OK but out of date and not well implemented
This app is fine; it allows reading textbooks. But it’s clunky and feels out of date. The windowing is not really compatible with iPadOS 26, not filling the screen and resizing itself awkwardly. Scrolling between pages is awkward. When I leave the app it forgets which page I was on, so I have to find the page again. All in all disappointing.
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Response from developer
Thank you for the review. We are sorry to hear that you are not happy with the experience you have been getting from the Cambridge Spiral application. Please us the "Contact Us" button on the application itself to discuss your issue with one of our support agents.
Worse than Nothing
As others notice, this proprietary app has no purpose other than frustrating any attempt to use it. Bad on a laptop, worse on an iPad. We recommend using you own PDF screenshots, which won’t need a 5 second delay to load per page. Making notes is a multi step process nobody wants. Cambridge seems to underestimate the capabilities of every user to bypass its authoritarian corporate barriers. Here’s an example of a corporation doing something sleazy to save a penny and ruin its entire lineup of products. Authors beware of publishing with Cambridge.
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Please let me use a proper e-reader instead
Make no mistake, this app exists not to satisfy user needs but so your access to textbooks can be managed (and withdrawn after you leave education). Which would be disappointing even were the app of good quality. It is not. It is dismal. No dark mode, not even the most rudimentary controls over reading - font, line spacing, alignment. Really feels phoned in. A bare minimum. The experience is so much worse than either Books or Kindle - neither of which, frankly, sets a high bar - it is shamerful.
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Useless
Cambridge is meant to be home of the smartest people in this country and they cant even make an app that works properly 🤬
frustrating to use
When I click to borrow a title, it redirects me to the App Store to download the app instead of taking me to the app itself which is already installed on my phone. So then I click open and it opens the app but just gets stuck on a page saying “Redirecting”.
