Doesn’t even load when I have internet. – National Geographic Review

I’m a Peace Corps volunteer, so I only have access to ‘real’ WiFi in the capital city of the developing country in which I’m serving. This means I can use the app less than once a month, and it is no longer practical as a tool to share science, world culture, and nature photos with the people of my community. Also, though a customer service representative from Nat Geo assured me that the new app’s developers were working on providing a way to download issues, time has proven it is not high in their priority list. When I am in-site and using my country’s cell phone as a hotspot, the app won’t work because it eats through my data so fast I can’t access a meaningful amount of content. Here in the capital, the photos load so slowly that it is hard to navigate and text jumps around while I’m trying to read. This review only gets a second star from me because I suppose if you have US quality internet and it works how it’s supposed to, you still get what you pay for. This app is a fun novelty for rich old people who want to look at high quality videos from their living room armchair, not for travelers.
Review by Emmandaline on National Geographic.