# ABC News — user reviews > 224 indexed App Store user reviews of ABC News by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, rated 4.40/5 from 53 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abc-news/id306583229/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abc-news/id306583229.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 42 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of ABC News? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Objective news coverage - 👍 Reliable and trustworthy source - 🚀 Clean and user-friendly app design - 👍 Good regional and national news coverage **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and unstable app performance - ⚠️ Perceived political bias in reporting - 🔀 Cluttered and confusing layout changes - 🔍 Poor search and navigation functionality - 🔇 Unreliable video and audio playback **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent app crashes and freezes - Inconsistent behavior when switching networks - Issues with article loading and refreshing - Broken universal links and in-app navigation **Most requested features** - Customizable font sizes and themes - Improved local news and weather coverage - Ability to save and bookmark articles - Better notification and alert controls - Integration with smart home devices ## Newest reviews (16 of 224) ### 2/5 — Biased *2026-07-14, version 9.30.0* Another BBC in the making. Pushing one line only. ### 2/5 — No objectivity *2026-06-27, version 9.29.0* After using ABC News as my main news source for over a decade, I've had enough. The left bias is constant and across about every single topic. But today’s article trying to humanize Hezbollah as a legitimate group???? Hezbollah is a recognized terrorist organisation by most countries, Iran's armed proxy, and a direct threat to Lebanon's sovereignty. Shame on you ABC ‘news’. Deleting the app and moving to SBS News and Reuters. ### 2/5 — Poor state news coverage *2026-05-05, version 9.25.0* Oh wow, tapping ‘More WA news’ reveals a whopping one extra article. Do better ABC! ### 2/5 — App stops playing on older iPhone models, doesn’t remember played episodes *2026-04-13, version 9.24.0* I have an older iphone (12 mini) and find the app stops playing suddenly often if a text msg comes in. Also annoying that it will often replay played episodes. ### 3/5 — Try the Website? *2026-02-14, version 9.19.0* Articles in the app are often repeated in multiple sections and in the Top News tab. Some articles remain for days until they are misleading. Today, Sunday, an article headed by”Dry conditions, heat and high winds combine for another day of high fire danger in Victoria” from last Tuesday, implies warns of a high fire risk on last Wednesday. Just one example of many stale articles. Articles that have been read are not greyed out, or otherwise marked. The experience of reading the news would be much improved if the clutter of repeated, stale and previously read articles is removed. I am going to try the website for a while. At first glance it does not appear to have these problems. ### 1/5 — Poor reporting *2026-02-01, version 9.18.0* The ABC is unashamedly bias. Ms Tingle’s “analysis” of Mr Rudd’s tenure as Ambassador is so Labour friendly, one wonders whether she is looking to a do a Maxine Mc Kew. Suggest ABC uses Bloomberg as a benchmark ie delineate between news and opinion. ### 1/5 — Biased news *2026-01-29, version 9.18.0* The most trusted news source. Rubbish. The ABC are a twisted bunch of liars and fools ### 1/5 — Sports is not breaking news *2026-01-04, version 9.18.0* Stop sending sports notifications as breaking news push notifications ### 1/5 — Now even the journalists can’t write! *2025-12-30, version 9.12.0* Editors don’t seem to exist at the ABC anymore. Increasingly, the English used in articles makes no sense at all, is ambiguous or just plain wrong. Todays example: “Some in the industry warn the federal government's decision to slash apprentice subsidies will only” Yep, that’s the WHOLE sentence! A complete waste of time reading it. There are typically multiple examples like this or similar every day now. Please stop employing enlglish dropouts and uneducated journalists! News reporting is all about proper use of language to convey a story succinctly. ### 1/5 — Political Bias *2025-12-17, version 9.18.0* Heavy bias to one end of the political spectrum. Public funded news should be more neutral. Just sounds like political propaganda now. No more, delete. ### 2/5 — News Priorities Off *2025-12-07, version 9.17.0* Top story was a long pyramid-scheme feature while bushfire news was buried. I need clear national and state headlines first — not deep dives. Please fix the news priorities. ### 1/5 — Use a spell checker *2025-12-03, version 9.16.0* You cant spell check your articles? Also, look up on youtube "the organised crime situation is crazy" ### 1/5 — Wrong location *2025-11-14, version 9.15.0* I travel a lot for work but I want news from my home state, so I set that in my location. The app is obviously reading my location from somewhere else which is a privacy concern. It constantly provides local news for where I am instead. Why ask users for their location if you are just going to ignore it? ### 2/5 — AI generated hogwash *2025-11-01, version 9.14.0* Today’s report that some people have suffered from long COVID for up to three decades as the result of a tick bite was the last straw for me. ### 1/5 — Left Wing Propaganda *2025-10-24* I don't know about the rest of the world, but as far as US news, it is extremely slanted left. In cases, outright lying. ### 3/5 — Weather? *2025-10-19, version 9.13.0* The app is ok. I have to search for international news. And I there is no daily update on weather around Australia. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Muddled, repetitive writing. *2026-07-09* The title, In short section and opening paragraphs contain much the same information so the reader feels that time and attention has been wasted. The articles then waffle around from expert to expert who repeat the same view but in slightly different ways. The ABC News treats its readers and viewers like Primary School children not educated intelligent people. TheABC as a whole seems to be on a race to the bottom. They replaced the excellent The Drum with Hard Quiz, hosted by cringeworthy supposed comedian with a massive ego whose schtick is to insult his guests at every opportunity. Unsurprisingly the programme finds it hard to get participants, and so at peak viewing times it runs repeats of the same insulting drivel. If you wand decent News coverage in Australia the Guardian Australia is far better. I eatched a reporter on the ABC TV News who seemed overwhelmed by nervousness, said er and um many times each sentence and seemed to be struggling to remember what she was meant to be saying. Even the quizzes often have mistakes, today’s got the penalty difference betweennthe socceroos and egypt wrong. There are many calls from the right of politics to get rid of the ABC and SBS. WherEAS SBS runs a tight ship, the ABC with its low standards, poor quality and excessive political correctness is only fuelling the calls to get rid of it which would be a tragedy for journalism. C’mon ABC, lift ya game! ### 1/5 — ABC *2026-07-03, version 9.29.0* A 3rd rate selection of opinion blogs .. certainly NOT factual & impartial news .. the sooner all public funds are withdrawn from the ABC the better 👍 ### 1/5 — USELESS *2026-06-21, version 9.28.0* WHY ARE THE WORK EXPERIENCE KIDS RUNNING ABC NEWS WAKE UP IDIOTS..!! ### 1/5 — I deleted the app *2026-06-12, version 9.28.0* I have deleted the App. Due to its extreme left wing ideology. I have also stopped watching all ABC news programs on the television and listening to the ABC radio stations. I cannot believe how biased the ABC has become. SHAME. ### 1/5 — Rubbish *2026-06-11, version 9.28.0* The app has no features, pretty lame. ### 1/5 — Fixing filtering *2026-06-03, version 9.27.0* Thanks for fixing filters more. But I have excluded sport and I still get rugby. Perhaps just include your full list of tags. ### 1/5 — Great if you like propaganda *2026-05-11, version 9.25.0* Might as well go get your news from the official CIA website. It’s probably less demented. ### 1/5 — ABC is not news *2026-05-06, version 9.25.0* The app works well technically, but the ABC no longer feels politically balanced. Too much coverage reads like progressive opinion rather than neutral journalism. As a taxpayer-funded broadcaster, I expect fair and impartial reporting. Disappointing. Do not download or use the ABC ### 1/5 — Doesn’t support older IOS, so don’t bother! *2026-05-04, version 9.12.0* Today a news item had a picture: “Try clicking on a red dot “ on it. “Try” is right. Didn’t work. I’ve used apps built by high school kids better than this! What a joke. I can only conclude that, because the app only supports IOS17 or later, everyone else is no longer worth the effort. Great public broadcaster! ### 1/5 — “The most trusted news source” *2026-03-06, version 9.21.0* ABC news has become nothing more than a mouthpiece for radical left extremists and weirdos. Shame on your whole organisation. You no longer represent the people of Australia. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great *2026-06-09, version 9.28.0* Great ### 5/5 — Finally completed this book! The authors keep adding bits in, hard to keep up! *2026-03-06, version 9.21.0* Also I don’t get why you seem to repeat stories a lot and think we don’t notice just because you changed one name or the age of the man jailed from 24 to 32 etc. So I ended up skipping those chapters. And some of it (like the Donald Trump guy is just so far fetched I can’t immerse myself in the stories he’s in. I still keep the app on my phone anyway to impress people and trick them into thinking I’m a clever clogs. And unlike the sense of superiority it gives me when I see a simpleton reading from [number] news app without making me seem too cultural and artsy fartsy like the SBS snobs (God I’m so bored) ### 5/5 — Simple and easy to use *2026-02-08, version 9.19.0* It does everything I need it to do. I can easily access news for different states, topics and interests. ### 5/5 — Desmond Filby Freeman *2026-02-02, version 9.18.0* Please!!! Calling a brutal cold Police Officer killer by his nickname 'desi' is appalling. It's like saying how much we love him and we as a nation are missing him greatly and hope to find him alive and safe as soon as possible? ### 5/5 — Good app *2025-10-13, version 9.13.0* Does the job, well designed, very clean ### 5/5 — Good update *2025-06-08, version 9.5.0* Loving the new app, easy to browse but also highlights new content to keep you reading. ### 5/5 — Objective News *2025-05-29, version 9.5.0* Thanks ABC for a great news service without all the propaganda evident on other media and yes I’m talking about News Corpse! ### 5/5 — Is news *2025-05-27, version 9.5.0* Works as advertised ### 5/5 — Good service *2025-05-27, version 9.5.0* Application is very good ### 5/5 — I believe Toni’s news to be truthful… so far *2025-05-26* My daughter emigrated to Australia over 10 years ago. I read ABC news to keep me informed and abreast of her surroundings. More than that I enjoy this app because it is compact, and well laid out. Keep up the great work! --- *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 2026-08-26.*