App Profile: The Hill

Cdellamura

Rating: 2/5

I use reading glasses but my eyes are not bad enough to need a prescription. Most apps I can read without my readers but this app pretty much mandates that I use them. Other news apps will allow me to zoom in on the words where The Hill won’t. The font is already very small and not allowing a person to physically zoom the font in any way turns me off completely. It can’t be that difficult to permit some type of zoom to allow us to make the font bigger. I had to give this app 2 stars because it’s so inconvenient to actually use. Very unfortunate that the developers won’t make an accommodation. I’ve asked before but they seem to just not care.

eugenewilliams

Rating: 2/5

The ads in this app are completely out of control. I can never really get to the news story because the screen scrolls with videos and pop-ups that are some of the most annoying I’ve ever encountered. Why does every news story have to have a video attached to the top of it, most of which don’t even relate to the story? I appreciate the attempt at being unbiased, but if it means paying for a subscription to get these ads out-of-the-way, and if there is some possible way for you to remove the videos on top of every news article, I might use it more. Until then. the app stinks.

Zach Clauss

Rating: 2/5

The biggest issues I have with the app are 1) it constantly pauses my music to autoplay videos/apps in the app and there is no way to disable this and it’s making rethink using this app at all and 2) articles crash in the middle of reading them so you have to reopen the app and find the article and scroll to the spot you left off at. These problems have only gotten worse over time.