“Used to be great — I’ve been a long time fan of KRON4 and often start with them for local Bay Area news. Something went sideways with their app, however, and I’m deleting it today. For the developers, local news is local news.. no…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 336 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★17,406 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
79 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
News has never been more local than in the palm of your hand. The KRON4 mobile app brings you all the top stories from our daily broadcasts, as well as stories developing in real time.
Stay on top of the latest news, weather, sports and traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area with the free KRON4 News app. You’ll have access to weather radars, breaking news, video, photos and live streaming events all at the tap of your finger.
FEATURES: • Watch video of your trusted reporters on the scene, and read revealing articles on what's going on in your community. • Plan your day and week with detailed weather reports, live alerts of severe conditions, and an interactive radar map. • Optional alerts on breaking news keep you in the know. • On the go? Save stories for later to access at your convenience.
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 510.1.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 510.1.0, updated 2026-09-03.
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 17 distinct reviewers (5.1% of 336 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 (6 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.
“Intrusive popup ads — Goodbye!”
“Pop up ads overwhelming — Extremely loud pop up ads run in background. Have to exit article. App is useless”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 510.1.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.