The Journal Science App Reviews

As an AAAS member for decades, I hoped this would be a handy way to access the magazine. But it doesnt recognize me. So, for me, it is useless.

App doesnt work. Cant login with the email address associated with my AAAS account. Why cant we just login like normal with an email and password system?

Won’t accept my login credentials. As junky as the other Science apps as well as the mobile website. This from an organization devoted to science and technology?

AAAS needs to update this app and their magazine. The content is wonderful, but this app is poor. Recently, it hasnt allowed me to access my subscription. When it does, its an unwieldy pdf reader made fancy by a few links to page numbers.

This app behaves badly. I would advise against installing it. At first I thought I had installed malware. The app is unresponsive and doesnt do anything when tapped. It also appears to have messed up the double tap enlarge functionality when viewing the journal. I wish I could go back to the previous version.

the zoom function is broken in the latest release of the app, making it mostly useless on iphones

C’mon, AAAS, loyal member here. This app is slow, and seems to get worse if more back issues are loaded. The fact that content can’t be accessed if there is no internet connection is ludicrous. Spend some time with the Nature app for their magazine - they got it right.

Nothing works. Loyal subscriber -- Agree 100% with previous post. Get it together, AAAS.

Its not an actual magazine app, like The Atlantic, where you can download content to read offline. Its a website bookmark, which simply does not work. Unable to even authenticate. Have stopped bothering and use mobile Safari, which makes the print subscription indispensable.

My experience is on an iPhone 6. This app really just seems to be a PDF page viewer. After downloading an issue, you scroll through (tiny) page after page, zooming and moving about read? There doesnt seem to be any way to bookmark you position either, so it is manual to come back to where you left off. This is essentially unworkable on a phone, Im sure an iPad would work better, but it is a sad effort for "Science" compared with the competition from across the sea.

Im a PhD student often on the fly and was really excited when I stumbled across this app which I thought would make reading Science easier...This app is terrible. I bought a years digital subscription of Science just because I thought it would be great to be able to read the journal on my phone. Very hard to read on your phone. Thumbing through pages is extremely awkward. You often find yourself having to relocate where you were. You can also not zoom in beyond a fine print scale. Im switching back to print.