“Too many ads — Long commercials”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 210 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★15,814 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
92 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Boston 25 News WFXT is helping Massachusetts stay informed and stay connected with our 24/7 news app. Dig deeper on the major news of the day with our live and on-demand videos to keep you plugged in to what’s happening now.
Boston 25 News is your guide to:
Minute-by-minute weather using Boston 25’s StormTracker Doppler Radar and 5-day Forecast so you know how the weather will impact you. Getting where you need to go on time with live drive times in and out of the Boston Metro Area. Direct sports coverage of the Boston Celtics, Boston Red Socks, Boston Bruins, New England Patriots, New England Revolution and more. Local news that matters for Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester counties. National and world news and what it means for you. Engaging content that you can share easily from the app to Twitter and Facebook.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 8.9.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.9.8, updated 2026-03-11.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (5.7% of 210 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (7 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Adds are ruining the experience — I love this channel - and I love the app when it’s working. Ads will take too long to load and then the actual news video is lost. Sometimes the ads cause the news article that is being pushed to my phone…”
“Boston 25 profit centered — first of all advertisements make me leave the app. The ads are too long and exhausting, waiting for the story that’s 2 to 3 sentences long and then say this is an ongoing story and never hear about it again…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.9.8.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.