The Hill Reviews

by Ndbrue

I was looking for a reputable news source and came across The Hill. I had never used drugs before in my life. I started reading their articles and became confused. How could anyone be this stupid? They are full of it, why are people subscribing to this? So, I started off sniffing glue. This gave me temporary relief but as I’m sure you could imagine, the glue sniffing only did so much. I needed something stronger. I still was not able to understand why anyone reads this garbage. After glue sniffing I started sniffing paint cans, then drinking paint, smoking paint and now I’m a full blown meth addict. I have to pour meth into my eyes to reach the level of understanding that is needed to comprehend left wing lunacy. At the end of the day I wish I was aborted. Finally, something the Hill and I can agree on…aborting myself.

If you are still reading this, good for you. This was probably more entertaining and informative than anything The Hill has or will ever post.

by WJD3264

I just really want to listen to Rising on my commute but it freezes or crashes so often I can never get to the end or even a segment or two in. I don’t care if you put in a bunch of commercials on, I just want to put the show on and listen straight thru. It would also be nice if I could do other things on my phone while I listening. You could have a great app because of content, but the tech part distracts. I don’t bother so much trying any more.

by Bob The Hill Fan

I have an iPhone X. For whatever reason if you hold the phone in landscape mode and try and open a story none of the text for the story shows up. You have to open the story in portrait mode and then turn the phone and then you can read the story in landscape mode. Next, in landscape mode with the phone notch on the left, the text is sometimes cut off by the notch.

I do love reading the hill. A lot of great reporting. Just annoyed that TheHill doesn’t work better.

by Jrkalo

Great content but the software used to present it needs to be upgraded. The best way I can explain, it seems like an app that isn’t mobile friendly. Yeah, that almost doesn’t make sense.

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In addition, after further use; they’re very click baitey. Gotta get those clicks up for their advertisers. They use unfair ways to get you to click and open ads. I would advise staying away from this application completely.

by Wingba

Wow, just upgraded to new app and I won’t be using it. I want to read the news not watch videos, especially with commercials in the videos.
Beside that the new layout is all white space and the organization is worthless. Stories from months ago are everywhere. Looks like I’ll have to search for a different news app.

by Andy From Delaware

New update is more clunky and not as smooth. When looking at articles you have to constantly click the “more” option and the authors of each article are not listed. The authors should be listed especially in the opinion section. Needs work to make TheHill more smooth and easy to use.

by Zach Clauss

The biggest issues I have with TheHill are 1) it constantly pauses my music to autoplay videos/apps in TheHill and there is no way to disable this and it’s making rethink using TheHill at all and 2) articles crash in the middle of reading them so you have to reopen TheHill and find the article and scroll to the spot you left off at. These problems have only gotten worse over time.

by Im53773

I like the reporting but TheHill articles are very often unreadable on my iPhone (iOS 14), in the middle of reading and scrolling through an article TheHill crashes and closes. I can’t help but wonder if the cause is the competition from ads, especially videos. Maybe there’s a paid version that would eliminate the insidious advertising so heavy and prevalent in this otherwise worthy news ap.

by Ad Annoyance2

I really have enjoyed the news from The Hill. My problem is that it’s difficult to scroll through the articles. Every ad that passed would end up opening. It just became annoying. I’ll just read it a little less on the website.

by Cdellamura

I use reading glasses but my eyes are not bad enough to need a prescription. Most apps I can read without my readers but TheHill pretty much mandates that I use them. Other news apps will allow me to zoom in on the words where The Hill won’t. The font is already very small and not allowing a person to physically zoom the font in any way turns me off completely. It can’t be that difficult to permit some type of zoom to allow us to make the font bigger. I had to give TheHill 2 stars because it’s so inconvenient to actually use. Very unfortunate that the developers won’t make an accommodation. I’ve asked before but they seem to just not care.

by Fionnros

While TheHill works fine, it’s the choice of reporting I have issues with. I thought based on the description of what they focus on I would get more unbiased accurate news. Instead I get a list of articles focused on making the Democratic Party look noble/good and the Republican Party look like a bunch of kids throwing a tantrum.
News reporting is supposed to be just giving facts and letting the readers make up their own opinion.

by KafkaOnFire

Used to love TheHill, but as time has gone by, I have begun to notice the quality of reporting starting to degrade. Clickbait article summaries are starting to appear. While I can say that the bias is equally applied, I think that some of the reporting is lacking depth (the recent UFO articles seem to be one source with no counter explanation ).

by George Orr

This used to be a pretty good middle of the road news web site. And that part is still true. It’s news is middle of the road and interesting. But those moving game ads at bottom the screen distract from their web site. And the ads are almost exclusively about playing games.

by BSchmaltzy

I like the reporting and the writing, and the centrist balance. Everything about it is great except for constant interruptions from distracting ads, many of them pop-ups. I would gladly pay a reasonable subscription fee for an ad-free version, but can’t find that option. If it’s available, please let me know!

by Nflenfmdlskkejfke

I like TheHill . A lot of the issues other reviews complain about have been fixed. The reporting is good, with (roughly) an equal amount of bias in either side.
A BIG issue, though, is that it does not have breaking news notifications. This is a major downside. If it weren’t for this issue, TheHill would be one of my primary news sources. Honestly, it’s kind of worthless to me without breaking news updates. I strongly encourage the all developers: add notifications!!

by NG1010

The content is exactly what I’ve come to expect from the Hill, but the lack of notifications makes it hard to stay up-to-date on the information I need.

It would be my primary news source if it weren’t for this issue.

by Bbdjxidkdnndhzv

I’ve been using TheHill for years and like the content but recently there have been obnoxious ads especially along the bottom. Like spinning slot machines and otherwise distracting garbage. I get an app like this has to pay the bills but it shouldn’t be at the cost of user attention. I’ll come back when this is fixed. I’m looking for somewhere else to get similar content for now.

by Dp0110

The text size within articles is far too small. There’s no ability to increase the size. This would be a great addition for an upgrade.

by Incognègro

The Hill as a news outlet is, most of the time, awesome. So much less biased than other options out there and a lot of fact based reporting which is what we all really need. TheHill itself isn’t the best out there. Don’t let that stop you from getting your news from the Hill. I don’t have as many issues with TheHill as others have but I do wish it had notifications.

by Bearcat Chris Mitchell

I don’t normally rate apps, but as someone learning about and focusing on current federal events, I find The Hill app to be a reliable news source, lacking in bias, while boasting an excellent interface and relatively unbiased writing. It’s really something when a news source can not only get you articles quickly, but also provide a thorough argument and all of the facts. Great job!

by Jojo Sham

This is not news. This a political media company pushing an agenda and not news. Any comparison between what is published here and actual news is incorrect. The publisher and editor should be ashamed and this spreading of propaganda should be illegal.

by Dkaufman

This was a great app until a few weeks ago and now it crashes all the time. How about an update?

by Fresnay

I want the content, but often I can’t read past the first paragraph of a story because the rest is cut off.

by Sweetshadey

The news is great and less biased than most media sources. But it’s beyond annoying that the Hill now autoplays it’s own videos. It’s made worse by the boring voiceovers done by the reporters. Please stop auto playing videos!

by JorjGaidin

Ads position themselves right over the articles in the main page so you can’t actually see what’s there. You can’t get rid of or minimize the ads

by Hfcsdg

Good informative app when it’s working. Biggest complaint with me is breaking news and notifications are not working. Please fix

by Jpenkethman

They can’t keep ads from covering content. Even after marking the ad to make it go away, still the empty box covered the content. Stupid.

by MLBPDX

Love the content but the frequent crashes are annoying.

by AF1965

TheHill is very temperamental. For some stories it is fine and then most of the time it will crash after opening up an article. If you reopen the article, odds are it will crash again so you should just give up on trying to read that item.

by Ppbkrtr

Google ads found here appeal to stupid!
Facts matter! Shame on you.

by ThirdEyeFX1

Why isn’t Rising with Krystal & Saagar on here?

by TAIrons

Some functionality issues, but a great alternative to the two extremes reporting biased news.

by Steen A Dane

Works as expected on my iPhone XS News content seems fair and balanced.