Haystack TV: Daily News

Runs out of choices. Slow throughput, stalls then resumes. My othet apps don't do this. Still my favorite but could be a lot better. Am network engineer for over 30 years. Set up intercontinental WANS for top corps, gov agencies. Not shadetree. Just being honest.

I am suddenly getting video feed loss on several devices using the Roku platform. the screen will turn green however audio is still good. video will come back when it auto forwards to next clip or if I manual forward.

Great coverage of Local to World topics. Excellent variety of sources. Local, regional, US and world news. Up to date current events. I use it everyday. The regional weather is nice as well.

Awesome App! Haystack enables easy access to headlines and information from around the country. Loads quickly and up to date. Highly recommended if your a time deficient News scanner!

I love how you can choose the news you want to hear and skip the rest. The app never has any glitches. It's easy to use and it loads on to most devices.

Very good news app for keeping me up to date with the days news & sport i quite like the the set up on the app as well with all the news from around the world thanks & leep up the good work that you do paul mcclymont

My "nicer" words were just blipped off the screen. Cancel those favorable stars. Update 5-17-22 Haystack has put its best foot forward and the news is well presented. My one star to four star.

My favorite news source! Saves me a lot of time to have my trusted local, national and interesting news sources organized and handy.

This is a very good app, but they stated the premium version is commercial free. After signing up for the premium version, however; I was still getting as many commercials as before. I reached out several times with no response and out of total frustration, I finally cancelled the premium subscription. If you want a good news agitator and do not mind LOTS of commercials, use the free version.

3wks ago came across this app. Excellent source of the daily News. I've been recommending it to all my friends and family. So easy to navigate even for the elderly people like me. World news is more important than ever for all of us ❤️ appreciate HAYSTACK News tremendously.

The best about this app. You can review the news one line as many times you like to Show family and friends, ect.

Upgraded to premium but commercials remain. Don't spend money to get nothing in return. Would be great without commercials but that seems impossible.

If only the app wouldn't be so buggy in Samsung split screen view (s10+), it would be perfect for those that like to have the news on in the background. In split screen view, the videos either don't play, turn black, or jump around. And if you get a video to work resizing or focusing off the window screws everything up again. As a standalone app, not too shabby. Unfortunately, that's not my use case.

It is a good organization of what I like to get news about, but I only have one or two times a week that I ha e time to catch the news. So, during that time buffering is out of line. To be able to set the high definition quality to a lower setting could remedy that, but it is not an option. And predownloading my headlines is only done using Wi-Fi witch I am never on therefore not an option for me either.

I only wish there were more options, and quicker updates. Otherwise, it is the best damn news app I've ever seen. Although, I really hate the new ticker. That's just annoying as hell, for anyone who has OCD and/or ADHD. And it just repeats the same things all the time anyway, distracting me from watching the video, and sometimes covering up running headlines at the bottom of the screen.

I recently bought a hisense 65h9f android tv that includes this app. Excellent I'm a news hound. Before paying for a subscription I tried it out for a while. According to to pop up add pushing for the sub it says to turn off the ads sign up. I have no problem paying for a useful service. Here's the thing. Since 1st using it, it has been showing the same 10 video clips every once in a while 1 will change out. Along with advertisements. It gives far less then Google or MSN news. Which are free.

I like the variety of news available, but I wish I could get BBC. Ofter the volume of commercials is too high, it's disturbing. They could also do a better job cutting between stories, the transition is often abrupt and the experience jarring. I think it's important to include news from multiple sources, this is a great service.

You can not get the app to stop sending you entertainment and sports news. I have down-thumbed those stories every time, I have NOT clicked that as an interest, yet, every 10 minutes, i get more entertainment and sports stories. HOW TO STOP THAT??? Otherwise, I like this app a lot and it acts differently on different types of TVs or phones or laptops. On some TVs i get offered a list for late night TV, but not on my other Tvs. odd. But i very much DO like being able to get the news from other sources besides the cable news channels. And i like that international news is offered. I do wish the late night option was offered on Every tv set i have.

Good catch up after a few days of missing news. I don't think they update the snips they use often enough, so you'll see the same reports the next day. Weather can be a bit behind. The ability to choose many different network sources for news, business, sports and local is a definate plus. Commercials are not too obtrusive.

This app gives me a good menu of headlines news of the MSM any time of the day. However, I recently noticed that the Roku version does censor any video critical to China. You will see the title, the video, and hear background noises, but you won't hear the voice. Very bizarre. Other that, this app gives you what is expected from the MSM.

I would be willing to pay a small fee to subscribe to all the cable news channels that exist out there as an add on. All the free feed is great too. For a news junkie, this app is an essential.

App is not working, the circle just spins and it is not accessible.

This is what I've been saying should be a news broadcast all topics and very informative it's great.

Nice idea and execution. The app however forced me to reset my Google password after signing in from a new device. Huge inconvenience. Also, commercials play Much louder than the rest of the content, forcing you to stay by your volume controls. Would be nice if there was a premium subscription version available. I'd be willing to pay up $4.99/month for no ads. Work out the kinks and and address the ad issue and you legitimately have a 5-star app on your hands

Used to be great. Haystack has been my main source of news for the last few years, I have always liked how the news would be aligned with my preference and how up to date they were. In the last months I started seeing a lot of repetition of news that i have seen before and less of a good mix of sources and videos. For example, what triggered me to write this review is because I was just presented with the same video its being showed to me for tge last two weeks everery day.