# Honolulu Civil Beat — user reviews > 21 indexed App Store user reviews of Honolulu Civil Beat by Honolulu Civil Beat, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 2,144 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/honolulu-civil-beat/id1398616853/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/honolulu-civil-beat/id1398616853.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,881 · 4★ 189 · 3★ 50 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 16 ## What do users think of Honolulu Civil Beat? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Excellent journalism and reporting - 🚀 Timely news updates - 💡 Trusted source for local issues **Cons** - 🐛 Slow app performance - 💡 Lack of iPad support - 🔒 Inability to comment within the app **Commonly reported bugs** - Slow loading times - Restricted browsing experience **Most requested features** - Landscape mode support - Improved app navigation and organization - iPad-optimized layout ## Newest reviews (4 of 21) ### 5/5 — Good *2020-03-26, version 1.3.10* Great info ### 5/5 — Great Investigative Reporting *2019-12-07, version 1.3.5* My favorite place to go for stories that affects the average person. ### 5/5 — They ain’t scared *2019-06-28, version 1.2.1* Best bottom line up front news and coverage ### 5/5 — Real Journalism *2019-03-21, version 1.1.5* Very informative, much appreciated objective reporting. Hoping more people will be exposed to such. Mahalo ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Soooo slow *2020-05-28, version 1.3.11* Takes forever to load. Not worth the effort 😴 ### 1/5 — CB’s New App Makes Reading Difficult *2020-05-17, version 1.3.11* Whoever developed this app doesn’t know how readers read. Browsing is difficult, as you’re limited to swiping through groups of stories, can’t get a top line overview of site contents and can’t read reviewer comments. I despise this app and would reinstall the old one if possible. ### 2/5 — Poor iPad support *2021-10-17, version 1.5.4* This app is basically a blown up phone app but for an inexplicable reason they chose to not let it do landscape which makes me not even use it although the content on civil beat is far and away superior in journalism I end up with Hawaii news now simply because it landscapes. ### 3/5 — Civil Beat is Great, but App needs work *2021-04-22, version 1.5.3* Civil Beat is an awesome news and commentary site for Hawaii. But the app lags behind. They still have not released an iPad version after several years. Why? They no longer allow you to comment via the iOS app. Instead, you must go to the website. Why? Civil Beat, the news service, deserves a better app than this. They ARE worthy of it. ### 3/5 — Convenient *2018-11-12, version 1.1.3* Great app. Easy to swipe to various articles. I like getting the 8:00 am notification that there are new articles posted. Easy fonts for reading. And of course, the quality of reporting on Hawai’i issues is fantastic. Any plans for an iPad app? ### 3/5 — Good but not great *2018-09-05, version 1.0.4* I gets the job done, but the feed seems too restrictive and is claustrophobic trying to browse. The old layout is better but it still gets me my news ### 4/5 — Great News Source *2020-10-10, version 1.3.17* If this app would orient to landscape, I would give it 5 stars. I love their news coverage and their editorials are bang on target. ### 5/5 — Thank u for honest reporting! *2023-08-24, version 1.5.14* Although sometimes it’s nice to look at the events through rose colored glasses, CB takes them off for you. ### 5/5 — Love CB! *2021-01-31, version 1.4.8* Mahalo CB for providing critical issues written by top notch writers who can be trusted for truthful, in-depth reporting. ### 5/5 — LC *2020-10-30, version 1.3.17* Love your on the spot stories. Lee Cataluna especially ## Most praised reviews (7 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — good journalism *2020-10-10, version 1.3.17* we are fortunate to have journalism as good as cb in Hawaii. its one of the fundamental pre requisites of democracy and progress. ### 5/5 — Good Quality *2020-10-07, version 1.3.17* Without a doubt an excellent news source that offers good quality news that caters to people living in Hawaii. ### 5/5 — A great source for a another view of the news. *2020-09-17, version 1.3.17* I read every it morning. I particularly like Chad Blair’s political commentary. ### 5/5 — Better menu and organization *2020-09-02, version 1.3.17* Lack of a menu with true topic sections and archives makes the App less useful. ### 5/5 — Grateful for Civil Beat *2020-09-01, version 1.3.17* Impressive local reporting. Focus on government problems and solutions is useful and is better done than the newspaper. Plenty of room for improvement but overall we are fortunate to have this journal in our community and they deserve our support. ### 5/5 — Great Job! *2020-07-25, version 1.3.11* Civil Beat is new for me. I love your presentation of the news! ### 5/5 — APPRECIATED! *2020-04-25, version 1.3.11* I appreciate the immediate updates on what is happening in the State! --- *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 2026-08-25.*