# Roll Call News — user reviews > 27 indexed App Store user reviews of Roll Call News by FiscalNote, Inc, rated 3.20/5 from 19 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roll-call-news/id433753469/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roll-call-news/id433753469.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 7 ## Newest reviews (7 of 27) ### 2/5 — Articles won't update *2015-12-22, version 8.0.2* Glad to see iOS sharing extensions added, but why are the articles so old? The app seems to be stuck in October. ### 1/5 — Used to love this app-update has rendered it useless *2015-12-19, version 8.0.2* The last update has resulted in articles from October showing up as the most recent articles. Used to check the app multiple times a day, but until this is fixed, it's pretty useless ### 2/5 — Old news is no news *2013-09-12, version 6.2.2* It is the middle of September but all of the new stories are from August. What is the point of reading three-week old news? ### 2/5 — Poor *2013-03-04, version 2.1* App doesn't update automatically and there's no apparent way to update manually. Content is good, just gets stale. ### 2/5 — Good but lacking *2013-01-21, version 2.0* This app does what it should, gives the articles off the website formatted better for the phone. The biggest problem is that it takes much too long to update. Compared to other apps that do the same thing, the app takes at least 3 or 4 times longer to load. ### 2/5 — Refresh feed takes too long *2013-01-16* Waiting for this app to retrieve the new headlines of the day takes way too long. Seems much of an inconvenience, especially when Roll Call has such a friendly and nice mobile interface on their website. Unfortunately this app is just disappointing. ### 2/5 — Red numbers are annoying *2011-08-01, version 1.1* I don't want to see that there are 102 articles that I haven't read. Without a way to disable this, I'll read the online version with Safari. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Huh? *2026-03-09, version 9.0.1* Other than the front page, you click on anything it doesn’t come up you click under factbase nothing comes up, ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work at all. *2020-05-01, version 8.0.3* Just as the title says. ### 1/5 — Is this app still active? *2020-03-11, version 8.0.3* This app is non responsive. Is it still being used? ### 1/5 — The app is broken *2020-03-01, version 8.0.3* The Roll Call app stopped working about two months ago. It no longer updates news stories. This is now a zombie app. Too bad. ### 1/5 — Lousy *2020-02-20, version 8.0.3* • Can’t copy story excerpts from within the app • Attempts to send stories via SMS or email causes freeze-up • Attempts to communicate with developer met with unresponsiveness • Images with stories improperly oversized • App is now completely dead, i.e., does not update w new stories. ### 1/5 — Great news but bad app *2019-06-12, version 8.0.3* Update app for iPhone x ### 1/5 — Add iPhone XS Max support! *2018-11-07, version 8.0.3* App desperately needs iPhone XS Max resolution support. Please update!! ### 1/5 — Read fast before it crashes *2018-04-23, version 8.0.3* Worth the quick glances at the political news. Come on, who is working on this app? Do you know that it crashes on almost every story? Fix it! ### 1/5 — As dysfunction as the House *2016-01-27, version 8.0.2* Hahaha what a joke ### 1/5 — Horrible update *2015-12-22, version 8.0.2* All you see are articles from Oct. after the update. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and it and it has not helped. The app is useless until it gets fixed. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — LOVE THIS APP!!! *2015-11-24* I've been waiting for this app and I love it. It's such an improvement over the old. Looks great. ### 5/5 — Great App fo Political Junkies *2011-12-24, version 1.1* There's nothing quite like Roll Call, the grand-daddy of the Capitol Hill papers. There's more than enough news here to satisfy the most demanding political junkie's craving. And you CAN remove the badges--I just did! All you have to do is go to the Settings--know what they are? And you can toggle on or off both the app badge and the section badges. You can also set how long the articles remain available. ### 5/5 — Please read before complaining *2011-10-31, version 1.1* For those complaining about the unread numbers, please do a little research. The settings are there to turn off either or both external and internal unread badges. You can also change the text sizes here too. ### 4/5 — Get rid of annoying numbers! *2011-06-22, version 1.1* Seems like a great political news app. Sorry to sound redundant, but those numbers of unread stories has GOT to go. Fix that, and it's 5 stars ### 4/5 — Too many notifications *2011-05-20, version 1.0* If you don't read every story the app shows numbers in the 100s and to clear you have to highlight or read every single item. Otherwise awesome! ### 3/5 — Updating??? *2013-01-26, version 2.0* Great stories but takes what seems like a lifetime to update every time you open the app ### 3/5 — Confused *2012-03-28, version 1.2* I thought this app would help me track the progress of legislation. It was just news. Did I miss something? ### 3/5 — Good app, annoying badges *2011-07-29, version 1.1* Great app for news on the Hill but I'm with the rest of the folks here...so annoying to see the big red number badge if unread stories. Deleted app till this gets updated! ### 2/5 — App doesn't give you notifications *2025-12-21, version 9.0.1* Please fix the app.It doesn't give you notifications on important news.Please update the app. ### 2/5 — Good news source, amateurish app *2017-01-29, version 8.0.3* Roll Call is a great way to track news about the U.S. Congress and other branches of federal government. But the app looks and feels like the result of a high school coding assignment. Headlines and captions are routinely truncated, with no way to get the missing text. The top story is promoted with an annoying popup that frequently contains a picture and NO text. (I have yet to see it display a complete headline.) Photos and graphics are dumped into articles without scaling, so you only see about 10% of the whole thing. This might be amusing if the app had been designed as a guessing game. But in a news app — where the unscaled images mean lots of scrolling to get to the rest of the article — it's the opposite of amusing. Stick to the website. --- *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 2026-08-11.*