Introducing Coffee House: the App

The Sunday Times lists the ‘Top 500 Apps in the world’ (£) today, and I’m pleased to say that The Spectator’s brand new app ranks no.4 in its ‘news apps’ category. The newspaper describes the list as ‘the good, the mad and lovely’ and ours emerges as little of all three. What we have sought to do with the new app is combine our blogs and the magazine, and we are (I think) the first magazine to do so. The Sunday Times gives it the thumbs-up. It ranks us behind its own app, and those of the BBC and Sky News. Here’s its verdict:

‘The contents page may be slightly eccentric, but it’s worth persevering with them. Elegant page design and side-swiping navigation make it easy to digest the longer stories, while cartoons and illustrations provide a witty way to break up the text. A free preview includes posts from Rod Liddle and the well-regarded Coffee House politics blog, but to read the complete print edition you will need to pay £1.49