# WGME 13 — user reviews > 54 indexed App Store user reviews of WGME 13 by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc, rated 4.70/5 from 188 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wgme-13/id379147635/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wgme-13/id379147635.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 152 · 4★ 26 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of WGME 13? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Good for weather forecasts - 👍 Provides weather videos - 👍 Up-to-date information - 👍 Well-done content - 👍 Slick interface **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashing - 🐛 Sluggish performance - 🐛 Obnoxious ad placement - 🐛 Ads more prevalent than news - 🐛 Map feature is useless - 🐛 Unreliable weather tracking - 🐛 Right-wing tabloid content - 🐛 Random ads redirect to web/App Store - 🐛 Video ads restart on screen rotation - 🐛 Screen controls don't work - 🐛 Cannot swipe back - 🐛 Ads bombard the user - 🐛 No landscape mode - 🐛 Laziness of app maker - 🐛 Nothing done to fix/improve - 🐛 Notifications lead to wrong stories - 🐛 Back button is difficult to engage - 🐛 Misspellings in reports - 🐛 Generic app with less balanced news - 🐛 Political merchandise ads - 🐛 Sports section outdated - 🐛 Not a dedicated weather app - 🐛 Election update notices don't play - 🐛 Alerts don't take to story - 🐛 Story line wider than page - 🐛 No sound - 🐛 Does not open horizontally - 🐛 Loading time too much of a pain - 🐛 News not recent for days - 🐛 App doesn't open - 🐛 App is stuck on download day - 🐛 Radar doesn't load - 🐛 Weather forecast inaccurate - 🐛 Video will not play - 🐛 App is junk - 🐛 App is next to useless - 🐛 Ads are irritating - 🐛 Doesn't share content properly - 🐛 No obituaries section - 🐛 App doesn't update - 🐛 Ugly and lousy design - 🐛 Web-based app is ugly and inefficient - 🐛 Intrusive ad banners **Commonly reported bugs** - App keeps crashing - Browser blocks app due to tracking - Cannot scroll without opening ad - Map feature is useless - Map is unreliable - Random ads pull into web browser or App Store - Rotating screen restarts ads - Screen control functions don't work - Cannot swipe from left to right to go back - Notifications bring to a different story - Back button/arrow is difficult to engage - Misspellings in reports - Sports stories stay on app for weeks - Alerts don't take you to the story - App screen does not allow rotation - Story line runs wider than the page - No sound - App does not open in horizontal - Loading time is too much of a pain - App doesn't have most recent news for days - Alerts don't take you to the story - App screen does not allow rotation - Story line regularly runs wider than the page - No sound - App does not open in horizontal - App doesn't open - App is stuck on download day - Radar doesn't load - Weather forecast inaccurate - Video will not play - App crashes - App never loads - App takes forever to load - Opens the wrong story - App tries to download every clip before opening - App closes and brings to internet to look at banner - Doesn't share a blank page - App doesn't update - App is stuck on download day - Video will not play **Most requested features** - Alphabetize weather search results - Dark screen option - Landscape mode - App layout to rotate for tablets - Option for text only or text with video ## Newest reviews (17 of 54) ### 2/5 — Great…if you love ads *2022-11-22, version 8.4.1* This is a great app… If you love to be bombarded with advertisements ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2019-12-13* Needs a lot of improvement!! Notifications bring you to a entirely different story at times. Once your in a specific article the back button/ arrow is an absolute nuances to engage back into the main page, make it bigger so we don’t have to tap it a hundred times!!! Whoever writes the reports into the app should definitely use spell check and editing before sending it off. Just makes your organization look bad with misspellings, especially for a news organization!! Don’t fire anyone, just fix it!! ### 3/5 — App layout needs to rotate *2019-09-15, version 7.20.0* Hello, I would be great if the app layout rotated when a tablet was being used in landscape mode. ### 1/5 — The worst news app in Maine *2019-08-20, version 7.18.0* The app is very generic with much less balanced news & good weather reports than WCSH. Plus you get political merchandise ads and opinions from the viewpoint of Sinclair Broadcasting. ### 1/5 — Sports section outdated *2019-05-12* Whoever is in charge of updating sports doesn't do their job. Sport stories stay on the app for weeks at a time. The Kentucky Derby was over a week ago and is still out there. Meanwhile, the Celtics were were eliminated and the Bruins advance, but no mention of either of these local favorites? Wow. ### 1/5 — Do NOT like the new app *2019-01-23, version 7.9.0* The new app is no longer a dedicated weather app. Not happy at all. Will be deleting, and looking for a new weather app. FAIL! ### 1/5 — Pointless *2018-11-06* Update: if I could write a fair review, this app would be in negative numbers by now. All day it’s sent me election update notices and when I click on them the app opens to a page that shows a play arrow and says “we’ll be right back” OR it just sits there showing the play button. Worse than useless because you could forget it, but it bugs you with notifications and then won’t play what you clicked. hate this app. You get an alert, that you want to read, yet when you click on it you just land on their "front page." What you clicked on is almost never included in the stories that are there. SOMETIMES, you can search and find the story, but most often, it's just not there. I end up googling it and reading it on another local news agency's site. ### 1/5 — Having trouble with the sound *2018-04-27* I have tried to get my sound to work I have deleted it off my iPhone and re applied it and I still have no sound it worked for a couple of days my speaker is on but no sound volume is up still nothing I really would like to have the sound ### 1/5 — JoeBear *2017-07-18, version 7.0.4* This app is the worst moble streaming app. Basically does not work. App does not open in the horizontal makin it useless. ### 1/5 — 😐😑🙄 *2017-05-21, version 6.12.0* Very crappy App it doesn't have the most recent news for days and the loading time for it is too much of a pain. ### 2/5 — Alerts *2017-05-08, version 6.12.0* The alerts don't take you to the story that the alert is previewing. ### 2/5 — Please Fix *2016-10-31* Notifications don't bring you to the story that matches, just the home page. You then must hunt for the article. App screen does not allow you to rotate view Story line regularly runs wider than the page. Resizing or scrolling does not help. ### 2/5 — App review *2016-10-07* There is a very frustrating problem with this app and I'm avoiding using it. You get a notification that is interesting but when you try to open it, it just opens the app instead of going straight to the story. Please fix this! ### 1/5 — strange update *2015-09-13* deleted Portland's Channel 8 upgrade because only local news required video watching and other news was non-local. Now this- can't go to landscape mode and I cannot get beyond the tutorial to the news and other features. More and more of tv apps are similar format with same problems- same designers evidently. Probably delete this one too!! ### 1/5 — Can't get past the tutorial *2015-09-03, version 6.3.0* Just what the title says. Guess I'll stick with the WCSH app. ### 1/5 — Disjointed app *2015-01-27* Ugly and lousy. You can tell they threw a bunch of cheap web developer to simulate an iOS app and you end up with bizarre behavior: you open the app and the web page asks you to get the app from the App Store! The worst is that this ISNT A WEATHER APP: it's a NEWS app and I keep getting push notifications for local murders. Finally, finding the weather is just a joke. Too many clicks, ads, and an ugly web based app. Disjointed, ugly, inefficient. Already deleted. ### 1/5 — Where's the support? *2014-09-21, version 2.4.6* I want to like this app, but the bugs keep popping up. With no easy way to contact support it's a no go. Don't hide from your product. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2026-05-07* I am disappointed. It keeps crashing, because my browser blocks it because it is tracking when I am on the web. ### 1/5 — Ad placement is obnoxious *2025-08-21* Deleted the app today. You can’t scroll without inadvertently opening an ad. It’s obnoxious. I get the need for ad revenue but there are more ads than news. ### 1/5 — Very disappointed *2024-07-18* I have used the WGME weather app for years. This latest update made the map feature basically useless. I have tried to follow storms and watch the future possible tracks of storms and this newest version is terrible. I used to be able to tell my kids exactly when and where rain/snow/bad weather was going to hit their area and this new version just doesn’t work. I was tracking the latest thunderstorms and the map had the storm directly overhead and I was outside, it was sunny. Just completely unreliable. ### 1/5 — Disgusting *2024-06-13* Nothing more than a right wing tabloid with a bit of local news to go with it. Trash ### 1/5 — Disgusting *2024-06-01* Disgusting right leaning trash. Grow up ### 1/5 — Terrible app. *2023-11-08* App is terrible. It is sluggish, random adds will pull you into the web browser, or App Store, without pressing anything. Rotating the screen to watch a news video will restart the patriot subaru ad you just spent 30 seconds watching. None of the screen control functions work. I can’t swipe from left to right to go back a page. Just awful. ### 1/5 — No access Apple TV *2023-01-15, version 8.5.1* I have to get my news from Boston. IOS Apple TV is not supported by channel 13 maine. ### 1/5 — Landscape Mode *2022-03-29, version 7.35.0* Needs landscape mode. Channels 6 & 8 can do it, there’s no excuse for this app not being able to do so. The fact that this hasn’t been done yet proves the laziness of the app maker ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2021-01-11* Really disappointed with this app. No wonder it has nothing but bad reviews. I’m wondering why nothing has been done to fix and improve it by now? Will stick with Facebook and just going straight to there website for weather updates. Again really disappointed. ### 1/5 — Dont use *2020-02-28, version 7.28.0* App works poorly, design is terrible !The commercials play well ! Junky App.. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Please add dark screen option ThankYou *2023-03-24* Everything else works well ### 5/5 — WGN me 13 *2020-03-02, version 7.28.0* I love tromp ### 5/5 — Awesome *2014-02-14, version 2.4.2* I love this app ### 5/5 — Great app *2013-12-13, version 2.4.0* Use it on my iphone and ipad thanks wgme ### 5/5 — Already love this app! *2013-03-19, version 2.1.3* I've had it 15 minutes and Love that I could get a weather video! ... And it's thorough, the most up to date, and well done! Ch 6 app is too simple and no weather video available (I was a loyal WCSH6 fan but they've forced me to find the most up-to-date video forecast elsewhere--best one is here with you @Ch13) nice work! ### 5/5 — Great for the weather *2013-02-08* It has the complete weather forecast (via video). Great to be able to get the complete forecast without being at my house. This alone makes me give this a 5 star. ### 5/5 — Thanks! *2011-06-11, version 1.4* Great app, very well thought out. Usually I'm a WCSH devotee, but I do love WGME's app. ### 5/5 — Good App. *2011-01-27, version 1.1* Just installed this app, basically for weather - today's snowfall totals. Gave me that & a lot more on demand. ### 4/5 — Good app, but… *2025-01-28* Needs to be able to alphabetize the places that I’ve looked up for weather. The list is basically random, so I have to scroll to find a particular town I’ve searched for previously. Would be much easier to be able to alphabetize. Thanks. ### 4/5 — Channel 13 *2011-04-02, version 1.1* Very happy to have this! --- *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.*