TIME Mobile

it seems that the latest update made list loading a little snappier. I liked the earlier version without ads :(, but I understand that bills must be paid. I also like the watch companion app, although the functionality is limited (a lot like the other watch apps I’ve used).

Love the audio option for The Brief! So awesome that I can sit back and listen to someone read the news to me!

Only 'The Brief' loads on my iphone OS8. This was a problem for years, but was fixed fairly recently, but this Apple Watch update has taken it right back to the doldrums!

App is okay and well laid out, but the app failed an important feature that is critical for a news app, and that is caching for off line reading. Sometimes a story would be readable off line, other times not, it was hit and miss. So I've deleted off phone and rate 2 stars. If the app would quickly load/cache all stories in a minute or less for off line reading as the AP news app does, then I would have rated this no worse than 4 stars. For now my only two news apps are AP and NPR, both of which fully cache their text articles for offline reading.

This app suffers from the same issue I have with USA Today's app. I can't pull the full story. The point of having this tech is to utilize it, not make me use my phone to read it. Looks good but needs some work.