Eyewitness News User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience8.2% of reviews
Neutral9.3% of reviews
Negative experience82.5% of reviews

~ Based on 97 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Eyewitness News Safe?

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Is Eyewitness News Legit?

Eyewitness News appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Eyewitness News is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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One of the most usless new apps there is I ever used, cab search and then they slam you eith adds as if the dont make enough money with Primedia then thet want to leach off my time and device as well.

Ads take over news

Add pop ups block screen and news. More of an advertising thing than anything els

GUI very bad

The user interface is really weak.
Also, why does the web based version insist on enabling all cookies? Arrogant!

Privacy Concerns - App is Broken

App hasn’t updated for 3 years now. One can only assume it’s because Apple requires developers to provide privacy details upon the next update. They haven’t, they won’t so no update is incoming any time soon. Guess they’re hiding what data they harvest and choose to use keep the ‘old’ app.
Proves you can’t trust the mainstream media.
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Pointless

Stories are out of date. Killing the app and starting again makes no difference. Feels like EWN abandoned this app years ago

Desperately needs content updates

The app is fine but it would be great to read current news. The current top story is more than a week old. The trending story is more than a day old. And the article “could this man be South Africa’s own Jeffrey Epstein?” has been at the top of the “top stories” for more than a year…

Stuck on old news from years ago

App has widgets stuck on old news from months, if not years ago. Doesn’t update quickly at all. Slower than print media.

Doesn’t update

I’m still looking at news from 3 days ago…. No update or hourly changes

Not updating

The app is not updating to show the latest news. News articles are many days old

News feed not updating

Despite numerous complaints in the app forum itself, it still does not update to latest news feed. I have deleted then reinstalled with no joy. Using an iPhone 14. Do I delete completely and start using another news feed app or will you resolve and give feedback?

Not updating news

Your app isn’t updating news anymore. It’s been 10 days. If it updates it will give me articles that are 3 days old. I’ve even tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. Does the same thing.

Is there no news?

No updates in 6 days? What’s going on with this app?

Not updating the news

Only showing news from 5 days ago. I deleted the app and reinstalled. No change.

Used to be good, not updating anymore

The news articles hasn’t been updated in more than four days. Seems stuck. App really needs some attention.

I supose, in the light thant nothing is happening, and no one responds to these reviews, that EWN closed down.

App no longer updates

The app no longer updates. Stuck on content from 4 days ago. Even tried uninstalling and re-installing with same result so app is pretty much useless at this stage.

Incorrect News Articles

So many articles are totally wrong. Doesn’t look like they do any sort of fact checking.

Racist news

All news articles is only about black people in SA… News that involves other races never features… Their app’s comment section is fake and does not work

No notification

I don’t get any breaking news notifications anymore. I’ve checked in my settings and there are no issues.

Push notifications

Push notifications all have stopped working and there does not seem to be any fix for this?

Crashes and no video sound

The app crashes fairly frequently and watching a video in the app does not include sound (yes, I unmuted). Otherwise it is fine and good enough for my needs.