WWD: Women's Wear Daily Reviews
3/5 rating based on 50 reviews. Read all reviews for WWD: Women's Wear Daily for iPhone.
WWD: Women's Wear Daily is free iOS app published by Penske Media Corporation
Horrible. Crashes 9 times out of 10
Ok Luke
Content and format is great, which makes the unreliable app so infuriating. Every morning I get my coffee, try to download the daily WWD, then scream obscenities at my lovely apple device.
Needs major work
KCFrank
When this loads it flips my iPhone time bar to the bottom, upside down. Although that goes back to the top when the app opens, when I'm scrolling down in an article the gray summary screen will pull UP, from the bottom. Screens will also randomly stop scrolling as though your finger weren't touching the screen, even though it is. This can be really frustrating. Also, if you accidentally bump the article left or right, the top half of the screen goes blank and you can now only read the article in the lower half. I also think this app doesn't show all of the actual WWD content. I used to have access to the print version and it had loads of pieces in there. This only seems to have about 15 articles a day and they aren't as good as the ones in the print. Really wish this app worked properly, or at all. I'm considering canceling my membership as I don't even want to read it - just makes me frustrated first thing in the morning.
Deep flaws
Night79
Yes it's nice to read it like a newspaper but the app itself is deeply flawed and its a surprise and shame they haven't updated it so far....they obviously don't care too much about technology as the website isn't great either...typical fashion industry mentality. 1) the app is extremely slow. The download freezes at the 98% download mark every time I try to download an issue. I usually have to wait a good ten minutes to download a single issue and I have extremely fast Internet. 2) reading articles isn't easy. Zooming used to be much better but now it's hard to zoom then scroll around the page...again doesn't work. The biggest problem though is the downloads, it's ridiculous that its how it works. If they are going to take notes from another it's the NYT, a seamless app that delivers content almost instantly. Once shouldn't have to wait more then a couple sends for content download, if that. Technically it should be downloaded automatically so that when we open it we already have it downloaded on our iPads. WWD, step it up! I don't pay almost $200 a year for this kind of service!!!!
Pull the App Immediately
LuckyShopper
The technical glitches are ridiculous! It's ironic that WWD touts 100 years in the app description because it only highlights just how much they are failing the embracing the future. I have been impressed with how other print publications have evolved to survive this digital age. This app has only hurt their brand.
Update is Awful
prettynpink.3
Once I updated this app, I can no longer log in with my school account. I tried to log in on my pc, and everything works fine. Please fix this update ASAP!
Don't renew your subscription
WWD Help!
I love WWD and avidly read it daily. Since renewing my subscription this year, I have not been able to successfully download an issue. It is very frustrating and if the app is not approved I would not recommend maintaining your subscription - especially if you are hoping to read it daily via the iPad app.
Worse every day
Aymster660
Crashes multiple times on opening, before it takes me to "automatic" download. Downloads only when I tap it, then progresses up to 99%, then goes backward to 98%, then freezes without any download. YES, I have auto-archive set up. Even this is useless, so I physically archive every single issue (if I'm lucky enough to successfully download it). I have to delete the app once every 2-3 weeks to even get a low rate of success with downloading. Customer service told me to set up Auto Archive, even after I already explicitly told them I had. Then told me that a new version was coming soon. When I enquired when this would be, they stopped answering my emails. Disgraceful to take our money and not deliver the product.
WWD Should Be Ashamed...
Crystal-phoenix
I've been reading WWD for many, many years, and was thrilled when this app came out - no more piles of papers to deal with. But this app is atrocious. It would be bad enough if it were just the auto download and archive features didn't work as promised - they never did - but since the last "update" it won't download at all. For your subscription price, you get the sidebar article teases, and the issue covers - that's it, no content, no full articles, no web access. Plenty of other publications have figured this technology model out, so I can only assume that WWD does not wish to be in this space at all. All digital subs from this point should be refunded immediately, and this app should be pulled - it is an embarrassment.
Love the content, but is it worth the trouble?
tejida
The app is very disappointing. The update has now caused repeated crashes. Before the update, another limitation was lack of landscape mode. This situation is about to cause a subscription cancellation.