Dakota News Now

Name: Dakota News Now
Rating: 2.8 (81 reviews)
Author: Gray Television Group, Inc.

By: Gray Television Group, Inc.

News

Features & Capabilities

Dakota News Now is your on-the-go source for local news, weather, and sports in South Dakota. It covers Sioux Falls, Aberdeen, and Pierre with round-the-clock updates, breaking stories, and live weather conditions.

Get quick headlines, up-to-date weather alerts, and local sports scores right in your browser extension—designed for fast access wherever you are.

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App News & Magazines Weather Sports

By:

Gray Television Group, Inc.

Rating:

2.80

(81) 1 new ratings

Version:

5.0.4 Last updated: 2026-05-14

Version code:

885637127

Creation date:

2014-11-06

Compatible devices:

Size:

87.06MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 196,083 ▲ 1,017

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Developed by:

Gray Television Group, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dakota-news-now/id933966620

Website:

https://www.ksfy.com/

User Reviews

Major complaints center on intrusive ads and ad-heavy behavior, frequent instability (crashes, freezes, blank/opening screens), and readability issues (light text on light backgrounds and typos in stories). Reviewers also cite updates that worsened the experience. A few positives persist: national coverage is viewed as relatively balanced, and the weather section is used as a weather source by some users. Overall, the app has value but significant usability and content quality issues hinder frequent use.

Pros

Balanced national news coverage
Weather information is available and used as a weather source by some users
Some users still view the app as a generally good news app despite issues

Cons

Intrusive ads and an ad-heavy experience, including startup ads and mortgage ads; mentions of data-mining ads
Frequent crashes, freezes, and blank/opening issues that prevent reading stories
Readability problems due to light text on light backgrounds (white on gray) affecting weather and other sections
Content quality issues including typos/grammar errors and unreadable long-form text
Dissatisfaction with updates that worsened the user experience

Recent reviews

The changes made in the last update are terrible. Will be deleting this app

by Po*****, 2026-03-06

Videos feed from Facebook? Audio doesn't work consistently. Ads ads and more ads? This is a really junky clunky slow app.

by sk*****, 2025-05-07

If the actual story goes into any length beyond the headline (who needs details?), it’s usually incomprehensible with jumbled wordage that makes the story completely unreadable… Ask a question or 2!! C’mon man!!