# KTVZ 21 Bend, Central OR News — user reviews > 91 indexed App Store user reviews of KTVZ 21 Bend, Central OR News by News-Press & Gazette Company, rated 4.50/5 from 1,253 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ktvz-21-bend-central-or-news/id386847580/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ktvz-21-bend-central-or-news/id386847580.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 909 · 4★ 183 · 3★ 67 · 2★ 31 · 1★ 63 ## What do users think of KTVZ 21 Bend, Central OR News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Useful local news coverage - ⚠️ Reliable breaking news alerts - 🌤️ Helpful weather forecasts - 📺 Convenient video content **Cons** - 🔍 Difficult to find and access daily news - 💤 Outdated or stale content - 🌐 Too much national/political news - 💰 Excessive advertising - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when accessing weather section - Videos fail to play or load properly - Notifications not working reliably - Content disappearing from app **Most requested features** - Improve navigation and content organization - Provide more timely and comprehensive local news updates - Reduce advertising clutter and improve user experience - Fix technical issues and improve app stability ## Newest reviews (15 of 91) ### 2/5 — Repetitive *2025-10-02, version 7.1* Articles repeat in the different sections. Not enough news or no person to do daily updates? Too many commercials. When logging in, at the start of each article, at the start of each video…. ### 2/5 — Updates *2025-07-23, version 7.0* Terrible updates on articles. You have to use other sites to get more up to date information. KTVZ used to be fantastic ### 2/5 — Videos won’t play *2025-01-17, version 6.7* Videos have never played on the app on my iPhone. ### 4/5 — Hard to access daily news *2024-01-10, version 6.5* It’s really hard to get to the daily news. I have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the app page to get streaming news and then it’s in the middle of the daily report. Why don’t you have the latest news at the top of the page? ### 1/5 — 👎🏾 *2021-01-16, version 6.0* Had to delete. Loved having breaking news notifications. Tired of the notifications on what’s coming up on the 5,6,7,10 o’clock news. ### 1/5 — Biased opinions. *2021-01-13, version 6.0* I remember when they used to cover news and not push opinion... ### 2/5 — Too much video *2020-04-14, version 5.4* This is my local news app but since the last release most of the mainline news stories are actually video segment underneath a headline. Unfortunately there is rarely and indicator from main news feed that content is video based. If you like to read/scan news this is not the app for you. ### 1/5 — Leap to leftist politics killed it *2020-04-09, version 5.4* I deleted it. This used to be a decent, middle of the road honest news site - the best in Oregon IMHO. But in the past few months it has lurched left - regurgitating the worst of National Socialist media. No sense having two CNN apps on my phone. ### 1/5 — Sensationalizing headlines *2019-10-04, version 5.3* You have to read the whole story and still don’t get the fake news headlines, to pro liberal they can do no wrong. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2019-08-03, version 5.3* Completely loaded with ads! Pop up ads, video ads, and their servers are no good videos time out all the time, articles are wrote horrible with poor editing, this app is meant to milk money from you and at ridiculous levels. Spend 10 minutes on this? Prepare for 5-15 ads depending on what you’re doing. ### 1/5 — Very little local news a lot of fake news *2018-02-01, version 5.1* Content is mostly from fake news networks. Add more local news and get national content from Fox and it would be great. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother... *2018-01-19, version 5.0* Fake News “Sponsored Content” ads make this app no better than a gossip column...have a spine, stick to accurate fact checked informational news. ### 1/5 — Deleted *2017-11-06, version 5.0* Wow, done with this app. First it was adds popping up with every page, now it crashes when you try and open the weather! Doesn't anyone who works there try their own stuff to make sure it works? Pure junk, plus, stop publishing CNN opinion stories as if they are real news. Update: well, it was good for awhile. When it was updated, I tried again. It was working for for me to get my news, now back to political hit pieces via cnn. Can’t we just have news? Who cares what the First Lady wears? And how she is awful at choosing outfits compared to last First Lady? Come on, just news please. If I wanted cnn I would just download their app. Be creative and focus on Bend, and just report what happens. Come together and stand out as a news source that unites instead of choosing sides with obvious bias from those who work at z21. Its deleted from my platform once more. I hope that some one is reading and can be an adult who is ok with listing and learning from all people, not those who just agree with the beat of the cnn drum. ### 2/5 — Missing the previous version *2017-09-02, version 4.0.0* The previous version of this app was my only internet based news source. I would check it multiple times daily and enjoyed the notifications that periodically popped on screen. Now I find most of the news stories are kept on the app for days and aside from local and political news, there is very little to choose from. Of the current version, I do like that all available stories are displayed in a list. The previous version displayed a list of 11 stories and the remaining 19 had to be swiped one from another to be assessed. I hope they keep most of the new format but get back the previous content. ### 1/5 — Just gets worse and worse *2017-07-28, version 3.74.0* When I first installed the ap a few years ago it was a reasonably good ap. Since then with each update it gets buggier and buggier, crashes all the time. Now with the most recent update these pop up videos and banner ads make it completely unusable. I'll read a line and new video pops up. Close it read another line and the same ad/video pops up again. I like being able to keep up on the local news but this ap is making nearly impossible to do without throwing my phone across the room in frustration. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Boss *2026-03-22, version 7.2* Why am I watching the news from last night not live stream on the channel this makes you worthless to the public… ### 1/5 — Only CNN *2026-03-01, version 7.2* Report multiple opinions ### 1/5 — Why all the data collecting? *2025-08-22, version 7.0* I downloaded the app so that the viruses and pop-ups would stop showing up whenever I went to KTVZ via Facebook or online from my phone. I got the app and it immediately started talking about selling information and data. It said I was able to request my data to be deleted, but I had to send an email with all of my phones information. Not stoked at all. ### 1/5 — pathetic *2025-06-30, version 6.9* never relevant slow to update "live" news feed a 12hr old stale joke ### 1/5 — Almost impossible to read *2025-04-11, version 6.9* Due to the excessive number of advertisements repeatedly refreshing it is frustrating to try and read the published articles ### 1/5 — To many ads!!! *2024-08-13, version 6.6* Ads interrupt the flow of the news feed at every point of contact in navigating the app ### 1/5 — Too one sided *2024-07-16, version 6.6* All you do is cut and paste CNN articles. ### 1/5 — App is getting worse *2023-10-09, version 6.5* App never gets reliable updates poor updates, and unreliable for important news ### 1/5 — Horrible App design- C’mon KTVZ *2022-12-03, version 6.4* Not smart phone friendly. Images and text are fixed, can’t enlarge or switch to sideview. Yes, and the advertisement clutter is over the top. The news content fairly often has typos, is generally poorly written, and some stories glitch when clicked. Many of the news stories shown are recycled from what was reported many weeks ago, or months. Still showing updates about the Cedar Ck fire in December when it ended in October? The app is so bad I’m surprised businesses would associate themselves with it via their advertisements. Has to be the worst app I’ve ever seen. KTVZ, show some effort at least. ### 1/5 — About ready to delete this app *2022-04-10, version 6.3* Wrong pictures with wrong headlines, now I’m seeing “sponsored” click bait throughout. I’m about to delete. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great local news *2026-02-25, version 7.2* I think the news is great the anchors the weather updates the sports updates I like them all, I was hoping to watch their 4PM Newscast ### 5/5 — News review *2025-12-27, version 7.1* They always seem to have information on what’s important in the area a good channel to watch ### 5/5 — Favorite local News site! *2025-01-02, version 6.7* Since I moved here 25 years ago you have been my news channel. I feel like you are home to me, and I love seeing all the new newscasters come through! You all do a great job reporting. Tonight I read about Hwy. 97 and all the residents complaining about the ongoing lethal accidents happening. 7 years ago I lost my daughter and granddaughter just up the road a. On hwy 26 at milepost 65, Christmas Day 2017. I wrote letters to every one I could think of including our Governor, and nothing was done. I hope people can make a change in the safety of those roads now! ### 5/5 — App works well *2023-07-26, version 6.4* The app works well providing the same news they show on the website. ### 5/5 — The app is very helpful *2018-10-04, version 5.2* They are very fast at responding I was in the rpa bus crash and the were there like when the cops got there ### 5/5 — Its the Content *2016-11-23, version 3.5.0* This station is great for local news/ Unfortunately they use CNN for world and national news. Just can't trust the Clinton News Network for any of that. Plus any thing politcal has the MSM lefty bias. ### 5/5 — Good news, useful notifications *2016-04-29, version 4.4.1* Useful if you live in Bend. ### 5/5 — Great Job! *2016-03-02, version 4.3.3* I love watching KTVZ, doing great job on news, love the app way more! Especially for weather and snow report. These guys do it right ### 5/5 — Ktvz *2015-12-20, version 4.3.3* Great news app for Central Oregon! ### 5/5 — Great having you around *2015-12-10, version 4.3.3* It's great having an app connected to our local news station which sends out instant notifications keeping us informed of the happenings which may affect us here in Central Oregon. Thank you for a job well done! --- *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 2026-08-26.*