# XKCD: What If? Reader — user reviews > 49 indexed App Store user reviews of XKCD by Dimitry Grekov, rated 4.30/5 from 22 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xkcd-what-if-reader/id757847078/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xkcd-what-if-reader/id757847078.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 17 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (11 of 49) ### 4/5 — good *2016-04-26, version 1.7* nice app works well. ### 4/5 — A+ for content *2015-09-24, version 1.6* I love the reasoning and exploration of the many topics. I understand there is a new topic every week. Could this app be updated more frequently to include currently posted content. Perhaps during the same week? Keep up the great work. ### 4/5 — Good *2015-02-26, version 1.6* A good application. Some minor issues with the footnotes sometimes. ### 4/5 — Cool app! *2015-02-04, version 1.6* All the questions you always wondered about but didn't know how to ask them or who to ask that would know the answer! ### 5/5 — Content is king *2014-11-30, version 1.6* The greatness of this app is the clean interface to the seriously goofy intelligent what ifs from xkcd. ### 5/5 — A+ *2014-11-05, version 1.6* this new update fixed everything that I was unsatisfied with. Thanks for this handy app :) ### 5/5 — Great app *2014-09-23, version 1.5* What if is awesome ### 5/5 — Love it *2014-08-28, version 1.5* Keep it up ### 4/5 — Excellent, interesting app *2014-08-19, version 1.5* This app contains hours of interesting content. Starting off with the repercussions of a baseball traveling near the speed of light, Mr. Munroe comes out of the gate swinging with absurd scenarios that no one realized they wanted to know until they hear them. He does excellent research to in order to best answer these ludicrous questions, and often will take each one a step further, turning some possibly boring answers into fascinating and humorous thought experiments. It's a solid purchase that you won't regret, and with updates every Tuesday theres always more to read! ### 5/5 — Easy to use and great *2014-08-06, version 1.5* This app is no-nonsense and straight to the articles. It's incredibly easy to navigate and there are some great articles in it. There was one about ink molecules that was a good one. I plan on keeping this app for when I want a lesson on a subject and I want it fast. There is nothing to click except what you want to read. Again, great app! ### 4/5 — Very nice *2014-08-05, version 1.5* This app has a very wide selection of articles! It's never ending, and I can read however much I want not worrying about it ending . My only problem is that it freezes from time to time not allowing to me to read further. Other than that, great app! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t load *2023-03-25, version 1.7* Data does not load. iPhone 10iOS 16 frustrating. ### 1/5 — Text won't scroll *2016-03-05, version 1.6* Great content, if I could read it. For several months, the text has refused to scroll (on an iPad 3 running iOS 9.2). It's very frustrating to get only the first paragraph of an answer. ### 1/5 — Won't load, freezes *2015-09-17, version 1.6* When I click on an article in the list it goes to a loading page and loads for several minutes before I give up and force close the app. All buttons are disabled within the app during this loading purgatory. App is useless for me as a result. iOS 8.4.1 iPhone 5S ### 1/5 — Buggy *2015-01-02, version 1.6* Lack of numbering makes finding your place difficult. Noticeable bugs: sometimes numbers such as "3 x 10^12" show up as "I". Sometimes reference text bleeds into normal text and distinguishing becomes difficult. ### 1/5 — Asks to be reviewed too often *2014-11-21, version 1.6* This app asks to be reviewed too often. ### 1/5 — Doesn't function *2014-07-21, version 1.5* Consistently crashes and never loaded a single page. ### 2/5 — Too many glitches *2016-03-20, version 1.6* The basic design is great. The ads aren't obtrusive or too frequently. If the app were consistently good enough that I could read the articles in it, instead of having to go to the website, I'd give it 5 stars. But it's not. Footnotes with non-ASCII text, footnotes with footnotes in them, and footnotes with math formatting in them are broken. Links inside footnotes don't work right. Image alt-text is often truncated instead of wrapped. Sometimes the footnotes are out of order. Sometimes links are broken. At least one article is missing half a paragraph and an image. Some of this may sound like nit-picky stuff, but we're talking about Randall Munroe here--without the jokes hidden in alt-text, math, silliness about accent marks, etc., what's the point in reading him? The app is still good enough to read the majority of the articles. But, since it won't show me the article number or give me a link--in fact, it even disables the normal context menu so I can't copy text or links from the middle of an article--there's no way for me to read most of the articles here but switch to Safari when it falls down. Which makes the app pretty much useless. ### 2/5 — Simple app - unreliable *2015-10-08, version 1.6* Great content but app unreliable - often unusable w iOS 9. Scrolling broken, unresponsive at times - does not match the care of the author. ### 3/5 — Nice but layout is confusing *2014-11-02, version 1.6* The chronological order of articles is not immediately apparent. A simple list sorted by date would probably be more intuitive. Multicolums is fine, but having clear column separators and some visual hints about how articles are ordered (top to bottom, then left to right) would help. If not that at least adding the date the article was published should suffice. ### 3/5 — Nice but Flawed *2014-09-25, version 1.5* Images in the articles currently do not show up, but otherwise I appreciate the ability to read these articles while offline. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Interesting and funny *2017-08-31, version 1.7* I love the cartoons, adding humor to all the facts! ### 5/5 — This is fantastic *2017-02-20, version 1.7* The only this I think could be better is the formatting on tablets isn't as good as I could be but it still works. ### 5/5 — The internet has exhausted *2016-11-19, version 1.7* every question ### 5/5 — Good fun *2016-05-16, version 1.7* Love the breakdown and the illustrations ### 5/5 — Does what it is supposed to *2016-04-05, version 1.7* Let's you read What If with very limited advertising, which you can pay to remove. ### 5/5 — Beautiful *2015-11-29, version 1.6* This app is great; I can always count on it for humor but I also learn from it. ### 5/5 — One of my fav apps, but... *2015-05-26, version 1.6* This is easily in my top 5 apps, just behind xkcd, but it no longer updates. I've been stuck on "Spiders bs. The Sun" for 5 weeks now and the app doesn't have a refresh option. Please update, I have so many random questions that need overly scientific, definitive answers. ### 5/5 — Vital trivia *2015-04-19, version 1.6* Absolutely vital information and expert speculation which any human could well live without -but why would they want to? ### 5/5 — Cool app *2015-01-25, version 1.6* 😀😀 ### 5/5 — Awesome but needs wawqftwii *2015-01-11, version 1.6* I have the official book and this gets updated so it is awesome but someone needs to add the "weird and worrying questions from the what if inbox" cause those were really funny --- *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 2026-06-08.*