The Hill

I like the app. A lot of the issues other reviews complain about have been fixed. The reporting is good, with (roughly) an equal amount of bias in either side. A BIG issue, though, is that it does not have breaking news notifications. This is a major downside. If it weren’t for this issue, this app would be one of my primary news sources. Honestly, it’s kind of worthless to me without breaking news updates. I strongly encourage the all developers: add notifications!!

The content is exactly what I’ve come to expect from the Hill, but the lack of notifications makes it hard to stay up-to-date on the information I need. It would be my primary news source if it weren’t for this issue.

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Besides being left leaning for the most part, save for a few reporters. Also it’s not user friendly for its key demographic which is most likely forty plus to retirees. Most apps come with a feature that allows users to increase the size of the fonts so someone doesn’t need to wear readers. I actually just installed the app a few days ago. I may change the review or uninstall the app all together. We’ll see.

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I have an iPhone X. For whatever reason if you hold the phone in landscape mode and try and open a story none of the text for the story shows up. You have to open the story in portrait mode and then turn the phone and then you can read the story in landscape mode. Next, in landscape mode with the phone notch on the left, the text is sometimes cut off by the notch. I do love reading the hill. A lot of great reporting. Just annoyed that the app doesn’t work better.

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While the app works fine, it’s the choice of reporting I have issues with. I thought based on the description of what they focus on I would get more unbiased accurate news. Instead I get a list of articles focused on making the Democratic Party look noble/good and the Republican Party look like a bunch of kids throwing a tantrum. News reporting is supposed to be just giving facts and letting the readers make up their own opinion.