Scientific American App Reviews

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Still a very basic implementation. Needs to remember where I left off and allow finger gestures.. I have used the updated version for a while. It is certainly far better than the original. Still some very serious problems. I have a subscription yet I still keep getting told I have to pay for the editions. The app needs to open to where I left off. It still makes me hunt to find my spot. That is very annoying. It should allow finger gestures to enlarge and shrink the pages. A lot of work left to do.

This app blows. The magazine is full of good content, and that’s what you get with a mag subscription. It’s also what you get with the app- the magazines you’ve already gotten in the mail. What you don’t get in the app is all the other published material on the Scientific American website. For that- you have to go to the website on your phone, and sign in. So, if you have to go to the website and sign in anyway, isn’t it redundant to even have the app? The answer is yes. Isn’t it also redundant to have an app that ONLY shows you what’s in the magazines you’ve already received? The answer is, once again, yes. A good app should negate the need for users to go to a different app- their browser- and log in to your website. And just think of all that valuable user data you’re leaving on the table by making them go to Chrome instead of your app! Abominable. Back to the drawing board dudes. Or if you outsourced, time to get a new development agency.

Pretty Good IPhone interface. Perhaps there is an option to automatically download the latest version when it becomes available. If not, that would be a nice addition.

who took the since out of Scientific Magazine. Been reading SA since around 1975. It was this magazine that inspired me to create and learn. Now, the publication is almost exclusively about global warming and how horrible western civilization is. This is constant and a large portion of EVERY issue If I wanted confirmation bias on left wing politics, I would subscribe to Time magazine. Other tha pure science, the only way to solve global warming is through population reduction. This is a difficult task as all humans have rights. Pointing fingers a people like a bunch of snowflakes and support presidential candidates is not what the publication used to be about. No one is going to inspired to be an engineer or scientist reading SA. Unless you think that taking an environmental studies class makes you a scientist. Ahhh, the end of an era. My subscription will not be renewed.

What is this interface. I’m a subscriber but it seems like all this app does is try and sell me new things. As for articles, I see one list of the same articles over and over. Scientists aren’t known for their aesthetics but, come on. I’m really in your corner. You can do this. Hire a designer or something. This app is a work in progress. I’ll keep using a PC until you can figure out how to deliver text over mobile. I’m sure you can ask somebody.

It’s an ok app. I wish it were better. The main problem I have with the app is that it arbitrarily and often removes all my downloads regardless of available space. Believe me, I have lots of space, but is is frustrating that I have to keep on downloading all the magazines over and over again. I also have to constantly re-login. I have the largest tablets cause I like to keep my books magazines etc. ZINIO, Kindle, they work like a charm. Please fix this ASAP. Otherwise the app could be fine.

Worst magazine app ever!. Why? It can't remember you login ID from one session to another. I always have to provide my login data each time I use the app to download an issue. If they can fix that one MAJOR issued then this would be a decent app to use.

Much improved but stingy. This latest version loads fast and is easy to navigate. I'm disappointed that I can't actually share a full article without the recipient paying. This only hurts SA and scientific knowledge. Alternatively SA could allow just 3 free shares a month and then ask the sender, not the recipient, to pay a dollar for every additional share.

Update loses saved articles. I just updated the old app to the new updated app and all of my Scientific American saved articles are missing. I can see the magazine editions, but the saved articles that I have been collecting for years are gone. I tried reporting a problem to apple, but they refer me to the scientific american website which does not address this issue. I have emailed the scientific american support team, three times, only to have them refer me back to the scientific american website each time which, of course, does not address this issue. I cannot seem to get anyone to address this. So if you update to this latest version, be prepared to lose your saved articles.

Look here for facts. When you read this magazine, you come to a place where fact and assertion are not interchangeable. In science, the status of “fact” is earned, then earned again and again. In a world of fake news, Flat Earthers, denial, and open antagonism towards learning and the learned, what a refreshing refuge. The topics are widely varied, so if you read an issue, you will learn something.

Worse Again and Again. Once again I had to re-authorize which is not a smooth process. When I complained last time I was told they want you to reauthorize every thirty days. These people are really greedy, obnoxious idiots. Review September 2019. Password lost again. Cannnot restore. These guys are true incompetent morons. They are able to charge my credit card but not actually able to deliver what I paid for. They seem to have fixed the disappearing password problem. After a week or two and several tries I eas able to get back in. The interface still seems less smooth than it could be. Even Newer Review Restore does not work. They should change the name to “Incompetent American” New review: They supposedly made it better. Not really. It worked for a few months and then lost my subscription. It still won’t hold the password and won’t restore. Some of the issues I can read and others want me to subscribe. The way you view the content when it does work is strange and irritating. They will not respond to requests for help. They have my $99 and I have an app that does not work. I do at least get the paper version. Old review: Irritating and unusable. If it was free it would be a waste of time. Get the paper version. Hard to believe how bad it is.

Kludgy and getting worse. What started off as a wonderful intuitive app that allowed you to zoom in to view figures and insights and bookmark articles has morphed into an app that is barely useful. To views figures now you have to use a tiny zoom window (what genius came up with that) photos can no longer be zoomed. Going back to paper here

SA apparently needs to get rid of some subscribers. I won't rehash what review after review has said. Something is wrong in the way the app logs people in and keeps track of subscriptions. I read all of my publications on an iPad and with SA I spend most of my time trying to access the magazine rather than reading it. This has been an ongoing problem for a couple of years in various forms. I have subscribed since 1965 and I love the articles but I don't have the time to deal with the app - so I'm done at the end of my current subscription.

Forgets logins. If you can get the content to display the app can work. One problem is that it always forgets my login information so I have to look it up every time I use the app. Another is that even for downloaded issues there are some articles that are not available, and I am told to"check the network". Of course the network is fine. Fortunately I continue to receive the printed version, or I would be out of luck.

This app is great on iPhone and iPad.. I love bringing this with me everywhere I got my favorite publication, and I have every issue ever made in the palm of my hand. I wish there were a way on iPhone to download multiple issues at the same time though.

Family share fail. Family sharing does not work. Family members see the share for a second and then it is overwritten by single issue prices. I bought this to foster my kids interest in science. I am not getting that benefit and you have documentation saying it should work.

Great reading experience. This is the best reading experience i’ve had in an app, except it closes the magazine I had open if the app is minimized for more than a minute or so. To reopen the magazine article I was reading I have to open the downloaded tab, and open the magazine again. I think they could easily have it reopen the magazine I was reading. It also loses my place within the article.

Scientific Ameriacn. I have been reading SA for 65 years. I have saved many issues and finally trashed them because of advances in science, moving or loss of space. I have always found it rewarding because the contents are readable, understandable and yet cover the subject in considerable depth. I also read Science News (too much depth) AAAS Magazine (also a lot of depth) and New Scientist (not enough depth). SA seems to provide the information I desire at a level that is thorough and understandable. Keep up the good work. BrianK Toren

SA Review May 2018. This is my go to magazine for all things current in general scientific thinking. While I don't always agree with the editors opinions entirely they are well written and balanced, presenting facts for consideration. Content articles are well chosen with appropriate and relevant topics. In today's environment of fake news and misinformation, cultural and group bias, it is very refreshing to read articles and opinions based on truth and facts determined by observation. SA not only stipulates ones curiosity, it promotes logical fact based thinking.

A marginal app. The app lets me download and read each issue of Scientific American, which is its core purpose. But each month when a new issue comes out it tells me that I need to buy it before I can download it. Then after I log out and then log back into the very same account it’s willing to let me download the next issue in my subscription. Why can’t it just let me get the issue without the extra work? Or even better, automatically download it.

Great Magazine. I have been subscribing Scientific American for the last 52 years. I read ever, recently some articles have been slanted to the left of the political spectrum. I would like the magazine to publish various points of view. Seas have been rising for centuries and 250 million years ago the Georgia Coast was at Macon GA. Why can the magazine publish articles which describes those events, instead of blaming CO2 from fossil fuels as the culprit. Lately the magazine has been publishing article of little scientific value, these articles should published in a magazine which published less scientific article.

Quit improving if all you’re going to do is break it.. I used to instruct Skeptic Magazine that they should copy the method that SA uses to keep tract of what I’m currently reading. It seems SA in the latest update has devolved. I now have to wind my way from the top level menu each time I return to the App. I gotta ask, do the developers/testers actually use this App or do they just read the paper version? The paper version does remember were I left off when I set it down.

How many subscriptions do you need. Review of reviews reveals that most of the time the app does not recognize your subscription and tries to charge for issues. Even when you "successfully" restore subscription ( where did it go to néed to be "restored" ) it tries to charge anew. Thank goodness I kept print issue active as well as these do show up. The log in conundrum just completely destroys the joy of reading SA. by making it impossible to do so without wasting hours fighting to get what you paid for. S.A. Clearly not versed in computer science

Intelligent writers, intelligent articles.... Not just the headlines of science but also the laboratories and long-term thinking that will pay off in ten years. Incredible graphics that speak to the lessons of the articles. Each issue leaves me wanting more, just in time for the next issue.

Decent but flawed. The over user experience is decent. However, there are instances where the spin wheel stays on the page even though the article has loaded. This can be rather distracting. Also, I think having a dark theme like what NatGeo has would be nice, especially for night time reading.

Have we already been inflicted by random AI chat boxes?. With the articulation of AI, being so accurate at copying style and having the ability to influence us with accurate writing styles of popular writers and politicians; what would happen if artificial intelligence began to influence our politicians and popular entertainers? Or simply copying them by mimicking their way of speaking. The idea of AI taking on our own entertainment and political views, while warping ideas, and influencing potential followers seems like the potential for AI , or someone with few ethics, recognizing and using AI to create false narratives. Or, giving artificial intelligence the potential for creating war, and further internal and external influences, raking up undue anger and potential violence.

The app is very hard to use.. This is one of the most confusing apps to use. It routinely locks you out, and then you end up in a loop when you try to log back in to your account. Also, I tried to add a subscription, and when I reached the checkout page there were no active options on the screen to actually complete the checkout. I’m no computer genius, but there is nothing intuitive at all about managing this app. I will end up adding a Kindle subscription to Astronomy Magazine as I apparently can not add “Space and Physics” to my current subscription. Very disappointing.

Good content, terrible app. Over the decades this magazine has gradually dumbed down its content and become a lot glitzier. 30 years ago the articles were written by the researchers. They were long and often impenetrable. Today many articles are written by journalists and the ones by researchers have clearly been heavily edited. Some are excellent while others are very superficial. Still it’s far and away the best general circulation science magazine in America. As for the app, I have the same subscription problem as everybody else. People have been complaining about this for years. But Scientific American seems uninterested in trying to do anything about it.

Room for improvement. The navigation it wonderful and the visual presentation of articles is excellent! However, there is a loss to using the digital version of the magazine vs the physical one: I cannot highlight and annotate as I read. It would be wonderful if I could highlight the article or export a PDF to a note taking/PDF annotating app so I can easily make favorite quotes stand out for quotation or reference later.

Good enough if you can get it to recognize you as a subscriber. I LOVE SciAm, so I’m stoked I can read on iPad. One minor issue is every time I open the app it doesn't recognize that I am a digital subscriber and asks me to pay for the issue. Workaround is to sign out and then in again.

Incredible. I am always amazed at the wealth of knowledge this magazine has to offer and their app lives up to that same quality. If you’re on the fence about buying a subscription, do it. It’s got information on just about everything from dark matter to weight loss (which at times can seem like a dark matter). Anyway, I commonly read these magazines and this app only makes my addiction portable and easy! Thank you Scientific American!

This app is difficult to manage. It is very difficult to manage or synch up ones subscriptions with this app. Throughout the year I am inundated with offers for new subscriptions from Scientific American, The main magazine, Physics, Mind, combination bundles, etc... Managing the that is a nightmare. If I want to add I need to go to the website and it is not reflected in the app. If I had an earlier subscription to one mag it does not reflect in the app and I cant get to it without a laborious process of linking accounts. Is there anyone I can talk too?? Forget get it! Send off an email and get a response next day... the start over again. When I am able to get things working within two months something breaks and the app refuses to download,, again!! The app looks good and when it works it is great.. but the only thing it is really good at is trying to charge me full price for each issue of a magazine. You are more trouble than you are worth. I am letting my subscriptions lapse. If I can see your magazine through some bundling service like Apple, that will be the way it goes... At least their service doesn’t break every two months and is designed to be easy to manage!! PS. I cant even post this without giving the app a stupid nickname!!!

Easy read, complex, hard access. I like reading on iPad. Very nice interface! However, I think the log on process is much more complex than any other magazine. Also when I just want to download the magazine I am subscribed to,it seems I have to page through too many ads for other books and magazines to find it. I do not like SA taking issues off my device without my permission

Partisan Science is not Science. They were always left leaning and the same is true of National Geographic magazine......but when they come out and say they can not support a candidate for stances they know are their own agenda is not acceptable.... statistics could prove election disparities....if you believe their environmental science then you should know that the election results are similar to global warming....an unusual and unexplainable Biden vote spike caused by global warming no doubt.....

Great content; UI sometimes not functional. I love reading Scientific American mind. I was hoping to do some background research on ADHD since a family member recently received that diagnosis. I searched "adhd" using the search function. After reading one article, I couldn't figure out how to go back to my search results or even start a new search. I am no newcomer to using apps. If there is a way to go back to search results, it should be more obvious.

SA App. Excellent app. Updating my review to point out a major bug with this app. As others have stated, there is a serious problem with having to log back in after not using the Scientific American app for a while. The app is also supposed to support Family Sharing, but in my experience it does not. Scientific American is an excellent publication, I only wish their app was equal to the standards of the magazine. Taking away one star for that.

Amazing content, room for improvement in app. Amazing content! I come from a science background and I’m so happy to be able to keep up with the most interesting scientific advancements. As for the app, i think there is room for improvement; -Downloading is slow -would be great to have color option while reading (eg : white on black etc) -no zooming in -I’m having a hard time pulling out the chapters menu in the middle of an article, i have to scroll all the way to the top (maybe this is just me) But i’m sure their team will slowly improve the app! Great content, thanks :)

Great content, frustrating app. I always enjoy the content of SA, and I liked the features of being able to download issues for offline use. I had about 60 hours of flying ahead so I said, hey why not subscribe and download some backlogs. So I downloaded 8 or so issues, ready to kill some time. I get on the plane and get on the app and my issues are gone.. I’m told they were automatically deleted to save space. I check my storage, had 9 or so GB of space left. Feel like a chump that wasted his money big time.

App is quirky. Below is a review I wrote about 2 years ago. I still have problems with the app not retaining my subscription information. -— Seems like both the website and the iPad app have had problems for a couple of years that have not been addressed. I got an e-mail verifying my renewal today that contained a link to my subscription. Using that link, I got a page that said, "We have moved," and gave another link to get to the magazine. Since SciAm just sent me that link, why haven't they updated it to take me to the address that they've move to? Additionally, on the iPad app, I have to re-registered my subscription if I have accessed it for a few weeks. After I do that, I have access to the digital issues, but I don't understand why I have to keep re-registering. This annoying problem has been true for previous versions of the iPad app. Despite these problems, I think the SciAm content is great and it has kept me as a long-term subscriber.

Random Alert badges. Content is good, but the app will suddenly have an alert badge, and there's no feedback on the app to point you to the alert. Sometimes i was able to clear it by randomly opening things. Today I had to just delete the app. Putting a badge on your app icon with no indication inside the app of what is highlighted is terrible design.

Wonderful to see truth!. App has improved. Finally remembers me. Still has some problems keeping track of my multiple devices (2 iPhones, three iPads, one MacBook) but works great if I restrict to one device. Broad breadth of topics. Reliable. Great graphics. Prefer to read the physical magazine but I’ve usually read everything on the App before paper arrives.

Horrendous app - actually stopped reading the mag. Wow. This app was designed in the year 2021? Let me share all the things wrong with it: 1) It repeatedly fails to recognize that you have a paid subscription. Footnote - why am I getting emails asking to subscribe when I already subscribed? 2) Issues must be downloaded, which takes forever. Who does this in today’s world? Go visit The Atlantic, The Economist or any other of a number of great apps. 3) Font size - for an aging demographic, your base font size is entirely too small. This is the only app with which I have issues. You also can’t scale the font size. 4) Speed - loading speed is horrible and navigation speed isn’t much better. 5) Navigation - Articles are listed by title, which often gives no hint of what it’s about. You need to include a brief summary and/or categorize better. I was so excited to get this digital subscription - and I subscribe and read a lot of them out there - but this one needs to be completely redone.

Stars Subtracted for Political Bias. I read science news, presumably because it is peer-reviewed in order to make it as objective as possible. We get enough ideological brainwashing everywhere else. Long story short, I downloaded this app out of curiosity and the first article was a highly politicized opinion piece masquerading as a scientific article. My suggestion is, if you all are not peer-reviewing for demogoguery, I highly recommend you begin. If you do have a peer-review process, perhaps considering hiring different, more objective reviewers. If I wanted propaganda I'd go to MSNBC or the Daily Wire.

Love it, except .... The SA is especially informative on my IPad Pro. For the vision impaired it has ways to make reading easier. However there is a VERY buggy login process often requiring elaborate switching between browser and app before new issues can be downloaded. In contrast the login for Science News goes very smoothly.

Hour glass. While trying to read an article, the hour glass continues to rotate. This is distracting and irritating, to say the least. Also, why am I not able to share an article?

User interface needs little basic attention. I would like to be able to dynamically increase/decrease font size. Also, be able to change font style to non-serif. Sometimes the typeset is hard to read. Adjust the lightness/darkness of the background and tone to adjust contrast, especially with a mind to the environment I’m reading in. All for now. Nice little app.

Great content but not the app. Love the content in general. However the app is problematic: recurrent problem over several iOS and different iPhones, I have to delete the app every month for my account to recognize my subscription. “Restore subscription” never works. Otherwise love the content and will keep the subscription despite the monthly hassle! Update: Looks like above issue was fixed. Also, the app stays at the exact page where I left it when I come back to the app after closing it (used to take me to the home page). 5 stars! Thanks

I enjoy but!. I truly enjoy the scientific articles in SA and have gift subscriptions for our son and a grandson. Having said that I am upset every time I read the liberal political driven articles. My son and I just agree that we skip them. If you must do so than at least be fair and present opposing conservative points of view. After all is not that what the Scientific process is all about?

Infuriating. Your App is infuriating. It refuses to accept my sign-in in my iPad until I have made a general sign-in on my laptop computer. Additionally, every few weeks, the downloaded copies in your App on my iPad “evaporate” and I have to go through the whole download process again. INFURIATING! Why don’t you try using the Economist magazine’s App for a few months? I have used it for years without one single problem. Maybe you could learn something from them about how to construct a user-friendly App.

Don't subscribe to Sci Am through Apple. The Scientific American app is great. But you should not subscribe through Apple. You should only subscribe through the Scientfic American we site. The reason is that subscribing through the web site gives you access to Sci Am on all platforms, including the IOS app, but not the other way around. If you subscribe through Apple, your subscription is not recognized on the web site, and you cannot access the huge amount of additional timely material that they provide there. This restriction makes no sense, because both subscriptions are the same price. But you get so much more by subscribing on the web site. This is not made clear in the app store description. Very frustrating, and not something I would expect from Scientific American.

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Last straw. It is a pain that the app after a while it doesn’t recognise my password. As a result, I have problem downloading the magazine. Also, it is asking me to pay when I have already subscribe for the year.

Informative content with an intuitive interface. Scientific American continues to provide excellent, informative content with an interface that is reasonably intuitive and user friendly. Illustrative content accessed through side bar interfaces is very well presented and easy to dip into and then get out of again to return to the main article. The writing is accurate and intelligent, but always accessible to the non-specialist.

THIS APP DOESN'T WORK WITH iOS 8.1. The title says it all...forget this app if you are using iOS 8.1 I have been waiting over a month for this app to be updated to work with iOS 8.1...

Need retina display support. I have been a long fan of SCIAM. And it is finally come it the iPad. However, it would be great if it can support the retina display for the text.

SA App. App for iPad needs some improvements. Downloads take forever, and crash several times before successful. Have a look at National Geographic app as gold standard. Regards

Broken on iOS 8 - but good otherwise. Scientific American is an example of how much more interactivity can be built into the magazine experience when using electronic media. SA is definitely a step or two ahead of other science magazines available through NewsStand. That said, my main gripe is that it broke on upgrade to iOS 8. Hurry up, SA - I want to read my October edition! :)

Still not compatible with iOS 8. When downloading previously purchased issues, connection to server keeps dropping out & I do not seem to have an internet connectivity issue. It must not be compatible with iOS 8.

Love the mag. App needs improvement. The app has a nice simplicity, but is very clunky in its operation. Although a current subscriber, I am frequently denied access to magazines and articles. Additional purchases are also heavily promoted, to the point of being a nuisance

Informative, well written. I love the app and the magazine. The app provides fast transfer to sections you want to read first. It works perfectly on both iPad and iPhone.

Scientific American. The Scientific American is an up to date journal of the best scientific minds of the world. Excellent articles clearly presented.

This performance is a disgrace. Nature publishing should pull its act together and fix the incompatibility with iOS 8.1. I haven't seen an issue for 2 months.

Review. I was a subscriber when I was in Uni and was gratified I could once again subscribe now that I live in Australia. I recall an artilcle written by a Father/son team on “Flywheel technology and can’t help relating to our world climate problem and how their device could be buried under the silicon farms. Am really enjoying being back. Phillip McArdle

Well designed. Very logical way to move through magazine material.

Forgets login details again and again. If you subscribe to SciAm, you are still faced with demands for payment when you want to download current SciAm issues. Not a particularly helpful 'feature'. Keep your login details to hand - you will need them! Andy

Downgraded and Neglected. When the digital edition of SciAm was first released, it was an exemplar of it's type. Unfortunately though, the content presentation within the recent release of the app has plummeted. Interactivity is almost nonexistent, pages are pixelated, and the interface lacks responsiveness! Such regression is most surprising for what is normally a progressive and high quality publication. This is one case where the old is most certainly better than the new!

Condensed science. My to go to for everything science. Informative and engaging. Worth every penny.

Needs to be fixed. There is clearly something not right with this app. Downloading issues is VERY slow when compared similar sized content on the same connection. For some reason the app keeps deleting downloaded content, so the option of downloading issues for use in places where there is no internet is a complete and utter waste of time as there is absolutely no certainty that the content will be available at a later date. As others have said, it does not work at all under IOS 8.

Condition: critical. Needs resuscitation immediately!. This app is a stinker. It tries to download too many issues at once, there is no capacity to pause the download of any one issue, the downloads seem to stop if my iPad locks itself. In short this is unusable for me in its current state. This is not rocket science. Others can do this so much better, why can't Sci Am get your act together?

Great way to receive SciAm. Works well

Still not working on iOS 8. It tries to update my library—non existent due to doing a full restore, and the previous version wouldn't re-download purchases. But it comes up with an error saying it cannot update the library, dumping me back at the main screen with no issues present and no way of even trying to re-download.

no download possible. The old sciam digital worked faultlessly. This ipad version is a shocker. It is great when you can actually download it. I have managed 2 months in the last year. The first when I first paid for it. The second was after email exchange. Again managed to down load a copy. Then no more. It is unclear where the downloaded app actually is. It is unclear how to find when the next edition is out and how to download. Other magazines on zinio download seemlessly. My suggestion is go back to the old digital edition. A recent survey on the the ipad version completely missed any question as to whether it was easy to download nor asked for overall satisfaction.

Rubbish App. Cannot access things I paid for.

Fantastic Publication and Good App. I have been waiting for the App version to come out for a while and I am quite pleased with the result. This is a fantastic publication with many noteworthy regular columnists; interesting and insightful content; and for those in the science and research community, it is indexed! I was recommended this and now would recommend it to all.

Long record. Scientific American has a long history of high quality science review articles that are accurate and highly readable. They lack the detail found in Nature and Science, but this makes them more accessible to those with a passion for science but technical experience in one of its many sub-branches who like keeping up with advances beyond their discipline. A valuable subscription.

App is not user friendly.. I find SA app difficult to use compared to those of other journals that I subscribe to. In content I am disappointed at the high proportion of medical and environmental articals.

Always a good read. The articles are timely and relevant, and understandable to a lay person, and helpful to a scientist. The only drawback is access to articles on the e-mails are not accessible to the digital version.

Buy the print version instead. This newest update takes it from a fantastic interactive digital magazine with crisp images to what looks like a copy & paste of the trial section of a news website with image quality so poor you can see the pixels. If all you want is the written content, get it for free off the 'net. If you want a digital copy that looks exactly like the print version like I do then sadly this does not exist anymore. For the asking subscription price this is a terrible app.

Poor usability and readability. Inspire from "the economist" app to improve this

Love it. I have always loved Scientific American and the App enhances the reading experience greatly 👍

Very Poor Unstable App. Amateurish app in front of a great magazine. Clunky, cannot access magazines I pay for

Dinosaurs alive and well at SA. Some great stuff , but their denial of the electric universe is destroying their brand. Have been a subscriber for many years, sadly will cancel my subscription.

Broken on iOS 8. If you delete and reinstall the app you can download magazines the first time it runs, but then it loses them and you to delete and reinstall the app again. Essentially useless with ios 8.

A great and informative magazine!. I've been reading SA since 1964, this kinda makes me ancient...But for the past 4 years have been using the app..great but needs a bit more tweaking..I still get the hard copy though..old habits die hard.. George from Oz

Doesn't work on iOS8. Oct 2 - The other day it was working again. Checked tonight and broken again!! As others have said, this used to be an excellent app. But broken completely under iOS 8. Before reading this reviews wasted a lot of time trying to at least read the previously downloaded issue. Nothing works and the error message makes no sense! If this is fixed in the next few days will change my score to a high one.

Hopeless. I paid for a subscription and despite many emails to sci. am. I am still unable to download the issues.

Not compatible with iOS 8.. If I try to download an issue it says to restart the app and try to download again.

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iOS 8 fixed but still buggy. Having trouble scrolling up on articles. I can scroll up and get it to bounce down a bit. Sometimes I have to hold my finger on the screen to prevent it from popping back to the top. Most of the time instead of scrolling down it changes to the previous or next article instead. I have to drag my finger exactly vertical or it changes article. Very frustrating. It went from unusable to barely useable.

Pathetic Service. Does not run at all on iPhone or iPad with all current versions verified. All logs sent to support but for 2 weeks they are still not interested in providing any customer service. Love the print magazine, but for one that professes to be so technically knowledgeable and can't fix a simple logon issue... This can only be described as intentionally neglectful.

An once excellent app, now just ordinary.. The latest update has spoiled a once excellent app. A once simple task, deleting editions that are no longer needed, has been made convoluted. Graphics, previously an excellent feature, have been cut back drastically. In an effort to allow variable font size, the look of articles is now spartan. Shame.

Great magazine, terrible app!. I have subscribed to Scientific American for decades. When I bought an iPad I was delighted to find there was an app by which I could get an electronic version of the magazine. My first disappointment came when I found out I had to receive both the hard copy and the electronic version. As it turns out, that was not such a bad thing! Although I'm logged into the app, and my subscription is paid in full, every couple of month, when a new issue comes out, I find that the app it telling me I have to purchase it! I have addressed this problem with the publishers more times than I can count! The app is virtually useless! So when I travel I'm still finding that I have to carry my hard copy. I sure wish they'd address and fix this problem!

Latest news tab no longer working. This tab stopped updating after installing iPadOS 15.7 (new magazines are still received)

Not as good. New app version is not as good as previous. I liked the previous version - more like a magazine.

But, I DID buy it, really . . .. The app has been a constant battle to convince I do have a subscription... sigh.

Very poor app for a science magazine!. I cannot access the issues I have subscribed for. It prompts me to BUY these issues. A ripoff. Disgraceful for a magazine that promotes technology.

Doesn't work on iOS 8. All of my previous issues were lost after upgrade to iOS 8! Tried to redownload but the app doesn't allow. Please fix asap!

Bad app that does not believe in improving. I echo others'comments. This app is the worst.

SA. I prefer the printed version and always have! Only limited experience with the online version.

DON’T BUY THIS SUBSCRIPTION. Discovered that the kids were interested in the contents of SA during a trip to the dentist. Bought a subscription in July, 2018. Immediately got access to that edition online (via app). Months later, realised I didn’t get a single printed copy yet and got in touch (via email and phone). Was told their records say my subscription started on October 2018!!! We’re still in September 2018, by the way. Now, the app has blocked my access to July and August editions. I had access to them up until a few weeks ago. BAD APP, BAD SERVICE, TOTALLY INCOMPETENT PEOPLE RUNNING THIS OPERATION. SAVE YOURSELF FROM HEADACHES. THIS SERVICE DOESN’T DESERVE YOUR MONEY!

Ah. Science. I f you want a break from toxic news refresh your spirit with Scientific American.

Scientific American iPad edition is fraud. Don't buy this app! Purchases made on this app are not honored! After 3 months of use the year subscription that I made would only permit me to download the cover page of new months volumes. Any time I went past the cover, the app crashed, giving me a message to restart the app or log in to the scientific American web site. If scientific American wants me to buy the magazine from their website, then they should at least honor the subscription we take through the App Store till the subscription runs out. Buying this app is a rip off!

where are the magazines?. I can not access my paid up subscription. App just asks if I want to subscribe. Did that!

Huge disappointment. As the title says. Every cool feature of the app is gone, every picture and info box is crappy, and the newly added features are honestly not very helpful, maybe except the text size control. In conclusion, the new version makes it seem like this is some very low quality magazine where the readers are wondering if the papers are solid. Have no I dea why they posted this update...

Garbage since the last update. The new update is garbage. The fantastic quality is gone. This used to be the best magazine in tablet format. Now it is no better than reading it on the web. Not worth the money for the subscription anymore.

Upgrade fail. Since the last upgrade I've lost access to my subscription. There is no way to restore purchased issues, and it's asking me to log in, I never set up a user profile before the upgrade. I don't even see an option to cancel my subscription. This is sad, such great content ruined by a crap app.

Works Great!!! Except.... Cant put a bookmark to hold your Places which is annoying and while I’m typing this my text isn’t showing up

Dark mode. Need to incorporate dark mode in the app. White light is too much strain on the eyes.

Needs accessibility settings improvements. As someone who is visually impaired, very near sighted, I would greatly appreciate it if you could allow for larger/bolder fonts on the larger iPad Pro, I am running IOS 16.5 and the per app accessibility options do not allow for larger/bolder fonts

An update should bring more value to readers. This latest update for tablet app clearly doesn't. All the interactive features are gone. The resolution is lower on iPad Pro. The images are embedded awkwardly. An unpleasant reading experience overall. This used to be a great app. Please fix these issues which clearly everyone is complaining about. Otherwise you will lose many subscribers, me included. Some feedback from SA will be appreciated. Show us that you care please!!

No Financial incentive to purchase. Why would I honestly spend $35 on a digital only subscription when I can get a print/digital subscription for basically the same price. I can't find an answer that justifies that enormous act of stupidity.

Terrible app. Makes it difficult to read more than one magazine at a time. Is always flashing the price of magazines and articles at you even if you are a subscriber and have paid for full access. Does not seem to have any concept of how to build a properly searchable archive function. A Scientific American employee actually informed me that the best way to do a keyword search of articles in their historic archive was to -leave the app- and do my search over the internet. The Scientific American line of magazines is great; too bad their terrible app makes it so difficult to read and to search them. You would think they could just follow the lead of what so many digital newspapers and magazines already do so well.

The app is terrible. I have to jump through so many hoops in order to sometimes see my magazines. Horrible app

Excellent!. Makes reading SA on the go a great experience. Well done. Thank you!

Not compatible with iOS 8.... App will not allow issues to be downloaded, then crashes.

App lacks support. Very bad app. No dark mode. No bookmarking. Since os last update latest news do not refresh. Articles are great though.

I can't even get into it! There is a huge glitch somewhere!. I've been going around and around trying to figure out how to get my downloaded issues back... Incredibly frustrating!!

Significant Improvements. This update is much more stable with intuitive navigation.

Bookmarks. I like the choice of font size. I can now read the digital version. Search is not so good unless I am not using it properly. Last time I used it, I was not able to search for the second occurrence of a certain word. It always found the same occurrence of the word I was looking for. And I would suggest a new feature: I (and most readers) would find it very useful if l could put a bookmark at the point where I stopped reading for the night so that I can return to that spot the next day.

Subscription cancels every month. I have to re-enter my log in information every month. Don't lose it. Otherwise, very interesting content and science vulgarization.

Very poor app. I have to log in for each new issue although I paid for a 1 yr sub. Ridiculous!

Great magazine, terrible browser. Difficult to navigate, unintuitive menus, Incomplete and rudimentary search tools, unintuitive navigation. Spoils the pleasure of reading great articles

Great magasine.. Good variation in topics.

please bring back previous versions. As some of the other reviewers have said, this app captured the essence of the experience of reading the magazine. The integration of graphics and text worked wonderfully. The current experience is that of reading a Word file with a couple of .jpg images attached. Was this version test marketed with long-time readers? Please give back to us the experience you have faithfully provided!

a spreader of Political Correctness masquerading as an objective, scientific magazine. Sadly, things have gone downhill at SA in the last few years. Their recent decision to support a political candidate in the USA election is yet an other example of how they abandoned objectivity and scientific neutrality for left wing propaganda. Just looking at the list of authors in the September 2020 edition indicates how science has been diluted away from the magazine. Many of the authors are left wing journalists, without a "lick" of scientific background or objectivity to their name. The theme-of-the-month is systemic racism everywhere you look (or don't look), with the evil caucasians guilty from the word "go" for all that is wrong in the universe. I will NOT be renewing my subscription to this rag and I suggest you think twice bwfore wasting your money here.

Excellent magazine. Excellent magazine for those interested in broad scientific issues.

New app is ok, but please bring back the old one.. I am glad I can finally use it in landscape mode. Beyond that though, it's just boring. It used to feel like a replacement for, and even more than, the paper magazine. Now it's plain, rigid, exactly one pic per article, zero layout effort, no web articles, no one minute entries or interactive pages. If it's only the words of the articles you want, then this is the transcript application for you. Want to replace the paper magazine and save a few trees? It's not a replacement. I will seriously consider going back to print for my next renewal.

Can. I love SciAm, but I have spent hours trying to sign in and can't (I'm a digital subscriber, I know I have my login info correct but it keeps saying "authentication failed"). I emailed support the other day and no response yet. If I get a response and I can sign in I will change my rating. Has anyone else had this issue? Any ideas? UPDATE: Almost a MONTH and STILL no response from customer service, what is going on!?

Poor. I have to reload the library and download my purchase each time I open the App. A real, pane.

Can’t Save Articles. I have found the archived article I would like to read later and have attempted to save it under “Saved”. Not possible. There is no way to do that as far as I can see. Not only that but now that I have the article I’d like to save in front of me I can’t get rid of it to go back to the search bar. The only way I can back to the search bar is to dismiss the app and start again. Doesn’t help me much though since I can’t save the article anyway. Not a useful app really.

Good. Very good recommend

No way to mark stories or magazines as “finished”. If you like reading magazines in random order there’s no way to mark an article as finished. I guess they expect you to make a list on notepad or something? Really frustrating! And, if you get a new iPad, any system based on downloading disappears because the app rests. Please - make this useable!! Scientific American is such an iconic publication, why isn’t the app as good as the content??

thank you. Thank you for the text resizing. This is very important for older readers, making the app superior to the printed magazine at last.

iOS8. As a loyal subscriber to SA for at least 40 years I am very disappointed that they haven't yet updated the iPad app to be compatible with iOS 8.

Fixed. My problem with downloading (see other reviews) has disappeared. I am delighted. Sci.Am. And Nat.Geog. are wonderful.

Excellent journal...Worst app ever!. I love this journal (subscriber to print and digital for three years and occasional reader for 40 years). Readability on Ipad is good. There is a recurrent problem with the logon function!!! Every once in a while, the app asks you to pay for the most recent edition despite a valid subscription and logon to the personal account on their website (happens even to previously downloaded versions!?!). If you are late with paying your subscription fees, you loose all previously downloaded editions on your iPad (so much for an electronic library). Contacting them doesn't get you any reaction for a long time as others mentioned. A journal of this quality and reputation deserves a better app and a better service team!

app needs improvment. Its such a great magazin and i subscribe for years, but its a pain to download your subscription on the app. as already stated from others . i ALWAYS have to lock in again to get my issue. They should learn from NG . Their app is just awesome!

ios8 is out. Surprise!. Please fix your app.

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Forget About This App. As noted in the other reviews, it takes a significant amount effort every time you want to use this app because the login just doesn't work. What is so hard to figure out? Wish I would have known about this before subscribing. The only reason I subscribed, was to read issues online. I will not renew.

Intuitive and wonderful presentation of information. Scientific American's app provides such aconvenient and simple way to navigate complex and fascinating information. I use it quite often.

Excellent content, inferior access. Most display and control pages have no search. You can’t find all articles that have “hurricane” in them. Embedded images have no zoom to screen. Anchors, place markers are non existent within articles. All content is restricted to “eyes only” No way to make notations, follow references, or highlight. Other than that, the content is fabulous. You have excellent editors and contributors. It’s time to hire some programmers

73 and still enjoying science. How much longer I can carry my brain with me?but I can carry SA with me for ever because I trust the subject’s validity

SA. Scientific American is a great scientific magazine with great articles written by specialists from various fields and you can gain knowledge using their easy to use and friendly app

Great alternative to access Scientific American. If you have an iPhone or iPad this is the best way to access Scientific American.

You only rent issues, not own them. When my subscription expired I could no longer access any of the issues from that subscription period. When I contacted customer support I was assured that this was the way things worked. When your subscription expires you no longer have access. In other words, a subscription only allows you to temporarily rent issues.

A Wonderful Magazine. You have been reading Scientific American for years. The articles are top quality, written by experts in the field, and beautifully illustrated.

Video crashes. I’ve been trying .... wait, I cannot see what am I writing,

Needs attention. I have to log out and log back in for every new issue. Waste of my time!

Format to read the magizine. The format is very agonizing as it is not opening as a single magazine. Rather it’s opening articles by articles.

Great app but. Great app, but only subscribe via this app if you want to see your issues on line. If you subscribe by mail, their geeks don’t make it easy to join your paper edition with the app.

The app is great. I prefer to read the printed version, but with the app I can keep reading the issue wherever

Terrible. The SA app will not allow me to read the April issue at all. I have had several issues in the past and I have complained but to no avail. I do have the latest IOS version on my IPad.

Terrible. I’m a scientist. I dl this app to help keep up on various scientific fields. Wrong choice for that. This is no different than the New York Times. It’s opinion news and not science. It’s terrible this once prominent institution is now consider a laughing stock to most real scientists but for good reason.

Woke Journalism at its Unfettered Worse. I am very disappointed in the editorial direction that Scientific American has taken. It’s as if they have put a mandate in place to inject woke concerns into every single article, no matter how peripheral these concerns may be to the matter being reported. Science tries to objective and dispassionate. It would be nice if Scientific American would try as well.

Improving. The current version is an improvement over past versions in this series. A remaining issue is that there is a never-ending spinning wheel in the middle of the page while reading articles on an iPad.

No search function in app. A search function would greatly improve this app

Top stories feature. Top stories used to be a great part of the SA app, with content updated at least weekly. Stopped working months ago, repeated inquiries regarding what I assumed was some sort of bug were met with somewhat incoherent responses. Issue has not gone away. Hard to believe it’s our top science magazine.

Abbreviate the Name of the Magazine. Please for the love of God abbreviate the title of the magazine for the mobile app. It appears as “ScientificAmeri…” and drives me crazy to look at. I’m sure I’m not the only one. May I suggest “SciAmer”? Or something of the sort. Perhaps “Sci. Amer.” Other than that, it’s great.

Political/Biased. First look through and half of it isn’t even factual. Most articles are think pieces based on preconceived notions that aren’t backed up or proven with data. Swiftly refuting claims that I know to be of some merit without any reasoning. Often comes across as political and as left leaning. I don’t want politics of any kind in my science news. Don’t recommend

Loses subscription information constantly. App is fine for reading, but constantly loses sync with my subscription, often requiring uninstalling and reinstalling the app. After sending this feedback multiple times, I still have never received a response, and the problem is still not fixed. Very frustrating!

Confusing to use as a subscriber. I’m having trouble downloading issues from earlier this year

Much improved. I recently shifted to iPad Pro, so the font sizes are not as big a deal as before. Improved fonts a good thing. Zooming in on figures isn’t as easy to use as the printed

Terrible app. First I renew then without warning they cancel the printed version of SAMind and force me to go online to view content. When not I try app I am told I am not authorized. Their remedy is to log in again. No other app does this to me. Get "The Economist" to see how an app should work for a mag. They even provide audio free. Wonderful when I travel. I suggest no one should subscribe to any SA until they fix the app.

Loses My Account. With a new login I see my subscription. After exiting the program and returning some time later, I am still logged in but the app claims that I am not authorized to see my subscription information. New issues are listed as "buy." If I logout and back in, new issues are marked with a "download" tag. This is stupid. I will be deleting this app from my device.

Really bad app. It’s was if the app was written by third graders. I’m not sure they do *any* testing. Bugs and crashes doing the most basic of things. When each issue comes out, you have to log in and sign back in to download it. Each time.

Good user experience but can be better. You did an amazing job! One thing to ask: If there’s a feature that allows the users to take snippets then it will be perfect.

Great magazine; app has quirks. Just about every time I use the app on the iPad I need to re-login and that takes a few tries due to the quirky login page. Other subscription apps like NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post work well. Maybe it’s time for an updated Scientific American app, please.

constant problems. I subscribed through Jan 2021 but cannot download issues for the last three months. only option is to buy the current issue which I already paid for. won’t renew and wish I had not subscribed.

Serious subscription issues. I keep having serious issues getting downloads on my iPad Pro. I've used every trivial in the book and it doesn't work smoothly.

Problem buying subscription. If I’ve done everything I know to make an app purchase, including up dating my payment method and all my other app purchases open, then I just wasted 20 minutes of my life trying to subscribe to a ‘scientific’ magazine. Fix it!

The Scientific American App Is Terrible!. If you're scientific types why is your app so clunky? Very hard to log in. It's difficult to even find the place to log in. Even Oprah's magazine is simple compared to your app! I recognizes me immediately and it's easy to navigate. Get with the program!!

Good Content, Bad App. From odd navigation and presentation seemingly designed without any the science of human computer interaction, to a technical implementation that actually manages to block some of iOS’ key accessibility features, e.g., read screen. This is a careless, throw-away implementation.

Mid. 100+$ for digital and physical subscription and the what’s new tab hasn’t updated once since I bought my subscription like 3 months ago. The magazines are nice and content is good in them but I’m beyond disappointed at the apps UI for what it costs for a subscription.

Horrible app. No support.. App hasn’t updated top stories in 8 months. Now does not recognize my login credentials that work on PC. 5 requests to help desk go nowhere….no help whatsoever except waste my time like password resets and app reinstalls that do not solve the problem, plus you have to wait 24 hours for a reply. My frustration has grown so much I will not renew….there are plenty other sources with apps that work.

Don't get troubles others fret about. Works just fine for me.

The Best of Science. Timely information on the latest advances in all fields of science written for the non-specialist. A real delight, required reading for anyone who wishes to be informed about our world.

Scientific American app. Really handy. But it’s a bit easier to navigate in iBooks. Page lay out in a row at bottom. Would be god to have book mark and underlining capability. The app should look and feel like the magazine.

Scientific American. Great content but NOT friendly to aging population. I've made several contacts requesting larger fonts (for "info boxes" especially) and to NOT use dark fonts on dark backgrounds. Never had the courtesy of a reply. Complaining because now that, as a retired scientist, I have time to read SA, can't always enjoy full content.

One of the worst. This is one of the worst. Signing in on your various devices is the worst in the industry. Don't buy digital access as access is difficult and at times impossible. Called multiple times and phone is always but No answer to multiple e mails My digital subscription is not accessible on my Mac laptop Trying to get a refund and discontinue what is subscription that is unavailable You have zero customer service All you do is ask for payment of another subscription when I already have one

App does not recognize subscription. The WORST app ever. Inept customer service. I purchased $145 all access and the app (on my ipad and iphone) has never recognized my subscrption despite repeated attempts by Scientific American call center to synch up. Absolutely frustrating. Cancel subscription or just download issues on the website and delete this app.

Horrible update. As another reviewer said after the latest update one lose all the saved previous issues. Furthermore one will no longer be able to adjust fond size.

AVOID. This is the worst App ever developed. I have two paper and 2 digital subscriptions and they never work on this App. Whatever you do don’t subscribe through Apple and use a web browser for access. If this App is representative of American Science, our time has passed. 3 years of constant misery.

Laughably Bias. Recent article on physicians opens with the statement “in a racist society.” I stopped reading at that point. The bias of the article was front loaded in a manner is both ignorant and unhelpful. How about if you make an attempt to simply provide the “facts” with out the lame tendency toward hyperbole and race baiting?

Non-sciencist Refuge!. Love to read your constoow of authitative subject covering new and old topics in clear language uninformed but curious laymen like me!

These guys don’t have their act together. It isn’t just the app that constantly looses you digital subscription info. The website seems to also loose mine and the design of the site is so bad it doesn’t accommodate for this known issue and make it easy to put it back in. Unfortunately, I’m looking for a refund.

Scientific American. Searching for articles in back issues isn’t possible

Secure login needs improvement. Too often when launching the app you are forced to log in. This should not be so difficult. If a banking app allows for seamless touch ID, a magazine app should be just as easy.

Deleting issues. Some crazy software issue causes the app to delete downloaded issues. It claims I am low on memory, but my iPhone has over 7 GB left. I’d like to keep the downloads for when I’m in a low signal area or when my battery is low.