Curio User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience43.6% of reviews
Neutral9.7% of reviews
Negative experience46.7% of reviews

~ Based on 227 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Curio Safe?

Curio - Trusted News Companion appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Curio is 80/100.

This assessment is based on 643 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.

Safety Analysis

72.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
22.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 643 App Store ratings for Curio.

Is Curio Legit?

Curio - Trusted News Companion is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Curio is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Simply not working

Can’t even signup. Ask to join waitlist at gibran.ai.

They’re closed, this should be taken down.

Curio doesn’t work, take it down.

Doesn’t Work

Once you download this the app literally doesn’t work. Aren’t developers paying Apple a monthly fee to keep this running? They gotta save money and shut the app down as this app hasn’t functioned for YEARS now according to Reddit.

Is this typical AI Performance

The bots don’t even answer my questions. All I get are headlines from a month ago. I ask for customer support. There is none. Curio seems to have committed suicide.

Still no life. It’s dead.

I hate it now!

Update: it doesn’t even open now. It’s stuck. Tried to delete and download again. Such a shame. I’ll not renew my subscription ofc!

I used to love this app. The idea and the interface and the human voices telling me news and interesting facts, story telling. Now it’s a cold ugly interface, where AI asks something, and is read by a cold voice which is probably AI too. I hate it so much, I would want a refund. But probably AI is the only one that reads this too.
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Terrible service

I have been being charged for the app with no access via the app. This is terrible service. Now you have to join a waitlist. You can get news other ways.

What happened to Curio

Curio used to be a brilliant app of curated, narrated news articles. Now it no longer works on IPad. Just a red floating dot. No way of communicating with the developers or obvious means of obtaining a subscription refund. The reviews here are clearly be answered by AI. Do not subscribe.

Why did you ruin this?

I used to love listening to the intelligent hosts, the well curated and trusted information, now it’s useless. Why did you ruin such a good product? It’s not like it was free…

Just an angry red ball

This was a great app, but now it’s literally just an angry, pulsing red ball. No content, no buttons, just existential angst.

This app doesn’t load

Title says it all. I’m giving it a 1 star.

App doesn’t start

Stuck at the white screen with orange circle

Lag?

The app only shows the red dot pulsing and it says hello I’m curio, but nothing happens past that. It just pulses and it never changes to the home page

Lost Hope

It’s unfortunate that this was my number 1 app of interest since 2023.. I had the best use of it and recommended to everyone I knew.. the moment it tuned to AI it stopped working and there are no more options to receive the latest on your interests or download your favorites for when your flying. I live in Saudi Arabia and the is was App really was the best I’ve had in years until this unfortunate issues started rising. Now am paying on monthly basis and it’s not longer working all together.
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Broken

App just shows a red dot "hello I'm curio" and doesn't progress past that point. Seems very broken.

Steer clear

New version is AI powered. Not everything with AI is better for users. Definitely not this. Miss the original.

No customer support

My app has been stuck on outdated news for a month, and there is no customer support to resolve the issue (have submitted multiple times through the app).

Used to love this app; now it's unusable

We don't all want to be quizzed by a bot. I just wanted great journalism, well curated, read beautifully.
Now the app is dead. Pointless. Soulless. Just wish I could get my subscription back for this year.

Is this typical AI Performance

The bots don’t even answer my questions. All I get are headlines from a month ago. I ask for customer support. There is none. Curio seems to have committed suicide.

Unresponsive

Looks nice and all. But tapping things does nothing. I also don’t like how it’s trying to feel like a social media app. Just give me news.

Clunky

Roll back to traditional discovery UI/UX and chat for those with too much time on their hand…no one has time to chat to listen to content. I chat to get succinct answers…you’ve strayed; now don’t stray till you’ve lost all your customers. Already cancelled…I’m asking you to win me back!