Free Beacon User Reviews

Free Beacon
Free Beacon
Free Beacon, LLC

Customer Experience

Positive experience13.9% of reviews
Neutral8.3% of reviews
Negative experience77.8% of reviews

~ Based on 36 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Free Beacon Safe?

Free Beacon has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Free Beacon is 66/100.

This assessment is based on 52 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.2/5.

Safety Analysis

51.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
42.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 52 App Store ratings for Free Beacon.

Is Free Beacon Legit?

Free Beacon appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Free Beacon is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

What Happened?

News stories do not generate through the app. Has the app been discontinued?

Doesn’t work

I like the WFB. Downloaded the app. Nothing works. Just a blank slate. Looks more like they started to build it and just gave up.

Website Works Better

Every once in a while I re-download this app. Every time I’m disappointed. It’s never worked well and now it only displays a blank screen with the Free Beacon’s mast.

Please Fix

App doesn’t work. Just a blank page.

Beyond Broken

I love the WFB but this app doesn’t work AT ALL! Some reviews complain about pop-up ads. NOTHING appears on the app on my phone. No articles. No ads. NOTHING.

I prefer using an app but will have to go back to reading the WFB on the web.

How is this not fixed yet???

Do you not want us using your app and instead just your site? The in article pop-up that will not quit ruins videos, freezes the app, interrupts reading of articles. Is there anyway to kill this in the app? Do the people at WFB not use their own app enough to realize the constant interruption ruins the experience. Please you men, women, or whatever you identify as right now do great work! Fix it or kill it.
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Great app, but there's an ad that keeps popping up that covers the articles.

Can't read because ads keep popping up covering text. Tried to contact Support, but link send you to a website that is not support. overall I just gave up

Problems

Can't read because ads keep popping up covering text. Tried to contact Support, but link send you to a website that is not support. overall I just gave up

Glitchy Invasive App

Non-stop, reappearing pop ups, articles super slow to load, freezing. Annoying and frustrating. Can’t get through one paragraph without getting molested by their tech.

Disappointed

I really like the WFB but the app is useless. That one add pops up over and over and blocks anything I’m trying to read. I close the window and it comes back over the door.

Also, the whole page loads very slowly. Especially given the limited content. I don’t know if you guys are paying $10 per month for servers, but it isn’t enough.
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Broken

I love the content from Free Beacon. The app is badly broken. It constantly launches embedded videos. I can’t read the articles because the videos continually launch. When I try to clear the videos, the app locks up and stops working. Please fix the app.

Uncontrolled video popups

I liked the articles but got tired of the recurring videos that interrupted my reading.

Finally uninstalled.

Video keeps popping up

Tried to read articles. A Beacon video keeps popping up, popping up, popping up. So annoying. Deleted app.

Great news, glitchy app

I love the reporting at the WFB, but the app is super glitchy. Popup videos of other articles are persistent and constant, which interrupts my reading to the point where I just go to the online site. Please fix!

Microscopic Font

The font is extremely small and there is no option for the user to change the size of the font. Developers should consider that not everyone on the planet has perfect vision.

Horrible app that forces pop ups.

This app frequently freezes especially when I switch to an app in the background. It requires me to force quit.

And now I keep getting videos popping up on my screen when I haven’t clicked on them and they come back even when I dismiss them. They pop up even when the app is in the background.

If they don’t fix this asap, I am deleting the app.
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Soooooo Buggy

Almost, scratch that, it IS, unusable.

Buggy

Buggy
Buggy
Buggy
Come on man. Get it fixed.

Terrible app

I’ve tried installing twice, with same results. Won’t load or freezes every time.

Bush

Greatest living president? Eliz Troutman writes this about Bush. Is this a joke?