National Geographic Reviews

Misunderstood

Nana-fun

This has been an informative, as well as an educational tool for our students all over the world for years !!! I'm actually appalled that this periodical has a current rating of only 2 stars...really ? Who, may I ask is the individual in charge of such a decision???

Better than print version

Ngsupporter

Nat Geo continues to have excellent content and photos. In response to criticisms that some articles are too long, I say, put aside a few minutes and take the time for more in-depth coverage that we typically see in this world of sound bites! Love the interactive features, including lots of audio - generally in the author's voice.

Doesn't follow Apple app standards

Birdflier

This app locks to landscape - without reference to iPad settings. Unacceptable!

Great content, solid app, 1 complaint on iPad

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The content of course is amazing. The app works fine. My major complaint is the quality of images on an iPad. They are not retina resolution sometimes and you can see the artifacts. I would gladly download 500mb or higher versions of issues, instead of 180mb, if I had the option. I really care about image quality, but do not want to tend to printed magazines. So, higher quality images to match our devices and get closer to print would be great. Note that some other publications use larger download sizes and achieve higher quality images it seems.

Please update

0000!!!!!!!

No matter how short the trip was, the app will not remember where I left off and will begin from the top. This is really frustrating because during the course of reading an article, I often turn off my phone or go to main screen and then come back to the article multiple times, and I am forced to scroll down to where I left off. I would rather use safari or use my laptop, but both of them require so much more effort. (In fact I don't even think this is possible) Another bothering thing is that when I highlight a word, national geographic will not allow me to define the word. Now I know that this is related to article copying and pasting problem and I understand why NG made this decision, but to a person like me whose first language is not English, this ruins my experience of reading the article so that I will not understand what it's trying to say and get bored, causing me to not read the journal some point. If there is a way to add that option, I would love it and would rate this app 5 star for sure.

Superb content - shoddy app

Zoirusha

1. No bookmarking feature 2. No "share" feature (I understand NatGeo doesn't want me "sharing" an entire issue, so how about they place a monthly limit on the amount of bytes I can share). NatGeo, I promise, you will gain more subscribers if u let the current subscribers to essentially advertise for you! 3. The app doesn't keep track of where you left off. Coupled with no bookmarking, this means that even if you go away for 10 secs to send a txt, the app will bring you back to the very beginning. 4. The whole interface is weird and not intuitive. 5. The "library" feature should show the issues that the subscribers actually downloaded to their device. Instead, you get a list of ALL the issues available for download. So if you had downloaded a December 2013 and June 2015, and July 2016 issues, you will have to scroll down though all those years in order to find what's actually on your device.

Still Disappointed

Artyelle

While NGM has been around for a century, it's digital app is still behind the times; it is sorely lacking in accessibility. The fonts are not dynamics c, cannot be enlarge, there's no voice over. I use to be a long time subscriber. Sadly, because of my slow progressive eyesight loss, I can no longer enjoy this magazine. I continue to be disappointed, while the rest of the apps like the NYTimes offer dynamic fonts, I'm sure an even larger population of readers. When will the NGM catch up

Great app, but no bookmarks

talismayne

This app is fantastic and I would have rated it 5/5 if it weren't for the lack of bookmarking functionality in articles. Every time you leave an article and go back to pick up where you left off, it takes you back to the beginning of the article. This is very frustrating if you try to read an article but don't finish it and want to go back to the spot where you left off. Please correct this for the next update!

Great magazine, frustrating app even on iPad

Phyns2

The app only allows download of 5 issues at once, no more. So you cannot easily download ahead to prepare for being somewhere without Internet. And forget about looking back to articles you liked in older issues unless you want redownload and lose access to newer issues. Even more irritating is that once you start downloading an issue it automatically opens and begins the animation and music. So setting up a queue of downloads feels like battling a barrage of uncontrollable popup ads from a link you clicked on by accident.

Useless

Tomyatlantis

I subscribed to natgeo, downloaded the app, was NEVER able to read ANY magazine. Asked for a refund, erased this useless app.

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