National Review

The best conservative writing, reporting, and analysis available anywhere.

Total ratings

4.79 (Rating count: 623)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Great content and valuable articles
  • Improved user experience in the new version
  • Variety of conservative perspectives
  • Strong support for reading across the political spectrum
Cons
  • Frequent login issues and difficulty accessing subscriber content
  • Slow loading times and app performance problems
  • Excessive ads even for paying subscribers
  • Clunky interface and navigation difficulties
  • Crashes and freezing issues
Most mentioned
  • Logging in and accessing content
  • Performance issues and slow loading
  • Ad-related frustrations
  • Navigation difficulties and app usability
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All time rating average: 4.79
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Date Author Rating Comment
2022-11-07
Christopher Clements		 This app sucks! I'm a long time subscriber. It keeps logging me out and then says my password is incorrect I go online and login with the same password. New Update won't let subscribers log in. Make you subscribe again. Nothing has changed!!! I tried again to log in - used my password - and it logged me in for a second and then logged me out. Hey Rich Lowry - get it together.
2022-07-27
Jeff Tuccy		 New Version -- GREAT improvement! This new version is easy to use, quick, responsive, and helps make reading National Review a better experience. Most importantly, this App even makes reading the digital version of the magazine easy! Thanks for the improvement!
2022-05-12
WillO		 Doesn't deliver content. I thought maybe this was a subscription issue so I paid to extend my subscription. It took my money but did not extend the subscription and still does not deliver content. I contacted them by email and got back a bunch of suggestions like "log out and back in". I wrote back that I'd already tried all this. They stopped responding. Appears to be a pure ripoff.
2022-01-22
Denise Shaver		 The worst experience. Don't subscribe! I paid for a subscription but have never been able to login nor have I ever received a magazine. I've emailed a dozen times and none of the morons have been able to resolve the issue. Now trying to get a refund is proving impossible.
2021-05-17
James Morgan		 Lousy app... don't waste time and space on your phone. Pages don't load, ads overwhelm functioning pages, and no sense of content management. I deleted it. Must revert to standard website where I can read without ads and can appreciate content layout.
2021-03-27
What's Wrong With The Street?		 Sensible conservatism right in my hand anytime. Or so you would think. The app is painfully slow, often not loading what I had intended. Always trouble with logging in even though I'm a subscriber. And ads ads ads even though I'm a subscriber! I would like the search to be a better. I can see an article on my desktop but, when I search thru the app, it isn't as easy to find. You're better off just using the website. I'm really disappointed with this app and I know Buckley would be, too.
2021-03-11
Harris Tweed		 Great magazine, terrible app. Usually when I open it I get a blank screen and have to use the back button to restart it. Then it frequently kicks me out of whatever I'm browsing so that I have to go back and find where in the list of articles I was. Within the list, the articles move around as ads load. Links to related information open within the NR app (no url). I put up with it because I enjoy the magazine, but I wait for my physical copy often because the app is so lousy.
2020-12-20
Mitchell		 Thank you for fixing the previous issues with the app! The major issue I had was having to reinstall everytime a new issue was published to access it. Customer service wasn't real responsive at the time, but the engineering team seems to have addressed it. I'll gladly bump the stars up as I use the app and see how it responds. Love the content...great as always!
2020-07-21
Dennis Kelley		 Performance of this app is horrible. Pages constantly jump around when reading an article. Insertion of ads among headlines causes similar issues. Just basically a pain in the butt to use. Too bad since the content is quite good, but is better read in a browser.
2020-01-15
A Google user		 I love the content. Especially Jim Geraughty, Kevin Williamson, Kim Timf and Ramesh Ponnuru. However, the app is slow when downloading articlesconstantly refreshes when loading ads and although I am an NRPlus member I cannot log in and constantly have articles refuse to load. I get an error that my free article limit has been reached. I would give 5 stars if the app worked better.
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