National Review

Superb thought, deeply rooted in philsophical history, grounded in traditional morality, with lucid writing.

good writing

cannot log in as password and email not accepted. customer care slow to functionally nonexistent. password reset email never received. technically incompetent group

love The National Review

Fair and balanced writing on important topics. Essential reading whichever side of the aisle you support.

android app hangs when I log in. completely unusable.

love reading real news and not all those other main media's with major TDS

Don't bother downloading this app. Stick with the website. I pay a subscription to access the content, so why do I have to dodge ads? What finished this app for me was the soft porn ads, even though I have NEVER, EVER accessed that sort of website to attract that kind of filth. I have emailed NR multiple times asking for suggestions or help, specifically mentioning the porn ads, even sending screenshots. Crickets. I agree. WFB would be disappointed.

Few things are as annoying as ads in the app that you are paying for. Yes, the print version has ads (like all magazines), but they are not placed in the middle of articles.

A complicated history artfully explained

National Review offers accuracy that no other publication does!

Good articles, & podcasts. App looks good & is easy to navigate through. Rich Lowry has great content!

finally, a solid app. Not good for larger tablets though.

It's better to get a subscription from the website, you can't actually listen to the articles on the app as well as comment. the app isn't horrible but it lacks a lot of what the website has like the magazine archives. love the company good people different opinions. God bless

The National Review is Conservative but doesn't fawn over The Republican Party. It's a more nuanced version of Conservative news. The app is great also.

I'm a fool for only just now downloading the NR app and getting the digital subscription. Well, better late than never.

Solid information based on facts.

Good information that is a pleasure to read.

Like the content but images are not showing once I click on the posts. Tried on both a wifi connection as well as in 5G :/

seems great so far.

If you want unbiased articles and opinions(though conservative in nature), this is the finest site on the web. I'd put the Washington Examiner second, but that's a review for another day.

smooth operation, easy to navigate, great variety of content and regular updates to content -- a+

Great and dependable app which works flawlessly.

Fair and inciteful, unlike the Imperial Media propaganda!

surprisingly intellectual

Great stuff and almost always correct

Intuitive interface; user friendly layout and format.

I can't log in. I get in fine on the desktop and the mobile site on my phone and tablet, can't use the app on either device. I know my credentials are correct because I can get in as long as I don't touch the app.

I wish there were push notifications but I do love the accuracy of your articles.

Reviewing the app, not the content like most of the comments. the app is good, but I find it wild that you can't view and interact with comments in the app. it directs you to NRO website in a browser. so what's the point of the app?

Somehow more biased than Fox News. Impressive.

Solid news, data and opinion across the whole spectrum. I'm addicted

National Review is an intelligent and responsible source of true Conservativism. It is needed more than ever as an alternative to the shrill, overwrought, and rude voices on both the Left and the Right.

I love the content and the accuracy of the details.

fascinating, though sometimes in the same way as watching a train wreck

works seamlessly

Login with valid uid/PW hangs with the spinning sphincter of poor programming

My go-to source for the best news analysis out there.

One of the most refreshing and honest publications I've read - and the app, while not offering dark mode yet, is flawless.

Good App

Always insightful analysis. If you believe individual rights depend on limiting the size and power of government, it's a must read.

Honest, fact-based, conservative news and opinion. The app works great, and is easy to read and navigate.

NR is great, all around.

good app. much improved

App will not allow me to even log in, it just "churns" like it's waiting for a response from the mother ship. Pixel 7 Pro.

For the intelligent reader, unbiased by today's trends...

It's a great source for news and I can even read the issue before it arrives in the mail. But I very much dislike how ads cover the copy on the bottom of the page. When we're all subscribers, do you really need that ad revenue?

Ads cover the bottom of the article, preventing access to the comments button.

the Kindle app version would remember where you were in a given article. that would be a nice feature to have.

Excellent content

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.

works well, easy to use, glad I found it!

great articles but the app needs work. why can't we see/search articles by author?

POISON!!! BUYER BEWARE!!!!

A steadying sane voice in a world trying to destroy itself in a fit of mad rage.

Loving the new app. Please add a play button to listen to articles. I use that feature all the time on your website and would like it in the app as well. Thank you.

It's simple the best most accurate commentary.

Finally improved! I can finally go to the app to read the articles instead of on a website, it was definitely worth every penny you put into the development of this app!

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!

The new app is a vast improvement!

Would be 5 stars with dark mode!

Great improvement.

Good and truthful information.

Did not take long for National Review to demand a subscription for the honor of reading. No thanks.

My favorite magazine now on an app that works.

Kinda buggy, but mostly ok

News I can depend on

I enjoy the well-written articles.

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.

Just visit the site in-browser. SO MUCH BETTER. Actually the site is great on mobile.

Right leaning without being right wing. I almost like the comments as much as the articles.

Articulate and balanced description, discussion, and analysis of significant current events.

National Review is indispensable as a source of news and analysis of world events and current events. This app makes NR magazineplus more accessible 24/7 and that's a big gain with no downside.

Excellent writing

Magazine and web content are good but app is extremely clunky and unstable. Easier to use browsers and web site.

Seamless flow of wisdom.

Worst app ever. Cannot login to see articles. I won't even bother to read the articles online because this app is so bad.

Definitely NOT the NR of only a few years ago. More of a Newsweek or Time any more. Does not stand out as the conservative beacon that it used to be. Too many Ivy Leagers on their dole.

Well done

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.

Great content...user interface could be better.

Great content, but app is extremely buggy.

Wish there were no ads if you're an NRPLUS member. Kinda clunky. See WSJ app if you need an aspirational model.

Great app.

Quality content since the 50s. Occasional disagreements, surely. Nevertheless, great writing and great editing, Buckley would be proud.

Sloooow...

Well written articles for the most part. App pages are boring, but good information.

It's digital, but needs work to emulate the magazine experience. Need way to search by author, also please include time of publication on article lists.

Very user friendly

I pay money for a subscription to this stinking app, NR plus no less, but the pop up ads are so frequent that I have to try and log in repeatedly if I don't run out of patience and put away my phone and go to my tower PC. I'm uninstalling the app and as the wokesters on NR would say F++kYou National Review!

Content from National Review is excellent. National Review's app is terrible. The app often reverts to bugginess and has annoyances like articles without publishing dates. National Review should do better. [Originally posted in 2019. As of August 2021, the app is still terrible.]

Thoughtful and rigorous conservative analysis and reporting.

One of the best media apps - it works perfectly even on my old Samsung Galaxy phone.

Great News analysis from all perspectives. Real journalism!

It the best magazine articles that I ever read. I managed to sit still and read through a page without fidgeting.

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.

Great, well-informed writing!

National review is the best and the most thoughtful conservative source of opinion and information.

Needs adjustable font! Come on, this is an app that is primarily built READING! How can you possibly not allow users to adjust the font size?

Ads are objectionable in a paid app (subscriber)

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.

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.

Slow, ads, no single sign on

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!

App is FULL of ads and makes using it super frustrating.

Complete garbage. Requires you to register and jump through a bunch of hoops to read any of the storys at all. Worthless

Won't allow me to log in... Not with my actual PW or the temporary PW... Then, suddenly, it corrects itself. If it continues, I will discontinue subscription.

Outdated. Pages often don't load.

Absolutely loved the content , but the website does not make it easy to read anything soundly

Terrible app. Slow, full of bugs, should scrap and start over. Uninstalled immediately.

Everything's working well for me. No issues. Oneplus 7T. Android 10.

I wish the app had custom settings for notifications, settings based on article content of subject.

Cannot access any articles or magazine after May 2019. Access thru password inconsistent. 30+ min since subscription and it doesn't work

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.

First rate and enjoyable writing. Love the comments section. Most agree with NR, but enough don't to make it interesting

As -I believe- most NR subscribers receive the latest articles daily in their inbox, it would be great if the linls opened in the NR app (does not currently work). I -and believe many others- enjoy the "listening" option that the NR website has, as I do manual labor, work long hours and have limited time to read. Fix this, and you'll have your five stars

The best thoughtful publication out there. Discusses the issues fairly.

Great content, but possibly the worst user experience on the internet, has anyone at NR ever tried to use this app? Check it out

Doesn't work, gets unhung up on opening splash screen

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.

Solid UI. No issues (pun intended).

Cost. Ads AND expect you to lay a sub. No thanks, content not worth sub.

So far, not very good. Website button lists areas and opens to stories but links to stories goes to blank screen.

Great articles. But your app is complete trash. Either fire your developer and hire a competent one or get your money back from whichever third party developer you used. Omg. Making me pay a subscription for this is shameful....

This app is just terrible. Bad scrolling, doesn't stay where you want. I expected better. Not usable.

Content is excellent. App has problems; slow loading, confused scrolling, and freezing. The worst app I have ever used.

Works! Once support provided me the correct solution to access, I was able to access my subscription and view using the app. I will update after further use.

Unreadable. I cant seem to load any of the articles without the app jumping back and forth (I assume because of the ads) causing me to lose my place in the article. Tried to load the comments section and it couldnt read that either because the app kept jumping back to the article. Better to just go to the website.

Very glitchy. Horrible scrolling, stories continually jerk back to the top as you try read. I'm a fully paid subscriber but not once has this app let me read locked content. Stories VERY slow to load. Two ads per screen, top and bottom, so you can only see a few sentences of the story at any time. Love the website, hate the app.

the app is slow, i like nr but this app was disappointing for me, i think you should check the epoch times app which works better

Won't stay open. Should be able to save entire edition for offline viewing. If it's not improved soon, will be requesting a refund. UPDATE: tech support seems to be accomplishing nothing, as the new update from one week ago still crashes each time I open the app. Absolute garbage. Do NOT pay for this service.

clunky. difficult to use. i start reading an article, scroll ubtil the second paragraph. and then it rewinds to the next article up. huh? it's as if it never finished loading the whole page. great content, poor app

Other reviewers said its not possible to log in to NRplus account. After multiple attempts at the main log in screens I had a similar experience, BUT I discovered if you open an article and log in from there it works. The app is okay (not great). NR's fabulous content overcomes the few technical aspects which are not quite where they should be yet.

current version autocloses. ap won't stay open, so not using. confusing relationship with NR online and mag. not intuitive. hard to download issue when working. unnessarily complicated.

I enjoy NR's content (and ponied up $$$ in support) as part of my effort to read across the political spectrum. The app is a horrid way to attempt to access that content, however. It freezes, crashes, sits there just doing nothing, falls prey to the malware that also plagues NR's website, and just generally makes it a pain to read NR articles. For the love of Buckley, NR: please fix the app!

The National Review is exceptional. Well written articles from a conservative perspective. As for the app itself it works perfectly for S9. I can get the magazine and the website in one place.

I can only save each article via pocket. B4, I could save the whole issue for offline. very inconvenient. Articles are well written and thoughtful.

Content is excellent. App has technical glitches.

Wanted to balance out my news line up with a credible, reputable source from the right. Unfortunately, the bad reviews are correct. This app is terrible. Great content though.

I like the content, but the app appearance, and format could be better.

Constantly having to uninstall and reinstall the app in order to fix login problems. It's becoming a hassle to use this app with my paid subscription

Love the content but the app is terrible. All kinds of ads (Even for subscribers like myself), stories load slowly, interface is clunky and difficult to navigate. National Review is great, but the app needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

Ads make the articles take forever to load, if they do at all.

So disappointed. NR typically has good content but . . . navigating this app is infuriating. Click on article from the menu and I get the one above it instead. Click the article below the one I want and I get the article above the one above! It's not even consistently inconsistent. Not sure why I gave even 2 stars.

The app needs serious work. The headlines and bylines look great. From the titles I read I would say its conservative journalism at it's best. But the stories take an incredibly long time to load on my android device. Makes it hard to read more than one article during a 15 minute break. Surely an intelligent developer can address and correct this little glitch..... soon (please) !

Article load times are quite slow compared to NR website and other non-NR apps.

Could use a sleaker UI but the content is great. It has a wide variety of content ranging from centrist to very conservative. But most of it is maimstream conservative. Very good if you want to get the conservative rightwing perspective on issues.

Great app, very informative and easy to navigate! A must have!

I like the news and articles, very much so. But the app itself is cumbersome and slow, quite annoying. How hard can it be to create a smooth running app?

My version of this app --the NR+ version - - is very fast, easy to navigate, and not overwhelmed by ads. Quickest app I have so far.

Useless. Takes forever to load articles. Adds cause the article to scroll uncontrollably. To bad NR is a great publication

This is one of my very top sources of news and well reasoned insights on current events.

Terribly slow. Subscription doesn't disable ads!

Good commentary, infinitely more accurate and well thought out than anything in the mainstream media.

Best articles around...just terrible functionality and too many ads. I don't understand why they just don't fix it! It's like years behind in App life