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Great functional good looking app!
Adding swipe from edge of screen to go back functionality would make this amazing instead of just a back button.Vader412
Updated app - still no real iPad support
The new app feels just like a react native wrapper, and still no landscape support for iPad!danielsmithnz
Very much improved
This latest version supports my retina iPhone perfectly. Text and pictures are sharp and it’s very snappy.MaverickMind
Great app but kills battery
This app is great because the reporting is mostly excellent, but it uses battery faster than any other app on my phone- why? 4 stars for content. Minus 2 for draining my battery.Neil3.6x1029653
Love Spinoff, love the app
I bought this app when it first became available, yes, there’s been some issues over the years. However, I’ve loved the app all the way through. It sits on Home Page on my phone like a gateway to a load of reporting, opinion, updates, breakdowns and information. Excellent articles and excellent journalism. I now also support the Spinoff with a regular donation. Thanks!!Show lessTe Moana
Just high quality 👍
Really well written content that is such a breath of free air compared to the big sites. Great stuff.Trickyjw
Designed entirely for the severely vision impaired.
Only those with utterly buggered vision would enjoy this app on an iPad.
Font sizes are ridiculously large at an effective 16 point, and overly big line and paragraph spacing makes reading an article very much like using a high powered magnifying glass on newspapers.
Let’s see how to fix. Simply correct the css used. And tick the box in the apple development software that automatically sets layout based upon the specific device used, and the user preferences for system font sizes.
Also tick the development environment box allowing landscape, and side by side/overlap orientations.
Doing this will improve the app quality and appeal by a huge margin.
Now I will go back to looking at the Spinoff websitewhere reading articles is actually possible.Show lessJfnow
Terrible iPad support
Please put more effort into properly supporting all sizes of the iPad in both orientations. Even on the iPhone everything is way too big - you can barely even see the titles of two articles on the screen at once because of far too much whitespace and giant pictures everywhere. But on the iPad Pro 12.9”, it’s just ridiculous. Forced portrait orientation even though a lot of people use this device in landscape orientation with an attached keyboard; the coloured bars blocking half of the screen; 150pt text with about 4 words on each line; and the pictures don’t have a high enough resolution to justify making them the entire width of the screen. The app also hasn’t been updated to properly support the size of the device’s screen. I’ve used a lot of iOS apps, and this is probably the one with the most actively hostile user interface I have ever seen.
Look at other news apps. “Above the fold” on the main screen of The Guardian’s app (in landscape mode, I might add) I can see as many as twelve article titles on the screen at the same time.
Why do you offer an app if it’s a deliberately worse experience than just going to your website?Show lessPresident Banana
Where is the search function 🤷🏼♀️
Where is it?Big_Fan_69
Good content but poor presentation
As many others have noted,while the content is good the presentation of the app leave much room for improvement. The text is very small and there has to be a better way of providing an overview of the content without having to scrollso much.56 Mart
