“Too many commercials — Too much news and commercials!”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 305 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.8 ★28,258 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
33 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
LOCAL NEWS - Breaking News alerts pushed directly to your devices - Live breaking news video - Live streaming video of Local 10 newscasts - Video clips on demand
LOCAL TRAFFIC -Interactive traffic maps -Accident alerts pushed directly to your device -Hundreds of live traffic cameras
SPORTS -Full coverage pro and college teams
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 3000010 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3000010, updated 2026-09-30.
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 1
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 19 distinct reviewers (6.2% of 305 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“TOO MANY ADS — I come to the app for news stories, not 30 second ads every time I want to see the what’s happening in my city. I don’t want to hear about furniture when I clicked a video to see a 96 year old lady was killed in some crazy…”
“Unpredictable Results — Unpredictable results because sometimes I’ll be reading the stories on this app & the article just stops in the middle. Pop up ads are aplenty! Maybe that’s part of the problem.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3000010.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.