The Spectator Magazine

The Spectator Magazine

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About this app

The Spectator app is a subscriber exclusive that gives you the best of news, comment and culture from the world’s oldest magazine.

Simply download the app and sign in.

*NEW* in the 'more' section:
• Dark mode
• Search
• Tailor your feed with specific topics and featured writers

App highlights:
• A daily mixture of political commentary, cultural criticism and humour
• Each issue of the weekly magazine published every Thursday at 4 a.m.
• Receive alerts on breaking news – and the latest from Spectator writers
• Listen to all Spectator podcasts and narrated articles
• Read articles when you’re offline
• Keep track of the articles you’ve already read

Download today and get the latest from the oldest weekly magazine in the world.

Ratings and reviews

The Spectator is the best magazine to read in the UK, by far. It is, at its heart, critical of establishment norms and fashionable thinking. That’s why it's the best.

Down there with the poorest apps I've ever used, I'm flattering it by giving one star but it's not possible to mark it as zero and still leave a review. The overriding flaw is that it's impossible to browse by topic. I will be deleting the app and sticking to the website which is far superior. An example of creating an app just to claim to have an app rather than creating one that brings anything to the party.

Ever since the new update it's been unusable. Old app worked fine and you could read the magazine from cover to cover anywhere once you'd downloaded it. Now you need to have an internet connection just to open the app (terrible if I'm already on the tube). The app is painfully slow to load anything even if you downloaded the issue, and seems to forget that you've downloaded it half the time. It's prone to crashing at random while reading and heaven help you if you accidentally lock your screen.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements