Corriere della Sera

I downloaded the app for the Corriere della Sera the day that my iPad arrived and it works beautifully. The app provides you with a complete digital edition of the newspaper, which is unusual, free of charge. The first release didn't have thumbnails, but they fixed this the next day with version 1.1 (I suspect they saw La Repubblica's app and realised their mistake). I like the crisp rendition of the pages of the newspaper, the ability to tap once to zoom-in on an area then tap twice to zoom-back out to full-page format. You can flip through pages using gestures, and you can zoom in and out by pinching and pushing. This is how all newspaper apps should be designed. Bellissimo.

The title says it all: -the ability to share the subscription with up to 5 other iPads makes it good value for money. You also get access to local editions and weekly magazines -I like readability which mimics the real newspaper rather than what is done with WSJ and FT. -it's still buggy. I have to often login again with user name and password even though they should be saved. Sometimes that takes more than one attempt and I have exit and enter the app a couple of times. Sometime it stops loading the edition even though it is less than 100% which is a pain if you realize it after having gone offline -the initial advertisement is fine but takes too long to get by it Fixing these issues would get you 5 stars in my opinion

The idea of the layout rework is great allowing a more elegant and easy way to read articles. The new version of the app is stable but the phone heats a lot during a reading session and battery drains like nothing!

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A very poor and unstable app. What's even more annoying is that you are presented with extra ads even if you are a paying subscriber (the edition comes with its standard set of ads like the printed version). One star only because you can't give zero... embarrassing compared to the app of The Economist or Nikkei Asia Review. Corriere: you need to fix this!

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Rather than making it faster and easier to read the Corriere, the new app is much slower to load and allows the publishing company to push commercial pop-ups, like the subscription to Tutto+, that slow tremendously the reading experience. Corriere: please fix this catastrophe quickly!