WVLT News

Name: WVLT News
Rating: 2.9 (250 reviews)
Author: Gray Television Group, Inc.

By: Gray Television Group, Inc.

News

Features & Capabilities

WVLT News is the Knoxville, TN mobile news app you want. This iPhone-focused experience condenses the best WVLT News features into a compact, on-the-go package you'll reach for daily.

Read and watch the latest news, then share it by email, text, Twitter or Facebook. Be in the know when you're on the go with WVLT News.

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By:

Gray Television Group, Inc.

Rating:

2.90

(250)

Version:

5.0.5 Last updated: 2026-06-09

Version code:

886735055

Creation date:

2013-09-10

Compatible devices:

Size:

100.32MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 125,906 ▼ 375

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Developed by:

Gray Television Group, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wvlt-news/id420974761

Website:

https://www.wvlt.tv/

User Reviews

Most reviews focus on ads and user experience rather than the news itself. The app is criticized for auto-playing video ads with sound, an overwhelming ad load that drowns out content, and a redesigned UI that makes finding stories difficult. Reviewers also complain about the quality and organization of news, with brief articles and older stories mixed with newer ones. Some performance issues include buffering live feeds. A minority still finds value in the app, citing the local broadcast team or that it remains worth downloading.

Pros

Top-notch WVLT broadcast news team
Some users find the app worth downloading
Provides access to local news and live video

Cons

Intrusive auto-playing video ads with sound; no pause/mute controls
Ad-heavy experience; ads frequently block content
Poor UI/UX after update; hard to navigate; cannot swipe to next story
News content is brief and poorly organized; older stories mixed with newer
Live feeds buffer intermittently and sometimes fail to restart

Recent reviews

The auto start videos are terrible, no longer my favorite news app

by We*****, 2026-04-13

Want to regret trying to be informed by selecting a story? Use this app. You are immediately assaulted by a video without any controls - you can’t pause, you can’t mute, just BOOM, video vomit. Advertisers are just wasting their money because all it makes us do is hate them and their products. Give us an option to turn off auto play or at least some controls once the assault has begun, or kiss this user goodbye.

by S *****, 2026-04-13

When you open a news story the ad video autoplays with sound and is very obnoxious. The page is riddled with ads and only a small amount of the page contains news. The information given in the article is very brief. This app is more about the ads than the news. I’m deleting it now.