The Wall Street Journal. App Reviews

As a long term subscriber, I grow increasingly disappointed. The overall quality of journalism is flagging under the weight of obvious political bias. The headlines read just like the click bait on most social media platforms. Jason Gay (sports writer) has my subscription hanging on by a thin thread!

The app works very well. The only downside is that I cannot share a gift link.

Pages are cluttered with large banner on top and small banner on bottom. Takes up 1/3 of screen.

The new voice that reads articles to you is a huge improvement. My one additional request is that you allow people to change the playback speed. I would like to listen to the articles at 1.5x.

I can watch a 2+ hour movie just fine on my iPad but the WSJ app will totally drain the battery in less time. I use it in print edition mode mostly, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

It’s a good app but not great. It needs the “Today’s Paper” feature that the Android app has that features all the articles in the print edition separated by section. I’m aware there’s a WSJ Print Edition app, but I would prefer the Android design and wish they would adopt it for iOS.

Doesn’t integrate with iOS and Google well. Why can’t linked stories from other news sources like Google news just take me to the story in the WSJ app like other apps do?! Instead I’m forced to to log into WSJ in the browser first, which never seems to save my login. I often skip it and instead swear at the lack of decent technology. Phone app also lacks date versioning for opinion stories, etc. like like the tablet edition leaving you floundering looking the that day’s opinion stories in the ev

Regularly reloads an article while I’m reading it even if the article isn’t being updated. Might be because I use starlink satellite internet (changing satellites?) but this doesn’t happen with NYT, LA Times apps.

LOVE THE UPDATES AND CONSTANT PUSH FOR IMPROVEMENT. AS A USER I AM EXTREMELY PLEASED WITH THE UPDATES ON THIS APP! I “ PERSONALLY “ KNOW ALL THE HARD WORK THIS DEV TEAM AND PRODUCT/ DELIVERY MANAGEMENT DOES TO MAKE SURE THIS APP IS PERFECT FOR US! SO THIS A BIG SHOUTOUT TO THE MOBILE TEAM FRONT END, BACK END, WEB AND ALL THE HANDS IN THIS TO KEEP THE TRAIN GOING! KEEP IT GOING!! SO GLAD TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF THIS GROWTH! -DJ :)

This could be five stars, but there are some annoying feature inconsistencies. Primarily, what bothers me is the gap between what the stock watchlist is and what it could be. Web: You create watchlists and can include cost basis and holding information. iPhone: You can just create a watchlist, not linked to the web watchlist at all. iPad: No watchlist or market data section to be found. Barons/Marketwatch - despite being under the same umbrella, the watchlists here are completely unlinked from W

The app is functional and navigation is intuitive. Two glaring issues persist though. One is the stock ticker does not update from futures to actual down jones average after market opens. I have to reboot the app to refresh. Second is the slow loading of ads make the page jump as ads load.

UPDATE: To be fair, looks like they fixed a lot of these issues. Much improved. Thanks for listening to your readers and thanks developers. The prior iPad app was one of the best iPad apps available. What to do next? Bloody ruin it by replacing something fantastic with a complete, unusable piece of garbage. Who made this decision? Clearly someone at WSJ that doesn’t use the iPad app…they must read comic books or something. I am so disappointed. The new app is unusable. Like why do this? I’ve be

Video pops up on the app and stops the audio that I’m listening to in the Wall Street Journal as well as other applications. Makes me not want to open the app anymore.

Seems WSJ keeps tinkering with the app. I normally prefer reading the paper using the print edition tab. Now for some odd reason, the Whats New section seems to be written by a poorly trained ai model. Useless and clearly doesn’t match what’s on the actual print edition. Please fix.

WSJ continues to abuse the breaking news push notification setting by spamming your notifications with fluff pieces that are in no way breaking news. Without useful notifications, the app is useless. Back to the mobile website again.

Compared to NYT app the WSJ app seems like an amateur attempt. It is slow, uses a ton of bandwidth, and hard to navigate.