WHO 13 User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 68 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of WHO 13. Based on 518 reviews and a 4.5/5 average, it highlights the 5 positives and 12 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.
Positive things
- 📰Local news content availability
- 🌦️Weather updates and alerts
- 📱Free app with no paywall
- 🎯Clean and intuitive layout (in recent versions)
- 📡Live streaming capability (when working)
Negative things
- 🐛Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 📺Intrusive and excessive advertising
- 🎬Poor video player performance
- ⚠️Live stream reliability issues
- 🔄Accidental ad clicks redirect users
- 📖Autoplay videos distract from reading
- 🔊Audio issues in videos
- 📱iPad landscape mode not supported
- 🚫Accessibility failures for visually impaired users
- ⏱️Slow app performance and loading times
- 🔐Requires account creation for some features
- 🌐Outdated design in some versions
Is WHO 13 Safe?
WHO 13 appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for WHO 13 is 89/100.
This assessment is based on 518 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 518 App Store ratings for WHO 13.
Is WHO 13 Legit?
WHO 13 appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for WHO 13 is 85/100.
Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
I understand that advertising is required to make things profitable. But it’s so easy to touch the giant ads on the screen that your instantly taken to the webpage and have to constantly go back to the app. Kcci doesn’t do this. Be like kcci. I never understand why companies make things difficult for users, it doesn’t make you want to use your app.
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I should not have to make a nectar account to watch on the app.
Ever since the update, the weather temperature and precipitation chance are always the same. I.e. if it’s 38° out then chance of precipitation is 38%. No one is addressing this. Please fix!
Should separate local news segments from national news segments and shorten the advertising times.
The app doesn’t play video very well. Most of the controls are very different from other video players. The most frustrating part is not being able to rewind videos. If we can land a person on the moon, why can’t we rewind the video?? (That last part is in jest, but seriously I want the rewind button/scrubbing).
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I enjoy reading articles, and the new app makes that difficult. It is so distracting to have a video autoplaying right above where you are trying to read. I would appreciate the choice to pause the video, or not have it autoplay.
It will not show the morning newscast live on watch now. If you get the nbc app it l will if you pay the 10 dollars a month.
I had my news app for years and now it just opens to black screen. I have tried everything. Uninstall and reinstall, restart and open and close. Nothing works.
There is no way any more you are not showing the live show very disappointed
Not up to date. Stories are usually dated. I expect to see advertisements but you carry way to many
The main page of this app is a vomit of local news, national news and a LOT of paid advertising. I got this app with the idea that I would have up to date/pertinent news information from my state first and foremost....then accurate up to date national and breaking news. This looks like somebody took random handfuls and news and just sprinkle them wherever they wanted to. Very annoying to the point where I will be removing this out from my device.
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I love this app - I have switched from another local news outlet
I love the fact that 13 news has a free app to watch live news! This is my favorite Iowa News station for the 20 years that I’ve been in Iowa. Hate that it takes 2 hrs for me to watch a 30 minute or less news program! The app constantly freezes and plays more of the ad well instead of the actual news!!! Plz! Plz! Fix this issue cause this app will Be Awesome and Get a 5 ⭐️ rating!
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It’s wonderful to have news on my phone when we have no power at our farm.
Just like CNN, NSNBC, and China media.
I would give this app less stars but that is not possible. I live in central Iowa and have strong wi-go connection. The live version of the news cuts out in the middle of almost every story. It is maddening to try to watch. I would not recommend this app if you want to watch live news on a mobile device.
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Sometimes, this app crashes when I tap “Watch Live”.
Thanks to the WHO app, I am able to get Iowa news. It’s weird to live in Iowa and mostly hear Minnesota news and politics. Except during the primaries. Once that is over, we will be back to mostly news from Minnesota.
I don’t know what they did recently in an update, but the app freezes up now while waiting for ads to load. So, app freezes, ad never loads, reader is frustrated by getting mid-story and having to force quit the app. Please, look into this. It’s too bad to not be able to get my local news from you guys.
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Tried to watch a video where there were multiple videos for the same story and 2 or 3 commercials started playing and I never got to watch the video I wanted to see.
