OANN: Live Breaking News Reviews

by Dagoba System

1.) Notifications I receive (on iPhone, at least) to a new article don’t link to the actual story or video, but to the Top Stories tab - and the story is never there. I can’t ever find what interested me in the notification. And there’s ...

2) No search function! So not only do notifications NOT link me to the article, I can’t search for it. And there are ...

3) Very limited categories to peruse through. So I get a notification about an article regarding the border wall, but the notification takes me to no article, I can’t search for it, and it doesn’t show up under any selectable category. 🤨

by Jesus Is My Homeboi

Kara McKninney talks about Jesus all the time and how God this and God that, which is TRUE, but she also had some “veteran” that has his own “talk show” to talk about how critical race theory is bad. I agree, however, do yourself a favor, stop speaking for everyone. Yes there are racists. Let’s not try and pretend it doesn’t happen. What does Kara and the rest of the hosts think about mixed race people? How can you “categorize” those people? You can’t. You’re insulting, and you’re drawing people away from conservatives. I have mixed children. You aren’t going to call them whatever you think you are, the kids have TWO DIFFERENT PARENTS of more than 3 races involved. Sorry God didn’t just make 1 or 2. That “vet”, yeah he signaled out black soldiers. What do you think you’re doing? Would you talk to our brothers in arms like that to their faces? Tell them they don’t get the shaft sometimes? They do. Mixed people even worse, because of racism like Kara. Tell her to stop being a phony Christian and apology for that bad host! I am also a veteran myself! You don’t speak for conservatives! God is a God of ALL PEOPLES, stop trying to separate us phonies!

by 4starlite55

Why dont oan offer live tv on its app instead of just replayed videos? Not all cable companies are willing to add oan in all areas only in big cities or selected cities. It is better if oan offers live tv in OANN for those who cant get that channel in their area. Think about it, who want to watch old news when you can watch updated news. Also for those who currently do have it through their providers OANN should allow them to login using their providers credentials. HBO, STARZ already allows that. They let you login thru your provider or if you dont have a provider you can use ut as a stand alone. You should do the same

by Berrylicious999

There are some major bugs affecting the interface actions, currently. As I came here to write this, after giving up and deleting OANN ; I see someone else had issues too.

I was unable to share articles with anything but Airdrop. There were no available links to articles I would be able to share on other platforms. NO share buttons to text, Reading List ... nothing. No long press...

I was unable to bookmark any article, either (as stated by someone else) and OANN would crash when I attempted to bookmark anything.

by Viet.vet

The good news is the most important aspect - the journalism - other than distinctly, DISTINCTLY lacking depth, is ok. Nobody’s grinding axes and opinions are kept in the closet. Technically however, the site looks and acts like a high school project with multiple stories behind the headlines completely missing, meaning somebody else needs to be in charge of quality control. Ditto formatting as captions and text body regularly run together while zero-width borders are annoying and misleading. Were there more stories with more detail all could be forgiven, but this is still barely Beta. Please, find the funding and get more people. The site and application, as regrettable for the country as it is, needs them.

by Art Wild

Textbook propoganda content.

“News“ presented here could be a valuable tool for teachers and anyone interested in examining the uses and effectiveness of propaganda. Along with other apps featuring extremely left and right biased "reporting", as well as those merely “leaning“ towards either side, OANN is potentially enlightening and helpful.

The sad thing is that there are millions who actually believe this and other “news“ outlets are in fact unbiased. In the wrong hands, the material presented here is extremely dangerous and part of the force that is trying to further divide people and turn this country into a far more hateful place.

In the right hands, examined for what it is, and compared to its counterparts on the left, OANN can be used to help bring people to a place we all desire, a place of increased understanding and devotion to the principles that this country was founded on.

by Underdog 333

Good content but OANN need a lot of work; I love the stories this app cover. OANN locks up in the middle of the story so I miss the important content. I am a truck driver and I travel all over the country. It is important to me that I keep up with current events. Other conservative news app’s in the same area and they work just fine. And don’t change a subscription fee if they had glitches I would not be concerned a this would be whining, I don’t mind paying it needs to work better. Again it’s good content!

by Moyervaustin

this app is one of the best conservative news networks that I trust. I look forward to their regular articles as I personally don’t like watching news on tv or video stream. I could not get OANN to work after using it for a little while, as it kept crashing immediately after opening it. With all of the big tech censorship, I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t the apps fault. Like Parler being shut down earlier. But I hope this app is able to fix their great app and fix any bugs that lead to its constant crashing. I have the 2020 IPhone SE, fully updated, so it shouldn’t be an issue on the phones end. Thank you this app for the great news source, but please fix this crashing issue.

by Iampat83

I’m am happy with the news I am reading here. As another reviewer has stated, “opinions are left in the closet” The articles are just enough to make the eager reader do some digging.
My only complaint is that, I cannot share lead ins. The share button within the articles only give the option to share through airdrop (on iOS) it doesn’t allow the option to share through email or text, or other apps.
I noticed here in OANN Store, I am able to share OANN with my contacts via text.
However, it would be better in my opinion to share pertinent information and eye grabbing articles with these same people as a lead in, perhaps this would gain more curious subscribers!?

Hope that is something to consider changing.
Thanks!
PLR

by Bittyreilly

I get the breaking news notification, the jump on ALL news right or wrong—I meant left; then, I can’t find the story anywhere. Not one single place on OANN, this app Rumble, even Google search. Where is it? These guys get the jump; then, the story is AWOL.

Developers , please try to fix.
Thank you, otherwise great app! Excellent job programmers and excellent right-side news station!

by Ahavey32

I really like with this media outlet is doing and presenting the facts and letting you decide how to react. Thank you for sharing the facts with the American people! I am annoyed that I can’t share the continent however. When I tap on the share button next to the article, nothing happens. Even when I tried to save it to my bookmarks and share it that way, nothing came up. The only option I see is airplay.

by 123MonkeyBone

I am a California Millenial Patriotic young woman and I cannot stand a lot of the mainstream media-❤️🤍💙 OANN-and I just love the fresh perspective that the people at OAN provide. I cannot express it enough how much discovering this fresh new perspective has honestly changed my mind about all this other mainstream media. Thank you so much for providing a fresh new perspective for people like myself. Now, recently-I have been having issues with OANN-it has been crashing on me every single time I try to get into it-love this news source...but I honestly wish this bug was fixed

by Dr. Hydrogen

This is not the perfect news source but it’s very good. I haven’t found one I like better anyway. I find this outfit to be fairer than many of the major networks. For example, I’ll watch an entire news conference. I heard what was said. Then I see the same thing on the news completely distorted around. Akin to “we could use some rain”. “Oh, you mean you want everyone to flood!”
I find it funny, of the people who gave OANN 1 star...some think it’s too liberal and others too conservative. Hmmm.

by C R French

I cannot bookmark articles once they’re open with the full text. The bookmark feature in the top right doesn’t work. I can only bookmark from the preview list of stories. Also, there should be some padding on the left of the article titles from the preview list and the article full text should have more spacing between paragraphs. This would make it easier on the eyes. Other than that, OANN works fine and the content is written in a matter of fact kind of way without opinion. Great job!

by Cadillacvan

Graham ledger and Liz wheeler need a huge bonus they are excellent I hope they stay this way so informative and a blonde that thinks like me whose smart after Hillary there’s hope love listening to her both explain their info and graham when he pauses the pic to explain why what they say is right or wrong this gives those afraid to speak up plus Fox News hannity tucker and Ingraham are just tiring they repeat the same crap over and over don’t let their guest talk too many guest and just nothing burger anymore good job this app please stay

by Rrocxxxx

I am very pleased that we have such a great alternative to the lying and misleading that we get from the main stream media networks. The MSM need to be broken up and Congress should put controls in place to prevent centralization of news sources, as well as foreign influence. Big tech should also be broken up. They should not be allowed to suppress political views that they do not share.

by Texan For Unbiased News

Finally a conservative news network that gets what we want, news without commentary, so that we can hear both sides of the issues and make up our own mind. I recommend that you listen and watch this network for it’s fair and unbiased news. Reminds me of how the news use to be, and hopefully will start to go back to in the future. They are good at showing examples about what the point is they are discussing to backup and prove the point that they want to make...like a true reporter should do, without telling us what we should think! I am so tired of all the opinions and biased reporting, thankfully a news network that heard what we want in our news! Keep it up!

by Titaniumskull

Tried everything from reboot to reload and can not use OANN . Most would think it is OAN having an issue but, on all devices, and sometimes OANN opens with a blank screen and after a minute crashes. Worked night before with zero issues and has been a week since latest apple devices update, so I would start to think under current political pressures that maybe apple is discretely hamstringing OANN . Don’t know, but with what they did to Parler makes me wonder.

by ShananIam

I love this news station! I get notifications on my phone but the problem is when I go to open it it just disappears so I’m download I had downloaded OANN and I go to Owen and hit it and it starts to open and then it just disappears so for some reason lately I cannot get it! It just won’t open. I would appreciate it if somebody would write me or text me back to let me know what the problem is is it the the liberal extremist that are stopping it or blocking it because I don’t I can’t get it anymore so thank you for any help!

by Baylady29

After years now of our Pravda style media, I finally found One America!! What a relief not to get stung with innuendos, liberal opinion and blatant propaganda in news articles. It was called "yellow journalism" in college.

I can finally read impartial and factual news articles comfortably on One America without being on guard for the brain washing tactics of AP and Reuters etc. that Newsmax uses.

Keep up the good work One America!! America needs you.

by SsnowSnake

Downloaded and tried OANN after visiting their website and liking what I found. But don’t bother with OANN right now; stick to the web site.

Specifically what I found lacking:

- No search function.

- Very limited categories of news. Not even a section for politics. Foreign or domestic. (Also lacking on their website for some reason).

- Formatting of articles is horrible. Almost unreadable. Certainly not conducive to easy reading.

- Articles are absurdly short.

- Extremely slow. Selected the category of Business and it was blank. Came back later and found it populated with headlines. Subsequently I timed it and it takes 20-30+ seconds for headlines to appear.

- Looked for stories I’d seen on their website, like Chanel Rion’s reports, but couldn’t find them. Surprising, as her reports from the Ukraine should have top billing, imo, not flu shots.

If you like OAN, like I do, stick to their website until they do a complete makeover of OANN.

by Tms0028

I hope that someone on the OAN team is reading these reviews...

The Good: In a time where we need these stories covered and need to know the truth, you are one of the only news outlets available. Keep up the good work by spreading truth in the face of liberal dominated media lies.

The Bad: OANN is sorely outdated. Every single ‘article’ is only a picture with a caption. There is very little content beyond the headline. If OAN even hopes to continue to compete with media elites, you need to do the little things right: have a good, high functioning app that delivers substantial, reliable information. Avoid click bait. The best avenue to growth is to attract and inform the young, and in order to do that you need to get the tech correct.

I say this as an avid but concerned supporter. We want to see OAN continue, but more than that, thrive! Please consider these recommendations.

by Sky_blue02

I like the news being very to-the-point, though sometimes I wish they’d include a bit more detail. It’s still a preferred news source for me, though it can’t be my sole news source when lacking detail as it often does. That said, OANN is very, very buggy. Often (not sometimes, but often), it just crashes on start or shortly after. The bookmarks have never worked properly. It’s not a new problem. Also, the layout regularly gets messed up mid-use and the article list is too padded with empty space. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they had the idea to put out an app. But this is still beta software and really should never have been released. I’ve written software myself and I’d never put something out in this state. It desperately needs fixing. The only redeeming quality is the news itself, which really could stand to be formatted a bit better.

by DJP111

Nice, simple & small app, just lists articles, no video (yet, I hope!) The “save/bookmark” feature is buggy though, on my iPhone6 with latest iOS. Can select icon to bookmark an article from main list, but dark indicator does not carry through to other views. When I try to open that item from the list of bookmarked items, OANN crashes! For just a few simple functions, wasn’t this tested before new app release?? Get on it developers, before a good thing (having a this app app) makes bad 1st impressions. Go for quality, get it right!

by Hapausmc

Long time coming. The need to read the news without bias from leftist leaning “media” reporters is just what I’ve been looking for. Fox News is starting to tone down their unbiased approach whereas this app is reporting the facts(just the facts, ma’am- Dragnet). 4 stars only because the photos are “cropped”(?). Want to see the whole picture, not just their middle sections.

by Karo1414

My internet provider doesn’t carry your network which totally bums me out. I totally enjoyed with my old provider and am at the brink of switch back because of you. I downloaded app hoping I could enjoy some of your news coverage on video. I have the FOX app and I can even listen to live tv while I’m driving...or wherever I happen to be. Love your network. This is a real drawback for your app. Rooting for your network!

by Wolfster4

I have been waiting for OANN for a while and am excited it’s finally here! Wish there was an Apple Watch version though, and there are a few bugs such as the story timeline being a little glitchy when scrolling through, and the categories don’t have any articles in them. Also, it would be nice to have a U.S. politics category.

by ETIowa

I love OANN. It’s facts- no BS and not skewed by opinions of the reporters. I was looking for a news source that would just provide the details of the events and leave the opinions and bias out. This is it.
I wish I could save articles from the category section. I can from the main page but can’t there. I would recommend this to anyone looking for straight-just the facts news.

by S09745

So happy to finally have an App, where I can just get the News.
Clean, and simple. It’ll no doubt evolve and improve, but please don’t let it get away from you.
No long-winded articles and editorials! If that happens, you’ll be just like the rest... full of biased opinion. Keep reports brief and to the point. Let us decide how we feel about the NEWS.
That’s how I fell in love with your TV Network.
If you’re unfamiliar, share this with friends. Those who only have Cable, likely haven’t heard of it. It’s strange how those big network conglomerates kinda own the cable companies huh?!

by Nsjixhxhsnsj

The only news perspective of national and world news I actually absorb and discern. I would suggest making either a separate app or emphasize involvement with “Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler” ... I watch her show when I can. When I miss it I would like to see what she spoke on and what guests she invited on. Either way I can find out on my own, but this is just a suggestion. Thank you for your time.

by Tamskidz

So happy to finally find a news organization that speaks the “whole” truth! If I may make one suggestion just from my observation; Most of your reporters, (not all) need to loosen up a little on the screen though. They appear robotic and lack confidence. Maybe the age. Thank you for allowing our voice to be heard and praying you become the #news network . Liz Wheeler is an amazing spit fire! Love her show! 💕🇺🇸🙏

by TechMaster2000

I love your articles, but the type is too small and there is not even a way too pinch and zoom in on it to make it bigger.

Please add an option to select larger fonts and to have a blank background with white letters. Many of your readers would benefit from this.