# Salon.com — user reviews > 102 indexed App Store user reviews of Salon.com by Salon Media Group, Inc. Apps, rated 4.52/5 from 1,173 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/saloncom/id549374205/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/saloncom/id549374205.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 875 · 4★ 175 · 3★ 40 · 2★ 25 · 1★ 58 ## What do users think of Salon.com? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Impressive reporting - 👍 Thoughtful, well-written articles - 🤓 Interesting perspectives - 🌐 Reliable news source **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 💻 Unstable and unreliable app performance - 📱 Poor mobile experience - 🤑 Expensive subscription for limited content - 🎨 Unattractive and cluttered UI design **Commonly reported bugs** - Content not loading - Repeated app crashes - Inconsistent behavior across devices - Login issues and account problems **Most requested features** - Offline reading mode - Landscape orientation support - Customizable text size and font - Improved search functionality - Ability to save articles for later ## Newest reviews (15 of 102) ### 1/5 — Blatant Progress disinformation *2022-05-14, version 44.1* Very biased ### 1/5 — Good magazine, junk app *2022-03-09, version 44.1* Salon has good articles, but the app and it’s portrait orientation only are so annoying that I stopped using it and deleted the app, besides, what do I need an app for when I can just go to their web site on Safari. ### 1/5 — Constantly crashes *2021-11-02, version 43.1* Love the writing - unfortunately the app constantly crashes not matter how up to date my OS is it the app is. Frustrating as heck. ### 1/5 — One sided news *2021-05-10, version 43.1* They don’t even try to cover the news. It is very clear where they stand on politics. ### 2/5 — Orientation *2021-01-08* Most iPad covers open so the iPad is in the landscape mode. This app either doesn’t sense that or will not rotate to that. Makes reading difficult with a cover that opens like a book cover in portrait mode ### 1/5 — Great website, awful app *2020-11-07, version 43.1* The app is completely pointless as it gives you a handful of free articles before hitting a paywall, which is ridiculous since all the articles on the website are always free. I deleted the app after a few days and just navigate to the website now. ### 1/5 — Race baiting garbage *2020-04-07, version 33.4* Absolute rubbish news site now calling corona virus racist and it’s once again whites to blame , now blacks who partied when the virus was wrecking havoc , you should be ashamed of yourself , absolute garbage racist reporting ... ### 4/5 — Update works but flawed *2020-01-05, version 20.0* Update: The “Recent” section doesn’t work. Any content accessed from there will be shortened to 1 paragraph ### 2/5 — WTFont!? *2019-03-28, version 12.6* Headline font is illegible and super pretentious. Please replace it. ### 2/5 — Great, but for virtually illegible font/typesetting in the subheads. *2019-02-23, version 12.6* Not cool ### 3/5 — Too much anti Semitic stuff on Salon *2018-11-27, version 12.0* See above ### 1/5 — Missing content *2018-11-08, version 12.0* I paid a subscription, but Salon never accepts my signin, and I can only read the first page of any article. Really annoying. ### 4/5 — Top notch reporting! *2018-10-16, version 12.0* I’ve enjoyed Salon’s coverage for years, and hope to for years to come. ### 1/5 — App needs a visual designer. Bye. *2018-04-13* ///Update to original review: cancelling my trial subscription. Really—there is enough design info and know-how out there to create a good user experience./// Please get a visual designer to create more readable titles in the app. White text on light photos make for about 50% readability when scrolling through articles. I probably won’t continue with a subscription. Other magazine apps are much easier to scan and read. ### 2/5 — What happened? *2018-04-05* The latest makeover squeezes the list of articles into a small stripe down the center of the screen with about 2/3 of the available “red space” left entirely blank. No subtitle or summary of an article is given until you click on it. Browsing for content does not need to be this hard, guys. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No content even for paying subscribers *2025-06-24* This is consistently one of the worst performing apps on my phone. I canceled my sub because all i can read are author bios and I’m paying 120 bucks a year for this. Update: 2 years later and it’s still not fixed. Canceling subscription. Of course there is no support. They don’t respond to mere mortals, I guess ### 1/5 — Shut down *2025-03-24, version 44.1* When reading an article the app arbitrarily shuts down. I have rebooted and found that this doesn’t correct the problem. ### 1/5 — Poorly Functioning App *2024-01-12, version 44.1* The last time this app was updated was 2 YEARS ago. Many complaints about app issues with no response from developers. Subscription is too expensive for this cr@p app. ### 1/5 — App barely works *2024-01-06, version 44.1* It stays on for about 10 seconds then shuts down. ### 1/5 — App does not load *2023-03-19* I’m a subscriber and I am ready to cancel my subscription because the app does not load. I can read Salon on my desktop but I really miss reading it on my phone. Not sure how much longer I can remain a subscriber. I am not sure Salon cares. ### 1/5 — It just straight up doesn't work *2023-03-07, version 44.1* I have a subscription. The App just shows the headline of any given article and some author info when clicked. I've deleted and re-installed it. I've tried when logged out and when logged in. Being able to read articles is kinda the whole point. ### 1/5 — No content even for paying subscribers *2023-02-25, version 44.1* This is consistently one of the worst performing apps on my phone. I canceled my sub because all i can read are author bios and I’m paying 120 bucks a year for this. N ### 1/5 — Content doesn’t load *2023-02-08, version 44.1* The app opens to a white display and stays that way. Content doesn’t load. iPhone 13 IOS 16.3. ### 1/5 — Great News on iPhone *2022-07-14* The iPad app is a piece. I have a subscription, but can’t use it on the iPad. There is no issue using it on the iPhone, but iPad…different story. When attempting to login the app consistently says the login is incorrect, which I know to be false. Terrible. Deserves 0 stars on iPad. ### 1/5 — Keep cutting off *2022-07-06, version 44.1* When trying to enter site the app goes off. I just got this app!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Impressive *2019-11-23* Yesterday I Download this App and by far I was really pleased and Learn some new News, Different Things here very impressive App.I couldn’t be pleased with Salon App. I was reading about Trump be re-elected then America could be Fascism, So I gotta go back and finished reading about Fascism. BIG THANKS FOR SALON, ### 5/5 — Great News *2019-11-19* Reliable news, fair opinion articles. ### 5/5 — Just good news *2019-07-01, version 12.6* Not in terms of content - good news is often hard to come by these days. But Salon is good journalism. In virtually every article I read, I learn something. Something that doesn’t bubble up on 24/7/365 sound bites on a flickering screen. ### 5/5 — Glad to see this app is back. *2018-09-02, version 4.1* Access to Andrew O’Hehir alone is worth 5 stars. ### 5/5 — Upgraded experience *2018-03-12* Streamlined layout; very easy to navigate. I’ll be reading Salon on mobile from now on. Love being able to watch Salon Talks conversations and intriguing documentaries in the app, too. ### 5/5 — Good stories *2016-11-21* I've read your articles for quite awhile, recently installed the app. The writers put a good left handed swing on things.. keep up the good work.. we need the pot to be stirred=] Only drawback is that news isn't always fresh and some grammatical errors.. may make it seem not as believable at times : / ### 5/5 — Great with a little ouch *2016-08-12, version 3.2.1* I love reading Salon! Your articles tend to reflect my sympathies. My only concern is grammatical errors of which I've come across several of late. Newspapers have these errors all the time, the Atlantic does not. I hope that your publication would strive towards that standard and save me the pains of digesting fast journalism. ### 5/5 — Love *2016-07-05, version 3.2.1* Great way to get a selection of the news of the day. ### 5/5 — Nice app *2016-06-25* Excellent writing. Enjoy the stories. Salon has been my raft in a sea of poor journalism. Only problem is with short pieces that end with a video. There's no link to click. iPhone 5 ### 5/5 — Great app *2016-06-03, version 3.2* Bazinga! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*