XKCD: What If? Reader

Published by: Dimitry Grekov
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Description

This app is for offline reading of the wonderful Q&A blog by Randall Munroe.
Features include:
* Offline Reading Mode
* Push notifications for new posts
* iPad Version, enjoy the articles on the big screen
* In-App purchase, no more ads if you don't want them

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4 out of 5

1 ratings in Israel

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XKCD Reviews

Interesting and funny

Jeanio16 on

United States

I love the cartoons, adding humor to all the facts!

This is fantastic

Hooooot13 on

United States

The only this I think could be better is the formatting on tablets isn't as good as I could be but it still works.

Good fun

Occisor Kakon on

United States

Love the breakdown and the illustrations

good

Tsaglalal on

United States

nice app works well.

Does what it is supposed to

Someone467326779 on

United States

Let's you read What If with very limited advertising, which you can pay to remove.

Too many glitches

abarnert on

United States

The basic design is great. The ads aren't obtrusive or too frequently. If the app were consistently good enough that I could read the articles in it, instead of having to go to the website, I'd give it 5 stars. But it's not. Footnotes with non-ASCII text, footnotes with footnotes in them, and footnotes with math formatting in them are broken. Links inside footnotes don't work right. Image alt-text is often truncated instead of wrapped. Sometimes the footnotes are out of order. Sometimes links are broken. At least one article is missing half a paragraph and an image. Some of this may sound like nit-picky stuff, but we're talking about Randall Munroe here--without the jokes hidden in alt-text, math, silliness about accent marks, etc., what's the point in reading him? The app is still good enough to read the majority of the articles. But, since it won't show me the article number or give me a link--in fact, it even disables the normal context menu so I can't copy text or links from the middle of an article--there's no way for me to read most of the articles here but switch to Safari when it falls down. Which makes the app pretty much useless.

Text won't scroll

Thom-C on

United States

Great content, if I could read it. For several months, the text has refused to scroll (on an iPad 3 running iOS 9.2). It's very frustrating to get only the first paragraph of an answer.

Beautiful

98774 on

United States

This app is great; I can always count on it for humor but I also learn from it.

Simple app - unreliable

GregOh! on

United States

Great content but app unreliable - often unusable w iOS 9. Scrolling broken, unresponsive at times - does not match the care of the author.

A+ for content

GIGObug on

United States

I love the reasoning and exploration of the many topics. I understand there is a new topic every week. Could this app be updated more frequently to include currently posted content. Perhaps during the same week? Keep up the great work.

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App Info

Publisher
Dimitry Grekov
Languages
English, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Chinese, Spanish, Chinese
Recent release
1.7 (8 years ago )
Released on
Nov 25, 2013 (11 years ago )
Last Updated
3 days ago
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