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5/5 rating based on 114 reviews. Read all reviews for Local News & Weather: Haystack for iPhone.
Local News & Weather: Haystack is free iOS app published by Haystack TV, Inc.
The best News Video app period
Iluvblackwomen
We have this app installed 3 places 1. 2 Android phones 2. Amazon Firestick and 3. Apple IPad Mini 4 where does it mess up??? No Where! It WORKS PERFECT EVERYWHERE
Great content. Love downloadable highlights.
gomab_1990
Definitely recommend. Customizable headlines from different sources is great.
Amateurs, Algorithms and Local Fluff
KVB-FM
A TV journalist’s opinion | Highlights of late night talk shows are okay as comedy content, and movie trailers are simply studio advertisements — far too ubiquitous to be considered newsworthy. Haystack’s attempts at hard news are rehashes of the already-heard and the getting-stale-fast — like Newsy, one of Haystack’s touted “sources” where wanna-be anchors kick out thin rewrites and pirated video mashups from major news shops. Count on neither to add depth to a story, break news, or present investigative exposés. Understandable for a news app with no in-house reporters or fact-checkers. No journos’ names are found anywhere at Haystack, and there’s no fake news reporting mechanism allowing informed viewers to override Haystack’s machine guesswork — algorithms incapable of news judgment. Facebook and Twitter taught us that’s how fake news spreads. Haystack’s local stories are mostly fluff filler pieces from late in my hometown newscasts (when viewers are tuning out), never the most important stories. I have yet to see a local top story or breaking news item, but Haystack only carries one station’s work here – a second-rate outfit hungry for exposure, and willing to give up a show-closing kicker — a cat-up-a-tree story. Why waste an audience-grabbing lede? Speaks volumes that none of the organizations presenting awards to Haystack are journalism entities, and its lack of login by any means other than Facebook and Google point to data harvesting as Haystack’s real M.O., using other organizations’ news as clickbait. This is an app programmer’s news toy aimed at an audience with a low-information threshold. Coulda been a contender. It’s not the real deal.
Excellent source of variety news.
Jason "Jay" Jones
I have yet to have any problems with this app. I think there should be a MacOS ticker-type app that scrolls news right under the menu bar or a Windows 10 app with similar capabilities. Maybe even work with news-centric YouTubers or other locations by providing a ticker for OBS, XSplit, or other streaming apps. This way more people can talk about the news of the day and have a royalty-free add-on so that people don’t run into copyright problems.
Haystack is #1!
Puterpal1
Haystack is an all encompassing Free News App. I love that I can use the app from many devices with no problems at all. I get my Life cal, World, Entertainment, Tech News and More in one place. An Awesome App!
Fix this nonsense
brianbeastsu
Why are the clips so quiet and every commercial is 500000x LOUDER . Is it that difficult to have balanced sound or is this your way of circumventing the FTC regulations on level volume? I blamed the commercial owners at first but it’s been two years and I regularly check back in to see if it’s fixed and it never is. Truly sad.
I love this app
الغاده
I love this app on Sone tv it have “like and dislike and skip button” but on the iPad dosnt have it ?and I wish if you have it on LG tv