WHNT User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience56.0% of reviews
Neutral6.7% of reviews
Negative experience37.3% of reviews

~ Based on 75 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is WHNT Safe?

WHNT appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for WHNT is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 1,089 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,089 App Store ratings for WHNT.

Is WHNT Legit?

WHNT appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for WHNT is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The app would be OK if you could read the stories, without having to watch the video

The app sucks why in the world do I have to watch the video to get the story? Why in the can I not read the story? I click on it in the video pulls up. I don’t want to watch the video. I want to read the story.

Not opening

When going to an article, the app doesn’t open the story I just get a gray screen

Updated App

I hate what you have done with the app and will no longer be watching. I don’t want to watch NextStar national news. I want to watch my local news on repeat. I still used this app based on it being local. When it would be down on occasion I would try and watch other local apps but hated their national stream as well. I will be deleting the app asap. So disappointed!
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Fair app

This app is nothing like viewing on TV. Since I am on the go frequently I was hoping to bring local news with me. But there are so many repetitive commercials and the app stops frequently saying “ will be right back” that I view more commercials and hear more silence than news.

Unusable. Too many Ads

App used to be fine to use. Now there are so many ads everywhere that it is basically unusable.

Used to like, too many ads now

I’ve used this app for years, and I like the style of WHNT as a station. But the interface is harder now to go forward and back, and both the top and bottom of the screen is covered in ads. The news simply isn’t worth reading between the ads. After years of using this app, I’ve deleted it.

Bad local news app

Sorry but in using your news app, I was unable to navigate without an ad pop up every page that I went to. Over 45% of each page was some sort of an ad so I am deleting your app. Nothing news worthy to see on this app.

Update

Where are my saved articles? Saved section no longer visible in menu.

Living out of Huntsville Al area.

Ok I use to be able to get news From WHNT 19, down here in Milton Florida. Use live in Muscle Shoals. Some day hope to move back. Anyway I was able to keep up with news out of Huntsville and surrounding areas.. Now I can’t 🥺😢. Is there a reason why?? Hopefully someone can explain why. iPhone user.. It seem to be maybe with app update hear lately.. I would like hear back from you please. Thank You.
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Alerts never connect into story

Every time I get a pop-up notification from this source and click on it, it immediately goes through a pop-up advertisement which I dismiss, and then I can’t ever find the breaking news story that made me come to the site to start with!

Hate the ads

I had no problems with this app until recently. When I open an article, I am often automatically redirected to a sponsor’s website, usually State Farm.

No arrow to get out of videos

When I watch the videos of stories there is no why to get back to news . No arrow to get out of videos . I use my iPad for app .

Notifications are clickbait

This was a fantastic app until the notifications turned to clickbait. Would prefer to be notify with the news lead, not “click to find out where it happened”.

Awful

You don’t have a search feature and the layout is awful. We need yh3 old app back.

App locks up when there’s an update

I do not take kindly to apps that force me to update them NOW when I typically do not have time and am trying to access information. It’s a fine app but it should not be forcing me to update it with no option to delay until later.

NEW APP

The app released Feb 19,2021 is very poorly designed. It is designed for those that can “watch” the news while they are at work, not those of use that may need to catch a “quick read” of a breaking new item. Very disappointed. There are less articles of interest that before. Maybe you should have considered updating your news articles more often than once a week instead of revamping in app to something so unappealing. It has no design flair very basic like something a 6 year old might do.
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Freezes Up

Lately the app freezes up shortly after I start using it. Please fix!! Not usable!!

News & Weather

Love to be informed of the the latest news & weather I’m a roofing contractor that needs to the most up to date on information on the rain events from the best option of the weather for the next day ! I like to have a plan for my guys to be ready to remove and replace a roof with no surprises !! Also just love the up to date news about all the sad fatalities in the storm related events and all the other news of events that I want to pray for..
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Problems - needs update

I’ve been having problems with this app for weeks. It stops refreshing and I can never see articles past a certain point. Update the app.

???? WHNT

I love receiving local news daily. However, there are many misspelled words. (I wonder if I misspelled “misspelled”.). Oh, well.