# NBC4 Columbus — user reviews > 81 indexed App Store user reviews of NBC4 Columbus by Media General, rated 4.60/5 from 7,911 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nbc4-columbus/id380703612/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nbc4-columbus/id380703612.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6,129 · 4★ 1,072 · 3★ 332 · 2★ 132 · 1★ 246 ## What do users think of NBC4 Columbus? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Great news coverage - 🌟 Excellent weather reporting - 📰 Up-to-date local news **Cons** - 🤖 Excessive ads and pop-ups - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🙈 Biased and unreliable reporting - 🤯 Confusing and unintuitive UI - 🔇 Autoplay videos with no mute option **Commonly reported bugs** - Radar feature not working - Notifications not working as expected - Scrolling issues and content cutoffs **Most requested features** - Option to disable autoplay videos - Improved navigation and article organization - Better weather details and forecasting ## Newest reviews (19 of 81) ### 2/5 — Weird, Scammy, creepy advertisement from “sponsored” content all the time. *2026-03-01, version 504.0.0* This app has scam advertisements, weird, creepy pictures from “sponsored” content there’s NEVER “normal” advertising content all the time. It’s enough to make people choose different news app. ### 1/5 — Update failed *2024-01-13, version 500.0.3* The latest update has caused the page not to load. ### 2/5 — Terrible App *2023-11-08, version 41.20.0* Teasers with little to no content. Election coverage is the worst, not in alphabetical order. Cannot find results from my county. Widgets are the same and are stories up to nearly a week old. I liked NBC 4 news but not this app. Also ads pop up when trying to find a story or information, so you get rerouted ### 1/5 — Change alert tone *2023-09-20, version 41.20.0* Please change the alert tone back the text tone one like it was before IOS 17. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t stream live news *2023-09-13, version 41.20.0* I was hoping I could watch the local news live. It’s streaming from the evening before. Not what I was hoping since we canceled our cable and trying not to turn on tv with antenna and wake the kids. ### 2/5 — App is horribly user-unfriendly *2023-02-01, version 41.17.0* I think 4 has overtaken 10 in the last decade for best news coverage, but ABC 6 and 10TV have a far and away winner with their mobile apps, despite their station owners sucking the life from their respective newscasts. I love NBC 4, but this app is riddled with performance-hogging advertisements and slow, unresponsive menus and scrolling. The feed is more like an embedded website than an actual app interface. Everything runs horribly and desperately needs rebuilt to be sustainable for a mobile environment. ### 1/5 — App is terrible *2022-12-10, version 41.15* The reporting is worse. Absolute garbage. The notifications all link to the wrong story and all the news is biased. ### 2/5 — Stops audio from my audiobooks *2022-11-30, version 41.15* Can’t read the news while listening to audible. Very frustrating. ### 1/5 — Terrible! *2021-12-11, version 41.7.1* Was hoping for local news, but fine mostly advertising. This app does not work well on my phone or iPad. I have most news apps from my area and this is the worst. I will be deleting it. This app needs attention. ### 1/5 — LIVE terrible since updated! *2021-09-28, version 41.6.0* Live is terrible since new update!! ### 2/5 — To many glitches/problems *2021-06-10, version 41.2.1* Has news stories yes, but the app frequently (every time open it) freezes, doesn’t load, or videos won’t play. The weather portion on app is useless. It never loads and when does, if you try and look at anything it doesn’t work. Seems all the news apps for Columbus Ohio don’t work. It’s not just channel 4’s app. It’s 6 and 10 as well. I’ll give 10’s app some credit, their weather at least seems to work most of the time. ### 2/5 — Updates made app not work *2021-04-14, version 41.0.3* Ever since the app was updated a week ago, I have had troubles using it. The app crashes in the middle of a story, you can’t get back to the stories if you click on a story. Now when you open the app, it says to swipe up to get rid of the ad but that doesn’t work and I end up having to close the app. If this doesn’t resolve soon I am going to have to look at other local news apps. ### 1/5 — Can we say ad happy?? *2021-04-09, version 41.0.3* I don’t think I see this many ads anywhere in my like..can’t even read a news story without 15 breaks for ads..just crazy. ### 1/5 — Autoplay is a deal killer... *2021-03-28, version 40.35.570057535* The app should at least provide an option whether to autoplay the video or not. I prefer to read the story and then whether to watch the video. Deleted. ### 1/5 — Constant freezing and crashes *2021-03-27, version 40.35.570057535* Junk app, half the time it doesn’t load the text, won’t allow you to pause the video, locks up the page and you can’t do nothing but force close it. Have to do this several times in a row. Will not recommend at all. ### 1/5 — Fake news *2021-03-03, version 40.35.570057535* They report left wing news and anti conservative news, very liberal ! ### 2/5 — Notifications Broken *2021-03-02, version 40.35.570057535* I have all notifications disabled except for weather yet I still get news notifications daily. Running most up to date version of iOS on iPhone 11 Pro Max. Please fix these issues. ### 3/5 — Still get Buckeye notifications even after turning them off *2021-02-03, version 40.35.570057535* Why have an option to turn off OSU notifications if I’m still inundated with them after turning them off?? ### 1/5 — Stop the auto video sound *2021-01-28, version 40.35.570057535* Many of the stories have an accompanying video which auto plays with sound when you click into them. Super annoying. Let me decide if I want the sound to be automatic or do not make it automatic at all. Will probably delete because of this. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-07-04, version 509.0.0* Literally can’t stream any video on the phone. Shows zero video even though it says live. In the off chance it starts the video it’s loaded with online only ads and stops working within a minute or 2 with a playback error. Avoid it. ### 1/5 — Ads lol *2026-03-18, version 505.0.0* More screen space dedicated to ads than content. No thanks. ### 1/5 — Your APP Sucks! *2025-12-19, version 503.0.1* Constantly crashes and locks up your phone, do better! ### 1/5 — Spam App *2025-04-03, version 500.8.0* Basically the news and info is hidden under layers and layers of pop up ads and odd click bait. It’s like telling your parents to stay away from a certain clickbait website. That’s this app. It’s pretty bad. Terrible in fact. ### 1/5 — Tornado Warning Ads *2025-04-03, version 500.8.0* My county was just under a tornado warning. I had to watch a 30 second ad to even get to the live coverage. Deleting this app and going back to 10TV where I was able to watch a live feed immediately. ### 1/5 — Literally Worthless *2025-02-05, version 500.7.0* Who knew an app could actually be this bad? NBC 4 is the best news channel in Columbus, and they definitely have the budget to fix this pathetic app. When a company ignores something for this long, they are simply showing that they just do not care. I had this app years ago and it was terrible. I decided to download and try it again, under the assumption they had improved it. No…. It’s MUCH worse now. It’s unusable now. You open the app, it asks if you want to receive notifications (which is a joke because the app doesn’t even work), then it takes you to a screen showing the summary of the weather. You cannot scroll or go to either of the other two sections across the bottom. NBC4 is clearly way better than CBS, FOX, and ABC here in Columbus, but they simply can’t be bothered to fix their app. When a company display such laziness and apathy, it begins to put a bad taste in your mouth. There is just no excuse, in the year 2025, for a company to have an unusable app/website, especially a company the size of NBC. Do better, guys…. Seriously.. Zero stars. ### 1/5 — Below Average App *2024-05-13, version 500.3.0* When reading an article and you get to the end of it, you have to rescroll all the way back to top in order to get a back arrow. And you can’t just flick it to get to top, you have to scroll one screen at a time. Not as easy to use as other Columbus area news apps. ### 1/5 — App not well designed *2024-02-29, version 500.1.4* The app is completely unusable on iPad. In landscape mode, the video will cover the entire screen making reading the text of the article impossible. In portrait mode, the text does not resize to fit in the screen and cuts off text on the right and left sides again making it impossible to actually read an article. And of course ads, ads, ads everywhere also making the app a very unpleasant experience. ### 1/5 — Won’t work *2024-01-25, version 500.0.4* I had this app and needed to reinstall it. When I did it won’t open. You just get two screens. One asking is you want news updates. The other asking the same about weather. Don’t matter how you answer it will go no further. ### 1/5 — Don’t get waste your time *2024-01-20, version 500.0.4* These people don’t update this for days. Channels 6 & 10 are on point usually.. you can for get it, the other channels update there sites. You’ll read about stuff on 6 & 10 and maybe 3 or 4 days later you’ll see it on 4. I do not watch the weather I got no clue about it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Channel 4 News *2021-02-03, version 40.35.570057535* News always current with a wide variety of messages given. Given in a timely manner. Clearly spoken. ### 5/5 — Least favorite site on phone *2020-12-17, version 40.35.570057535* Do not like audio reports start without selecting...least favorite site to use ### 5/5 — 4 *2020-07-12, version 40.35.420054786* Living in Florida and missing Ohio, always check out your news!😎 ### 5/5 — NBC4 News *2020-05-18, version 40.35.340053440* Great app for news, weather, traffic, & sports for Columbus, Ohio. ### 5/5 — Channel 4 news *2020-04-02, version 40.35.290052917* I love it ### 5/5 — Instant news *2019-11-13* When on my iPad I receive news updates and have the opportunity to get on the website and read it. ### 5/5 — Hard *2019-11-05, version 40.34.190048452* Too hard to find things not user friendly or I’m just not with it ### 5/5 — Great news app.! *2019-09-11, version 40.33.530045700* Wonderful source of local news/info in a sleek format. Easily navigable to find what I'm looking for! Great news! We miss Mike Jackson! ### 5/5 — Channel 4 is the best👍 *2018-11-25, version 40.30.42* Spend part of my time in Wv and part in Ohio.. I can always depend on channel 4!! ### 5/5 — IMO NBC4 … *2018-04-08, version 14.24.21* Excellent weather coverage. Top heavy on some crime reports. Great news staff and reporter diversity. Should include more grassroots stories. Columbus is a great community but low income community coverage is biased toward crime coverage. Please offer more hopeful stories. --- *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 2026-08-27.*