WCSC Live 5 News App Reviews

Privacy? Beware. Do not like the fact that the app misleads you into accepting the fact that you will be tracked @ your information sold. You have to take steps to have your information concealed via more than one link deep in the settings.

Dislike new format. The articles are set up like web pages within the app. Chunks of outdated videos in the middle. Terrible. Old format was so much more user friendly and easier to navigate. Gave it a try but switching to Count On 2 now.

Recent app update is useless. When I get a notification from Live 5 and click on it, it no longer takes me to the story. It takes me to the homepage with a menu of different sections/news categories. What’s the point of the notifications if they don’t take you to the story? So frustrating.

Very up to date. Always fast with what's going on in the city!! Watch it every morning from 5-7 a. m. And every evening.!!

Channel 5 n Charleston. I watch channel 5 often,I enjoy watching the daily news every evening.

False claims with no proof. This new station has continuously promoted division in the American peoples eyes by showing one-sided narratives that lean more towards one party than the other and hopes to make sure that their Democratic donors are happy and cares nothing about the people who come to them for trusted news and reliable sourceschannel 5 is a big fake and liar

Bring back the old version!. Live 5 News used to have the best app of all the local news channels. Lots of varied and interesting content, both local and global, up-to-the minute news updates, with excellent graphics, it was my go-to news source. Now it’s generic and looks like the others, tacky graphics/fonts, mainly just crime stories. Such a shame.

Frustrating. Not only do they send me alerts with links that do not take me to the related article but to the entire feed where I then have to search, but when I need to know why traffic is backed up for miles, there is nothing there. I thought you guys were on top of things but no.

Stolen car. Thanks to harve Jacobs and live 5 news we got our Mercedes back! Best news, best people! Live 5 is always on your side !!

Too small. I have an iPhone 7 (PLUS) and I still can’t read this stupid small print. Last time I checked. Kids aren’t following the news. But I bet adults with poor eyesight are trying to read this little crap. Probably designed by some dumb young engineers!!! They screw up everything they touch.

Possibly the worst app on the app store.. This app only does one thing well… display the initial-launch-full-screen ad. Then it hangs. Sometimes you get in to see a story, then it crashes. Useless. Forget about trying the live video feature unless you want to watch an ad, then 5 seconds of terrible quality video, then crash, then repeat. Garbage.

Great News. I have been watching live 5 news all of my life. Live 5 is always accurate as well as on time. Live news always has the interest of the low country community at hand. Thanks

Poor grammar and spelling. I read the small articles every day but am sometimes dismayed at the number of grammar and spelling errors. The "check back for more updates" that is often at the end of articles is also frustrating because there usually are none.

Ms. Helen Maxwell. Miss live 5 news when I am away. Look at on my phone a couple of times a day. I have been gone for 5 weeks but not coming home until we are clear of the virus

App Freezes. Downloaded app a couple days ago. When a push notification comes through, the app freezes on the logo, so can't read the article. Other than that, it's good to keep up with the local news.

Great app but.... Waaay too many pop up ads. They should offer a paid App without advertising. I would pay it. Other than advertisements popping up all the time I enjoy the app. Very easy to use.

No way to limit news alerts to specific area only. Turning on notification sends alerts on events from far off places. Should allow us to filter news based on specific ZIP Codes we choose.

Love having the news at ease…. I do not care for the amount of interruptions I get from the ads you sell to get revenue. More often I see ad space sold to whichever advertisers give the most. Seems like after reading a news article from a local perspective, you should not be bombarded with ads that have nothing to do with the article itself. If you were to target an audience that “would” click on an ad after reading an article, you would do better than “Click now! See how this person was zit free in a day!”. I also understand that you get clicks on these ad spaces by accident which would still net some monetary value. Clean it up is all I ask. Streamline the experience like others have. Please. I still do appreciate the reporting done. I still try to get through the ads you have to read the news. I still have the app. Just asking for a more refined ad space. Not open it up to just press an X button!? Makes no sense.

This app is 90% adds now. Very frustrating trying to find the news within ALL THE ADS. Liked the old version better too, it was much easier to find what you were looking for without added steps and additional ads. No thanks, I can find the Chs news elsewhere.

Recommend for everyone especially if you like your up to date news and weather. Love the app🙂

👎🏻. It says when “live” news is not available that most recent newscast will be shown. No, it shows news from other areas not even in SC. Then went to watch a replay of “most recent newscast” and the most recent program was from the previous day.

Live5 News. This at first was an awesome app...now it is getting bogged down with unnecessary ads and duplicated stories. Also the stories have a lot of misspelled words and are hardly updated once posted. Another difference is the reporting of news on the weekend seems to be non existent or very vague and again there are a lot of editing errors or the stories never get updated although they say “Stay tuned for updates”. Live5 News used to be my favorite until the quality off the app went down. I hope they correct these issues.

I hope you hate functional apps!!. Garbage coomercials, random ad walls, all of the sponsored links work, but guess what??? The actual headline links don't work at all!! If you love getting stupid updates at 0700 and hate when an app works correctly, this garbage app is for garbage people just like you!!

Notifications & Alerts. I rely on Live 5 for news and weather, and love the way your web designer categorized the Live 5 news app recently, however when there is a notification or 2 and you click on the app, you don’t know what the notification was for as it disappears as soon as you click on the app

Live 5 news App. I like the old App better there was more news and less clutter and ads most people that are using the app have busy lives and are just try to keep up with what is going on in he area

Videos are buggy. I use to love this app, the developers need to fix the video playback. First you have to watch a ad video, which isn’t a problem, but if you want to see the video you have to rotate to landscape, and when you do the video stops and starts the ad video again. In landscape the whole screen is not visible when you try to adjust the position to see the video, the ad starts over again.

Disappointed. Layout leaves a lot to be desired and the ‘news’ is generally ‘old news’. Not a fan of the new look or much of the content older news. Also, might suggest updating video section. Same videos going back several weeks.

Great for the latest shooting... After a few weeks…the only alerts I see and get are the latest crime stories, accidents, shootings. There are so many interesting and wonderful things happening in the Lowcountry but they seem to only want to report on negativity. Ugh. Deleting this app.

Get rid of the notice numbers. The app is well designed but there are times I open it, look at the newest articles and when I close it the numbers telling me there are new items wont go away. Can you fix that?

Too many notifications. This app would be great however Live 5 pushes way too many notifications. I like to stay up on local news but their pushes are too excessive. Had to delete

Misspelling. Someone needs to check the spelling on some of the articles, the article about the woman killed in the 17-A crash states with no mention of a vehicle that (it struck a semi) so the statement refers to the woman as a it. Not good.

Not that positive feedback. The app is buggy. Crashed until I reinstalled it. After update. At least it must be a communication from the development team about the update. That might be easily detected if tested, which does not seem to happened. Video- it was mentioned in several comments- you can and perhaps must make full screen when you flip the device. You may use the libraries and methods that already there. Adds - beyond ridiculous. You play the adds content then throwing another picture add after which the video content is not played. The user must play the video again and watch another add preceded the video content. No feedback/comments available. Is that how good quality product being delivered? Understanding that the developer does its best.. maybe it worth to find someone qualified to do the work? Maybe it worth to rethink the marketing model? There are standards in app design and development. This is 2019. You are representing the city.

Stories are Repetitive. Read the stories scrolling down and there they are again

Videos/follow stories. The worse app on playing videos! You always have to watch an ad then when you play video and of course you need to rotate your phone to get bigger view . Then the video disappears and most of the time causes it to pause. Then you have to scroll up to find it all over again. Quality always blurry and video half off when trying to view full screen. Follow up stories . A lot of stories are told as developing and never hear anything else on story.

Review. A lot of articles lack sufficient information to begin with. In regard to articles that state to check back later, rarely are there actual follow ups and plenty of times it is the same article reposted. Zero information on the driver who killed the tow truck driver and seriously injured the deputy. Why is that?????

Review. I do not like the new app design and layout. It is now time consuming to read the news. Having to go into each individual section of the news is not user friendly at all. Their is news that I’m missing due to the aggravation of working my way around the app. The new format has made me stop looking at the news.

Updates not good!!!!!. The updated app will not display landscape and I am primarily a iPad user with a keyboard. It is too aggravating to pick up my device and turn it sideways when I have a keyboard attached so I will not be using this app until fixed, and until now, it was my go-to local news app. Must be the same folks that did the update to SCFCU in Charleston that really messed up theirs too….really, how hard is it to compile for use in landscape. I have not even reviewed the other pros and cons of the update due to the display issue.

Weather. Y’all are great but you tend to forget to mention doing your weather forecast to mention us up in the rural areas like St George, ,Harleyville etc and we depend on y’all for our forecast too but beside that y’all are fantastic

Live 5. Almost without exception, Channel 5 has professional reporters and delivers information that can be trusted. This carries over to their website which is very helpful.

App only. The app itself is simple and not overly impressive. My issue is with the constant pop ups, which are increasing in frequency, and glitches. I feel that more important need stories should not be subject to a commercial prior to showing. Just my .02 The news content is what it is. Content.

Excellent news reporting, terrible app.. Live5 has been my go to news source for 3 years running. The app needs news ways to advertise instead of a giant Pop Up “game” to play and download - forcing users to shut the app down only to wait for another ad to play just to read an article. That’s my only gripe - otherwise, keep up the good work.

Sick of the clickbait notification headlines. The notifications that this app sends are pure clickbait. They are not helpful, and you are forced to open the app and sift through all the ads in order to actually get the information that should be in the notification headline

Crappy App. So tired of pop-up ads and videos, and a total dearth of updates on weekends. Tired also of alerts that are just updates to previous, tired stories, and updates won’t clear unless you go to “updates”, and there are none. This shouldn’t even be offered on the App Store, as it’s just an “enhanced” browser. Amateurish and frustrating.

Glitchy. Videos don’t rotate and expand on my phone. I already deleted and reinstalled the app because videos would not even load. At least I have audio and tiny videos now.⭐️⭐️⭐️

New advertisements ruin app. This app has always been the go to media outlet for our family. The new advertisement feature that comes up after opening 2 stories is horrible. There is no way to close the advertisement once it pops up and I have to close the app. What happened?

Paid content garbage. This used to be the best local news team and was a decent app with tolerable paid non-news content. This new app has no more than a couple of actual news stories in it. Time to change to one of the other local stations for my news.

Update Notification Settings. The constant COVID-19 updates and notifications are getting old. There needs to be an option to turn that off. I personally do not care about the new number of cases every 24 hours, each day of the week...

Thru the years & Thanks for the Information and Memories. If you’ve lived in the tri-county area for awhile When someone mentions WCSC - Channel 5 you can’t help but smile It’s rare when journalists stay in an area so long But when they do you can tell it’s because they all really get along Fifty plus years ago my family moved just west of downtown I remember my sister and brothers watching Happy Raine instead of being outside running around We all grew up and went our separate ways Periodically returning for various reasons..but anyways One thing for sure was we all watched Channel Five And most of us live here again now and are just tryin to stay alive Many years ago there was Carroll Godwin, Mike Hiott, and Stacey and Charlie Hall Carolyn Murray, Warren Pepper were there as well and they all seemed to have a ball Bill Sharp, Debbi Chard, Harve Jacobs and Bill Walsh have shared the news, reporting and weather for many a year Through all the good, the bad and the ugly and sometimes even the tears Ann, Rafael, Joey and the newer ladies too You also deserve kudos for all that you do Please accept our sincere thanks for sharing the news and weather with us year after year. We know it’s just your job, but it’s a public service also to be clear And you’ve done it so well for so many years we just want to give you a shot out and a cheer

Good news reporting. Really terrible app (seriously, it’s really really bad). I’ve always liked live 5 for local news. However, content aside, each iteration of the app over the last few years has gotten progressively worse. This most recent one is no exception. A truly terrible app. The crown jewel of over engineering a fix for something that was not broken. If I didn’t have higher expectations it would be comical how bad this app is. Not user friendly. Layout/interfacing is cumbersome and needlessly complicated. Worst of all clickbait/fake news headlines are visually identical to real news headlines. If you want to get good reporting from a terrible app, this ones for you.

Used to be decent. This used to be a go to app for local news. Now it is apparently nothing more than an attempt to print the most depressing news they can find, and if there aren’t enough local murders, robberies, and teachers who do bad things, they go across the nation to find more of the same. Just scroll down on any given day, if you can get past the constant bad grammar and misspellings. Today - “the robbery approached the pharmacy counter.” Come on, you can do much better across the board.

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Add free would improve. Like the news but get annoyed with the adds please make it add free

What happened. Use to be the go to app for local news. Now it crashes on a regular basis and gets overwhelmed with ads. If I could give it zero stars I would. Whomever decided to make this complete makeover for Channel 5 needs to consider a new career.

App Not launching. I just did the download update and now it won’t even open up for me. It comes on the logo and then disappears!!😩😩 Wish I didn’t update the app.

Never can get to load. I have an iPad and iphone13. I am on internet for both. App does not load. I can get other weather apps to load just fine. Don’t recommend.

Glitches. Update is too glitchy to be reliable

Latest update broke it and too many ads!!!!. Latest update broke your app today as all other reviews stated. Also, your news app has way too many advertisements.

Commercials. Download the app to maybe watch a little live TV while sitting still and so far it’s been 20 minutes of commercials back to back so far not good.

Don’t understand. With new App, five year old stories are showing up. Why? Very confusing if you need to check the date of an article.

Format. Not really happy with the new format. Liked the other design better, was easier to navigate.

Not loading. App doesn’t load after it was updated, please fix

Missing the old view. Sooooo many adds, the new layout doesn’t flow.

News app. What’s wrong with this app? If you scroll it pops back to the top over and over.

New app stinks. I liked the old app better. It was easier to read

Terrible new format. Am deleting new format app as it is all about the ads and very challenging to navigate. Hate to delete, but it is way too irritating.

Non functional. After the most recent update I can no longer use the app.

Most recent update causes app the crash. After most recent update, app crashes at startup.

Worst news site ever. You click on traffic and you get news. Numerous misspelled words. You should be ashamed.

Mr C.. Just downloaded the most recent upgrade and now the app won’t work???? Had no issues prior to the most recent update. Fix please!!!!!!!

Crashing. App was fine until I updated and now it crashes as soon as I open it

Biased media. Leaving personal opinions out especially with political issues from your owners n staff might attract more viewers, cause as it stands with our household my family and friends, you’re not on our TV. The viewers know when a topic is swayed and there way too much of the happenings to put the agenda of your party...

Sign on. I saw Charlie Hall sign Channel 5 on as a child. Thanks for still being there! Tommy

BestReport. The best reporting about the Lowcountry an around town the best On the scene and the best picture

Too many adds!. They send alerts of Breaking news you have to watch an advertisement first sometimes just to read the rest of the title to see what it’s about.

Get rid of ad!7. So-so app. I use as last resort because I hate to see and to wait on the McDonald's ad. Many times news is not as current as newspaper app. I haven't had any problems with it crashing though.

If I could give this a zero I would. The new update is horrible!!! I never can find the latest news, way to many ads, and the layout is a complete eye sore and not worth it! I’m deleting this app and getting a different local station.

App update not working. Ever since we updated the app 2 days ago on iPhone and iPad, the app won’t stay open when launched. It immediately shuts down. 😢

Exagerstion. News tends to be sensationalistic. Too much interjects opinions and exaggerations. Seems to be approaching national news. I am watching channel 2 more and more frequently.

New format. Truly horrible format now. I now use Channel 2 which is only slightly better.

Update crashes on launch.. Update crashes on launch on both my iPhone and iPad.

New update. No better than the last one! PLEASE! Go back to two versions ago when you actually gave news that was user friendly....now, I don’t enjoy your site!

Yellow Box. TV said to click yellow box on app to get mask requirements. Can’t find it on my IPhone Weather is hard to get with their roof advertisements. Are you trying to have the app as a public service or a money maker. Other local new/weather apps are much better.

Eh. Too many ads and now random pop up videos.......when you a trying to read the news quietly and suddenly a blaring commercial pops up. Not cool

Good news. Good news

News lover. Another example of better being significantly worse. Terrible organization of material, large blank spaces. After app is opened and viewed, the notification counter does not reset.

Version 6.2.10 Doesn’t Open. I updated on my iPhone 6s this morning and now the app immediately closes when I try to open it.

Hate this new application. I am really disappointed that all the app does now is want to send me to Instagram to get my news now!

App no longer works after update. Please fix app

Melle. Excellent job I don’t watch no other news

Just deleted app. I just deleted the app thanks to your new way of forcing ads down my throat. Randomly allowing videos to just pop up whenever you want without warning me is so rude. You lost this viewer for good.

BROKEN AFTER UPDATE!!!. I have a iPhone XS Max an before the update it worked with no issues. And now it crashes every time I click on the app. Won’t open up or anything. Please fix.

Umm!!. It seems to be that after the update, I’m having trouble getting into the app.

Quit working with last update. Last update is trash. App won’t load now

New Ap is awful. This ap is not user friendly and crashes often.

Horrible. Takes way too long to load, pop ads repeatedly before I can get to any content, no more Facebook ads...time for you guys to go back to the drawing board or for me to go someplace else

Don’t upgrade. Just made the mistake of accepting latest update for my iPad. Now the app won’t load at all. Can’t go back to previous version either so I guess I’ll find another news source.

New App. New version has many downfalls. It is constantly stopping in the middle of reading news stories. They need to go back to the original version or at least give people a choice.

New Update. The new update has too many bugs and ads. While reading a new story without touching an ad, the screen goes blank and hangs in a loading screen. Too bad, this was once a good app that rivaled The Post & Courier.

Where is the national, business, international news tabs. The new app only does local news. I wish they could add the national, business, and international tabs back. Or maybe they are there but it’s hard to find them.

Love Live5news. My husband and I ALWAYS watch Live5news. We use the app for knowing what is going on in our community. Thank you Live5news!!!

Don’t size. You have to use a magnifying glass to read the stories now