KRON4 News - San Francisco Reviews

by Holdtheaudio!

This is the most difficult news app I’ve ever used. Not only does it CONSTANTLY freeze in middle of articles where I have to shut down app and try again, I REALLY feel I should be able to simply read an article WITHOUT being subject to the accompanying video. The video says “tap to watch”, but that’s not true. Videos start automatically each and every time I start reading. THUS, my family is awoken and I have to quickly punch my phone volume to mute it. Not ok to project noise without my consent. But that’s what KRON4News does. So frustrating with KRON4. I emailed your news station with plea for assistance on how to opt out of auto video, but never heard back. Is it only me that has this issue?

by Davidsanger

This is probably one of the worst apps out here. You can easily set it up to get alerts, but then when you try to actually watch the live stream they are alerting you to it simply does not work.

When trying to get updates on the Napa fire I got a notification that there’s a Cal fire press conference but KRON4News does not connect at all even with a perfect high-speed Internet connection

KRON4News ought to be scrapped and rewritten. Do not rely on it if you are trying to get any kind of news

by Madsmarie

KRON4News regularly sends notifications with story headlines, but the corresponding stories are nowhere to be found when you tap the notification and open KRON4News . Seems as if they’re trying to utilize clickbait to get users to open KRON4News , which is frustrating and a waste of time.

by Randy_perrone

KRON4News bogs down until it freezes half the time that I use it. It’s also super annoying that when scrolling down it will reset the timeline and send me back to the top. I then have to scroll all the way back down to where I was. Happens quite a bit.
I do like that it’s free and keeps me up to date on the run, so 3 stars for that!

by Shawn C

KRON4News is good for the most part, but once a week or so I notice that more and more non-important alerts keep popping up in my notifications. I go into KRON4News , and, sure enough, alerts like “Trending Now” are reenabled automatically. I shut them all off except for “News Alerts” and the process repeats itself later. It’s getting very annoying.

I’m still keeping an eye out for a better local news app that doesn’t spam me with superfluous notifications in attempts to harvest more clicks.

by Keeph0pe

Way too many notifications, especially now with the COVID-19 coverage. I’m getting an alert every time a new death or increase in cases (both of which are to be expected) is reported in the state. This is a serious situation, but we can’t be bombarded with it 24/7 at such a degree. I’d like to still receive notifications, but there’s no way for me to differentiate alerts from breaking news such as new restrictions or laws, from updates every 20 minutes on the count of cases.

by Liibits

I like to read or watch about our local news, but exactly as another reviewer complained about is the lack of volume control to mute the ad that plays whenever there is a video attached to the article. There is no volume control until the actual news clip starts and makes me not want use KRON4News because of it.

by Bsmittie

Overall a clean interface where I can get my daily “news fix at-a-glance.” Ads are not hovering all over the pages, unless you link deeper to other stories. It is frustrating when the news headlines main page dynamically refreshes itself. It hurts my eyeballs, as the headline I was just reading moved to another location on the page, and continues to move unless I click on it to read. Again, this KRON 4 app is good for a quick overview of the day’s headlines.

by Janetfitz

Would be great if you could cover the towns and counties that have and continue to fight the 5G microwave radiation street antennas being forced upon us by the FCC and Telecom.
Interview Dr. Joel Moskowitz at UC Berkeley (Public Health) for starters. And Dr. Paul Heroux (McGill U.) At what point do you side with your viewers versus your advertisers, is the question I hope you ask. Please don’t sell us out by ignoring this most important ongoing development! .

by Bella Keenan

Kron 4 is a very good app and it’s where I get my local news coverage. The only problem that I have with KRON4News is that sometimes when I read the news it plays the video coverage in the background without me hitting play and I don’t like that. Otherwise, it does it’s job well.

by Skubeedo

I love KRON4News for my news & the traffic it lets me see what is going on all day long and let’s me no what my commute looks like this is the Best Dam APP 4 my news thank you and the developers of KRON4News. I love KRON4 thank you🌎

by SFLther

Frequently I try to see current events on local news apps and I find that channel 4 is the fastest to cover things that are happening at the moment.

by Arlene2

I so appreciate getting local news and at a very reasonable subscription price. However I find it difficult to negotiate my way around KRON4News . I’ll get a news flag on my front screen and it does not open to that article directly & it is not necessarily intuitive where to look for it. Also, I’m not sure if it’s KRON4News or my phone but the videos time out so I don’t use them. Regardless, thank you KronOn!

by Shellsurf

KRON does a great job of broadcasting the latest Fire & evacuation info during wildfires. This BayA Native is able to monitor & share info with loved ones on social media from my iPad on Maui. Friends in NorCal can download app & watch when the power is out if they have cell coverage or wi-fi. Great community service! Highly recommended and appreciated.

by HWeird

I love your news station and KRON4News is good if it would stop freezing. I would give you five stars if it stops on the next update. I always have to restart it and sometimes more than once

by John & Heidi

We wake up each weekday to Daria, James, John, Robin, Will, and all the other reporters out in the field. We also line to watch weekends with Marty & Dave. We love the local coverage and counted on you for our news when we had the wildfires these past several years.

John & Heidi
Healdsburg, CA

by Shy Piglet

I live in Santa Maria I like to travel to the Bay Area most often as I can. had to move rent is to high in the Bay like to move back I lived in San Jose I was born there at SJH which is no longer there” anyway I enjoyed the news there when I’m in the Bay Area U keep giving me so much info thanks so much I have you all I my iPhone thank you keep doing what you do best!! Sincerely yours Louisa Salcido.

by Shaonly

Thank you for all the local and national news events. Everything from traffic to weather is greatly appreciated by my family as well as my self. I am from Berkeley California and I now live in Richmond California. I am able to prepare our day based on the information you provide us with. Thank you..Thank you...Thank you

by DianaPepe

It’s like an 80’s application, I’ve downloaded KRON4News in my fire stick to watch the news but it gets stuck every 5 minutes and right now I have 30 minutes in silence watching the Traffic, is like a horror movie and I’ll be on it in 30 minutes when I start driving to work!

by Ross From Hilo, Hawaii

While visiting friends in Glen Ellen, I enjoyed watching your news program...it reminded me sooo much of our news station back in Hawaii....Because of that, and the fact that I had a great time in Northern California, I decided to add the
app for KRON4 NEWS to both, my IPhone and IPad....that way I’ll always be connected in someway to the Bay Area and to my friends in Glen Ellen.

by Havadood

KRON4News is horrible. Have been trying to stream from the East Coast to get updates on the fires as family and friends are in the line of fire in NoCa. KRON4News keeps running the same 2 commercials for KRON 4 over and over and over and over again every few, very few, minutes. I mean over and over and over again. It is bizarre. Makes it unwatchable. What is their marketing department thinking?

by Herbonly

Too often, in fact, most often when I open an alert on my cell about a news story posted that same day has already been removed. Very frustrating. It’s so frequent, I’ve learned to not even bother trying to access the story older than a day using the KRON app and look for the story elsewhere. It’s getting so bad I’m even thinking of even deleting KRON4News .

by Cake_mix

Really wish there were more customization options for notifications by topic or regions of the Bay Area. I get so many KRON4 notifications that aren’t relevant to what I need to know or care about. KRON4News is also glitchy sometimes, such as the videos don’t play right, even if I’m connected to good WiFi.

by Morenowg

I do not understand why KRON is cancelling their alliance with the service provider that connects lower income people to KRON.

Many can not afford the high prices of cable/Comcast/ Direct/etc. So they have to subscribe to lower tier services.

Now KRON is cutting ties so these people will not be getting this news info. Why??

by GreeneyedLady59

I love KRON4 news. I watch it everyday and I’m so glad we can watch it on our devices. It gives me important updates on what’s going on locally and not local. When I can’t get to a tv I get it on my device. Thank you!!

by Thomas C. Esque

Good to be able to access a fair, competent and reliable news source that reports the news and doesn’t try to manipulate the facts. Thank you old friends!

by Patthere

Without a doubt the most informative news network for the bay area Xfinity stop broadcasting this news network in Fairfield I do not know why but it is a shame any big mistake