Science News Daily 18.4

Reviews

3 ★, on 2021-06-30
I really like this app. The summaries are great for the stories. However once you actually start reading an article, many ads start popping up, lagging the article. At times randomly making it so you can no longer read the article. As well as start randomly moving up and down through the article because new ads start loading it in. I don't mind that you want to make money through ads. I would appreciate it however if you made it so the ads don't destroy your reading experience.

4 ★, on 2021-07-04
Ads appear FAR too often. Not only are they included in the body of the text (tolerable), as you scroll down they also appear on your whole screen, repeatedly within a single article. It is jarring and very annoying. This app was once good I recall. EDIT: Some time has passed and I downloaded again to see how things have changed. It seems the ads are more manageable now, not so jarring and only taking over the screen after finishing a read. Updated stars accordingly, will see how things go.

4 ★, on 2021-07-03
Rampant ads make it unusable :/ unfortunate... Edit: Problematic ads seem to be from source websites, not necessarily controllable by this app. Devs do seem to be interested in knowing which ads/sites cause the most problems, which gives me hope that they can potentially filter out the sites and ads that make using the app more of a hastle.

2 ★, on 2021-06-28
This is a frustrating app. I like the stories but they're often blocked by full-screen ads. I'll read the first, short paragraph and suddenly part of it is covered with ads or the entire screen is taken over.

2 ★, on 2021-07-02
I just have to delete it. I love the content but it's impossible to read a single sentence without jumping to some ad. Pity for running a potentially good app and quality reading material, which the ads make unreadable...

3 ★, on 2021-06-04
More than a nice app but ruined by a frustrating experience.. simply because you can't keep with the lines you reading due to continuous scrolling of pages (caused by ads I think) To be honest though ads seem to be from the sites themselves not from app but WAAAY to much than I see when searching through google for example. The developers are my only reason not to rush things and give up, I believe in people more than the substance. So please fix this and promise I will rate it 5 shiny star.