Easy to navigate, can turn alerts on or off. Has dark mode - which is great, it's less stressful on the eyes. I can bookmark articles on my phone and read them on my Fire, or laptop. It's great to be able to read the paper without getting covered in ink, or have to recycle. Great for those who miss reading a newspaper. Super convenient, much easier to read at breakfast, before bed, and waiting on line.
A Google user
Deleted my review?! Is fine, I'll just keep putting it back. App keeps telling me I need to log in. WP has to send a one-click login via email, and it works every time. But then 2 clicks later, says I need to log in again - and am prevented from reading articles. No help from support, chat bot is useless, submitting ticket from app failed 3 times. I WANT to support, but whoever is in charge of the app doesn't seem to care about keeping customers. I have canceled my paid subscription.
Lynne Crehan
What the heck happened?? I prefer the print edition. Everytime I try to scroll through the pages by section, something goes wrong: Can't get past page A4, or when I get to "World" it reverts to A1 or kicks totally out of the app. Sometimes comments don't load. This is becoming nonfunctional for me, and the subscription is becoming worthless. Tech support was able to resolve the problem of the app throwing an error when I tried to get past A4, but now it kicks me out when I get to "World".
A Google user
A WAPO subscriber for decades, surprised at the difficulty to read a story under Sports (online) verifying the game that I'd just seen prior to its end. Allowed to see the headline, click on the link. Then required to supply credentials that were rejected. Entered new data for updated credentials; accepted. Taken back to page where I left off. Clicked to read and was told my credentials were not recognized. Invited to enter a new account. Still haven't been able to read the article. Frustrated.
Suz McKimmey
Truly bad new app, now forced on readers. I discovered that just going to the webpage directly with Chrome by making a shortcut is a much better experience, actually better than even the old app. Go to webpage in your phone browser. Click on the menu lines at the top, and select "Create shortcut" and place it on your phone screen. Enjoy!!
A Google user
I used this app for breaking news notifications, but a recent update has made them worthless. The notifications used to display as much of the article title as they could fit, and expanding them (by pulling them down) would let you read the whole headline and decide if you wanted to open them and read the article. Now when you expand one, it'll show you the first few words of the article itself instead of the full headline. So you can no longer read the entire headline and have to open each one in the app to see them. Not happening.
Cheryl Lundquist
People are trying to tell you that your app is seriously glitchy and has been for several days. The search function doesn't work at all. It is impossible to read a full article. My Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra closes the app and is now recommending that I put it in "Deep Sleep". You do get that a subscription is very expensive, right? And you are going to fix this forthwith, right?
Allison Oja
This app is difficult to navigate and poorly laid out. This is NOT improvement, but an excuse to include ads in my paid subscription. Stories are repeated in different sections, and has the editor ever heard of spell checking? I have to search to access all the available stories. If I wanted people to choose what articles I read, I would read google news. I rarely post reviews, but this change sucks.
Kimberly Hawks
If you are strategic in the subscription you purchase you can get a good deal but if you're like me and only occasionally read an article and mostly got it for the feature "The 7" to catch you up every morning just use Spotify and save your money. It's different wording, but you don't need a subscription. I don't like the podcast compared to the article itself but when my subscription runs out I won't know the difference anymore.
A Google user
App works great. Love the Post but to use this app you must have a subscription... so if that's the case, why the ads? If I'm paying for something I expect an ad free experience. Hence 3 stars. There's no way I'm renewing my subscription if they will continue to shove ads in my face. I'm not sure if the Times has ads in their app but I will be trying that app next.
