The Nation Magazine App Reviews

One thing I figured out only after struggling for weeks trying to read articles: the app only scrolls correctly in portrait mode.

I downloaded the App and then paid for my subscription thru Apple like I have with a few magazines and journals. I get confirmation from Apple that my money has been debited. But I cannot get the app to let me register and use the service. It goes in circles. Of course they do not have a call center that has technical trouble shooters beyond 6pm. How do I get my money back?

Condolences to the fine writers and editors of this magazine, betrayed by inept programmers and customer "service" drones who try to blame Apple for the excrement they have dropped in the App Store.

Agree with both reviews. Can not get it to work.

This app has major problems. Dont bother subscribing for digital access (you wont be able to access it anyway) just go for the old fashioned paper magazine.

This app is useless. Does nothing but send you around in circles. If you want to read The Nation forget the digital subscription. Youll be wasting your money and your time. Go for the paper subscription instead. And shame on The Nation for even putting this app out there.

I had no trouble getting the app to work. I was already an online subscriber, though, and simply logged into the app using the username email and password I already had. So no complaints.

This is the worst app Ive ever worked with. My latest issue opened the previous issue instead and could never get it to work. Customer service told me to call iTunes (yeah, right). I insisted on talking to digital support, told to remove and reinstall the app and that I wouldnt need a log in because I purchased sub through iTunes. That didnt work and I am locked out of my existing sub. I cancelled iTunes renewal and signed up through the Nation and will try again.

Ive just started downloading a PDF from the Nation website. You have to be logged in to see the link on the current issue page, but its there. Then I just AirDrop it onto my iPad. Hope that helps someone!

idiotic, old school app. really awkward password handling. cant possibly give this a good review.

Couldnt connect to my subscription through the maze of password updates etc. Great publication. App designers are totally inept.

A steaming heap of crap, the app, not the magazine. Must have been developed by an idiot or a republican, but I repeat myself.

Could not access the electronic subscription I paid for through website. Extremely disappointed.

The app is as good or as bad as any other app relegated to other magazines. One simply has to be subscribed before one may use the app. As a subscriber one registers with the Nation magazines website and creates an account. Then and only then one can use the app and access the wealth of material available both in the current and previous issues.

This app is dysfunctional. Tried to log in and wound up in an infuriating endless loop. Nation app people - you can do better (I hope.)

Ive been a subscriber for two weeks, and both times now a new issue was available, the app wants me to pay again for the single issue. Yes, Im logged in, etc. Ugh. I just cant understand how in this day and age, media companies can provide content as great as The Nations, but then set up barriers like a half-assed app to getting that content to their readers. Do better!

I got the app. I logged in as a subscriber successfully but I still have to purchase a subscription. No recognition that I already have one. This only succeeds in creating bad feelings about the magazine which can be responsibly resolved by creating an app that works properly and is backed up by support from the Nation, not iTunes. (Yeah right) Anyway another app bites the dust.

My experience is exactly the same as Zimmermans on Dec 1. I have subscribed to digital+paper, and I logged in. Login is very confusing. I have been able to access some issues , but have tried for days to access the issue that just arrived in hard copy, and it wants to charge me for it or take out another subscription. This is a very important publication that many more people should be reading. Please fix the iPhone app!

Every time I access the app via iPad, Im not recognized as a subscriber. Havent experienced this kind of app malfunction since the creation of apps. Very, very frustrating.

App is worthless. Impossible to convince it you have an active subscription. Just stick with the dead tree version of The Nation until/unless they ever manage to fix it.