The Boston Globe e-Paper 5.5.8

Reviews

2 ★, on 2020-08-02
Very slow load times. I need to frequently close/restart app because it's hung. So annoying it makes me want to cancel my subscription. Text/article rendering is good, just very slow

2 ★, on 2020-04-13
This app is inconsistent. Some stories can't be opened while others can. Some pages can be enlarged enough to view the pictures while others can't. Sometimes 2 stories that are set next to each other but only one will open although it looks like both were selected.

2 ★, on 2019-05-11
With this new March 209 release of the app I am pleased to learn that developers are still working on this. But I am very disappointed that the app seems to have regressed. Here are my suggestions for improvement: 1. The page no longer fits my 10" tablet without resizing every page manually. 2. The new navigation across the top of the page is unnecessary. I know you have a toggle to hide it so make that the default. 3. The download no longer shows a progress bar. Without it you do not know whether it is actually downloading or not. 4. It still has the annoying behavior of checking your credentials if connected to the internet even though you have already downloaded today's paper. 5. I really miss the hyperlinks that used to appear when an article is continued to another page. 6. Please review these suggestions and others on this page on how to improve this app. Even reach out directly to these customers and have them beta test the app next time so that you can get some real world feedback and change this into a better rated experience for customers. Thank you.

1 ★, on 2020-04-08
My wife has a tablet and I have a tablet and the app will not work for both devices. I believe it is because it looks at the registered email address and only one.

1 ★, on 2019-08-21
Been using this for months for lack of choice other than the web site which is nearly as bad an experience on my Galaxy tab a. Sent email to the developer and was assured that devs were taking feedback and planning fixes. It's now nearly fine months later and there's been no update at all. The Herald, of all things, had a better app experience.

2 ★, on 2020-03-02
I wanted to like this app. When it works, it is an easy and enjoyable way to view the paper. When it does not, which is often, it is frustrating. I like to use this app to download the paper at home so I can read it later on my tablet without needing Internet access. The problems with the app is that it gets stuck on an old paper (i.e. Thursday’s paper when I trying to read Fridays). It refuses to let me see or download the new paper. I’ve tried: 1) The refresh arrow. Rarely this works. Mostly it does not. 2) Deleting old downloaded papers. Occasionally that fixes it. Mostly it does not. 3) Deleting the cache (under settings). Occasionally that fixes it. Mostly it does not. 4) Restarting the app. That usually does not fix it. 5) Sometimes rebooting the tablet helps. However, by this point I’ve usually given up on the idea of reading paper that day. How about an update for this app? With a few fixes (and some testing) this could be a good app. But the Globe does not seem to care judging by the less the 2 star ratings for this app.