# The Hill — user reviews > 92 indexed App Store user reviews of The Hill by Nexstar Broadcasting, rated 2.50/5 from 283 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-hill/id360124019/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-hill/id360124019.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 65 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 23 · 2★ 57 · 1★ 115 ## What do users think of The Hill? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Balanced and unbiased news reporting - ✍️ High-quality journalism and writing - 🎯 Good content for political news junkies - ⚡ Responsive developer support - 📱 Functional app when working properly **Cons** - 📺 Excessive and intrusive video ads - 🛑 Constant pop-up advertisements - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - 📜 Poor text readability and font sizing issues - 🔄 Jittery and glitchy scrolling - 🎮 Distracting game ads at bottom of screen - 🔊 Auto-plays videos and hijacks audio - 🗺️ Poor navigation and confusing layout - ❌ Missing critical features like search - 📱 Landscape mode formatting issues - ⏱️ Articles not in chronological order - 🎬 Forced video content instead of text articles - 🔐 Accessibility settings not supported - ⚙️ App fails to load or initialize properly **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when opening articles - App crashes when scrolling too quickly - App freezes during initialization - App won't load on some devices - Text cut off in landscape mode - Text cut off by notch on iPhone X - Articles don't display completely - Ads cover article text - App stutters and jumps to ads - App jumps to end of articles - App won't progress past notification setup screens - Jittery scrolling performance - High CPU and battery consumption - Incompatibility with accessibility settings - Recent update breaks core functionality **Most requested features** - Search functionality for articles - Bookmark/save articles feature - Breaking news notifications - Ad-free subscription option - Ability to disable auto-play videos - Adjustable font size and zoom - Filter articles by topic/policy - Chronological article sorting - Author attribution in articles - Ability to listen to music while using app - Improved accessibility features ## Newest reviews (17 of 92) ### 2/5 —   *2026-03-15, version 505.0.0* Every article is randomly filled with the symbols   making it impossible to read. ### 2/5 — Ads are a nuisance *2025-10-31* The ads in this app are completely out of control. I can never really get to the news story because the screen scrolls with videos and pop-ups that are some of the most annoying I’ve ever encountered. Why does every news story have to have a video attached to the top of it, most of which don’t even relate to the story? I appreciate the attempt at being unbiased, but if it means paying for a subscription to get these ads out-of-the-way, and if there is some possible way for you to remove the videos on top of every news article, I might use it more. Until then. the app stinks. ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2025-06-06, version 500.8.0* No details in story to match headline/alerts. Too many ads. Too many popups. I removed the app from my phone because the useless alerts were too distracting. ### 2/5 — Good news, terribly intrusive ad format *2025-02-01, version 500.7.0* The Hill is a very good source of news, but the way ads are served is terribly intrusive and annoying. I have to keep moving the screen up and down while trying to start reading, because of the way the ads take time to settle in. And most are vids, which compounds the problem. The owners clearly have no respect for readers, they just want to push the ads. I check The Hill quickly to see if it has any interesting breaking stories — which, to be fair, it often does — but I quickly go elsewhere to follow up. ### 2/5 — Stop Hijacking My Audio *2024-08-23, version 500.5.0* This is the only news app that consistently hijacks my audio when launching it, making it impossible to listen to music while reading the morning news. ### 2/5 — Great Content, Lousy Code *2023-09-30, version 41.20.0* Have always enjoyed articles from The Hill that come to me via other news services. So I thought “why not get their app?”, and installed it on my 3rd Gen SE. My first impression was good, especially when I turned my phone sideways and the app adapted. And then I opened an article to read… The scrolling is so jittery that I uninstalled right away. There is no excuse for this when virtually no one else has such an issue, and I’m surprised it even made it into the App Store. A bad reflection on Apple as well as Nexstar Media. Both should be embarrassed. ### 1/5 — Bias *2023-09-11* The hill I thought was supposed to be different from other news networks and just report the facts. It’s very clear the direction the company leans. Time after time they take a side and you can see it in their reporting. They are not reporting the news they are reporting a narrative. Being disappointed I came here to write a review and what does the thumb nail picture have, a article portraying republican in a negative light. If you want a echo chamber for liberal Democrat talking points this is the site for you. But if you want fair, just the facts news I would suggest echo times. Do better The Hill!! ### 2/5 — App won’t load *2023-06-14, version 41.20.0* App says my device isn’t connected to internet, but that’s not true. It works fine on all other apps and works for me to post this. I couldn’t even load app support. Stop blaming others for your app problems. ### 2/5 — Irritating *2023-05-10, version 41.20.0* The app contains relevant and well written articles which are, unfortunately, nearly impossible to read due to jumping ads and pop ups. It would be well worth the investment of the price of an ad free option but that is not available. ### 1/5 — Decidedly left-wing orientation. *2023-02-28, version 41.17.1* Deleted after about two months. ### 1/5 — The Hill *2022-12-24, version 41.16.0* Can’t even open the stupid App,What A waste of time and this is supposed to be the updated App. ### 2/5 — Glitchy App *2022-12-16, version 41.12* This app use to be a simple, easy to read place to get your fix for political junkies. Now it’s simply junk. Glitchy, buggy and not that easy to find an article you want to read. I stopped using it. ### 1/5 — ??? *2022-09-28, version 41.12* id like to listen to my music while reading articles thx ### 2/5 — App does not support Accessibility Settings *2022-08-27, version 41.11.0* This app no longer works with Accessibility settings. You can not highlight text and have it read aloud. ### 1/5 — The slot / Trivia Crack ads ruining it *2022-07-10, version 41.9.1* Great journalism interrupted by very distracting ads that you accidentally click when trying to scroll down. It’s maddening. Please… stop with these. ### 2/5 — Bummer *2022-06-29, version 41.9.1* I’ll just read the webpage instead. ### 2/5 — Prefer the Old Design *2022-06-28* The old design was easier on the eyes. Also, it always listed articles chronologically. I searched for a writer than I enjoy reading to see recent articles, and the list was articles 4-7 years old. The old version listed the newest articles on top. The dark screen and smaller front isn’t as visually appealing. Not a good redesign. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Shills to Nexstar *2025-09-24, version 501.0.0* Another quality news outlet purchase by billionaires. ### 1/5 — Killer fonts *2025-09-01, version 500.9.0* Ginormous font size in article text renders app unusable for me ### 1/5 — Lame *2025-06-17, version 500.8.0* average news source but horrible app overall. Stuttering pages, jumps to ads, jump to end of articles…just a poor app ### 1/5 — No longer works on my iPhone *2024-10-03, version 500.5.0* Used to read it regularly, now it never finishes loading, the page is slightly darkened like it’s going to show me an ad first or something but never does- deleted and reinstalled several times over several months ### 1/5 — Search? *2024-09-11, version 500.5.0* Why is there no search function? ### 1/5 — Formatting issue on iPad *2024-04-04, version 500.1.4* Work for one day, everything is up to date. Landscape, I can read one line at a time, with rest screen filled with video. Portrait words are cut off on sides. iPad 11. ### 1/5 — Worst news app ever, but best ads app *2024-02-14, version 500.1.1* You can’t even read an article, you get like 3 lines and then the whole rest of the screen is a video ad. This isn’t for video articles but text. Stupid. ### 1/5 — Recent update *2024-02-08, version 500.1.1* Recent update will not work. App asks for what news alerts I want and if I want weather updates, but will not give me the option me to move past those screens to the news feed. ### 1/5 — No longer works *2024-02-06, version 500.1.1* This used to be a good news app. But, as of a few days ago it doesnt work. I get a prompt about weather notifications then it freezes. Have tried reinstalling a couple of times, but no use. Will just have to look at the web version ### 1/5 — Lost a reader *2024-02-06, version 500.1.1* You have lost a reader with the latest app update. Just as happened with NewsNation you now make it almost impossible to READ articles because the video space takes up 3/4 of the screen on my IPad and android phone in horizontal mode. Plus, the text is so large that it won't fit on the screen in vertical mode. Ad money from videos is the reason. Too bad, The Hill was my go to app. Now I will use Politico and Guardian. They still appreciate their readers. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome News Source *2021-06-27, version 3.8* I love how The Hill provides non bias information about political based news. ### 5/5 — Thank you *2021-03-16, version 3.8* Great app. Breaking news notifications would be a plus so looking forward to that. Keep up the good work ### 5/5 — Easy to Use, Informative *2021-02-11* I don’t normally rate apps, but as someone learning about and focusing on current federal events, I find The Hill app to be a reliable news source, lacking in bias, while boasting an excellent interface and relatively unbiased writing. It’s really something when a news source can not only get you articles quickly, but also provide a thorough argument and all of the facts. Great job! ### 5/5 — Great option for unbiased reporting *2019-12-06, version 3.8* Some functionality issues, but a great alternative to the two extremes reporting biased news. ### 4/5 — App is Working Now *2023-01-05, version 41.16.0* This app had some brief (now solved) problems. I wrote to the developers, and they quickly patched the problem. Works very well. I’m impressed with the response from the tech group. ### 4/5 — Great News Organization *2021-04-20* The Hill as a news outlet is, most of the time, awesome. So much less biased than other options out there and a lot of fact based reporting which is what we all really need. The app itself isn’t the best out there. Don’t let that stop you from getting your news from the Hill. I don’t have as many issues with the app as others have but I do wish it had notifications. ### 3/5 — Important features missing *2025-03-01* For a quality news app, the minimum requirement should be the ability to search for a story, and also to bookmark a story one might want to return to. These are sadly missing in this app. Thus I knocked off two stars. ### 3/5 — TOO Many adds *2022-10-11, version 41.12* It has decent news but is completely over polluted by google adds which are more annoying than the content is worth reading ### 3/5 — Fine, but March 2022 update is a step back *2022-04-01, version 41.9.0* The app has always been somewhat buggy, would crash somewhat often, but it was what it was - a good collection of news articles. The new update takes a step back and does away with chronological article sorting like the old version. Where before I would check the app throughout the day to see new articles, now I find myself going on it and staying on far less because I can’t go down a list of articles and get caught up to where I was. Not sure if the update improves on crashing. The new design is fine, not that I really care about that one way or the other on a news app. Overall, meh. ### 3/5 — Recently added obnoxious ads *2021-09-26* I’ve been using this app for years and like the content but recently there have been obnoxious ads especially along the bottom. Like spinning slot machines and otherwise distracting garbage. I get an app like this has to pay the bills but it shouldn’t be at the cost of user attention. I’ll come back when this is fixed. I’m looking for somewhere else to get similar content for now. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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