“Too. Many Ads — Why am i being subjected to ads when i pay for a subscription? Get rid of the ads please.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 509 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.9 ★138,426 ratings
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12+Age rating
56 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Download The Atlantic’s app for complete coverage of politics, tech, culture, and more. Sharpen your perspective with reporting that examines the world with depth and accuracy. Challenge your assumptions with big ideas and bold arguments from Atlantic journalists. Spark your curiosity with magazine features that go deep into subjects you never considered before. And now, unlock unlimited access to all of our journalism, on any device, with an annual subscription.
Atlantic App Features:
TODAY: Every day, our editors bring you a selection of Atlantic stories that made them think—and think again. Exclusively on the app.
LATEST: Quickly browse our most recently published stories from all sections, and save stories to read later.
IN-APP AUDIO HUB: Enjoy narrated articles and podcasts directly from the app—from quick listens to deeper dives.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 7.8.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 7.8.8, updated 2026-09-10.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 509 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Great articles, too many ads — Advertisements every few paragraphs in an article I PAID to read are not acceptable. The Atlantic isn’t the only digital magazine to suffer from this issue, but video ads are extra distracting and annoying.”
“Ads with a paid subscription?? — Constant ads while you’re trying to read an article, all while PAYING. What a joke”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 7.8.8.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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