Wral News Mobile App Reviews

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 trashy 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 bummer but I’ll be looking for news elsewhere

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

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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 porn 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.