PressReader: News & Magazines App Reviews

Its a nice program but could use highlighting feature for reference and creating a pdf. 5 stars if it can do that. I

PressReader was one of the first apps I got after I bought the original iPad. I bought the monthly subscription because it allowed to read most of the newspapers I had read when living around the globe, and much less expensively than buying the individual papers from newsstands, if you could find them. It made the world a much smaller place. It is also more convenient to read all of these newspapers on my iPad than the broadsheet versions as they are exact reproductions and are absolutely beautiful on my latest iPads retina display, beside taking no additional space and no awkward unfolding. PressReader is always the first app I go to when I wake every day. Using PressReader, along with Zinio and other iPad magazine and local newspaper apps, is like having your own think tank reading room in one hand!

Much to my dismay, this new version of the app continues to disappoint. It is far more complex and difficult to navigate. Continuous crashes remain consistent and reactivation is required almost daily. I dont understand why these problems have not been addressed.

The best reader ever

Ive been toying with other apps, but nothing gives a better reading experience than PressReader. It is the closest to actually having a newspaper in your hand -- it is laid out just like the paper and you can move through it the same way you do a real paper. Best of all, you can easily change the size of the print as you read without having to move to a whole different view. I like that I can quickly download my papers and read them offline while traveling, which has been a problem with other newspaper apps. They seemed to have fixed the little bugs that were happening about a year ago, and it works great.

Ive been using this app for two years, some days I get the auto download, but most I dont. This then requires me to go to the utilities, log out, and re-log on, then do a manual download for each publication. Its a daily pain, and my only complaint, until it got fixed in May 2015 - works like a champ every day! Now my only complaint is I wish they had a version that work as well for Windows machines!

An update: I am sick of the same issues below continuing to recur, the inability of Pressreader to fix them and, in the latest go round, of having another entity - Press+ - being pointed to so the two companies can blame each other. If Pressreader worked, it would be great. Now, it just asks me to pay for something I should have paid for. Horrible customer service on birth counts. Been using Press Reader through a number of versions, a great way to read newspapers without dealing with recycling and piling up old issues. I find I read more than I used to. Under the hood have discovered 2 issues. Even though I keep at most a weeks worth before deleting, Press Reader has been chewing up memory to the point where iOS8 s,as it is using up 6 GB! Thats just impossible. Which led me to discover the second issue - reporting a problem through the app doesnt work any more - it zips a log file and then reports it needs email set up to send. Email on my iPad is set up, and I find nothing in the app for setting email other than the account used to register my newspapers. Really irritating got both counts!

Ive always found Pressreaders presentation to be great, but recently had a chance to experience their tech support. Bottom line - great! I had lost auto-download function and tech support gave me a procedural fix within 24 hours of my query that worked perfectly, first time through.

This app should be simpler (maybe cause we shouldnt need an app to deliver subscription content.) Not the worst Ive seen, but far from the best.

Update: July 19, 2015 This is, very truly, a dumb reader. Quite sophomoric. As long as my demands were simple - just one newspaper - everything went well. I tried other papers offering samples. I didnt like them and wanted to get rid of them showing up everyday and distracting me. Not possible! Then my earlier complaint too, below. A dumb reader indeed. --- The app meets and exceeds many expectations. I wish I could copy and download elsewhere.

Very good app, but some papers (Boston Globe) cannot be fully enlarged. I use a different app to read the Globe.

At the risk of jinxing this app, PressReader seems to have hit a nice plateau...works well on current hardware running up to date OS. I personally have no complaints and wonder which iPad and what iOS the folks are running who are upset. Backwards compatibility is hard to guarantee in a rapidly changing competitive electronics era.

The app doesnt currently allow to confirm the purchase before downloading. Basically, a wrong tap ends with an unwanted charge to your account. In addition, no indication of price is given before downloading. Therefore, this application is not suitable for a general reader unless one is willing to accept occasional unwanted charges, or has a monthly subscription (available for around $29/month). Too bad as it would be a very fine product otherwise.

This is an astonishingly elegant app that should satisfy 95% of newspaper junkies. While many (most?) of these newspapers have an online edition, this app reminds me of how much information is left behind in the changeover to web publishing. It is pure joy to read newspapers from around the world in their print versions (with ads, tables, pictures, and countless other tidbits of local color.) Of course, some elite papers are not included (NY Times, WS Journal, Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung, London Times, etc.). Still, you can find many great ones like Le Monde, Neu Zuercher Zeitiung, Washington Post, in their full printed glory. The all-you-can-eat version of this app is admittedly pricey in the age of nearly free news. However, for an oldtimer newspaper junkie who remembers what his old habit used to cost him, I think it is a good deal. The main reason I cant give this app five stars is that it still crashes much, much too frequently. Some papers seem more crash prone than others, often createing a frustrating experience for the end user. I have been using 3.0 since its release and have yet to see a single bug fix update. This is totally unacceptable in a product with such a high monthly tariff. Come on NewsPaper Direct! Fix the problems! Otherwise, it is the Ipad equivalent of having your newspaper delivery person throwing your paper into wet bushes every other day. August 2015 Update. Well, folks, it appears that I am too much of a news junkie. I have been getting warnings that I am in violation of PressReaders TOS. While the PR promise of "unlimited access" for monthly subscriptions seems to offer an all-you-can-eat buffet of newspaper reading, there are limits. PressReaders TOS defines excessive use as more than 100 issues per month. In practical terms, this means daily access to three newspapers with 10 issues of other papers/mags added. How is this "unlimited access"? I still like the service but I can get EXACTLY my choice of top three newspapers by direct subscription for roughly equivalent price. I can no longer recommend PressReader monthly membership given TOS limitations and recent removal of favorite newspapers from their stable of offerings.

Great app, excellent quality, lots of options

PressReader is a good App. This app allows me to receive Soka Gakkais World Tribune and Living Buddhism with great joy!!! Since, I am constantly wanting to take and highlight passages out of these two publications, I would love if the App allowed me to underline or take notes on top of the articles. Also, I wished this app allowed me to create .PDF of the articles, so I can encourage other people subscribe to Living Buddhism and World Tribune. Regardless of the highlighting problem I am pretty satisfied with Press Reader. Thank you, Nam-myoho-renege-kyo :)

App is fine if you want to use iTunes to pay. I have a subscription to the Phila. Inquirer and should be able to authorize free delivery, but cannot. Have tried to contact Press Reader to get information but they will not contact me back. That is just rude.

Its the best way I have found to read news papers, magazines and odd sized publications. Christina

Easily able to download subscribed copies and read on the go. Very easy to handle n convenient Suggestion : The app can feature copy paste features to pick up anecdotes and share with others.

Press Reader is a great app, user friendly/easy to navigate. The one feature I wish it had is the ability to highlight. I would love to be able to highlight areas in a favorite article and then bookmark it.