# IOL News — user reviews > 22 indexed App Store user reviews of IOL News by IOL, rated 4.50/5 from 103 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/iol-news/id479535200/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/iol-news/id479535200.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 75 · 4★ 17 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 4 ## Newest reviews (2 of 22) ### 1/5 — Update needed for new iPad *2012-12-12* Pleeeeease update the app to support the new display on iPad 3. This looks like an awesome app, but the font used makes it nearly impossible to read the pixelated articles. I'd give this app 5 stars if the display is fixed, looks much better than the News24 app. ### 2/5 — New iPad *2012-06-05* Dear IOL, can you please update the app for the new iPad? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App is slow and unresponsive *2024-11-06* Since the update a few weeks ago, this app has become very slow and cumbersome to use. ### 1/5 — MIA ?? *2020-08-21* This App is not being updated, what’s the deal?! Remove it from App Store if it’s not maintained!! **Developer response:** Hi there, Sorry to hear about your experience in the past. Please let us know if you still feel the app is not up to scratch, we have released a number of enhancements and bug fixes since this review and would love your feedback. Kind regards, The Dev Team ### 1/5 — Has not updated since mid July *2020-08-09* Terrible app has not updated a single news story since 21 July 2020. Technically useless as a news app. ### 1/5 — PATHETIC *2020-05-11* Pathetic. Every time you go into a story a pop up with the story after the one you want to see appears and IT DOESN’T ALWAYS GO AWAY blocking the content of the story you want to read. Another point - why should I subscribe to something that should be free. I can get the News off News24 or BBC for free❓❓ ### 1/5 — Total crap *2019-09-17* Doesn’t load ! Just crashes on launch , forced to give 1 star but should be zero **Developer response:** Hi there, apologies for the trouble caused. The iOS 13 Beta revealed a serious bug in our app that caused the same behaviour as this. It has been resolved since if you would like to try it out again. We appreciate the feedback, and apologies for the delayed response. The Dev Team ### 1/5 — Crashes!!! *2016-12-29* IOL app crashes before you can even access the stories. (on iPad mini) **Developer response:** Hi there, Sorry to hear about your experience in the past. Please let us know if you still feel the app is not up to scratch, we have released a number of enhancements and bug fixes since this review and would love your feedback. Kind regards, The Dev Team ### 1/5 — Mediocre News, Not Worth Subscription *2016-12-14* Do not support this monopoly trying to force paid monthly subscriptions. News24 is by far superior and always free. **Developer response:** Hi there, Sorry to hear about your experience in the past. Please let us know if you still feel the app is not up to scratch, we have released a number of enhancements and bug fixes since this review and would love your feedback. Kind regards, The Dev Team ### 1/5 — Has potential, but too many bugs *2014-05-02, version 1.0* I love the iol website, so I was excited to see the app. Sadly, the app doesn't allow you to scroll through stories - as you scroll, news items randomly open up. Fix this problem, and you'll get 5 stars. **Developer response:** Hi there, Please let us know if you still feel the app is not up to scratch, we have released a number of enhancements and bug fixes since this review and would love your feedback. Kind regards ### 1/5 — Uninspiring *2014-01-08* This App needs some serious development work, but then so does the 'Independent' News Group. Much better available for SA News. **Developer response:** Hi Garth, Please let us know if you still feel the app is not up to scratch, we have released a number of enhancements and bug fixes since this review and would love your feedback. Kind regards ### 1/5 — Awful app *2013-11-09* Terrible design. Terrible navigation. There are much better pains available. **Developer response:** Hi Daniel, Please let us know if you still feel the app is not up to scratch, we have released a number of enhancements and bug fixes since this review and would love your feedback. Kind regards ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — News *2017-08-04* A friend recommended this excellent app. and I am very pleased reading all the interesting news. **Developer response:** Hi Akwas, thank you for this great review! ### 5/5 — Great app, use it every day *2016-07-01* Easy to use, rich in functionality ### 5/5 — iol news app *2016-01-26* Excellent app - user friendly and easy to find heading and navigate. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Great SA news app *2012-04-01* I love this news app. Easy to use, great layout and format. Well done IOL. ### 4/5 — Much improved *2017-02-03* I changed from Facebook login to email login and the crashing has dropped to once a week. Value for money can not be beaten **Developer response:** Hi Kevin, thanks for your review. We always aim at improving the app and welcome feedback. We have released a number of enhancements and bug fixes since this review and would love your feedback. Kind regards, The Dev Team ### 4/5 — Slow and not hd *2013-08-20* Refresh is slow and it is still not in hd? News24 app has better user interface ### 3/5 — Poor content quality *2012-06-01* Text is blurred on iPad3. Nice app though - just fix the text and low resolution pics. ### 2/5 — App needs improvement *2013-11-19* UX is good but is let down by articles opening up when you are trying to scroll up or down. This forces you to swipe on the thin lines between articles where you should be able to swipe up or down from any position. There should also be a feedback option instead of using the app review to report issues. **Developer response:** Hi Luke, Please let us know if you still feel the app is not up to scratch, we have released a number of enhancements and bug fixes since this review and would love your feedback. Kind regards ### 2/5 — Good effort *2012-10-07* A pretty good effort and a good app to bring all the news in one place, just a pity that the text and graphics are really crap on the iPad3! Come on guys, the new iPad has been out for months now so no excuses for not bringing your app up to date. Sort out this and it gets 5 stars ### 2/5 — Great idea but amateur execution *2012-09-19* Having a iPad version of iol is great but to not take advantage of the retina display is a shame. Have the developers actually looked at how this app is rendering the text? If this is "South Africa's Premier news source" and to release such an amateur looking app makes you wonder. Just getting it on the iPad is not good enough. --- *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 2026-08-29.*