# WOWK 13 News — user reviews

> 8 indexed App Store user reviews of WOWK 13 News by Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., rated 3.55/5 from 29 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wowk-13-news/id1089258841/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wowk-13-news/id1089258841.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 11 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 6

## Most critical reviews (8 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Terrible app

*2022-07-18*

Can’t watch it, freezes, won’t load. Go to WCHS TV app. Much more user friendly.

### 1/5 — Worst app ever

*2022-01-30*

Almost any news item you select brings up a lengthy video ad that you can’t get away from,except by restarting the app.I have never encountered a more miserable app to use.The only thing good about the app is that I didn’t have to pay for it.

### 2/5 — A battery leach with significant blind accessibility flaws.

*2024-06-27*

The 13 News app has a few major issues with blind accessibility. While it does work with VoiceOver as far as reading almost all text and controls, it has important usability issues. The full-screen ad which appears at app launch is difficult to close because all interactive elements are so small and close together, necessitating a lot of pixel-hunting. Swiping up from the bottom as prompted apparently doesn't work with VoiceOver enabled.

Additionally, toggle switch options are split such that reading an option won't give its status. It is necessary to manually slide over to the actual switch to learn its state, which punishes inaccurate gesturing and leads to considerable trial and error when configuring news alerts. Even reading stories is problematic as continuous reading with VoiceOver results in jumping from the story text to the footer and navigation bar at the end of a page. It is necessary to scroll to the next page manually and then to restart continuous reading from the top of the page.

Finally, the frequency of alerts makes the app a battery hog. Even with only three or four alert categories enabled, more than a dozen alerts per day are typical. The problem is likely overlap between alert categories, which only more granular options or more discretionary story classification can resolve.

This app could be a good news source but needs a lot of work for the disabled.

### 3/5 — Nice app, but needs some work

*2016-08-28*

This app is the only app that doesn't have a live stream, please bring a live stream, and please make some 3D Touch shortcuts into the app, and inside the app.

### 4/5 — Beautiful app, Ads a problem

*2024-08-24*

08/24/2024.   Pros:  The stories, pictures, and live streams are very nice on my iPad.    Cons:  Having to endure a lengthy ad before every news story opened is irritating.  I will use the competitor’s news more and only look at 13 if I want to see more to a story.

### 4/5 — Much improved app!

*2022-03-12*

Finally, it’s not a sluggish, cookie cutter app including live streaks.  Thank you!

### 5/5 — 13 NEWS ROCKS!!!!

*2021-04-05*

I enjoyed this new 13 News app.

### 5/5 — Much better than the last one!

*2021-04-05*

Easy to use and great alerts!

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