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Longform: A Smart Reader app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 1248 ratings )
News Book
Developer: Longform
Free
Current version: 2.2.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 01 Feb 2012
App size: 20.31 Mb

Find yourself wasting time on your phone instead of reading? The totally-free Longform app filters out the internet junk and delivers nothing but smart, in-depth articles.

• Follow writers and get notified when they publish anywhere
• Follow magazines and get only their new feature articles
• Read recommendations from your friends
• Every article available offline
• Daily curated picks from the staff of Longform.org

FOLLOW WRITERS
Follow any writer and you’ll get notified they next time they publish an article anywhere on the web—this service is only available from Longform.

FOLLOW PUBLISHERS
Explore a catalog of over 1,000 of the best publishers on the web—everything from major magazines to independent blogs. Each new feature article is delivered to your feed.

SEARCH
Search our archive of over 200,000 articles. Imagine Wikipedia, except authored by the best writers past and present.

STAFF PICKS
Our editors scour the web to find the best new articles, so you don’t have to.

GET RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FRIENDS
Read your friends’ favorite articles and easily share your own.

READ OFFLINE
Every article you see in Longform is automatically available offline and the app updates in the background, so even if youre on a plane, youll always have plenty of great reading waiting for you.

BOOKMARK TO READ LATER
Save articles you dont want to forget to read, or send them to Pocket, Instapaper or Readability.

Pros and cons of Longform: A Smart Reader app for iPhone and iPad

Longform: A Smart Reader app good for

This is really the best way of reading and gathering useful information while sitting in plane or train Love it
This app allows you to follow your favourite publications and writers longform content. It also allows for one to find good Longform content via a curated list and a top rated section. It also has a very pleasant reading mode. I would give it five stars but it is occasionally glitchy. However the rate of glitches as decreased from update update. So this app can only get better. Great app, hell I would even pay for it. I only wish the website had all the features of the app so that I can browse p my Mac once in a while.
A fantastic collection of articles, news and writing that has opened my eyes to many previously-unknown journalists and magazines.
Im torn about the rating for this app. On one hand, I cant recommend this app enough - I tell people about it all the time! I find the most interesting and diverse array of articles in this app and rarely see such careful curation of content by editors. Overall, it exposes me to a journalism that constantly expands my view of the world. However, I have had this app for over two years and find it to be very buggy. There is always some minor problem where one section wont update properly or the app will crash non-stop for a few days and then somehow start working again. It doesnt stop me from using it but I would really appreciate more continuous upgrades to the app. It has the potential to be absolutely phenomenal. Unfortunately it seems like the developers do not prioritize regular maintenance.
Supremely enjoy the articles this app has brought to my awareness. Highly recommended
So many great stories, great podcast too. You can follow a ton of publications and authors. Recommended for anyone who wants to read!

Some bad moments

The content offered is great, but the app itself is quite bad. It crashes often, and when it doesnt it keeps throwing you back to the beginning of a list, and you have to reload everything.
Under normal circumstances I would give Longform 5 stars and then some, but with the last Update its essentially not usable anymore: Doesnt work offline, freezes and stops, doesnt save what I was reading, etc. Please, please go back to what worked so perfectly!
The idea is great and often it works. But also very often it just crashes. Sad! It seems that this App is dead. There were no updates for over a year.
Constantly freezes,l cant use this app to read articles or any other functions.
Love reading the varied and interesting pieces on this app but it constantly freezes and drops out. I always have to delete and re-download the app. Is it just me? Possibly, sorry if so!
This used to be my favourite app for reading articles. It no longer works since I updated to iOS 10 though. App fails to load most sections. Only the "popular" section works as it should. The other glitch out and only display a couple articles and then just a large blank space after..... Really wish they would update this app for iOS 10.....