# CGTN — user reviews > 203 indexed App Store user reviews of CGTN by China Global Television Network Corp., rated 4.40/5 from 394 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cgtn/id922456579/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cgtn/id922456579.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 279 · 4★ 44 · 3★ 26 · 2★ 21 · 1★ 24 ## What do users think of CGTN? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Balanced and unbiased news coverage - 🌐 Comprehensive global news perspective - 🎥 High-quality video and documentary content - 💯 Reliable and trustworthy news source - 🌍 Diverse range of international topics covered - 🌐 Offers news in multiple languages **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional app crashes and stability issues - 🔍 Limited search and navigation functionality - 📱 Suboptimal user experience on tablets - 🔊 Audio and video playback problems - 🌐 Lack of offline content access **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when opening certain articles - Live TV channel playback not working - Russian text not displaying correctly - Landscape mode not supported on iPad - Notifications not working as expected **Most requested features** - Add dark mode option - Improve search and filtering capabilities - Optimize app for tablet devices - Implement offline content download feature - Allow customization of notification settings ## Newest reviews (18 of 203) ### 4/5 — Can I have the contents in Chinese too? *2025-06-24, version 6.3.7* Where and how can I read and listen to CGTN in Chinese? There are a lot of international audiences that can understand Chinese too. ### 3/5 — Audio issue *2024-11-28, version 6.3.1* I couldn’t get the audio player to stop after exiting the app. So i had to delete the app to turn off audio. That is not a good situation. ### 4/5 — Cannot open App *2024-11-21, version 6.3.1* Lately this App cannot open. Close within 1–2 sec. Did delete app & install back, app working fine now. ### 3/5 — General *2024-11-13, version 6.2.1* Unreasonable design, too little effective information, only 3-4 news can be displayed on the first page. ### 4/5 — Gran mejora respecto a anteriores versiones *2024-05-21, version 6.2.1* La aplicacion ha mejorado Mucho desde la anterior version , tanto su aspecto como su presentacion, es una app perfecta para conocer tanto china como Àsia en general, ofrece una gran variedad de noticias y documentales para quien quiera saber mas de oriente.Perfecta si quieres ver las noticias desde otra perspectiva que no sea la (monolítica ) occidental . ### 4/5 — How to enable notifications? *2024-02-10, version 6.2.0* It’s really nice app for news. But how can one activate the notifications? ### 4/5 — Chrome cast *2024-01-28, version 6.1.2* Great content (particularly the documentaries) but really wish I could chromecast to the big screen so I could watch together with my husband or other friends. ### 5/5 — A Good Alternative for Western Viewers *2024-01-01, version 6.1.1* I love that this news source is entirely free and ad free! If you’re reading this, you have to recognize that this is essentially the propaganda arm of the CPC. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It allows for some alternative views that run against the western current. Personally, I’d recommend consuming some western media with it so you don’t become insanely one sided. It’s very important to keep a balanced view of the world. I like the app overall. It’s good because you know what it is, an anti-western perspective that is pro Chinese. It’s really no different than western propaganda like CNN or Fox News, it just has a different bias, which is important too. ### 5/5 — Great application *2023-12-23* Beautiful positive and harmony promoting content ### 5/5 — great *2023-12-01, version 6.1.0* i am enjoying this app for my daily news perusing. i am however unable to translate the articles to mandarin, so if you could provide that, that would be helpful. i’m always trying to practice my chinese whenever i can. a feedback form or maybe a comment board .. or a way to share article links to others would be good too. i especially like articles that involves the readers to participate, take action and interact, like the loots of UK.. etc. thank you ### 5/5 — Request dark mode *2023-11-16* I would like to request that this app have dark mode. The background color is now white. It's very bright to me. Thanks in advance. **Developer response:** Thank you for your suggestion, the dark mode is now available, please download the latest version of the app. ### 5/5 — Good app *2023-10-31, version 6.0.2* Good app, lots of features 👍 ### 5/5 — CGTN *2023-10-22, version 6.0.2* Excellent channel for news, views and entertainment. All presenters excel at their skills and personality ### 3/5 — Very objectives news outlet *2023-10-09, version 6.0.2* The apps is great is overall but if it can allow user to choose ‘dark mode’, then it will be best. ### 5/5 — iPad screen rotation disabled in latest update *2023-08-29, version 6.0.2* Edit: FIXED This app is back to its old self, and now working perfectly. I’m impressed with how quickly the team responded to the rotation problem. Original review: Your recent revamped app for iPad won’t do screen rotation to landscape. It did so before, and I could watch my favorite shows in full screen. Now I only get a small screen. I turn my iPad on its side and the picture remains in portrait mode. (And yes, I’ve checked the settings.) ### 5/5 — Great update *2023-08-24, version 6.0.1* I like the News content and info from the app but the app always looked a bit old fashioned and the User Interface was lacking a little bit. The new update looks spectacular, way more modern and simple interface. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Mr Warren Nelson *2023-08-23, version 6.0.1* Love the content however the video resolution is too high and buffers too often when used on regular Wi-Fi ### 4/5 — 🤥 *2023-08-19, version 6.0.1* 🙄 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Only support new phones. *2024-09-27, version 6.2.1* Forget it if you have old phone. They don’t care about you. China Daily and Global Times do. ### 1/5 — App live channels not playing *2023-12-05, version 6.1.0* Hi your channels are not working at all. Normally your app is great news channels. If you can fix it that would be great! ### 1/5 — Zoom *2021-10-09, version 5.7.7* Zoom capability of CGTN news articles and video clips is not available for cell phone and computer. What a disappointment! ### 1/5 — CCP Propoganda push notifications at 3 am *2021-07-21, version 5.7.6* Worked well until I got a push notification at 3 am threatening two tiny countries, Lithuania and Taiwan for committing the high crime of referring to Taiwan as a sovereign country. CCP, Hong Kong and Taiwan are both sovereign countries and you need to chill the F out! ### 1/5 — Bias *2020-12-07, version 5.7.4* The bias and misinformation here makes this site unreliable as an informative source of news. ### 1/5 — Müslüman öah salyangoz satmak bu *2020-09-01, version 5.7.4* Müslüman öah salyangoz satmak bu reklam tür proğram engiliş ha alın siz bakın ### 1/5 — Communist Propaganda App *2020-07-01* Don’t download this app. It just give false news about China and CCP . This news agency is run by CCP dogs. ### 1/5 — Loading Failure *2020-06-19, version 5.7.3* Nearly every article you try to read failed to load. It’s extremely frustrating. Now I remember why I deleted the apps a couple of months ago. Except for the headlines you cannot download the article to read. Are you sure your apps have not been sabotaged? ### 1/5 — Cannot open most articles. *2020-06-16, version 5.7.2* “Load failed” appears when trying to open articles. ### 1/5 — Page loading problem *2020-06-14, version 5.7.2* Extremely poor loading of contents, keep getting ‘failed to load’ ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-09-03, version 6.6.1* Just a perfect network. ### 5/5 — CGTN *2026-02-24, version 6.5.3* Tony V ### 5/5 — Не запускается *2026-02-04* До 3/02/2026 работало приложение прекрасно! Сейчас не прогружается. Исправьте пожалуйста ошибки. ### 5/5 — CGTN is great! *2025-09-03, version 6.3.8* The app beats those of so-called media organizations any day of the week (eg. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc). Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — I love it *2025-04-30, version 6.3.6* I love that I get to learn about Chinese culture and it’s history and CGTN and it’s very easy to understand. Thank you China for making an app that talks about what’s going on in China and sharing your history and culture ### 5/5 — Balanced worldview news! *2025-03-17, version 6.3.5* Unlike news here at home, I get to hear perspectives from other countries instead of just from US dominance. It is heartfelt, refreshing and hopeful instead of fearful and aggressive. ### 5/5 — Apple iphone14 *2025-02-28, version 6.3.5* Theone ### 5/5 — Удобное, познавательное, но.. *2025-01-24* Почините кодировку русского текста (кирилицы) в приложении для Apple TV. С лета 2024 стала отображаться абра-кадабра но не текст… ### 5/5 — Best international Chinese news app *2024-12-27* This is an honest review: this app is actually really great! There are 5 languages available. You can read, save and comment news articles, which are very well organized into various categories. There is a diverse range of topics covered in CGTN. The videos are impeccably well made too. You can even watch TV live broadcasts from the app, as well as replaying them. The app includes insightful and interesting documentaries too. New fresh content is always uploaded. If you’re interested in or curious about Chinese news, international geo-politics, technology, culture, sports, from a Chinese perspective, I highly recommend this app! :) 👍💯 ### 5/5 — Great app for several reasons *2024-01-31, version 6.1.2* 1. A good balance. We are inundated with negative news about China from western sources. It’s great to hear positive news about China from the source. 2. A great app. This app is really well built and just very user friendly and very aesthetically pleasing. 3. No ads. 4. Not intentional, but great for language learning. If you’re learning French, Spanish, Russian, or Arabic, you can change the settings in your account to get the news in those languages. Most of the news articles have video and audio along with the text. There is also a translation feature directly at the tool bar to quickly see the article in your native language or many more target languages. --- *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 2026-09-08.*