Local Now: News, TV & Movies

Cool app that I use on my phone, but mostly on my TV. It would be nice if we could customize the My Stream feature. Like, maybe I just want a continuous loop of weather-related things (similar to the Weather Channel’s (old?) WeatherScan channel) on my TV while I’m doing stuff around the house…and not so much about what kinds of wine moms like best, or where to buy the best kombucha.

The app is working so far, so good, and I also launched it on my Roku, but the one thing that I would love to see a here on the app, and that is AirPlay, I can airplay it to either my TV or my Roku, and, but one bug though that I’m having, and that is trying to watch a movie or a show on the app on my iPad, I go to the movies tab whenever I go to watch a movie, and when I click on the title of the movie, for some reason, it keeps saying, something went wrong, hopefully you guys can get that bug resolved, and also another problem, is that when I go to, add channels to my favorites, for some reason it won’t do it on my iPad, but it does it on my iPod touch, and also one thing that’s missing, is notifications, I would love to be notified, about breaking news in my area, or international news, and weather alerts, and would also love to be notified about new channels coming on the app, I love all the channels here on the app, keep it going, and keep updating the app, love, LocalNow,

I love this app! I always put it on my fire stick while getting ready for work in the morning. I really enjoy that it provides local news based on my location, and that it gives you a mixed variety of news clips to help you get the day started. I would like to suggest a feature where we could choose which categories we would like the app to focus on. For example: I would love to see more national news and tech news, and less cooking clips. Hopefully there could be a feature that includes this. Maybe add a voting feature for each of the clips and have the app remember what type of news you like and learn from those clips to then show more of the same after some time. Overall the app is great and I highly recommend. I would definitely pay $1-3 per month to remove ads.

I love this app cause I drive for lyft, and I have a tv in my car. this news tells everything that’s going on in my city, plus weather. so when I pick up passengers that are visiting from other states. it shows them restaurants etc in the area ,and what they are rated as well . But my only problem is I have to keep restarting it over, because it would freeze on me, and buffer as well. It would pop up with a white screen, and stay on that screen while the audio sound of it, moves on to the next segment. If this problem could be fixed,it would definitely be a 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️s for me …

Love the app, but it sometimes reboots constantly on my tv..so much so that at times its just not worth it and I turn it off. I know you have to get your ads in there, but when you put an ad in for a movie...which should really be in the show biz/entertainment section...and the ad is several minutes long plus the additional time for the rebooting, and the fact that you show this ad at the beginning of every section you have ...it is super annoying and makes me want to turn it off. I really wish it worked better, as I love watching this app on the rare occasions that it works right.

We are lucky to live in a time of flourishing arts and event scenes that coincide with a new found emphasis to support our local communities. This app is the perfect way to effectively navigate our thriving city and all of the beautiful things it has to offer! Then of course having the local weather and news at your finger tips is a huge plus. This app is all you need to plan your day, weekend, life!!

Local now is absolutely wonderful! I do have one suggestion, it would be really awesome if we could pick what slides is are favorites so next time we open the app we can get those slides instead of watching slides that we don’t care for! I do appreciate the time and effort you guys have been putting in this app! Keep it up!

Jack Avery In my own opinion I think should go back to the way it was before because this new Version it’s not the same as the last version can someone please change it back

I’m happy with this app but I wonder if you can change the order of well you know. And also can you make your stream public? Would sound cool. But anyway, Great and Amazing app! 😊

Local Now has a great assortment of local and national news networks along with some general entertainment and specialty content. But good luck watching any of the live streams: it takes multiple taps of a channel icon or program name to actually launch the stream you want, and the guide is a buggy mess that has a mind of its own. Things that should be relatively easy to fix, and let’s hope they do.

Every time it goes to like “Houston! It’s time for Lunch” or look at the local radar it just keeps saying the same thing over and over again. But I still would somewhat recommend this app in case you need it. Say for example Power outages or Severe storms. It’s kinda still of great app. 🙂

It’s so different than other apps. We get our local updates like weather and traffic from local now and we love it. Highly recommend the app.

The app is fair but there is a major problem. I am visually impaired and I have the voiceover to read and it doesn’t read anything below the video screen. How am I supposed to read the news articles and all the movies if I can’t see it. The voiceover on my device would read the details below the video screen but all it’s doing is responding like the voiceover is off. That’s very disrespectful and I don’t appreciate it. #respect people with disabilities.

I downloaded the app and tried pasting my email address in. The email field on the login screen doesn’t respond to copy and paste commands. What a no-brainer. Why are you making me type out my email address? Why aren’t you supporting sign in with Apple or other services? Try using it as a user and you’ll see it’s not user friendly.

I love this app and use it as my morning information feed. It used to allow me to AirPlay the video on my Apple TV but now it seems like the AirPlay feature is gone. Can you add it back? Thank you!

I’m really happy with this app, but the only thing is that it doesn’t support chrome cast! And most of the movies aren’t really kid friendly ether, which is really disappointing. But overall, it is a good app to catch up on current events.

This app has tons of live channels, so many that I would love to watch…if only I could click on something without it jumping to a totally different category!! 😡 The app on my smart TV isn’t much better, works for awhile until it crashes. Needs A LOT of work on multiple platforms.

I can’t seem to find any listing for area events! That is the main reason I downloaded this app. I can get the weather and news on TV but for some reason, they only mention events after they have already happened. Am I not looking in the right place?

I like how this app shows the news I need but in a time limit I have on a daily basis.

App is good but I would love the ability to cast it to chromecast to watch instead of my small phone screen. If the capability is already there I haven’t been able to find it on iphone 13 pro.

I watch this every day I find some interesting local news in it. I have cnn on my tv all the time too keep up with national happenings

It gives me my local news from Central Mississippi. Sometimes I will watch Local Now in the morning so I can watch local news.

I heard Byron Allen mention this app in an I interview. It's just as he said, local TV like you grew up with but in a streaming format that no one else is doing, a brilliant idea! Also, it's free! I plan to have it on my living room tv.

This app is wonderful to have but it needs some work due to voiceover and people that are blind and visually impaired cannot navigate it very well. In your next app version would you make it accessible for the blind and visually impaired

I love it you can see everything that is happening in the world right now!

I would like to know when you going to update the app so we can watch the new programming.

Better local news than even the major local media channels plus lots more. Installed on all my TVs and my phone.

Having same issues with other reviewer about scrolling to channels not staying and returning back to locals channels section. Hope for next update to fix this issue

I made a statement that I couldn't find the volume well long be hold I found it lol so this is a cool app to get and keep

In a short time I heard the same stories repeated over and over. They said “here are the lottery numbers” but didn’t say them. If you didn’t look you didn’t get them. Several things were not for radio listeners, only for watchers. I wanted a radio app, not a TV app. Whoa, here comes a story for the third time I will delete the app now.

I am always curious to see the things going around In the world and this app is perfect for that.

Every other streaming app allows you to turn off the auto play feature. Very frustrating having the weather Blair to at you nonstop while you are trying to read the description of a movie.

Has a little bit of everything for free. Works really well on Apple TV.

Has some good shows and channels, but it randomly jumps around and takes you away from what you’re looking at. I usually give up and close the app

I heard great things about this app and it’s content. I also think the concept is a wonderful idea. However, I am totally blind and use voiceover on my iPhone. After launching the app, it does not work with voiceover so, I’m unable to try it.

It’s nice relax and I can watch news and not buy a tv like that it’s ez install and open the there free to get!!!

I didn’t see ANY local news at all. When I clicked on local news, I got a few headlines, none that were actually in our area, but no story to go with it. What the heck? The ads come through just fine.

This app always has interesting stories & useful tips!

Why i can't get this to work

I like this app cause I can know what’s going on around the world it is very help full

It would be nice to be able to see the video at the top of the screen but you float the controls over it and fade the video so you can’t see anything.

To whom this may concern: The program titled, “Silence Patton”, stop less than 1/2 way through, when I was then bombed with commercial after commercial, never returning back to the interrupted program. I tried several times to restart the movie, and only retuned the same commercials again! This was my first experience with Local Now, and it wasn't all that great! Respectfully, Dan C.

People seem to like it so I give it a try

There’s nothing “local” about this app. The whole app is just public domain movies and Entertainment Studios straight-to-streaming projects. Even the streaming stuff is generic and non-location-specific programming. Just an overall not-good experience with this app.

Don’t use this app. You have to restart the app every single time you want to use it because it will just crash and freeze upon opening. Find one that’s not broken.

This is one to the best news apps that is got local and state news.

Auto-plays when opened. How about an option to auto-mute.

Very informative, just enough info to get you through the day. Love,love,love it,

I thought this would be a news aggregator, but I couldn’t find anything but weather and movies for sale. There is no news on this app.

But now that the pandemic is being forced upon us they have gotten really sad. I used to watch this every Saturday for good new restaurants, events and news, but now it is all Covid and crap. Deleting.