# WINK News — user reviews > 113 indexed App Store user reviews of WINK News by Fort Myers Broadcasting Co., rated 4.80/5 from 30,957 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wink-news/id1040467539/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wink-news/id1040467539.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 25,993 · 4★ 3,445 · 3★ 850 · 2★ 233 · 1★ 436 ## What do users think of WINK News? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🌟 Best local weather coverage - 🌍 Keeps users connected during emergencies - 👍 Reliable and informative news reporting - 🙌 Excellent hurricane/disaster coverage **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy app with scrolling issues - 📢 Intrusive ads and videos - 🤔 Perceived political bias in news coverage - 🔊 Audio issues when casting to TV **Commonly reported bugs** - App repeatedly resets to top of news feed - Notification links don't take users to correct stories - Streaming issues with 'be back soon' messages **Most requested features** - Ability to save/bookmark articles - Improved search functionality - Option to customize news feed/notifications ## Newest reviews (17 of 113) ### 2/5 — Spam adds *2026-06-10, version 4011* Can’t even read the news because so many pop-ups of junk ads ### 3/5 — Clutter!!!! *2026-03-28, version 4011* After the most recent update, your app, which has been great and helpful up until now, is a mess of cluttered ads. It’s almost impossible to find things because there are so many ads at the top of the screen at the bottom of the screen. It’s ridiculous. If this doesn’t get fixed, I’ll be deleting this app which is sad because I have depended on it for news and weather in our area. Please clean it up! I realize those ads pay for things but could you at least make it a little more user-friendly? ### 1/5 — What is up with this? *2025-08-18, version 4011* Upgraded to the new version and oh my!!! It had some issues before with the live feed just stopping. This version’s even worse. Won’t full screen, keep’s refreshing and keep getting the “spinning wheel” where it just hangs up. Been around computers for over 45 years and have found that a fair amount of upgrades are unnecessary, especially this one. ### 1/5 — Stop Auto Playing! *2025-05-24, version 4011* I used to love this app and frequented it numerous times a day for news. Now, every time you open it or click on a link it starts blasting you with the sound. It catches you off guard and is quite embarrassing if you’re in public. I have not found anywhere on it for settings to stop that. They’ve ruined this app just like their spell checking/grammar skills. ### 3/5 — Takes over my speaker *2025-04-30, version 4011* It’s overall a good app but I prefer to READ my news not watch it or listen to it. Every time I open a story to read it automatically starts playing. This is a recent change and I really dislike it. I am avoiding opening articles now. No support or comments link available for tech support. ### 1/5 — Lose the audio ads *2025-04-24, version 4011* I’m not a fan of the new automatic ad audio coming on when I click a link. Your app has been deleted. I’ll check back someday in the hopes that you realize video isn’t always appropriate. ### 1/5 — Worse app ever *2025-04-22, version 4011* I love WINK news but I have found myself drifting to Gulf Coast News on my phone, they sometimes have a short commercial before the newscast but at least you can watch it, if I want to just READ an article on WINK I get a pesty video of I don’t know what preventing me to read the article. I wish someone could make this app better to use. ### 1/5 — Cant open the news drop down thanks to ads *2024-12-12, version 4011* Cant open the news drop down thanks to ads. ### 1/5 — Broken app. *2024-11-12, version 4011* If I open the application I'm forced to watch whatever live feed or video they shove in my face. I swipe to close, I press the 'X,' doesn't matter. Can't read a single article, this app doesn't work. ### 3/5 — Okay *2024-10-13, version 4011* The news channel is OK, the weather report is great. But the app runs horribly. Every time I click a notification on my phone for an alert either news or weather, the app repeatedly stops me from being able to read the article because ads/videos, keep popping up to block my viewing. Not very helpful at all. I will be exploring other Southwest Florida news station apps. ### 3/5 — Hard to see photos on iPhone *2024-09-16, version 4011* App is decent but I am unable to pinch to zoom photos. Can’t BOLO if the image is too small. ### 1/5 — Frustrating app *2024-08-20, version 4011* I have several news apps that I read every morning on an iPhone, this app is very frustrating to use. It is very choppy in loading and jerks around on the screen. Also the width of the page doesn’t fill the screen, you can’t read the rest of the sentence on the right. ### 1/5 — Too much pop-up ads *2024-04-07, version 4011* Five pop-up advertisement in 10 seconds is too much. I’m trying another News app. ### 3/5 — Could be better *2024-03-11, version 4011* Too much adds popping up and covering everything. It takes a few hits to get them completely out. They should add a comments section under the reports. ### 3/5 — Can’t Share *2023-04-08, version 4003.0.0* Why did you change the app?? I can no longer share your articles. Very annoying. ### 1/5 — Traffic *2023-03-16, version 4003.0.0* Put back the local traffic map. It was great having that available when I left my house so I could see where heavy traffic was. Now I have to scroll through a bunch of old stories and still can’t find that traffic map. Why did you mess up this app? Put it back the way it was. ### 2/5 — Scrolling issues *2023-02-01, version 4000.35.730059447* Everytime you scroll down far enough it goes back to previous news making it almost impossible to consume news below the top ones. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Completely unusable *2026-07-22, version 4014.0* The app with the constant ad loading keeps jumping around. You cannot even read an article without the page changing to some sort of ad. ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-07-03, version 216.0* I’m deleting. It’s become unusable. Pop ups & ads constantly that you can’t even read a single thing. ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2026-07-02, version 216.0* Waste of time downloading this app. Use to be good but now i cant read an article without constantly having to close pop up videos. Uninstalled it and switched to Gulf Coast News app. ### 1/5 — Advertising covers the entire page! Horrible! *2026-06-15, version 216.0* Fix your landing page! Whenever I open the app, I cannot see any news articles because they are all covered with 2 or 3 ads. Who designed this anyway? It’s difficult to scroll down to the news stories. Then when you start reading one, the app “jumps.” Please fix this mess-very unprofessional for a so-called News site. ### 1/5 — Wink sucks *2026-01-14, version 4011* Matt is too good for you. ### 1/5 — Matt devitt *2026-01-13, version 4011* They literally fired the reason we watch this channel for no reason. There is no WINK without Matt devitt. Sorry he doesn’t scare you with news but he is the weatherman in SWFL. ### 1/5 — You cancel Matt, we cancel you *2026-01-11, version 4011* Wink cancelled Matt… well… consequences.. bye bye WINK ### 1/5 — :( *2026-01-11, version 4011* Used to love wink news and weather until they fired fired everyone’s favorite meteorologist ### 1/5 — Matt *2026-01-10, version 4011* How could you fire the best weatherman in our area ??? I’m done with WINK. Only watched for him Norma Mendleski Bokeelia Fl ### 1/5 — Still problems *2025-12-19, version 4011* Just tried to open article about flying violinist and a third of article was blocked out with Lexus ad and no way to close ad. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Newest Update a Mess *2025-12-10, version 4011* Just tried to open article about flying violinist and a third of article was blocked out with Lexus ad and no way to close ad. You got some work to do. Will stick with GulfCoast & Fox right now for Fort Myers news. ### 5/5 — WINK News *2023-03-05, version 4000.35.730059447* WINK is my “go-to“ channel for news and accurate weather forecasts. ### 5/5 — WINK News *2023-03-04, version 4000.35.730059447* I am a snow bird and I follow WINK all year. I love this part of Florida and I thank you for keeping me informed of what is going on in the area. You are tops in my book! Betsy Johnson, Hastings, Mi. ### 5/5 — Top News Station *2023-01-11, version 4000.35.730059447* I just love Jen, Greg and your entire group. They are thorough in everything they report. Love you all and those behind the scenes.i ### 5/5 — Best local weather *2022-10-15, version 4000.35.730059447* WINK is the best local station I have ever watched. The weather crew was amazing during the disaster of Ian. Even though they themselves got wiped out they informed us to the end. God Bless them All ### 5/5 — Toms River NJ *2022-10-13, version 4000.35.730059447* Miss Lois reporting from Fort Myers . Wink app keeps me posted. Also Lois’s reading at Resurrection. Hope to be back soon for winter and work on condo. Our condo made it👍🙏🏻🌹 ### 5/5 — Staying connected! *2022-10-09, version 4000.35.730059447* Thank you WINK news. Enjoying the app and able to stay connected while we are out of power, internet, and cable! ### 5/5 — The best news and the best weather *2022-10-08, version 4000.35.730059447* The reporting from the staff at wink is outstanding my heart broke in the evening of the hurricane when I went into my car and put on 96.9 and I heard nothing I was so concerned and worried that the staff was in danger so glad to know that everyone was OK glad to have them back Mark C ### 5/5 — Wink is the best *2022-10-08, version 4000.35.730059447* Great App. and we love being up to date with the South West Florida news. Especially when we’re in Pennsylvania. Granted we have other options to access Florida news but Wink is the best !!!! ### 5/5 — Updates *2022-10-08, version 4000.35.730059447* WINK updates have been priceless in keeling me informed before, during, and after Hurricane Ian. Y'all were/are a Godsend !!! Thank you, Marty --- *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 2026-09-01.*