# UpNorthLive — user reviews > 43 indexed App Store user reviews of UpNorthLive by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc, rated 4.80/5 from 206 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/upnorthlive/id523794731/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/upnorthlive/id523794731.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 166 · 4★ 35 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (14 of 43) ### 2/5 — Old news.... *2020-02-11* I like getting news from the area, but unfortunately the same news stories stay online for days at a time. Each day I’m likely to find only one or two new items per day, and almost never on weekends. Often a waste of my time. ### 2/5 — Storage hog *2019-03-14* I use this app everyday for local news. Updated to 7.12.0. I don't see much difference. HOWEVER, my *big* complaint with this app has been ongoing for years. The app itself is around 37MB but every time I open articles to read, it keeps adding to my documents and data so that in time the app is using over a GB of storage on my phone. I am not able to delete just the docs and data so I have to delete the whole app and reinstall to get it back down to manageable size. I am just reading the articles and not sharing or anything else so I don't know why the app is "saving" to docs and data. Hassle. ### 3/5 — App needs a radar loop *2018-05-31* App would be better if it had a radar that had a looping time on it instead of just showing one picture ### 2/5 — Could be better! *2018-02-08* Hearing the same commercials repeat over and over is beyond annoying. It’s home screen goes to portrait instead of landscape view. You can’t pause or rewind which is important. Please work on this app. ### 1/5 — Little local news *2016-10-19, version 6.11.6* This app should be called "up north Oregon, Washington, East Coast" every time you open this app, you get local news from one of those three areas, never any local northern Michigan news on the homepage, disrespectful to the locals in northern Michigan ### 3/5 — Problems *2016-07-26, version 6.11.2* Ever sine this app was updated I cannot get into any of the stories & it is getting very frustrating! Please correct this. Thanks Linda ### 1/5 — Up north live *2016-05-01, version 6.11.0* Can't get past instruction, does not work! Please fix. ### 1/5 — Not Working *2016-04-06, version 6.11.0* When app opens up you can't get past the instruction screen. ### 1/5 — Never works anymore *2015-09-25, version 6.5.0* I miss the original app. This new update never seems to display things right. It's a great concept if it worked properly. This is the app I always went to for my local news now it always errors out or resets my preferences. ### 1/5 — Horrible update *2015-09-09, version 6.3.0* Where's the local news? A regional news app with national and international news? Don't bother. The original was perfect, this version stinks ### 1/5 — Generating revenue at our expense *2015-08-18, version 3.2.0* Upnorthlive changed their entire application. There are no more comments, you often click on the ads that are placed in between articles, which will reroute you to the we browser. Every time you accidentally hit that advertisement, they make money. Most stories don't have pictures, and no links to any YouTube videos or sources. Used to be a 5star app, if I could give it 0 I would. ### 1/5 — Terrible update *2015-07-31, version 3.0.3* Please bring back the old version. Lots of issues with this one. ### 1/5 — Don't update *2015-07-27, version 3.0.3* Poorly developed bring back the old version. The weather section does not list the correct cities for zip codes. Not very user friendly. Looks as if the developers wanted it to be shiny and not functional. ### 1/5 — Fails to load *2015-02-06* This app simply does not work. Each time, it says "Failed to load station data. Try again later". My wife downloaded the app and she gets the same message. This has not worked once since we downloaded it. Waste of time. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work for live news *2026-06-16* I downloaded the app and started up to live news as I was watching it at home. News was running initially, but continue to freeze after a few seconds. Bottom line, it freezes after about two seconds of run time. Not a good app. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t Open *2024-06-03, version 9.16.0* App hasn’t worked since update. Doesn’t seem they care about fixing the issue either. ### 1/5 — School closings won’t load *2024-01-09* The only reason I have this app is for school Closings. That won’t load on the app currently. I enabled push notifications for this purpose only and it would give breaking news alerts for nothing. The only reason I want to be bothered by this app is for school closings of my selected areas. ### 1/5 — Bias coverage *2023-09-27, version 8.11.0* Extremely bias in the coverage of local and national news. ### 1/5 — App will not rotate *2018-08-26* This app used to rotate between landscape and portrait modes when I turned my iPad now it is stuck on portrait mode and this is very frustrating. If it wasn’t for this issue I would give this app a much higher rating it is one of my favorite. I have now started using 9&10 news solely because it is more convenient for old people who want to have their iPads in landscape mode. Please work on fixing this issue ### 1/5 — If you want to support Sinclair? *2018-04-02, version 7.3.0* This station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Not local control, rather a national large company that wants to control what you see and hear. I'm deleting this app and participating and supporting local companies! ### 1/5 — Crap app *2017-11-22, version 7.0.12* Brought to you by smalltown red necks! They couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag. Technical morons. Don't bother. Time to grow up TV 7 & 4. Can't even leave an honest review. ### 1/5 — App broken since update! *2017-01-14, version 6.11.8* The app doesn't load stories properly. I can see the list of stories, click on a story, the text of the story doesn't load. ### 1/5 — UGH *2017-01-14, version 6.11.8* The app worked just fine before you "fixed" it!. Now none of the stories have any text!. Also the app freezes!. Please unfix the app so it at least functions ### 1/5 — SPAM ALERT!!! *2016-10-26, version 6.11.6* All this app does is spam the App Store. You try to read an article and you are redirected to the App Store. You go back to the article and you are redirected to another app in the App Store. Zero Stars. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Updated *2024-06-12* The only issue I have is that there are days where the feed is at least a day behind. Stories from the televised news don’t show for at least 24 hours ### 5/5 — Working fine now *2015-02-07* Thanks for fixing it. Loading as before ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2013-09-21* If you're looking for news in Northern Michigan, this is the only app you need. Great reporting, very user friendly, and the daily deals notifications are great!!!! ### 5/5 — Great app *2013-01-22* Wish I would have had this app a long time ago. Great for everything from radar to school closings. Thanks 7&4! ### 5/5 — Yay *2012-06-21, version 1.1* Local stuff whenever wherever. Thanks! ### 5/5 — DEALS *2012-05-11, version 1.0* DEALS on the go! I love it! ### 4/5 — Weekends *2024-06-11* Would like to see more news on the weekend,with updates more often ### 4/5 — Great App but…. *2023-02-03* I really like this app and being able to get the weather forecast is huge for me. The only problem is that when I start playing the weather forecast, then turn my phone sideways to make the picture bigger, it won’t turn sideways and the video starts over with the commercial. That’s very frustrating. I keep thinking they will fix it, but maybe no one has told them. Hence, my review. ### 4/5 — ZIP Codes *2019-08-07, version 7.18.0* I like the application and use it frequently when I spent time at my cottage outside of Clare. In the settings portion of the application I would like to be able to login different ZIP Codes so that I could automatically go to that location and check the weather. For instance Lake George at 48633 Lake at 48632 ### 4/5 — Much better *2017-01-16* Yeah! The last update fixed the lock up problem on iPads. The fix was fast and worked like a champ. Well done on solving the mobile app for iPad access. --- *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 2026-08-21.*