# Belfast Live — user reviews > 64 indexed App Store user reviews of Belfast Live by Trinity Mirror Digital Media Limited, rated 4.60/5 from 60 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/belfast-live/id1066821187/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/belfast-live/id1066821187.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 46 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Belfast Live? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Up-to-date local news - 👍 Easy to use and download - 📱 Keeps users informed - ✅ Covers local stories BBC misses - ✨ Brilliant app for updates - 🌟 Great news reports - 🗞️ Always current - 💡 Useful content - 💯 Robust app - 📰 First for news - 🗺️ Local news updated by the minute - 👍 Fab app - 📰 Good up to date news - 🚀 Latest updates to phone - 👍 Great for local news - 📰 Very informative - 👍 Fantastic service - 👍 Brilliant app - 👍 Love it - 👍 Keep me up to date **Cons** - 💸 Premium service required - 🔒 Privacy concerns with login - 🚫 App not working - 👎 Cookie consent overwhelming - 🗑️ App deleted due to cookies - 📉 App destroyed by payment requirement - 😵 Glitchy app - 🚫 No notifications - 🤐 Censored comments section - 🤢 Sectarian elements in app - 💸 Paywall for articles - 📱 App not loading properly - 🎥 Videos not encoded properly - 🔄 Phone rotation issues - 🗑️ Unusable app - ❌ App not working - 👎 Rubbish content - 💥 Crashing on iPhone 14 pro - ⚠️ Comments not working - ❌ Oops error message - 🐛 Buggy mess - 🚫 Registration issues - 🔄 Crashes and needs reinstallation - 🍪 Cookie nonsense - 🚫 No comments loading - 📝 Spelling mistakes - 😠 Trolls and misinformation - 🗣️ Biased and one-sided stories - 🚫 Bigotry and personal assassination - ✍️ Poor grammar and punctuation - ❌ App shuts phone down - 💩 Amateurish and childish update - 😵 Aggressive marketing swipes - 🧐 Unbalanced and biased reporting - 🚫 Anti-Protestant owners/mods - 🐛 App not loading stories - 🎦 Part of screen shows on notification - ⚙️ Orientation off, top third populated **Commonly reported bugs** - Bookmarks gone after update - App not working on older smartphones - Login via Apple/Google not working - App not loading properly - Photos not loading in articles - Videos misbehave and don't work - App crashes - Notifications not received - Comments section not loading - App bombs out regularly - Comments section disabled - App crashes on iPhone 14 pro - Comments not working - Oops error message when viewing comments - App crashes and requires reinstallation - Comment section won't load - App doesn't load properly, orientation off - App shuts phone down when launched - App not loading stories - Problem fetching articles **Most requested features** - Option to 'not agree to all' cookies - Easier cookie management - Dark mode option - Improve video encoding - Fix phone rotation issues - Option to deny all cookies - Better moderation of comments - More in-depth articles - Update news stories when app opens - Fix registration code error ## Newest reviews (19 of 64) ### 2/5 — Health care *2024-12-30* It’s the Senior Doctors and Governments own fault we never had this problem before, all the hospitals were closed example Whiteabbey and all the other hospitals was the beds lost in these hospitals ever replaced ? I can speak about Whiteabbey they had approximately 20 cardiac beds when it closed they were never replaced. And there were many more hospitals around the province closed and lost beds never replaced not to mention AandE departments. So Government and Doctors get on with providing services I have no sympathy for you this was brought upon yourselves, you ignored the people who protested against closures and you just went ahead full steam and done it you knew better now you reap the consequences. Trooper 1945 ### 4/5 — Invasion *2024-06-30, version 9.3.0* I hope N Ireland is not heading down the same path as Eire which is being swamped by illegals making things difficult for the locals in small villages ### 1/5 — Belfast more dead than Live app *2024-02-03, version 9.2.2* Full of glitches; will not display my comments, have not received notifications in days. Regularly bombed out of the app. It’s rubbish. ### 1/5 — Aggressive marketing *2024-01-29, version 9.2.2* I have never experienced an app where you scroll down and it magically swipes right and opens another article! Wouldn’t be anything to do with artificially bumping up article viewers so that you can mislead advertisers would it?! Shameful! ### 3/5 — Unbalanced *2024-01-20, version 9.2.1* Articles are current though somewhat biased in the style of reporting , though that does make it a good debating platform . ### 1/5 — Anti Protestant *2024-01-18, version 9.2.1* Anti-Protestant owners & mods. ### 1/5 — Bad *2024-01-14, version 9.2.1* I can pass by the articles that in my opinion are not news but, the App is not loading properly, in some articles photos don't load at all. Videos are not encoded properly and don't work. If you rotate the phone then you rotate it back it's all a mess. Bad ergonomics and user experience overall. You should give your IT and design a raise. Unusable ! ### 1/5 — Review *2023-11-01, version 9.1.1* New update erase my choices and the new updated version is crap rubbish and definitely amateurish and childish it’s outdated as well 1 star is to much ### 3/5 — No proof reading *2023-07-11, version 8.3.5* So many spelling mistakes, even medical conditions. Simple web search would easily catch these. Not professional ### 1/5 — Rubbish content *2023-04-14, version 8.3.4* Good or bad news you need to report it accurately from an unbiased perspective. Don’t waste our time with rubbish. ### 1/5 — Crash *2023-01-07, version 8.2.0* This app would be brilliant if it ran without crashing on the iPhone 14 pro ### 2/5 — Comments not working *2022-09-05, version 8.1.2* UPDATE. Still can’t view comments on version 8.1.2 Oops error still showing Can’t view comments. I get the ‘oops’ error message. Running latest version 8.1 ### 2/5 — Oops message *2022-08-21, version 8.1.1* Keep getting oops message when I go to view comments ### 3/5 — I like it *2022-06-02, version 8.0.1* I like that I have the news at hand, but it doesn’t work very well, comment’s don’t load ### 1/5 — Buggy mess. *2022-05-25, version 7.1.6* App is buggy. It keeps crashing and when I open a notification only part of the screen shows and I need to force quit the app. ### 1/5 — Registration *2022-03-30, version 7.1.6* Doesn’t let you register. Gives you a code 2023 or something ### 1/5 — Crashes and has to be reinstalled. *2022-02-19* This app sometimes crashes and leaves a blank screen when you click onto a video or photo. The problem can only be resolved by deleting the app and reinstalling it. This has happened twice to me. ### 1/5 — Cookie nonsense - deleted!!! *2021-12-22* Launched app - asked for consent. No reject all option, and a very vague ‘legitimate interest’ check box for vendors that does NOT have a ‘reject all’ option. Stopped manually rejecting legitimate interest checkboxes after I did about 30 and was nowhere near done. APP DELETED. awful cookie management has driven me away. Using website incognito mode - works fine!! ### 3/5 — No comments *2021-12-08, version 7.1.2* Comment section won’t load anymore. Which is disappointing because I enjoyed reading the bigots and racists arguing. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Where did my bookmarks go?? *2026-04-09* Used to be practical to see the local news. Now they moved to a “premium” service. So basically every article is premium. So unless you subscribe, you can read anything. Even old articles!!! Very disappointing…. **Developer response:** Hi, the bookmarks are attached to your email, if you logged back in with the same email address the comments should be available to you, otherwise it'll be recognised as a different account. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. The ReachPLC App Team. ### 1/5 — Now requiring a login *2026-01-24, version 9.5.14* Gutted to let this app go, as it was very useful. But it now requires a log in, via either Google, Apple ID, or an email and I’m not comfortable giving my privacy away. So, bye for now ### 1/5 — The app has stopped working *2026-01-11, version 9.5.11* Unsure why it happened - possibly because my smartphone is “too old”. Remember some don’t care about the latest phones and you’re losing money out of slamming us out. Cheers ### 1/5 — No options *2025-10-27* When you first access the app it asks you to accept or manage cookie preferences. If you try to manage them you have to go through hundreds of vendors etc individually to exclude yourself. The option to ‘not agree to all’ would be so much better. I deleted the app for this reason, I don’t have the time to go through them one by one and I don’t want to consent to them! ### 1/5 — App not working *2025-09-02, version 9.5.6* Horrible to see app not working. It isnt even allowing to login with apple or google id. App is updated too. This is happening far too often ### 1/5 — IT deserves a raise *2025-07-21* I can pass by the articles that in my opinion are not news but, the App is not loading properly, in some articles photos don't load at all. Videos misbehave and are not encoded properly and don't work. If you rotate the phone then you rotate it back it's all a mess. Bad ergonomics and user experience overall. You should give your IT and design a raise. Unusable ! ### 1/5 — Where are the notifications? *2024-12-13* Downloaded this app for the iPad and a new iPhone. This app doesn’t push out notifications anymore? ### 1/5 — North Korean level or censorship *2024-08-07* I’ve never seen the comments section of any discussion platform so heavily and over-excessively censored. You can type out legitimate conversation. Not a single profanity etc. And it won’t even allow you to post it. “This message failed to send” you try and reword it (maybe its algorithm is picking up words that are sensitive etc) and it’ll continually give you the same message. If you do manage to type out something - it’ll show “content disabled” after a few mins. A cheap little app, ran by (clearly) the most sensitive moderators in existence. Still soooooo many sectarian elements to this app also. I’d give it minus if I could. ### 1/5 — Personal data farming app - don’t use *2024-02-07, version 9.2.2* Most cookie / data requests I have ever seen on a site, spent 15+ mins denying consent before deciding to delete app, borderline spyware. An option to deny all would be helpful. ### 1/5 — Used to be good. *2024-02-05, version 9.2.2* What used to be a great news app had been destroyed with a requirement to pay for service. Since the recent update I am getting no news whatsoever. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it *2022-10-03, version 8.1.2* I love Belfast live it keeps me up To date with the local news. ### 5/5 — App shuts my phone down when launched *2021-03-11* I think this is a great app but every time I launch it on my phone it turns my phone off! It’s fine on my iPad so that is where it will get its most use. ### 5/5 — Leaving Belfast *2020-09-05, version 6.4.1* I left Belfast 39 yrs ago to live in Sydney Australia. Now this app keeps me informed what happing. Thanks ### 5/5 — In-the-know! *2020-06-29, version 6.3.1* Very efficient up-to-the-minute news for Norn Ireland🤗! ### 5/5 — First for news *2020-05-25, version 6.2.9* I like the fact that I get the news first on Belfast News. ### 5/5 — Belfast live *2020-05-24, version 6.2.9* Always current ### 5/5 — Brilliant app *2020-05-15* This app is brilliant at keeping you updated on all that is going especially with the covid 19 ,it also alerts you to issues off concern in your area ### 5/5 — Love it *2020-04-23, version 6.2.9* Great news reports ### 5/5 — Belfast live *2020-04-07, version 6.2.8* Good up to date news ### 5/5 — Belfast live *2020-02-28* Up to date with the news.. very easy to use and download.. definitely an app worth having --- *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 2026-09-07.*