Slate.com App Reviews

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Tech issues w subscription. I subscribed so I could enjoy more episodes - the content is fabulous. But I lost access to that extra content after maybe a month, for no reason I can follow. I tried everything they recommend - tried using a range of listening platforms to no avail. Spent about 40$ to listen to about an hour and then lost that time and more to trouble shooting.

Slate is great…the apps needs some work. Slate has great writing and journalist and podcast. This app should make them easier to find, sort, and know what is new in news and culture. But the app often just sends me to the website, loads the podcasts slowly, and it does not allow quickly searching for authors. Given how snappy competitors apps are…this looks like it’s got a way to do.

FIX YOUR APP JEEZ. The login problems are back in this version, and it’s reeeeeeallly annoying. Why won’t you fix the app? You are losing paying subscribers. Not only do I have to disable my VPN to log in on my phone, doing the same on my ipad is not allowing me to log in - the purple page that comes up with the ‘login’ or ‘restore purchases’ option just sits there, unclickable. This is AWFUL. Fix it. —— previous review Ugh. Every time there’s an update I am foolishly hopeful you will have fixed issues with this goldurn app. I still have issues with login not working (periodically getting logged out and not being able to logs back in) and with dark mode not allowing me to view the comments I’m typing as I’m typing them. Is this really all that hard? I do not have this issue with any other app. At all. Ever. Like, not even once. Sincerely, Slate Plus Subscriber Despite Crankiness

Slate Plus features don’t work. I very much enjoy Slate’s journalism, but the app is a complete gutterball. I paid to join Slate Plus because they promised the app would be free of advertising and I’d have access to exclusive content. The problem is the app doesn’t work, I’m unable to log in, so I’m still seeing ads and locked out of the Plus content. I wrote several times to tech support, and an agent told Zoe told me essentially nothing can be done and I have to live without the added content I paid for. Every time I opened the app I felt like a sucker who’d been cheated and then dismissed. I’ve since deleted the app.

search is hidden and horrible. As a Slate Plus subscriber I have to say the app’s search function undermines any positives the app has. First they hide it. Perhaps they’re hiding their shame. Second when you try and use it, the second you start typingWhat you’re typing disappears and it starts guessing what do you mean based upon your hidden characters. Third it doesn’t work particularly well. Fourth once you’re done searching the hamburger is gone so you can’t go anywhere but to one of the (crappy) search results without closing the app entirely and reopening it. The only conclusion I can come to is that they don’t want you to search. You’re better off not using the app at all and instead using the Google app.

Canceling my Subscription. After multiple attempts to contact Slate support, I am throwing in the towel and canceling my subscription. I can no longer access podcasts through my app without show cutting out every few minutes. I truly love the content but am done with the frustration of trying to access it. I end up going through general podcast anyway. I understand budgets are tight, but you need someone to provide technical support to your customers.

5 stars for content. Minus 4 stars for the app.. The Slate app is the Startac of iOS apps. It is a dinosaur that still lumbers about the earth, but only just. I pay for Slate Plus, which means getting multiple versions of podcasts in the podcast feed. Podcasts which aren’t supposed to have ads, have ads. Some of them. Consistency is hard to find. I love many of the podcasts here, and the Plus is worth it for the bonus content from Slate Money alone. I would just like to see Slate have an app which is even a tenth as good as their journalism and opinion.

One of the worst apps ever. The menu to access your account page keeps disappearing on my very large iphone 14 plus. You need to go to that page to access and subscribe to Slate Plus ad free podcasts in iTunes . So after paying over a hundred bucks for Slate Plus, I cannot subscribe in iTunes because I can't get on the account page. There is supposedly a menu in the upper right to access my account, but it doesn't display on my phone, even when I make the font smaller. Another supposed option in the Slate Plus FAQS is to type in your cell phone number to get a link to subscribe. However, the keyboard to type in the number doesn't open when you click on the field to put it in. I can listen toPlus podcasts in the Slate app instead of iTunes, but there isn't a decent search feature to look for the podcasts I like. Customer service is only by email and the responses are never helpful.

Bungled paywall - Delete the App!. I pay for content and subscribe to plenty of content creators I don’t have to. Getting a surprise restriction 4 days after an auto update occurs does not give me warm fuzzies about your writers. It makes me rethink how smart the publication is and how it values the relationship with readers (which in my case spans almost two decades). This ham handed attempt will create some short term gains, but far less than it could with some subscription-savvy people at the helm. I predict the legacy to be diminished influence and a number of highly targeted pink slips. Delete the app if you agree!

Disrespect. I see some people complaining that they’re upset that they can’t read the stories on the app without paying. I paid, and I STILL can’t read the stories. They updated their app, and now iOS subscribers can’t use their subscriptions. They’ve known about the issue and have still failed to correct it. So what exactly am I paying for? Update: they said they fixed the problem. It lasted for one use. Now, every time I want to read a story, I have to delete the app, re-download it, and then sign in to Slate+. Next time I want to use the app, I have to go through the whole process again. This app is utter garbage.

Great writing, very buggy app. I *love* Slate, and don’t know why their app has had these glaring issues for this long: 1. It’s one of only a couple apps on my phone that crashes—and it crashes often. The app just dies and closes, generally over and over. 2. When an article has an embedded tweet with an embedded video, I believe it’s intended for you to play the video right there, but it doesn’t play—you have to switch over to the Twitter app to play the video. 3. Some articles don’t show at all in the app (!), or are missing the primary info/images. Two regular examples are Strategist articles with lists of recommendations, or “here’s what the smartest people on both sides are tweeting” articles, during debates. 4. After a recent update, *all text* (headlines, sub heads, and body text) is weirdly in italics. And the sub headers are weirdly clipped, so the top edges of the letters are all missing. It’s weird. Like I said, Slate is a wonderful website. These are specifically issues with the app. The app has had the first three issues for years, in my experience.

App is super janky. I enjoy Slate. But this app is janky as heck. You can now read comments in dark mode… but you can’t read a comment you’re typing. Articles that are lists of recommendations for items to buy — the linked items just don’t show up, so you get a set of reviews without any indication of the items being reviewed — that’s been the case for years. And for the past three days now, every single piece of text in the app has been italicized. Headlines, bylines, subheads, body text. (Guessing someone forgot to close an italics tag in the CSS for the app.) Plus, the app crashes constantly. Always has. It seems like this app just isn’t a priority for Slate, never has been and never will be. It’s frustrating.

Love Slate, but the app is SO buggy!. I really value Slate, and I pay for Slate Plus. On the app, I am consistently logged out for unknown reasons, and then when I press the “sign in” link, it brings up an utterly blank pop up. So even though I’m paying premium, I pretty regularly cannot log in using the app to view what I pay for. I’ve checked multiple times to make sure the app is updated, so I guess I’m just dealing with the best that it can be? One more weird thing: even when I am logged in, sometimes I open the app, and the same article from summer 2020 about age 35 being a fertility cliff is at the top of “recent” for like 2 seconds. It disappears, but seriously?? It’s not especially triggering for me, but as a woman of a certain age, I def know people it could be triggering for. And why is this even happening- an old article at the top like that that disappears? Has been happening for *months*. Otherwise, the UI design is great. Idk why the functionality is so poor.

Listening to Podcasts. I’ve been a member of Slate for quite some time. When I first began listening to podcasts they’d shut off. Thinking it was my phone, I tried my iPad, with no better success. I was so frustrated, I began listening to podcasts with the commercials. Of course that led to even greater frustration as I was paying to NOT have the commercials. So I just stopped listening. I might have stopped paying for Slate altogether, but that seems wrong as I like the articles and my knowledge of politics, as well as all things current, comes primarily from written word. But these podcasts are good. So I tried again, thinking surely, they’ve got this thing fixed. Yet now it seems worse, if that’s possible. I can maybe get 5 minutes before it shuts off. At home it’s annoying, but I can go back to the app (which, by the way, completely closes out each time, requiring me to find the particular episode I want and begin again) to restart. When I’m driving, however, I’m stuck. While I like the work Slate does, I am so very tempted to stop my subscription. I think after 3 plus years, I’ve received little value but shown support. So please fix this thing or I’m gone

Great articles, extremely frustrating app update. I have had and enjoyed the slate app for probably about a year now. It’s a far better mobile reading experience than browser, despite some bugs and the fact that the entire backlog of content is too large for the app. However, the most recent update has left me at the end of my rope. I have slate plus, and the app does not remember that I have logged in. Annoying, but I use a password manager. What pushes this from annoyance to unacceptable is that in order to log back in (after it auto logs me out every time the app closes), I have to uninstall and reinstall because the login page will not display correctly. To be clear, the slate plus login page will only load the first time I open it after a fresh installation. It will not load under any other circumstance. In practice, this means that I must uninstall and reinstall the app every single day to read new articles (I read far more articles than the monthly free limit allows, hence purchasing slate plus). I admittedly have a decently old iPhone (iphone 7) but my iOS is up to date and I have never had this issue with other apps. I have not been able to find a way to contact the app developers about this issue, but hopefully you will see this review and address this extraordinarily annoying problem.

Terrible app. I love Slate, and am a Slate+ member, but this app is terrible. You can’t search all of the Slate content, and since I almost exclusively read it on my phone this means I’m unable to access all of the articles. With this latest update, it asks me to login every single time, which is annoying enough but the link to login is super tiny and difficult to activate, while there is an enormous trial subscription button. They seem more interested in new subscribers than facilitating access for current subscribers. I think Slate may have run it’s course for me, as I’m unlikely to renew due to the app’s accessibility issues.

Paywall even for subscribers. I have loved slate and have been a plus member for years. Recently I am unable to read any articles as a paywall comes up, even though I should be signed in. I can’t even hit the link to sign in on this wall as the link doesn’t work. I have emailed the company and their only answer is that they know this is a problem but have no idea if or when it will be fixed. Sorry. I will cancel that membership now. Geez, get your act together!! Higher some new tech people. How many people will you loose over this???

Love Slate, app is not reliable. Slate has been my favorite news site for years. The app is horrible. It crashes when opening an article approximately 33% of the time. The only way I’m able to read an article sometimes is opening the app and frantically clicking “open in safari” before it crashes again. The issues with the app detract majorly from my enjoyment, and I often just give up on it. I cannot understand how the app has so many positive reviews. I keep mine updated and have an iPhone XS, so it shouldn’t be so bad.

Canceling my subscription because the app. Many other reviews point out that the app crashes daily and you have to log in every day to access the premium “Slate Plus” content. This has been happening on and off for the more than a year I have been using the app. I really want to continue to read Slate but the app is my primary way to consume content and it does not do the job required. Lately more and more content is premium access only, which requires the user to be logged in. Recommend you do not sign up for Slate Plus if you intend to rely on this app for accessing the content you paid for.

Can I read non-S+ articles w/o paying?. Is there any way to read Slate articles using the app on my phone if I’m not a member of Slate Plus? Right now, I am signed in on the app, and every single article, once I’ve opened them, brings up the prompt to become a member of Slate Plus, not just the ones that have the “S+” symbol. I’ve tried opening the same articles using browsers on my laptop, and I have access to them there. Other people seem to be able to read a few articles for free before getting the prompt, but I haven’t figured out what I might need to change in order to get that. If the app is only for Slate Plus members, then that should be explicit at the beginning of the process.

Used to be my favorite. I used to use this app several times a day and paid for a Slate+ membership to do so. Recently, the app function has really degraded. It logs me out multiple times a day and won’t remember my password. Today it won’t let me log in at all, and just lingers on a white screen when I try to sign in. I’ll try deleting and re-downloading the app. If that doesn’t work, I guess I’ll cancel my Slate+ subscription and find another source for writing like this.

I like the content but.... Most of the way I consume Slate is through this app but it’s been a problem from the beginning, crashes more than other apps, drains my battery. I’m not sure what the difference is with this from others but it’s frustrating to use because of these issues. I want to spend more time reading the content and I’d like to become a plus member but I just can’t spend much time on the app because of the frequent crashes so I can’t justify the expense if I can’t spend more than a few minutes at a time on the app.

Poor UI and jerky on iPad. I’m new to the Slate app. I like the writing and content so much that I’ve read on Apple News, I downloaded the app and considered a paid subscription. However the app is terrible on my new iPad running the latest iOS. Scrolling is weirdly jerky. There are only 5 font size options, and the biggest is still too small for my poor eyesight – especially with an inexplicably italic typeface and lines way too close together. There’s no way to filter out podcast-only news stories, you have to open them to find out it’s just a podcast. I don’t want to listen... I want to read. In short – Slate lost a paying customer here, due to a very poorly designed app. I work in app and website UI dev, and frankly somebody needs firing because they are scaring away paying customers (just read the latest reviews in the apple App Store). I’ll try back soon snd hope things have improved.

Login/crash fails for YEARS. I’m a longtime Slate reader and have been and on/off Slate+ subscriber. I really like the content. This app is awful, and has been for years. It has always crashed on me, through my use of a variety of iOS devices - so often that I deleted it long ago. I recently re-upped my Slate+ subscription when I got a new iPhone 12, so I decided to try the app again. I simply cannot login. All I get when I hit the login button it an “Error: redirect_url mismatch” notification. Not sure why Slate can’t find developers that can make the app work. But I’m going to delete it again. Not usable. I’d give it zero stars if I could.

Search freezes the app.. I love Slate and I’m a member, but this app drives me crazy. Every time I try to use the search function, it freezes. I get stuck in the search results and unable to view anything else. Each time I have to delete the app and reinstall it. It’s so annoying— just fix it!

Doesn’t work since update.. The login function in the app is broken. I can still login just fine on the Internet using Safari on my phone, but I can’t login to the app. Just get a blank screen or an error message when I click login. Incompetent developers.

Great content, lousy app. I’ve been a fan of Slate’s content for many years and I’ve thought of them as an essential voice in the American media landscape, so when they started Slate Plus, I signed on and downloaded their app. Prior to that I had just used Apple podcasts. Their app is very weak, to the point where it significantly degrades my enjoyment of their content. It does not effectively attach to the native services of the iOS operating system, so when it’s playing audio and you want to switch to playing music, the Slate audio does not stop. Similarly, if you pause it and then unpause it using external audio controls, via Bluetooth, it doesn’t restart. Now, for the last two weeks in a row, my FAVORITE podcast of all, the Political Gabfest keeps pausing itself every two minutes or so and has to be restarted manually, which requires unlocking the phone and navigating down two levels in the menu structure (again, it does not play well with iOS). So much for listening to it while you cook dinner. The overall performance of the app is very slow and it does not support downloading podcasts in advance so you can listen to them offline. The fact that I’ve had to go back to Apple’s lackluster podcast app would tell you my standards for ease of use are low, but Slate’s app doesn’t meet them.

Why O You Want Me To Pay?. I enjoy reading Slate very much. Sadly I am going to disable the app because you won’t let me read it unless I pay. It started with Slate+ being the gateway to much of Dear Prudence and ended today when you gave me notice I had read all the free articles I could without subscribing and you shut me off. My question is: if I need to pay to read, what do you do with all the advertising dollars you must generate because there are ads everywhere? Just like many other current sources, I’m asked to pay and then wade through many, many ads to find the pieces of the article. I’m not paying them either. And I’m not paying to play games, nor do I pay to watch cable TV for $150 a month and still put up with ads everywhere. It just bothers me about you more than the others because I enjoy Slate—your writers are fantastic, the content is always interesting and compelling, and the satire suits me perfectly. I even buy things from some of the advertisers paying you to be present everywhere in Slate. It’s a shame that now you have closed the door to me unless I pay, too.

Update more like Letdown amirite. Cringe review title aside, this app is annoying. - no search option??? Or at least easily accessible one - limited amount of articles you can access without trying to navigate through recent articles like a webring of days gone by. If I have unlimited access to articles, why can’t I scroll down further to catch up on things I may have missed? This has always bothered me - no rotating to landscape anymore - the ads are new, and seriously make me forget I’m using an app vs just a browser - why am I paying for slate plus if the app now has ads and I can’t easily access all the articles from the app? - seriously, whoever decided on this update needs to be fired. Uninstalling and returning to browser-based reading, which is annoying but at least ACTUALLY unlimited

I don’t do reviews. I’ve never done a review of anything. Not a fan of the constant review culture we live in. But I feel compelled now because of problems identified by other users. I absolutely love Slate content. It use to be the highlight of my week to listen to the Political and Cultural podcast. Now I oftentimes skip trying because of constant problems with playback through the App. Essentially it is useless. I hear 10 minutes and then it just shuts off. I’ve tried to listen through other podcast apps but the process of accessing my slate plus membership content is complex and cumbersome. In this day and age it is not clear to me why this has not be fixed yet.

Please note the podcasts. Good content and interface.. Please mark which articles are audio only (podcasts) with an icon, similar to the way you mark the content that is Slate Plus. I really enjoy Slate’ writing and mix of subject matter. The mobile app is solid and one of my go-to apps. Unfortunately, I don’t normally have the opportunity to listen to your audio content. I often click through an intriguing title in your mobile app only to find the content I had hoped to read is audio. I wish I could listen to all of your trenchant analysis, but I can only read it. Please help me know which is which before I click through. Thanks for considering my suggestion.

Awful app. I love reading the articles on Slate and part of the fun is reading the comments and discussions that the article generates. But recently the app “broke” and the reader comments on the articles are no longer available on the app. I emailed about it and was told to use the web version of the software. That doesn’t fix the app which no longer works like it did for years. Adding that it has been months and they still haven’t bothered to fix the app so you can see the comment sections. It’s awful.

Bring back Mike Pesca!. I enjoy(ed) the Slate app very much-but since they canceled Mike Pesca’s podcast, The Gist, I have lost faith in the editorial decisions that are taking place at this media organization. For me, The Gist was absolutely the best daily podcast out there, offering a truly balanced look at the political and social concerns of our country at this time. I have never had any reply to my queries about why the show has been censored, nor have I found any articles about it on their site. I am extremely disappointed and without further information I simply cannot place any trust in the articles or even other podcasts that form a part of their conglomerate. I fully understand that my one small voice means nothing to them, but it is still leaves me feeling bad, which is simply not something I need to be reminded of each time I open the app. I will probably hold out just a bit longer to see if the podcast returns, or to get definitive information about why he was pulled, but then for my own well-being I need to delete Slate from my news feed and move on. It’s a strange world we live in to be sure.

½ as good since Mike Pesca’s departure. There was a time when slate was number one for really really smart people thoughtfully commenting on the issues of the day in a way no one else was. Now much of the time it feels like ia bunch of (still) smart people shouting out ideological platitudes with no room for either dissent or any thoughtful disagreement. It’s definitely a watered down version of its former self, still somewhat readable, but only occasionally informative or interesting. Mike Pesca is presumably gone, which is a huge loss. There’s still Jordan Weissman, Christina Cautericci, the whole Political Gabfest and others to look forward to, but if I’m being honest,Slate’s not the go to it once was.

Crashing Constantly. I love the programming on Slate which is why I became a Slate Plus member. However, the Slate app is constantly logging me off Slate Plus so I’m listening to commercials, and it’s constantly crashing or pausing in the middle of a podcast. I’m not quite sure what to do about any of this. The app is fully updated and still giving me problems. I know I don’t have this problem when I listen to Slate programs on the Apple podcast app. So….I may cancel my Slate Plus membership if they can’t get this fixed.

Not useful. What’s the point of having an app for Slate when Slate links—even within the Slate app itself—do not open in the Slate app? If I’m logged in to Slate Plus in the app, and I see a podcast that I want to subscribe to, I should not have to log in again, then scroll around in several places in order to find my podcast link. Slate seems to want us to listen to podcasts within the app, but that just isn’t how I prefer to listen. Two stars instead of one because it is a better reading experience in the app than in my phone browser, if I can find the article I want to read.

App does not let me sign in. I’m a paying subscriber who loves Slate content, but the iOS app continually “forgets” my login and bars me from reading stories. Often I can’t even get to the sign in screen. When I do, I have to keep producing my password because it is not cached. This is an awful user experience that needs to be fixed.

What are we paying for?. I have been reading Slate since it began and finally gave in and purchased Slate+ this year because they started metering and tightening the amount of free reads. Maybe that makes me cheap, but I’m a school teacher and try to save pennies where I can. IMO the writing is not what is was 10 years ago, but it is still pretty strong on the whole and still feels indispensable to me. BUT, I don’t know how they can sleep at night charging us almost $60 and giving us an app that is so legendarily dreadful. And the thing is: the app has always been bad. They fix it for a while and then it breaks, again and again. When I wasn’t paying for it, I swallowed my complaints. But c’mon! I know they had a major loss of ad revenue since Covid, which lead to the tighter meter, but can you please allocate some resources to the tech side here? I have to sign in again, every time, for each new story, and the podcast play bar only appears halfway on my iPhone screen. And the podcast does not remember where you paused. And the podcast time codes are often completely unrelated to the actual concepts of time and space. Ugh. I know I said it was indispensable, but after my subscription ends, I will learn to live without if improvements aren’t made.

Stop shuffling the stories. I read the articles on the recent page and scroll down until I see ones I’ve already read. HOWEVER quite frequently stories that weren’t there before are now shuffled in between ones I’ve already read. I end up missing articles that I would have read. I have noticed that articles are posted hours before the time stamp on the article. How that works and why it’s done I don’t know. Please stop moving things around.

Five stars for content/three stars for app. Login issues finally resolved but still find that the app is slow to load and a bit quirky (ie loads its own article links into a web browser). However, Slate content is abundant and high quality. —— Log-in simply does not work anymore. Constantly kicked out even right after I’ve logged in. app is also slow to load and glitchy. Not a great way to treat subscribers. Have given up on app and using mobile web for now.

App is a glitchy mess. Slate is amazing and their reporting is top notch. But this is an app review and the app is a glitchy mess. It often crashes when returning to the front page after reading a single article. Sometimes it gets stuck displaying the same set of articles for hours or days at a time (right now it shows the same article at the top of feed from first thing yesterday morning, even though I’m reading a newer article online right now). One time everything displayed in italics for a couple of days for no apparent reason. Sometimes when scrolling through an article it accidentally registers a side swipe and switches to the next article in sequence. Scrolling is choppy even at the best of times. I’ve taken to reading on Safari instead, which is crazy because I’m always wishing my news sources had their own dedicated apps (looking at you Vox). Slate, it’s a great thing that you have an app and I haven’t deleted you yet, but please work out the bugs!

What is the point of this app if it doesn’t remember you?. This app requires you to log in almost every time you want to read an article. It is constantly hounding you to either disable your ad blocker or subscribe (even if you have just logged in), it forgets who you are and tells you that you have read all your free articles (once again, even if you have just logged in) and even if you are logged in as a Slate + member you get the same deal. Other apps manage to remember who you are over the course of a week and more.

The worst. Never has the distance between how much I love the content of something and hate the delivery of it been as great as it is with Slate. This app is just the worst. Constant bugs, ads that pop up and cause issues every time you scroll past them, lack of updates, so on Sunday morning when you are most likely to want to spend time reading, it’s never a sure bet Slate will have new content. Comments are not enabled on the app, you can’t view them or make them. I also have issues with my account and the app every time I renew my sub which I don’t know why I keep doing.

This app is a disaster. I like Slate’s content very much, and I’m a Slate Plus member, but the app is practically unusable. I used to read Slate via my RSS reader, but recently that became impossible: Slate was requiring a separate sign-in which it often wouldn’t accept. So I switched to the app. It is equally frustrating. I’m signed in, but it seems to have trouble remembering that, especially when I try to switch to an article referenced in another article. At that point it wants me to sign in again, and doesn’t always accept the signin. Plus the search function is all but non-existent: try finding the News Quiz, which doesn’t seem to show up by itself. Finally, there are times when the app just freezes completely. PLEASE FIX THE APP.

Commercial free only sometimes.. I would love to say this is a fabulous app— I do enjoy several of the podcasts; however, at least every month or so, my commercial free slate plus membership seems to disappear as I have to listen to David Plotz tell me about mattresses or google or who knows what. I can’t help help but think that next year my $59 will be donated to Planned Parenthood. I am tired of paying for something I am not receiving.

Buggy. The Slate app is quite buggy. It crashes frequently and requires me to sign in every time I want to read an article. Even though I have a paid subscription to Slate, I often get ads in the app. Also, the search function is terrible. The worst part is the tech team has been unresponsive when I report issues. I hope they fix the app soon as I am thinking about canceling my subscription if there continues to be problems.

Frustrating notifications. This app is utterly broken in the way its notifications work. I’ll get a notification about a story that looks interesting so I’ll click on it fully expecting the app to open to the article I question. Instead, the just opens and then you are left to wade through any number of articles depending on when the one you are looking for was published. How is it every othe news organization doesn’t have this problem? Please fix it before I’m convinced to quit wasting my time and cancel my Slate+ subscription.

Always Intrigued. The slate app icon is like a homing beacon for my curiosity. I can click it and I might get an advise column about a 76 year old divorcee that is lusting after her pool boy, or great interview with the mother of an asylum seeker that is stuck in Mexico awaiting a hearing. There is always something to learn, something to enjoy, or something to ponder. I love it!!

The app and content aren’t worth the price.. I read Slate off and in for years. Now they won’t let me read without paying $60/year. Your articles are not worth half the price of a video streaming g service. I read less than 10 articles a month. I’m not paying 50 cents a piece to read them in an app that almost never properly formatted the content or show embedded tweets correctly. After almost a decade, I’ll be deleting the app tonight and will likely stop interacting with Slate altogether as I only read news on my iPhone. Such a waste.

get ready to log in every time you use it. I decided to pay for Slate because I have read their articles for many years for free. Yet I have never had any website that wasn’t a financial one make me log in every time and also doesn’t have Face ID. Very poorly designed. For the past three weeks, I can’t even log in. The log in command goes to a blank screen. Doesn’t matter if you load a new version. Don’t waste your money

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Great app. Awesome app

Great Mag. App recently fixed with update. Quality articles good mix of topics.

great content but crashes a lot. I am a huge fan of Slate and read articles on this app about once a day. the articles are consistently interesting and well-written. but WHY is this app so buggy, it crashes basically every time i open it and it updates. not a big deal as just re-open the app but annoying.

Handy. Great way to read Slate on mobile. The save feature is handy for all those articles you'd like to read later.

Slow to load, seems buggy. Have to agree with those below who've found Slate slow to load. It can take forever for the home screen. If you open an article form the home screen it almost never load. Click through to the category screen, then click the same story, and it loads. Happens irrespective of quality of data connection (even on wifi). Just weird behaviour. Home screen should show stories in chronological order, as on the site's home page. Slideshows don't play in the app, so why not filter out those stories (or fix the slideshows). On the plus side: allows full screen reading without the ad bar - nice little usability concession. As for the content - if you're the kind of person who likes Slate, then this is the kind of content you will like.

Great app. Easy way to access Slate articles on phone and iPad.

Slate is tops. Balance smart and funny this well and you'll never be alone...

Great source of balanced news. Finally I can access slate news easily, great app, meets my needs

Love it. Fantastic app

Great app. I read it every day. Good coverage of US news and opinion

Very poor subscription retention in app. Insanity. Absolute incompetence in subscription verification somewhere in IOS interface. Cannot even link subscription to other apps like Apple Podcasts or Spotify despite various pages saying how easy it is. Makes me scream with frustration.

Won't load. Loved the content but now it's not loading at all on my 3G. Shame.

Not much Slate Plus content. I love Slate. The articles and podcasts are fantastic. However, there doesn't seem to be much extra content for us paying Slate Plus customers. I'm happy to pay so you stay in business, but it would be grand to get more for my money.

Great news app. The Slate app works perfectly, no problems. Content is great & more necessary than ever since the election.

Always interesting. Content and app of similar high quality and clarity.

I love Slate. Terrific coverage of news both great and small. Entertaining and thoughtful. Above all, I love Prudie.

It is good. I like it

Can’t share via e-mail in the iPad app. I like Slate Magazine but the share via e-mail functionality is broken and has been for some time. For a lot of people myself included this is a deal-breaker. (Can’t even copy link or open in browser from app).

Love slate but the app needs a lot of work. It’s clunky and crashes and searches are a problem

Get this app. This is, in short, a top-quality news app. Don't buy it simply for it's purply colour, pleasing to the eye as it may be. Buy it for the quality of its content. This app proves the old cliche that 'you learn something new every day'. Be a sport. Download this bad boy.

Disappointing. You make it very hard for me to enjoy slate on my iPhone; the apps home page takes FOREVER to load - sometimes it doesn't load at all - and one can't even view/post comments!!! Fix it please.

If you like the site, you'll like the App. A great view of reading slate on iOS devices. A more powerful search fiction is the main fault but otherwise a great app.

Love Slate, hate this app. I use this app primarily to listen to podcasts with Slate Plus content and it crashes *constantly*. When it crashes it also forgets your place in the podcast you were listening to. This problem has remained the same for years - and when I’ve emailed Slate to complain they don’t even reply. Honestly in a landscape in which multiple media orgs are clamouring for your subscription $, this useless app and Slate’s apparent indifference is enough to make me cancel my subscription and support another media company instead.

Got bugs. It's nice to get all the articles in a simple format, but I can't get videos, slide shows or the DoubleX blog. If you are going to charge, the bugs should be sorted first! Awaiting updates!

Always crashes. I love Slate, but this app is terrible! It's always crashing, so I read Slate in Google Currents now

Great content but app crashes. Love Slate's content and the app is easy to use and reasonably nice to look at. It's a shame it crashes so much. Especially when you try to view the different sections e.g. arts/news.

Jim. Wide ranging, punchy, funny and fascinating. Essential.

Easy to use. Easy to use app. No problems.

My fave app. I love all things Slate - Jacob, Mike, Virginia and everyone else. You keep me informed, entertained and hopeful. Thank you. Ed

Slate app. This app is horrible not worth the download! Its slow to load and is full of bugs. Normally I am a big fan of slate but this app makes it hard to like them

Love Slate, app could be improved. I'm an avid reader of Slate, one of the best emags out there. But this app has been extremely glitchy on my iPhone 4s, crashing at least twice before having some kind of stability. Please fix!

Best news app I've used. Super awesome just like Kurt Russell

Awful. Abysmal. Home page loaded on initial start-up but any attempt to refresh afterward never works. If I could give a zero star, I would.

Downloaded from the Dear Prudence column only!. Love it!!!

Fix the crashes. Hey Plotz or Manjoo - this app has been crashing for months - is a bit of reliable functionality too much to ask? I paid good time for this app!

Informative. Informative, functional, user-friendly interface. Content is excellent if it's Americana you seek.

Comprehensive and exhaustive.. I don't read anything else.

Broken. Update seems to have broken app.

Podcast to written word. From Australia I first encountered Slate with the podcast Political Gabfest, a favourite weekly gem. Then Slow Burn, I consider the best ever Podcast, backed by brilliant research. Just new the written word. Slate has the authenticity and fearless independence usually only seen in outstanding public broadcasters.

Love Slate, hate the app. The app won't let me see comments. I'm a Slate plus member and have contacted the team about a year ago. Fix the glitch!

needs more work. very buggy, pages don't format correctly, Huge wasted space below articles, ugly status bars, needs to be made functional, to match the good content. hopeful for a quick update soon..

Love it!. Easy to use app, always something interesting to read, no functionality issues for me.

First class resource. One of my favourite 'go-to' sites for intelligent commentary and insight. Highly recommended.

Fantastic app. Always great coverage

Bait and switch. Took the 2 week free then $39 for one year, $59 thereafter offer. Or so I thought. iTunes signed me up for one free week then $89.99 per year thereafter. Someone should write an expose on this. App seems a bit clunky. Always suggesting I sign in even after repeatedly signing the in.

First rate app. I have no complaints about this app . I read it regularly here in Australia and have experienced no problems at all . Great writers, great content . Well done everyone ! OzNana

.. Really excellent App

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Can't do anything with the app since I updated. Since updating the app will not refresh. It is showing the same articles that were showing the day I upgraded, and it doesn't matter what I do, it will not refresh.

Great. Great

Don’t even bother. I have been a Slate Member for two years and never had access to the special segments of their podcast. I have at this point written them four times asking for support and never heard a word back. I cannot read articles or anything promised in the special content. It isn’t a cheap membership but also they clearly don’t care about getting back to their audience. If you want to listen to their podcasts, just subscribe on iTunes. At least you won’t be paying for no service like I did.

Just confusing. I came to slate plus from the podcasts but just can’t seem to get the rhythm of this app. It’s confusing and redundant. Not sure why I need a list that had the same podcast in it three times because it is the latest in three different shows. Going to cancel Slate Plus for the second time and try again next year. Maybe they will have it together. Love some of the content. Loath the delivery.

Slate Plus - no benefit at all. I do not get full versions of Slate Plus podcasts. I have tried all the “fixes”, uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, done everything suggested but still only get the free version of episodes. Sorry I paid for this as there is no benefit.

My favourite news source. Slate is my favourite news source and I love using the app to get news on the go. The app is easy to navigate and aesthetically pleasing.

Useless app. Just useless crashes within mins of using

Excellent journalism; bad time for paywall. It’s a great site with sharp writers, good politics, plenty of human interest pieces and a taste for the contrarian. It should not erect a paywall on March 26, 2020 thereby losing long-time readers and alienating or blocking people who, with time on their hands, could stumble on its good Covid-19 coverage and form the Slate habit. It’s a tough time to pony up $35 for a nice but non-essential expense.

App won’t allow logins. App freezes on login screen. Occasionally can get logged in only to be logged out again a couple hours later, having to constantly delete and reinstall over the last 2 weeks. Content is great but the app is terrible and frustrating.

Unable to access slate plus. Like many others, I have been unable to access slate plus content since joining. I have emailed support twice and after a few days, I was sent instructions which were not applicable or did not work. I will be cancelling my subscription.

Never opens. I love Slate, but this app crashes every time I try to open it. Don't buy until they can provide a version that you can actually use. Also, can I get my $2.99 back?

Hard to Enjoy. Infuriates me that this app will not rotate to landscape. I just want to comfortably read. Why is that so hard?

Keeps crashing. App keeps crashing every time I try to read an article. Why would I pay for premium when the basic app can’t do the one thing it’s designed for?

My penny. Never fail to find something interesting & informative. Ditto the flip side of the coin, unfortunately. But, part of my daily read, and if Slate disappeared, I would miss it almost as much as I'd miss my cat.

Informative, insightful. Slate provides thoughtful, well-written commentaries on current events and a miscellany of topics. It focuses on US politics from a liberal, progressive perspective. I love Slate's podcast roster, esp. Mike Pesca's "Gist".

One of my go to sites. I am a fan of the political gabfest and trumpcast and have come to value many of the slate writers.

Good. Good content, can you allow it to bump up the font?

Using of white people photos only.. Excellent material, but racist bias in photo/illustration selections. Cancelling my subscription.

No comments on articles. I don’t pay for a slate plus membership so that comments aren’t visible. For a couple of weeks now, no comments ( other people’s) are appearing. I subscribe for the comments, because it sure ain’t for the slate writers.

Can't click on article author anymore?!. I would find an interesting article, then click on their name to see another articles posted by them. With the new update, it's not remotely possible. WTF is that? No hyperlinks are clickable

Excellent all round site. I heartily recommend Slate, for its varied content and wonderful roster of writers. Insightful, engaging commentary, and a tremendous collection of podcasts. I subscribe to Slate Plus as well, and really enjoy the extras that come with it, especially the bonus podcast content.

Slate because....... It's always great to get that other side if the coin news!Thats what Slate gives me.

No content. App hasn’t worked in months. No content. Worthless!

No search function. Genre at content, but why is there no easy search function built into the app?

App crashes randomly every few minutes. I really like this app but it crashes every few minutes. Please fix it!

Problematic App. This app is consistently horrible and never improves despite many “bug fixes”. I pay for Slate Plus and the app makes me reconsider. Frequently the app just doesn’t update with new content for days, there are no comments and the search just doesn’t work. I’m not sure why it’s so bad, but it really does the content a disservice.

Needs fixing!. I paid the money! I’m using the app! I’m signed in! But the damned thing just does not work well. I’m still getting ads, I’m not always getting the right feed, and I’m experiencing many glitches and interruptions.

Bork. Bork bork.

Garbage. Sorry uninspiring rehash of tabloid trash

Randomly quits. Content is fantastic, however the app itself frequently just quits in the middle of reading an article. Occasionally it freezes on the comments screen with no way to get back to the article. This is an app I use multiple times a day because the articles are great BUT the app itself is not stable.

Clean layout, easy to navigate.. I love Slate magazine and this app makes it easy to read on the go! Thanks!

Great news source. Well-balanced articles. I like the format of the app too.

Great articles. It seems that the article authors write from a very balanced point of view. Makes for honest writing with a tinge of positive vulnerability.

Free essential app. Technically weel done, no glitch no problem. Good writing. And news by people who use their brain. A good information source on USA for people outside (Canada) who want to understand this weird nation 😏. Thanks Slate.

Too slow. Loads too slowly. Erratic access to Slate Plus podcasts.

Rebrand version is very buggy. Since the launch of the rebranded app there are a lot of redraw and UI format issues. The play bar on the bottom is only half visible and the buttons don’t work The back button on the articles often appears somewhere in the middle of the header image and often doesn’t actually work

App freezes often. I have had to delete the app and access on safari now, as it freezes too frequently to be useful. All the usual attempts to repair have failed.

Fine, but can we have complete sentences please?. The app works fine but on iPad every article thumbnail shows a fragment of a sentence - irritating!

Buggy and laggy. As a publication I rate slate among my favourites. As an app, it sucks. The ads are so heavy that my phone grinds to a halt. Fix this!

Great news, poor app. The app routinely crashes. Sometimes it takes 4 or 5 attempts before an article will stay open. Sometimes I give up and got to the web version. But then why have an app?

Battery usage. Love this app except for the past couple weeks it has begun to decimate the battery, going down 10% over the time it takes to read one article (under 5 minutes). I’m using an iPhone SE ... wondering if this is happening for anyone else? Great app otherwise:)

Slate. Has some great writing on some very pertinent and thoughtful topics. My main complaints are two-fold. First, it is so blindly, chauvinistically Anerican, both in topics and perspectives. It’s a big world out there. I lived in the US for several years (grad school). And enjoyed those years. We Canadians are the familiar outsiders, both similar and different. And, some of the topics are so narrowly sexual. Come on, guys, I’m all for enjoying life, enjoying sex but I’m just not into everyone else’s business. Just gets repetitive, and we don’t want to make sexuality boring,

Version 5.3.18 also doesn’t work. App still closes down after loading.

Great content but limited search. Not as broad a range of articles as in the full website.

Useless Now. When Slate announced they were extending the loving embrace of their paywall to iOS, I assumed we’d still be able to periodically read articles without the overpriced subscription. Seems not to be the case. May as well pull the app from the app store. You want $60 a year, maybe get some better writers.

Good fix on us news. Seems pretty reasonable

Latest update crashed app. The most recent update killed the app. No longer functional. Turn off the phone. No change. Please fix the app.

5.3.18 Still crashes on loading. 5.3.18 Still crashes on loading, just like 5.3.17 on ios 12.4.1.

Slate. I agree fonts are too tiny. No fonts resize option.

I miss the free articles. Slate has only gotten better over the years except that it’s become so paywalled. Is this the price of progress?

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Weak. I’m a slate plus member because I value the content- both articles and podcasts, but this is a terrible app. Crashes frequently and always has. After the most recent update now everything is in italics, which isn’t the end of the world but is mildly annoying and pretty symbolic of the crap way every update goes. Also on my phone (I haven’t checked on my iPad) comment responses load indented so if there are more than 3 or so responses I’m reading like two word columns. Come on, this is basic stuff.

nightmare app. I paid for a subscription so that I could access more content from my favorite shows—some of which are not new. there does not appear to have a search function, nor a menu of podcasts. the daily feed slate app is a nightmare of information overload with no way to personally tailor to my interests. as a previous user said, when you entice your listeners with extra features and then the features are missing or impossible to access, you end up alienating your biggest fans.

Good Journalism, Buggy App. I love the articles from Slate! I have some issues when using the app, though, like problems loading and scrolling through articles. It has also crashed on me several times, and it takes a huge toll on my battery life. Please, please, please fix this app, because I otherwise do love the content.

Why no comments?. I loved Slate for the Comments section where the smart people hung out. I learned so much there but now there’s suddenly no comments for any article I click on so Slate has discontinued them? Why? It was the best part of Slate. I would often skip the article & go straight to the comments. Show some courage Slate & bring them back.

App doesn’t work any more. I used to love this app, because the articles are interesting and the writing is so good. I even bought Slate Plus a couple months ago. But all of the sudden, I can’t even sign in. If I delete the app and reloade it let me read three articles, and then it locks me out again. I paid for a full year, and I can’t access anything anymore. Please fix this

Close but no cigar. Having paid for slate plus to go commercial free, I get one podcast without obvious commercials and other podcasts with the very commercials that I sought to avoid. Slate provides excellent content and an excellent, informed group of podcasters. I suppose that I could use my time to resolve the commercials issue; but I have to work to afford the subscription.

iOS app terrible. The Slate app on my iPad hasn’t updated in almost 2 days. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled twice and rebooted my iPad twice. This isn’t the first time this has happened. Also, when it is working, it regularly crashes. And as others have said, you can’t view embedded media in an article, which makes it pretty useless. I really like Slate’s content, but you need to fix this app!

This app has never worked correctly. The app is a glorified web browser. It had Slate Plus login issues in the past with basic sign in and failing to carry forward credentials if you use a link in the story you’re reading. This iteration has removed the ability to sign in at all. You’re better off just using a web page. I can’t believe Slate pays a developer for this.

Content is Great, Technical Problems. Big fan of Political Gabfest and became a Slate Plus member because of Slow Burn, I wanted the extra content. For whatever reason, I can never access the Slate Plus portion of the ad free version of Political Gabfest - I get the teaser and then the pitch to join and nothing else. Have emailed Slate Plus customer support and they have been slow to respond and not helpful. I am pretty much done with my charitable contribution to Slate Plus.

Landscape mode for iPads, please. Long time Slate reader and Slate+ subscriber. I still use my green and purple patterned mug. Please bring back landscape mode for the iPad. That’s not a corner to cut. I enjoy Slate a lot less since the new app rolled out. Please consider bringing it back, soon, in a new version.

App no longer recognizes my subscription. On the old app, I would get a screen prompting me to sign up to read articles that would go away when I clicked on the restore purchase link. Now, the app simply doesn’t recognize that I have a paid subscription at all and locks me out of content when I reach my free article limit. I will be cancelling my subscription and deleting the app if this isn’t fixed in the next week or so.

All the news that doesn’t see print. You can count on slate for unusual topics or unusual focus on the unusual topics. The app has never crashed has a simple transparent interface and downloads quickly wherever you are.

Slate’s Content Is Great, But the App Is Abominable. Why can’t they make their App work? It crashes frequently, and it has a way of freezing too. The App is so unstable that I’ve several times resorted to deleting it and reinstalling it. It has been this bad for years, and it never improves.

App stops updating randomly. Every other month or so, the app just plain stops updating. The same stories remain up for days, no matter how many times I restart my phone or try other filters. Right now nothing has updated since January 6. This is particularly annoying since I pay for Slate+. Please fix.

Slate Has To Fix Its Login. I get logged out of the app multiple times per day. So even though I am paying for Slate Plus, I still see ads all of the time. Also, the Recent articles often don’t get updated in the app so I will go a day or two without seeing new articles appear in the app, even though new articles are being posted on the website. If the login issue were only in the app, I’d probably just delete it and use the website, but they have the same issue on the website too.

App keeps logging me out. All I want to do is read slate articles. Your app has one job. And it’s failing hard. I’ve paid for a slate plus membership for years. Now the app logs me out every single time I switch context to another app. It won’t remember me so I have to enter all my details from scratch. If I click on a link in the article? lol the website doesn’t remember me either. Whatever broke, broke recently. I didn’t charge anything on my side. Please fix this. Or I’ll just cancel my membership and stop reading slate. 🙏

Brilliant Writing, Technical Issues. Peerless opinion writing and criticism. But for years, I’ve had to switch to the dot-com site when I want to read certain articles (particularly editors-choice product lists and those with imbedded videos). And the new OS update has all articles inexplicably in italics. Fix these glitches and perfection will be at hand.

Fire your app developer. I didn’t mind all that much when I got logged out randomly all the time but I could still read articles while not logged in. Now I can’t read articles unless I’m logged in, the app logs me out all the time, and there’s a solid chance that login will be broken when I try to get back in. Really, OAuth is too complicated and cutting edge to keep working from day to day? Fire everybody involved (if it’s outsourced, fire whoever chose the vendor.)

Grrrrr. So frustrated. I pay for Slate Plus membership just so I can listen to certain podcasts like Flashback. For past month the app continually drops the episode while I’m listening. I’ve contacted Slate twice. Their responses are not helpful. The steps they say to take don’t work. They are being slippery and dishonest about their crappy app and charging iPhone users an annual fee when they know they can’t fix it. There’s no way I will keep a more expensive membership next year under these conditions.

Love the content— dislike the app. I enjoy reading all the columns and articles on your site— but the site repeatedly crashes before I get beyond the first few words. Please fix this.

Slate’s the Top of Journalistic Excellence. Well-written and well-researched, topically relevant articles. Best editorial writing, and always enjoy the features and investigative reporting. I could spend many hours listening to the podcasts. All well done. Worth more than the subscription for Slate +. I wouldn’t be without my failing fix of Slate reading.

slate plus not worth it if comments not in app. I am a slate plus member and a big part of the value is reading not only the articles but the comments from the user community. the app currently doesn’t allow you to see comments, and the primary way i interact with slate is through the app. I’ll be cancelling slate plus if this is not fixed soon, it’s not worth it anymore. :(

It’s so bad. It’s so bad. Unsearchable, poorly maintained, the article categories in the menu don’t match a lot of the articles so you can’t filter properly, it asks you to re-sign in when going from article to article. It’s the worst. I’m only giving it 2 stars because if you just want to read one article, it’s fine and I enjoy their content. Their tech is just….bleh.

Outrageous pop-ups. I love Slate's content. When they introduced Slate+, I was annoyed but continued reading the free content. Slate is one of many places I get my news and information, and it's one I choose not to pay for. But the straw that broke the camel's back are these new video pop-ups. You don't need to touch them and they just take over your screen with a video. That's a horrible reader experience and not one I intend to put up with. After ten years, I am uninstalling Slate's app. What a shame.

app freezes and shuts down. Content is fine but about every 3-5 minutes ( on a bad day- sometimes it doesn’t happen but usually does), the app will either freeze (can’t scroll at all) or just quit/blank. Or, it will ask for a sign-in to SlatePlus (even for free content) and then freeze at the sign-in page.

Content is great; iOS app is less and less so. Longtime Slate reader/Slate+ subscriber. A couple months ago, comments became unreadable black on black text. Then, they "fixed" that by making the comment text white. Now, all the articles, headlines, and subheadings are in italics. It may be time to do a little user research to make the UI of the app less unpleasant in iOS 14.

Love love love Slate but..... for the love of all that is holy please fix the search feature!! I’m in UX and it drives me absolutely nuts that seemingly no one on the QA team (please say someone IS QAing this app!!) has caught that search is a complete black hole dead end that the user is unable to back out of without quitting and restarting the app. If someone can fix this issue overall it’s a great app :)

Wondering why I can’t get into Slate Plus. I believe I paid to become a member of Slate Plud some time ago. I get a lot of things from Slate via email, but it seems that whenever I start an article it stops midway through and says I have to join or sign in to read the whole thing. I thought I had the sign-in set up on my phone, but it doesn’t seem to work. I like Slate but find this very tedious.

Constructive feedback for slate plus and app designers. Wish you could download the podcasts avail through the subscription...also wish the interface was cleaner, easier to search the content, more visually simple.

A Year of No Plus on App. I’m unsure why this is so difficult, but the app will never, ever, no matter the updates or loading or whatever, recognize my Slate Plus membership. The podcast app does this effortlessly so why can’t the Slate app itself manage this? Being that I don’t haul my desktop around to read articles and rely on mobile accessibility, it is really quite the disincentive to continue with Slate Plus to not have it ever work on the mobile app.

Slate Podcasts. They switched all their podcasts to Slate + without making a statement or letting anyone know that they were switching. They still say they have free podcasts but they don’t. I’ve emailed their support but have never gotten an answer. I can’t even submit a review. They’re so anti-people.

Podcast player problems persist. I love the content but ever since I upgraded to an XR, the podcast player through the app, which gets me slate plus, stops every 4 minutes and I have to keep tapping the screen and restarting the podcast. Makes it impossible to enjoy listening. I’ve raised this with Slate support but no fix in over 3 months.

App is useless without a Slate Plus subscription. Was a long time casual reader of Slate until they went full paywall earlier this year. Previously, there was a mix of free and paid content in the app, but enough of it was accessible that I could browse a handful of articles each day. Now ALL the articles have a Slate Plus paywall on them. If you don’t have a membership, there’s nothing to read. Deleting.

I wish Slate’s tech matched their journalism. Despite emails to their customer service team detailing the app’s instability (crashes without fail 2 minutes into any podcast) and other issues, and prompt responses reassuring me they’re looking into it, two months later the same problems exist. I believe wholeheartedly in paying for great work, and want to continue supporting it here, but unfortunately I will be canceling my subscription because I don’t get what I pay for (and haven’t for going on 5 months)!

App is embarrassingly bad. The current bug du jour is that the articles in the app have no comments available. Oh yes there is the comments button. It’s just that if you select it the comments are unavailable. It’s been like this for months now so perhaps it’s like one of those snap-chat streaks where they just want to keep this malfunction going for as long as possible. In the meantime I’ll enjoy my articles about corporations that do not care about their customers… hint hint.

Podcast drops out. The podcasts take forever to load and start then they just stop every 5 minutes or so and have to be RE-started. This is not a connection problem as I am using wify

Not Happy. Commenting still not working. I tried submitting a comment and I received an error message. This was after enduring a so-called Christmas Music Trivia podcast that turned out to be a discussion of Britney Spears. That was my last attempt to listen to that podcast. Also, I’m an avid user of the Slate podcasts and wish the app would let me set a preference to opening into podcasts instead of written pieces.

Content is great, but the tech could be better.. I joined Slate Plus to have access to ad-free podcasts and bonus material, especially for Slow Burn and Amicus. The Plus editions are supposed to show up in my Podcast app feed automatically, but they never do, so I have to go into the Slate app itself to listen. Not a big deal, but not as advertised.

Get rid of the in app pop ups. I hate that Slate “suggests” (read: forces) articles on users. I am a paid subscriber, why do I have to open these suggestions? There’s no way to clear them without opening them. I just want to read what I want to read without Slate padding their click rate numbers by opening articles I have no interest in for me when I am actually trying to access something that DID catch my eye

Have a subscription but app kicks me off. I’ve had a subscription for over a year, but suddenly I’ve been kicked off Slate on my iPhone and can’t sign in. I’ve succeeded in signing in on my computer, so what gives???

App constantly crashes and some content doesn’t show up. I enjoy Slate’s content but the app is terrible. They constantly want me to upgrade to Slate Plus, but until they have an app which isn’t super buggy, constantly slows and crashes and stop having content in their articles that won’t show up in the app and require me to read on the computer they will never get my money. At free, I feel like I’m getting what I pay for, but if I actually paid I’d be really annoyed.

Slate plus ?. I subscribe to Slate plus, and the only thing in my Slate plus feed seems to be an advice column. I don’t care about advice, where are my premium podcasts? I use the iPhone X. I subscribed to sleep plus soley for Virginia Heffernan and Trumpcast. I cannot find it in Slate plus.

Extremely buggy. I’m a daily reader of Slate/subscriber to Slate+, but this app is terrible. Like others have noted, this week it logged me out and the link to sign back just pulls up a blank page, so I haven’t been able to log back in all week. Often the app will not update content for several days. I have had to go back to using the web browser on my phone to read Slate articles.

Just deleted the app. Overall I like the content but with everyone wanting to charge for their content and a bijillion subscriptions something had to go. It is a bummer they can’t make enough off of ads. Will continue to listen to the Political Gabfest weekly but after that nada. Cheers Slate.

Overall Good. I would like to be able to fine tune the "Recent" section. As is, there are a lot of stories that I don't want to read. Maybe a personalized landing page or something.

Did they fire their QA staff?. Signed up to plus for the academy. Got the app to listen to podcasts as url was not showing slavery podcast in iTunes. Did a search since there is no academy link in their list of topics. Started to type in search bar and the screen goes to a color. No text. Typed blindly and got slavery articles. No academy or podcast references. Best of all- no way to go back. Have to kill and restart the app. How many dev breakdowns and lousy developers does this represent?

Great content... terrible app. I love Slate. I’ve been a member of slate plus since they started it (I have the mug to prove it). Their app is lousy. I don’t listen to the podcasts through the app (I use overcast for that), but I have found too many bugs. The search feature doesn’t work. I often have to close out the app and restart it to get things to work again. The app looks pretty, but the bones leave a lot to be desired.

A good app, but there are a few problems that need fixing.. These are the problems I am having with the Slate app for iPad: First, the print will not stay a consistent size. Switch to a different app, the size changes. Turn off the device, ditto. Second, the comments are in the smallest print size I have ever seen. Why can’t we change this? Third, the Search function is sort of odd. The articles can be opened, but they are in a smaller window. Why can’t you simply jump to the article? Looking forward to seeing these problems corrected.

Bad update - continued sign-in issues and comments don’t work. Edit 10/5: No, the sign in issue is not fixed. While the screen appears now, I have to sign in every time I use the app. The native password manager on my phone does not recognize it as a slate sign in screen and I have to select it manually, which is odd. Also, comments no longer work. **** Slate, please fix your app. Roll back to the previous version. This one doesn’t allow me to sign in and view the content I’m paying for. Either a blank screen pops up, or an error message, or it’s completely non-responsive. The one time this week that I could sign in, I was signed out again after one article. I pay for slate plus-please let me access it.

Easy to get slate plus content. I wanted to figure out how to get a couple slate plus Podcasts to play in apple podcast app. Went to FAQ in slate app, followed link, set up the podcasts I wanted to play on iPhone and they automatically went over. So happy at the ease! Someone really did something right! Thanks Slate