Politico App Reviews

I’ve had this app for about 10 years but hereby delete and will not read future Politico articles due to the help provided to the Trump campaign for some advertising dollars. Good bye. Traitors

Totally broken like Washington politics

please update old articles do not change

App is really badly designed and really really buggy. You are more likely to encounter a blank screen then Politico content. App is “designed” to update every time it opens, regardless of whether you have connectivity or not. If you don’t have connectivity, it just stays blank with no access to any content! For anyone with spotty connectivity during the day, whether b/c you live in a rural area, or commute on a subway, or work in a skyscraper, this is a showstopper, and more than likely, your Politico “app” is blank at the time you most want to use it. App also glitches on certain articles or sections and navigation is bad to the point of comedy. If you have lots of time, patience, and an ironclad wifi signal then you are the intended audience for this “app.”

Every two or three days the app actually works. The rest of the time it just displays a message "Loading" or "Updating". They said they fixed this with their last update. It's worked once since. It's been "updating" since June. Unfortunately zero star ratings aren't allowed.

The ad road blocks cause stress of a sci-if horror where the phone is taken over by a big button that says “tap me”. I don’t want to tap it but I don’t know where else to tap. Seriously pathetic user experience. Too bad wanted to keep the app for the content.

Good luck reading any complete articles because pop ups take you to safari and you are forced to close and reopen multiple times.

The app fits the quality of the company

I like Politico and the news they report. However, I’m so frustrated with the app because when I tap on a notification for what seems like an interesting story, it doesn’t take me to that story. Oftentimes I can’t even find the story that the notification was about. All other news apps send notifications that take you directly to that story.

To be perfectly clear, this review has NOTHING to do with the content from Politico. The articles are fine. This review is purely about the app. The app just plain won’t refresh unless you kill the app and restart it. (Swipe up, find Politico in the list of running apps, press and hold the icon then press the icon again to kill off the app.) After killing the app, restart the app and then it’ll download fresh content. This isn’t a new bug either. This bug has been in the app for at least 18 months. So. If you want to read Politico, open a web browser.

Politico has a new customer on the day republicans put out a new tax plan & found out the secretary for human services gouged tax payers & all while American citizens sit in red tape as aid is stalled in Puerto Rico's crises!

Love it - Great coverage of political news events! Paul Herr

Needs a setting for changing font size.

App crashes pretty much every time I try to use it. Sometimes get to read a story or two, but it usually crashes in the first few minutes.

I've had the app for over 2 years and now full page ads won't close, meaning I can't read any article on mobile.

The old app worked and was easy to navigate. Now the news sections keeps jumping back to the top and won’t sit still. This is not a new defect but nothing has been done about it in better than six months. Fix it! Or bring back the old app and start all over again.

It looked good, why was it changed

Slanted and divisive opinions. Temperamental & choppy performance, ancient technology and substandard talent.

Features: revolving 'loading' disk and the last successful update - usually 24 hours stale. At a time when news evolves hour to hour, Politico's contributions have become de facto irrelevant. Recommendation: bookmark the web site. Your browser, unlike this app, will get you to whatever it is they're reporting - today.

Try reading an article and you will be interrupted by a popup video ad. Make sure you have the sound off if you don’t want everyone near you hearing the ad. A totally obnoxious way to shove advertising down our throats. There are many other sites with better content that do do that. Worst app I’ve ever seen. I give it a minus 5.

I cannot set up the app because it doesn't recognize my WiFi connection, clearly shown as connected on the phone's WiFi settings, even if I set it next to the router.

As noted, OK content; but very poorly executed app. All kinds of irritating quirks. Be prepared to be frustrated with more than the politics.

Politico is a respected source for news from a liberal point of view. The app is good but the font used for the body of articles is serif and tightly spaced. Not readable by modern standards. Other than that, an excellent way to follow Politico.

The content is worthwhile, but it's like the creators of this app want to prevent you from reading it. The "navigation" is like blindly jumping through hyperspace. You have no idea where you might end up. I try swiping left and right but, instead of smoothly moving between stories, it's all twitchy and spastic. I can see the edge of a story I want to get to, but I can't make it land on that story. Just moving my finger slightly to the left and right, which should just move me between two stories, flashes glimpses of 4 or 5 different articles. Other news apps give the impression that there's some stationary content that their app provides a window into. You have a sense how the stories are laid out and where you are in that context. Not so with the Politico app. Instead it's chaos. Blank pages, stories with a picture but no content, videos with no play button. It's incredibly frustrating. I am on an iPad Air 2 with iOS 10.3.2.

UNSUPPORTED APP Terrible app that NEVER updates! I’ve never seen an app that NEVER updates, but Politico has managed to keep this problem alive in every single update for several years. This is not an accomplishment to be proud of. This app is great...if you like page take overs where they keep moving the “X” to close it, like as if that will somehow give them the seconds in front of your eyeballs that they need to keep selling those invasive and obtrusive things. The content is good, but it’s like the app tries to keep you from reading it. Also, the menu makes absolutely no sense. I’ve given up on waiting for them to do something about it. FIX YOUR NEVER UPDATING APP!

This has to be a spin off of CNN or other fake trash news. Learn how to report on real and important news that the people need to read. As for your app, it’s garbage just like the reporters that write the garbage in the app. Btw I wouldn’t even given this a 1 star!

The writers need to rise up against the developer. They are detracting from your great content. I like to move thru the page methodically from top to bottom, and then the app randomly refreshes and I have to find my place again. And for whatever reason the Top News is the only place that I can't turn this problem off. Suggestion, allow me to turn this off and add a new feature that will highlight what's new after I refresh. Then to have provided something worthwhile.

I’ve been using the Politico app for years. The good: the content is very good. It’s comparable to what they have in their website and their breaking news is ahead of most other sites. The bad: the app simply doesn’t work when you’re offline. Try accessing it when you’re in the subway and no luck! And this even after you’ve been reading a few minutes before. At this stage it’s inexcusable that they don’t cache the content and let you access what you’ve already downloaded. Even worse, when you’re listening to music via Bluetooth and you launch the Politico app, it pauses your music! Huh??? Politico, please fix these egregious bugs and I’ll come back and give a good review.

I check Politico multiple times per day and really like the articles and coverage of many topics. The Opinion pieces are good and could see more if them. More articles on the grassroots organizing coming out of social protest such as “Run for something “ the centrist Democratic races in Congress and state offices are very interesting and important. Please cut off Facebook ads after a million impressions as I am way over the top on these after saying “No” a million times.

This app never updates anymore. It's had 8/24 stories now for a week. Useless

Politico is under fire for their role in writing ads during the 2016 campaign—specifically for Cambridge Analytica, the outfit that wrote scathing propaganda against the Clinton campaign. Whatever you think of her, CA wrote factually incorrect articles about her targeting specific “purple” states and Politico enabled them by creating these ads!

My main issue with this app is the horrible updating. Today is January 9, but the newest story on the app, after “updating” is January 3. There is nothing wrong with my internet connection, and other news apps are up to the minute. Come on, Politico — get your act together

Good content but it rarely will update.

You can't actually read anything! Good luck making it past a barrage of full screen takeover ads. Now featuring full takeover video! Guaranteed to burn up your data in a heartbeat. Do not install this sh***y vehicle for horrible ads and no content.

I’ve never written an app review until now. the ad experience in Politico is possibly the worst of any app I’ve ever used. The close buttons do not work and you’re stuck on a low quality interstitial. You are forced to restart the app then encounter the same experience again. I now read The Hill instead.

Extremely annoying recent addition of these ad pop ups. I find myself going less frequently to this app as a result

I’ve been using this app for awhile now and I just now realized I don’t receive any notifications for it now. I made sure notifications was on through the app and my phone. I deleted the app and downloaded it again and still no change. They also have zero support for this app and I’m not sure how to fix this.

For real it’s a good read and works offline. That’s the only way to use it. Whoever runs the app ad support is a failure of humanity...

I thought it was a genuine news source at first. They even occasionally speak from both sides of a mouth, but don’t get fooled. It is yet another right wing propaganda tool. I was still using it long after I figured it out until they started to chase me with ads to support “president Trump and his crusade against the fake news”. Yep, that was one bs too much for me. I prefer actual facts over made up lies that change each day, depending what happened in 45’s hollow-head at around 3am the night before. Pathetic at its lowest.

Forget the negative reviews, as of Feb 16, 2018, this is a rock-solid app that is easy to navigate (as long as you don’t start clicking before the first page is loaded). Articles may seem shrill to alt-white readers who prefer their fake world, but we ARE under constant attack and Politico is one source that can be trusted to fact-check before publishing. Thanks to Politico we now know that Russia has been waging “electronic warfare” (Russian words) against democracies for years.

I dont mind ads- they pay for the content but the ads on this app hang and cant be closed. I have to kill the app and start all over.

Is Trump’s campaign. The only ones willing to advertise with Politico app? I Am tired of the pro-trump ‘polls’ with their leading questions. I know - both sides produce such crap. But does Politico Have to use it so much?

Notifications haven't worked for months

Just wow, what is wrong with the developers?? The app is just awful, it won’t refresh, navigation is terrible, breaking news takes forever to load, it’s just a train-wreck. And it’s not just me, read the other reviews. Such a waste too, the best political content there is.

Whenever I'm scrolling news stories it just jumps back to the top. Maybe they only want me to read the headline story. Most times I just give up and find my news elsewhere. Unfortunate.

Used to love this app. Now you practically can’t read anything on it; no matter what you do or don’t do, a full-screen Bitcoin ad comes up— and you can’t close it. You have to wait for it to go away, and then it comes back again almost right away. Politico, are you so hard up for money you have to insult us like this????

The full page ads make the app useless. I really don't like to be forced to visit seedy web sites when I try to close an ad. Total fail. App deleted.

This app is simply the worst of all the news outlets. I have this image of the creators just laughing at us as we try to read their content! Politico is an important media site and their content is terrific. The app simply won’t let you read what’s there. My favorite is when the app suddenly pulls up a full page ad from which there’s two alternatives - click on it and be taken to safari or the App Store, or simply exit the app. No chance you’re going to actually finish the article or continue using the app for that session at least. Mind boggling.

Glitchy and terrible navigation