# KPLC 7NEWS — user reviews > 123 indexed App Store user reviews of KPLC 7NEWS by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 4.52/5 from 6,196 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kplc-7news/id449314410/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kplc-7news/id449314410.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,826 · 4★ 616 · 3★ 269 · 2★ 147 · 1★ 307 ## What do users think of KPLC 7NEWS? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📢 Good at updating the community - 🌐 Provides local and national news - 🌦️ Excellent weather coverage **Cons** - 🗳️ Perceived political bias in reporting - 💤 Lack of timely local news updates - 📺 Too many advertisements disrupting the user experience - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and bugs - 🔍 Difficulty finding relevant news stories **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes or fails to open after updates - Notification issues and missing news stories - Scrolling and performance problems - Incompatibility with certain devices **Most requested features** - Improve notification settings and prioritization - Provide more comprehensive local news coverage - Reduce advertisements and improve app performance - Implement dark mode and other user-friendly features ## Newest reviews (18 of 123) ### 3/5 — Music is disruptive *2026-04-17, version 8.0.2* You need to cut out the music because it is disruptive when you’re trying to read the article ### 2/5 — New app crashes *2026-03-20, version 8.0.1* 😡 I don’t like this app. I miss the old one. This one crashes a lot. When you clear alerts it says it’s cleared but the rest day ALL the alerts are back... what a mess Update this app still is the pits.. now every time you open it you have to go to a tiny white line at the top to. “continue on to app” PLEASE STOP UPDATING THIS APP all that happens is it gets worse 👎👎 ### 2/5 — KPLCTV *2026-03-19, version 8.0.1* App auto plays videos, can’t find way to turn off auto play. ### 2/5 — KPLC rating.. *2026-03-19, version 8.0.1* I don’t like the new way this site works, not impressed with new features ### 2/5 — Really don’t like it *2026-03-18, version 8.0.1* Since the app has updated I’ve had issues with it I liked the the other version way better. ### 1/5 — Tiny news *2026-03-18, version 8.0.1* ALERT…Missing person possibly in area. Picture can’t be any smaller. Can’t be zoomed in on. Great there’s a description, but pictures are better. Just the latest complaint. Also the video that shows up is rarely the subject of the article. Scroll down for more advertisements if you really want to waste your time. ### 1/5 — K *2026-03-17, version 8.0.1* New App is terrible ### 1/5 — Wants to be good *2026-03-17, version 8.0.1* I don’t want the notifications. I un-checked them all and they keep on coming. The ads start without clicking on them. Very annoying. The app wants to be a top rated app but fall short. ### 2/5 — No GAS Prices *2026-03-16, version 8.0.1* I might become used to the recent update but now I can’t find anything! Please bring back the gas price listing. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-03-14, version 8.0.1* Horrible upgrade to a poor app ### 1/5 — KPLC *2026-03-13, version 8.0.1* Absolutely dislike the new format. As well as I have a notification that I have something to see, I have done a million things to get rid of it. No luck. I finally moved it to back of my pages not to look at it. If I had a choice of another news outlet for local it would definitely be deleted. ### 2/5 — Deleted *2026-03-12, version 8.0.1* Unfortunately I had to delete the app. I did not want to opt in for tracking even though it says I can change it in settings. ### 1/5 — Video and Audio auto play *2026-03-12, version 8.0.1* Every time I try to read a news story, the embedded video and audio automatically begin to play. Super annoying, with no apparent setting to disable in the KPLC news app. ### 1/5 — sucks *2026-03-11, version 8.0.1* prefer old ### 1/5 — Unimportant alerts *2026-03-11, version 8.0.1* Please continue to report the news as you see fit but before sending information out as an alert, consider the importance of that information. An engagement of two celebrities is not worthy of an alert. Please stick to traffic, weather and other emergencies. ### 1/5 — Video and Audio auto play *2026-01-29, version 7.0.18* Every time I try to read a news story, the embedded video and audio automatically begin to play. Super annoying, with no apparent setting to disable in the KPLC news app. ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2026-01-22, version 7.0.18* Riddled with non stop ad’s. Cant ever get to where you want to go tk read something your interested in. Almost all the links are broken and glitch out when they are clicked on. Its the worst local news app in our area. Hands down. ### 1/5 — Worst news app *2026-01-18, version 7.0.18* Why are yall not up to date on current events, hell they can’t even tell which interstate is closed. They are horrible with updates half the time it’s yesterday’s news. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App Accessibility *2026-06-06, version 8.0.3* I don’t like the way this app is designed. Especially for a person that is blind or visually impaired. This app definitely needs to be fixed for people like us that use screen readers on smart phones. This is totally inaccessible. And needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Not being able to navigate this app with the screen reader makes it very hard on us and with buttons not being labeled, makes it very hard as well. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-05-26, version 8.0.3* Cuts off in the middle of a story, by the time you get back in to watch it’s over because you had to listen to an ad before you could actually watch the news. The app has gotten worse overtime. ### 1/5 — Unwanted media player *2026-04-24, version 8.0.2* When the app was upgraded a couple weeks ago the news reports started initializing automatically. I don’t want this functionality. I have to pause every news report so I can read the article in peace. Is there a way to disable this feature? It’s annoying and I don’t want to find a different app to read the local news. ### 1/5 — Auto play videos even on silent *2026-04-21, version 8.0.2* My phone stays on silent for a reason. The app developers seem to think I need a media player to automatically start playing with volume every time I check a news alert. Probably going to delete app soon if this isn’t updated. At least give us an option. ### 1/5 — Media player *2026-04-17, version 8.0.2* Wish the media player wouldn’t start playing automatically ### 1/5 — New app is absolutely horrible. Freezes, ads everywhere as such you can’t see content. Just awful. *2026-04-05, version 8.0.1* Absolutely horrible. ### 1/5 — Deleted *2026-03-29, version 8.0.1* Unfortunately I had to delete the app. I did not want to opt in for tracking even though it says I can change it in settings. ### 1/5 — Notifications *2026-03-24, version 8.0.1* Worst news app ever. Can’t even share articles. It always shows on screen that a new article is available. You can’t tell what is new, updated, or old articles. You need to find another developer who knows what they are doing!!!! ### 1/5 — Alerts *2026-03-21, version 8.0.1* It sucks cause u can’t clear alert notifications off the app it always shows you have an alert ### 1/5 — B *2026-03-18, version 8.0.1* New App is terrible ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Just horrible *2026-03-12, version 8.0.1* Can’t even read about the news without your speaker blowing up with some advertising oinformation that I’m not even interested in will not be using this app very much longer ### 5/5 — KPLC News *2023-04-23, version 7.0.6* I live the nes articles, alerts and updates that come on my phone!! Thanks to y’all! ### 5/5 — Best up to date news available!!! *2020-02-13, version 6.3.1* Don’t get any better than KPLC. Best up to date news and weather for southwest Louisiana!!! ### 5/5 — Toni *2019-06-20, version 6.2.9* Just did the newest update and it wouldn’t open. I had to delete and download again. Now it works. Yay ### 5/5 — Kplc *2018-11-27, version 5.1.0* Too many pop up adds!!! It’s my IPad and I don’t appreciate all the adds at all!! ### 5/5 — To the news & weather crew *2018-10-07* You guys are the best!! Only thing is once in a while you’ll say you will follow up on a story but we never get it!! But you are great with local news, news near our areas, and national news!! GREAT JOB to the weather team!! Thank you MawMaw Jean ### 5/5 — KPLC news *2018-09-17* I really enjoy. I had to have all my cable stopped due to cost. Now I can still watch news on my phone or I pad. ### 5/5 — I don’t like it. *2018-09-07* Too much advertising and the same old news from a few days ago. ### 5/5 — KPLC tv *2018-09-05, version 5.0.2* I do not like the updated app. The older version was better, too many ads everywhere! ### 4/5 — Good app *2026-04-01, version 8.0.1* My big question is why is the video on demand not available anymore. Even on zeam the video on demand is not available. Not allowing people to watch older episodes of the news . --- *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 2026-08-24.*