Frustrating - needs update
I love Granta magazine but this app is desperately in need of an update. I’m constantly asked to sign back into my account and there’s occasions where I can’t access the library at all. Easier just to access through browser.
Why bother having an app?
Unable to restore subscription, even after redownloading the app. The weekly feature has not refreshed since the week I purchased my subscription almost a year ago.
Always logging in
Nice to look at and use. But you have to log in almost every time. Total pain. Defeats the purpose of the app. Simpler to just keep the book near, but reduces my time reading Granta as a result. Shameful product.
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just cant use the app. it say that I need to have a connection with the internet but Im already connected and never launch
I can’t read a thing
I have the app for the past year and a half and I have a paid subscription. Suddenly the app has stopped working. I can’t read a thing. It’s a blank screen every time I tap on an article. Please help. Before this it was working wonderfully.
Granta Magazine is great, the app is not
That’s it really - barely works. Click on weekly multiple times to find nothing happens. Occasionally an issue cover appears below the line then disappears. Broken app.
Granta, this is pathetic
Add basic functions: Ability to adjust text size. Dark mode. Pagination options. A share link that actually links to the article, not just the granta.com home page. Looks like you spent a lot of money on your overly busy menu page. Hire a programmer instead of an undergrad design student.
Log in prompts
I wish they would update the app to fix the issue of it requesting my log in details every few days. It really lets down the whole digital subscription, which we do pay for after all.
Garbage
It is amazing that a good publication - in terms of content - has such an awful presence in the Apple store. I am not sure if the Granta management is either digital illiterate or simply indolent. At any case, they don’t spend too much time thinking about their readers.
Knackered
The app works, crudely. It looks okay. But needs some serious effort, and most of all, configurability. Font size, light/dark mode, at a minimum. It feels like a hack job, and probably it’s been orphaned and no one at Granta either uses it or cares at all.
Frustrating
Great content — grading on the app. (1) I have to sign in every day; just makes reading it a pain. (2) No landscape support — in 2024? Really?
Such a shame , there’s great writing here but it’s not accessible
Great content but terrible,terrible app , always in portrait mode , not in a epub format and no dark mode, please ,please update!!
Apps can be beautiful and functional. Granta please do better
The Granta app not only doesn’t honor screen rotation but it also doesn’t consider the functional expectations of mobile readers. The menu navigation isn’t clear. The moving images seem to be for show. Finding where you want to navigate so annoying I mostly want my money returned for the digital subscription.
I don’t want to work to read. I want to read the excellent stories Granta is known for.
I don’t want to work to read. I want to read the excellent stories Granta is known for.
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Poor
Really poor app. There's a weird division between "the weekly" and "the library" that makes no sense when opening the app, it then takes several clicks to get to the current issue, then keeps signing me out, so every time I open it, or sometimes when I want to look at another issue, I have to keep signing back in; you can't adjust font size so it's hard to read on a standard iPhone and it really needs a night mode.
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Good magazine but app is unusable
Terrible app. Sacrifices all usability for looks. Finding articles feels like walking through a maze. Scrolling slightly off center sends you to another article and resets the scroll. Feels like a beta version, for an app that should do one thing: display text.
Great content, terrible app
Granta is a wonderful literary magazine but its disgraceful app does the content a disservice. If a magazine offers digital only subscription they should have a properly functioning app and Granta does not.
The app does not honor screen rotation so you are perpetually stuck in portrait mode, not a good thing for a tablet. The images are pixelated and photo features lump all the photographs together in an unscrollable conglomeration. Worst of all, it does not remember reading position and one cannot bookmark one’s location within an article; it’s only possible to bookmark a whole article, which is pointless since one has a table of contents for locating articles.
A glance at the reviews here show that this app has been problematic for years yet remains unfixed. It can’t be that expensive for Granta to put to work a decent coder or two and fix the app.
The app does not honor screen rotation so you are perpetually stuck in portrait mode, not a good thing for a tablet. The images are pixelated and photo features lump all the photographs together in an unscrollable conglomeration. Worst of all, it does not remember reading position and one cannot bookmark one’s location within an article; it’s only possible to bookmark a whole article, which is pointless since one has a table of contents for locating articles.
A glance at the reviews here show that this app has been problematic for years yet remains unfixed. It can’t be that expensive for Granta to put to work a decent coder or two and fix the app.
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Really unfriendly
The app always logs you out between reading sessions and the app programmers have gone to unbelievable lengths to hide the login function.
Frustrating
Stupid app will not remember my sign in info for more than a few hours and the last lines of most articles are cut off. What a disappointment.
It’s not hard
Agree with other reviews. Horrible app and no service
Ridiculously unusable
Who wrote this? Un-navigable, unusable. Dreadful.
