# SILive.com — user reviews > 60 indexed App Store user reviews of SILive.com by SILive.com, rated 4.60/5 from 6,611 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/silivecom/id421906731/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/silivecom/id421906731.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,140 · 4★ 879 · 3★ 285 · 2★ 106 · 1★ 201 ## What do users think of SILive.com? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Excellent source of local news and information - 🚀 Timely updates and notifications - 💡 Good coverage of Staten Island community **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently - 💰 Excessive ads and paywalls - 🤔 Perceived political bias in reporting - 🔍 Poor search functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes when opening certain articles - Notification links often lead to wrong stories - Inconsistent performance across devices **Most requested features** - Improved article navigation and scrolling - Ability to customize font size and layout - Restore classic app version with better functionality ## Newest reviews (11 of 60) ### 3/5 — No News is …. *2022-06-14, version 4.2.14* good news. No thanks, maybe later. ### 1/5 — Unhappy *2020-10-14, version 3.9.4* What happened to this awesome app ? I do not like it anymore and my friends all feel the same way. We click on a articles posted and suddenly your asking for money why??? And we can’t open articles anymore to read them . I may tell all my friends to delete unhappy very ### 1/5 — Improvements needed *2020-10-13, version 3.9.4* Your iPhone app frequently freezes, making your site useless. I have a brand new phone and latest app version. Secondly, without the comments section, your site is frustrating to me. There are way too many inaccuracies that I’m not able to comment on. And there is no point in reading your editorials and letters to the editor if I cannot comment. Your exclusive articles are ridiculous. I will never pay without the ability to comment on articles when I can do that almost everywhere else for free. ### 1/5 — Worst media app *2020-08-10, version 3.9.3* The app is awful when I get a notification and tap it there’s a 50/50 chance it will open. Or you want to share an article and there’s no share icon on it. I have to close the app reopen find the article and try to resend. Frustrating. Tell your tech people to look into it. Been going on for awhile. Just happened to me now so I decided to write review. ### 1/5 — Suddenly a Battery Killer *2020-07-10, version 3.9.3* Background refresh turned off yet there was over 5h hours of background refreshes last night. Uninstalled . ### 1/5 — Vague and terrible use of grammar and spelling *2020-03-27, version 3.9.1* Hcgfx ### 1/5 — SILive.com is weak *2020-02-15, version 3.7.25* Worst app on the internet or phones Terrible app ### 1/5 — They are a biased newspaper *2019-10-19, version 3.7.21* They don’t report the news. They are biased against the President and report fake news. ### 1/5 — Rag paper. *2019-10-12, version 3.7.21* Such biased “reporting’’ everything is anti-President. Try something new, try actually being ‘reporters’ and report the news. Your bias is showing. All we read about is your anti-Trump rhetoric. Start reporting facts. Your paper is used for the bottom of the bird cage. ### 1/5 — Get your facts straight *2019-10-08, version 3.7.21* Ps love y’all ### 2/5 — Tom Wroblieski has an opinion on everything. *2019-10-08, version 3.7.21* Someone seems to think that Wroblieski is an all knowing expert on all things. Enough with this egomaniac and his never ending opinions. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App not working *2025-11-29, version 4.5.4* App has been crashing for the last 2 days ### 1/5 — This Went Downhill Fast *2024-12-31* Performance Enhancements? Stop the slutty ads. I hadn’t opened the app in a very long time but I just did and I couldn’t believe how many slutty ads there are. I don’t remember ever seeing slutty ads in this app before. I’m glad I didn’t bother to subscribe. I’m going to be deleting this as soon as I can. This world is truly going to the gutter. And it’s getting worse every day. It’s not something I want to see. Good Bye forever. ### 1/5 — Worst news app *2024-11-03, version 4.4.27* I wish I could give them 0 stars. Worst news app. Traitors to Staten Island residents and money hungry. Don’t waste your time. ### 1/5 — Where to start? *2024-04-22, version 4.4.11* The app is buggy. It freezes often. When you receive a notification of a story, it often takes you to another story. The news seems to lean far left, and not balanced. Also, the stories seem to push the agenda of friends and companies who pay the paper off by posting fictional stories. Lots of errors, that go up without proofreading. Comment section unavailable. Most Story notifications require payment for the app(the stories come up free with a quick Google). Lots of spam ads. Repetitive headlines- best pizza- best donuts- best way to get fat etc. Beginner news outfit app with clickbait galore. ### 1/5 — Garbage App and App worker Notifier *2022-06-26, version 4.2.15* The only person that spams Notification 3-7 times everyday in ONE week. No Giant company does that. Weird how there was Zero notifications the 2 days I had the app downloaded. Not sure if the person is trying their very best to get a RAISE. Must be toxic working field to go hyper gas lighting like a narcissist on notification Be careful. There is a abusive 9-5 person trying hard for raise ### 1/5 — Horrible *2021-02-22, version 4.0.8* Ruined this app ! Its horrible and glitchy and all subscription adds ### 1/5 — Horrible App!! *2021-01-24, version 4.0.7* This is probably one of the worst news apps available. Want to read a story - click on the link and wait about 30-60 seconds for the story to load - and that’s if it doesn’t eventually crash. Numerous spelling and grammar mistakes in the news stories. Don't waste your time with this ap or this paper. Giving it one star because it won’t let me give zero. ### 1/5 — New upgrade is a downgrade. Unusable *2020-12-30, version 4.0.1* Terrible app. Nobody is buying the subscription. The new upgrade is such a downgrade. I stopped using it for these reasons ### 1/5 — Very Poor Upgrade *2020-12-18, version 4.0.1* New upgrade of ap is a big downgrade. Lead to stories not presented as well as older version with picture and headline below. Despite developers stating you can adjust font, there is no font adjustment, at least not on my iPad iOS operating system. So type is extremely small and barely readable. Hope these issues are addressed soon as a pleasurable and informative website is now little more than useless. ### 1/5 — If it ain’t broke don’t fix it *2020-12-11, version 4.0.1* This new app update is horrible please make an option where you can go back to the classic version..I also can’t save articles anymore to read at a later time and lost all my articles I had saved ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thank you *2024-01-30* I’m glad that you’ve updated the app. ### 5/5 — Great news but there’s one thing *2023-06-18, version 4.3.4* I love your guys stories but there’s a bug on the mobile app. You can’t scroll through multiple photos in an article without it closing and bringing you to the beginning of the the set of pictures. It’s especially inconvenient when there’s 10+ photos. Thanks everyone ### 5/5 — Moved *2020-04-27, version 3.9.2* Good to be able to read about SI since I am now in NJ ### 5/5 — Sam Birowsku Sr. *2019-11-30, version 3.7.24* This is an excellent way to get a consise and timely update on news and happenings in and around Staten Island!!! ### 5/5 — Fantastic paper *2019-11-05, version 3.7.21* They bring you top news and great stories time and time again. Great hometown news. ### 5/5 — Terrific - *2019-10-24, version 3.7.21* Always alerts are immediately alerts in areas of Staten Island ### 5/5 — Soccer coaches *2019-10-22, version 3.7.21* Nice coverage of Island news. Attention should be directed to grammatical issues to support the veracity of your reporting. ### 5/5 — Excellent coverage of Staten Island news. *2019-10-16, version 3.7.21* A real treasure! ### 5/5 — Always in the Know.... *2019-10-11, version 3.7.21* I’m always aware of what’s happening around the borough with SI ADVANCE NEWS!! Thanks for the coverage! ### 5/5 — The app *2019-06-24, version 3.7.15* This app is really great to keep u up on things going on while your away from S.I --- *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 2026-08-29.*