Gloucestershire Live User Reviews

Gloucestershire Live
Gloucestershire Live
Trinity Mirror Digital Media Limited

Customer Experience

Positive experience23.3% of reviews
Neutral16.7% of reviews
Negative experience60.0% of reviews

~ Based on 30 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Gloucestershire Live Safe?

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Is Gloucestershire Live Legit?

Gloucestershire Live appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Gloucestershire Live is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Share your data with the world

On first install I looked at the privacy and cookie consent settings and was amazed at the number of companies you will be sharing data with by pressing ‘accept all’ - literally hundreds of vendors! The data shared with most may only be non-personally identifiable but I felt it was grossly intrusive so deleted the app straight away.
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App will not refresh daily

In settings I open Gloucestershire Live app and the toggle switch is in app refresh position but is slightly greyed out, so the only way I can daily refresh content is to go into the App Store and open it up from there, any ideas how to overcome this.

App function/speed improved

The functioning of the App has improved.
It is just a great pity that GL appears to not approve of debate as the majority of the articles that are even slightly controversial or contentious have their Comments turned off, particularly if criticism of local authorities could be reported. It’s all very “1984”ish.
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Not happy

Why does one have to select “continue to Gloucester news” half way down page when one has already selected Gloucester news?

Widget

Hello. I really like the app. However The widget for Gloucestershire news appears to have stopped working. Has it been withdrawn?

Version 9.2 crashes app when scrolling

Since the update to version 9.2 this app crashes when scrolling within an article on iPad. This needs fixing as constantly having to relaunch the app to read the news is beyond frustrating.

Response from developer

Hi and thank you for your review. We are aware of the issue and we actively looking at a fix, which we hope will be in the next release. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused. The Reach PLC Apps Team

App improvements

Whilst the app looks better. It still needs a tweak. Stories replicated across headings. No link to notifications just direction to home page. Then can’t normally find the story that notifications alerted me to. As far as the “live” in the title stories ect are 24 hours behind the times.

Response from developer

Hi and thank you for your review. We are aware of the issue around push notifications and we actively looking at a fix. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused. The Reach PLC Apps Team

v9.1.0 Improves App

Much improved update. Just need the ability to swipe between topics in My News and to move / delete the seemingly fixed Saved Articles tab.

Response from developer

Hi there and thank you for your feedback. We agree with you and we have a huge update in the pipeline that not only fixes that, but gives you a whole lot more besides, we can't say much now, but keep an eye out for an update in the future. The Reach PLC Team

Terrible

Beware - app now asking to confirm cookies - no easy way to opt out of all of what they call légitima interest of which there are tens of dozens

Delete the app and I’ll just use safari which blocks them for me

Not much news anyway - just sensationalist and badly written

At least it’s free

Seems to require updating the app weekly, journalism is fairly poor, weather predictions are comical.

UNAVAILABLE

This is incompatible with IOS 15.2 please make it compatible

Fantaboulous newspaer

One of the best newspaer in the world.So informative and caring about community

Not much local news Very True

Not actually much local news which is what the site is all about ?
Site not updated often especially the weekend might be better listening to local BBC radio

Too hard to reject cookies

Too many buttons to click to reject cookies. Stopped using and deleted app.

Often hangs on comments page

App has got faster at loading ad content so gets in the way less than it used to but usually hangs on comments page.
As for the content, well that’s a different matter. So sad that a platform to deliver so much varied local content has become a laughing stock in Gloucestershire due to its inane and poorly written articles.
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Bad user experience

Absolutely horrific site to browse. Constantly bombarded with advertising to the point you can’t read the narrative. Then when you do get through the reports are disappointing and poorly presented

Response from developer

Hi, we'd like to apologise for the inconvenience caused. Unfortunately, our app is free and ads help to fund us, so at the moment there's nothing we can do about it. We're working on a subscription method that'll remove ads and bring exclusive features to subscribers so keep tuned on future updates. In regards to content, there's not much we can do about it as this is under the power of the Editorial Team. You can contact them at rachael.sugden@reachplc.com to raise your complaint so we can improve in the future. Regards, The ReachPLC App Team

Good app but widget doesn’t work

The widget facility on the latest update doesn’t work! Just get a blank screen. Other than that it’s a good app.

Browser

What’s actually appears to be happening is the notification opens the app, and then it transfers you to the browser.

Most notifications are doing this.

Response from developer

Hi, we'd like to apologise again for this issue. We identified the problem and the Editorial Team was sending the notifications with the wrong type, that's why this was happening. We'd like to thank you for reporting this issue and help us improve the app, by the end of today the notifications should be normal as they used to be. If you need anything else please message us at mobile_app_feedback@reachplc.com so we can help you better. Regards The ReachPLC App Team

Appaling ‘journalism’

Obsessed with the most boring things and B list celebs.
How many times can you report on a B52 flying over? They even tell you what helicopters sound like ”Wokka-wokka”.
Keen to get freebie food by giving dazzling restaurant reviews and if Nick Knowles is anywhere near they nearly pass out with excitement.
Cut and paste at its best with hardly any real work done.
Don’t even start me on the spelling and grammar.
Says it all.
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Sensational reporting

How can you report Coronavirus rate ‘down’ and in the next sentence report ‘could be going up’ it’s either up or down.
You are no better than any of the press at present, ‘ sensationalism’ is all you are capable of.
Let’s have less pessimism and more optimism, you can’t even get the weather right.
John
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