The Atlantic Magazine

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] 5/5 · US Well done!: It is a pleasure to read articles with intelligent, analytical content! I have never been disappointed!
2. [R3] 5/5 · US Good reporting can be hard to find: The Atlantic, like a few other outlets still provides news and analysis the way we remember it from several storied outlets and publishers. Less bias, more fact-checked and vetted sources, and intelligently developed features and opinions.
3. [R25] 5/5 · US Extraordinary Journalism: In the two years that I have subscribed to the Atlantic, I find myself yearning for more of their well researched and intellectually challenging articles. This news source has allowed me to have a more refined opinion on a wide variety of domestic and international issues. I’m hooked.
4. [R30] 5/5 · US News without a slant: I’ve been reading The Atlantic for over two years and it is one of the few news media unaffected by President Trump’s attempt to control the information coming out of his administration. It is factual, in depth, educational, and thought provoking. Long live the free press and one of the last bastions of excellent journalism as we watch another superior news organization’s re
5. [R7] 4/5 · US Love audio version of stories: The Atlantic’s use of audio versions of its articles helps with accessibility to the articles.
6. [R8] 5/5 · US Great app: Great listening. Informative news.
7. [R16] 5/5 · US Strong investigative reporting: The Atlantic is a beacon of light during these murky times. Thanks for taking risks. I love the option to either read or listen. I get the print magazine too.
8. [R115] 3/5 · US Enriching content, yet improve the search feature: I enjoy the narrated audio articles. I wish you can follow particular writers more easily. The search engine feature does not always yield a writer’s work, so that is an area for improvement. Tip: use the Atlantic website to find an author’s work, then search the article you want in the app.
9. [R14] 5/5 · US Fantastic journalism: Interesting articles that are well researched and often provide deep insights into topics I previously knew little about.
10. [R17] 5/5 · US Proven Minds: I’ve been reading the Atlantic for the 3 decades since college. The writers, contributors, and staff are a who’s who of modern American thinkers and their contemporaries. The intellectual foundations, the bona fides, the considerable discipline of their critical thinking reflects a pageant of ideas. If the Atlantic covers it, considers it, turns their formidable attention to the subj
11. [R19] 5/5 · US Best subscription I have: Thought provoking. Grounded. Entertaining.
12. [R26] 5/5 · US Like no other!: The best range of content and writing anywhere. Clear and concise presentation of the world we’re living in. The Atlantic is the gold standard of reporting.
13. [R6] 2/5 · US $100 Subscription Contains Ads: Content aside (-4.7 bias from AllSides), which y’all probably know going into a subscription, the platform contains ads directly embedded in its articles on the app. Unsubscribing after less than 1 hour of use. Edit: dropping star rating after attempting to interact with technical support for about 40min. Never got to a human and entered multiple loops with the hel
14. [R22] 1/5 · US Subscription?: You pay for a "subscription", and yet, the articles are littered with TEMU Ads. among many? = W R O N G ! ! !
15. [R53] 3/5 · US Great articles, too many ads: Advertisements every few paragraphs in an article I PAID to read are not acceptable. The Atlantic isn’t the only digital magazine to suffer from this issue, but video ads are extra distracting and annoying.
16. [R79] 1/5 · US Ads with a paid subscription??: Constant ads while you’re trying to read an article, all while PAYING. What a joke
17. [R91] 3/5 · US App goes blank or refreshed every 10 sec: Excellent journalism (really!!). But the app will just go blank screen while I’m reading it. Or most recently, reload the page , leaping the paragraph I’m reading to some new location. This needs to get fixed as it obviously makes it frustrating to read the great journalism. Most recently iOS on iPhone 16 pro. But it did it on my old 11 pro too. Googl
18. [R99] 2/5 · US Slow: The app on iPad is so slow
19. [R109] 2/5 · US Poor App Experience: This app is very poorly designed. The article I was just reading disappeared and went blank. I tried to find it using the author’s name, while logged into my account. Clicking on the author’s name promptly took me out of my account, and I could not read the article because it says I was not logged in. So I go through the steps to login again, which are a pain. The article stil
20. [R128] 2/5 · US Slow app: I use the App on my iPad, and it is really slow to load pages. The Atlantic website works fine in a browser, so I’m not sure what the issue is for the app. I like the layout and content, but it’s frustrating to get the whirling red circle, and it seems to be getting worse with time.
21. [R12] 1/5 · US App needs a rewrite: Great articles. Horrible app. If you see an article on Facebook you can't navigate easily to the article in the app. I tried the app search feature typing the exact name of the article and it didn't appear. I tried using the authors name and couldn't find it easily. The navigation and look up seems archaic.
22. [R38] 2/5 · US Search!: Wish I could search for articles. And wish that if my friend texts me an article it’ll open in the app and not safari (which never keeps me logged in) It’s also difficult to share articles from the app
23. [R45] 1/5 · US Terrible App, Great Magazine: Love the magazine so chose a digital subscription and am profoundly disappointed. Almost impossible to navigate.
24. [R51] 2/5 · US Great journalism, piss poor app: Journalists are not programmers. We know that. But, this app is just a failure. When every scroll takes several long sentences and the search function can’t find a phrase you have no choice but to read the article in your web browser or chop down some trees for the printed release.
25. [R88] 1/5 · US iOS subscription not working properly: I am an iOS subscriber and the app will only occasionally recognize this. After an indeterminate amount of time it will randomly stop recognizing my subscription which means I have to uninstall and reinstall the app to be able to use it again.
26. [R101] 1/5 · US Why would I keep paying for this? Doesn’t recognize my subscription: This app and the Atlantic in general is stealing money from me. I pay a monthly subscription, but the app categorizes me as a registered reader. If I go to a browser to read on my laptop it does not recognize my subscription either. This is the only publication on earth that I know of that is stealing money from subscribers
27. [R123] 2/5 · US Still can’t auto-renew: Have to do this again. The only app in my entire catalog that can’t handle auto-renewals. Every month I have to re-install the app to get it to recognize my subscription. Why does this keep happening? Why can’t you fix it?
28. [R137] 1/5 · US Magazine is good but online subscription service is totally broken.: If you subscribe via the App Store your subscription will regularly just not work. Customer service is non-existant, they never Even reply. Despite the high quality of thé content, just too frustrating an expérience to recommend subscribing.
29. [R9] 3/5 · US Give your readers text size adjustments!!!: One of, maybe THE dean of thoughtful topical writing, can’t seem to provide what virtually every half-baked news source does … give its readers the ability to adjust font size! Your average subscriber, I’d guess, is not 20 years old. Provide dynamic adjustable display sizes now please. It’s vital. The Atlantic is an outlier in its inability to keep
30. [R24] 4/5 · US Atlantic 5 App 3: Love the Atlantic but this app needs some work. For starters, add a History! When I leave the app and come back, or click on a link in the app or elsewhere, the current story is lost. Sometimes the Back option works, but often it does not. So I’m constantly losing the story I’m currently reading. This leads to a feeling of ‘must finish an article once you start it.’ Also I book
31. [R46] 3/5 · US Update messed up fonts!!!: I recently opened my Atlantic app to find that all the text went from regular to bold. I think this corresponds with a recent app update. iPhone 17, most recent system. Really destroys the reading experience.
32. [R76] 2/5 · US Dark mode is missing for comments: Can you please extend dark mode to the article comments section? The comments appear with a bright white background and black text regardless of the device or app’s dark mode setting, and it makes it painful to read at night.
33. [R18] 1/5 · US The latest update breaks games: I can no longer share and complete a crossword with another person. This latest app update has completely broken this feature. Please fix as this was the main reason I subscribed to your app.
34. [R167] 2/5 · US Great content, but buggy: I love the articles, but the developer should improve navigation : the app hangs in various sections when going say from game to game.
35. [R168] 3/5 · US Great content, glitchy app: I really appreciate the articles included and the format is good. My issue is with the app performance, not the Atlantic Magazine. It routinely blacks out I. The middle of reading an article, leaving just the “home” arrow at the top. I like the games, but when you finish a game and want to choose another, the section blacks out and won’t reload. The only fix is to force
36. [R173] 3/5 · US Great content, terrible app: I love The Atlantic. If I didn’t, I would have deleted this barely usable app ages ago. It is soooo slooooow to load anything. The games (which are excellent) are the worst offenders. I assume a good programmer could identify and fix the issues. With every app update I hope the slowness will be fixed. Alas, years later the app still coughs and chugs and displays a spin
37. [R49] 4/5 · US App is fine, AI voice for reading is horrible: Not sure why it’s so bad. They either need to upgrade the tech or, better yet, hire actual human readers.
38. [R221] 3/5 · US Hate the AI: The AI voices used on the audio articles are extremely annoying and bland. How hard would it be to use a voice actor!?
39. [R324] 3/5 · CA Audio Content Issues: Overall it’s a good app, but as someone who primarily listens rather than reads, I’d really appreciate a tab that has only human-read stories. The AI narration is of significantly lower quality, to the point that it puts me off of the app to not be able to filter out the AI-narrated articles. The rhythm, cadence and even pronunciation is too distracting that it becomes a wast
40. [R20] 5/5 · US Great But Not Available on Kindle: I really enjoy the articles. They are thorough, topical and very readable. But it is hard to read the Atlantic on my phone. It would be much better if it could be read on my Kindle Paperwhite.
41. [R258] 3/5 · GB Minor complaint: Text of articles is too close to the left side of my iPad screen, almost off the edge, making it a bit hard to read. Also, Cannot find a way to increase text size.