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Bloomberg: Finance Market News
Bloomberg LP CM · 79,771 ratings · ★ 4.0
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Top complaints - extracted from 35 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"bloomberg"
8 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app redirected me to my browser instead of opening the bloomberg article inside the app. Afterwards the app was showing a blank screen" - HellsDelight
2
"article"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app redirected me to my browser instead of opening the bloomberg article inside the app. Afterwards the app was showing a blank screen" - HellsDelight
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"subscription"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Absolute rubbish! if you don't know how to calculate your monthly subscription vs the yearly subscription, you're in the wrong business. your news is 2 hours behind everyone else, and you're supposed to be the first to bring your subscriber…" - Vin Vin
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"news"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Absolute rubbish! if you don't know how to calculate your monthly subscription vs the yearly subscription, you're in the wrong business. your news is 2 hours behind everyone else, and you're supposed to be the first to bring your subscriber…" - Vin Vin
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"streaming"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "£355 per year after year 1 is very pricey for news articles. You can't do anything on the app for free, yet their YouTube channel is streaming all the stories for free basically 24/7. No idea why I downloaded this app now." - Lewis kerchuis
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"doesn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "doesn't work. limited experience but screens just wait to load while the browser version works." - Gregg Brown
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"samsung"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "S25 with One UI 8.5: Since the Samsung One UI 8 to One UI 8.5 upgrade, the app has kept on crashing after a few minutes while listening to news articles. Fix this as it's really annoying." - Alban R
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"articles"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "S25 with One UI 8.5: Since the Samsung One UI 8 to One UI 8.5 upgrade, the app has kept on crashing after a few minutes while listening to news articles. Fix this as it's really annoying." - Alban R
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"video"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They removed casting from the video, I can no longer send to the TV in my office. What a ridiculous thing to remove, canceled my subscription because I'm not using it now." - Robert G
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"terrible"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible Terrible App. Restricted on even the basics" - Abri Du Plessis
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"does"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "WHERE'S THE BACK BUTTON?! Needs a "back" button. The app is okay and generally does what most newspaper apps do adequately. Where it falls down, badly, is not, astonishingly, having a "back" button, so that, if you press on a link to anothe…" - IG
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"content"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "waffle non-content video reports. very disappointed" - declan murphy
📋 All 35 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
pages stutter and jump. poor developer quality.
The app redirected me to my browser instead of opening the bloomberg article inside the app. Afterwards the app was showing a blank screen
Bruh it won't download! Cuz google play give me a Can't install error. How do I fix this
Absolute rubbish! if you don't know how to calculate your monthly subscription vs the yearly subscription, you're in the wrong business. your news is 2 hours behind everyone else, and you're supposed to be the first to bring your subscribers the news first, but it's already too late.
S25 with One UI 8.5: Since the Samsung One UI 8 to One UI 8.5 upgrade, the app has kept on crashing after a few minutes while listening to news articles. Fix this as it's really annoying.
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They removed casting from the video, I can no longer send to the TV in my office. What a ridiculous thing to remove, canceled my subscription because I'm not using it now.
Can't read any articles without an expensive subscription.
extremely slow. unacceptable.
£355 per year after year 1 is very pricey for news articles. You can't do anything on the app for free, yet their YouTube channel is streaming all the stories for free basically 24/7. No idea why I downloaded this app now.
What has happened to bloomberg in last few months is beyond imagination, they have started to normalise illegitimate, illinformed and incomplete facts in their articles.
Terrible Terrible App. Restricted on even the basics
very bad data usage and huge download background without permission by streaming
I don't know what they did, but starting today it continuously crashes for absolutely no reason. The news and reporting is great, but the streaming feature is highly flawed and even before the current issues would always glitch out.
ive been using this app since 2013, i would like the developers to know that it is crashing there is a bug needed to be fixed, crashing on samsung s24ultra. Thank you
waffle non-content video reports. very disappointed
unsubscribing after seeing that tabloid piece of an article by Robert Lea. Bloomberg you have fallen far indeed
doesn't work. limited experience but screens just wait to load while the browser version works.
Doesn't load content since a week or so on brand new samsung s26 ultra. Just blank pulsating. ??? There was a network error. Please try again. Reconnect. As a subscriber I expect way more.
downloaded for listening to the radio. Terrible connectivity drops out after a few minutes and doesn't reconnect
App is DOA on android. not sure why they describe it as a performance improvement.
everything fully paywalled now useless
The new changes, i.e., free 30 mins watching of Bloomberg, have been reduced to 15 mins. it is really annoying. I can't afford to pay for a subscription, and before, I was able to listen to important updates for 30 mins and was working well. I would say please bring back 30 mins of free watching. Thanks.
Terrible app, even for subscribers. No longer loads the full article, just spins after the first screen.
This app just stopped supporting Chromecast... I think I will just cancel my subscription.
garbage
Essentially, useless. Lots of TRACKERS BUILT IN to the Bloomberg APP. Google, comScore, Iterable, Taboola, etc.. I have the Duck-Duck-Go app & VPN installed , and it shows me the THOUSANDS of tracking attempts hourly. With the DuckDuckGo app blocking app trackers, the Bloomberg app does not work. My phone is nearly new, and it has the latest updates. The information content is great, and I can access it on my computer and block third-party cookies and tracking scripts there more easily.
This app is terrible. I'm better off using the web on my phone. The screen is constantly blank and just pulsates or fades in and out like loading content that never comes. When something does show, more often than not I get a 'Reconnect' message that doesn't fix anything. As a paid subscriber, I expect more. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and clearing the cache and all that. No luck. I have a Samsung S22 with all the latest software updates too. It's not me; it's you.
The Android app is abysmal. Navigation is poor. There are no speed controls. How could Bloomberg release such a poor product?
notifications not working in android
Clicking a notification does not take me to the article anymore, it just opens the app and it stays where it were previously. That makes notifications useless. Without notifications, app doesn't have any benefit over using a website directly. Furthermore, do I need to mention Bloomberg's bias and Western propaganda? Uninstalling. Device details: Pixel 6, GrapheneOS
Reading is okay, but the streaming media part is so bad. U start a video or recording, it will get stuck or just reset itself. Then you have to restart the video and watch from the beginning plus the ad again. This happens a lot. It's much easier for me to watch Bloomberg media from YouTube instead. I have to juggle two apps and spend time searching for that video on YouTube which I sometime can't find. Paying for a service that is only half working. Bloomberg really needs to fix this.
worst app for streaming
WHERE'S THE BACK BUTTON?! Needs a "back" button. The app is okay and generally does what most newspaper apps do adequately. Where it falls down, badly, is not, astonishingly, having a "back" button, so that, if you press on a link to another article by mistake, you cannot quickly return to the previous article you were reading. This is the first time I've come across this issue in a news app and it's very irritating.
Video often won't open on the app. Too many ads, the same one again and again.
Sentiment summary
74%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
22%
Negative (1-2★)