Doesn’t work for daily news
I have been a Skimmr for many years and now I may be jumping ship. The app straight up does not work to read the daily Skimm which is the main point of the entire brand. You can read yesterday’s, only the next day. It’s been like this for some time with no mention of working on this or anything. It’s honestly bizarre. But the entire point of this brand was to keep you in the know every morning— so forcing me to read things a day later is completely bonkers. Sad, I really loved the Skimm when it worked.
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Extremely slow loading
Really disappointed in the app lately. I am unable to load the daily news no matter what I try. If I look at the previous news, it only shows August 3 as the most recent previous news. I will be unsubscribing.
Nothing works
I would love to be able to use this app, but I can’t. I wanted this to help clean up my email inbox from all of The Skimm newsletters I get and read them all in one place. But the app doesn’t work. The Daily Skimm doesn’t open, it’s just a blank screen, and the past issues link opens to mid-July issues (it’s now mid-August). I just signed up for a paid monthly subscription thinking maybe I needed to upgrade to get access (even though I know it’s worked before just fine) but maybe I missed something and I really do enjoy reading the Daily Skimm and the other newsletters so I figured why not. But no. Nothing works. The Top Stories link doesn’t load anything either. It just spins. Also, and this has been a gripe for a while, why do the Skimm stories link to a browser version? I understand linking to outside stories but ones written by The Skimm, why can’t they be integrated into the app so that you’re not loading a screen on top of another screen? Seems like it defeats the purpose of having an app if I could go straight to the website to see the same thing. Not as convenient but at least that site works. I’m sad. It seems like there’s no desire for developers to keep this app updated or make it a more seamless experience. Canceling the subscription I just paid for and I’ll just go back to reading the newsletters in my email.
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Glitch
This is not the first time the app has glitched so that nothing loads—just a blank screen. I absolutely LOVE theSkimm when it’s working.
Disappointing app experience
I’ve been really frustrated with the app lately. The daily newsletters tend to load really slowly making you think there’s a glitch. But now, they aren’t loading at all. I resorted to reading the news a day late by clicking “past skimms” but now even the older ones aren’t loading. I am a subscriber. The app is up to date. Why can’t I read the daily news? So frustrating.
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Never works
This app never works when I need it to. I always get a message that it is prior to 6:20am ET, even when it’s noon. Then unable to access newsletters, which is the only reason I use the app.
Unusable
No matter the time of day it just says “oops. You’re up earlier than we are. Alarms set for 6:20 ET. Try again in a few minutes.” I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and nothing fixed it.
“Sports calendar” = NWSL calendar
Written in 2026: I started my Skimm subscription in 2016. I like the Skimm, I like what they provide, but I especially loved their calendar feature. I really enjoyed syncing my calendar with big events that are happening, movie releases, or other random things the Skimm added. One of their calendars focused on big things in the sports world. They described it as having events such as the Super Bowl or the start of a league’s season. Then new for 2026, they started including every NWSL game. Not just the start of the season, or the debut game for inaugural teams, but every game every week. It’s exhausting. It floods the calendar with events that do not align with what they advertise. I did not pay for a NWSL calendar. I subscribed because I wanted to hear when things like when the NWSL season started, not when Orlando plays Louisville week 5 of the season. I first brought this to customer service, but it’s clear they did not care. There’s no way to opt out of this; if you want to know when big things are happening in the world of sports, the Skimm will also ensure you know when EVERY SINGLE NWSL game is. It’s too bad that after 10 years, this is what made me cancel my subscription.
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Used to be good
Nothing but bugs. Paid features are not updating anymore. The calendar feature is rarely working or kept up to date. Super disappointed.
Endless bugs
This app malfunctions constantly. Sometimes you can find the daily skimm where it’s supposed to be and other times you can’t. Sometimes you can find it elsewhere sometimes you can’t. Sometimes the home page gets stuck for days on same ad. Sometimes app flat out won’t open and sometimes there’s this glitch where some letters are symbols and the whole thing is illegible. That’s just everything that is wrong with the app itself. The newsletter used to be amazing; however, has turned almost entirely into a list of affiliate links it’s all about ad revenue now and no longer provides the substance it once did.
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Calendar Emojis
I love the skimm and have been a subscriber of the newsletter for a long time. I bought the subscription primarily for the calendar. I loved how it had all the upcoming relevant events coming up but I loved that it also had fun emojis to go with it.. they’ve been gone awhile with just the descriptions. It’s a small ask but hoping you see this and bring back the calendar emojis please 😊
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App keeps crashing
Loved the Skimm but it’s been like a week of the app crashing immediately when trying to open. Uninstalled and redownloaded and it still won’t work. I’ll give it one more week before I cancel my subscription and just go back to the newsletter.
Unusable
Can’t even open the app—it immediately crashes. Tried reading the news on their website and it is annoyingly left leaning with poorly-concealed opinions throughout. Would love to just be able to read simple, neutral news about what’s going on in the world.
App doesn’t work at all
Loved it when it did. Now anytime I bring up the app it crashes. Tried reinstalling, tried a free other things, still nada.
Daily Skimm access inconsistent
I’ve been a longtime Skimm reader (started back when they celebrated all Skimmers’ birthdays!). I’m a huge fan of the content covered and the way it’s covered. What is frustrating is that the app is inconsistent with having Read the Daily Skimm available. The Today tab has Recommendations and For You, but not the daily Skimm, which is what I predominantly use the app for. I’ve deleted the app and reinstalled and it’s still not there (June 20, 2025 for example). Please fix.
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Daily and Past Skimms always not up to date ANDnow behind paywall
For the past few weeks, the past Skimm articles have always been out of sync, duplicated, or behind a paywall. Today is Saturday and the current article is behind a paywall. This is really unpleasant because I can’t even tell if this is a bug or on purpose. Every old article is now behind a paywall. Unless I subscribe, what’s the point of using this app anymore?
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App Crashing
I love the app. I’ve been using it for a few years now and I love the way. The information is presented. I love the different options for the links or even viewing different items for purchasing or even the books to read recently. I’ve noticed that the app will crash when I try to read theSkimm for I will try to go through the link in my email and and because I have the app, it will redirect me to the app, but it was still crash I have updated the app deleted the app and re-downloaded it and it is still having this issue. I would love to continue using this app and helpful resource, but the crashing is becoming inconvenient
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Very nice but it is a little
I don’t think
Calendar no longer syncs
I have had this app for several years and I love the calendar the most. But mid February it stopped syncing. Customer service is average and the steps they provide to correct the issue do not match up to the links or options on the app.
Navigation isnt functional
I was super excited for this app but all of the icons on the main page that link out to the categories for other articles are stagnant, they don’t actually click through. Super annoying. Feels like a bug but I’ve waited a few weeks and still no update.
