# The BMJ — user reviews > 63 indexed App Store user reviews of The BMJ by BMJ Group, rated 4.20/5 from 13 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-bmj/id1395295755/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-bmj/id1395295755.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## What do users think of The BMJ? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Easy to navigate - 👍 Easy access to BMJ - 👍 Reliable app - 👍 Indispensable source of information - 👍 Given up paper version - 👍 Can copy figures and tables - 👍 Good overall - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Access to all back issues - 👍 Well adapted for smartphone/tablet - 👍 Up to the minute, informative - 👍 Always something of interest - 👍 Rapidly accessible - 👍 Time saving information - 👍 Convenient access - 👍 Stopped paper subscription - 👍 Extremely informative - 👍 Works well - 👍 Really good - 👍 Saves on paper - 👍 Great way of reading BMJ - 👍 Medical independence - 👍 Integrity in journalism - 👍 Reduced medical bias - 👍 Pushing back on censorship - 👍 Well thought out - 👍 Links open in app - 👍 Excellent app - 👍 Brilliant app - 👍 Well designed app - 👍 Easy to read on the move - 👍 Handy little app - 👍 Great app - 👍 Essential medical journal - 👍 Great app, could not do without it - 👍 Good user interfaces - 👍 Very easy to use - 👍 Works well and easy to access - 👍 Entire issues download quickly - 👍 Very good app, very useful - 👍 Much improved - 👍 Easily readable format - 👍 Essential - 👍 Good App - 👍 Download fast enough - 👍 Good user interfaces - 👍 Excellent BMJ app - 👍 Very easy to use - 👍 Works well - 👍 Easy to access in a timely way - 👍 All relevant areas present - 👍 Get updates before paper edition - 👍 Works fine - 👍 Offline viewing - 👍 Get rid of paper piles - 👍 Very good app - 👍 Very useful - 👍 Huge improvement - 👍 Navigation easy - 👍 Search works well - 👍 Can change font size - 👍 Links work **Cons** - 🐛 Not unbiased on strikes - 🐛 Not as comprehensive as previously - 🐛 Only 1 BMJ per month - 🐛 Printed on cheap paper - 🐛 Awful navigation - 🐛 No navigation buttons - 🐛 Won’t open on iPhone - 🐛 Takes a while to pick up new publications - 🐛 Often doesn’t allow access to most recent edition - 🐛 App always asks to restore purchase - 🐛 Account does not exist - 🐛 Poor updating of editions - 🐛 Does not come up quickly - 🐛 Poor access - 🐛 Often doesn’t work - 🐛 Not up to date - 🐛 Needs a whole overhaul - 🐛 Can’t link to previous articles - 🐛 Subscription payment too high - 🐛 Very poor app - 🐛 Slow - 🐛 Badly designed - 🐛 Appalling layout - 🐛 Links open in app instead of browser - 🐛 No browser functionality - 🐛 Can’t get back to menu - 🐛 No way back to contents page - 🐛 Only way out is to force quit - 🐛 Freezes after one article - 🐛 No obvious back button - 🐛 Can’t access app despite paying - 🐛 Content seems limited - 🐛 Rotation bug - 🐛 Requires quitting app every time - 🐛 Very skimmed down - 🐛 Comes late - 🐛 Not working with BMA sign in - 🐛 Uninstalling to get updates - 🐛 New BMJs do not download - 🐛 Journals not added promptly - 🐛 Slow to update issues - 🐛 Never seems to update well - 🐛 Not working at all since updated - 🐛 User unfriendly now - 🐛 Unable to download new issue - 🐛 Get into older ones - 🐛 Slightly disappointing - 🐛 Not user friendly - 🐛 A little slow - 🐛 Mainly words, duller - 🐛 Harder to read - 🐛 Archives only up to 2017 - 🐛 Not enough archive - 🐛 Downloading system hit and miss - 🐛 Designed by a toddler - 🐛 Syncing issues - 🐛 No longer receiving new issues - 🐛 Screen goes white repeatedly - 🐛 Loses place - 🐛 Resets to top of article - 🐛 Incompatible with Safari - 🐛 No direct way of opening articles in any browser - 🐛 Can’t go back to the old app **Commonly reported bugs** - App won’t open on iPhone - App always asks to restore purchase - Account does not exist - Often doesn’t allow access to most recent edition - Poor updating of editions - Does not come up quickly - Poor access - Often doesn’t work - Not up to date - Can’t link to previous articles - Links open in app instead of browser - Can’t get back to menu - No way back to contents page - Only way out is to force quit - Freezes after one article - No obvious back button - Can’t access app despite paying - Links open in app instead of browser - No browser functionality - Rotation bug - Requires quitting app every time - Not working with BMA sign in - New BMJs do not download - Journals not added promptly - Slow to update issues - Never seems to update well - Not working at all since updated - User unfriendly now - Unable to download new issue - Get into older ones - Downloading system hit and miss - Syncing issues - No longer receiving new issues - Screen goes white repeatedly - Loses place - Resets to top of article - Incompatible with Safari - No direct way of opening articles in any browser **Most requested features** - Copy figures and tables to more apps directly - Copy figures and tables to more apps directly eg Twitter lectures etc - Would be nice to be able to export text/tables/flow charts with a click - Would like a bit less subscription payment - Please see title! (Dark mode) - Please fix rotation bug - Could integrate with BMJ learning - Get with the times - If developers could fix this it would certainly be a 5 star app - If they add a direct share button I'll give it 5 ✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️ ## Newest reviews (15 of 63) ### 4/5 — Easy to navigate *2025-02-02* I read the bmj through app but also in print for Minerva and obituaries, to editorials, systematically from last pages to first. Old habits die hard! ### 3/5 — BMJ *2024-11-11, version 1.3.7* Not unbiased on strikes and their effect. Also not as comprehensive as previously. Why no BMJ for 2 weeks. Seems a regular occurrence to only have 1 BMJ per month and now printed on cheap paper. This weeks edition also not available 5/10/24 ### 2/5 — Awful navigation! *2024-09-14* Please redesign this so it works consistently - the view depends on where you are, and there are no navigation buttons Update. Now won’t open on iPhone! ### 4/5 — Good *2024-08-25* Good overall. Takes a while to pick up new BMJ publications of the week ### 3/5 — BMJ APP *2024-08-07, version 1.3.7* Often doesn’t allow access to most recent edition ### 4/5 — Easy to navigate *2024-03-04* Read bmj through app but also in print for Minerva and obituaries, to editorials, systematically from last pages to first. Old habits die hard! ### 5/5 — Really good !! *2022-10-28* Would like a bit less subscription payment, otherwise journal and app is perfect. ### 5/5 — BMJ App *2022-08-09, version 1.3.2* Once you get the hang of it, it’s pretty easy to use. Certainly saves on vast amounts of paper. ### 5/5 — Doctor *2022-07-09* Great way of reading BMJ when and where ever you have time. Thank you ### 5/5 — Medical independence - great work *2022-02-11* It’s great to see some real integrity in journalism. This has stood the test of time, we should be proud to have such a institution standing for reduced medical bias. And also fighting for integrity of data and pushing back on censorship and cancel culture. ### 4/5 — Everything’s perfect except.... *2021-12-08* I love the BMJ app and use it almost every day. It’s well thought out and works great except for one inexplicable flaw: the links open in the app instead of opening my browser. They take forever to load, and when they do there’s no browser functionality, so when I click a PMID, for example, I can’t start a merry chain of citation exploration without switching to my browser and relocating the article so that have the capacity to navigate, webclip, and use all a browser’s normal accoutrements. Apart from this one weird defect, it’s perfect. ### 5/5 — BMJ app *2021-08-28, version 1.3.1* Excellent app ### 2/5 — Can’t get back to menu *2021-08-05* There appears to be no way to get back to contents page or main menu once you have opened an article without scrolling back past every preceding article ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2021-06-23* Well designed app that make reading journals much easier ### 5/5 — Easy access to BMJ. *2021-06-07* Nothing to recycle and always available, if like me, your phone is the university library in your pocket. The app has become reliable since it first appeared. As I got older it was the obituaries I read first until the pandemic. (In my 20s and 30s it was job adverts in the old print version!) The app doesn’t offer a full range of obituaries seemingly. Throughout the pandemic BMJ has been an indispensable source of information often written by people I already trusted. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App never works *2024-03-02, version 1.3.7* App always asks to restore purchase and when I emailed them about it they said my account does not exist ### 1/5 — Poor updating of editions *2023-12-19, version 1.3.7* When I ask for the latest edition, it does not come up quickly. ### 1/5 — Poor Access *2023-11-29, version 1.3.7* Often doesn’t work and not up to date. Needs a whole overhaul. ### 1/5 — Can’t link to previous articles *2023-10-30, version 1.3.7* Can’t link to previous articles ### 1/5 — BMJ app is awful *2022-01-16, version 1.3.1* Very poor app. Slow and undoubtedly the most badly designed journal with an appalling layout. ### 1/5 — Only able to read one article then it freezes *2021-04-10* App otherwise looks slick, front contents page takes you through to an article. But then there is no way back. Only way out seems to be to force quit the app and start all over again - for each article! ### 1/5 — The BMJ *2020-12-17* I can’t access app despite paying a pretty penny for 2 months ### 1/5 — very skimmed down and it comes late. *2020-04-23, version 1.2.1* and i pay for it though they make a fortune from advertising ### 1/5 — Not working with BMA sign in *2020-02-05, version 1.2.1* Not currently working with BMA sign in - please fix! ### 1/5 — New bmjs do not download *2019-08-25, version 1.2.1* This is the opposite of an update. Please fix asap. Very annoying ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Easy access to BMJ. *2024-12-07* Nothing to recycle and always available, if like me, your phone is the university library in your pocket. The app has become reliable since it first appeared. As I got older it was the obituaries I read first until the pandemic. (In my 20s and 30s it was job adverts in the old print version!) The app doesn’t offer a full range of obituaries seemingly. Throughout the pandemic BMJ has been an indispensable source of information often written by people I already trusted. ### 5/5 — theBMJ *2024-11-19* Now given up the paper version since earlier bugs have been fixed Would like to be able to copy figures and tables to more apps directly eg Twitter lectures etc ### 5/5 — BMJ App *2024-05-06* So easy to receive the the BMJ via its app on my iPhone. The app is easy to use and has access to all back issues. The current issue chapters are nestled upon one another with the headlines in a drop down menu to access the full paper. You can also stroll across horizontally to receive all papers in the edition. Easy design is well adapted for smart phone or tablet. ### 5/5 — Up to the minute, informative, all encompassing *2024-04-14* Always something of interest, every week ### 5/5 — BMJ *2024-04-06* Easily and rapidly accessible. Time saving information. ### 5/5 — Convenient *2023-12-13* Stopped my paper subscription to save mother earth. I can access the articles anytime so makes it convenient. ### 5/5 — Excellent app *2023-07-28, version 1.3.7* Extremely informative ### 5/5 — theBMJ *2023-07-28* Now given up the paper version since earlier bugs have been fixed Would like to be able to copy figures and tables to more apps directly eg Twitter lectures etc ### 5/5 — It works *2022-12-09* Works well. Would be nice to be able to export text/tables/flow charts with a click ### 5/5 — BMJ *2022-10-29, version 1.3.2* Excellent --- *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 2026-09-01.*