# CDC — user reviews > 89 indexed App Store user reviews of CDC by Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, rated 2.90/5 from 413 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cdc/id487847188/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cdc/id487847188.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 149 · 4★ 37 · 3★ 23 · 2★ 40 · 1★ 164 ## What do users think of CDC? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💡 Informative and reliable health information - 🚀 Easy to navigate and access data - 👍 Useful for public health professionals and students **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - ⚠️ Outdated or inaccurate information, especially regarding COVID-19 - 🔒 Privacy and security concerns - 👎 Lack of trust in the CDC due to political influence **Commonly reported bugs** - Links within articles not working - App freezing or not loading past the splash screen - Symptom checker and other features not functioning properly **Most requested features** - Improved contact tracing tools - More up-to-date and comprehensive disease data - Better integration with other health apps and platforms - Landscape mode support for tablets ## Newest reviews (17 of 89) ### 4/5 — Search? *2026-07-12* It would be useful to be able to search. Did i miss it? ### 3/5 — Disappointed *2026-05-08* The app is not what i thought it would be I can get my information on the internet better than this app . It’s not worth my time … you cant even ask a question very disappointed mistake in 3 stars i give it a one star rating ### 3/5 — CDC News *2025-02-19, version 3.1.11* Experts advise to citizens without the Vodou ### 2/5 — Used to be informative, essential and up to date *2025-02-08* I'm disappointed in that this app is no longer keeping us up to date and safe regarding the recent bird flu outbreak that has been in the news. Isn't this the whole point of having this app on your phone? ### 2/5 — Why Have App If No Link To Web Site *2022-02-13, version 3.1.4* Minimalistic indeed. Two star rating is being generous. ### 3/5 — Behind the Times? *2021-11-21* Seems to me that this app doesn't do much to encourage people to go get vaccinated for COVID-19. I've been following the Data Tracker for this new disease almost since the first phases, when the big news was still in China and on cruise ships. It makes no sense to me that the CDC is still listing, among its "easy-access" [my expression] data points, the percentage of Americans who have received "at least one" of the three separate injections required for optimum immunity. If the CDC continues to publish that lackadaisical statistic, it should also present the results of a study showing the percentages of people who still contracted COVID-19 within, say, one year after receiving (1) only the first inoculation, not the second one and not the booster; (2) the first two shots but not the booster; (3) all three shots. Either do the study--or save that money, because you would otherwise be spending it (again) to re-rationalize the current protocol. Instead, post the following message loud and clear on the CDC website: "Folks, if you want optimal immunity ASAP, you gotta get two full shots plus a booster--spaced properly apart. And this virus isn't going to go away. We're already trying to figure out the subsequent inoculations that we'll all need in order to maintain immunity over the next two, three, four years." How else is the CDC going to motivate full and ongoing compliance with its recommendations, now and in future years? KSSHRINK ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2021-09-15* Pretty simple to use and had information on a variety of topics. Allows you to look at national and global data about diseases. ### 1/5 — The CDC has failed humanity. *2021-08-10, version 3.1.1* The CDC has become a highly politicized agency that has disregarded hundreds and hundreds of superb quality studies pertaining to early outpatient treatment for Covid-19. The CDC, as well as other prominent agencies, have actively suppressed a treasure trove of Covid-19 early treatment preprints that are waiting to be peer reviewed. This is an extraordinary, and unprecedented, situation. They have allocated limitless effort to make sure these studies never see the light of day. We need to start asking ourselves the following question: “Why are these extremely high quality studies, which were conducted by many of the world’s leading scientists and medical doctors, being suppressed rather than put through the peer review process?” ### 1/5 — CDC has zero credibility *2021-08-06, version 3.1.1* The CDC gas lost all trust. What a joke! ### 1/5 — Insecure *2021-07-29, version 3.1.1* It doesn't work if your privacy settings block Google servers. Citizens should not have to let themselves be spied on by Google to access government websites and apps. ### 1/5 — Cannot do Covid symptom checker *2021-02-25, version 3.1.1* App stops at age. Won’t move forward, just freezes indefinitely. ### 1/5 — Limited information *2021-02-03, version 3.1.1* The App provides politically correct information and therefore limited. No data on children and if it is safe for them to go back to school ### 1/5 — Just a dump of information without prioritization *2020-11-25* You think that CDC would put contact tracing apps and tools where it would be easy to find them. I am looking at all kind of data that would be helpful if I were doing a science project. I am looking for a contact tracing app in my state and I can’t find it. What the hell? ### 3/5 — Good Info, but CDC political now *2020-10-17, version 3.1.1* I am a doctor. I have always trusted the CDC. But now it is allowing its guidelines and recommendations to be influenced by Mr Trump. Hope we get a new Director to put science first ### 4/5 — CDC *2020-10-15, version 3.1.1* The app is a good information source for knowledge and prevention diseases and conditions which may concern society, especially in these times. The app is easy to navigate by way of the side pane which takes the user to any section they want. Users can filter their information feed by way if what they want to see. The app can be a bit sluggish when going back and forth but the issues are few and far between. ### 3/5 — CDC App *2020-09-14, version 3.1.1* This app is very useful, but could offer more sources and detailed information on certain topics. For example explanations or sources on vaccines and what they do on a microscopic level ### 4/5 — Informational App *2020-09-13* The CDC app provides great factual information that can be used by anyone. It provides relevant information for what is currently happening through out the world. One thing that I wish was more up to date would be their statistics. There has been great changes in health the last few years so more recent statistics could better inform our society. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Propaganda *2025-11-05, version 3.1.12* Site has been taken over by political hacks. Can’t believe anything being posted on it. ### 1/5 — Insane and inaccurate notification message on your website *2025-11-01, version 3.1.12* This is an abomination that the preseident and Kennedy, continue to put American lives in danger by gutting vital CDC staff and research. Publicly referring to the minority party as responsible for the shutdown, when you govern from all branches govt, is childish and not taken seriously. ### 1/5 — Awkward to use with iPads *2024-12-19* So here we are in almost the year 2025, but the app is designed with no landscape-view support, as if Steve Jobs has just introduced the first iPhone just last week (no such thing as an iPad yet). Please add landscape view and proper iPadOS support. iPad owners the world over will love and appreciate your doing so. That is, of course, if your websites don’t go dark with the coming administration. Even then, it’ll still look better in landscape mode. ### 1/5 — disappointed to say the least *2023-04-27, version 3.1.6* okay, look… I keep up with my vaccines, so I’m not one of “those individuals” but I am wowed that the info on here about covid is so…. lacking at this point? the pandemic is not quite over. the attention paid to mpox is encouraging but very very little is being said of the huge surges in literally all other sexually transmitted diseases nationwide right now. I definitely believe that the mpox vaccine should be offered openly to anyone of any persuasion right now… some people have open relationships, about half of the others in relationships cheat on their partners, and more people are pan and/or bi than most professionals would ever believe (or admit); guys…. this is part of how your predecessors dropped the ball on HIV, by painting it as a gay man’s disease, this is irresponsible and shameful. we’re not about to run out of mpox vaccines, offer them to everyone sexually active, for obvious reasons. also; the lack of regular info and warnings on the dangers of tobacco or nicotine use, ESPECIALLY vaping (which is probably more dangerous more quickly than smoking cigarettes ever was for previous generations and is going to become a huge problem for the daily health and wellbeing of many, many people under 30 within the next five years [and the CDC will act totally blindsided by this when one in fifty thirty year olds have the lungs of a 70 year old chain smoker]) is quite troubling. the normal overprescribing and the resulting addiction to legal prescription drugs by the medical indust- ahem, the medical community, and alcoholism, the forgotten addiction, because it is legal and more or less socially encouraged for all adults through peer pressure and marketing, seems to also be largely ignored as a major public health concern. I am a former bartender and I work at a gas station right now, alcoholism is a major problem, trust my daily regular customers if not me. I won’t even do more than just mention the CDC avoiding discussing the risks of young people falling into sports gambling addiction, which is a ready-made mental health epidemic in progress as I type this. HOWEVER, the absolute last straw that made me write this review, and to finally uninstall the app, is the Reefer Madness post in late April (‘23). A full century after the racially motivated transformation of all of American law enforcement to combat poor and black and brown people by way of banning liquor and cannabis, in 2023, the american CDC releases a Reefer Madness warning about a made up condition and calls cannabis “the most overused federally illegal drug”. okay….. nice syntax, very incredibly specific and totally not propagandistic in any way at all!! It’s legal in more places than not. It’s prescribed by physicians and/or licensed practitioners in more places than it’s legal recreationally. Forms of it are very much federally legal and regulated in ALL 50 states. It has been proven medically for generations now to be safer than aspirin and cold medicine, even for pregnant people. BUT POT IS THE PROBLEM WE NEED THE CDC TALKING ABOUT NOW!? Are you serious….? Is the ghost of Harry Anslinger running the CDC or what? Are y’all getting political kickbacks from the pill and vape and liquor companies but not those from legal medicinal farmers….? (probably) Nothing about how obesity and overconsumption of refined sugars and polysaturated fat is as dangerous as smoking cigarettes, and nearly unavoidable in the daily american diet. Nothing about how guns kill more children and young adults than anything else, nor about how most gun deaths are actually suicides. No links or helpful info EVER to resources on mental health, or even physical healthcare in red states where healthcare is restricted for many citizens. No mentions of adult ADHD or Autism, as apparently they are both childhood diseases that go away after adolescence…. THIS IS WHERE OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO!? This kind of mismanagement is why 1 in 3 americans believe vaccines are where diseases come from and less than one in five people have the latest COVID vaccine. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Reefer Madness….. give me a break. this is why america is the world’s laughingstock. congratulations, you have failed us yet again, CDC. keep it up. we need a new federal health agency, you will never recover from this reputation with americans or other citizens abroad, regardless of politics. stop being the problem, CDC. we need solutions right now. ### 1/5 — Covid *2023-01-17, version 3.1.6* This app is terrible to understand when your sick and need help! It’s a messed up system! ### 1/5 — Instant Crash *2022-11-08, version 3.1.6* iOS 12.5.6 ### 1/5 — No trust *2022-08-26, version 3.1.6* You can’t trust the information so why have it on your phone. DELETE!!! ### 1/5 — Covid-19 tracker symptoms *2022-05-12, version 3.1.4* Tracer and symptoms doesn’t work anymore 👎 ### 1/5 — No updated info since early 2021 *2021-12-21, version 3.1.1* This app is misleading and need of an update. We’ve already had a delta variant and Omicron, this app needs to be updated. ### 1/5 — ?? *2021-08-18, version 3.1.1* What’s this Spanish “Baloney” ? English only in the USA !! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great App *2021-09-17* I think that this app is truly informative, especially for public health, or any related health major. It can be used after school, and can help retrieve reliable statistics! ### 5/5 — Always updated! *2020-12-14* Great information ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2020-09-13, version 3.1.1* I thought this app was awesome and useful ### 5/5 — Fixed the issue *2020-05-08* You all have fixed the oorning of the app. Thanks ### 5/5 — Amazing *2020-04-25* You can find anything you want here from Ebola to Covid19. The only down side is that I am young and find it somewhat hard to use. But it’s easy to learn after a while. Thank you CDC!!!! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2020-03-21* Thank you for putting this App together to make it easy to find information quickly ### 5/5 — The update fixed it *2020-03-19* Just so everyone knows, the recent update fixed the problem where the links weren’t working! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2020-03-18, version 2.6.7* Up to date, current, relevant information regarding public health!!! ### 5/5 — Works great! *2020-03-14* I had no problem with any of the links. It pulled up the most current information available the same as on the CDC website. ### 5/5 — excellent and updated app *2020-03-11* great for such a time as this! thanks cdc --- *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 2026-08-28.*