KOMO News Mobile App Reviews

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Needs work. My biggest gripe about the app is how photos are being displayed - instead of just showing a single view, the photos are mysteriously split into two different frames, which are then flipped so the left side of the image is in the right side frame and vice versa. It which makes the photo practically useless. The worse is when there’s security camera image of a suspect at large after a crime has been committed - “call police if you seen this man” or “here is a photo of the hit and run vehicle”. Gee, I’d love to help but his image is totally unusable due to the artsy way you display it in the app!

Finally working again!. This is a great new app, and one of the only Seattle news apps optimized for the iPad. The recent addition of the video links is great. Though it had problems for several weeks with crashing, all seems to be fixed with the latest update. Thanks for the app, and finally getting it working again, keep it up!

Don't fix it, if it ain't broke!. This would be a 0 star if it let me. I hate this new app! I want the old one back. I loved the easy of use on the old Komo app and it was visually pleasant. This app is clumsy to use, makes you open up windows to change to new topics and areas of news. I loved the slide feature of the old app. The slide feature is gone now. I don't know why companies think they need to change things just for change sake. Komo bring back the old app! It was soooooo much better. UPDATE: I didn't think it could get worse but it did. I can't get thru a news article without it crashing half a dozen times. I finally DELETED this app all together. Sad because the original one was my favorite. I used it every morning to get the news. KOMO just give us back the old app... PLEASE!

Where are alerts?. Whenever I tap on an alert that is pushed to my device, it takes me to the app news feed where there are no links to the current alert. I'm about to get onto I-5 and saw an alert for I-5 briefly show up. Since I couldn't read the entire message, I tapped on it. Where can I find it? If it's there, it's NOT intuitive for me and I've already wasted too much time trying to find it.

Live news casts are lacking. Here's the deal, I am not always home to watch the news so I enjoy being able to live stream local broadcasts on the bus/train. I also don't have a tv in my bathroom while I'm getting ready in the mornings and would like to be able to watch/listen as I do. This app should be able to do that, but the only thing I get to see is the newscasters when they're talking. Any segments that involve video don't play. News stories are too hard to find. That makes this app worthless and not very useful at all. There are much better ones from our local market available.

Meh. The app lacks a lot of in app functionality and launches a browser window to open almost everything, rendering the app basically useless because it’s an extra step to access articles directly via the mobile website. If more pages were directly embedded within the app the pages would load faster and the app would be more enjoyable to navigate. Not a fan will uninstall.

Old one better. I like the universal app part of the update, however, the previous layout was so much more streamlined. The flashing ad at the bottom distracts. The double bars at the top greatly reduce screen reading space when you include the navigation bar at the bottom and at add. I realize that you need to show ads for revenue. How you had it before where ads appeared alongside stories was so effective. I clicked on them more than any other app. Overall, this is way better than KIRO but no where near as good as the previous version. The whole update process was wrong too. I realize you are a media company and not a tech firm, for being from such a tech savvy community, you'll think people would be falling over themselves to help you get it right. This obviously didn't happen here. There is no gee whiz wow factor. Btw, I engage more with KOMO on my mobile than any other mode. You completely stole my attention from any of the other local media sources. I am sure I am not alone. You had to be killing it compared to your local competition. I will use your app less because it is harder and less visually easy to read and navigate.

Where'd the weather forecast go?. The old app had news and weather, and I used the app every day (sometimes more than once) to get the current news and the weather forecast write up. The current rewrite is missing the weather forecast (the excellent write up, not just the info graphics), and doesn't seem to have any other redeeming value. Uninstalled. Now I get the weather from the website, and the news from other sources. KOMO, whatever you paid for this pile of **** was completely wasted.

Needs work. Just downloaded this app despite reading the many negative reviews. When it works, the app seems fine to me. Top page thumbnails, headlines, and first three lines of content are clear and easy to read. However, the problems I found will probably keep me from using this app until it's updated: 1) The "updating" message is annoying although it wasn't on screen too long on my home WiFi. Not sure how it will behave on 3G. 2) Gray article text is difficult to read. 3) Scrolling through the articles is not smooth like most apps. Feels "sticky." 4) Tried to add and reorder locations in the weather section. Consistently crashed at the same point indicating an error. Needs to be fixed before it's useful. 5) "Your location" can't be deleted from the weather section. I didn't allow the app to track my current location, but it won't let me delete this unused location. Small but annoying issue. I'd like to read local news especially when I'm on the road, but this app isn't quite there yet. Look forward to an update.

Almost all good. It’s almost all good. Some of the recent improvements, like the handling of pictures, are great. The “listen live” feature needs a lot of improvement. It constantly cuts in & out. It seems there is more time where it isn’t working than is. I’m usually connected to a WiFi network when listening but I’ve tried turning the WiFi off & it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Works poorly. Open the app, click on a story and watch your phone get inundated with suggested apps from the iTunes Store. You can't read the story because you will be too busy shutting down the suggestions. Worse, this isn't the first time the app has had this problem. I reported it to them a year ago and they immediately fixed it. Now it's back... very amateurish. Also I don't see the point in having photo galleries that only show one photo with no links to the rest in the gallery. Lastly, if I'm going to KOMO for news, why link me to yet another site to read their story? (E.g., circa) I think I will move on to KIRO or KING since KOMO seems to not be committed to their app.

Behind the times. I found it funny that the title states “mobile”. Every smartphone and tablet on the market has screen rotation as does every news app, (other than KOMO) it seems.

Used to be a favorite. This used to be my favorite app to use for local weather information. The new version has changed that and now the app basically is unusable. The weather forecast is near impossible to read due to it constantly returning to the top of the screen (vs allowing you to scroll and read all the way to the bottom). In addition, the app loads content to such an extent that it uses up a lot of battery life. Finally forcing users to read white type on a black background is ridiculous. While the old app was not beautiful, at least it was functional and easy to read.

I have to agree. The old UI was definitely better. It was clean, and fun to use. I missed the carousel menu bar on the old app. It also has a tendency to take forever to load. It is not uncommon to wait a minute and a half for news stories to load. I do love being able to stream my news radio through my phone crystal-clear HD sound. But I don't like that sometimes there are long periods of dead air while listening to the radio. I understand the concept of advertisers not being streamed through the app at the same time as on the radio due to payola issues. But then why not streams some light music or the weather or something of that ilk? KOMO still has the best news in Seattle, although the app could use a lot of work.

Doesn’t support iPad landscape mode. Doesn’t support iPad landscape mode Will delete the app

Don't like the video. Really don't like that there is no indication that a story is a video. Most of the time I would prefer to just READ a story, not watch a video report. The videos take too long to load. If you feel you must post a story as a video could you identify it as such ? And maybe you could post a text version of the same story for those of us who prefer to read.

Resets every time something happens. I've written them about this with no fix yet. When reading an article and you get a call, text message, you lock the phone or any other notification that changes the display you will be taken out of the article and put back at the home screen or a directory screen. Then you have to navigate back and scroll down again. I know it's not a huge deal but it gets old really quick. it's annoying enough that I rarely use this app anymore.

Good!. I think in general people don't like change. I don't seem to mind the new lay out. This Komo App is updated more often than King5, and I appreciate that. Keep it updated and I'll keep reading. The graphics are nice, I don't have much to complain about!

some articles won’t load. About every fifth article won’t load. Articles don’t include location or location isn’t obvious. Very limited content. It is easy to spend less than ten minutes on this app for news because there is so little content! You cannot navigate easily between articles.

Video adds kill my battery & interrupt music. I have several news apps, but KOMO is my preferred source for local news. However, this app drains my phone’s battery & causes it to overheat within a few minutes of opening it. And if I’m listening to music on my headphones at the same time, the ads always pause my music. None of the ads in any of my other news apps do that. It’s really annoying & I may delete the app if it continues to be such a problem.

Still slow and klunky. After years of downloading new versions of this app, I had hopes that someone at Fisher Interactive actually knew what a good news app should act like. No such luck. It continues to be slow to load and klunky to use (don't even TRY to use video). Another bit of advice to KOMO: news apps, by their nature, need to have their content updated more than twice a day. Advice to users: The KING app is far superior, and they actually update their content.

Previous version was way better. The new update changed the layout of the entire app and now has a black background. While that's not a deal breaker, the weather portion doesn't show radar (unless it's hiding really well) and when I go to read the forecast, it auto-returns to the top of the page, so I can't read the whole thing. I used to use it daily. Not anymore. iPhone 5.

Frustrating. The old UI was better. Now I have to hit back out of every story and choose a new one. The just scrolling to next is gone. Also with no margin on the screen it is not as attractive and hard to read, even two or three spaces would be enough to know the text is not being cut off. Will no longer be my go to app until it changes for the better.

Why in HADES' inferno happened?. Thanks for the update! Now I can attempt to read the weather report and have the pleasure of never finishing the report because I get scrolled back to the beginning. I realize the issues with the NSA leaks show one reason why information should be protected. Is that why the privilege to transmit or save news reports has been taken away, starts at KOMO stays at KOMO! I have yet to find more torturous additions to your application. Please give large bonuses to the designers of this debotchery.

Little tiny viewing area. I’m using a 12” tablet and the whole Komo live screen is about one inch - it can’t be enlarged, in fact the app won’t even maximize. It’s smaller than something you would watch on your phone.

Won’t open. Same issue. Opens and goes right back to the home screen.

Gigantic text and no dark mode. The app has no dark mode and is blindingly white. Also there are issues with different text sizes in the same article, with some of the text being gigantic!

Dark Mode. It’s 2023 and this newly-redesigned app doesn’t have dark mode? Both the KING and KIRO apps have it, so I’ll be using them indefinitely for local news until this baseline functionality is added. The app itself looks and works fine, but at this point entire operating systems feature dark mode. Nobody ships an app these days without that feature….except whoever designed this app for KOMO. Super lame someone within that organization greenlit this as an acceptable user experience. Do better by your users and give us the choice every other app does.

App wont open. Was having no problem with app. Then suddenly when click icon. Goes right back to home page what happened with app. Ch 5 and 7 are fine

Dislike. Why did you change? I can no longer share news articles with others. When I try to read the forecast, the page keeps rolling back to the beginning-it's hard, if not impossible to read the entire forecast. I notice others complaining about the white type on black. That doesn't really bother me, however it could become a major issue if the articles could be shared or printed. It's time to go back to the drawing board!!

Not a fan of the redesign. Not liking the new design after giving it multiple weeks. Tap targets are very sensitive while scrolling it’s easy to accidentally open articles and I really really miss dark mode.

Love The Video. I’m not much of text reader so the layout is less important to me. The video quality on this application is amazing, it never stalls and starts instantly. No idea how they do this but it is much better than the Seattle competitors.

Give us back the old version!!!. The old app was better than this one, in all but one way. The new loading screen is nicer, but EVERYTHING about the old app was just SO MUCH BETTER! Please update it back to the old one! I hate the new one so much, I might just switch to a different news app. As a side note, I've got about 10million 'home screens' with all the other apps. What makes you think I want one from komo when I can go the the 'local' news part? Also, I only really read the "local, national, tech, and offbeat' sections. In your last app, it was easy to go between all of those and then exit, now i have to search for them and then, once I find them, search for the next one (and hope that I find it before I die of old age). Bottom line? PLEASE REDO BACK TO OLD APP!!! PLEAAAAAAAASE! It was much more user friendly, nicer looking (except the loading screen, I never mind seeing the Seattle skyline) before hand and I'd love to see it return to it's former glory. Some things to work on: 1. I'd like to customize the home screen. It doens't feel like home if the things in it aren't what I look at the most. 2. I'd like to see the whole headline. Snippets do not peak my interest. 3. Be more like the Kiro app I've moved to. User friendly, helpful,. concise.

Horrible update. I used to love this app - used it all the time. Since the update, however, I haven't been able to use it at all because the content never loads - it just forever "refreshes" with no info ever appearing. I'm also not a fan of the new dark colors (red and black? Really??). The previous design was SO much better, not to mention that it actually worked! I'll give it another few weeks to see if they fix the bugs... If not, it will be permanently deleted.

Widgets broken w/update. The recent update has removed the availability of adding the app to the widgets.

Apparently KOMO Doesn’t listen. Look, I love YOU KOMO. I have actually had a number of you in my restaurants/bars throughout the years and all of you are stand-out professionals. However, your app is borderline. Spelling and typo errors are frequent, when you click on an image and there is commentary you cannot read the entire commentary, you don’t often update the app over the weekends and when it is updated it’s possibly one update, the list goes on. So my question is, why even have an app?? Your news channel is great, but your app is failing your viewers. So from a loyal viewer and friend, please, put a little more into the app. We love you guys but you can. do. better. Update: Apparently KOMO still doesn’t listen. DO YOU GUYS PROOFREAD YOUR ARTICLES?? How many misspellings can you have?? You put stories out about great articles but don’t provide a link to get to the fundraiser, poll, or webpage.

Absolutely no sound during video stream. I downloaded the app because the web based live stream freezes so much I was hoping it would be better here. Unfortunately, this app won't play sound during video stream. I've reloaded the app twice thinking it just installed incorrectly and so far no change. It plays video quickly for the live stream but has no sound on both my phone and iPad. Bummer.

False Advertisement. Downloaded this app as it was advertised having an Urgent Care wait time tracker. Upon downloading the app this feature is nowhere to be found.

No landscape mode plus other issues. Same old piece of you know what.. Wish you can give negative stars. Tried the app again after 6 months. They haven't done a thing to improve it. They obviously don't care about their viewers and definitely don't care if they have a decent usable app. I won't be wasting my time downloading this app again. Its getting uninstalled, again. It's a shame since I prefer komo to get my local news.

Decent. I dont know what the person above is complaining about. Local news is on there. Maybe add local news pertaining to the nearest town (I am in Olympia and there is rarely any reports for here). Also, not very many articles added over the weekend or in some other sections on a daily basis. National news section has kept crashing on me for the last couple days, also.

Good, BUT....... I want to like this app, and it has lots of potential, but now for the BUTs....I want to use my iPad in landscape layout. This app use to allow that, but then was revised and stuck in portrait layout, and then revised and once again landscape layout worked, and then it was revised and no go..... Also, for some news articles the user is presented with a > icon in the header image, leading the use to think that there is a video associated with the article....99% of the time it is a Honda ad.😝

Terrible app, old one was MUCH better.. For starters the new update crashes all the time, and the organization is terrible. The older app with the top scroll bar was much easier to use. Also, I mainly want this app for local news in Seattle, I have other, better apps for national and world news, along with weather. On the iPhone version, you can't even see only local news, only a mishmash of local, national, and world news. The iPad has this ability, but you can't set it as a default, so I have to navigate a few tabs every time I want to check the local news. Please bring back the old app, it was perfect and only lacked different graphics for the iPad screen size.

Notification hell. It works well enough, I really wish they included the ability to filter what type of push notifications you get. They send 15 million Seahawks notifications and I couldn't care any less about the team or the NFL. To be able to turn off sports or Seahawks notifications would be great. I've disabled all notifications as a result.

App issues. Two major issues I have are 1) when I close the app my music turns off. If I'm in the app and listening to my music it runs great. But as soon as I close the app my music turns off. Please fix 2) while reading a story all of a sudden it goes to my web to download a game. I don't even see an ad on the story for me to choose. I'm not even touching my screen when it happens Some dislikes are, I don't care how articles are added. I see an article I want to read but before I can select it another article is added so my chosen one has moved down and now I've chosen the wrong one. Close article and hope I can select the correct one. If like a little margin on the sides and at the bottom would be great too. I still enjoy the articles and not the app. I'm thinking of removing it from my news source until the next upgrade.

Doesn't like Apple TV or watching via mobile. This app doesn't like you watching live broadcasts. It constantly repeats a komo 4 advertisement. Over & over. When I watch on the regular tv, the app is still repeating the same advertisement, either komo 4 ad or a honda ad. Very frustrating. King 5, KIRO 7, Q13 apps actually work great. Even better, kiro 7 has an Apple TV app. Komo was actually better when Fischer owned KOMO. Sinclair seems more concerned about politics than the viewers it serves.

Much better than it used to be. Major improvement.. OLD:Constantly force closes, and when I'm done reading a story, there isn't an option to go back to the previous screen to look at something else. If these problems are fixed, this would actually be a pretty good app. NEW: seems everything is working fine. New interface and much more stable. I like it a lot. Glad to have a KOMO app that works again.

Not well thought out. I'm rarely seeing some of the issues mentioned in the other reviews. However, the fact that you can't see the whole headline for 90% of the stories is truly irritating. I don't want to have to open each story to decide if I want to read it! Totally takes the convenience out of having a mobile app.

Great!. The old app was good, but I wasn't happy with the speed, and nor was I happy with the updating of it. I am happy to see KOMO developing the app in-house rather than in Minnesota like before. Overall, it's a great thing for KOMO, and updates in the future will improve the layout.

Great if your looking for a way to waste time. The old app was my number one go to for local news, quick loading and all pertinent current info up front. Now, I don't have the patience it takes for this thing to load up. Don't even think about trying to read a story while this program is refreshing for a couple of minutes during start up. You'll just confuse it and end up getting the wrong story anyway. So many apps try to one up themselves by adding flashy interfaces and wiz bang features but if you don't have the budget for top notch programmers or beta testing, you many times end up with an unusable product such as this in my opinion. Now KIRO is my go to app, it's a shame as I really do like KOMO's news reporting.

KOMO app downgrade. This app used to be simple, functional, with reasonable performance. After the "upgrade" it's excruciatingly slow - firsts the screen goes blank for a few seconds (!), then the "wait" icon spins forever (often minutes) while stories load behind (!) a menu that obscures the screen. You can no longer swipe right to get to the next story - you must laboriously close the story before moving to the next. You can no longer send a link to a story to a friend. The stories listed under "top stories" and "local" are - stupidly - 95% identical, forcing you to carefully compare both lists to make sure you have seen everything. Etc, etc. Come on KOMO, this app is simply terrible.

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Still no landscape mode. Used to be first choice of Seattle news apps, now very last choice. Need somebody who knows how to make an app that uses landscape mode, not just portrait. Noticed Portland sister station has same poor app design. Still no improvement to app. Suggest you get a college student make a good app design for you. Just noticed app has bad reviews from 2011, guess they do not care about improving at all.

Craptastic. The update is horrid. They resurrected the UI from the early days of the web. Only thing missing is the multicolored scrolling blinky text. I guess that comes with the next update. Seriously. Not only is it ugly, you violated several iOS programming norms and it is no longer viewable in landscape mode. I'm looking for another source for my news. Hope you decide to fix this soon.

No sound. This app has always caused me heartache. It has never had any sound no matter what I do. I also like to read the news in landscape mode, but that is not possible with this app. I am a diehard fan of KOMO News on TV and would love to get the news on my device when I’m not at home, but I’m getting frustrated and will be using a different station from now on.

New app. Do not like this update. Takes a long time for the news to load as it pushes each story down. Trying to read the forecast is impossible. It continually flips you back to the top. Sad to say but I don't use this app anymore.

Text cut off. I have iPad app. It only shows in portrait view and the text is cut off on right side. It makes no difference if you change font size. This app needs landscape view or at least not to cut off text in portrait view. I tried deleting and reinstalling app and now it only comes up with their tutorial on how to use it. NO NEWS AT ALL. I am going to something else.

Thank you. Thank you so much for the coverage on the train derailment. You really helped the major networks understand what happened!

Get your stuff together. I don't know who is running the show for this app! This app is a joke. The last 3 releases have had no improvement! In fact, some how you have managed to take a bad app from the beginning and made it worse! Need to clean house and get some real developers in there and start from scratch! I will no longer be using komo for my news...

Still Crashing. Komo just updated this app 9 days ago. The app was crashing before that, and it is STILL crashing. Why dont you guys get it fixed so it doesnt crash???? This is my favorite news app, but am forced to use the others sometimes because this app crashes... Please!!!

Works fine.. Downloaded it in spite of the bad ratings. Seems to work just fine. Not sure what others are seeing. Opens quickly. Stories appear. No problems so far.

Upgrade is not good-Don't upgrade. The App used to be first App of the morning. It was fast, current and easy to use. The upgrade is slow, disorganized, duplicative and unstable. With the old app KOMO had won me over. I now use King 5 for Seattle news and this app is going to be removed. I like KOMO on radio and tv! I don't understand why KOMO would put their name on this app or why they would advertise it in other media. It is possibly the worst news app I have ever used.

App turns off when screensaver comes on. As of a few updates ago, your app now stops playing when the screensaver / lock comes on with my iPhone 6S. The only thing I can do to affect it is to change the length of time until my screensaver comes on. Can’t believe I’m the only one this happens to. I’ve basically stopped listening to your live radio as a result...

It's good!. The only problem I have with this app is that some of the articles don't display pictures!!! But other than that it's great!!!

Junk. Complete garbage, the last few changes have gotten worse every time. If you are trying to make people not use this app your going the right direction. I think I will delete it from my ipad. I used to get most of my news from this app. None of the videos work, as soon as the advertisement is over it kits out, what genius designed that ? What's with the non working contact button ?

Bring back the old app!. Incorrect formatting, can't change text size, can't pinch to zoom, the traffic portion only shows segments whereas before it was more interactive and showed the entire Puget Sound area. Also, you were able to zoom in and out in the traffic map. Loads and crashes... Please bring the old app back! Until then 1* and DELETE!!! Hello King5 News!!!

Would rather read a story than watch it.... Please indicate on your stories if it's going to pop up as a video or article...lots of times I'm checking the news late at night when the hubby's asleep and having a video automatically pop up is annoying...I prefer to read...please fix!

Looks great with the recent updates. The updates to Newsfeed and Watch are a big improvement

Headlines only. Every time I get a notification of a headline, I click on it and the app never opens. If I manually go to the app and open it, it is impossible to find the article. One of the biggest reasons our society is so mislead and misinformed is because people see only headlines and run with them. In this case, only a partial headline. Now to have a news app where that’s the only option is destructive.

Was the best news app. I switched from Kiro to Komo a couple months ago and was pleased. Now that this update came out, whats the point of keeping the app? It crashes every time I open it now. Another thing that bothered me was when I got a text message, how that always brought me back to the main screen. Komo, please fix these errors.

Great update. Not having any of the problems previous commenters are having. Great design. Easy to navigate. Good information. Well done!

New version fixed crashing issue. I was also seeing the same crashing issue others had reported for v1.6.0 V1.6.1, though, seems to have fixed it. Thank you for your quick response KOMO devs!

Share articles. Love the upgrade BUT can no longer text or email links, not to mention social network options. If the feature is there, need to get UX folks on it. iOS 7.0.4 on iPhone 5s. Best Seattle tv news app otherwise.

KOMO News App. The site works well and the news it reports is accurate, but it is a Seattle area news resource, and it covers that area more thoroughly than other news Apps. It does include world news, but it is not the New York Times.

Really wish they hadn't changed it.. I find no redeeming qualities to this app. It is more difficult to navigate and doesn't look as nice either. I guess I will use King 5 from now on. Shame because I really did prefer KOMO's before they change it. Updated review: SERIOUSLY YOU KEEP MAKING IT WORSE! Now you made it harder for me to get to the news stories I want.

Truly awful--bring back the old app!!. I really did not appreciate being forced to "upgrade" to the new version, when I really liked the old one. I thought this new version would be awesome since the old one was great--no such luck. It is really poorly laid out and difficult to navigate. Automatically deleting this. Bad move, KOMO. Please bring the original app back!

What a horrible update. This app was great until someone decided to force everyone to downgrade to the "updated" version it is not user friendly, very hard to navigate and takes forever to get what news you want to see... I used use this app everyday and click the ads I wanted to see and now I never use this "junk" of an app

Mostly useless, nothing is linked!. The notifications will get you Seattle-based updates and country-wide info, but tapping a notification just brings you to the home screen of the app - completely useless! And home screen never has any of the local stories or headlines, it's all celebrity garbage every time. Not a good app at all.

Awful update :(. I used to love the weather features in particular. They are now completely unusable. The maps are now too tiny to see what is going on and snap back to tiny within about a second of zooming in. Today's forecast also snaps back to the top of the screen within 1-2 seconds of scrolling down. A lengthy post like today's is impossible to read! Please fix!

Works great on my iPhone. I haven't experienced the problems listed in other reviews. The new app works great on my iPhone. The ad banner isn't any larger than other free apps. Overall, nice new design.

The app gets worse with every update. A couple years back this app actually provided news. Currently it is an ADVERTISING platform. It displays maybe 10 news articles with no option for past stories. You click on a video link and it shows you back to back commercials then quits. A freshman in college could build a more functional app than this. Pay a professional KOMO!!

Ads being auto clicked... unusable. This app is now useless. When I try and read any article it continuously automatically opens ads to the App Store for games, exiting back just causes it to load the App Store for a different game. Looping like this over and over. In addition, when the ads don't make it unusable, and when using the dark mode, any links are blue against the dark back ground and are nearly impossible to read. It would also be nice to be able to see the header photos without the title covering them up entirely.. Finally, there are many articles that are entirely, or include, photo albums and those are unreadable in the app.

News flash...iPad developed and millions sold.... KOMO missed the news flash and are unaware that iPads and laptops are widely used to read the news. KOMO app only does portrait mode, not landscape as the other news outlets in this area. If a viewer wants to look at the KOMO app they have to turn their devise...WHICH IS NOT USER FRIENDLY AND RESULTS IN THE USERS SWITCHING TO KING AND KIRO...oh well, maybe KOMO is an entirely AI operation run by bots that ready don’t care and cannot spell check for content/context ...

Save the frustration--use the website instead. Preview pics in app store show neatly-formatted headlines. In reality, headlines don't word-wrap. App is unstable, crashes often, isn't responsive. Using the app's "clear cache" option in the iPhone settings causes app to hang on title screen. I've criticized KOMO in the past, for their disjointed and unfocused online efforts--and was promised a better app (by the online news director himself). This effort is WORSE than the old app. Save yourself the trouble, bandwidth, and memory space. Just use the similarly-frustrating mobile website if you MUST get news through KOMO. KOMO should stuck to TV/Radio news--at least they're good at that.

Favorite local station, terrible ad practices. Slow to update, if at all. Poorly organized tile system. The latest update brings you unsolicited ads which automatically open a page in Safari. Very obtrusive. Can't even make it through an article without it forcing you out of the app. Love Komo as a local station, but this kind of ad display is unacceptable.

Content is great, UI is horrible. I prefer KOMO's written news reports over all the other local news groups. However, the new UI is not functional. I think the intent of the new app was to have all the content refreshed and cached upon opening. This function doesn't work. I cannot reliably get the app to update, and if I can get updates it's a very slow process. Please give us the old app back.

My Go-To News App. I love this app!! Stories are reported quickly, and are very informative to working Individuals. Seems non biased compared to the other local popular news app

Bad update!!. The new and most current update (white font on black background) is soooo bad on the eyes it literally gives me a headache, I can't even continue trying to read. KOMO used to be my go-to app for my everyday news update, but I don't think my eyes can stand the change. Please do another update and at least change the color where it's easier on the readers eyes!

Live Broadcasts are Terrible. To read the news is fine but I was hoping to use this app to watch the news while getting ready for work in the morning but all I get are commercials. Just to see what would happen, I am watching my tv and turned on the app... “live” broadcast is definitely not live. Disappointing.

Painfully slow. After ten full minutes of active running, Top Stories and Local News fully loaded, but National News only had one old headline. Technology, Entertainment, and Offbeat were still blank. I turned on the battery- killing background update and after two hours, three more headlines loaded. This app is now moved to the back screen where I store unused junk until the next update.

Worst update ever. Latest update has made this app unusable. Reading articles is impossible as the page snaps back to the top every few seconds, making it impossible to read any lengthy article! The navigation covers the page! It also is VERY slow compared to previous version. This was my favorite Seattle news app. Now I no longer use it

Trouble streaming. When streaming radio, if the phone isn't plugged in, it goes to sleep and streaming stops, only goes about a minute. If you exit the app, it doesn't multitask, streaming stops. When streaming and plugged in, phone gets very very hot to the touch. Stream cuts out for no reason for minutes at a time with no indication as to why.

This update is awful. KOMO, this update is awful. The user-interface is completely unusable and you have scaled back the amount of information/stories to the point where this app is less than relevant. I used to access your app 3-4 times a day. I have now downloaded King5's app and I'm supplementing with other national news apps. Please fix this! I know you can do better.

Needs work. Overall better look but presentation is convoluted and confusing. It would be nice to be able expand pictures so that you can actually see them. As someone noticed, contact page is blank. No idea what the '(i)' button indicates.

Worked well until most recent update. This app worked fine until the most recent update. It didn't affect my iPhone but now does not work on the iPad. It's stuck in the introductory page telling me the features of the app but won't move beyond scrolling through the various explanations of navigating. Also, as stated by others, no landscape view.

Works great!. I think the new version is faster and more user friendly then the previous version. This app does exactly what it needs to do.

Useless. Totally useless as a radio since it goes off once your phone automatically locks(1 min on my phone). Also won't play in background. Did you guys test this at all? I have a dozen radio apps ands non of them do this. You earned the 1 star for the traffic which is slow but more accurate then other apps.

Get serious. Simple test: try another app that does online broadcasts. Note that KOMO drops more often and "automagically" pops out of the live feed. It's still bad if you keep your phone plugged into a charger. If their radio broadcast was as reliable, I don't believe they would have an audience. I have to wonder why they advertise this - they wouldn't if they tried to use it.

Horrible. This is a horrible app. News stories that were broadcasted or on the full website do not appear on the mobile app. Headline fonts are distorted and sometimes don't match the news stories. Thumbnail photos for news stories sometimes do not match the news stories. Whoever developed this mobile app and whoever at KOMO approved this mobile app should be ashamed for pushing out useless piece of junk.

Kills your battery. I like the general format better than most news apps. You can read the highlights or drill into the details. But the stupid video adds just kill your battery. You can turn off WiFi and it is supposed to stop the videos but that doesn’t always work. Dump the video adds!

Reinstalling seems to work for me - for now. I was about to change news stations, but tried what worked for some people - deleting and reinstalling. Working fine now. I have an iPhone 4, maybe it is more stable on those than iPads??????

Better and worse than original. It's faster than the original app which is a good thing. Unfortunately, it has a severe usability problem. The titles are cut off and in most cases you are not able to determine the article content without opening it up. I suspect it would be an easy fix.