# 8world — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of 8world by Mediacorp Pte Ltd, rated 4.30/5 from 8 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/8world/id920447931/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/8world/id920447931.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (13 of 50) ### 2/5 — Why is not present in Horizontal view? *2022-12-22, version 4.2.2* The vertical view is no user friendly…. Didn’t follow the human nature to design the apps outlook. ### 2/5 — Please focus on local *2021-07-20, version 4.0.0* The more update, the worse. Too much oversea news ### 3/5 — Where’s the Real Time News?? *2021-07-11, version 4.0.0* This version of the app has removed the 6:30pm and 10:00pm 新聞直播室. For this, this is a step backward for oversea Singaporeans to stay connected with home. ### 1/5 — App update and re-downloading *2021-02-04, version 3.0.26* App’s new update would constantly not update. And when app deleted and downloaded again, it won’t download.... slow and bad app ### 3/5 — Unable to recall News Broadcast *2020-09-26, version 3.0.20* Any one can advice why nowadays the app unable to play back old news broadcast? ### 1/5 — Worst user experience *2020-09-15, version 3.0.19* This is worst app that I used. It is slow, full of advertisement, you may force to watch a advertisement video without any notification. MediaCorp such a big company can spend some money on the app? Looks so bad ### 1/5 — 为什么突然打不开页面 ？ *2020-07-10, version 3.0.17* 一直打不开 一直闪退 删了再下载⏬也一样 这是为什么？ ### 1/5 — A app that makes you angry *2020-06-26, version 3.0.16* From favourite app to crap. After update I couldn’t find the daily video news and the layout is not user friendly at all. Worst the navigation is weird and confusing.... ### 1/5 — Lousy interface *2020-04-21, version 3.0.14* Slow connection,too many advertisements, unable to find what u want and lousy contents. Better watch other news channel ### 1/5 — Terrible UX *2020-03-21, version 3.0.14* Terrible UX, very difficult to navigate to the content that you want. Don’t know which category it falls under. Should categorised your content probably by 事成有约, 前线追踪 etc. ### 1/5 — Super lousy app *2020-03-18, version 3.0.14* Hyperlink in the news was opened from the browser instead opened from the app itself. There is no title shown while sharing the news to others. Almost every article has typo errors. Not user friendly at all. Many more... Overall, this new app was not readily to be launched. A very lousy app which makes my life difficult and tired because of numerous technical issues. 👎 Can we have the perfect old app back???? ### 1/5 — Worse UI after Update and not user friendly *2020-03-09, version 3.0.13* Looks like Ad news instead of actual news. Also I cannot select news by Singapore region. UI is making news terrible to read that I don’t want to use this app any more. ### 1/5 — New Update is bad *2019-10-14, version 3.0.9* More like ads apps than news. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Please check the newsfeed link *2026-01-07, version 4.6.1* Multiple times, I clicked on the newsfeeds, it leads me dunno where, not the news I want to read. I’m with latest iOS and latest app. ### 1/5 — 👎 *2022-06-25, version 4.1.5* Lag AF ### 1/5 — Device is Jail broken *2022-05-11, version 4.1.3* Cannot open the app at all. Keep saying the device is jail broken and must restore the phone before it can use the app when my phone is not. Please rectified the problem ### 1/5 — .... *2022-03-05, version 4.1.0* .... ### 1/5 — Keeping saying my iPhone was jailbroken *2022-02-04, version 4.1.0* Keeping saying my iPhone was jailbroken when it’s not ### 1/5 — Annoying ads *2021-09-10, version 4.0.4* Why need to have ads in between the articles? ### 1/5 — Very annoying🤬 *2021-09-04, version 4.0.4* You have to frequently update this shxtty app before you can read the content inside🙄 ### 1/5 — Terrible page layout!!! *2021-08-04, version 4.0.2* With so many senseless advertisements in the news write out, yet we can’t get the uniform size of font after the update? What bug it fixed? This app is only getting from bad to worse, hope the app developer sees what they are doing? ### 1/5 — No sound after updated refreshed app! *2021-07-15, version 4.0.0* No sound after updated refreshed app! ### 1/5 — App is locked in portrait mode *2021-07-12, version 4.0.0* The app is stuck in portrait mode and reading text are extremely small. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 词典功能 *2025-08-13, version 4.5.6* 很好，方便实用👍🏻 ### 5/5 — Easier to view the new news. *2025-04-19, version 4.5.2* Easier to view the new news. ### 5/5 — Your app *2025-01-25, version 4.5.0* Better then 早Bao app No hang ### 5/5 — 新版 *2025-01-02, version 4.4.9* 喜欢新版更改，有即时新闻标签，应用程序更有条理 ### 5/5 — 闪退 *2021-07-12, version 4.0.0* 在iPad用不上，一直闪退，pls fix ### 5/5 — Fresh *2019-01-02, version 3.0.0* Fresh design and smooth!! Love it. ### 5/5 — Channel 8 news keep on crashing *2018-09-19, version 2.6.11* Please fix the app keep on crashing a lot of times after IOS 12 update.. ### 4/5 — Dark theme display option *2022-06-01, version 4.1.4* Please have that option on, the rest of MediaCorp apps like CNA and Today all have that option. It more comfortable reading in not so bright environment or dim lights in bedroom. ### 4/5 — 觉得旧版比较好 *2019-01-12, version 3.0.1* 个人觉得旧版比新版好用，可能还不习惯吧！ ### 3/5 — New Refreshed Logo *2023-02-12, version 4.2.5* Thought it would be yellow, since 8 was yellow all along. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*