Features & Capabilities

Hawaii News Now is a Chrome extension that puts local, national, and world news at your fingertips. It offers breaking alerts, live headlines, sports updates, and video from KGMB, KHNL, KOGG, and KHBC, all accessible with a single click.

This extension requests location data to tailor content for you and may share location and usage information with advertising partners to customize ads across this and other apps. Please review the privacy policy for details and how to manage your choices.

User Growth & Download Statistics

By:
Gray Television Group, Inc.
Rating:
4.30
(8,189)
1 new ratings
Version:
8.0.4 Last updated: 2026-05-13
Version code:
885628513
Creation date:
2011-07-21
Compatible devices:
Size:
109.43MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-05
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Gray Television Group, Inc.
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hawaii-news-now/id450571908
Website:
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/apps/

User Reviews

Most reviews focus on ad-heavy experiences, unstable live video, and a frustrating update that worsened readability and navigation. Users note content can be good, but the app frequently interrupts reading with ads, auto-playing videos, and unreliable livestreams. Sharing and navigation problems are common across reviews. The top requested fixes are fewer ads, stabilized live video, readable fonts, and restoration of smooth sharing/navigation.
Pros
  • News stories are generally good when accessible.
  • Interface updates are appreciated by some users.
  • Livestream/live news feature is available for on-the-go viewing.
Cons
  • Ads are intrusive and pervasive (pop-ups, footer ads, full-screen ads, ad fatigue).
  • Live stream and live news features are unreliable or frequently fail to load.
  • Readability and navigation deteriorated after updates (smaller fonts, harder to read, clumsy switching between local and national news, no swiping).
  • Autoplaying videos with sound and intrusive ads interrupt reading (videos start automatically, no easy mute/pause).
  • Sharing and other interactive features are broken (cannot share articles/links, issues with alerts, navigation limited).
Recent reviews
try to watch news broadcast at full screen and would not go into full screen mode on iPad
by Fr*****, 2026-05-29

This app is inaccurate especially when we receive notifications. Please work on this app so we can read in detail about the notifications sent to us . Someone in the new room spells certain words incorrectly which throws us off reading certain phrases. Mahalo
by ma*****, 2026-05-27

Misinformation - not accurate - biased reporting - unreliable Fabricated stories - misleading headlines - propaganda - political agendas Videos don’t play, links attached to alerts do not work - lots of ads & popups
by In*****, 2026-05-19
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