# KHON2 News - Honolulu HI News — user reviews > 86 indexed App Store user reviews of KHON2 News by LIN Television Corporation, rated 4.60/5 from 13,878 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/khon2-news-honolulu-hi-news/id411526747/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/khon2-news-honolulu-hi-news/id411526747.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 11,034 · 4★ 1,641 · 3★ 610 · 2★ 211 · 1★ 382 ## What do users think of KHON2 News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🙌 Reliable news coverage - 📢 Timely notifications - 👍 Easy to navigate **Cons** - 📺 Live stream issues - 🔍 Difficulty finding news stories - 💰 Too many ads - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes when opening notifications - Live stream not working on certain devices - Notifications not leading to correct news stories **Most requested features** - Allow reading news articles without live stream - Improve notification linking to news stories - Provide an option to disable ads ## Newest reviews (20 of 86) ### 2/5 — Community Going’s On *2025-06-20, version 500.8.0* i’m looking for events in Honolulu or Big Island free or otherwise like bondsnces and community. Maybe a community bulletin board. week ends, walks, rummage sales, donation of households.Not ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2022-06-10, version 41.10.0* I would like to click on the push messages and breaking news notifications and go straight to the story to read it. Has not happened yet. Could be much more user friendly. ### 1/5 — Ads make app dysfunctional *2022-06-02, version 41.10.0* So many ads... most of the time, you “swipe up” to close the ad and end up closing the whole app. ### 1/5 — Alerts *2022-05-05, version 41.9.0* This app alerts the user of breaking news. When you open the app to view the news alert it doesn't let you view it. Its Frustrating. ### 1/5 — Worthless, I deleted. *2022-04-29, version 41.9.0* The notification on the the phone are ridiculous and frustrating. You click on it and it send you to watch advertising, after you watch it, still the news on the notification is no where to be found, as you search for it, you are welcome with more advertising. Hello! Developer, your app is very unfriendly user. Fix that. ### 1/5 — Less Ads, Please! *2022-04-18* I enjoy this app + use the push notifications to track breaking news for the island. But I find it nearly impossible to read stories or browse because of the immense amount of ads on each page. These are the same garbage ads on misc sites - clean out your ear wax, fix your saggy arms - and IMO they don’t have any place on a local news app. Not professional when you have an ad in between each paragraph. I understand the need for profit to help sustain the app development, I just wish there were less, or an option to remove them entirely via a one-time fee. The Apple TV app is the same, except sometimes it will ONLY play ads and won’t play the videos. ### 2/5 — Freezing app *2022-04-17, version 41.9.0* This app freezes frequently in the middle of scrolling due to the amount of video adds ### 1/5 — Notifications do not take you to the story *2021-11-20, version 41.7.0* Thee most irritating thing about this app is that the notifications take you to a page showing the KHON2 TV schedule rather than the story itself. This app has great notifications and is generally 1st in notifying me about current events which makes this issue even more infuriating. Use the Hawaii News Now app until this is fixed. ### 1/5 — Takes forever to reach your story because of ads. Deleting the ap *2021-09-25, version 41.5.0* Not a good ap ### 1/5 — Need to update *2021-09-20, version 41.5.0* Open the app and it freezes. ### 1/5 — Worst App to Discover Local News *2021-09-07* I’m not understanding why I am constantly sent notifications to breaking news stories, but when I click on the story - it takes me to a page with the TV schedule. So I’m left without knowing any further details & in suspense. Even if I try searching for the story under ‘Latest News’ - I cannot find it easily. So I see no point to having a news app that only send me ‘breaking news’ notifications without a link to the full story. Not worth my time. ### 1/5 — Worst news app for Hawaii *2021-08-28* Click bait articles and notifications. Some notifications have clear bias and are trying to paint a picture instead of just reporting the facts. Most notifications only take you to the live news section when the news isn’t even airing. Even if I have some news categories like sports off I still get sports notifications. Sports isn’t breaking news stop spamming my phone with bad notifications. ### 1/5 — Aloha *2021-08-22, version 41.4.0* Hello KHON2 plz fix your app. I been trying to watch the news live on my phone but it will not allow me to do so. Also when I go to live news it only says to download the app. Plz fix it. ### 3/5 — Back button *2021-07-19, version 41.2.1* I love how the back button literally never works if you select a notification, on the most sold phone in the world. I don’t expect anybody to actually read this review to change that, but figured I’d shoot my shot :) KHON keep doing your thing. App team for KHON, please contact California. Much mahalos. ### 1/5 — Notifications flaw! *2021-04-24* When there are notifications sent from this news app and you click on them it only takes you to a live feed of the news currently playing and not to an article about the story. If you get a notification, but then 5-10 min pass before you are able to look at it....then the live stream is over or you have missed the story of interest to you on the live news feed. This is very annoying. The notifications should send you straight to the written news story (article) in the app, with the option of watching the recap of the story on video at the top of the article. You do this and it is a 5 star app for sure with good news stories, but until then, this apps notification style is annoying. ### 2/5 — Weather radar 2 inches *2021-04-04, version 41.0.3* What’s with the new update? The radar is only 2 inches high and you can’t make it full screen. If you want to look at the radar it’s better to go to the Star-Advertiser app ### 2/5 — Irradiating *2021-03-17, version 40.35.570056955* They pop up an alert on your phone and you click on it and they have 0 info about the alert! ### 3/5 — Love the App but... *2021-02-08, version 40.35.570056955* It needs to be where the articles are within the app not where you have to open up a link to the website. Also, too many ads on the videos. Hopefully these issues will be fixed on the next update. ### 1/5 — Absolutely useless notifications! *2020-12-24, version 40.35.570056955* No matter what story the notification leads you to believe that it wants you to read, clicking on them ALWAYS takes you to the same generic page that starts with, “Mahalo for visiting KHON2’s live news page.” ### 1/5 — Junk *2020-12-16, version 40.35.570056955* to many commercials ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Buggy and stops working *2026-03-31, version 505.0.0* When I click on watch now or livestream or watch living808 it stops playing randomly and asks to reload page. It just ends up playing the same ads over and over and you never get to see the content. ### 1/5 — Junk *2025-10-31, version 502.0.0* Now you need to sign up for Nexstar to view live broadcast. It gotten worst! ### 1/5 — This station censors free speech *2025-09-24, version 501.0.0* this station only airs the political views approved by the government, they will not air Jimmy Kimmel. ### 1/5 — Ad after ad after ad *2025-04-14, version 500.8.0* It’s an ad clickbait! ### 1/5 — Terrible *2024-11-25, version 500.6.0* Says that we can keep up to date with news, but can’t watch live news casts until 2 hours after broadcast so what’s the point ### 1/5 — LIVE broadcast news is a lie! *2024-07-12, version 500.4.0* KHON was my favorite when I had cable TV and one day I realized I’m paying $80 a month just to watch the news so got rid of cable. From the app where they claim there’s a live news stream it’s always at least an hour behind. This renders it completely useless if you’re trying to use it to check live traffic. HNN app actually is live news and loads a lot quicker. ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2024-05-18, version 500.3.0* So many ads. Navigation is not easy and having to dismiss all the ads and pop ups is not enjoyable. I understand ads pay for the services but ads shouldn’t be more than news stories. ### 1/5 — Worst app ever *2023-09-08, version 41.20.0* 0 stars ### 1/5 — App doesn’t open on iPhone 14 iOS 16 *2023-01-09, version 41.16.0* I recently purchased an iPhone 14 Pro Max iOS 16 and installed KHON2 news app, but it won’t allow me to open and view content. It only shows the KHON2 logo. Please fix this app, because I always want to keep up to date with the latest news, weather, sports, and traffic. ### 1/5 — Couldn’t get it to start *2022-12-30, version 41.16.0* After selecting what type of notifications I want to see from the app, the app stays stuck on a loading screen. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — KHON2 *2020-11-03, version 40.35.570056955* Appreciate you! Up-to-date news! Thank you. ### 5/5 — Always there for us! *2020-10-09, version 40.35.570056955* We always turn to you for knowing what’s up! Thank you for the great service! ### 5/5 — Glitches *2020-09-22* I enjoy having the news app, but however, it always glitches out on my iPhone every time I open up the notification button, and now, when I open the app. I do not have a problem with this on my iPad. ### 5/5 — Mahalo, Mahalo, Mahalo *2020-08-20, version 40.35.470055365* Thank you for the awesome job you folks are doing for the people here in Hawaii. ### 5/5 — Happy lady *2019-09-20* The KHON2 AP is always up-to-date and it’s easy to navigate whether it’s the latest news, weather, traffic, sports or local events. KHON has been my favorite TV news station in Hawaii for many years. Now the KHON2 AP is the only local news AP on my phone, great job👍 ### 5/5 — Action *2019-07-17, version 40.33.400044884* Always on time with the news ### 5/5 — Story not available *2019-07-04* Don’t like getting an alert about something newsworthy, but then when you open the app you need to wait until a certain time to read up on it. ### 5/5 — New to island *2019-03-19, version 40.30.410039671* I am new to the island and this news cast is by far given me the best information of events that I need to know concerning my new home and the mainland without channel surfing!! 😇😃 ### 5/5 — Jersey loves KHON *2018-12-03, version 40.30.410039671* Very easy to use very well produced application. As someone from Jersey I thoroughly enjoy watching the Honolulu news using this app. It never lets me down. ### 5/5 — Aloha KHON! *2018-09-05* I recently moved from Hawaii to Colorado but I kept all my Hawaii news apps on my phone. And I’ve come to find out that while I know that I can’t see the live streaming 24 seven, but when I cannot see the live streaming there’s always a tutorial of some kind that I can read, so that I can catch up on the news and happenings locally. On the other app I sometimes only have the option of live streaming and not any information in reading form! Thank you so much KHON!! You keep me in touch with the islands that still hold many family and friends! --- *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 2026-09-04.*