# New Horizons: a NASA Voyage to Pluto — user reviews > 41 indexed App Store user reviews of New Horizons by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, rated 3.70/5 from 7 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/new-horizons-a-nasa-voyage-to-pluto/id473217882/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/new-horizons-a-nasa-voyage-to-pluto/id473217882.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (15 of 41) ### 4/5 — New Horizons *2015-08-02, version 1.2.5* The app works great. Folks need to be patient as science takes time. The imagery is clear and things are organized nicely. ### 4/5 — Great app, judge for your self *2015-07-20, version 1.2.5* I'm a programmer by trade. Here's the deal, people are quick to complain and demand that all the crap they have running on their phones should work with everything else all the time. This app draws on other servers (they can't control) plus they do not have the resources to program safeguards against poor programming of other apps. If you have Angry Birds, TV Guide and FXX Now all loaded you're lucky anything works. Bottom line, this is not a commercial app. You might need to meet it half way. Get this app, it's fun, but do as I do: before loading, first shut down all other apps (remove from memory) and reboot your device. If you have problems, consider an operating system update. Be sure you have a solid wifi connection while using. I noticed that the app does not recover well from choking while accessing outside servers (like YouTube, etc.). Try to only use this app when using to a reliable Internet connection. I've had zero problems and lots of fun. ### 4/5 — I expected more *2015-07-19, version 1.2.5* The app as been crashing for the past 3 days I will reinstall but it defiantly needs a complete overall I expected more out of this app from JHU-APL ### 4/5 — Dude *2015-07-16, version 1.2.5* Great app. It is organized well. It has videos, pictures and artists renditions. I am looking forward to getting news updates. ### 3/5 — NASA is plagued by terrible graphic design *2015-07-15, version 1.2.5* Keep the engineers away from the UI/UX! ### 4/5 — Great updates! *2015-07-13, version 1.2.5* It had a few crashes but was able to fix it by reinstalling it. Thanks for the app, Pluto is very exciting! ### 2/5 — No landscape support for videos! *2015-07-02, version 1.2.5* ^^^ ### 1/5 — Broken *2015-07-02, version 1.2.5* This App has not worked since the last iOS upgrade. Serious disappointment, I was looking forward to the encounter now I hope CNN will show some pix before Christmas. A new download and new crashes. Closest encounter 7/11 and another disappointment. ### 2/5 — Disappointing *2015-06-16, version 1.2.5* For an app put together by a tech group, this is shoddy. It regularly crashed prior to the last update. Now it seems more stable but articles can only be viewed in portrait orientation, but are framed up too wide to fit, requiring much jiggling of them from side to side while working down the page. The info I was hoping would be front and centre, such as a countdown clock seems to be far too hidden - it should be front page, or at least top of menu. Where it is now, off the bottom of my screen, it may as well be nonexistent. It's an underwhelming app in the context of a massive scientific achievement such as New Horizons. I hope I will find something better elsewhere. ### 1/5 — crashes *2015-06-13, version 1.2.5* 13 June 15 update, now crashes, will not open ### 4/5 — Good way to stay abreast of news *2015-05-28, version 1.2.4* Great if you can't get enough from the news, has science imagery I don't easily find elsewhere. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2015-04-28, version 1.2.4* The app needs a fix as it will not open. ### 4/5 — Good for information *2015-03-14, version 1.2.3* This app is great for keeping track of new horizons. I like how you can see all the events that happen with it. ### 2/5 — Fix *2015-01-04, version 1.2.2* App keeps shutting down when I go to the countdown section ### 1/5 — Loved it till this week *2015-01-03, version 1.2.2* Latest rev was working until a week ago. Now selecting "Countdown" shuts off the app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes immediately on iOS 12.4 on iPad *2019-08-10, version 1.3.1* Too bad. Hopefully JPL will update, retest, and release. ### 1/5 — Crashes on launch *2019-01-02, version 1.3.1* New iPad gen 6, with iOS 12.1.1 Could be the new iOS? ### 1/5 — Fix this app asap or fire the jerk who messed it up at Hopkins *2016-01-17, version 1.2.5* This app is almost a brain dead creation by you jerks who can't even program an iPad app to work I am amazed we even got to Pluto with this kind of crap software..app fails to update and it fails to open when reinstalled so now there is nothing you morons...yes morons I am a Ph.D. From Berkeley and you should be publicly reprimanded for this ### 1/5 — Low-res images :( *2015-07-25, version 1.2.5* You need to include @2x and @3x images. I went to look at the pictures but they were too low-real to read the text in the image. ### 1/5 — Too SLOW .... *2015-07-22, version 1.2.5* This app is a nightmare to use and wait on. Images take minutes to load, sometimes don't load at all or it crashes out.....I'm in Australia on the NBN so my link is fast enough. I imagine there is no cache server locally for content. Seems anybody can put an app together but the difference lies in the usage of the app. Hope the software on the space craft wasn't written by the same blokes!! Maybe it's written so people don't take an interest, I know this App has deadened my interest........ ### 1/5 — Disappointment *2015-07-17, version 1.2.5* Yep, completely worthless - if New Horizon had been built by whoever built this ”app" it would have crashed long b4 it reached Pluto… ### 1/5 — Never opens on my iPad Air *2015-07-15, version 1.2.5* When I try to open the app, it shows the first screen and then crashes. ### 1/5 — videos don't play *2015-07-14, version 1.2.5* I've used the app for two days on my iPad Air running iOS 8.4, but the videos don't play. On the other hand, a huge Congratulations to the New Horizons team on reaching Pluto!! The July 13 photo is really spectacular and of course historic. ### 1/5 — Another great idea poorly executed *2015-07-13, version 1.2.5* AKA "why private industry is rapidly, sadly, making the old NASA / edu complex obsolete." This app can't get its own basic functionality right! example: clicking a front page / news menu item does not reliably take the user to the appropriate article. If I wanted to hunt thru online media for an article manually, I'd use a web browser. Please tell me no part of my tax $ supported this amateur-hour waste of space. ### 1/5 — No point wasting your time! *2015-07-02, version 1.2.5* I have an iPhone 6 and when I installed it everything was fine for a few days but It started to crash. uninstalled and reinstalled still crashes. A while back they had an update for it installed it worked good for a days then started crashing again. With only a week to go there isn't any point of existing time and data to download this thing. On behalf of John Hopkins university, I'm sorry you waisted your time by clicking on this app and for reading these reviews also for the apparent excitement you felt when you saw this app as I did for the first time. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Doesn’t work on iOS 12 *2019-01-05, version 1.3.1* I loved this app. Worked great on the Pluto flyby but didn’t work for the Kiper belt object flyby. ### 5/5 — Please update 2018 *2019-01-01, version 1.3.1* Hi, Wonderful app for those of us who like to follow the mission. Please fix for ios12 Thank you ### 5/5 — Pluto should be a planet! *2015-07-15, version 1.2.5* He's hoping that all this new data sparks the debate again and sees Pluto returned to its glory as a full fledged planet! ### 5/5 — Intriguing! *2015-01-28, version 1.2.3* I like this, I especially love how it follows on every piece of NH news. What a great app which was needed sooner. ### 5/5 — 😊 *2015-01-05, version 1.2.2* Very informative 😊 Can't wait for the up and coming images. ### 5/5 — App *2014-10-22* Right now i have troubles uploading the aplication!!!!!anything wrong? ### 5/5 — Good App *2014-02-10, version 1.1* All you need to know for the first probe to go to Pluto. It will be a milestone next year. ### 5/5 — Pluto *2013-12-16, version 1.1* From this mission we will finally find out if pluto is real or not ### 5/5 — Are we there yet? *2013-09-16, version 1.1* Boy this driving to Pluto thing really bites; sure wish I hitched a ride around a planet or two with New Horizons on its way to Pluto. ### 5/5 — awesome *2013-02-05, version 1.0.1* keeping my fingers crossed for iphone5 support and, most importantly, notification center support. I love it otherwise! thank you NASA! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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