# VICE Media — user reviews > 55 indexed App Store user reviews of VICE Media by VICE Media Inc., rated 2.90/5 from 181 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vice-media/id591496838/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vice-media/id591496838.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 64 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 19 · 1★ 73 ## Newest reviews (15 of 55) ### 2/5 — What is happening with this app *2023-09-29* I gave it a shot considering how fantastic vice journalism is but seriously, it’s 2023, and your the only news agency I know that doesn’t have a decent functioning app. Seriously considering giving up on vice altogether because the website looks so messy on my tablet (ergo why I took the chance on the app). You can’t create an account, the tabs don’t work, nothing functions. And from these reviews it seems they haven’t tried to fix anything in at least 4 years. If you’re going to just give up, take it down. The only reason I gave it two stars was because the second time I used it I was able to read 3 articles before it crashed and everything stopped working again. And I love(d) vice and the journalists working really hard to put this stuff out deserve credit. What a waste of these journalist’s hard work. What a way to let them and your readers down. Seriously, are you TRYING to self sabotage? ### 2/5 — For real? Not ready for public release *2023-04-02* I love Vice and what it does in the world but they really need to invest in their mobile development teams or just stick to web format. From trouble getting the federated authentication to work to trying to filter stories based on topic, there was broken functionality everywhere. I hate to say it but there’s still much work to be done. ### 2/5 — love vice news, read articles daily online.... but *2022-11-22, version 3.10.0* the app won't open, and previously wouldn't allow me to save articles, nor were the same articles available as online ### 4/5 — Cookies setting? *2022-08-10, version 3.10.0* Just stalled the app and wanted to restrict the selling of my info. I can’t tell when given the yodel option I can’t tell if I’m allowing or denying. Vague. Good news source. ### 3/5 — Oh no! Not another app that won’t go horizontal on iPad! *2022-07-26, version 3.10.0* I am no programmer but I can’t see ANY reason for an app to not work in horizontal orientation. Tons of junk apps can do it, so should VICE. Please fix. It makes you look really bad. ### 2/5 — App Fails to Load *2022-07-22, version 3.10.0* When I can get it to work, it is great. But, I think I can get the app to load 1/10 times, I try. I have tried both WiFi and mobile data, restarting my phone, deleting and reinstalling the app and get the same thing. The Vice shows up in the beginning as if it is going to load and then I get a black screen. I will probably just delete the app and go the mobile site as that is usually what I end up having to do anyways. ### 1/5 — Great news,poor app *2022-07-09, version 3.10.0* App overheats my SE and causes crashes ### 1/5 — Stopped working one day *2022-04-20, version 3.10.0* and it wont start again. Get Notifications okay but click to open app and just a black screen. Opening app from Home does same thing. VPN up or down. Phone was restarted on one troubleshooting session. Reinstall didn't correct either. Will uninstall and circle back one day to see if fixed. ### 1/5 — Buggy *2022-04-19, version 3.10.0* Vice’s app causes my iPhone battery to overheat and crash my phone. Extremely buggy app. I have deleted it and won’t use again. ### 1/5 — Horrible sound editing *2022-02-10, version 3.10.0* Why is the sound editing so F’d? The background “music” noise is louder than the voice of the correspondent. Prime examples are the “Riker Island” story on February 9. The noise was ear-piercing. The “women under the taliban” episode was impossible to the hear Isobel Yeung’s soft voice. ### 1/5 — Stop supporting the Saudi Arabian government! *2022-02-04, version 3.10.0* Your $20 million festival there is the ultimate hypocrisy there! And you thought having the vendors sign non-disclosure agreements would cover your immortality! ### 4/5 — Great stories, poor tech *2022-01-22, version 3.10.0* Why is it not possible for the screen to rotate to landscape?? ### 1/5 — Autoplay *2021-12-30, version 3.10.0* I love when videos autoplay while I’m trying to read a news article. It’s especially welcome when I’m listening to music or a podcast, and the Vice app stops those from playing. ### 2/5 — App doesn’t load if you opt out of selling your data *2021-12-22, version 3.10.0* Essentially, the app will not work if you choose to opt out of allowing Vice to sell your information to third parties. Looks like this is from the update from a couple weeks ago and it’s a bit bizarre. App is basically unusable. ### 3/5 — Slight issue. *2021-12-14, version 3.10.0* When I downloaded the app I click don’t accept cookies and the app went blank. I then deleted the app and chose accept cookies to see if that would work and again the screen went black. If someone could help me fix this, I’d appreciate it. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App just doesn’t work *2023-04-23* Just like everyone else, I couldn’t create an account. It just keeps asking me to create one. The search bar does absolutely nothing. If you type anything into it, nothing ever loads and the top tabs with categories does do anything. It just as the same news articles as the front page. It just gives a loading screen and does nothing. Kinda ridiculous when the very basic concepts of the app fails. Seriously, who made this?? ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work at all *2023-01-12, version 3.10.0* I downloaded the app and tried to create an account. The app looks nice; however, I can’t even create an account in order to view the articles. I tried my email address, my google, Facebook, and apple account, yet none of them allowed me to create an account or access the app. What’s the point in even having an account if it doesn’t even work? I also noticed that the last bug update for the app was a year ago! That doesn’t really help to raise confidence levels either. It looks like you hired someone to handle creating an app, they either quit or got fired and you said “F it” and gave up on rehiring someone. Hopefully you can get it together and fix the app soon because it can truly be a good place to get great information from. ### 1/5 — Sigh…no iPad landscape mode? Seriously? *2023-01-06, version 3.10.0* 99% of the time I use my iPad in landscape mode and only 1% of the time in portrait. Seriously Vice…why can’t I read your app the way *I* want to read it? ### 1/5 — Flat out doesn’t work *2022-12-28, version 3.10.0* Signing in with my Google account doesn’t work: After tapping my Google account name it just drops me back to the prior screen without signing me in. Jumping to sections like World News or Motherboard (tech) doesn’t work: Tapping those respective headers at the top of the screen does nothing but briefly show a “Just One Moment” dialogue. Then nothing. Reading articles doesn’t work: Tapping on an article briefly brings up a white screen as if it is about to load. Then it falls back to the prior screen. So I can’t read the articles. I tried about 20 times for different articles. And eventually only one ever worked. ### 1/5 — App barely works *2022-12-14, version 3.10.0* Great content, great company but the app is TRASH! How about an update? Or how about spend the money on an actual app that works. I don’t want to watch videos on your tv app, I want to read. ### 1/5 — search *2022-12-01, version 3.10.0* search function never works. i’ll see an embedded link in a vice article that connects to another, and try to move from twitter to the vice app to read more. but then can’t even search for it because it’s an infinite search loop. also the app just looks like a crappy reskinned ios 6 web browser ### 1/5 — Vice really? *2022-10-21, version 3.10.0* Please spend the money and pay for a good app developer… it’s 2022 and you’re a successful company. What gives…? ### 1/5 — Disgustingly biased. *2022-09-27, version 3.10.0* Don’t waste your life reading the drivel they publish. Doing literally anything else would be a better use of your time. ### 1/5 — Why do I keep getting sent to the App Store? *2022-09-12, version 3.10.0* Literally every article I read, is diverting me to the App Store. The tiny add in the middle of the screen sends me to the App Store, twice in most instances. It’s not even me touching the ad, it’s like the ad appears on my screen and it’s time for a redirect! Each time I open Vice, the app takes a bit to load due to lag, and when it’s done, it sends me to an article I didn’t click on because all the new articles show up all at once. Why? ### 1/5 — vice could be great *2022-08-06, version 3.10.0* The ads are intrusive which makes scrolling an article a nightmare. It pathetic you can not read on your phone without being forced to deal with the ads opening up. I give it 1 star as it had potential but is a advertisement click bate sellout. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Vice App Developer Thanks for the support *2024-02-01* App Store somehow suggested this I as I was preoccupied on some meaningless thing on the phone device and thought it through and now that I have the Vice ### 5/5 — Vice News *2023-05-03* This is the best source of all the news that they don’t want you to know and all the news that they’re talking about all in the same place, ain’t that amazing though?? ### 5/5 — The Most Popular, Relevant Content We Need *2022-09-20, version 3.10.0* Thank you for Engaging us with Such a Wide Range Discussion on Every World Wide Critical Issue. Only on your Network have made me turn to activism. I’m much older then your target audience member lol. ### 5/5 — Great! Dark Mode, PLEASE! *2022-01-13, version 3.10.0* Please make a dark mode! ### 5/5 — Excellent web contents, technically solid and vibe *2021-10-21, version 3.9.1* I think this app will be big within couple years and become major media content rich app. Congratulations to those developers. ### 5/5 — Great app, needs better editors *2021-01-22, version 3.5.1* Love vice news and their investigative journalism, the app is easy to use, and has lots of interesting articles. However, they don’t seem to have proofreaders or editors checking the articles before uploading them. There are articles where the same paragraphs are repeated over and over, word misspellings (Vile instead of vial) that wouldn’t be picked up by Word but an editor could easily proof, and symbols in weird places. Even the biggest news organizations make mistakes, but when half an article is just duplicate paragraphs, kind of makes you not want to read or share it. ### 5/5 — Dark mode *2020-08-18, version 3.0.1* The app is great but they should implement dark mode ### 5/5 — Search bar *2020-08-17, version 3.0.1* Most definitely needs a search option. Can’t keep scrolling to find what I want to watch Update : they’ve added a search bar. Thanks **Developer response:** Hi Ejay2215 - we've just rolled out complete rewrite which now includes a search feature. Please update the app to the latest release and let us know if this works for you! ### 5/5 — Refresh is so much better *2020-08-12, version 3.0.1* The updated app is so much better than the old version! No more crashing, more content. Will be using this every day! ### 4/5 — good news, not so good app *2022-12-02, version 3.10.0* No dark mode, jumpy loading, loss of scroll positioning- the app is trash. However it does function enough to use and vice is a good channel with good content. --- *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 2026-06-10.*