# WNYT NewsChannel 13 Albany, NY — user reviews > 65 indexed App Store user reviews of WNYT NewsChannel 13 Albany, NY by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 8,301 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wnyt-newschannel-13-albany-ny/id566229012/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wnyt-newschannel-13-albany-ny/id566229012.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6,819 · 4★ 961 · 3★ 295 · 2★ 81 · 1★ 145 ## What do users think of WNYT NewsChannel 13 Albany, NY? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Great news app - 🌐 Worldwide weather and location services - 📰 Objective news coverage - ⏱️ Alerts come through fast - 🗺️ Helpful traffic reports and gas info - 🏠 Hometown news coverage **Cons** - 🐛 App freezes and lags - 🔄 Repeating news stories - 📆 Not updated frequently enough, especially on weekends - 🔊 Auto-play videos and ads - 🔍 Difficult to find content - 🌐 Missing detailed weather forecast **Commonly reported bugs** - App not opening due to internet connection issues - Content jumping up and down while scrolling - Live stream disconnecting unexpectedly - Settings reverting without user action **Most requested features** - New app design - More up-to-date news coverage - Option to disable auto-play videos and ads - Improved weather forecasting - Better organization and navigation ## Newest reviews (10 of 65) ### 3/5 — Female Newscasters *2026-09-02, version 7.1* Channel 13 has positively the worse dressed female personnel in the entire Capital broadcasting area!! They all appear to be replicating Sabrina (none can do as she is a seasoned person & well groomed always).. Also, keep the rogue application out-they all look like marionettes with the heavy makeup! ### 3/5 — Freezes - laggy *2025-09-02, version 6.2* Lags. Freezes intermittently. ### 2/5 — Urgh *2025-02-06, version 6.1* It he website is not up to date and keeps stories on there for months….there must be new coverage of something anything then stories from (ex:) October 2024 or even December 2024 ### 2/5 — News Wins, Weather Loses *2024-07-24, version 6.0* The new app has a better presentation for the news, but the weather features took a hit. The WNYT app fabulous worldwide weather and locational services (weather “where you are now,” or pick a city, or “your location pinpointed on the radar”) are gone. That’s a serious loss. ### 3/5 — Updates *2022-01-12, version 4.35.740059527* Need to update more on weekends ### 2/5 — Informative but glitchy *2021-10-28, version 4.35.730059433* The app has good content but when you are scrolling through the constant ad updates cause the content to go up 3 to 4 articles and you have to go back down to read the last article you were reading just to see it again ### 5/5 — Review *2021-10-21, version 4.35.720059195* Great job! The app comes and goes and stops.. ### 1/5 — Nursing homes *2021-02-12, version 4.35.570056875* Your reporters should be ashamed of themselves for not following up and doing some professional investigative reporting on that bully Cuomo!! They musta been scared of him. ### 5/5 — Love it *2021-01-31, version 4.35.570056875* I love this app. I get all my local news on my phone and most importantly I get the weather. News channel 13 has been a part of my family’s nightly watching my whole life! ### 5/5 — Only place for local news *2021-01-28, version 4.35.570056875* Best network in the area do local news, weather and sports ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Your app *2026-01-22, version 7.0* Sucks. Can’t watch what I want to watch to many ads can’t control the video you’re are a waste of time and space on my phone hi Rex ### 1/5 — Not intuitive *2026-01-20, version 7.0* Trying to stream and it’s not that easy. It says to download Apple, but can’t figure out what that means. I have APPLE TV and an Apple phone. Shouldn’t be that hard to figure out. Also videos drop constantly so I’m not able to watch a complete story. ### 1/5 — G *2025-09-05, version 6.2* Needs a web master! Can’t update anything! No local weather! ### 1/5 — Open App? *2024-07-09, version 6.0* I can’t open the new app. Every time I try to I get a message saying my device is not connected to the internet (which it is!). ### 1/5 — Commercials *2023-07-05, version 5.03.070060840* I enjoy this app, but when you click on a news story and the commercial immediately starts to play; it’s just too much. When you’re in a quiet situation and you want to read the article, the video or commercial bursts through your phone. And you’re left scrambling to lower the volume or pause it. They need to fix that. ### 1/5 — Impressively Disappointing *2023-02-28, version 5.01.100060347* The short and uninformative articles are not updated frequently enough, particularly on the weekends. They aren’t spell or grammar checked, though they always take the time to boast about how all 4 sentences of the article were “posted here first”. The radar only works when the skies are clear, and goes completely blank anytime there is any precipitation, which I suppose is at least predictable enough to tell me if I need to close the windows. The app freezes all of the time because it’s so bogged down with ads and it needs to load those first. Today, a school day at 8am, they are still showing the live weather forecast from 22 hours ago. ### 1/5 — Missing Detailed Forecast *2022-07-11, version 4.35.900059878* When I tap On weather it just showed radar no place it showed detailed forecast which they had in the past. ### 1/5 — Meh *2022-03-27, version 4.35.740059527* App freezes all the time. And as much as I hoped the local news would actually focus on important topics, they’re just out for likes and clout like the rest. Quite sad really. When your entire job is to read off a teleprompter and not do any of your own fact checking, it’s easy for people to question everything you put out as truth. ### 1/5 — Get rid of auto play *2021-11-17, version 4.35.740059527* Get rid of auto play on articles. This was a stupid change made a couple years ago and it’s absolutely terrible. ### 1/5 — Mmmm *2021-06-10, version 4.35.570056875* Two major irritants; the videos automatically start to play with no way to turn it off in the settings and when you scroll down it will shoot back to the top. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-01-12, version 7.0* Easy to use and get news from my former area of residence ### 5/5 — Best app *2025-09-28, version 6.2* I’ve been using this app for awhile now. Great news app just needs a new look ### 5/5 — Charlotte Sena *2023-10-04* Thank you, Brian and Chrissy for your coverage of Charlotte Sena’s kidnapping. I can’t stop thinking about it. I had a cousin who was abducted, sexually molested, and shot back in the 80s…Kari Lynn Nixon. Her assailant was Robert Jones, who is still in prison to this day, and was just denied parole in August. I hope he spends the rest of his life in prison. We can never become too complacent. Your discussions are very meaningful and greatly appreciated! ### 5/5 — A Complaint *2023-02-03, version 4.37.090060023* Seem to loose my connection on a regular basis when watching live and have to re-start. Do not have that problem with other local stations. ### 5/5 — Abrupt Need to Reload *2023-01-10, version 4.37.090060023* I have had this app for a long time, BUT I really wish they would do something to fix to no warning stop in broadcasting. It’s not timed to a commercial break, just smack in the middle of the weather, or sports, or regular newscast. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, looked for updates, and (sigh) downloaded competitors apps so I can watch a full news broadcast uninterrupted, but the problem still exists. WNYT is my favorite, PLEASE fix your app!!!! ### 5/5 — Repeating *2022-11-27, version 4.37.090060023* The same news is always there ? ### 5/5 — Weather feature *2022-11-01, version 4.37.090060023* I go to the weather feature twice per day minimum. I use it for gardening and bike riding and exercising. ### 5/5 — Gretchen wilmot *2022-10-24, version 4.37.090059934* Wonderful people on channel 13 They have a great group of younger reporters The tell it like it is No bias. ### 5/5 — Coffee and My Local News source. *2022-10-07, version 4.37.090059934* First go to place on my phone every morning. Thank you for consistently being the best! ### 5/5 — News *2021-11-15, version 4.35.740059527* Need more to date news erase old news with in 48rs of posting --- *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 2026-09-13.*