The Spectator Magazine

Name: The Spectator Magazine
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Rating: 4.078431606292725 (1493 reviews)
Author: The Spectator Magazine

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4.1

1.49K reviews

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About this app

The Spectator app is a subscriber exclusive that gives you the best of news, comment and culture from the world’s oldest magazine.

Simply download the app and sign in.

*NEW* in the 'more' section:
• Dark mode
• Search
• Tailor your feed with specific topics and featured writers

App highlights:
• A daily mixture of political commentary, cultural criticism and humour
• Each issue of the weekly magazine published every Thursday at 4 a.m.
• Receive alerts on breaking news – and the latest from Spectator writers
• Listen to all Spectator podcasts and narrated articles
• Read articles when you’re offline
• Keep track of the articles you’ve already read

Download today and get the latest from the oldest weekly magazine in the world.

Updated on

Aug 1, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

4.0

1.21K reviews

Paul Stephens

February 23, 2021

It's hard to see the point of this app when the Spectator's website does the job better (e.g. provides reader comments) even on a small-screen phone. Having to download an entire issue before reading any content is tedious, and tends to make the Latest News section (which must be downloaded separately) out of date. The issue-downloading system means it should be better for offline reading, although its tendency to want to re-download mitigates agaionst this. In its favour, 'see all' mode lets you skip through an issue as if flicking through the printed magazine, and the app chews up less battery on my phone than a web browser would..However the lack of dark mode shows that it simply isn't being kept up to date.

14 people found this review helpful

Mike P

May 5, 2021

Classic dystopian example of "fixing" something that wasn't broken. Offline consumption - a must for me - appears deliberately crippled. Distracting visual gimmicks like callouts and links to unrelated articles. Repetitive article listing, confused and cyclical navigation. These are not technical issues (unlike the crashes), but design choices to "modernise" what was a perfectly usable app. Just give me a single option to keep the old app. Call it "Classic" to save face.

24 people found this review helpful

Henry Grainger

October 3, 2021

Ever since the new update it's been unusable. Old app worked fine and you could read the magazine from cover to cover anywhere once you'd downloaded it. Now you need to have an internet connection just to open the app (terrible if I'm already on the tube). The app is painfully slow to load anything even if you downloaded the issue, and seems to forget that you've downloaded it half the time. It's prone to crashing at random while reading and heaven help you if you accidentally lock your screen.

6 people found this review helpful