# KOMO News Seattle — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of KOMO News Seattle by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc, rated 4.70/5 from 517 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/komo-news-seattle/id433508161/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/komo-news-seattle/id433508161.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 402 · 4★ 81 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of KOMO News Seattle? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Balanced reporting - 👍 Best presentation of stories - 🚀 Lightning-fast video streaming **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes - 🐛 Slow loading times - 🐛 Buggy and unstable - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🚫 No landscape mode on iPad - 🚫 No dark mode - 🚫 Intrusive ads - 🚫 Biased and untrustworthy **Commonly reported bugs** - Constant crashing - Slow loading times - Unreliable video streaming - Incompatibility with newer devices - Formatting issues with news articles **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Improved iPad support with landscape mode - Faster and more reliable performance - Less intrusive advertising - Unbiased and trustworthy reporting ## Newest reviews (17 of 105) ### 2/5 — Why all the notifications, didnt use to be like this *2026-04-25* I’ve had this app for a long time but recently I receive several notifications a day, and almost all are insignificant. Not sure what has changed. ### 2/5 — Another Advertisement App *2026-02-19* I mainly watch news in the morning only. It is so annoying to the adv keeps popping up. I should only offer one star to this app. The additional star is KOMO news doesn’t force me to watch its online advertisements to watch their TV advertisements that a competitor news app does. ### 2/5 — Fix “Updated” format issue *2025-03-25* Anytime they add an “updated“ or “new“ tag to a news story, it pushes the headline over to the right and makes it unreadable. I thought this was a temporary bug that would’ve been fixed long before now, yet it persists. Seems like an easy thing to fix, or at the very least stop adding these tags to news stories - they add no value whatsoever to the reader. Either way, it’s an irritation that could be easily remedied. ### 3/5 — “Updated” label hides the headline *2024-06-05, version 9.16.0* The orange “updated“ label pushes the headline too far to the right and cuts off half of the words in the headline, making it unreadable. ### 1/5 — Really? *2024-04-03, version 9.12.1* ever ever since the last update, it just opens to a white screen, even after I’ve deleted and reinstalled and rebooted my phone. Now it’s completely worthless. ### 1/5 — Photo cropping horrible *2024-03-11, version 9.10.0* This app often has articles which are just links to a photo gallery where all of the photos are cropped incorrectly so that all of the heads and feet are cut off from every picture, for example, look at the recent Oscar coverage were most of the photos have the heads and feet cut off ### 1/5 — Updates on news, *2024-02-13* What the deal, why are you not updating your news app each day?? Todays news is two days old!! Get your stuf together and do your job !!! Why is your app so screwed up, can’t read some because they aren’t centered and move around ### 3/5 — Links to stories below main article not working *2023-11-30, version 9.3.0* When you try to read the stories that show up below an artist just reopens the article I already have open. Thanks! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t support iPad landscape mode *2023-11-04, version 9.1.1* Doesn’t support iPad landscape mode Will delete the app ### 1/5 — App overheats iPhone 12 Pro Max *2023-10-07* I’ve used this app for years now, but will delete it from my phone after this review. I’m using an iPhone 12 Pro Max and download the latest software versions the very day there are released. I also update the KIRO News app as soon as releases are issued. The problem is, for about three months now using this app instantly heats up my phone. My phone gets blistering hot within seconds of opening the app. The light on my phone dims as my phone prepares to shut down. I immediately exit the app and wait for my phone to cool down. I have 935 other apps on my iPhone and none of those causes this problem. I like the app content, but I am deleting the app as it is trying to cook my phone. ### 1/5 — Gigantic text and no dark mode *2023-07-03, version 8.7.0* The app has no dark mode and is blindingly white. Also there are issues with different text sizes in the same article, with some of the text being gigantic! ### 2/5 — Dark Mode *2023-06-18* It’s 2023 and this newly-redesigned app doesn’t have dark mode? Both the KING and KIRO apps have it, so I’ll be using them indefinitely for local news until this baseline functionality is added. The app itself looks and works fine, but at this point entire operating systems feature dark mode. Nobody ships an app these days without that feature….except whoever designed this app for KOMO. Super lame someone within that organization greenlit this as an acceptable user experience. Do better by your users and give us the choice every other app does. ### 1/5 — False Advertisement *2023-06-13, version 8.6.3* Downloaded this app as it was advertised having an Urgent Care wait time tracker. Upon downloading the app this feature is nowhere to be found. ### 1/5 — Behind the times *2023-03-04, version 8.5.1* I found it funny that the title states “mobile”. Every smartphone and tablet on the market has screen rotation as does every news app, (other than KOMO) it seems. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t support iPad landscape mode *2023-01-31, version 8.5.1* Doesn’t support iPad landscape mode Will delete the app ### 1/5 — Little tiny viewing area *2023-01-18, version 8.5.1* I’m using a 12” tablet and the whole Komo live screen is about one inch - it can’t be enlarged, in fact the app won’t even maximize. It’s smaller than something you would watch on your phone. ### 1/5 — Not a fan of the redesign *2022-12-23, version 8.5.1* Not liking the new design after giving it multiple weeks. Tap targets are very sensitive while scrolling it’s easy to accidentally open articles and I really really miss dark mode. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Everything Sinclair is trash *2025-09-24* Can’t trust Komo News. Their biased broadcasting policies directly contradict the nations free and unbiased press beliefs. Don’t use Komo or any Sinclair product. ### 1/5 — Cheeto Dust on your Mouth *2025-09-23, version 10.11.0* Deleted your app and komo is banned in this house until Sinclair Broadcasting gets its head out of trump’s butt ### 1/5 — Sinclair - no way *2025-09-23* This app is average at best. Deleting it because of Sinclair’s political handling of the appalling Jimmy Kimmel suspension. An embarrassment to this country. ### 1/5 — SeaFair 2025 hydro race *2025-08-04* You couldn’t even report on the outcome of the race , your sport desk is Pathetic , thanks for your support, lol ### 1/5 — Mary Ham *2025-06-01* It is time for her to go, she only does the minimal Never works holidays or fills in like all the others, She just is not a team player, say Good By Mary !!! She talks way to fast and is rude to the KOMO field reporters , find a team player replacement!!!! Has she ever worked more than 5 days or filled in on Saturday or Sunday??? NO !! ### 1/5 — Mary Ham *2025-05-29* It is time for her to go, she only does the minimal Never works holidays or fills in like all the others, She just is not a team player, say Good By Mary !!! She talks way to fast and is rude to the KOMO field reporters , find a team player replacement!!!! ### 1/5 — How bad *2025-02-23* Still no landscape version for iPad. Really! ### 1/5 — Lack of coverage of unlimited hydros *2024-08-05* Not one word from your sport’s department on this years Tri City race or the Seattle Seafair race , shame on you, the owners and sponsors are busting their butts and wallets to try and keep this sport alive and get NO help from local media except for King channel 6 , your sports department is a disgrace!! ### 1/5 — No longer opens on my IPad or IPad Pro. *2024-06-02, version 9.16.0* I have no idea what has happened to this app, but I guess this news team no longer wants people with Apple products to use their app. I have tried deleting and reinstalling the app, but it still will not open on my IPAD or IPAD Pro. ### 1/5 — Updates on news, *2024-04-10* What the deal, why are you not updating your news app each day?? Todays news is two days old!! Get your stuf together and do your job !!! Why is your app so screwed up, can’t read some because they aren’t centered and move around YOUR APP is terrible, not centered, jumping around and not current , FIX IT !!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — KOMO IS THE BEST *2024-08-04* KOMO is by far the best local News Station. I’ve been a diehard KOMO Fan for over 40 years. The On Air Newscast & Staff is far and above anything else in this area… Keep up the great work….👍👍👍 ### 5/5 — Seattle’s best TV news app *2024-05-10, version 9.15.0* Balanced reporting including conservative view points. Best presentation of stories. I count on KOMO to keep me up to date about my original home town. ### 5/5 — Frustrating *2014-05-02* The old UI was better. Now I have to hit back out of every story and choose a new one. The just scrolling to next is gone. Also with no margin on the screen it is not as attractive and hard to read, even two or three spaces would be enough to know the text is not being cut off. Will no longer be my go to app until it changes for the better. ### 5/5 — Love The Video *2014-02-18, version 3.0.1* I’m not much of text reader so the layout is less important to me. The video quality on this application is amazing, it never stalls and starts instantly. No idea how they do this but it is much better than the Seattle competitors. ### 5/5 — Finally working again! *2011-07-30* This is a great new app, and one of the only Seattle news apps optimized for the iPad. The recent addition of the video links is great. Though it had problems for several weeks with crashing, all seems to be fixed with the latest update. Thanks for the app, and finally getting it working again, keep it up! ### 5/5 — Great! *2011-05-06, version 1.3.0* The old app was good, but I wasn't happy with the speed, and nor was I happy with the updating of it. I am happy to see KOMO developing the app in-house rather than in Minnesota like before. Overall, it's a great thing for KOMO, and updates in the future will improve the layout. ### 4/5 — Almost all good *2018-09-13* It’s almost all good. Some of the recent improvements, like the handling of pictures, are great. The “listen live” feature needs a lot of improvement. It constantly cuts in & out. It seems there is more time where it isn’t working than is. I’m usually connected to a WiFi network when listening but I’ve tried turning the WiFi off & it doesn’t seem to make a difference. ### 4/5 — Much better than it used to be. Major improvement. *2015-10-08* OLD:Constantly force closes, and when I'm done reading a story, there isn't an option to go back to the previous screen to look at something else. If these problems are fixed, this would actually be a pretty good app. NEW: seems everything is working fine. New interface and much more stable. I like it a lot. Glad to have a KOMO app that works again. ### 4/5 — Good! *2011-05-05, version 1.3.0* I think in general people don't like change. I don't seem to mind the new lay out. This Komo App is updated more often than King5, and I appreciate that. Keep it updated and I'll keep reading. The graphics are nice, I don't have much to complain about! ### 3/5 — Red *2024-06-11* It would be nice to get the news that not repeated before your crew rewrites it. --- *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 2026-08-20.*