WTOP News: DC, MD and VA News App Reviews

Just downloaded the new version and it’s great. Really like the design and how they’ve made it easy to listen to the radio. I’m always listening from home in the morning. Love the new features too.

Took a long time!

New app (v3.0.0) has nice visual design, although seems to load a little slower. The back button (return to story index) unfortunately doesn't scroll down with the story text, but swiping right on the whole page also activates the back function. Videos cannot be played in landscape mode (tested native videos and embedded Twitter); rotating just returns to story headline. Overall, happy to see this being maintained; WTOP is a great local news source.

It’s harder than ever to find the Hourly News Update with the National and local news. That was my favorite feature, I don’t always want to listen to live radio. Without that feature I doubt I’ll use the app at all.

not hysterical just the facts

The app functions fine, however it doesn’t fit my screen correctly and the upper section covers my clock and my network & battery icons at the top. I can’t use the hamburger menu, search or back arrows. As I started writing this I began to wonder if my font size settings might be affecting the UX, but if the app is following the disability developer settings and separating the top UX from the rest of the compliant parts it shouldn’t be an issue. Either way it’s something that needs to be fixed

dark mode & ability to select/zoom in on photos, please!

Several articles open outside of the app, and they don’t load properly. The ads outside of the app appear to keep the articles from loading. Extremely frustrating. Why can’t everything load within the app?

Please fix date and time shown in traffic report. Not sure if report is accurate

I just came in from my car. It is September 20th. There is a story on the air about beaches reopening because they were closed due to medical waste washing ashore earlier in the week. I go to the app and search ‘beaches’ and ‘beach’. There is no link to this story. No articles come up that are less than a few years old. So I then search ‘medical waste’ I get stories from earlier in the week from 2 days ago, but not the one currently on the air. This app is ALWAYS like this. You can never find

Very little time is given to news coverage. Mostly commercials. WTOP is a shadow of its former self.

Very frustrated by app's constant requests to turn on notifications. I've declined at least five times in the last few weeks, since I installed it. No means no. If the it doesn't stop, I'll delete it and go back to occasionally checking the website for local news. Without the app's attempt to micromanage my usage and experience. ETA: not sure when I left initial review, but I quit. I will no longer endure undesired pop-ups asking me yet again if I want to turn on notifications. I am not a moron

Do you send notifications? I have notifications toggled on in the app and in settings/notifications, but over years I have yet to see a WTOP notification.

At first the app worked perfectly, now it won’t open. Whatever changes were implemented in the last week or two may be the culprit.

Not sure why app audio stopped working

The app only appears to display in “portrait” mode on my iPad, which would normally not be a big problem, however I have an attached keyboard, and it is clumsy to turn the tablet and keyboard on its side. Otherwise it seems to show the news stories I look for.

You’re killing my eyes. Dark mode please!

It randomly re-starts while listening I checked cell signal and most of the time I’m at 3-4 bars Fustrating that suddenly during traffic or news I hear “the WTOP listen live experience “