Birmingham Live
Breaking News, Things To Do, Football: Birmingham City, Aston Villa & West Brom
Total ratings
3.95
(Rating count:
3,261)Review summary
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Provides local news updates, which is valued by users.
- Has a simple layout that some find easy to use.
- Interactive features and content linked to the Birmingham Mail are generally appreciated.
Cons
- App is frequently updated but often introduces new bugs and issues.
- Repetitive stories and headlines lead to user frustration.
- Excessive advertisements adversely impact readability and user experience.
Most mentioned
- Issues with app crashing or not refreshing properly.
- Problems with articles loading, including some pages hanging.
- Poor grammar and spelling in articles are common complaints.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-13 |  | | Good Local News. Get the latest news , events & stories |
| 2024-07-02 |  | | As I don't live in the area I don't need it. I wish it would stop installing itself. Needs a more prominent uninstall routine. |
| 2023-11-05 |  | | Latest updates - I'm not happy! The layout and not being able to swipe to the next article are not user friendly. Plus adding the subscription charge for certain articles has reduced my liking and usage of this app. It's a shame really! Used to be good! |
| 2023-11-03 |  | | Finally the app works. I found that the front page loaded but when you sign in..... the "my news" section didn't work and just buffered for ever. Unusable. If you unload the my news section so it's empty. Close the app, reset your phone and add the specific news you want it seems to work fine. No long load times anymore. |
| 2023-10-08 |  | | Still rubbish since last couple of updates. Some pages fail to load now and it locks up then crashes. It's still the same as last years review, absolutely useless. Tried to take the one Star away but it won't let me. Grrr |
| 2023-07-03 |  | | Couldn't give zero stars. Uninstalled before using having given up trying to configure(disable) the vast amount of options related to advertising. It's an advert app with some occasional news I guess. Was only trying it to see if the comments load unlike the website on a phone which rarely works. Awful. |
| 2022-09-17 |  | | This app is repeatedly updated, and every time something else goes wrong with it. I cannot recommend it, even though it is largely the only source of local news. It is unreliable, and badly designed, it looks, in fact, like a poorly crafted amateur project. |
| 2022-06-27 |  | | I'd like to have access to good quality journalism about my home city of Birmingham, but I haven't found that here. The stories say the same thing over and over again, and there's very little substance to the articles. There are so many adverts that you lose the flow. I only installed the app because I read that this would be better than reading online - I'm not so sure it is. |
| 2022-06-25 |  | | Certain pages don't load - this is constant too. Most pages will but others just hang. Very odd and frustrating. Furthermore, you can't click on images to enlarge them which you can do in almost every other app I use... Very odd that this isn't allowed. |
| 2022-06-19 |  | | Story loading speed is inconsistent, some will load almost instantly, some after 15 to 20 seconds, others just don't open - this happens both on my mobile, and tablet whilst using WiFi from my router about 2 metres away (so it's not a signal strength issue). News reports and content is ok, some headline "news" is questionable, e.g "cafe reopens after being closed because of lockdown" - headline news? |
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