“Review — Too many commercials!!! Many times there is nothing about story. Would rather have written version available without the video. Need to have option of just reading or just watching.”
Public review signal · 115 reviews scanned · scope limited to review patterns.
4.5 ★2,067 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
88 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Nonstop Local allows you to get up-to-the minute news and information from where you live. Live 24/7 coverage from the area of your choice. Get streaming video from our partners in Washington, Idaho and Montana - from Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Tri-Cities and Yakima, to Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena, and Billings.
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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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
No 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
65–79% 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.
Aggressive ad load9 reviews · user report
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Way too many ads. — There are so many ads that I can’t find the information that I got notified about. I deleted from my phone out of frustration.”
“If I got paid to watch ads I’d be a millionaire — I wake up really early in the am for work and want to watch some news when I wake, in a 30 minute period I saw 3 news articles that were one or 2 minutes each and the rest of the time it…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 9.6.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.