Washington Post Select

The Washington Post

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About this app

Designed for your tablet and smartphone, this app keeps you informed with award-winning national and international news coverage—along with striking photography and informative graphics that bring stories to life. Breaking news and important updates keep you in the loop throughout the day. Intuitive browsing and a streamlined design allow you to seamlessly navigate through stories and enjoy in-depth reading. Free to download, subscribers enjoy unlimited access.

Ratings and reviews

The only thing I don't like and it is incredibly frustrating, is that if I pull up an article on Facebook, the app does not recognize me as a subscriber and it says I am out of free articles for the month. I then have to go to the app, and find the article to read instead of just clicking. I like how easy it is to pull the article off the app however. Much better than NYT.

The app is a fine idea and decently executed, although the dark theme interacts poorly with some headers. My issue is that saved articles often disappear while I'm reading them, which is how I'll often read them on flights with limited connectivity. I've reached out to the app team about this and they didn't have a solution. I've tried updating, re-installing, restarting, deleting chache. The error persists. Saved articles will generally stay out for 20-30 sec after I start reading them and then disappear without prompt from my saved list and kick me to the next article. It has made the app unusable for me.

Good news source, barely passable app. Offline use is very poor. I have every 'download daily/in background' option enabled, yet every time I get on an airplane, many articles say, 'connection not available.' Well, true, that's why I wanted to download the paper. Also, online or not, every time I switch apps, when i come back it loses my location. Good news source, crummy app. 2020-11-08 update No fixes appear to have been made. Was not able to read the paper during an off-grid camping trip.

What’s new

This release contains performance improvements.