Buffalo News from WGRZ

Name: Buffalo News from WGRZ
Rating: 4.7 (19068 reviews)
Author: Tegna Inc.

By: Tegna Inc.

Breaking news & video

Features & Capabilities

Stay up-to-date with the latest news and weather in Buffalo and Western New York with the free WGRZ2 app from WGRZ. Get breaking alerts, interactive radar, and live video from our newscasts and local events.

Personalize your feed by choosing topics that matter to you, receive real-time notifications for breaking news, and share stories with friends. Features also include hyperlocal severe weather alerts, school delay updates, behind-the-scenes photos, and casting videos to your TV or streaming device.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App News & Magazines Weather

By:

Tegna Inc.

Rating:

4.70

(19,068) 1 new ratings

Version:

50.11.1 Last updated: 2026-05-27

Version code:

886171188

Creation date:

2011-10-26

Compatible devices:

Size:

260.16MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 11,849 ▼ 25

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Developed by:

Tegna Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/buffalo-news-from-wgrz/id469738487

Website:

https://www.wgrz.com/

User Reviews

The Buffalo News from WGRZ app is praised for strong local journalism and timely weather, plus readability and broad Buffalo-area coverage. Repeated drawbacks center on stability and navigation problems, ad-heavy playback, radar/UI issues after updates, and missing features like rewatching recent broadcasts. Overall content quality is high, but UX and performance hinder consistent, satisfying use.

Pros

Strong local journalism with trusted anchors and coverage.
Timely weather updates and alerts.
Easy-to-read headlines and news content.
Buffalo-area focused coverage that keeps viewers connected.
On-demand content and additional programming (replays, specials).

Cons

Stability issues: crashes, freezes, and the app won't stay open on devices.
Clunky navigation and design changes, with no search feature and reduced usability in landscape mode.
Intrusive, repetitive ads that disrupt viewing.
Weather radar visualization problems in updated formats (overlay blocks radar; ads interfere with radar page).
Missing features like the ability to re-watch the most recent broadcast.

Recent reviews

Why won’t the weather work consistently. One day you can see a forecast the next you can’t

by La*****, 2026-05-07

NO menu. Who designed this????😡

by To*****, 2026-05-02

Latest version is not so user friendly. Hardly works in the landscape mode. I mainly use this for watching live news or the weather. In the new live news there is a dark bar in the lower 1/3 of the screen that is used for the control buttons. It doesn’t disappear like in other apps after using it. This makes it very difficult to see headlines/titles Ch. 2 puts at the bottom of the broadcast. Also, clicking on the expand button just closes the screen and reverts back to the main page.