NatureJournals App Reviews

There is no way to get access to the contents of any journal without a subscription. The subscription cannot be purchased within the application. You have to go to their website and go through the whole process sarately.

But after two months of using the app, for whatever reason, the new issues would not download. (My subscription is not expired.) my subscription is to NatureGeoscience, which releases monthly. The new issue is out now, and I can view it on the website. Whenever I open the app, it does its initial updating and says Complete! Except for that it isnt..... Please fix! I rely on this app since reading on the website is dreadful on iPad.

Does not recognize institutional subscription. I do not plan to buy an individual subscription since my institution does for me. This makes this app useless to me.

I wanted to see if I wanted this on the web or a printed version, so I signed up for 1 month to check it out. I decided on the printed version, which includes the iPad one. In the app it has a cancellation policy which states that it can only be done through their "submit a question" or by phone. I called their customer service and complained that it should not be this difficult to cancel, because you need a customer number. The number is located in the app under account information after you sign in. I explained I wanted to cancel my iPad subscription and he says I need to "submit a question" to cancel. So, I sent the required information, but then Im charged again. So, I called customer service three times and get a recording about their hours of operation and to leave a message. Im not happy and figured I could stop the subscription through iTunes, which is how it was supposed to be done in the fist place. What a joke, youd think that a journal like Nature would have customer service that was service oriented.

So far, the app looks intuitive and easy to surf, as well as collective!

Looks to be a beautiful app, but why would anyone pay for a subscription twice? I suspect this app will have a difficult time gaining traction until it supports institutional subscribers through VPN. Add that function, and Id be a fan.

It seems few people have discovered this app; What a shame!

You have to pay extra even if you already have an online subscription!

A simple, tasteful and well organized app. Thank you Cosmos for the shoutout. B

Just a really well-done app. Worthy of the precious space next to my text message icon.

Using this app with my institutions VPN, I can read full articles on Natures website using iOS Safari, but this app doesnt detect this. Consequently I can only browse abstracts, which is a shame. Useless in its present form.

Ive been using this app for a couple of years now, and most of the previous problems have been ironed out. I find that its a very good and convenient way of reading the magazine. Just remember to delete issues once youve finished reading them.

This is an app that is unforgiving. If you have a subscription that has lapsed, all content becomes inaccessible - immediately. I am not a professional scientist. I am a very interested humanist who subscribed to Nature for some time, reading as much as I could, and understanding much of it. The printed magazines stayed at home and this app allowed me to read them while commuting. But I let my subscription lapse, and on that very day, while I was actually reading an issue I had just downloaded, it became inaccessible. I emailed customer service, who asked which article I had been reading, saying they would allow me to continue it as a courtesy. This was absurd.

Ive used this app on my iPad since it first began. It has a clean and clear interface. The journal is easy to download. In fact, I look forward to each Wednesday when it is first released and download it immediately. There is a slight change with the new version. The PDFs seem to open only in Safari/Web Browser instead of in an internal reader. While there is a slight lag in opening Safari, I can now download it, put it in an eReader or mail it to Evernote or myself. This App is far superior to Science Magazine’s app. All of the articles are downloaded for offline reading. They are not downloaded on Science. And now that my combined subscription is going up to super high rates, I’ll be switching to the app only subscription….. Wish it would do the web too, but we’ll see!

First time Im leaving a message because Im so mad. It has been auto renewing the subscription $10per month for half a year!! It didnt say anything about it the first time I purchased!!!

Briefly looking at the abstracts available here, they are nothing like a scientific abstract only a teaser for the article. The whole point of a free app is to give some free content, to entice the reader and make it worthwhile. Not here! This is not found in Natures app the "articles" and "editorial" reviewed. Even the editorial is not posted online. All else requires in app purchase to read any of the content. Avoid this app.

this is very good app, but needs some text to speech function.

Takes long time to load abstracts and they are not even abstracts. One sentence synopsis of papers. Almost useless. Unable to use institutional proxy.

This app needs a method to login through an organization that has access! Useless otherwise.

The design and layout are simple to use and aesthetically pleasant. However, the use of the app is limited as there is no option to access through an institution. Even if a personal subscription to Nature is done, all the content in the other journals is not available. It would also be nice to access other journals from the Nature Publishing Group, not just the Nature series. The reader is very nice, but features like night mode reading and font selection are desirable as well.