KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul

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Last verified 5 Sep 2026

4.7 34528 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5I never leave reviews, but....

   I am so disappointed by this new “upgraded” version of the KARE11 news app. I really enjoyed the old app and used it every day, but I might need to look elsewhere now. The format looks beautiful, but it is not user friendly anymore. I cannot watch a news story without watching an ad. On the previous iteration you only had to view an ad once and then you could watch multiple current news segments. Now after each story you have an ad in between and then you are launched into an item that is days to weeks old!

   Kunac · 5 Sep 2026

2. 3/5Ok but could be better

   Slow to start up ... splashes a pretty “good morning” or “good afternoon” greeting across while it starts, but we all know it’s just masking a slow startup. The wait is just long enough to still be annoying. Occasionally crashes or scrolls glitchily and jumps all over the place. C’mon guys ... news apps are just controlled-environment browsers. How hard can this be to display a story with some pics and-or video? Maybe not give your advertisers the ability to write their own JavaScript ads that tweak out the app? Finally, this suffers from my main beef with most news apps: disabling the ability to zoom in on pictures. I remember vividly the day I first used a smartphone, and the seeming miracle of being able to use two fingers to zoom in on a web page. That was the magic. The web was only barely useable on web-capable phones prior to that. Now we have pages and apps that are optimized for mobile use, which we didn’t have then, but we STILL NEED to be able to zoom pics, especially stuff like infographics. There’s no technical reason apps can’t allow this like most web pages do in a generic browser. Let phones do what they’re supposed to be able to do, and stop stealing the magic. Still 3 stars because I can basically get the news, but as a news app it is mediocre at best.

   WriConsult7 · 5 Sep 2026

3. 5/5App is quirky as all get out

   You have one of the strangest apps I’ve ever encountered. When I click on a news video, it will start with the actual news video but then it catches itself and reboots to run an add. Like it forgot to do that in the first place. It has happened for years and is quite annoying. Love your news program but what in hades is up with your app. I understand this is a problem when clicking on your news site on a computer as well. Amazingly weird, annoying and quirky.

   ok8652702 · 5 Sep 2026

4. 4/5Come on

   Each iteration of this app has new problems. It’s just not good from a user experience perspective, or performance. For example, why make me scroll through the articles with giant pictures? And, if you’re going to do that (which my husband actually likes), then at least have the app not randomly jump back to the top of the page while I’m looking at headlines. I watch kare11 as my normal news source but your app blows. And, some of the ads and clickbait are extremely inappropriate. I know the news isn’t always “family friendly” but you don’t have to this type of advertising in.

   Lauriewawa · 5 Sep 2026

5. 2/5Multiple steps backwards

   It seems like this most recent major update removed several features. For starters, on iPad, landscape view was removed, forcing portrait move. Plus, dark mode was removed. On the livestreams, the player controls can't be hidden, and because of this, the bottom third of the stream is darker, and you can't read the ticker stories easily. The reason why I'm giving two stars instead of one is that the app is significantly faster than the old version. But shipping an app that's faster does not excuse removing features and adding friction to using it. At the very minimum, being able to hide player controls during livestreams to easily view the newscasts should be a priority.

   jcb_cummings · 5 Sep 2026

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