# Dakota News Now

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id933966620](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id933966620)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id933966620`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gray Television Group, Inc.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 2.80 / 5 (81 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.0.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-11
- **First published:** 2014-11-06
- **Size:** 82 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dakota-news-now/id933966620)
- **Website:** [https://www.ksfy.com/](https://www.ksfy.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #176,362 — Overall

## Review summary

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

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id933966620)