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. [R7] 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
2. [R23] 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 ! ! !
3. [R54] 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.
4. [R80] 1/5 · US Ads with a paid subscription??: Constant ads while you’re trying to read an article, all while PAYING. What a joke
5. [R89] 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.
6. [R102] 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
7. [R124] 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?
8. [R138] 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.
9. [R1] 2/5 · US App=terrible…but good journalism: Hey, let me know when you work all the bugs out of your app so I can begin enjoying your content again. Until then I’ll read the print version. You are much better journalists than app developers, don’t quit my your day jobs!
10. [R14] 3/5 · US Needs improvement…: There are several issues with this app. First, there is no article share button, you have to go to the website, which makes zero sense. Second, I often get a blank page while reading an article, and I have to click back to the main page and click on the article again. Finally, if I go to another app and return to the article, it skips ahead and I have to scroll back to where I w
11. [R43] 2/5 · US App is flawed: The app eats battery like nothing else. Uses twice as much battery compared to browser usage. Not sure if it’s from background refreshing or the excessive video ads.
12. [R46] 1/5 · US Terrible App, Great Magazine: Love the magazine so chose a digital subscription and am profoundly disappointed. Almost impossible to navigate.
13. [R3] 5/5 · US Well done!: It is a pleasure to read articles with intelligent, analytical content! I have never been disappointed!
14. [R4] 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.
15. [R5] 5/5 · US Great App: Enjoy reading quality articles here
16. [R12] 5/5 · US War Plans: Goldberg, it doesn’t get any better than this. Watergate, what’s Watergate.
17. [R6] 5/5 · US Doomscrolling for Dummies: This is the best way to get good current information in a way that is fun easy and engaging. I frequently listen to news, current events and subscribe to many podcasts about current events and Atlantic is amazing. I love the content and the way it’s formatted. The best way to read now is on your phone and this makes reading easy and informative as well as accessible. I
18. [R8] 4/5 · US Love audio version of stories: The Atlantic’s use of audio versions of its articles helps with accessibility to the articles.
19. [R9] 5/5 · US Great app: Great listening. Informative news.
20. [R17] 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.
21. [R11] 5/5 · US Father’s Day gift: My son gifted me with this wonderful opportunity. Everything the new outlets refuses to address I have found in The Atlantic thus far. I am completely enjoying my gift.
22. [R15] 5/5 · US Fantastic journalism: Interesting articles that are well researched and often provide deep insights into topics I previously knew little about.
23. [R31] 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
24. [R10] 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
25. [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.
26. [R13] 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.
27. [R39] 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
28. [R52] 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.
29. [R110] 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