TechCrunch Reviews – Page 3
4/5 rating based on 94 reviews. Read all reviews for TechCrunch for iPhone.
TechCrunch is free iOS app published by AOL Inc.
Dark mode & photos
Play On 04
Add dark mode!! Photos don’t load in your articles, come on guys. You can do better than this, you’re a tech blog There was an f word in an article. That’s inappropriate without a warning
Terrible Execution
J_SNT
For an app that reports tech related news, this app fails to do what other simple news apps have been doing for a while. The app never shows any picture in the article aside for the main cover photo. The app fails to load some pages instead giving a totally blank page with nothing to read. If an article has any video it won’t be included here. Most of the time you have to click on content (i.e a picture) that doesn’t load and it’ll direct you to the web version of the article. So essentially it’s a glorified web browser at that point. It’s funny when articles reference to an image that won’t even load on the app. Love to skim through the content here but I don’t get why it’s got to be so hard to get the content.
Missing media
Bezfilma
You browse TechCrunch on this app and cone across title that says something like “Mercedes-Benz unveils the EQC to kick...” you click on it expecting to see the new Benz. Article loads but there is not a single image to be seen, no links to click to see the media, nothing just plain text. Dumb.
Formatting issues
triathlete2008
Constantly see text cut off, embedded tags showing that shouldn’t, and words jumbled together with no spaces.
Native app inferior to mobile web
fjalkdj
The native iOS app is simply a complete downgrade from the mobile web experience. The most glaring flaw is the fact that on the app, there are no images or videos in the articles. This is incredibly frustrating when you read an article with the with the title “watch this _video tour_ of...” and the article neither contains a video or even the courtesy of a direct link to the web client so I can watch the video. I love the content and the writing, but this app really falls short of expectations and honestly, I can get all the tech crunch articles I want from Google News, and their mobile app renders web versions so I can actually see the videos when I read. It just feels like the native app is an afterthought and something tech crunch is doing out of perceived obligation rather than a genuine attempt at creating a usable platform. Please fix this TC, I can’t think of any other media app that strips all visual media from its content. When the mobile web client is better than the native app, something is really wrong.
Poor functioning app
Rower155
Love the articles, but the app has been very buggy for a long time. No images or embedded items show, sloppy pull to refresh animation, can’t view comments anymore, articles sometimes won’t load, the most popular at the bottom of every article never changes. Your Engadget app is buggy too, but at least images/videos in articles show up there, so I don’t know why it’s a problem here.
It is probably the most basic app possible...
samansb
..and yet you are still failing at it. The photos render as texts. A quotes sentence is shown without any space between words.
Disappointing
PiperTnT
This app does not seem to understand how a user would interact with an article on mobile. There are simple things that need to be considered and it isn’t. Disappointing for TechCrunch. Maybe do a Startup TechCrunch to build over the app.