Action News Jax

Name: Action News Jax
Rating: 4.7 (8091 reviews)
Author: Cox Media Group

By: Cox Media Group App

WJAX & WFOX Live News, Weather

Overview

Version:

8.10.0

Last updated: 2026-08-26

Ranking

#19,919 ▲ 26

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Action News Jax CBS47 & FOX30 delivers live and on-demand video coverage for North-East Florida and South Georgia, helping you stay plugged in to today’s major stories. Get minute-by-minute weather with StormTracker Doppler radar and a 5-day forecast, live drive times across the Jacksonville metro, and sports coverage including the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Access local, national, and world news, plus easily sharable content to Twitter and Facebook. This app features Nielsen's proprietary measurement software to contribute to market research like Nielsen's TV Ratings. Continued GPS use in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. For privacy details, visit www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App News & Magazines Weather

By:

Cox Media Group

Rating:

4.70

(8,091) 16 new ratings

Version:

8.10.0 Last updated: 2026-08-26

Version code:

890243156

Creation date:

2011-01-12

Compatible devices:

Size:

86.76MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-08-27

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 19,919 ▲ 26

Other platforms

Action News Jax (v8.9.5)

121,383 4.28

(1,195)

For Developers

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Developed by:

Cox Media Group

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/action-news-jax/id413729101

Website:

https://www.ActionNewsJax.com

User Reviews

Action News Jax is valued by some for timely weather coverage and as a go-to local news source, with mentions of professionalism. However, the dominant feedback is negative: heavy ads and auto-playing videos disrupt viewing, plus reliability problems (glitches, crashes, slow loads, hard-to-find live feeds). Content quality concerns include perceived bias and repetitive or under-covered stories, along with misspellings. Notifications and article links are often problematic, and some UX changes worsen the experience. Overall, a subset of users are satisfied, but many report a frustrating, ad-heavy app experience.

Pros

Strong weather coverage and up-to-date forecasts
Frequently cited as a primary local news source by some users
Noted professionalism by some reviewers

Cons

Ad-heavy experience with intrusive auto-playing ads and interruptions
Reliability and performance problems (glitches, crashes, slow loading, difficulty locating live feed)
Content quality and bias concerns (not covering major stories, repetitive coverage, spelling/grammar issues)
Push notifications and in-app links reliability issues (spammy alerts, links not opening to articles)
UX issues after updates (background videos, navigation changes, ads in UI)

Recent reviews

Greatly improved from earlier versions

by Gh*****, 2026-08-07

While I appreciate their local investigations, every newscast starts with one local shooting after another and endless commentary about same. There are many more important things going on in our city, country and the world to blow half the newscast on the endless bang bang shoot em up in Jacksonville. Mention, yes, dominate with it, no. News4Jax seems biased to me, so I’ve switched to First Coast local news. Ask Anthony gets the job done for real people with real problems.