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The Times Literary Supplement app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 3104 ratings )
News Newsstand Literary Magazines & Journals
Developer: Times Media Limited (Apps)
Free
Current version: 6.0, last update: 8 months ago
First release : 01 Nov 2012
App size: 44.84 Mb

A vibrant way of reading the TLS on your Apple device. With its combination of literary discoveries, incisive criticism, essays, poems and debate, the TLS is for anyone with an interest in the world of culture and ideas. In addition, you will find an easy search function, the weekly TLS podcast and full access to years of back issues. From fiction to philosophy, religion to politics, social studies to film: TLS readers can decipher, discuss and delve into it all.

The TLS app is free to download and you can access the contents in the following ways:

1) If you subscribe to the TLS, simply log in by using your surname and your subscriber number.

2) You can buy individual issues for £2.99 or an auto-renewing subscription at £7.99pm from the iTunes store.

Subscription renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period, otherwise the account will be charged as normal. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to Account Settings.

Privacy Policy: http://www.newsprivacy.co.uk

Terms of Use: the-tls.co.uk/terms-conditions

Pros and cons of The Times Literary Supplement app for iPhone and iPad

The Times Literary Supplement app good for

The Times Literary Supplement offers me a quality and style of commentary I otherwise cannot find anywhere else. Treat yourself to a delicious dessert of ideas that have consequences. Bloomington, Minnesota, USA
Newstand apps are generally improving in design, but the TLS is the best in terms of effortless usability. The price is a significant over the airmail edition. Wonderful to be able to read it here in Japan.
Works great for me, accessing old issues isnt slow like with the LRB App

Some bad moments

New issues are failing to appear for download. Links to app support are broken. Very tiresome.
Why wont this app remember a subscription? Every time I download a new issue I have to re- log into my account with a subscriber number. A nuisance.
The content is terrific, of course, but having to dredge up my sub number every time is a hassle. Please learn to recognise me, TLS app!
Subscriber via iTunes since 2014 but no issues in 2016 are available to download. TLS is unresponsive, and meanwhile theyve stolen $9.99 per month from me. Whats the problem?
Requires constant re-authorizing. No obvious way to delete downloads. Poor customer service response. TLS gets a very generous C-minus for this ill-conceived effort.
The TLS app is unstable, unpredictable, and maddening most days. Occasionally it will work without a lot of pampering and pleading, if the TLS wasnt so important to me I would not use it.