WOOD TV8 - Grand Rapids News
Experience the brand new WOOD TV8 app. Get more news, more weather and more vid
Total ratings
2.90
(Rating count:
1,909)Review summary
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Users appreciate the ability to access local news and weather.
- The app allows for live coverage.
- Some users have found improvements in loading stories after updates.
Cons
- Many users reported issues with loading articles completely.
- The app is cluttered with ads, which detracts from user experience.
- There are frequent performance issues, such as sluggishness and difficulty in navigation.
Most mentioned
- Problems with ads and their placement in the app.
- Loading issues for news articles, with many complaints about incomplete content.
- Overall performance decline after recent updates.
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Recent rating average:
1.70
All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-28 |  | | I like TV 8 news and weather but lately the audio is so choppy you can't understand half of what's said. I'm uninstalling and reinstalling to see if it helps. |
| 2024-07-21 |  | | I've loved this app for a long time, but the recent update has caused too many problems. The app often gets stuck trying to to load an opening ad and overall seems less mobile friendly |
| 2024-07-16 |  | | I'm a Wood TV fan, but in their app, ads spam the screen way too much. There's even an ad and video for the app itself, even though you're using it. On a mobile phone screen, you might see an article occupying the mid-third of your screen, while ads spam the upper and lower thirds. No thanks. |
| 2024-02-23 |  | | terrible no live news i got on in the am and they had new from 11pm on there after waiting through 5 mins of commercials they played a 30 second weather clip then 5 more mins of commercials. I noticed for a while wood TV doesn't put much effort to their online presents. |
| 2024-02-16 |  | | I can no longer us the app. I get the in the know screen. Asking for what I want alerts on. So I have turned them on. Click continue. Then I get the enter the zip code screen. Enter my zip code. And click done. Then it just sits at that screen. The app does not open or allow me to move forward. Unless we can fix this. I will be watching wzzm. From now on. Any help you could be would be much appreciated. |
| 2022-06-24 |  | | Thank you for fixing the issue with loading the entire story. I've increased my star rating just for that. Still seems like a lot of ads and location maps cause slow downs yet but overall better. |
| 2022-05-27 |  | | Like the app. But now there are some articles that have half blank pages. Tried deleting app and reinstalling. Same. UPDATE I emailed someone over 2 months ago about this issue. I was told that they are working on it. Obviously we still have the same issue. I again emailed someone yesterday. Have not heard back. This has been my go to app. I deleted it yesterday. Maybe some day, it will be fixed. And I can download it again. Right now, it's not worth the frustration. 0 stars |
| 2022-05-16 |  | | With this latest update I can't read anything past the title and first paragraph. Everything is just gone. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and nothing has worked. Please update this problem. This was my only favorite local New's source and this is frustrating!!!! |
| 2022-05-04 |  | | App has had serious issues loading complete stories. I have cleared cache and memory and reinstalled app to no avail. Another app failure from woodtv. Pity woodtv doesn't care enough to put together decent news or weather apps. Both are complete disasters. Not that it matters since no developer from there looks at this |
| 2022-03-25 |  | | The many updates they've done to this app over the years have been confounding. Each time there was some new annoyance. However, the last few updates went relatively smoothly until the latest update. Now half my articles only show me the first two paragraphs so I can't finish reading them. I've tried everything to correct this including uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing works. I prefer woodtv8 for my local news but might have to finally go to a different provider. |
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