# KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul

> Breaking news & video

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id568147907](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id568147907)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id568147907`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tegna Inc.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (34,599 ratings)
- **Version:** 50.25.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-06
- **First published:** 2012-12-18
- **Size:** 269 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kare-11-minneapolis-st-paul/id568147907)
- **Website:** [https://www.kare11.com/](https://www.kare11.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.kare11.com/privacy](https://www.kare11.com/privacy)

## Description

Stay up-to-date with the latest news and weather for Minneapolis–St. Paul, greater Minnesota, and western Wisconsin with the official KARE 11 app. Access real-time breaking news, interactive weather radar, and live video from local newscasts and events.

Personalize your feed by topic, get real-time breaking-news alerts, and share stories with friends. Extras include school delays and closings, behind-the-scenes photos, and casting videos to your TV or streaming device for bigger viewing.

## Rankings

- #8,120 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise Kare 11 for credible, real-time journalism and broad coverage, but repeatedly report UX/monetization issues: heavy ads, removal of features and messy navigation (especially on iPad), difficult access to weather/radar, perceived bias affecting trust, and poor content organization. Overall, it remains a trusted news source, but usability and ad experience detract from the app.

### Pros

- Trusted, credible journalism with real-time reporting.
- Broad and consistent coverage of local news and weather.
- Useful for watching news on the go and getting weather updates.

### Cons

- Disruptive and frequent ads between stories and ahead of weather forecasts.
- Key features removed and navigation worsened on tablets (no landscape mode, no dark mode, harder to rotate, difficult to search or find full stories).
- Weather/radar access is hard to find or missing/up-to-date forecasts aren’t readily available.
- Perceived political bias undermines trust in the app.
- Content discovery is poor—stories appear randomly organized and are hard to locate amid ads.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id568147907)