# Medium: Read & Write Stories

> News, Tech, Business, Design

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id828256236](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id828256236)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id828256236`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** A Medium Corporation
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (156,866 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.324
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-31
- **First published:** 2014-03-20
- **Size:** 230 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-03
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/medium-read-write-stories/id828256236)
- **Website:** [https://about.medium.com/](https://about.medium.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://medium.com/policy/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9](https://medium.com/policy/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9)

## Description

Medium: Read & Write Stories brings distraction-free reading, easy writing, and social publishing directly to your browser. Discover stories across News, Tech, Business, and Design, highlight passages, bookmark favorites, follow writers, and engage with a global community. Publish your own work to a platform reaching over 100 million readers, join the Medium Partner Program to earn money, and enjoy a seamless, cross-device reading experience with optional audio versions.

## Rankings

- #2,506 — Overall
- #1 — medium
- #5 — article
- #6 — blog
- #8 — publish
- #13 — ux

## Review summary

Users praise Medium for its simple UI and strong writer/reader community, but report repeated bugs and mobile editing issues, plus navigation inconsistencies that hinder usability.

### Pros

- Simple, clean user interface that's easy to use and share blogs.
- Pleasant overall look and feel with intuitive features.
- Great platform for writers and readers; easy to publish thoughtful articles and discover quality content.
- Reads progress is remembered and the app provides a smooth reading experience.

### Cons

- Frequent glitches and errors; the app feels unstable at times.
- Mobile editing/publishing bugs (draft retrieval failure, paragraph duplication, limited editing options).
- Navigation/UI inconsistencies (confusing controls, multiple account buttons, missing back button/reading history).

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