Scientific American

As a media app for Scientific American, I like it well enough. The articles are easy to read on the phone and I much appreciate that they are not just pdf's of the magazine. When my Pixel XL updated to Oreo, I found the app no longer worked, but they just updated it and now it works. Thumbs up, guys.

Although I'm a paid subscriber, it doesn't let me download issues. Annoying )-:

For many months this app has had many documented problems that should be straightforward to fix. Does SciAm not care to make their app useable? Don't they read the comments???

I have to log out and back in every month because it seems to forget I have a subscription and offers to let me buy new issues as they come out even though I have already paid for them.

Wish the mobile site worked this way. Easy to see the list of issues and easy to read articles. Wish app did a better job of remembering where you left off.

Yet another magazine that CANNOT make transition to digital.

The Women's issue does not work and sci am doesn't respond to my complaint

Great. Would be even better with a inverted colour night mode!

4 things: 1. Should sync scrapbook between devices. 2. Need to highlight words as in electronic books. 3. View mode: A dark mode, or less bright for less straining on eyes. A necessity for any long reading session. Better than using third party filters. 4. Sometimes want to read publication layout, should be in app. Need not to use a PDF viewer and get out of app to do that.

Saw the ad for the SciAm app for Android in the July 2017 print issue. Saw some less than stellar reviews, but decided to see for myself. Have no problems with it - no crashes, no log in / out issues. Intuitive navigation controls, easy to use thumbnails, uncluttered interface.

I got my July paper copy two weeks ago and I STILL cannot access the electronic version. Your subscription management protocol is totally defective. The article navigation is too sloppy too. It is too easy to accidentally swipe sideways to another article while you are scrolling.

Every month when a new issue arrives, I am told that I have an active subscription and that I can buy the current issue. Just what does it mean to have an active subscription if it doesn't include the current issue?? I then logout and login again and find I'm then able to download the issue. Only once I jump through those hoops can I read the new issue.

I would very much like this App to allow downloaded issues to be stored in external SDcard to save main memory, since they take a lot of memory space.

App is ok, but incompatible with Android 8. It crashes on start up.

Crashes on startup on O beta

I can't open this app.

I downloaded the trial issue and the pages are not scans from the printed edition. They are just typed in and it looks like I'm reading the content from a mobile phone website instead of an actual printed magazine. Very poor. Most of the newsstand apps are actual page scans from their printed counterparts. It would be great if this app can be updated so I can read the actual page scans. I will give this app 5 stars if and when this happens.

I have been waiting for this for a long time. Layout and UI is better than I expected. I'm very happy to see they did not use the page-flipping paradigm but went with scrolling instead. The only problem I see is there seems to be a 20% extra padding around images, making it that much narrower than the text. Tap to zoom, but why narrower than the text? It makes the caption also narrower and unnecessarily cramped.

It's a good app. My only complaint is that it doesn't save reading progress. If I'm reading a long article and have to exit the app when I come back it's a fifty/fifty chance that the app will remember where I had read up to in the article

Worked fine at first, but no longer able to log in. Has been claiming technical difficulties for some days. I am flabbergasted that Sci. Am. has not able to offer a basic ability to read my subscription. Every other magazine in the world offers this. No knowledge of physics required. Will probably cancel my subscription and switch to New Scientist.

Works pretty good until it stops recognising my subscription and asks me to buy the new issues. Have to log out and log back in for this to correct itself. This occurs often enough to be annoying.

Having articles on the go is great but I wish the app would open to the last place I left off instead of opening to the library first and blinking a few times. It does return to your article when you click on the issue you were on but there is no bookmark for your place.

Nice to read SciAm on the phone. Would be nice to store the app and issues on external storage. I may have to remove if storage becomes an issue.

Was really looking forward to this app. It's terrible. It is not intuitive, and it forgets your subscription status. Time for me to move on. :/

Good magazine app, but there are only 3 point size settings: small, large, and huge. I wish there were a medium type size, or the ability to zoom.

Unusable, authentication in the app fails, registration on web browser fails...

Slick, but I wish it remembered my reading spot.

My tablet finally authorized and I can read an article, but getting there was difficult and not intuitive. My phone still hasn't authorized after several attempts and many minutes waiting on each attempt. After all of that, there are no basic features like bookmarks! Why didn't they just publish under one of the many competent book readers that already exist?

As a long term digital subscriber who doesn't have Apple devices it's great to finally have a decent way of reading the issues. Scrolling through pdfs or trying to navigate the site was far from optimal. The app crashes a bit but still vastly better than no app.

I've been waiting for this for a while, and as expected with any new app... it's a bit buggy. Can't sign in. Will update review when app is updated. Glad to see it's finally happening!

Pretty good for the first version! Easy to see all journals i purchased. And now i can read all articles in one journal in mobile friendly format. It was impossible to do so in the mobile web. Keep up the good work for Android!!

Good start for Android. One problem is that the drawings in the articles are too small to read. Their resolution is so low that they're blurred when zoomed. (Huawei MediaPad M3 with 1600*2560)

Would give 5 stars if there was a possibility to move the downloaded issues to sd card. As it is now - they take up a lot of internal memory...

Really happy I can now read my SA issues on my tablet. I am really enjoying my evenings a whole lot more with It!

Been waiting for this on Android for a while. No problems signing in, finding what I wanted, or downloading. Navigating within an issue is pretty easy, and I like how articles have embedded enlargable images of any charts or diagrams.

Logging in and accessing existing subscription doesn't work

Hopefully they'll improve it

Long overdue on android but still does not work - crashes on my tablet seconds after opening a magazine

I have awaited this app. It works well. One idea for the next update, allow to move it to SD card, since it requires a lot of space.

Can't login, won't accept my credentials.