Washington Post Select

The only thing I don't like and it is incredibly frustrating, is that if I pull up an article on Facebook, the app does not recognize me as a subscriber and it says I am out of free articles for the month. I then have to go to the app, and find the article to read instead of just clicking. I like how easy it is to pull the article off the app however. Much better than NYT.

The app is a fine idea and decently executed, although the dark theme interacts poorly with some headers. My issue is that saved articles often disappear while I'm reading them, which is how I'll often read them on flights with limited connectivity. I've reached out to the app team about this and they didn't have a solution. I've tried updating, re-installing, restarting, deleting chache. The error persists. Saved articles will generally stay out for 20-30 sec after I start reading them and then disappear without prompt from my saved list and kick me to the next article. It has made the app unusable for me.

Good news source, barely passable app. Offline use is very poor. I have every 'download daily/in background' option enabled, yet every time I get on an airplane, many articles say, 'connection not available.' Well, true, that's why I wanted to download the paper. Also, online or not, every time I switch apps, when i come back it loses my location. Good news source, crummy app. 2020-11-08 update No fixes appear to have been made. Was not able to read the paper during an off-grid camping trip.

Journalism would rate 5 stars. I was asked to review this as an APP. Displays in vertical profile only. Impossible to copy any text. No "share" or forward option other than social media that I don't care to use. Good features are the bookmarking and save for later. Photos used in the preview often disappear when reading the story, so no zooming in on pics. The post and other media should stop using euphemisms and call a lie a lie, not "misinformation."

Update! This only happens when pictures appear in the notifications, text-only notifications appear normally. >>>Using night mode on android pie ui. When I get notifications the preview reads normally but when I go to expand the notification to read the whole brief, the text is completely invisible. A lot of the time they put updates in the headline that haven't made it into the article they link to yet, so it's pretty useless. That said, I love The Post and hope they fix this bug soon.

It's one of the better newspaper apps I've used. Things can be relatively easily located, clicking on the story you want on a tablet that shows two articles next to each other, for example, brings to a larger print version of that article. This is more intuitive than most also. The menu that drops down from the upper left is well organized and leads you to a list of articles of that topic. It's shocking how many do not. The layout can vary more than one might expect though, between mobile and tablet, for example.

I'm glad there's an app for the WaPo, but I have 2 complaints. Often, when I scroll down as I'm reading an article, the page slips sideways and the article is hidden on the left. Also, why can't the pictures be enlarged by clicking on them? Mobile screens are often too small to make out details, and it would be helpful to be able to zoom into the photos. These are minor quibbles; overall I like the app.

The Post is one of the most trustworthy news organizations in the world. Reporting is factual, and not based on "alternative" facts (aka lies). the app itself could use improvement in its search engine. It can be difficult at times to find articles that I know exist, even if I search by author for an opinion piece. it is frustrating that I can save articles if I open via the app, but if I navigate to the article from an email ad, I can't. The interface should be the same.

Easy to read and fairly comfortable to flip through, if not somewhat limited in the stories and topics it shows. Oddly has a consistent amount of typos that do not show up on the desktop versions of the same articles. Don't know if it's just an issue with the app software scrambling words or letters or if these are maybe slightly earlier less edited versions? Either way it seems a bit unprofessional.

Very disappointed. At almost every launch it freezes for quite a while (eg 45 seconds) while - I presume - it is downloading updates. Sometime 2-3 Android popups asking if I want to kill it or just wait. I've learned to just wait. I've also learned to avoid it. I'd cancel my Wapo online subscription because of this but wife likes it.

Love the content. The inability to open articles linked from other apps is infuriating. In the WaPo app, great presentation. Opening from Twitter, etc.? You get the mobile browser complete with intrusive ads. Also, it's often impossible to find the article in the app if you're looking for it on your own. Just let us open the link in the app!

Diverse content and high quality writing. App itself performs well; no problems at all. I do wish that media like WAPO and NYT etc. would decide that a large number of on-line subscribers at a low price should make more than fewer subscribers at the standard high costs. (I could only work it into my budget because of a special one time deal.)

Pretty clear cut app, smooth. My complaint is that notifications that appear for breaking news will bring you to the news story, but if I close the page I have yet to be able to find a way to get back to the article. It's as if your one and only chance to read it is to click on the breaking news notification. If you close it, that's it. Since I've done this accidentally a few times already it gets pretty irritating. Other then that I'm pretty happy with it

I like the WP better than the NYT. But here I am rating the app, not the content or quality of writing. It works well enough. I just wish it had recognized my email when I tried to log in using my email instead of my amazon login. So I paid for it for at least 6 months during which I didn't use it because I concluded my subscription had run out because I couldn't log in! It's crazy that I have to remember which app to use which type of login with. I like the content too.

I prefer the old app to the new because there aren't a whole lot of stories jumbled together, so it's easier to scroll down through them to find the ones you want to read or save. Also, both the old and new apps' search functions to try to find a certain story invariably fail to turn up what you are looking for, even if you put the full title of the story in the search bar.

Presentation of stories is great. I love the degree to which digital media is being incorporated to create a richer experience. Search is horrible though - I can see a story on the WP website and search for keywords from the title in the app and never find the story. Not once have I succeeded in finding a specific story I wanted through the search tool. Developers, please fix! Thanks.

i like the Post, but the app kind of sucks. the interface only shows a limited amount of articles, and only one at a time. it gives the impression of only getting very limited news. In addition, i have no interest in reading editorials or opinion pieces but there are WAY to many of those interspersed, which cheapens the actual reporting and makes it seem less objective.

The content is fantastic, but the app is lacking. Too difficult to find articles. I end up using my account to read from their website and Google News links to their articles that don't show up in the app. Saved articles on the app are only saved on the device and not viewable, for instance, if you get a new phone.

Browser links no longer open in the app though all appropriate settings are selected and the same problem course not occur with other apps. Reading history and bookmarks are not being retained for later access. Cannot work around these problems by locating an article in browser history and pasting its URL into the search bar so that I can review it in-app.

Easy to use and easy to read. Love the paper and the app! Deducted a star, though, because lately notifications have quit working and it's become way too touchy for left-right scrolling - far too sensitive, I'm losing the article I'm reading because the slightest twitch and suddenly I'm off to another article. Some of the best journalism around, though.