Atlanta News from 11Alive App Reviews

Shameful Countdown Banner. Love 11 Alive BUT I won’t be watching consistently for the next 38 days only to see the HUGE Paris Olympics Banner distracting from the information needed for my everyday life. CNN made this their shameless practice a regular habit. I stopped watching their station altogether and don’t miss it at all. Do we really need a 38 day countdown? I certainly don’t. Once the banner pops up I change the channel.

Up to date in news. 11Alive keep me up to date throughout the day with updates. Keeps me informed of the latest news. Thank you for all your reporting efforts! Michael

Ok. Too many notifications that aren't news, let alone news worthy of a notification... they've now started sending what are essentially commercials for their new 11pm reformatted newscast as notifications. When in the app there are a lot of ads that pop up. And if you click on most story links you're taken to another page where you have to click again to actually get to the story. With all these things, I don't end up using app much unless I have time to waste or am looking for a specific story.

Too many ads. It seems that there is an ad showing after every couple of sentences in the news story. At times the story you’re looking for (that you specifically clicked on the notification for) can’t be found. I thought the app used to be better than that. I love 11Alive and watch NBC more than any other network but this app is not up to par at all with the other ways I enjoy this network.

11 Alive is my News station. 11 Alive is my all time news station!!!! I love the morning, afternoon and evening crew ! I am elate that there is more than one television in my house because my husband watches the other stations! MYSELF , 11 Alive is my station and wherever I am in the house you guys are on!

Big Step Backwards. The new app is an improvement visually, but in terms of functionality and performance, it’s a mess. It seems more thought was paid to design rather than usage. Takes too much scrolling to find stories compared to previous version. Near impossible to get to previous location in app without having to start over. Developers thought they had created an intuitive design, but they failed. Previous version, despite its lack of visual “pizzazz”, was far more user friendly.

Content organization & notifications need improvement. This was a decent app but it continues to get worse. Very good app. The two big issues are notifications and content. I love the traffic notifications, but there's no way to control what other kinds of things your notified of. The app has many times spoiled sports scores for me. Notification you to take you to written versions of the news but many of them now take you to live video. So if you don’t click it right at that moment then you missed the story. The stories themselves used to cover a variety of types of news but now it close to 100% Atlanta news only. I couldn’t find any news today about the world, or the Iran war. The only national stories were about funding the TSA and gas prices. There’s no way to filter or find stories or certain news categories - it’s just one long continuous feed. If you keep scrolling, the stories are over a month old.

Facts Not Fear On COVID-19. 11 Alive has been my Only News Station & will continue to be my Only News Media forever More! I love the real time interaction with the Public & that you live the example for all Georgian’s, Not just Preach it. You do not talk at as Us, but Rather with Us & for that I’m grateful! 'Up Late' was a brilliant idea for a News Format, No other News Media does this, it’s still the same old status quo. Keep Up the Amazing Work!! Facts Not Fear does lessen Anxiety, I know well because I’m totally Alone without help or transportation & It calms me without bombarding me with severe Fear propaganda. Straight Up Facts, COVID19 is No Joke!! The app is AMAZING!! It is how I get the all the updates on anything! I love love the COVID19 notifications & Severe Weather Alerts to my phone! Keep up the Amazing Job in a Troubled World! It brings Peace & Calm to Most! Sincerely, Stephanie Peace

Accuracy. This is my go to accurate newscast. It entertaining its educational and it deliver inspiring news stories. All four of them are outstanding anchors especially Mr McNeil and Fransika sorry if I spelled your name wrong. Keep up the good work I love it! 11alive news!

Article is read often. I read articles from your news about 3 times a week.

Stopped working. At first this was a great app, then it stopped working. I keep getting news updates but the videos will not let me click on them to listen and no other options will change if I click on them. It’s just a tease and quite frustrating as it doesn’t work. I even checked to see if there was an update I needed to load and there wasn’t one.

Ads?. What’s the deal with all these ads popping up? I can’t even read the news for the ads blocking them. There is no way to get rid of them. 11 Alive used to be my most watched local news station. No more. It’s impossible to read the articles and watch the videos.

Can’t even read news!. 11Alive used to be my go-to for news but not anymore! You can’t even read the news on their app!! Whenever I get a notification and I want to read it, I am bombarded with ads! When I exit the ads, then the article won’t even load anymore! Half the time, the notification topic I click doesn’t even bring me to the correct article! This has gotten beyond frustrating and just flat out annoying. I’m switching to use the WSB app. This app is a joke.

Terrible. I watch WXIA every day. Their website is not updated on a regular basis, so I just don't check it out. I also am not fond of the changes they made with the on air broadcast teams. All the familiar faces are gone with just a few exceptions. I don't like the early morning format - if Chesley and Crash weren't on at that time, I don't think I'd watch it.

News you can count on. A complete up to date and informative news app. Others can not compare. Always a cut above.

The perfect balance. 11Alive has a way of balancing the news that presents the fun news with the news you need to know. I rarely miss Morning Rush because it feels like family. The personalities gel well even though each anchor person has their own perspective. I feel like the in studio team works well with the on location team. I truly miss some of the people that aren’t there when I started watching in 2008, but 11alive always knows how to weave new personnel in seamlessly. Great job!!! Delivering news couldn’t be easy,,, but somehow they may it appear that way.

Needs work. I use this to watch the news in the morning. The app crashes, plays ads during the broadcast, and will play them repeatedly until it finally gives up and crashes. I have the option to close out the ad, but it will continue to pop up and play with no sound.

Live & Accurate. I don’t watch much news on tv because the app keeps me up to date with accurate and breaking news!

Bring back old app. This app is not as good as the old app. You click on a notification and it takes you to a live feed instead of the story you want! It also doesn’t allow dark mode because I have searched over and over trying to find how I can view in dark mode. I have the settings on my phone for dark mode but it won’t work with this app. Bring back the old app!

Nothing works right…the most HORRIBLE UPDATE EVER. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE UPDATE!!!! They have completely ruined the App with the recent changes. I hate the new look. Nothing seems to work right, and I mean nothing!!!! Daily weather doesn’t load right, the homepage is HORRIBLE now and just scrolls the same stories over and over. Contact us doesn’t work. Why must you keep changing things? And changing them in a way that just absolutely ruins the app. Whoever approved this update should be FIRED immediately!!!!! Did you even actually test the app before launching? Also, What happened to the traffic, can’t find it? I Hate everything about this new app. Absolutely the worst app update ever!!!!! Please return it, at least things worked right.

Ads so large you can’t even see the article. Look, I get it...ads are the only way to make money off of a free app. But each time you open an article, it takes forever to load, and about 15 seconds later an ad the size of the whole screen covers the article and you have to scroll all the way up to exit. Many times the whole app freezes and the article disappears. Why can’t you just have the ads at the bottom like everyone else? If you’re looking for local Atlanta news, get the WSB app. Same news, just no impossible ad system. Please fix!

Terrible app!. This is the worst performing apps on both my iPhone and iPad. I will get an alert about a story which I would be interested in reading and click the link. It takes FOREVER to load. Once it finally loads, it makes me click once or twice again to get to whatever meager content there is they alerted me to in the first place. Constant pop up ads. Even if you close them, a blank box will remain where the ad would have displayed. It continues overlaps the text of the article you want to read. Sometimes the audio of a video will start to play but the video itself is nowhere to be found. Just awful!

Great News stories comforting. It was so great to hear the good news stories of people helping people during the COVID-19 virus I actually watch the news twice and for the first time restored faith in humanity in a sense of well-being thank you for reporting good news

Review. I love the layout and how it video first begins…I find it kind of like the beginning of a good show you’ve been waiting all day to see and you hear the theme music get going…

Needs improvement. Adds popping up and literally preventing the article being read seems counterintuitive. Takes away from the reading experience. There is also no way to share an article with a friend which is surprising. The app is also crashing a lot. Can’t be browsing on it for more than 5 minutes it seems before it crashes and 2 of those minutes are adds! This is at 11 alive news itself. I just want to say what a terrible job has been done with the Governors race. The most recent notification I have right now is (Abrams pulls 8,245 votes in just one week!) Never was there an optimistic headline for kemp. This type of bias is what covered the whole election. I have no idea what the kemp campaign did because you only covered Abrams and her “Positive” attitude!

Conciseness of weather reporting. Of all the weather reporting agencies of which there are many there is none that I know that is as precise and almost close to reality as yours is you have a gentleman on in the mornings and I'm writing this on October 27, 2025 and he is pleasant yet factual explains the situations that he doesn't treat with homilies; -I.e. As you are picking up the kiddos from school or going to church etc. etc. Keep up the good work

Thank You. I want to thank all of you so much for keeping me in formed during the hurricane you all did an outstanding job and I thank you… keep doing what you’re doing and I’ll keep watching and supporting thank you all!!

Don’t get this app!. This is the most outrageous, horrible app I’ve ever had the misfortune to get. It is nothing but clickbait and obtrusive ads. It is impossible to go straight to a story without clicking through 2-3 links, and the ads won’t go away—they will often spontaneously begin replaying even as you’re reading or listening to a story. Any of the local TV apps are better (although each also has its annoying proclivities). I give it 1 star only because the negative star number line is disallowed.

Tornado warning. It seems like the station could forgo the advertising when people are following up on a tornado warning. By the time you get through the ads, you would be dead from the tornado.

Balanced and informative. I basically only Watch 11 for local news. I find that the broadcasts - morning, noon, and evening- are not full of hype and hysteria nor full of fluff. The tone is serious and helpful, some humor in the mornings which I love. I also find the information presented is balanced and the intent is not to alarm. I appreciate that. And, so I downloaded the app which I now depend on. Thank you.

My thought. Great app. Overall, it is a good app. But like everything else, there are areas that could be better designed for mobile information. But thank you for the update and for the weather alerts that I am able to get

Great info. I use this app quite a bit as I travel around quite a bit , I can keep up with all local news when I am on the road and I’m actually alerted to certain events going on happening by the app… Works great for me!

On point. Such a great app that gives you stories all around Jefferson county and southwest Louisiana. They have come a lot way. A must have do to all the wonderful changes that have taken place. Download it and see for yourself

Constantly crashes. Has ads that cover the article. I have reinstalled this app multiple times. It gets to where an ad for some Bomber podcast comes up and blocks the screen and you can’t clear it off. Nothing works. Useless. Was great before they covered it with ads and made it not work. Fix it. Update- I’ve tried and tried to get this to work. Nothing helps. I get updates on stories and then try to view them and nothing happens. I load the app on its own and it crashes. It used to be awesome but something is way wrong with it now.

11 Alive. I have watched 11 Alive since I was a little girl. I’m 65 now and continue to watch its trusted news daily. I love their fact check segment as well as news. Having this app means I don’t have to miss any news. Love it❤️

Good so far. Been using this app for a few months and the information has been accurate and on time, based on facts and independent for what I can see.

Grammar. I’ve made 11Alive my place for morning news and weather for its professionalism, attitude and neat choreography when not in Covid Mode 😁. And nothing personal, but when I hear a reporter read the phrase “in connection to” My head spins a little 🤪. Doing a bit of Google research, I have yet to find a conclusion other than “in connection with” being the correct way to say that phrase.

Thank you 11 Alive for keeping us informed. I am glad that you offer this service so that as a community we can stay up to date with latest important news!

Used to be a good source for news. The format has changed for the worse. Many of the notifications don’t inform, just give silly leads to entice you to open the app, where you get slammed with multiple ads for apps. Try to scroll thru the story and the page jumps and you find you’ve just clicked on another ad. Too much advertising between paragraphs of the article. This used to be my main source for news on my cell phone.

11 Alive News Kudos. 11 Alive news updates are important especially in the climate of the world in which we now live. Please keep up the great job you all are doing to keep the public informed. Thank you.

Facts, Not Fear. Update today, March 12th, 2020: I depend on 11-Alive for current, valid, relevant information on COVID-19. I learned tonight about what’s called “flattening the curve,” from reporter Kaitlyn Ross. Reporter Kaitlyn Ross explained that “social distancing” allows us to help defeat COVID-19, by denying the virus the ability to easily spread, by reducing our social, in-person contact with each other. In times such as these, 11-Alive helps put my mind, at ease! I posted the Review, below, a long time ago: Live Life with 11-Alive: I can honestly say that checking-in with 11- Alive News, whether by using my App here on my phone, or watching tv, curled up at home, is part of how I “live life.” The news that 11-Alive shares with me contains (of course!) the top stories of the day, but this station also gives me something that I don’t see, anywhere else: stories that remind me that living life means learning about those who make a difference in our communities. From the feel-good stories early morning with Chesley and crew, to the evening updates on families in need or homeless dogs, (Kaitlyn Ross is my “go-to” reporter!), 11-Alive definitely leads with intelligence and compassion. Keep doing what y’all do; you’re helping us all, to do better!

Loaded with ad pop ups and now opens the App Store every couple of seconds. The worst of all is that every couple of seconds the app now launches the App Store for a piece of junk app no one will ever want. Which app it brings up seems random. The app is now showing ads you have to swipe to remove immediately upon launching the app. They also appear at random times. The news articles it has often now have links to read it. This is not a news app, it’s an ad app. Time to uninstall and look for something else. Yet they advertise on tv that they listen and give us the local news we want. I’m calling BS on that.

Use to be my go to news app. I have use this app for years and it has been my go to news source. But after the last couple of updates it has been frustrating. I get notifications and click on ones that interest me. But now many times (at least half of the time), the article that I want does not come up and I different one comes up instead. I try searching for the article that I want to read but can never find it. I hate to have to switch to another news source because I trust 11Alive to be factual, but this has become to frustrating.

Could be better.. I use this everyday to be informed. I wish they would fix the issue with when I open the app and go to watch something there is no sound I have to press the play button and then an ad comes on. Every single time it is extremely annoying. And then I can scroll down to look as another video and the previous videos will start playing as I am watching.

Wrong Stories ... Bad Interface. I see several notifications of stories I would like to read more about however when I swipe to view it often takes me to a different story or the story is hanging off the iPad "page". I can't read the story. If I try to go to the home page and click the story manually, it again takes me to a different story or the whole app completely crashes.

Review. Great content. However I woke up at 8am and there was no 11Alive as a live stream. That was disappointing. I happen to be in an area, that the only channel I get is ION or the home shopping network. I look forward to your broadcast daily. Maybe... network error. Could you look into fixing that, please

Duplicate images and new format. Liked this site much better before. New white background format or template doesn’t enhance readability. Also, if there aren’t enough stories, there are multiple duplicate stories on local and top stories. Oftentimes, the wrong picture is with a story or the exact same story is posted 3 times at the bottom of the page. Disappointed!

11 alive kept me informed i. My daily information I get it from 11 alive. Listening to , them I get ready in case it rains, snow o it will be sunny. I can arrive on time to work because of the traffic updates. Thank you 11 alive!

So much promise, so poor delivery. Having an app to alert me to local news is great, but the delivery of said news is awful. Video plays automatically and difficult to stop it, really inconvenient when in a place where noise is an issue. Screens don’t load correctly with ads often obscuring what you are trying to read. You have to go to several different sites within the app to get what you’re looking for. Sometimes clicking on a news alert takes you to an entirely different article. Please redesign this with experts in web design!!!

Fun hunting for grammar errors. ...and there are plenty. My favorite headline today is, “Two Brothers Faces Carges…..” Nobody there thought to read this and I edit the word to “Face”. You will be amazed at all the basic grammar mistakes. It's a good teaching instrument for grade school children to learn proofreading. Unfortunately articles will auto play attached video clips with audio, even if your phone is muted. Not good if you're trying to not disturb those around you. You will get tired of hearing how they're "Holding the Powerful Accountable." It's ironic since they obviously don't even read an article before posting it!

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Jar. Poorly designed website. If you click on a story, it will go to that story for a moment then an ad will pop up and when you close the ad, it takes you back to the original page where you have to click again. A waste of time.

THANK YOU for Severe Weather Warnings!. This FSU Seminole greatly appreciates the great work by 11Alive meteorologists to keep us informed of inclement (possible tornadic) weather while watching our football game with Notre Dame!

Helpful. Informative, timely, notifications, but not too frequent to be bothersome.

Awful Ads!!!!. Love the app but the Ads are completely obnoxious. They are running 30 second ads for these stupid games right now. Every time I go to watch a segment these screaming men pop up running away from wolves and sharks are making these crazy noises. It’s embarrassing to use the app around other people because of the obnoxious sounds.

11Alive Is the Best!!!. Very Informative!!! I can always come here and get the most updated news.

Updates Are Awesome!!!!. Updates on the go and not having to stop and find the news station is awesome!!!!

Try another local news app before downloading this one. As many others have said...screen never loads right, you spend more time trying to get to the story than reading it. Way too many ads.

Video Pop Ups!!. This used to be my go to Atlanta news app. Lately it has become frustrating. Random video ads will pop up full screen every 15-20 seconds. I have to close out of them 10-15 times to get through one article. Please fix this ASAP!!

Listen on the go. This is very useful tool for someone always on the go over the road vacation

Depend on 11 Alive. First thing when I get up, no matter what time, I turn on Channel 11. If I am out and about I know I’ll get important notifications.

News? More like drama. I get alerts for stories that not my dead mother would care about. I signed up for alerts and I’m getting them. But the news alerts that aren’t even news worthy. Who’s writing this stuff? It’s gotta be an intern or some millennial and it’s their first job. If someone that works there reads this....take note of WTHR in Indianapolis. That’s a news station...and an NBC affiliate! They are on point.

User friendly app. Icheck in here everyday Easy to navigate and keep up with local news

Terrible design. You can't get thru an article without having the entire website close! I can't get thru reading my daily news stories without having to restart the app at least 5x. I even deleted the original app & then reloaded a new one & the same thing happened...over & over. I'm sick of this!

Ads. Too many pop up ads you can’t get rid of.

Best news. I get a lot of notifications from other outlets but 11Alive is on top of things and accurate

News. I watch 11-alive first thing in the morning to find out what’s going on that day

Classy News. Always informative, professional and trust worthy to bring the facts. Like all the news castors and anchors but my love for the Morning Rush Team is 100%. That Team!!!!

Great for keeping up to date with everything. The ads feel a bit intrusive tbh. And there should be a way to have videos to not autoplay.

Fantastic job. Keeping me in the know with all the News from Sports through Weather

Ads ads ads and more ads. The amount of ads on this site is ridiculous. You can’t see any videos without first watching an ad and then text of the story has ads after every paragraph you read. Disappointing !

News you can count on. A complete up to date and informative news app. Others can not compare. Always a cut above.

Queen Esther. Thank you for fixing your app. It now loads faster & more efficiently. Great breaking news stories. And I love watching your news on TV. Thank you Vinnie Politan for the new news!

Meh. Install a pop-up blocker and I might download the app again. I had to delete it because I couldn’t read a news story without being taken to the App Store or an unrelated site.

Great App. Since I travel out of town for work, This keeps abreast on what’s going on in the City

Keeps me in the loop. Love this APP gives me the news throughout the day. Short and informative!!

Trust for 11Alive. I always depend on truth when I hear it read what 11Alive reports. Storm Tracker Weather is our NUMBER ONE go to when we want updates.

Terrible weather interface. 11 Alive had one of the best weather apps for years. Now they want to discontinue that app and force you to use the weather interface in this app. I can’t say it with enough emphasis, THE WEATHER USER INTERFACE IN THIS APP IS TERRIBLE. Please bring back the weather only app!

Great weather coverage!. Appreciate all the weather alerts. They really keep me updated.

Poorly designed. You click an alert which only takes you to the headline. You then have to click another link to get the story, after of course you are inundated with ads. Obviously the reason for this is to attach cookies and sell more ad space not to tell at story.

Notifications no longer link to the right article. Used to be a good app that would bring informative news after clicking through the notifications/alerts. Now the notifications are too frequent and don’t take you to the right article. What happened???

LisaW. Great news alerts that keep me up to date.

Atlanta’s Number One. I’v been living in Atlanta for the past ten years and always get my new from 11 Alive!!!

Exceptional Writing. I appreciate you all taking time to properly write the mobile app stories.

Great service!. I am really enjoying my news updates. Great work!

Not an upgrade. The new app used to crash more often than not on my iPhone X. It is much more stable now, so upgrading my rating to 4 stars. Because it isn’t PERFECT but really good now.

Ga Man ejected from keep on Florida Expressway.. Timely & informative news, I check most alerts.

11 Alive 4 iPhone. Very annoying to use. Breaking story pops up on home screen. When you slide to watch, it is interrupted by so many commercials and pop ups that you finally just go back to what you were doing and watch the news later on TV. Come on guys, you can do better.

New Jersey resident.. I’m fairly new to this but so far the news but the reporters are very knowledgeable. I’ll keep you updated. Regards, Dawn M Grzeszczak Bayonne , NJ

Awesome app. Keeps me up to date on latest news!

11Alive News App. This is a great resource for keeping up to date without politicizing "the news". So current and well written

Amateur hour. This weekend there was no regular Saturday 6 p.m. TV broadcast due to college football, but there was a prominent story on the app that said there would be a streaming news broadcast at 6 p.m. Well, the time came and … nothing. Just wasn’t there. It’s a real shame the technology side can’t get their act together in 2023. Embarrassing.

11 Alive breaking news. Fantastic breaking news updates all day long. A+. Thank you. Bonnie Lou Martin

Atlanta News. They are the BEST Atlanta News team out there… I will be watching it daily for sure.

Dependable 11Alive. I am happy to say that 11 Alive news is my first thought when it comes to keeping me in the loop . I can depend on 11 Alive.

Knowing 1sts. I just think it’s great when I know what’s happening locally without waiting to hear it on a hour broadcast. Great job 11 Alive. Metro Atlanta loves you!

Keeping Us Updated and Safe!!. Especially on a day like today, I really Appreciate the constant reporting and Keeping Us Updated and Safe!! Thank You 😊🙏❤️

Awesome and current. I recently purchased a Smart Watch and it’s nice to get the current alerts on my wrist without grabbing my phone to check!

A daily user of the 11 Alive App. I use this app everyday. Very annoying to get ads that pop up when reading one of your updates.

Great info. Always up to date

Elain. I like 11 Alive because they report news, weather, etc about 5 minutes ahead of the other local stations on line