Leave a Review Packt Reader
App doesn’t make sense
This app doesn’t really seem to make any sense, and I don’t know what the developers even planned on putting it on the App Store if the user is not going to be able to access their owned material. I don’t have a subscription and I’m not looking in paying for one but I’ve already paid for $35 worth of learning material on packt and am unable to access on the go.Show lesschrisbishsj
Terrible app for a great service.
Packt has really good content. I have enjoyed doing their courses on the website. This app though is full of problems. Constant crashes, lagging when playing videos and very very poor user interface. Such a shame because their courses really deserve better.Dmjohnspor
Crashes
App crashes all the time.Purvesh desai
It had ONE job…
Packt Reader….not with such a tiny, un-resizable font and a bright white background I’m not! smhWest 221B
Still broken
I can’t login and I’m a subscriber!kionysus
Poor and now I can’t even log in
The old Packt app was good until it got abandoned and left in a broken state for years. I thought this was a replacement but it’s very poor by comparison and since they updated the Authentication I’ve been unable to login.
It’s pretty reflective of Packt in general - rough around the edges compared to the competition.Show lessCurtmantle
Can’t even log in now
What a jokeRxercist
Why does a company replace a good product with a poor one?
The title asks a question that only Packt can answer. While not perfect the last application was an effective book reader and video player. This one is not. Pages sometimes just don’t appear when you turn the page. They display slowly. The user interface is crude and not effective. I have been a Packt subscriber for years and this app is so bad that I am considering not renewing my subscription as I can’t consume the content that I paid for.Show lessEngineer at the beach
Packt Brand Down The Drain.
I just took out an 18 month subscription. With the expectation that a good publisher with the Packt brand, would extend its learning experience in practice to its app.
Instead what we have here is a joke. There are two apps listed. Packt Reader (This) and another simply called Packt (Which doesn’t even fire up.)
This app is utterly unusable.
1. The video don’t have a ‘start where you left’ memory.
2. The videos lack any controls.
3. The videos can’t be downloaded.
And Packt sells books on UI and UX?!
What a rip-off / scam is this?
How long will it take to fix this SNAFU?
Is anyone reviewing this thread?
To think I was going to recommend this as a preferred resource for my DEV team.
FIX IT? NOW! PLEASE!Show lessCorpTalk
Yet another useless Packt application
Packt tend to publish unfinished applications, the previous one was so buggy and now abandoned and this one doesn’t give access to owned books. UselessStephane Busso
