Slate.com 4+
The Slate Group, LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Enjoy Slate, the award-winning daily online magazine, on your iPhone.
Slate is a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, culture, and advice. Slate’s strong editorial voice and witty take on current events have been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online.
Features include:
- Our Editorially curated stories of the day
- Access to all of our written work, including Slate’s popular political and legal commentary, movie and television reviews, and Dear Prudence.
- Our award winning podcasts, including the Political Gabfest, the Culture Gabfest, Decoder Ring, and Slow Burn.
- Push notifications to keep you informed throughout your day.
- The ability to choose to read using Light or Dark mode.
- Access to purchase or sign in to our membership program, Slate Plus. Please see the benefits below.
The app is free to download, however we do display advertisements within the app. Additionally we offer the ability to log in to your existing Slate Plus account or purchase a new Slate Plus account through the in app purchases. Your Slate Plus account can be used on your iOS devices as well as our website. To use your Slate Plus subscription on other devices you must create an account after completing your purchase. You can always create an account at a later time if you choose not to do so initially after your purchase.
With your Slate Plus subscription, you'll receive:
- Unlimited articles in the Slate app.
- An ad-free reading experience in the Slate app.
By creating an optional account you’ll also receive:
- Unlimited articles on slate.com.
- Our exclusive subscriber only weekly newsletter.
- Access to all of our podcasts completely ad-free.
- Bonus episodes and segments on your favorite shows!
Slate Plus Subscription details:
Your account will automatically renew at the end of each month or year depending on your subscription. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to user account settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
For additional information regarding Slate Plus please see our FAQ: https://slate.com/plus/faq
Slate's Privacy Policy: https://slate.com/privacy
Slate's Terms of Use: https://slate.com/terms
For additional information regarding auto renewal settings please refer to this link:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039
Please send your thoughts and suggestions to feedback@slate.com.
What’s New
Version 6.5
- Minor bug fixes and enhancements
Ratings and Reviews
Why O You Want Me To Pay?
I enjoy reading Slate very much. Sadly I am going to disable the app because you won’t let me read it unless I pay. It started with Slate+ being the gateway to much of Dear Prudence and ended today when you gave me notice I had read all the free articles I could without subscribing and you shut me off. My question is: if I need to pay to read, what do you do with all the advertising dollars you must generate because there are ads everywhere? Just like many other current sources, I’m asked to pay and then wade through many, many ads to find the pieces of the article. I’m not paying them either. And I’m not paying to play games, nor do I pay to watch cable TV for $150 a month and still put up with ads everywhere. It just bothers me about you more than the others because I enjoy Slate—your writers are fantastic, the content is always interesting and compelling, and the satire suits me perfectly. I even buy things from some of the advertisers paying you to be present everywhere in Slate. It’s a shame that now you have closed the door to me unless I pay, too.
Great articles, extremely frustrating app update
I have had and enjoyed the slate app for probably about a year now. It’s a far better mobile reading experience than browser, despite some bugs and the fact that the entire backlog of content is too large for the app. However, the most recent update has left me at the end of my rope. I have slate plus, and the app does not remember that I have logged in. Annoying, but I use a password manager. What pushes this from annoyance to unacceptable is that in order to log back in (after it auto logs me out every time the app closes), I have to uninstall and reinstall because the login page will not display correctly. To be clear, the slate plus login page will only load the first time I open it after a fresh installation. It will not load under any other circumstance. In practice, this means that I must uninstall and reinstall the app every single day to read new articles (I read far more articles than the monthly free limit allows, hence purchasing slate plus). I admittedly have a decently old iPhone (iphone 7) but my iOS is up to date and I have never had this issue with other apps. I have not been able to find a way to contact the app developers about this issue, but hopefully you will see this review and address this extraordinarily annoying problem.
Great content, lousy app
I’ve been a fan of Slate’s content for many years and I’ve thought of them as an essential voice in the American media landscape, so when they started Slate Plus, I signed on and downloaded their app. Prior to that I had just used Apple podcasts. Their app is very weak, to the point where it significantly degrades my enjoyment of their content. It does not effectively attach to the native services of the iOS operating system, so when it’s playing audio and you want to switch to playing music, the Slate audio does not stop. Similarly, if you pause it and then unpause it using external audio controls, via Bluetooth, it doesn’t restart. Now, for the last two weeks in a row, my FAVORITE podcast of all, the Political Gabfest keeps pausing itself every two minutes or so and has to be restarted manually, which requires unlocking the phone and navigating down two levels in the menu structure (again, it does not play well with iOS). So much for listening to it while you cook dinner. The overall performance of the app is very slow and it does not support downloading podcasts in advance so you can listen to them offline. The fact that I’ve had to go back to Apple’s lackluster podcast app would tell you my standards for ease of use are low, but Slate’s app doesn’t meet them.
App Privacy
The developer, The Slate Group, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
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- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
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- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- The Slate Group, LLC
- Size
- 48.9 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple TV
- Requires tvOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. All contents © 2016 The Slate Group LLC. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Slate Plus $9.99
- Slate Plus $68.99
- Slate Plus $119.00