Factiva User Reviews

Factiva
Factiva
Dow Jones & Company, Inc., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

Customer Experience

Positive experience23.1% of reviews
Neutral7.7% of reviews
Negative experience69.2% of reviews

~ Based on 26 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Factiva Safe?

Factiva appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Factiva is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 1,612 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,612 App Store ratings for Factiva.

Is Factiva Legit?

Factiva is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Factiva 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

App want open

What’s going on with this app? It will not open. I’ve reinstalled multiple times to no avail. Terrible performance.

Full of errors no content

Works once in every 50 times I try.

Constantly forgets login info

App constantly forgets login info, requiring a request for login email. Super basic issue.

Constantly signs out

Still terrible. App constantly (every few weeks) signs out, doesn’t rememberer your login, and you have to request an email to sign back in.

Constantly signs out

The app constantly forgets your login information (every few weeks), requiring you to request an email link to login back in. Super annoying.

Won’t work

Continuous errors trying to load stiories over the past three days.

Constantly signs out

This app is still terrible - it constantly signs out (every few weeks), and you have to go through a re-registration process to sign back in.

Terrible functionality

This app continues to be terrible. The main offense is that it constantly logs out of my account for no reason, requiring me to request a new login link. This happens every few days.

Bugs

News is amazing. Please fix this so that I don’t get the “Try Again” bug that requires me to uninstall and install the app every couple of weeks. It’s incredible that this has been going on for years!

Easy except finding articles

When I search for an article by title (eg someone emailed me a link) I often have a hard time finding it.

Very buggy / constantly signs out

This app is very buggy. It constantly signs me out of my account (every week or two), which requires that I re-do the entire registration process.

Errors

Keep getting error on just simple search of newsstand.

Great service but missing dark mode!

Use the app a lot on commutes or when on the go. Dark mode would be much easier on the eyes than the plain white background. Better for battery life as well.

Please develop dark mode

Love the breadth of the news sources and powerful alert system. Would really appreciate a dark mode given the amount of reading I do on the app!

Thanks

Terrible log in, layout…

Log-in has never been seamless, the app keeps “forgetting” me

Functionality and user friendliness leave much to be desired

DJNR has it all!

My only beef is why assign so many subject headings to each article. Loses its utility.

Poor service

Search is very poor. I set up my daily search to receive email. The search is on fiscal risks of countries and receive news about obscure companies, even though I specifically selected the topic “sovereign” only. News sources are also suboptimal with most from local newspapers of little value. News is text only. This does not help when charts would help understanding or provide valuable data. Search is performed on news published the day before as if newspapers and journal would not publish continuously on line.
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Full issue

I would prefer to see the whole paper not excerpts decided by you!

Just Awful

It takes multiple screen taps just to open up the Settings page, and even at that, I have to tap slightly off the ‘Settings’ icon just to get it to work, after tapping repeatedly. And I have a brand new iPhone, so it’s not my screen.

The login functionality via my company subscription is just terrible. Seems I have to request a link each and every time I want to log in, but each link is only good once for 8 hours. So if I log out of the app (staying logged in doesn’t seem very secure), I literally have to wait another day to log in.

All very frustrating. I would expect better from Dow Jones.
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Connection problems

The app keep tell me that it is having access problem even though my internet connection is done.