“Review — To many pop up ads and redirects. Make it simple”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 349 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★21,290 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
86 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
WHIO-TV Channel 7 is serving the Dayton-Miami Valley Area coverage you can count on as it happens 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.
WHIO-TV Channel 7 is your guide to:
Minute-by-minute weather using WHIO-TV Channel 7’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 Dayton Metro Area. Direct sports coverage of the OSU Buckeyes, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Dayton Flyers, and more. Local news that matters for Greene, Miami, and Montgomery counties including Dayton, Kettering, Beavercreek, Huber Heights, Fairborn, Centerville, Miamisburg, and West Carrollton. National and world news and what it means for you.…
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
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.
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.
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.
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 25 distinct reviewers (7.2% of 349 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too Many Ads — The content is good. However, the app is so burdened with poorly developed ads that my iPhone locks up every time I try to use it. Dayton Now performs much better.”
“Worst news app ever — I’ve never seen a worse app on any platform. It’s nothing but ads that block what you try to see, stutter, stop you reading a story, and just generally get in the way of anything you want to do. Whio used to be my…”
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.