WBRZ.com vs BTR Crime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WBRZ.com
Get the latest news, sports, and weather updates for Baton Rouge and Southeast Louisiana. Access breaking news, severe weather alerts, and on-demand content 24/7. Features include interactive weather maps and local sports coverage.
- Continuous news updates
- On-demand news videos and weather forecasts
- Interactive weather radar and maps
- Local sports stories and scores
- Breaking news alerts
- Severe weather notifications
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WBRZ.com is the leader in Baton Rouge and Southeast Louisiana when it comes to mobile content delivery. The latest news, sports and weather – at your fingertips. When Breaking News and Severe Weather occur – turn to the station you've relied on for 55 years. WBRZ.com provides Continuous News, Weather and Sports 24/7, 365 days a year. The easily navigated interface allows you to surf WBRZ.com with the touch of a button – all in the palm of your hand. Our application is the only news application to provide you with our weather forecast maps as you see them on the air. Wherever you are – when news breaks – WBRZ on your iPhone or iPod touch gives you an all access pass to the latest information in Baton Rouge and Southeast Louisiana. This application is free and updates every 5 minutes. Our application provides: *Continuous News as it is updated throughout a 24-hour cycle *News videos and weather forecasts/updates on demand *Weather Radar/Maps/Temps current and up to date in an easily viewable format *LSU, Southern, Saints and High School Sports stories and scores *Breaking News *Severe Weather *Special applications coming very soon!
BTR Crime
Visualize police activity and reported crimes in Baton Rouge with historical data. Explore crime patterns in local neighborhoods by setting date ranges. This app uses publicly available data for informational purposes.
- Graphical display of reported crimes
- Historical data exploration
- Neighborhood crime pattern analysis
- Customizable date ranges
- Public data utilization
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Get an excellent view of police activity for the City of Baton Rouge! This application graphically displays reported crimes throughout Baton Rouge using data from an initiative to make data more transparent. Set date ranges to see historical Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) data and crime patterns in local neighborhoods. Note: This application is not affiliated with the City of Baton Rouge or the Baton Rouge Police Department. It uses public data as reported by the BRPD and Baton Rouge Information Systems Department. No guarantee is made on the data as it is only as accurate as the reported data in the BRPD and City of Baton Rouge's crime systems. To verify a specific incident, contact the Baton Rouge Police Department directly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WBRZ.com at 3.5 against BTR Crime's 2.4. WBRZ.com also leads on ratings volume (99 vs 12). BTR Crime's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WBRZ.com holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WBRZ.com has 99 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of WBRZ.com's written reviews are positive against 13% of BTR Crime's.
WBRZ.com ships an update every 6 weeks, BTR Crime every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WBRZ.com | BTR Crime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (99 ratings) — better | 2.4 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.1% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ruby Shore Software, LLC | Sabot Solutions, LLC |
Customer experience
WBRZ.com
BTR Crime
Bugs and requests
WBRZ.com
Reported bugs
34 issues- Won't connect to ROKU
- App keeps crashing when streaming to Google TV
- Live stream not reliable, often down for a week
- Works well on iPhone but not on Fire Stick
- Clicking on notification takes to main news screen instead of story
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- Alerts take to front page instead of live stories
- App opens with a blank page
- Stories & videos never load, only ads
- Impossible to go back when using VoiceOver
- Push notification links to old story with no further info
- Alert pops up, click doesn't take to article, have to search
- Pictures don't always show when clicking on articles
- Update changed notification sound to annoying church gong, couldn't change
- No longer receiving notifications
- App crashes again after complimenting it
- Every video clicked is an ad, turning off video ads locks up app
- App crashes at least once a day
- Most recent update crashes constantly
- Could not get app to open
- Live news stream is not playing
- Cannot turn off notifications
- App freezes on some screens
- Video ad before and after video, cannot get out without closing app
- Article won't show zoomed out, very zoomed in
- App crashes, not loading
- Mandatory 2 splash screens on launch
- Live feed never works and is very unreliable
- Hard to believe no new news in over 12 hours
- Half of the stories on the news don't appear on the app
- Annoying advertising banner moves at the top of the screen
- Live video doesn't load on iPod touch
- App doesn't return to scroll position after going back
- Weather showed the same thing for over a week
- Weather video needs to be updated more often
Requested features
10 requests- Select news, sport, and/or weather alerts
- Fix accessibility bugs for visually impaired users
- Enable multitasking
- Replace Video with Continuous News in toolbar
- Customize toolbar
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- Fix weather display
- Update health section
- Improve grammar and spelling
- Get rid of play-by-play for sports
- Add current conditions/temp choice for weather
BTR Crime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WBRZ.com
No in-app purchases
BTR Crime
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is WBRZ.com free?
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