Wral News Mobile App Reviews

I will use a different news app, please think about how auto opening ads ruins user experience.

This app is so horribly slow to load articles that it’s unusable. Videos never load; the advertisement will load, but the video you wish to watch just spins and spins. Utterly unusable. Avoid.

App is inundated with ads.

When I click on some of the new stories, the app repeatedly shuts down. It’s very persistent. I will be removing app because I am unable to read most of it.

Way to many ads

I couldn’t take these guys anymore, they always were pretty bias but the last few years has been over the top. Finally went to another local station that is night and day compared to wral. There really must be some obsessive people running the show here now because it is flat out embarrassing.

App needs work. In the last week or so I had to delete/reload bc it got stuck. Several times using it, it would just stop/crash. On the content side, I agree with the other reviews about consistent grammar/spelling errors.

Every time I get an an alert and choose to see the story behind the alert it either errors out trying to load or takes forever for the story to load.

Great news app

This app often keeps loading and I can't read the stories. Just get a symbol of loading over the headlines. Or it just shuts off. Would love to be able to get to those stories which are great when I can get to them.

To many “sponsored” stories posing as real new stories. A 30 second ad to watch a one minute news video is absurd.

Horrible app broken links and bad pages all the time also not very user friendly.

This app is terrible. Fails to load almost every time I open it. I just deleted the app and reinstalled it, same thing happened. Prior to deleting I checked to make sure I had the latest version of the app, there were no new updates available. I just downloaded your competitors apps.

This is one of my favorite Apps.

Edit - I finally gave up and deleted it. It’s taking so long to upload any stories it’s ridiculous but the tipping point was this morning it gave me 7 notifications for the same exact story, one after another. And then after a minute it started doing it again with the notification slightly rewritten. If I ever find out it’s been fixed I’ll get it again but for now I’m done. This app is barely usable now. I don’t think it’s traffic volume on the app. Half the stories don’t load on the home page and the ones that do don’t load when you click on them to read them. I let it sit and the wheel just spins. It’s not my phone or network because it’s not happening to other news apps. I hope they fix it. I don’t like the layout for channel 11 but at least it opens the stories.

Lots of grammatical / spelling errors and TONS of useless notifications. Jesus ease up on the notifications. And it’s odd how I download this app and suddenly I get emails to the email registered for the Apple ID from WRAL sports fan... claiming I signed up for sports emails. No. I didn’t.

the news people @ WRAL are top-notch, caring & professional...we love WRAL!

It has the local news.

The WRAL news app has gotten much worse. As others have noted, it is very slow to load if it loads at all. Not useful at all now, until a fix is provided. This isn’t a ‘once in a while’ problem, it is consistently all the time.

Love ability to watch news, accurate weather folks, & other on Apple TV.

6 to 8 ads before the first second of news? really?! i don’t think so and what in the hell did you people do to greg?!

Almost every time you try to open the app, it will not load right away. When it finally does, it takes several tries to get articles to load. It will throw an error almost every time on the first try or it simply won’t load at all. Very frustrating just to get local news.

Accurate information, well presented. I appreciate it when I travel. Reliable.

I loved that during the hurricane I still received updated notifications. I love the convenience of the app and enjoying my favorite news station!!!

This app is terrible. When the app doesn’t crash, it doesn’t load content. I’ve been trying to follow the storms while away and have had to resort to The Weather Channel and ABC11 because this app keeps hanging, crashing or doesn’t load content.

Update this app is still broken. 9/27/2018 I fail to load this app on my iPhone almost everyday. I still get push notifications and and works great on my laptop. I even deleted the app and reinstalled. Please fix the bugs. I really would like to be able to read updates on Hurricane Florence.

This yankee came to Raleigh in 1978. We are now 4 generations. From rabbit ears, to cable, then dishes, the web access, and now on my phone. I’m in Franklinton now. Y’all are still the best news, weather, sports and world family focus reporting.

Just another political organization that is losing its market share and readership daily.

Denying notification and location sharing doesn’t keep it from stealing info from other apps.

For the past few weeks the app keeps crashing after 10-15 minutes.

Finicky. Unreliable. It’s a real shame that the “premiere” Raleigh station has such poor performance with this app. I constantly have to shut down the app or uninstall/reinstall or reboot any number of iOS devices to maybe get the app to work. I run the latest versions of the app and the iOS operating system. This problem has gotten much worse since the start of 2019. Looking elsewhere for news and weather.

Is a great app it lets me know TOP STORIES local weather alerts!!

This app is has many, many ads that are indistinguishable from news articles. They are intentionally designed that way and mixed in with real articles. That’s a very disappointing fact. When I can’t trust links on an app for a news site that advertises itself as a trustworthy news source...it’s time to delete it.

The new version is scattered, with mixed categories of news that is hard to follow. The writing has never been great, but i will delete this app..

Objectivity used to be taught but must be a distant memory for this news source. Your political agenda is showing.

Excellent in keeping me up to date on my beloved NC. So concerned during Hurricane Florence!!! God Bless All!!!

Seems to be a lot of notifications at all hours. Going to look at modifying frequency since after I go to bed- it really can wait until the AM.

Best news and weather app bar none.

I watch over-the-Air on a sister station down on the Cape Fear This Raleigh station has goings on especially in the General Court and other State-wide info. No app is perfect so four stars

I used to read the news on this app daily. No longer. For the last month or so every time I use the app it crashes. I’ll be able to read one or two articles and then it will crash. Happens every time. I’ve deleted the app and reinstalled it, but still have the same problem. I’ll be deleting the app for good now.

Up to the minute reports on everything from your back yard, to the world stage.

Awesome app!!! Highly recommended!!!

Awesome app!

I downloaded app to keep me informed about Hurricane Florence but all I get are notifications. I can’t watch any of the News Feeds. I deleted the app and downloaded it a second time with no success. When I click on a News Story I get a black screen. It’s not my phone because similar apps from other News sources work great!

Pretty much a liberal/socialist slant on everything they report.

WRAL was at one time the best local news agency. It’s declined started when they kept reporting through the national anthem at an event in Raleigh. Then come all of the biased editorial cartoons and news reporting. When I complained about it was stated that it was an opinion of CBC, WRALs parent company and that they would continue to put them on their website. I very rarely watch any of the news anymore. I try to catch the weather and that about it as I think the weather team on WRAL is awesome! I hope they change something soon! Because the people running CBC is running this once great news channel right in the ground.

If you LOVE getting notifications about interesting news stories only to click and never receive then this is the app for you! The app is fine as long as you never expect to be able to actually find, much less read, a news story sent in a notification. I have deleted better news apps for less. I guess I will just turn off all notifications for this app as I struggle to find ways to get me to keep it.

Many of the headlines on app (especially iPad versions) are repeat articles. I’ll see the same story listed 2-3 times. Many articles are days old. But Greg Fishel’s weather reports are great!

Poorly written content full of spelling and grammatical errors. And seriously... whoever is sitting at the controls please give the notifications a rest!

WRAL can't even pretend to provide balanced news with the heavily-biased editorials and comics appearing on the home page of their app on a daily basis. After over 40 years of watching channel 5 news, I recently switched to another triangle TV station and have found that I actually like the competition better. And I'm sorry Greg and Elizabeth, but I'm finding their weather to be much more accurate. Thank you for all the bias, it guided me to a better news and weather source. I uninstalled all instances of WRAL news and weather apps across all our devices.

Way too biased and liberal.. a shame

The app doesn’t work. If you click on a notification, it will say error instead of taking you to the story/video. Useless.

Pretty good local news app but a good bit of “extra junk” in amongst the news stories. I’d rather have the option of paying for premium edition to do away with all the “fluff” and “ads” !

I enjoy the simplicity as well as the content of the WRAL app. Makes it easy to click on and see what I want within a few minutes.

One thing I can say about this app it keeps you up to date with the latest news

Great source for local news and weather but the liberal bs gets old . Every story takes a Democrat perspective.

The articles themselves are full of grammatical and syntax errors, but that’s every local media outlet these days. The most annoying thing is the app itself will give an error message almost every day (cannot load) and when I sent a trouble-ticket requesting assistance, WRAL’s tech support told me to delete it and reinstall when that happens. WHEN that happens? Every time? No thanks, I’ll just read the news elsewhere. (And it happens on three different devices with at least two bars-strength signal throughout multiple updates on two providers (AT&T and US Cellular,) so this is not a device-specific issue). The app is fine when it works, just not sure why It’s such a challenge to use. Another concern I can’t seem to get an answer for is why so many news stories click out to B-side news sites that moments into reading a supposed news story, you get a “You’ve won a FREE iPhone, you have 5 minutes to claim it!” pop up. You have to completely close the app, there’s no way to close the pop up. Seems scammy and frankly, a little t***** for WRAL. I’m surprised they associate their site with clickbait like that. And from the list of stories on the main page, there’s really no way to know what’s real news and what’s not. Talk about “fake news.” *eye roll* C’mon, WRAL, you’re better than that.

Best news and weather app bar none.

I have the 2018 iPad and the app never displays content. On my older iPad mini it just locks up. I am running the latest version of iOS on both and have plenty of free space. On my iPhone the app loads but very slowly and sometimes does not load graphics for all the stories. This behavior started 2 versions ago.

Half the time when I open the app up, it says something about an error and I have to try again. I’m always connected to WiFi or using my data, so there isn’t a problem on my end.

They have excellent weather and sports, but their news is extremely one sided and liberal

App ok, news not good leave items up to long. Post items that doesn’t matter such as Hollywood Stars having babies or getting married who cares about them. Articles are also slanted towards liberals view.

Awesome

Most stories simply won’t load anymore unless on data- doesn’t happen with any other app I use. Kind of a b***** but I’ll be looking for news elsewhere

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Awful may as well be Facebook too many ads to many sidetracked turtles too many things at are NOT TRUE fake news 101 Very democratic app enjoy if you’re a Democrat Republicans think your trash

I like the notifications. I read about things from everywhere that I wouldn’t have known without the notifications. I also like the weather alerts.

I really like the app from the standpoint that I can check the news anytime of day. Only issue with the app is the NUMEROUS DAILY NOTIFICATIONS!! I'd much rather have one or two each day (with the exception of emergency notifications) rather than so many as it stands now. Even one daily "list" of stories from which I could select the ones that are relevant to me would be great. Love WRAL though and have watched them since I arrived in NC in 1994!

Today they forecasted highs in the low 50’s and no rain and as of 3:00PM 3/27/18 it is 41 degrees and raining. If the stock market goes down it is reported, if it goes up nothing is mentioned. They are reporting what their affiliate national network allows them to report (NBC).

Getting duplicate notifications on everything since the latest update. Please fix.

I enjoy being able to watch the local and national news via this app. Cable subscription not required.

Good app for local news. Seems to put local stuff first most of the time. Sometimes it seems to be slow to update so I also use an app for another news station in another state that is quicker to update national news.

Wish they would report the news instead of their liberal agenda!

Random videos pop-up on the main page. Not a very good thing to experience.

My go to for local news.

WRAL was setting the standard ten years ago. Now, we’re squinting to see their app on an iPhone X. C’mon CBC.

Even though I went into this app’s settings and turned off all notifications except traffic, it still sends me at least three notifications early every morning urging me to watch the morning news and the Today show. So I had to block all its notifications in the iOS settings which is unfortunate because the traffic alerts are useful. WRAL has ignored tweets reporting this problem. Other than that it’s an excellent local news source and a well done app.

This is a cool app

I count on WRAL to keep me informed. Always reliable and up to date news and weather information at my fingertips.

Opened the app and touched nothing. After a few seconds I was dumped out to safari for an ad as if I’d touched it. It’s acting like a p*** site now.

Keeps me updated on all the local happenings.

Oh, how I wish the news didn’t start every broadcast with a police blotter report for 20 minutes. At least with the app, I am able to choose whether I click to learn more about the latest body that was found.

This TV station goes the extra mile to report news. They are very trustworthy and precise.

After it changed format it quit loading. I dropped it.