# WOAI News 4 — user reviews > 60 indexed App Store user reviews of WOAI News 4 by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc, rated 4.80/5 from 452 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/woai-news-4/id675161503/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/woai-news-4/id675161503.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 398 · 4★ 41 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of WOAI News 4? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Good reporting and news stories - 🔔 Timely breaking news alerts - 🧭 Easy navigation interface - 📍 Useful local San Antonio coverage - ⚡ Real-time news updates **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - 🔇 No sound on videos - 📺 Excessive ads flooding content - 🔗 Broken notification links - ⚠️ Biased editorial content - 📱 Poor landscape orientation support - ❌ App won't load or open - 📰 Low-quality journalism and writing - 🎬 Forced video content - 🔄 Outdated content not refreshing - 📵 Excessive and irrelevant notifications - 🎨 Confusing and poor UI design **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes and crashes constantly - No audio on video playback - Notification links open wrong articles - App won't open or gets stuck on splash screen - Landscape mode not supported - App locks up and becomes unresponsive - Videos fail to load or play - Weather section doesn't update - Sound only works with earbuds - Content fails to load after clicking notifications - App crashes when checking weather - Persistent audio issues across devices **Most requested features** - Landscape orientation support for tablets - Improved weather module with live radar - Better notification filtering options - More neutral, unbiased reporting - Rotation support for iPad and landscape viewing - Better article discovery and organization - Weather alerts and traffic reports in notifications ## Newest reviews (14 of 60) ### 2/5 — No sound *2018-06-12, version 7.4.0* There is no sound with the app? I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling but haven’t been able to get it to work. ### 1/5 — Bad app bad info *2018-04-19, version 7.3.0* Very disappointed with the coverage and app. All other stations in San Antonio are better. ### 1/5 — Trash *2018-04-02, version 7.3.0* Sinclair owned trash news. ### 2/5 — Needs work.. *2018-03-01* It can be very frustrating at times with the app. I love the notifications, but sometimes it’s a 50/50 chance on when you click on the notification that, that news is actually on the app(usually developing stories ie). Videos hardly ever have any sound. And maybe update the ratio aspect to fit newer devices and there longer screens(iPhone X). Definitely a work in progress. ### 1/5 — No sound *2018-02-23* I deleted the app and reinstalled, I turned off my iPad and turned it back on... no sound. Sending an email to the developer and to the news station to see if they can look into it. Not experiencing this issue on my iPhone, just the iPad. Looks like other users are experiencing the same issue since there is another reviewer who wrote about it on 2/15. ### 1/5 — No sound on videos *2018-02-15, version 7.0.15* I can’t hear any sounds when watching videos. I’ve deleted this app and reinstalled, and yet the problem persists. I do not have this problem with any other news apps. ### 1/5 — No sound *2017-08-26, version 7.0.5* This app only has sound if listening through earbuds. Please fix! ### 2/5 — News break problem *2017-06-19* Whenever news breaks and it domes through the news feed and I click it to see the story... it goes to the main page and I lose the story I was interested in. This is annoying. It never goes to the news story I clicked on. ### 1/5 — Format *2017-04-30, version 6.12.0* This app said designed for IPad, but will not display in landscape format. ### 1/5 — Crash and Birn *2017-01-14, version 6.11.8* The new update has the app locking up constantly. ### 1/5 — Disfunctional app *2016-10-13* This app has multiple problems. When I get a notification and I click on it from my phone or ipad the app opens to the features and I can never actually use the app. Morning notifications of dead bodies found on the east side or people being shot on the west side are seriously unnecessary. None of that is "news I can use." Can a person get a notification for the weather? A real time traffic report? Something uplifting? ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2016-09-18, version 6.11.6* Don't download this app. Too many notifications. The Dallas cowboys win is not a reason to send a notification. ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2016-09-09, version 6.11.6* Frustrating. I get a notification with a link to a story but when I swipe, that story is not one of the stories listed. ### 1/5 — Bad app delete!!!!! *2016-08-14, version 6.11.6* After update app crashes when checking weather. Staying with radarnow. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Yeah.....no *2025-08-01* App freezes constantly or just stops working altogether. Extremely annoying. Just deleted It! ### 1/5 — WTH *2024-06-03* The app is not working like it used to ### 1/5 — New update *2022-12-31* Old version was a lot better. I’ll try to see if I can roll it back. If anybody does know please post it. Thanks ### 1/5 — Completely unusable after most recent update. *2022-12-05* The app opens to the logo and never goes beyond it. It doesn’t even get to a point where I can access settings to try to fix it. It doesn’t matter if I open the app directly or try to open it through a push notification. Same issue. I tried to report a problem but that took me to a website that said I didn’t have a purchase so I couldn’t report an issue. Frustrating. Guess I’ll just delete it all together. ### 1/5 — Slowly but surely disliking this app *2022-04-30, version 7.35.0* I enjoy staying up to date with what’s happening but the more I read and understand the undertones to some of these posted articles. This app is biased and pushes one side way more than the other. I wish y’all could lean more neutral and stop eating the sheep feed. 🐑 ### 1/5 — Pushes the mainstream media narrative *2021-12-12* I wanted news from San Antonio as we live nearby and conduct business in town. I was willing to deal with the mainstream narrative as I just ignored it, reading the actual news only. But what caused me to delete this app was the polls they ask. After answering the polls they give the results. The results were always so unbelievable and totally conflicted with national polls, bordering on ridiculous. I just couldn’t take it. News is supposed to be news, no narrative, just news. ### 1/5 — Not unbiased *2020-11-05, version 7.32.0* There has been a lot of biased and false news reported this week from your app. I am Renoir from my phone ### 1/5 — App is useless *2020-07-17, version 7.30.0* The app sends breaking news pop up, when you click it you have to sit through minutes of commercials to find what is presented does not relate to the pop up. App not worth the memory on the phone ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work consistently *2020-01-16* I watch the news on this app everyday and love WOAI . However , the app doesn’t stream correctly . I’ll be watching and then it just turns off & I've missed the story . Sometimes there’s no sound . And other times , it appears to “rewind” itself and then goes back to real time . So I’m missing many parts of the news broadcasting daily . Hopefully this will be fixed soon . ### 1/5 — Beware! Sinclair station with homogenized slanted news *2018-07-01, version 7.4.0* Local outlets are required to plant Sinclair-created propaganda that fail to reflect public interests. Local issues are sidelined in favor of the corporate national Sinclair-ization ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A very good app! *2024-07-08* This is a very good app, with exceptional reporting & stories. I monitor the app often to keep up with events and weather because I have family in San Antonio & Boerne. ### 5/5 — Personalized ad notice *2021-05-07* The notice appears, but I can’t get it off to read the news. Makes the use of the app useless ### 5/5 — Retired *2015-09-02, version 6.3.0* Super easy to navigate- - it's a great way to get un-biased, up to the minute news. Alerts are sent to my phone as news events happen. ### 5/5 — Good *2013-11-11, version 2.3.4* Good ### 4/5 — Presidental debate *2024-09-11* Your app makes it difficult to vote for the issues your anchors ask you to vote for. Where to vote for who won the presidential debate. ### 4/5 — Wish rotated *2020-11-13, version 7.32.0* Portrait orientation is good for using on a phone, but a lot of us use a tablet in landscape. Even on a phone it is handy to be able to rotate 180 degrees if connected to a charger. ### 4/5 — Update *2015-03-03, version 2.5.1* The app needs a big update on weather and news currently ### 4/5 — Ok *2013-08-10* Iphone5. I 'vote' for the previous version as well, though this has its good points as well. I don't notice any technical problems (no crashing, no long download times), but the weather module has little info & and that info is not "live", not up to the minute. It has no radar (but that is no problem for me, since there are a couple of better weather apps out there). ### 3/5 — Recent update causes app to freeze *2017-01-14, version 6.11.8* I am unable to use the app following the most recent update. The screen totally freezes. ### 2/5 — Poor layout, lacking in quality and content *2023-10-16* Top news is flooded by endless ads, incessant calls for 'cute pet' photos, "amazing" high school football plays, and more ads. The few article that one manages to find after scouring through the drivel, are poorly written and never present an authoritative professional journalistic tone. Trying to get the days news from this app was akin to "reading" a mediocre high school news letter. Yes with such abysmal writing and reporting, it is only natural for a reasonably intelligent person to "expect more", but less is all that is on display with News4. --- *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 2026-09-02.*