# Rockford News First — user reviews > 19 indexed App Store user reviews of Rockford News First by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 3.10/5 from 40 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rockford-news-first/id420739960/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rockford-news-first/id420739960.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 14 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 13 ## Newest reviews (3 of 19) ### 1/5 — Stuck *2016-04-09* Looked for local news and all I got was an ad to subscribe to the New York Times. Useless app now. Worked once upon a time. ### 1/5 — Miserable *2016-04-08* Flaky, intermittent, "News" hadn't worked for more than a day. Live streaming good if and when it works. Pick another station another app. ### 1/5 — Annoying ads *2014-01-16* Will delete because of annoying ads! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Keeps showing alerts *2026-03-07* I shut off alerts and still showing ### 1/5 — This is not worth your time *2025-01-27* At all. News? Not really…. Glitchy and pointless - birthdays galore but no news that really tells what is going on… ### 1/5 — Accessible *2023-02-23* This app is no longer accessible with voiceover. Hopefully the app developer can get this issue fixed immediately. ### 1/5 — Only news on week days *2022-06-11* What, NO news on the weekend? All must go home and forget the world still go on. Please get with the NEWS! ### 1/5 — No news *2021-10-30* Tried once again with a fresh install. Chose no for notifications and didn’t turn on location services. Got ad, but news NEVER shows. Icon just spins. ### 1/5 — 23 News App *2020-09-15* Not the best app. Doesn’t update and cuts off without you existing the app. ### 1/5 — Crashes entire phone *2019-06-12* Opened this morning, as I do most mornings, and it completely crashed my iphoneX- turning it off. Opened a second time, same thing. Deleting and getting some other local app. ### 1/5 — Why won’t it work??? *2018-03-15* I’ve tried many times to open this app even re down loaded it it won’t open or crashes. I’m using iPhone 6. ### 1/5 — Local news *2016-04-09* Want local news not New York news. Would order Chicago times before New York Times. Got app to get Rockford news. Fix it or get deleted ### 1/5 — No longer works *2016-04-09* I was using this app daily and it worked well. For days all I've been able to get are ads. Time to ditch it. ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 23 News App - 2017 *2017-08-15* I like it allot! Easy to personalize, weather updates & notifications of breaking news & weather. Can watch video news or read articles. Spikemcm Rockford, IL ### 5/5 — Issue fixed *2016-04-10* Love this app. Not crazy about the weather part of it. But thank you for the fix. The "news" section now works again. ### 5/5 — 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 *2015-04-10* Thank you, thank you, thank you !!! You may have saved lives tonight. In any case, you kept us all safer and less anxious. Knowing you can rely on the local weather assessments is invaluable -- and such a relief. The WIFR livestream was portable, via iPhone and iPad, easily visible with the weather graphics and kept us all up to date on the weather situation, including block by block localization. Nobody else even comes close. Thank you. ### 4/5 — 23 news *2016-09-21* Nice ### 2/5 — 23 app *2018-11-20* Your app barely works at times so u have to go to the full site to see anything.. U hit the app a lot of time it just pulls up all sports.... Even if u go to the search bar it still won’t allow u to get the update news... It don’t do it all the time but most of the time.. ### 2/5 — Not like their website *2015-08-18* There is not enough content available to users like there is on the website. When I go to the local sports section it only show scores for the day's games. I would like it to have to videos and articles for the areas teams. --- *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.*