National Review Reviews

Crash, crash, crash

AlumniDog84

Really? A huge rip off. App continually crashes... Impossible to sustain through an entire issue... Cannot read offline. NR - you look incompetent to be offering such a lousy technical product.

Can’t open videos

glorianabanana

Content is great. Downside: Impossible to open National Review video’s from app on iPhone.

I love reading NR. So I thought I’d love the app too. But the app is garbage. I’ll click an article and it’ll just be white with no content. Or I’ll start reading and then some faux-Facebook ad will pop up. Very frustrating. Makes it almost unusable.

Can’t read subscribed copy

Arfon Chunks

Subscribed to monthly option. Insists that I have to pay to read. Did a restore iTunes copies, said it was successful but still wanted me to pay again. Did all the options detailed in the FAQ, no good. $2.99 wasted!

Pop-ups

AbbaZabbaz

I don’t know whether National Review realizes it or not, but there are pop-up ads running on their platform propagated by con-artists. The ads purport that the user has “won” a giftcard and should click to claim it. This is an obvious scam and has no business being allowed. I’ll re-install when these malicious ads are officially removed.

What in the world.

Sanne47

I literally donated actual dollars to NR last year because they said they needed to update their platform. What I see is that their app has gotten remarkably worse. Ads have taken over to the point of unreadability. Jonah Goldberg, David French, Kevin Williamson: you want people to read your stuff? Fix this terrible app.

love NR but app is terrible

godzillabass

i love reading NR, but this app is terrible; crashes every time i use it (on iphone 8). always happens right in the middle of reading an article.

Needs work

Slicknyc29

An improvement but articles crash

Crash issues fixed?!?

Hilk1111

Nope. An apparent fix lasted all of a week. All articles again randomly crash in a white screen. The user can only go back to the home screen, find the article they were reading again, then try to scroll back to where they left off reading. It may happen 2 or 3 more times when trying to get through a longer article. I had theorized that it was caused by script issues with their ads but who knows. They had seemed to completely fix it for a week or two in December 2017 but it is back to being nearly unusable. I still give 3 stars because of course the content is excellent and impossible to find elsewhere curated all in one place. It is worth some frustration, but this is sisyphean.

Worst Initial Experience Ever

AlumniDog84

Purchased a digital magazine subscription today and while the app indicates I have an active subscription it will not let me access magazine content (without purchasing the issue). Tried all the suggested fixes in the FAQ's - this must happen often - to no avail. Now I will cancel subscription. Extremely frustrating.