Pressreader App Reviews

The latest update seems to have caused errors in attempting to access my linked NY Times account. Publications won’t even load...please fix, thanks!

I love this app! Need to read many news on different languages. Everything is right here. Thank you PressReader! You are the best!

I’m a new user. This app gave me access to the article I wanted to read. However, I found it very odd that I had to read it it like I was looking at a picture of the actual printed newspapers page. So, I cannot just search for a keyword, only for magazines, and then I have to know which date my article was published next issue is not all papers are included. and there isn’t a way to suggest new magazines as dar as I can see. I’m still an “unregistered” user even though I’m a subscriber and nowhere does it say the benefit of registration so looking for scientific magazines (I had Quanta Magazine in mind describing quantum phenomena to the public) or medical journals (Like Journal of Alzheimer’s disease) will not be fruitful

Not a friendly application.

How can I print the crossword only; not the surrounding articles on that page?

The one thing that is missing is that despite hd Siri voice in set as the main narrating voice and works perfect with any text in any app, this app is somehow using inferior voice which you really don’t want to listen to.

My access to all possible world press became instant, my opinions became influential, my channel is growing and developing super fast. Three great features I’ve never seen before but always dreamed of: real time Translation (you don’t need 3rd party anymore) - very convenient - just imagine you can read any language! (Italian Vogue is not longer Italian) Then you don’t even have to read, Voice Reader can do it aloud. And finally the Boomarks! (I still have those thousands of heavy folders I used put teared magazine pages in from my student years). The app delivers the fresh issues of all I read right to my account. I’m shocked! I’m in future!

Many times while listening certain words are missed pronounced that should be regularly pronounced like Lives and lives and nammyohorengekyo

Customer service not helpful at all when app crashes or won’t download. No phone number for contacting them. Still buggy after all these years.

That equivalent of clipping newspaper articles is disabled for The NY Times (replica of the paper). Boo, not fully replacing the wood pulp newspaper yet.

I love this app!!!

Amazing content and easy reading. I love the format and ease of this app! ❤️

Deleting an issue does not delete it from the IPad. It takes more and more memory and becomes more and more unstable. You have to delete the entire app, re download, and re log in, about weekly. Not worth it.

Sadly it is not Good anymore

Press Reader is an excellent substitute for the printed paper. I love that it is identical to the print edition. Because of that I KNOW that I’m not missing anything. It is as easy to navigate as the printed paper and maybe better because one can enlarge the print. I wish one could email an article from it but you can’t. If one could it would be perfect. Louise Orkin

Can use on my iPhone and desktop. Love the combo of mags and newspapers. Overall it’s cheaper as I read both daily than Texture + News subscriptions. Great product - keep windows app and IOS going please !

The N Y Times does not recognize PressReader subscriptions to the paper as legit and, yet, the Times offers no replica alternative on its subscriber site. Shame on you.

Thank you for this app!

Daily NY Times used to download automatically each morning when it became available from publisher. All of a sudden, it stopped downloading. Now, to get each day’s issue, I have to go to “Publications”, wade through all of the newspaper choices, find today’s Times, and tap on it. This is worse than inconvenient. Sometimes you list something for download that isn’t even available yet, like The NY Times Sunday Book Review. Tapping it just produces a “Not Available yet” notice. What’s the point of listing something that can’t be downloaded? When will you restore automatic downloads for subscribers?

Big problems with this update! I love the app and have used it for years, but now (1) the drop-down menu that shows table of contents completely blacks out and freezes the screen! (2) From the main screen, the little “More” menu is blank (“...” at lower right corner of screen)! (3) From the page preview display, the little vertical ellipsis at the bottom of the screen also brings up a completely blank menu! Please help!

I can not set up account on iPad. Even after I set one up on iPhone neither the sign in nor registration boxes have a cursor so it will not take any text at all I tried PR because New York Times customer service says it is the only way to read their replica edition. But there is no NYT available. App is largely worthless

My library system has a subscription to Press Reader. To sign in with your library card the Press Reader video says all you need is the library system name, your card number and your PIN. This is supposedly how the web version works but the iPad app wants you to also create an account. You can’t bypass this. However sometimes the app seems to think you’re on a library hotspot (I’m not) and lets you get on anyway. The next day it forgets and wants to charge you through iTunes. But, if you wait a couple of hours it thinks you’re on a library hotspot again. I don’t know who designs and writes this software but they sure don’t test it.

I’ve read the paper on this app for years with no problems. Now, every time I try to open the New York Times (for the past several days), the app crashes. Please do something about this. Perhaps it is time for an update.

App no longer functions on iPad Pro 12.9. Crashes constantly. New West software for iOS and the app. Unlimited/ny subscriber. Won’t even open.

This was working fine until a couple of weeks ago, now when I try and read a newspaper the app opens and then almost immediately crashes, making it unusable

This app is pretty good from what I’ve seen I haven’t had a chance to use a lot but I will update my review as I go.

Recommend this Ap. Looks & Reads like a real newsprint paper copy newspaper.

This is a terrific app when it is working. If the app has to be re-downloaded or there is any other issue, there is absolutely no meaningful customer service available to the end-user. They insist on communicating via emails which do not solve the problems. For companies as large as the New York Times and the Washington Post and other major newspapers, there should be some way of providing interactive customer service in order to get this app running. Their webpage that is designed to authorize devices, does not work!

This needs an immediate fix

I use the app every day. Today it start crashing. Please fix it soon!!!

Since this app was updated on my iPad Pro on March 17th, I have been unable to run it successfully. The app initially runs but crashes within seconds.

I love having the paper at my fingertips when I wake up. But sometimes the downloads are late, as is the delivery of my paper copy, and then I have NO paper at all. Otherwise, I think PressReader is great. September 13, 2017 Got my NY Times on my iPhone today but it will not download on my iPad. February 25, 2018 Still getting downloads late. Also, not able to access any saved articles. March 20, Still not seeing saved articles in My Collections.

Version 5.2.7. Open it up and it closes before you can do anything.

This thing has been buggy for years. Upgraded to current version (3/16/18) and the program no longer loads at all! Ugh!

SO difficult to get The NY Times to consistently come up. Tried email and chat customer service to no avail. There is literally no phone customer service. Message just sends you to email address. Sincerely wish I could give zero stars. That is what this app deserves.

It’s the most frustrating, the select library or group function does not work. I just spent the last 30 mins trying to find New York public library, the search function does not seem to do anything! I give up.

Good but needs to be updated

I've been using the app for about three or four years. It's very easy to download the paper and once downloaded, it is very easy to navigate through the options. I recommend it to anyone who wants to read a lot on the go.

Update: July 19, 2015 This is, very truly, a dumb reader. Quite sophomoric. As long as my demands were simple - just one newspaper - everything went well. I tried other papers offering samples. I didn't like them and wanted to get rid of them showing up everyday and distracting me. Not possible! Then my earlier complaint too, below. A dumb reader indeed. --- The app meets and exceeds many expectations. I wish I could copy and download elsewhere.

It's the best way I have found to read news papers, magazines and odd sized publications. Christina

I've been using this app for two years, some days I get the auto download, but most I don't. This then requires me to go to the utilities, log out, and re-log on, then do a manual download for each publication. It's a daily pain, and my only complaint, until it got fixed in May 2015 - works like a champ every day! Now my only complaint is I wish they had a version that work as well for Windows machines!

The app doesn't currently allow to confirm the purchase before downloading. Basically, a wrong tap ends with an unwanted charge to your account. In addition, no indication of price is given before downloading. Therefore, this application is not suitable for a general reader unless one is willing to accept occasional unwanted charges, or has a monthly subscription (available for around $29/month). Too bad as it would be a very fine product otherwise.

Great app! I read my local newspapers everyday at breakfast. Now on the iPad Pro the papers are big and very readable. Need a more convenient way to share an article with friends and family. Also need to be able to fill in people with whom I am sharing from my contacts list.

Getting better with time

It's the best way I have found to read news papers, magazines and odd sized publications. Christina

I enjoy PressReader and use it almost daily. It does not crash, and gives a wide variety of views, suitable for my iPhone 6s Plus.

This app has many features, except the obvious: you can't see a zoomed image of an entire page! What are these people thinking? So, I wind up missing a lot of stories that are below the half page view. It's annoying to have to swipe up to see the bottom of every single page. What a pain. Other newspaper apps show the full page in a small, but readable format. Big disadvantage.

Definitely a great application for downloading publications on the fly. Could have a better search utility though

This is my most useful app. I give it 5 stars+ Thank you!

I like to have many top newspapers in a single place. Excellent app.

I use this app for my subscription to my SGI Buddhist organization's publications for "Living Buddhism" And "The World Tribune" and love using this app on my phone and iPad to read.

As an SGI Buddhist who chants Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, one of our daily practices is study. This app really helps with convenience,mobility, and the ability to zoom as an aid to tired eyes when reading the World Tribune and Living Buddhism. Thanks so much!!!

09-14-17 final update I today emailed NY Times to cancel my subscription, due entirely to this useless piece-of-garbage app. Latest problem is that if I don't download the issues every day, I lost that day's paper forever. No way to go back even 1 day and get the missing paper. A moronic "upgrade". I give up on this app...and I'm probably a better person for dumping the Times, too. Previous: I subscribe to the NY Times replica edition, for which PressReader is the default viewing app. Issues aren't available or disappear, customer support is nonexistent etc. This is a terrible app choice by the NY Times and is forcing me to cancel my subscription. 04-24-17 update- PressReader won't provide support no matter what I do and I am forced to cancel my NY Times subscription. App now continually tells me to "register" even though it shows me logged in and shows my name. Won't give me any NYT issues. I give up. Be warned, this is a horrible, horrible impossible to use app.

Press reader has good interface when it isn't crashing? iPhone 6s with latest OS still see app crashing?

Fantabulous app! Allows me to stay on top of current events. The interface is easy to use and designed extremely well.

The only way I can print out the crossword puzzle. I like the way it automates printing the crossword puzzle so that it fills a page.

Press Reader is the best way to read my New York Times subscription. It has the feel of a newspaper without the ink mess.

This app has changed my life. Seriously. I love having a newspaper delivered to me everyday at a click of a button. The format is perfect. It's nice to have this option because I can also make the print as large as I want. It's as good as it gets!!!!

I really like Press Reader. It is the closest thing to having the New York Times in one's hands. It is easy to navigate, and makes it easy to read the articles one is interested in, while not losing sight of the layout of the page. It is preferable to reading the New York Times on the Times' website.

This was a great app for reading the morning paper. Now it closes ever couple pages until I just give up and go to the website of the paper. Really awful.

All publications I want to read are delivered to me in a timely manner. Easy to open pages. Also, I feel good to know that I'm saving trees! :) I still struggle how to search certain topics within my publications.

They said unlimited subscription,but realy it's not I have personal subscription,,I downloaded many issues ,after i got alarm that i read alot?? You have to be honest with your custmers

Normally, subscribe monthly at $29 and every so often switch to daily purchase for $.99. Website remains same price but app purchase now $39 or $1.99. After web newspaper purchased not sure if restore renews at higher rates or download previously purchased. Thus, no more purchases ... Period. When you wakeup that buyers stop buying maybe you'll match price as previously.

A very useful adjunct to my monthly study of the Buddhism of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo; I take the print version of "Living Buddhism" but also routinely download the electronic version to PressReader, and make use of it in District Meetings when I forgot to bring the paper version. Ditto for the newspaper "World Tribune". The program is very easy to use, and has never crashed or lost content. Recommended highly!

Clearly, PressReader is a well-written app. It doesn't crash (from what I've noticed). There are two ways to read: 1) zoom or pinch-in to view an article 'as-printed'; 2) tap an article's title to read 'single-column text', w/inline photos. Let's not to get too gaga about iOS functions (Reading aloud) which PressReader leverages; yes it is well-integrated with iOS & yes, you can have it read articles to yourself. As a single-paid-subscription reader, I'm a bit annoyed by the app trying to get me to read other publications, both during setup & use (tho the latter can be turned off in settings). I keep downloads organized by issue/date, & so find the Library to be messy (so minus 1 *). As a free app, it's good… Just takes a little getting used to & user acceptance/(sigh) resignation about certain "features".

As a newspaper reader - great app. For $30/mo would like to see the NYT, FT, WSJ. Would also like to see a bookmark to save articles.

I use the app to listen to my newspaper subscription while doing my chores. I wouldn't be able to keep up without it. The reader has troubles with acronyms which takes some getting used to. For example, it'll read PR as Puerto Rico instead of the acronym for public relations.

Best app for my magazines. Love it!

HAVING THE MENU ALWAYS VISIBLE IS NOT AN IMPROVEMENT! When reading an article menu is always at left side so it cuts off the third column. When you swip to the right it still cuts off the same column on the left hand side. You have to hold your finger on the iPad to manually keep this column in view to read it. This was fixed. I have changed my rating to 4 stars. (I don't like the Download page, it cuts off half the paper thumbnails)

Using the app is not smooth such as searching for a specific magazine or paper. The app is too slow and things are just clustered it's a mission using the app and finding desired content.

I read the New York Times on this app. However, there are blue highlights on the headlines which are supposed to bring the article into a column for reading like a book. Today they don't bring in text. And other days they are not even there. Can't compete with the Washington Post app.

Way to go. You've managed to break a previously reliable app. How about some QA?

Love reading my NYT especially for an educator. The features are wonderful and consumer service provide quick responses

We've had a subscription to this app for four years and, as with any relationship, we've had our ups and downs. The app crashes occasionally, sometimes the papers we subscribe to don't get delivered but in the end we have always found the downloaded versions to be good replicas of the original and the customer service to be excellent! We recommend this app all of the time.

40.00 a month is a little steep. I could see if you included actual videos and newscast but that is a whole lot of money.

A great way to read the paper.👍

I am impressed with the new developments that is making the reading experience seamless and flexible. Great improvements!!!

As another review mentions, this menu sidebar on the left shifts over the article while reading in the column view, so half the last column is cut off. Go to swipe, and the other half of the column is off. So basically, you have to hold down the screen with your finger for the proper placement, then swipe for the next page. Please fix this in an update ASAP. Get rid of the s***** sidebar menu while reading an article!!!!!

Had problem with NY Times this morning. OK this evening.

This app deserves any crashworthy awards available. It is uncanny how they can engineer so many crashes.

I have used this app for years, and now they have improved it so much that I can’t read a single page. Infuriating.

Consistently crashes after newspaper loads. One can see a blurry page and then the crash.

I read the New York Times every morning on Press Reader and really enjoy the look of the actual newspaper without having to recycle the physical paper. It is great for traveling, too.

I have version 5.2.6 and PR regularly quits when I click on a blue headline. I'm going back to reading the print edition. At least it’s stable.

This app promises so much, but as soon as you start using it, it freezes, then crashes, can’t open the articles. Such a waste of time. Stick to the newspaper websites....!

Costly & useless without paying...Don’t waste your time

Ok app but content is weak. Not worth the trouble. Those that are free are already available directly from the actual paper’s site. Paid ones are better to access directly.

I'm unable to read any of my subscriptions because the font is blurred. Headlines are fine, but the rest is completely impossible to read. The magazines are just fine, but newspapers are bad.

Generally it’s a good app. My only problem is that there is the option to save pages to your collections, yet there is absolutely no way to actually access them?? I’m guessing this is a glitch or something. Would definitely be 5 stars if this was fixed. For anyone else that needs this feature, the workaround that I’ve been doing is taking screenshots then cropping out the top and bottom so it shows just that page.

I have to revise my previous review because the latest version is not stable. The blue hyperlink to enlarge an article only works on select articles and crashes the program on others. Repeated requests to customer service have not solved the total problem. They now seem to have fixed the front page of the NY Times but not inner pages like the Opinion page. PLEASE FIX! Finally fixed! Now works well on my iPad Pro 10.5 inch screen. I would like to add my frustration to the other NY Times reader reviews. The Press Reader column on the left cuts off NY Times columns and requires ridiculous slide and hold maneuvers to read the paper. I don't understand why the reading experience got worse with this update. Please fix. Press Reader has a problem with the new iPad Pro 10.5 inch screen. It provides partial columns which require sliding and holding to read some columns. This was reported weeks ago and still not fixed.

It’s a great idea to be able to get all your papers in one place. While the idea is a 10 the company is a zero. Very frequently there is a problem on their end so the papers won’t download. I’m sure it’s fixed by mid morning but by then it’s too late. I read my papers before work, not during. Most days my papers are blurred so I have to strain my eyes to read it. Enlarging the font only makes it harder to read. Other days some of my papers aren’t there. Contacting lack of customer service is a complete waste of time. There are plenty of other bugs that appear. I’ve seen others address the bugs so I wonder, why doesn’t anyone fix it? I cancelled and I now buy my papers directly and I have no problem. Bye bye Pressreader. Contact me when you’re serious about running an app and you hire people with brains to run it.

Muy practica y útil para el comunicador

Excellent view

This is the greatest app! I get to see my NY Newspaper while I live in Florida. I can see any paper from all over the world! It’s ready by 5:30am and I don’t have to go outside to my driveway to get the paper... wet or dry! I don’t have to deal with the newspaper print that I’m allergic to. And I don’t have to throw the paper away at the end of the day! Also, I can save papers on my iPad or iPhone and see my favorite stories or articles whenever I want. It’s just FABULOUS! And the price cannot be beat!!! Get this Press Reader app ASAP!!!

At the risk of jinxing this app, PressReader seems to have hit a nice plateau...works well on current and not so current hardware running up to date iOS. I personally have no complaints and wonder which iPad and what iOS the folks are running who are upset. Backwards compatibility is hard to guarantee in a rapidly changing competitive electronics era.

The most recent update makes it almost impossible to turn pages by swiping. Pages just don't turn. Please correct ASAP!

This service is a must in my daily routine. It has just gotten better with each version. Keep up the good work!

No back arrow, stuck in just trying to join, not working to find the NYT though the NYT says to use the app for the print edition. I’m throwing it away.

Cannot save articles on NYT online. Doesn’t work never did. Very disappointing.

Overall a good app, and it’s easy to use. Only frustration is that the login for my local library frequently does not work and I have to log out and log back in to download newspapers. Hopefully it’s a bug that will be fixed in a future update

It works on Apple iPad very well but not well on Microsoft surface pro 4 . I have tried to interact with tech support without success. They refuse a phone call and seem not to care. I should make clear that I use it only for the N Y Times.

I am not impressed with this app at all. It just makes things that should be straightforward and easy unnecessarily difficult. I do a search on a new device for a periodical I have been receiving for years on an older one, and the search turns up nothing. I wish to de-authorize one device so that I can authorize another and I can’t do that without getting tech support from my organization (the website won’t let me sign in on my computer so I can do so myself. Instead it tells me that my email and/or password are “incorrect” - which they are not). Just a bunch of unnecessarily complicated nonsense! Also, the app has an icon badge which is not self-explanatory. I wish I knew what it signified. Is it the number of periodicals I am supposed to receive (because that does not seem accurate)? The number of issues available for download? (because that doesn’t seem accurate either). What?! I tried opening all my periodicals to see if that would get the icon to it would go away or change, but it didn't. So an explanation of its significance would be nice. With many publications piling up I would appreciate a feature that could instantly put them in chronological order, for finding issues more easily, but there doesn’t seem to be such a feature. Honestly, if I did not need to use this app out of necessity, I would have deleted it long ago.

unsubscribe to magazines download all 2 of the missing, but very necessary functions....Otherwise, thumbs up👍🏻 !

Really great app idea except for the fact that every time I log into it, it freezes and I have to restart the app to get it to work.