This app makes it annoying to read Prospect.
This app is an absolute clunker on the iPad, and it has my subscription living on borrowed time.
First: it doesn't support native resolution for anything larger than the iPhone. The writing just isn't sharp and this is unforgivable on these devices in 2017.
Second: the layout is appalling. The text is confined to a scrolling box in a section of the page, so that a navigation bar can occupy a huge left column. All space should be given to the article.
The iPhone app is very nicely optimised, including a text-only reading view which is useful for the limited screen real estate on small screens. I dearly wish the same attention was applied to the iPad, a screen that should be the natural home for a magazine.
I purchase Prospect to read the articles, and this app makes it annoying to do so.
First: it doesn't support native resolution for anything larger than the iPhone. The writing just isn't sharp and this is unforgivable on these devices in 2017.
Second: the layout is appalling. The text is confined to a scrolling box in a section of the page, so that a navigation bar can occupy a huge left column. All space should be given to the article.
The iPhone app is very nicely optimised, including a text-only reading view which is useful for the limited screen real estate on small screens. I dearly wish the same attention was applied to the iPad, a screen that should be the natural home for a magazine.
I purchase Prospect to read the articles, and this app makes it annoying to do so.
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Content great, app working super!
I'm an irregular subscriber to the paper Prospect. Generally well written and eclectic enough, had a dip under the last editor (relative to the first editor) but seems a bit more interesting and varied now. Last time i subscribed the app was really shoddy and not worth the effort. This version is now actually very enjoyable to use on iPhone and iPad. Good that they put effort in to it, just now for them to fix their website.
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Unusable on iPad
Great magazine: useless App; unhelpful support helpline.
Took out an annual digital subscription. iPhone was fine but naturally wanted to read it on iPad. Informed had to use third party App Pocketmags for iPad access. Anyway it just wouldn't work. Several calls to helpline and when eventually get through they just read through the mantra of instructions rather than help. Cancelled subscription and gone with Spectator. Much better.
Took out an annual digital subscription. iPhone was fine but naturally wanted to read it on iPad. Informed had to use third party App Pocketmags for iPad access. Anyway it just wouldn't work. Several calls to helpline and when eventually get through they just read through the mantra of instructions rather than help. Cancelled subscription and gone with Spectator. Much better.
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Terrible app for a great magazine
I can never seem to use this without several logins on different sites (no idea why). I generally have to reset at last one of the passwords which takes quite some time.
Inside the app, the difference between posts and magazine content is not at all clear. Navigation is a muddle.
Such a good magazine deserves a better app
Inside the app, the difference between posts and magazine content is not at all clear. Navigation is a muddle.
Such a good magazine deserves a better app
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App crashes on launch on iOS9
Please fix the crash bug on iOS9.
Good content, bad layout
I love this magazine. I used to be a subscriber, reader, and reviewer all the way from Iran, wherein getting the magazine was not as easy as other places.
I still love the content and the insight. It is, therefore, a shame in my opinion that this content is present the way it is on my iPhone. I have an iPhone 6, which by all accounts is quite large. Despite that, I can tell you that the content is not easy to read, particularly on pages with a single column layout.
It is as though you are being presented with a scanned version of the print edition, which is most likely the case.
I would have liked to see something more device-specific from the intelligent and bright illustrators and designers of this fabulous magazine. It is very hard for me to keep on reading content. I involuntarily get my nose into the phone, which other than making me look silly, is quite harmful to the back and the neck.
Anyway, I hope the editors will see this and do something about it. I am glad that I used the trial period. I most likely will stick to subscribing to the print version, which gives me access to the PDF version of the editions, which basically offers the same amount of content layout as the current application, with the benefit of being able to search the content, copy interesting tidbits for clipping, as well as presenting me with a nice, linked table of contents.
I still love the content and the insight. It is, therefore, a shame in my opinion that this content is present the way it is on my iPhone. I have an iPhone 6, which by all accounts is quite large. Despite that, I can tell you that the content is not easy to read, particularly on pages with a single column layout.
It is as though you are being presented with a scanned version of the print edition, which is most likely the case.
I would have liked to see something more device-specific from the intelligent and bright illustrators and designers of this fabulous magazine. It is very hard for me to keep on reading content. I involuntarily get my nose into the phone, which other than making me look silly, is quite harmful to the back and the neck.
Anyway, I hope the editors will see this and do something about it. I am glad that I used the trial period. I most likely will stick to subscribing to the print version, which gives me access to the PDF version of the editions, which basically offers the same amount of content layout as the current application, with the benefit of being able to search the content, copy interesting tidbits for clipping, as well as presenting me with a nice, linked table of contents.
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Great magazine, great App
Reading Prospect every month makes you stop and reflect. Reading it on the iPad is a pleasure.
The only small thing to improve is to enable it to be read in landscape and not only portrait mode.
The only small thing to improve is to enable it to be read in landscape and not only portrait mode.
Easy to access the great prospect content.
Clean and easy to use. Prefer over the actual magazine. Would be nice to have some feature to favorite articles or flag a specific point in an article.
Subscriber
Absolutely outstanding group of contributors over the past several years I have subscribed - David Goodhart was a great creator and sure the new editor is also fine but perhaps a little to right wing for me which seems to be quite general in the UK / US with a certain group of well educated women !!!
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App needs work
Prospect is a great magazine, but the app needs work. When open on the iPad2, it is impossible to enlarge the font size. The text is so small as to be uncomfortable to read.
