The New Criterion User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience43.8% of reviews
Neutral6.3% of reviews
Negative experience50.0% of reviews

~ Based on 16 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is The New Criterion Safe?

The New Criterion appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The New Criterion is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 354 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

94.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 354 App Store ratings for The New Criterion.

Is The New Criterion Legit?

The New Criterion appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The New Criterion is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Difficult to use app

Hard after many at

Great magazine, one big flaw

The flaw is that you can’t alter the font size. So on anything smaller than a regular iPad, it’s hard to read.

Great information

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The worst app ever

This app is unintuitive and impossible to navigate.

The UX is unforgivable

Terrible player (on a phone).
I have the paper copy also, but this comment pertains to the digital pdf.

Terrible subscriber interface

I subscribed to the magazine on 7/14. After struggling with the interface I was finally able to get trigger a message that I should wait to log on until 8/4, that my subscription had not started. Yet another legacy publication that fails to transition to the internet effectively.

Poor App Design

The app says my login information is incorrect when I know I have entered my credentials correctly. Therefore it is unusable

Great publication, terrible mobile app

This mobile app is basically a low-powered PDF viewer. It is very hard to use. It would be simpler to print the articles on paper and read them there. The text does not paginate or adjust to the device size. There is no find way to bookmark pages. There is no dark mode. There is no integration with Apple News.
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Wonderful magazine, horrifically awful app.

Great articles, but the app, which simply presents pdf-like copies of the issues, lags on my iphone x and, astoundingly, doesn’t save your spot in an issue, which is ridiculous.

Unable to Download Owned Issues

Have subscribed for a few years, but unable to download to my device any issues prior to 2019. Contacted The New Criterion and was told that if I had subscribed via the app there was nothing they could do. Contacted app developers and they didn’t even bother replying. Absolutely unacceptable. Apple should not allow this type of rogue trading.
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Worst Magazine App Ever

The magazine is unreadable on the app. There is no contents page and one has to scroll through the entire issue to find anything. Pages are two column scans of the magazine’s paper format and do not fit to the page. Navigation and resizing pages to make the readable is a nightmare. Don’t brother.

UPDATE! Working fine!

It took time and several emails but the app is working good and the content of the magazine is amazing.
Thank you so much!

Great publication

Enjoying the app. Very user friendly.

peerless

The cultural corollary, writ small: swift, outgunned RAF arrays itself against the Luftwaffe purveyors of popular pedantry. Churchill's valediction applies. More souls should take up this inky chalice and drink. The RAF would become Bomber Command...

I would consider subscribing...

But I don't really know what the magazine is about, and the preview of the magazine is a joke. Hint to the publishers: it's better to provide an article or two, or even part of an article, than to make your previews unreadable thumbnails of the pages of the magazine. That preview style may work for fashion magazines, but it most certainly doesn't work when the contents of your magazine are 100% text.

Obviously, this magazine is written by intelligent people, who sadly have no understanding of marketing.

Provide a better preview, and if I ever revisit the magazine, I might give a better rating.
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Good presentation for a stellar magazine

The New Criterion is the best English language journal of the arts, politics and culture today, with a strong focus on poetry, book reviews and criticism. This app is a good way to read the magazine, which can be hard to find in bookstores.