# Philenews — user reviews > 32 indexed App Store user reviews of Philenews by Ο Φιλελεύθερος, Phileleftheros, rated 1.80/5 from 12 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/philenews/id423747897/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/philenews/id423747897.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 7 ## Newest reviews (12 of 32) ### 2/5 — Old app was better. *2023-06-20* Scrolling is slow, not very fluid. ### 1/5 — Poor navigation *2020-03-22* Why have an app if all your news articles open up in the browser anyway? ### 1/5 — Really annoying *2019-09-03, version 5.20* The notifications do not respect he personal settings. For example I have set to not getting any sport notifications, and yet for “important football matches” I still receive a notification on every single goal scored, as well as the score in half and full time! ### 1/5 — Very poor application *2016-07-07, version 5.5* The application is rated a very poor due to the following reasons: 1) Notifications are misleading and are always in such a way just to make you click and open the app 2) once you open the app from the notification, the topic mentioned can not be traced because usually its not yet uploaded. When its already uploaded the notification does not lead to the page where it is and you need to seek for it. 3) The notifications are very frequent and 99% of the times its for non-important topics (gossips rather than acrual important news) ### 1/5 — Poor and prone to crashes!! *2015-06-12, version 4.03* Seriously in need of an update... 2 years ago. ### 2/5 — User friendly but crashes, a lot! *2014-08-02, version 3.01* Very well polished app, user friendly and light for the network but it crashes so many times that i deleted it ### 3/5 — Crush *2014-01-12, version 3.01* Keeps crushing at startup ### 1/5 — Annoying *2013-06-19* I dont like it at all. Too many ads ### 3/5 — Problem *2013-04-15, version 1.01* Exo to idio provlima ### 3/5 — Crashing App *2013-02-05, version 1.01* Για κάποιο λόγο τις τελευταίες μέρες οι ειδήσεις δεν υπάρχουν στο app και μετά απο λίγα δευτερόλεπτα που είναι ανοικτό κάνει crash. ### 3/5 — Dem *2012-05-24, version 1.0* Ena xrono k akoma na kamete update?? ### 3/5 — iPad?!?!?! *2011-11-02, version 1.0* Ok gia to iPhone alla gia to iPad? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Do they test the app before launching? *2023-07-23, version 5.41.9* The developers don’t seem to be bothered. There are two major bugs: 1) you need to launch twice. The first time you get a white screen. Once you swipe upwards to shut it down and launch again it comes up ok 2) the ads keep readjusting and shift the text up and down. Very annoying ### 1/5 — Can’t read stories *2023-06-06* Does not load the stories to read. Been like this for a week. I would get notifications of news and when I click on it to read in detail, it would say something like “oops something went wrong.” ### 1/5 — Διαφημησεις *2023-05-25* Ειλικρινά είναι αδύνατον να διαβάζεις εφημερίδα με ολες αυτές τις κινούμενες διαφημίσεις. Μέχρι να διαβάσεις ένα κομμάτι θέλεις 5 λεπτά κρίμα ### 1/5 — Worst app! *2022-11-16, version 5.35* Worst app that I have experienced from a well known publisher! Cannot access the news, it directs me to other pages and there is no way to go back, preferences do not work so I am receiving news about cooking recipes that I am not interested in! I was using this for many years now and actually I noticed that over the years it became worse! ### 1/5 — iPad functionality *2022-08-15, version 5.35* Useless on iPad. Keeps crashing despite all updates. Seriously, is it so difficult to get an app right in this day and age? ### 1/5 — App closes automatically. It crashes *2021-05-17* App closes automatically. It crashes ### 1/5 — They don’t care *2021-02-08, version 5.25* Oh my god, this application it’s not worth downloading...... simply don’t ### 1/5 — Links don’t work *2020-10-24, version 5.23* Under the latest version the links to the articles don’t work with the latest IPhone IOS. Needs urgent debugging ### 1/5 — ABSOLUTE RUBBISH! *2020-05-13, version 5.23* Why even bother to make the app? You click on the headline only to divert you to their website to read! Downloaded and deleted straight away! Don’t bother downloading it, you will only waste your time. ### 1/5 — Seriously? *2020-05-12, version 5.23* In year 2020 where the technology is on its peak and simple things can’t be done. The majority of people use their gadgets every day to keep up with the news and this app is purely made. You open the app and when you click to read something, it transfer you to the browser instead of keep you in the app and when you are finished with that article you have to close the browser, go back to the app and continue watching the headlines. And then again from the start if you find something new to read. If you want us to use the browser to read your news then why do you have an application? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Review *2020-04-30* User friendly application. I receive all the important updates regarding any news directly in my pocket. ### 5/5 — Translation *2012-09-21, version 1.01* Can i access the app in english by any chance? ### 5/5 — Philenews *2011-07-17* Polu kalo bravo, kairos einai na vgoun stin kykloforia kai kypriapa apps ### 5/5 — Cooooool !!!! *2011-05-13, version 1.0* Πολύ καλό. Εν παιζετε ! Τέλειο design !!! ### 5/5 — Hi *2011-05-13* Einai I pio enimeromeni efimerida stin Cyprus !!!! ### 5/5 — Εν πελλαμός *2011-05-13, version 1.0* Πρώτο review . Οί ρε! Εν πελλαμός . Αρέσκι μου πολλά. Ελπίζω και άλλες εφημερίδες να ακολουθήσουν. ### 4/5 — Very good *2014-04-28, version 3.01* The app is very useful but it crashes in iOS 7! It pushes notifications and has a very simplistic design. When you tap on a notification it opens the application but it doesn't display any information and it crashes. ### 4/5 — Πολύ καλό Αpp *2011-09-24, version 1.0* Μπράβο, πολύ καλό Αpp αν και είναι κάπως αργό, αλλά αρκετά καλό! Καλό UI και User Journey design. αρκετά εύχρηστο! Αξίζει τον κόπο να το κατεβάσετε! ### 4/5 — Bravo! *2011-05-27, version 1.0* Pola oreo, alla den fortoni gliora. ### 4/5 — Great! *2011-05-14, version 1.0* Επιτελους! Πολυ καλό, ενημερωμενό app. Must για οσους θελουν να μαθαινουν τα νέα απο την Κύπρο. --- *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.*