# WEEK 25 News — user reviews > 38 indexed App Store user reviews of WEEK 25 News by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 4.50/5 from 1,918 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/week-25-news/id1186461745/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/week-25-news/id1186461745.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,422 · 4★ 264 · 3★ 115 · 2★ 41 · 1★ 76 ## What do users think of WEEK 25 News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Provides local news coverage - 🔍 Newsworthy information **Cons** - 🚨 Too many ads/commercials - 🔍 Lacks innovative formatting - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🔍 Biased/one-sided news coverage **Commonly reported bugs** - App doesn't open or load properly - Notifications don't lead to relevant stories - Outdated news stories not updated **Most requested features** - Improve news formatting and layout - Fix crashing issues - Reduce ads and commercials ## Newest reviews (13 of 38) ### 2/5 — Errors, Ads, UI oh my! *2026-03-05, version 7.0.1* Grammatical errors on top of a poor user interface and way too many distracting ads. There is a better option available. ### 2/5 — Update needed for current events *2026-02-04, version 6.0.21* Updates needed ### 2/5 — Typical *2025-12-28, version 6.0.21* There are way too many commercials on this app. By the time the commercials get done playing I've moved onto a different app. ### 2/5 — Format *2025-05-31, version 6.0.21* Who was responsible for creating the format for the news section? Better yet, who approved it? So basic. Lacks style. No innovative vision when formatting obviously. I went back to 31, although their page is still crashing. ### 2/5 — Video *2025-01-28, version 6.0.20* Having ads and videos autoplay every time I open an article is about the most annoying thing a news agency could do ### 2/5 — Ok *2024-11-25, version 6.0.19* Usually gets basic new stories from local area, most everything else seems to be copy and pasted from MSNBC, which is being sold off because of their political biases in almost everything just like this group. ### 2/5 — Closes immediately! *2024-03-18, version 6.0.15* I’ve used this app for years. Now every time I click to open it on my iPad, it goes back to my Home Screen. iPad OS is up to date. Please fix the app!!! ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2023-04-04, version 6.0.6* Too much advertising! ### 1/5 — Irritating *2021-10-31, version 4.35.720059208* Auto play. Cannot be turned off? Deleted! ### 1/5 — Freezes after 1 minutes *2020-04-30, version 4.35.210051447* After streaming video for about 1 minute, the video freezes and won’t restart until I close the app. This is worthless ### 1/5 — Too Liberal *2019-10-02, version 4.33.530045995* Biased one sided news station. Way too liberal for my taste. Seems typical in this area! ### 1/5 — Update loop *2018-09-25, version 4.30.450041890* Keeps telling me to update it but I already downloaded the update. Piece of junk. ### 1/5 — Bad !! *2018-09-14, version 4.30.450041890* You click on the story to read and it goes to a different screen but only smaller. Can’t read stories. Bad update ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Update *2026-03-18, version 7.0.2* App was good till the update deleting app until you fix the app or go back before the update just horrible ### 1/5 — Worthless *2026-03-11, version 7.0.2* Won’t let you open app Without attempting to force notifications on you. Either accept or maybe later to open app. No never ask again. Breaking news has stories that are 10 days old. ### 1/5 — Hey! *2026-03-08, version 7.0.1* It sucks big time. ### 1/5 — Missing *2026-03-06, version 7.0.1* Where is “what’s on tv” ### 1/5 — New update *2026-03-05, version 7.0.1* Latest app update is horrible, no tv listings 🤷‍♂️ ### 1/5 — Never opens *2025-04-02, version 6.0.20* I’ve downloaded this app to my phone and IPad. It has never opened when trying to view a story. ### 1/5 — Waste of space & time *2025-02-12, version 6.0.20* I get alerts that take me to commercials. Every time I follow an alert all I get is commercials after 2 to 3 minutes. I just close the app probably deleting the app as soon as I get done writing this review. this app is a joke. ### 1/5 — Live news *2024-10-28, version 6.0.19* I can only get Louisiana news ### 1/5 — Crashes constantly *2024-03-20* This WAS a great app but now it crashes at launch every time. I’ve unloaded and reloaded and the results are the same. Too bad…. Really liked the local coverage and there is so little of that now. ### 1/5 — Won’t open *2021-11-25, version 5.0.3* The app doesn’t open on iso 15.1 .neither on my ipad or iphone ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Week 25 *2021-01-26, version 4.35.570058080* Simone Doughton is terrible I don’t watch when she is on. Doing the news isn’t a big joke and she needs to be more serious. ### 5/5 — Newsworthy Info *2020-04-30, version 4.35.210051447* Always nice to hear about local news when away from tv and radio. ### 5/5 — Comcast channels *2018-10-21, version 4.30.450041890* Why can’t I get channel 25 on Comcast here in Galesburg ### 5/5 — Outstanding *2018-09-26, version 4.30.450041890* This app is up to date with the latest news, weather and sports. This is my number one source I use to be informed on my local community. ### 5/5 — App update *2018-09-13, version 4.30.450041890* Ok I updated now I get not a thing. Just keeps going back to what I had at first ### 5/5 — The notifications work fine for me... *2018-05-13, version 1.8.1* Does what you’d think...keeps me up to date on local stories, which can be good to know. ### 4/5 — New app *2018-09-18, version 4.30.450041890* Where are the instructions to download the new update????? ### 3/5 — Adds? *2025-02-20, version 6.0.20* I love News 25 news app, until I open the app to read the news, and an add. It locked me up, and I couldn't get to the news. I'm very upset about this, it has never happened before. ### 3/5 — Notifications open to nothing *2017-07-19, version 1.4.0* What's the point of having notifications if I can't open the notification and read it. You open notifications and it just opens the app and there is no information anywhere on what the notification was about. ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2026-04-06, version 7.0.2* I really want to like this app, it’s set up great, but there are way too many ads. When I get a notification of a breaking news story instead of going right to the story, a ad pops up. Had to uninstall. --- *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 2026-09-05.*