# WTVY NEWS 4

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id420970403](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id420970403)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id420970403`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gray Television Group, Inc.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 3.00 / 5 (73 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.0.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-10
- **First published:** 2013-09-10
- **Size:** 83 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wtvy-news-4/id420970403)
- **Website:** [https://www.wtvy.com/](https://www.wtvy.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.wtvy.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.wtvy.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

WTVY NEWS 4 Chrome Extension brings the latest local news and sports to your browser. Stay informed with breaking stories and quick access to WTVY articles.

The extension also makes sharing easy—send headlines via email, text, Twitter, or Facebook so you can spread important updates with friends and colleagues, wherever you are.

## Rankings

- #178,730 — Overall

## Review summary

Users value the app for local news and weather radar, but suffer from heavy advertising, stability issues, and notification/content problems. Repeated complaints include startup ads, crashes, and unreadable badges, plus concerns about content timeliness and the WSFA merger reducing local coverage. Overall, the app is useful but usability is hampered by ads and reliability problems.

### Pros

- Provides local news coverage for the Wiregrass area.
- Weather radar feature is handy.
- Overall useful for accessing local news on the go.

### Cons

- Intrusive and hard-to-close ads, including startup full-page ads.
- Frequent crashes and unreliable loading.
- Notification issues: stuck badge, no alert sounds, and breaking news not delivered.
- Content not timely or up-to-date and sometimes inconsistent with TV broadcasts; concerns about reduced local coverage after the WSFA merger.
- Cannot post comments or submit complaints; occasional inaccessibility of the app.

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