KXAN - Austin News & Weather App Reviews

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Meh.... I wish I didn’t have to read EVERY article down to the end to see the next article. I used to be able to swipe to the left to see the next article. In fact, a long time ago, I had a sort of “table of contents” to see all of the current articles. Now I scroll, scroll, scroll....... No fun to read articles that I’m not interested in.

Please add a search engine.. I get notifications on my phone but when I click on them, the app opens but says “article cannot be found”. Sometimes it works but sometimes there can be about 15 notifications from within 3 days, and not a single one can be found. Doesn’t matter how old the article was. Still use the app because I like knowing what’s going but I don’t like watching the news on tv. No other issues with the app so I’m still content.

Frustrating. Now they have decided to have ads you cannot click away from pop up about every minute or so. No matter what you are doing you have a minute long ad you have to sit through. Reading about how you should stay away from an area because a person armed in the area. Not with KXAN, you will have to sit through ads just to read the story.

The bias is annoying.... I hate to be another reviewer commenting on bias of kxan, but it has made it increasingly more annoying. Kxan has always been my go to for local news, as a life-long austinite. For mobile, I mostly just used it for the push notifications of local news, to stay on top of things when they happen. Ever since trumps election, their push notifications have shifted (and yes, this is after I tuned my notification settings). They now promote democratic events on a national level. KXAN, I downloaded you for LOCAL news, not national democratic debate notifications. I know you cater to a very liberal city, and that makes most of it excusable. But for national events and news, can you please leave it for people who have the cnn app, or the Fox News app, or NPR, etc. you are AUSTIN news, not Austin & DNC news....

Phantom ad clicks constantly redirect to ads. If you are looking for a news app that constantly redirects you to ad web sites even though you never come close to clicking the ad then this is the app for you. Seriously… I am constantly redirected to ad pages when my fingers are nowhere near the screen. Thought it was a fluke at first but now it is constantly happening. Shame on the designers for this.

FIX THE APP. Constant freezing, app locks up and either closes out or stops working altogether. It always takes two or three times of opening the app to get it to work, and even then, as I’m scrolling down to current stories it will scroll right back up to the top all by itself...this app is annoying, but it’s the only news channel I use. Don’t make me go with a different news station, KXAN. FIX THE APP!

KXAN news. Our preference is now and always KXAN. The weather, news, investigation and everything I find most informative. The weather is the most up to date. I have loaded all news and weather alerts for o be more up to date though we live in Fayette County.

Useful. I use the app all they time. I watch the live morning feed. I also get the notifications so if there is an important news story I know right away. I also check the radar in this app. Thank you!

Liberal news is all you’ll find here. Obviously a very liberal controlled news outlet. Nothing about Republicans is ever positively reported. Biden could fart and the whole world could hear and that would make news! Trump is nominated for the Nobel peace prize and not a word! Report the news. Report the facts. Report the TRUTH. Get back to what journalism is supposed to be about. Whether you agree or not with the story or the outcome, if it’s truth...report it!!! Put your political beliefs aside and report the truth.

Traffic map. I got this app strictly because the online website stopped pulling up the traffic map for me every morning on my phone. So, I thought to myself ok they want people to get the app, so I did. A week later guess what isn’t pulling up on the app now??? You guessed it. The traffic map. I just want to look at the traffic map to see how I need to come into to work every morning I don’t want to read where the trouble spots are, which is what I have to do now. The only thing I do like about the app are the notifications as to what’s going on. This is my first news app and will probably be my last. Good job with that guys. Now fix the traffic map!!!

Useful but slow. I find the information very useful, however this latest version takes forever to load. Prior versions were much quicker. Again, very useful app but I’m looking at other options due to slow loading.

KXAN app constantly freezes up. I’ve been using this app for a number of years now, and yet the developers don’t ever seem to get the app to be stable. I always keep my iPhone and apps up to date, and even with the (practically) weekly updates to this app, it freezes up several times while trying to scroll and read articles. I’m blaming it on all the ads inserted into the articles. Doesn’t matter that I upgrade to a new phone every year either. I’m always using the latest of both hardware and software, and yet this one particular app (KXAN) freezes up constantly. Poor development if you ask me.

KXAN review. I like the news update. I really like the weather app..... very comprehensive. My only concern, the weather app too often will not open..... or is very slow to open. This would seem like a fixable situation in this high tech world!

Great on iPhone X, broken on iPad Mini Retina. Watching the live stream on iPhone X works fine. On iPad Mini Retina (same iOS & app version) live stream will play ad and about 2 minutes of news before going black and requiring you to restart the stream and rewatch the same ad. Did that about 12 times in a row, alternatively after restarting app or whole iPad before ruling it a bug. Will give 5 stars when it works with iPad Mini.

Unavailable Articles. I think it’s really inconvenient that the articles are not available after 24 hours. Sometimes I do not have time to read the article the same day they come out. I would really appreciate if this could be fixed, I would really hate to delete the app because of this reason.

Bad grammar and not proofreading. Good stories. Good weather but it’s obvious that no one is proofreading for sentence agreement, flow and grammar. It seems as if the only check being done is with an old fashioned spell check software and no one is really taking the time to read the article for basic grammatical accuracy and proper sequence of events and timelines. Spellcheck can’t fix that.

Just okay. The older version was easier to navigate I know you need the ads, but it's had to get rid of that Med Clinic one Plus, articles aren't always current. I expect news up to the minute Sometimes I check about 5:00 am and it shows yesterday's news

Awesome. Enjoy reading news from your area. You even include current news from Louisiana and other areas. Very interesting and pertinent news. Even though we’re from Louisiana, we have lots of family in In Texas. You guys do a great job! Thank you for the great work!❤️

Too Many Pictures, Not Much News. The previous version of this app was easy to find out what was going on in Austin. This upgrade has a picture with every headline, takes a long time to load and mixes the ads in with the news items. It's aggravating. Time to look for a different Austin news app. So sad because this one used to be my go-to app.

Weather map question. Why do you never have the town of WIMBERLEY included on you maps? You have smaller places shown on your map?! And WIMBERLEY has grown considerably, and also has a growing volume of week-end and holiday visitors! It is a kind of a slap in our face that WIMBERLEY never appears on any KXAN maps, etc. Would be nice if you could change that, and allow folks to understand where WIMBERLEY is in relation to the surrounding communities. Hope you will make this addition!

Old App. I liked the old version better than the update version. Seems to me there is less information.

Push notifications are driving me crazy. I downloaded this app so that I would get push notifications for major things happening while I’m at work (bombings, major accidents, etc). Today I received 5 notifications, none of which even came close to being important. If I want to know about someone planting bluebonnets in their yard or warning signs for a dog attack, I’ll watch local news. Don’t interrupt my day.

Notification frustrations. The app itself is good, it’s the constant useless notifications that you get. There is no way to set them to breaking news, the only other option are the top story notifications, which will bombard you with worthless information you don’t really want.

KXAN Ad spam delivery app. Let’s call the newest update what it is….a spam advertisement delivery app. You can’t read one article without having to scroll through 20 ads, all while more ads are trying to load, causing the screen to jump to another ad. Try to read a list of football scores? How about you get four scores, an ad, and then another 4 games and any ad. Repeat the process for all the high school games in Texas, and you get about 50 ads in one article. I realize you have to monetize to keep it free, but there is a balance that you have failed to meet on this one.

Reliable. KXAN seems to try to report the news and not editorialize it as much as other news outlets. But, it’s hard to trust any news outlet completely. The weather team is the most reliable.

App is overloaded with ads. I love KXAN but this app is nearly unusable. There are so many ads sometimes it’s difficult to tell if it’s part of the article. I also often have issues launching the app from a notification. Please find another way to make money than having 90 ads per story.

Images downloading on main thread. Wife showed me the performance issues she was getting in your app and it looks like your cells may be issuing their image download request on the main thread instead of a background thread and it’s tanking the UI. Based on what I see on that screen, that’s the thing that would make the most sense. App was pretty unusable while attempting to scroll through the stories.

Wish It Were Faster. I like the KXAN app but I hate it when the advertisements slow down the loading of the app. We want the info Fast and not after loading an Ad we don’t want to see. Is there some way I can Not see the ads and Not be tracked by Ad Tracker? That would be an awesome world.

Allergy Reports Missing. KXAN is the only local app I use and the new version looks amazing. However without the allergy report the app is a bit disappointing. Luckily the report is still on their website. Hope someone brings it to the app.

Stay Woke Outchea!!. News keeps me sane and aware of my surroundings and environment. Crime flares up at a moments notice. Take great care everyone and help watch over ourselves, children, family, friends, parks, and communities:neighborhoods. With Love, Dignity, & Respect For Humanity ✊🏿 OG Wan Out 🦁 🇺🇸 (Power to the Peepsssss)!! 🛐🙎🏻‍♂️

Good local news source. I use this app along with the Statesman MyAAS app for recent local news updates. This app provides good coverage, plus live news feeds if you want them. Seems to have improved a lot via updates recently. Ads are sometimes irritating, of course, but selling ads is the real purpose of the app, so those are unavoidable.

Mrs. Bradley. We have spent our 5:00 time with all the crew of KXAN since 1990. Robert Hadlock is practically a member of the family. Jim Spencer was obviously influenced during our many years in Oklahoma by our then favorite, Gary England. We have learned to trust Jim Spencer in the same way during weather emergencies. He is a trusted professional!

Love the real time updates. I can always count on getting informed whenever there is a story happening. The weather app is also great to be in the know with Texas weather being so bipolar

Excellent news coverage!. KXAN provides relevant local, state and national news on a consistent basis. I can always depend on the Weather Team to also receive as accurate a forecast as possible! Even further, the Investigative Team also provides a great service to the community and achieves results! Great station!!!

The news that I watch!. I love KXAN news! It keeps me updated on Austin and surrounding areas news. We were on the kxan news when my daughter Lana had to be rescued in the 2015 floods at bluff springs and onion creek. I appreciate the care and concern of the reporter. I think her name is Ashley but I could be wrong. She’s a young lady that I now see on the regular KXAN news. It’s was a horrible ordeal but we learned from it and couldn’t believe we made front page paper from the photos! It’s a part of history that will remain. I have the KXAN app and I wake up to the most current news. It’s great! Thank you for keeping me up to date. Love the channel. Sincerely, Andrea Hauger

I love kxan but I’m having viewing issues. Hi there. I’m not at home right now so I’m trying to watch the news “Live” on KXAN. I was able to watch most of David Yoeman’s all important weather update for the next few days. Then I could only view one ad after another, repeating until the closing of the news. What?? This is unacceptable that I have to watch that many ads & zero news or sports! I feel like your technical team should take a good look at your LIVE settings as there is a problem with your app. Your loyal viewer, Cynthia D.

Like the App but too many notifications. Not sure if there’s a way to only get some, but I couldn’t find it so I had to turn the notifications off. It seemed like it was constant notifications. So now I just click on it when I want to see what’s going on. If it wasn’t for the constant notifications I would give it a five star.

What happened?. Used to love this app, but now you can’t share links to stories. There’s a bookmark or favorites option but no discernible way to mark a story as such. With other functional and easier to use news apps on the market I’ll be deleting this one.

Love the investigations! Wish app could be more interactive. I really love how this news company investigates and finds tons of dirt that really needs to be uncovered in this town—!! It’s really cool and great old-school journalism (like it was before all the corporate crap got in the way like with the big news media outlets...) Yet sometimes I do wish I could comment on the story, and/or see how many other people are aware of the story (just a simple count of who clicked on it) and also find a way to follow-up on the story a little easier as we are often left hanging and have to investigate ourselves through the app to find the updates—-when news seems insignificant to some—-but overall, this is a great source of news..! I do seem to see tons of typos as well that are just kinda baffling in today’s auto-correct world, but ya know—not a big deal. Just a little weird:)

Not worth it. So far the 3rd party kxan uses for their app rarely updates it. A lot of times the app crashes. Well, it will crash or not respond after they show the same advertisement they have been showing for the last 6 months. I guess they haven't gotten the news that apps are where things are going. My wife lambasts kxan due to all their typos in the stories. April 2017. The app continues to prove the developers are clueless. More interested in displaying ads than displaying content. Just for grins attempted to play the weather forecast and displayed same ad thee times without showing the forecast. Thankfully there are other alternatives to a poorly written unsupported app. September 2017. Deleted this garbage app. The new redesign keeps crashing, no surprise given the past app experience. The app dev continues to not provide stability or seemingly care about anything. Wonder if the source is written on 2-ply perforated paper that comes on a roll, cause that's about all it's good for.

Notification Blasting. This app has too many places to manage notifications. All I want is weather notifications. Instead I keep getting top story notifications. Even when I turn them off. Additionally they have a notification area in the settings, but that doesn’t seem to accurately manage all notifications as there isn’t a “top story” setting there, but there is when I click into the notification. Not that the latter works.

Mom in the Panhandle. My only child lives in the Austin area so my husband and I love the KXAN ap. Good news coverage and excellent weather coverage. Gives us peace to be able to know what's going on where our child lives. THANKS for the efforts to maintain this site. God Bless Texas!

Dependable reporting. I count on KXAN to keep me up to date on everything, from breaking news to weather to traffic to local news and everything in between.

KXAN. I am truly impressed with KXAN professional expertise and all their great communication skills in helping the Humanities , including myself, know and understand exactly what is happening. Thank you and all employees that help make this happen

Ad / Hijack. Done with this app after today. When you click to the app from a link someone posts or even open the app your phone is hijacked with “You are the 1000 user today” crap from web development 10 years ago to ads that prevent you from reading the article because if you click to close the ad, the ad opens up. Grow up KXAN you are better than this crappy app

Slow loading/no ability to exit story/inability to access texts of news item. I used to love this app but it is no longer usable for me. Each time I click on a story I get a blank screen, or takes a long time to load the story and then has an ad first but no ability to exit out of the story ulease I exit the app and restart. Waiting 30-45 seconds per story is not acceptable. Very disappointed and it’s a disservice to the professional news team.

Get Notifications Even w/ Settings Turned Off. UPDATE: after several attempts to set the proper notifications, I’m still unable to completely unfollow “top stories”. Despite selecting “unfollow” and hitting some several times, I continue to get top story notifications. I’ve set the notifications in the app to only notify me for allergy related issues. Despite having all other notifications set to off, I continue receiving alerts.

Nice new UI. Nice new UI but as soon as it loads. Bam right in your face taking up a third of the screen is their “helpful” panel I’m your face to enable notifications for certain events. It can’t be removed whether you want them or not. Love they news product, but don’t force me to consume it the way you think I want it consumed.

Annoying video ad leaders.. The app crams many news videos with obnoxious 15 second lead-in ads you can’t turn off, for products and services you don’t want and don’t need. So in retaliation, i never watch their news videos. We are not a captive audience. Too bad your advertisers don’t realize that! Their ad video leaders only annoy and repel their imaginary potential customers.

My favorite news. I like the anchors ,The in-depth studies and investigators, the weather reporters are great and I can always depend on them to stay with me in times of turbulent weather , I like the instant updates I get of things going on in Austin & area ... the only local channel I watch for the news. I must thank all the people behind the scenes that I can’t see that must be keeping everything also running smoothly. Keep up the good work & thank y’all ! ❤️🇺🇸 Betty Cutshall Lakeway

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Realtor. I appreciate the up to date information they provide

Bogus. Have been a long time fan of KXAN but this “trying to make news” investigation of Kindle Morgan is lacking in fair and rational reporting. Today’s big report that the company hires off duty police officers, like most construction companies, makes the KXAN Investigative unit look desperate. Why not investigate why police officers have work second jobs to make ends meet.

Not impressed with changes. I am not impressed with the changes in the KXAN app. I enjoyed reading the news without all of the commentary and doing so in half the time as watching videos. Now the news is hard to find and half of it is videos without a choice to read it.

Pretty good. Would be great to offer a no-graphics version or page to check top stories without draining phone battery so much during emergencies. Could not use during ERCOTgate.

News. Tell the lady that does the news at 10 to move her microphone down. It is hard to understand what she is saying.

The app. Easy to use and informative I switched to KXAN once KVUE upgraded their app. KXAN is way better don’t change! Keep it simple

Ads. Way way to many ads, slow to load and pages crash and reload all the time

"Content Not Allowed for Streaming" - Are you a streaming news app or not?!?!. Too much down-time with lame "content not allowed for streaming" banner. I'm looking for news reports, real-time and recently aired. Switch to the KVUE app, at least you don't have to wait around for the app to designate which elements of the broadcast you actually get to see.🙄

Problem with interactive buttons. Kxan has always been my go to weather page but in the last several months a google add box , that can not be removed, covers the interactive buttons on the radar page. The page can not be effectively used as intended which renders it useless to me.

App occasionally freezes while scrolling. Good app other than occasional freezing while scrolling.

Too Many Popover Ads. The weather information the app gives is great. The problem is that popover ads pop up every 5 seconds making it difficult to get to the information you seek. I understand that the ads help pay for the app but this is EXCESSIVE!!!

Slow and unresponsive. App is extremely slow and unresponsive. I expect that when I open a story I can start reading and scrolling right away. I shouldn’t have to wait 20-30 secs at best before I can scroll. Then it frequently stops working. Not worth the time to wait. Other local news apps out there that I can use. By KXAN.

Today the ads came. When the ads are bigger than the news articles, I’m out. Loved this app but the ads are too much. The intent of the app SHOULD be to build loyalty to KXAN as a brand to get people to turn to KXAN for their news (and sell ads there). Trying to monetize the app on its own will do the opposite.

Works for me. My always go to! Not that happy about the new update but it still does it’s job !

Not one mention of the environmental protest or women’s march. I really like this app on updates for weather, traffic and crime happening in Austin but it seems to keep leaving out very important events that happen in town like the environmental protest and women’s march. Please tell people about these things in advance so they can prepare to go to them. We don’t all have time for tv and Facebook.

Can’t read articles with videos. The latest update doesn’t allow you to see the written article if there is a video to the news story on iPad. On iPhone, the fonts are now huge making it impossible to read any articles.

My News First. I really like this app and I get on it everyday and rely on my KXAN for the daily news.

FYI used to. This used to be the best news app in Texas, used to be . I bragged about how smooth it worked now sorry to say it must have been effected by Pandemic. Like trying to drive a car from the thirties. Hard to steer rough on bumps and brake fade.

The best news in town. Very practical and very informative

Horrible. First of all it crashes my phone (with all latest software) and then it freezes up. Worst is that the ads are total scams and ridiculous spam that I cannot believe our local station would endorse. Sorry KXAN. You guys wasted this chance.

My source for news!. KXAN is my trusted source for news all day long. Thank you!

Always up to date!. I can always depend on getting notifications on a very timely basis. I am always in the know. Thank you!

Informative News. I recently moved from Austin but I still listen to the Austin News every morning! Keep up the good work in informing Austin and the surrounding areas.

News. I have family in Austin and your push alerts and weather keep me up in happenings in the greater Austin area

Buggy app. The app keeps freezing and there are way too many ads. Although, I do appreciate the live news notifications!

Overall a very good app. Informative, yes. Sometimes app won’t open when an alert is sent but I am satisfied overall. I will keep this app.

Great news source!!. Love it when I get an alert! Wonderful way to keep informed!

Too many ads. You’d think we never watch KXAN because they seem to need more and more money from ads. This app is all about ads and less about news. KXAN has been my go to station for over 30 years and going to their app is just a disappointment.

Full page ad. The full page ad for a third party when you open the app is unnecessary. Good way to get people to uninstall right away.

Texas News. Everything you need to know right here!

Fast news. Gives m important detail on breaking news

Poor app, crappy journalism. The app shuts down often when using it. Maybe it’s aware that the journalistic integrity of KXAN is terrible and is just trying to save the user. Glaring typos, poor grammar, paragraphs repeated twice are just examples of the terrible editing. And because I’ve seen the same thing on their live scroll on TV, it’s not just an issue with the app; it’s clearly an issue with their editing team.

I want to like it!. ...but it seems to crash a lot. A competitors sight, which seems to use the same platform, works fine for me.

KXAN...Keeping Extraordinary App Newsworthy. Informative...always bringing the news and latest updates to an audience who truly appreciates the best in journalism. Thank you KXAN....

Liberal bias out of control. Had to stop watching KXAN and news....now deleting app. Liberal bias is extreme or folks are not smart enough to realize it. Either way, found the local fox station and app...little less bias and less “forgetting” to include all the facts and both sides. Good luck, watch your ratings continue to nose dive like national nbc unless you figure it out.

KXAN ROCKS. They keep me posted with the latest news and weather. Jim Spencer’s pet dog keeps me laughing, the different costumes he wears. Great news station overall.

Spammy pop up ads - no thanks!. The full screen pop up ads are horrible. It makes the app useless. I found the KVUE app to be much better for local news. Also, their news articles are heavily tilted to one side. If you want good, even news coverage, then look elsewhere

Decent but too many notifications. I liked the previous format better. It was visually more pleasing than the current one.

More ads than news. If all the filler ads weren’t bad enough now there’s pop up ads when you open the app. Is that really necessary??? The ads are for crap that only a simple mind would click on anyway. I’m done with it.

Always dropping out of the app. I keep trying to stick with the app in order to get local news, but I’m done getting kicked out in the middle of reading a news article. The app is glitchy and frustrating, obviously not able to keep up with the current iPhone iOS.

Truthful. I find that KXAN only reports when they have researched the information. The weather info is great!

Great reporting, bad app. Love the news but the app is buggy- it freezes often even after uninstalling and reinstalling. You need to fix some things.

Please fix the APP!!!!. I have used the KXAN App for years and mostly haven’t had any issues , until lately. When I click on the notification for a breaking news story, it takes me to the webpage and freezes. Very annoying. Please fix this app!

A must have!. If you need information about your surroundings this is the app to have. It alerts me on issues on I-35, Weather events crime etc..

Happy!!!!!. I am so happy to see the news come back home we miss y’all when y’all were gone glad to have you back

Favorite news and weather app. I use this app for all my local news and weather. Great app.

Tornado warning. Wish u all would have been on our side last weekend!!!!! Seems like everyone was off work!!! And we didn’t get any alerts or warnings!!! Hopefully u will figure out the work schedule , so everyone is safe ! Hello it is Memorial Day weekend !!!!

So many ads and SLOW loading. There are so many ads in the app. It slows page loading and scrolling to a completely unacceptable level while the ads try to load.

When I’m in need of breaking news KXAN delivers. From crime to weather and breaking news I love this app.

Disappointed. Really disappointed that you open the app to immediately be assaulted by an advertisement requiring you to “swipe up” in order to even get into the app. Ridiculous.