Local News & Weather User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience63.0% of reviews
Neutral9.5% of reviews
Negative experience27.5% of reviews

~ Based on 262 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Local News & Weather Safe?

Local News & Weather: Haystack appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Local News & Weather is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 19,805 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 19,805 App Store ratings for Local News & Weather.

Is Local News & Weather Legit?

Local News & Weather: Haystack appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Local News & Weather is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Spanish commercials

I love the news but I definitely don’t want to see Spanish commercials between. Im not in Spain or South America
I don’t want and need to hear Spanish commercials. This is very offensive to me

Good,great, new ever !

Better than any new company. It has it all the news you want. Don’t watch any thing else. They got all the news period.

Worth it ? Nope

So I bought into this App after using it for Free. What A Huge Mistake! Other than no Commercials it’s the SAME DELAYED NEWS! DO NOT WASTE UOUR MONEY .. USE THE FREE APP AND WAIT THRU THE COMMERCIALS!

New bug: delayed audio and a pop/clicking sound

When playing the news from an Apple TV the news will start to play but the audio is delayed by about 3+ seconds accompanied by a click and pop noise every half second. It was working fine until a recent app update.

Great - they fixed the audio bug!

Earlier I had problems with the sound - reverb on some channels, multiple soundtracks on others - and posted in my original review. Haystack got in touch with me, acknowledged the problem and recommended that I update to v22. I did and it works like a charm!
The best thing about Haystack is that you can see news from elsewhere in the world, as well as news from your local channels.
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New bug double playing the video on Apple TV

When playing the news from an Apple TV the news will start to play and then it will play the same audio again in the background causing double audio to be played at the same time

Latest update

Your most recent update for the Apple TV app has completely ruined the audio extremely bad audio echo.

Sound issues on Apple TV

I am getting echos or multiple sound tracks. Sounds like the same track phase shifted. I use this almost every morning for headlines but now unusable for the last few days

Echo and two videos playing at once

I have the Apple TV A2169 (64MB). I play haystack on here and I get an echo for the initial video.

If I pause it, the audio keep playing. When I play the video after this pause, the video overlaps with the audio that kept playing.

When the next video plays, then I have two different audios playing, one being the audio of the screen on the TV.

Anyone getting this bug on the Apple TV?
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Audio bleed thru onApple TV

Audio bleed thru on Apple Tv 4k model A1842. Tvos 18.6
Wired connection to the router
I have a video of the problem
Please fix

Great News outlet customable

The app allows you to pick what news agency you want and filter news

Have watched and enjoyed for several years now

A very good news outlet but news clips are getting too long and not to the point at times.

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Me encanta, creo que es lo mejor…

Bad app behaviour

Impossible to block a specific biased news station i24. I don’t like this news channel as it has questionable views. I blocked many channels that is biased but this i24 cannot be blocked and it always shows their stories first, I feel like it’s purposely done.

Needs a better filter.

I love the multiple sources but I would love it more if I could filter out certain sources. There is an option in the setup to select sources you want to see but it doesn’t include a full list. I wouldn’t expect the local broadcast stations to be listed individually but being able to filter out slanted content providers is critical for me.
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Great set up

Love the diversity and choices available in topics.

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