# ABC13 Houston News & Weather — user reviews > 113 indexed App Store user reviews of ABC13 Houston News & Weather by Disney, rated 4.70/5 from 49,151 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abc13-houston-news-and-weather/id407345290/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abc13-houston-news-and-weather/id407345290.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 42,019 · 4★ 3,893 · 3★ 1,177 · 2★ 572 · 1★ 1,490 ## What do users think of ABC13 Houston News & Weather? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 📺 Great news station - 💙 Loyal viewer - 🔍 Informative and accurate news **Cons** - 🤖 Biased reporting - 🔍 Lacking in-depth coverage - 🔍 Too many ads and notifications - 🐛 Crashes and glitches - 🤖 Slanted political coverage **Commonly reported bugs** - Notifications lead to loading screens - Wrong videos playing for stories - App crashing and freezing - Weather information not up-to-date **Most requested features** - Picture-in-picture mode - Improved video playback and stability - Better organization and navigation - Disable auto-play for videos - More local and breaking news coverage ## Newest reviews (20 of 113) ### 3/5 — Katsypay *2026-07-12, version 8.27.0* I totally agree with Bella Blue’s Comment!! ### 2/5 — Testing *2026-06-25, version 8.90.0* Testing ### 3/5 — Notifications are not linked *2026-02-03, version 8.80.0* It is so frustrating when a notification shows up on my phone, hit the link, but it only opens your app. The notification should take you to the article mentioned in the notification. Then I search and search and can never find the article. Waste of my time trying to use your app. ### 2/5 — Opening a notification doesn’t take me to the story *2025-02-19, version 8.58.0* I have an iPhone 14 and I have this app set up to send me notifications. Any time I click on a notification for a story I want to read, I am sent to the home page of the app but never to the exact story, which I then have to search for. Other apps send me to the exact story and it is frustrating that yours does not. Please fix. ### 4/5 — Opening app *2025-01-25, version 8.56.0* Every time I get a notification about an updated story I click on it that seems very interesting and it does not go to that story. Very disappointing. ### 3/5 — Channel 13 reports *2025-01-12, version 8.55.0* Channel 13 does a decent job reporting local news but the biased opinions of the station’s governing agency is always apparent when addressing President Trump. Shame on you!!! ### 2/5 — This website needs to be better *2024-11-04, version 8.27.0* Should be much more update on local news that matters. Any headline more than 12 hrs old is no longer news. You need to step it up. ### 4/5 — Best app. for local and national news *2024-09-19, version 8.48.0* This is my number 1 app to keep abreast of the most updated news and events locally, Statewide and Nationally. It’s easy to manage and maneuver ### 1/5 — Left slanted *2024-09-11, version 8.47.0* Hardly news. It’s so far left. ### 2/5 — Needs updated to fix bugs *2024-08-20, version 8.46.0* I can’t open the article I want to, everytime I click on one, it takes me to another article and I can’t read the one I want to. Update the app!! ### 3/5 — AP doesn’t seem to keep up with notifications *2024-08-18, version 8.45.0* I get notifications from ABC13 on a regular basis. 99% of the time, when I click on the notification and the APP opens, there is nothing there about what the notification was about… ### 1/5 — Broken *2024-08-18, version 8.46.0* Your app is as broken as your news reporting. Photos and videos don’t load on my iPad or iPhone. My internet speed at home is 1GB. It’s been this way for many months over many updates. I’m fairly certain you don’t care. ### 1/5 — They are advertising a satanic movie. *2024-08-12, version 8.45.0* Offensive. ### 1/5 — Improper news links *2024-08-10, version 8.45.0* Article links are not linked to correct news topic. For example when I click on “Man shot killed in front of pregnant wife in SE Houston” it directs views to “Officials in Nassau Bay to pull occupancy permits for apartment’s dangerous black mold.” This issue occurs quite often. ### 1/5 — Viewability *2024-08-06, version 8.45.0* Way too big. Can't change font size. Not viewer friendly. Scroll Scroll Scroll ### 3/5 — Too many notifications! *2024-07-18, version 8.43.0* 90% of the app seems like it’s about the weather over and over and over and over. It’s never what they say will be so I don’t understand why they HAR it so many times even on the 30 minutes of newscast it’s weather five minutes something else five minutes something else weather I mean how much weather do we need? Everybody has the app if we want to get the weather it’s over kill some more sports sports lovers too you know. That seems poor. I don’t know why, but it doesn’t seem like it. ### 2/5 — Not too thrilled with your app *2024-07-18, version 8.43.0* Whenever I open my app up, I’m always getting some news video playing automatically is if I want to hear it when I just want to see what’s going on in the world not here someone talking especially Donald Trump or anyone else from the Republican national convention and it seems that you are being because all you do is talk about them and talk about them and talk about them and I’m tired of that ### 3/5 — Notifications - improve the target they open *2024-07-12, version 8.43.0* It’s not a good user experience when very specific notifications to the phone screen only open the app when clicked. The expectation for notifications is that they open a target page directly related to the notification so the user doesn’t have to hunt around in the app for the information that brought them to it. Otherwise, app is great! ### 1/5 — Poor *2024-07-09, version 8.43.0* Can not contact news department. Why only mention Center Point Power Company? There is Entergy in The Woodlands and Kingwood. I live in Kingwood and storm hit hard here. Neighbors roof damaged. Trees down everywhere. Across North Park. Ask Entergy when power restored!!! ### 1/5 — Live coverage *2024-07-08, version 8.43.0* When I click on a News article, I’m coming into the app to read that article. I’m not coming into the app to be inundated by whatever live coverage you have going on at the time. The option to turn off auto play doesn’t even work. It’s so obnoxious that I deleted the entire app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t provide Feedback! *2026-08-07, version 8.93.0* Why can’t feedback be given on certain topics, issues and articles that are being published? It’s absolutely ridiculous! ### 1/5 — Worthless *2026-07-23, version 8.92.0* A storm in the gulf and you can’t be bothered to update the weather on the app. Took over 12 hours yesterday to get a weather update and it’s over four hours old now. What is the point of having the app? ### 1/5 — New update *2026-02-15, version 8.81.0* Just terrible since the new update. Can only see past or future. No longer both combined. Going backwards. ### 1/5 — Government censorship *2025-09-19, version 8.73.0* ABC and its parent companies are censoring political views unfavorable to Trump, just because they are scared of getting sued by Trump again. I had to delete the app because of this government censorship interference ### 1/5 — Bowing to FCC *2025-09-19, version 8.73.0* Removed all abc from our lives ### 1/5 — Audio *2025-09-18, version 8.73.0* No other app has the issue but the audio is not synched up with what they are saying ### 1/5 — Sports section. Not very good. I wish they would have Bob Allen Tim Melton *2025-03-27, version 8.61.0* Can you cover more sports beside Houston teams in a few minutes of sports back in old days by Tim Melton. Bob Allen. Cover a lot of sports. What went on all day in a few minutes. ### 1/5 — The notifications are terrible *2025-02-10, version 8.57.0* Every time I receive a notification for a story and click to see the story, it takes me to the home page and the news story I received the notification on is nowhere to be found. What’s the point of sharing a story I will never see or can’t find. ### 1/5 — Not enough pertinent notifications *2024-10-27, version 8.51.0* Too much non breaking news notifications ### 1/5 — Freezes constantly *2024-09-19, version 8.48.0* Works great reading three or four articles. Then it freezes up, and the whole phone is useless. Several minutes later, I can minimize the app and kill it. Don't get me wrong, reading the news from KTRK is a highlight of my morning. But I can't do it any longer. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The best app ever!!! *2024-06-09, version 8.40.0* I check my phone before i turn on my TV,when news breaks I’m the first to inform my coworkers. Thanks 👁 witness news ### 5/5 — Erica Simon *2024-06-03, version 8.41.0* Just to compliment Erica on a great comeback after giving birth to her son. She is so professional and always dresses professional , Like the other news , weather and sports reporters ABC is tops. ### 5/5 — KTRK *2024-02-03, version 8.32.0* Five Star rating! ### 5/5 — You need some help with your ap *2023-11-14, version 8.27.0* It DOESNT work!!!!!! It just sits there. My phone and apps are up to date! It’s not me, it’s you! ### 5/5 — Terrible App *2021-09-09, version 7.18* This is a media company’s app. It should be the height of technology, and it is so far from that. There should be breaking news, updated stories and all sorts of stuff on here. I sign in every day and see the same stories. I’m looking for up to the minute news. I’m going with a different channel. ### 5/5 — Great news station *2021-08-25, version 7.18* Channel 13 eyewittnes news has always been very informative and acurate in their news information. 40 years of living in Houston that is where I got my news. Besides being very professional the anchores and the crew in the field are very compassionate and caring. ### 5/5 — ABC *2021-08-07* Why is it that ABC makes such a BIG deal over the immigrants trying to get to our borders ? Making it so sad . No one made them bring their families through such horrible conditions. Why don’t you care about our American citizens that live in poverty . Even our veterans that went to war for you . There are children that don’t have enough food to eat . You need to clean up your news. I can’t even watch it anymore and it was once my favorite . You need to show some respect for our President . We the people voted him into office . You won’t let me post . Are you afraid ?why hasn’t this been posted ???? What are you afraid of ? I can’t stand your Fake News. I want to see you post this.... your news is all a bunch of nonsense ........ ### 5/5 — ABC13KTRK *2021-06-20, version 7.17.1* I have been in the Houston area for near 50 years. I have just now moved to the Spring-Woodlands area, and I have watched ABC13KTRK since the first time I moved to Texas. I think that ABC13KTRK covers the news better than any other stations. I am an ABC13KTRK fan and usually watch every episode so I can catch anything new, that only you all investigate. Thank you for all your hard work, I love ABC13KTRK, and I will always be grateful for to be able to watch you💝!!!! ### 5/5 — Funerals for people needing funds *2020-07-23, version 7.12* I am unsure y’all know this...however; to save $$$ for funerals: You can buy caskets, urns, vaults “on line” TOTALLY legal, & ALL funeral homes by law have to accept them. They get shipped within 24 hrs. Of ordering. Look them up, just type in caskets on line. I truly hope this helps ANY family who needs assistance! God bless ALL of you at ABC News! We have been watching for 40 years! Mrs. Rosemary Wells ### 5/5 — No on mom a good app *2020-07-01, version 7.12* Used to be a good app. Now mute won’t stay on when you want to read the story. And when you do try to watch the videos it constantly shuts the whole app down and then you have to restart the app from the beginning. I used to use this app frequently, I’m now to the point of deleting it from my phone. --- *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 2026-09-15.*