county. Goes on every day! Take it back to local! ### 1/5 — Horrible *2024-04-29, version 7.0.14* If you want to get news every 5 mins download this app. Especially if you don’t care if it’s all news not just ARIZONA news let alone Tucson. They can work an app but don’t know how to post to their YouTube channel.. ### 1/5 — Slow news app *2024-01-22, version 7.0.13* I don’t have hours to wait for one story to load ### 1/5 — Local news? NOT! *2023-10-08, version 7.0.11* Very rarely does the live feed show Tucson 13 News - SO frustrating! ### 2/5 — Bad ads *2023-06-29, version 7.0.9* Ads are automatic and horrible. ### 1/5 — App sends disabled notifications, "contact us" form doesn't work *2023-03-28, version 7.0.6* I have tried to send this issue to the app developer, but the contract form doesn't work. The app does not respect notification settings in-app. I have all disabled except "breaking news" and still get notifications for "trending" and "live reminders." It is not optional for apps to send only the notifications a user enables. ### 1/5 — You’ve lost your way. Tedious at best *2023-03-13, version 7.0.6* You should be ashamed of the amount of ads one has to navigate to see the news. You’ve lost your way. ### 2/5 — Slow opening *2023-02-17, version 7.0.4* Since the recent two or three updates, it seems to take forever to get to the actual news stories ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Stop auto start ads *2026-05-08, version 8.0.8* Auto start ads are annoying and I don’t need to hear or see them each time I open a story. ### 1/5 — Terrible notifications *2026-03-07, version 8.0.4* All clickbait, no news. Sad to see how they have devolved into sharing “breaking” news that’s days old and just clickbait. ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2025-11-10, version 8.0.3* Too many advertisements, one before you can even access the app to read articles and then constant ads all over the articles. ### 1/5 — Miss old version *2025-09-14, version 8.0.1* This new version is almost unusable. When you click first alert on iPhone it works to open app, but than if you click a second alert, it crashes app. Also the alerts on the App, do NOT clear, in old app you could clear them after reading, now stuck until fall off with newer alerts. ### 1/5 — Channel 13 news *2025-09-13, version 8.0.1* They did an update date recently and I’ve not been able to see the news , 9 times out of 10. Why? Continues to be a problem. ### 1/5 — Ads are irritating *2025-09-05, version 8.0.1* The positioning of ads throughout the app screen is very irritating. Too often one triggers the ad while trying to scan down the list of headlines. ### 1/5 — Don’t like new changes to the app! *2025-08-22, version 8.0.0* I rely on this app for breaking news. I like to view the info in landscape. But, the new app only displays in portrait and will not flip as the screen is turned. And there is no way to change this mode in settings. I may need to find a new app for news. ### 1/5 — Good Bye to this app *2025-08-21, version 8.0.0* No landscape view since update,too many ads.Very annoying.I am deleting this app. ### 1/5 — Way too many commercials *2025-07-07, version 7.0.16* Way too many commercials , at the very least they could provide different commercials instead of the same ones over & over! ### 1/5 — Poor app *2025-01-29, version 7.0.16* App closes before you can read article ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — J *2024-05-10, version 7.0.14* This app is better than the other kold news ### 5/5 — 🉑🈴👌🤟😸☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️ *2023-01-07, version 6.7.13* I love this app so much. It lets me know about the breaking news and also a little bit of the weather. I was wondering how you could change the notification sounds. Is there a setting for that? If there isn’t, can you please install one? And, I am completely blind, so I’d like to know if you could add an audio description to your videos that you make? It would very much help me and the other completely blind people out there who use this app. Thank you so much and your app is the best I’ve ever used. In the whole entire world. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2022-02-18, version 6.7.7* I like the app, and I like kold channel 13. The newest version of the app I just loaded, February 2022, is working great. The overwhelming ads from the past app are gone, and the new version has ads, as expected because they have to pay the bills, but they are well placed. The app works well and is well laid out. Great job KOLD. ### 5/5 — No review *2020-07-23* If I wanted to write a review I would have. But since you wouldn’t let me go back to the news without writing one, this is it’s: Terrible news publishing-only interested in ratings and forcing readers to write a review or change channels!!!!!!!ZERO STATS!!!! Thanks ### 5/5 — Love this! *2020-04-18* This app tells me what is happening every day all day!Tells correct stories,and it is easy to look stuff up you want to read. ### 5/5 — Won”t Open *2019-06-20, version 6.2.9* Updated and now the app opens for a second and then quits. So much for a local news app. ☹️ ### 5/5 — Latest news *2018-10-05, version 5.0.3* It’s great to get up-to-date news throughout the day. ### 5/5 — Web review *2018-09-26* It’s very hard to navigate and when you had the casino thing running at the bottom all the time it would gave me a headache. ### 5/5 — Not so great update *2018-09-15* I don’t know why the techies always feel the need to “improve” web sites. It’s far from an improvement. ### 4/5 — App ok but getting highly annoyed with adds *2021-12-22, version 6.7.6* So ok but highly --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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