# AOPA Mags

> Digital delivery of AOPA aviation magazines for members. (iPhone/iPad app by Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aopa-mags/id478058436 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)](https://appshunter.io/developer/478058439)
- Category: Travel, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.00/5 from 377 App Store ratings · 78 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 55 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2011-11-30
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aopa-mags/id478058436/reviews.md

## What is AOPA Mags?

Delivers AOPA's monthly magazines to members of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. AOPA Pilot and Flight Training are available to AOPA digital subscribers.

## Key features

- Monthly magazine delivery
- Access AOPA Pilot
- Access Flight Training
- Digital subscriber content
- For AOPA members

## What do users think of AOPA Mags?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 📚 Access to magazine library on-the-go
- 🌍 Portable alternative to paper magazines
- 📖 Quality content and articles
- 🎥 Embedded videos supplementing articles
- 🔗 Cross-referencing with embedded links
- 📑 Page navigation and department access

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- ⏱️ Slow app startup and loading times
- 📱 Poor optimization for iPhone screens
- 🔍 Limited and problematic zoom functionality
- 📄 Print layout not adapted for digital reading
- 🌐 Requires WiFi despite downloaded magazines
- 🔐 Persistent login and authentication issues
- 📦 Large app file size (~1GB)
- 🔄 App reloads when backgrounded
- 🎯 Non-standard gesture controls
- ⚠️ Blurry text rendering issues
- 🚫 Inaccessible to users with visual impairments
- 🔌 Offline reading doesn't work reliably

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes on startup requiring restart
- Doesn't remember last read page or position
- Zoom locks in center of page, can't pan to edges
- Ghosted/disabled buttons after download
- Downloaded magazines inaccessible without WiFi
- Blurry text at all zoom levels
- Scrolling only works in one plane (horizontal or vertical)
- App freezes when zooming in
- Login/logout issues and authentication failures
- Catalog loading loops and timeouts
- Magazines disappear after updating back issues
- App crashes when deleting archives
- Blank screens or error messages on launch
- Incompatibility with special characters in passwords
- International ISP access issues
- Photo captions on different pages from images
- Photos spread across pages making them unviewable

**Most requested features**

- Automatic bookmarking to last read page across all issues
- Single-column layout optimized for digital reading
- Adjustable font sizes with responsive layout
- Custom zoom levels with free panning
- Proper offline reading capability
- Text selection and copy functionality
- VoiceOver accessibility support
- Faster download speeds
- Persistent login sessions
- Better iPad Pro display scaling
- Merge AOPA app and Magazine app
- Support for multiple magazine editions (Turbine Pilot, etc.)

## Recent user reviews (10 of 78)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aopa-mags/id478058436/reviews.md

### 2/5 — Not suitable format for iPad

*2024-10-12, version 4.11.9*

Just page images from print magazine. Two- and three-column text layout means small font, difficult to read without zooming, then you need to scroll all over to read the article, then unzoom to change to the next page. Repeat. Annoying every time.

Photos are sometimes spread across pages so you can't see the whole photo, or the captions aren't on the same page.

Online magazines should be reformatted for single-column reading with adjustable font size that alters layout as size changes. Each article gets its own page.

### 2/5 — Useless 85% of the time

*2024-02-25*

This app worked great at the beginning. Now I download so I can read offline while traveling. And every time it stalls out. Even while at home and you click on a link and return to the app it crashes. Been very frustrated with this app the last few years!

### 2/5 — Never works first time

*2023-05-01*

Every time I enter this app, it spins. I have to kill the app and restart it. Every single time. It NEVER knows where I stopped reading. NEVER. It seems reasonable that it should know where I left off and work when I return to it. 

Amazingly, however, it does provide the content. How AOPA can continue to allow this grossly substandard app is beyond me.

### 3/5 — Can’t zoom in anywhere but the center of each page

*2022-10-26*

Good luck if you want to read this on your phone.  You can zoom in, but only on the middle of the page.  No scrolling or moving it around to read the writing on the sides of the page.

### 3/5 — Good,  not quite great

*2022-07-19, version 4.9.4*

To be better, when I return to the app after an absence, it would be on the page I was reading when I left. To be great, no matter which issue I visit, it would start on the page I left off at. Like a dog ear. Only no crease. And zooming is sometimes wonky too … but a good app.

Well, that text was written a couple years back. It’s not better, it’s worse now. If I leave the app and come back after an hour or more, it spins. I have to kill the app and restart it, and once again it doesn’t know where I am. Why the heck is it getting worse?

### 1/5 — Downloads

*2022-02-20, version 4.9.4*

It says I’m offline when not. Want open mags when offline. What’s the point of downloading it?

### 2/5 — Ghosted Buttons

*2022-01-06, version 4.9.4*

After downloading the “Read” button is ghosted but you can delete it but when you go back to home page all buttons are ghosted.
R Terry

### 1/5 — Clumsy app. Freezes, slow to load, difficult to use

*2021-08-29*

Unfortunately this app is so bad that it makes me want to switch back to paper. It freezes up, takes forever to download a magazine, and is not intuitive to navigate. I have had major issues scrolling / moving around a page. The app will freeze up when I try to zoom in on a page. It’s difficult to get back out of a magazine to view other issues. I am using this app on the newest iOS software. Does not work well at all. Would not recommend.

### 1/5 — No WiFi

*2021-03-04*

I paid the extra for the digital version of the mags so I could download copies to read anytime anywhere.
At one time I could do that but not any more. It almost works when I am at home or somewhere with access to a fast WiFi.
Even though I have several mags downloaded...it will not let me get to them without WiFi.
Don’t waste your money on the digital subscriptions.

### 1/5 — Absolute Garbage

*2021-02-18, version 4.8.22*

Update - 2/18/21: I either get an error every time I try to read or download the latest issue, or just a blank screen.

When zoomed in enough where you can actually read the text, it winds up being too blurry. Even zoomed halfway in, it’s still too blurry. Zoom all the way out, and it’s too small.

## Frequently asked questions about AOPA Mags

### What is this app?

This app delivers AOPA's monthly aviation magazines to its members. It provides digital access to publications such as AOPA Pilot and Flight Training for those who are digital subscribers.

### Who can use this app?

This app is specifically for members of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) who have a digital subscription. It's designed to provide them with easy access to their member publications.

### What magazines are available?

The app provides access to AOPA's monthly magazines, including AOPA Pilot and Flight Training. These are available to AOPA digital subscribers.

### Is there a cost to use this app?

The app itself is free to download and use. Access to the magazines within the app is dependent on your AOPA membership and digital subscription status.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.11.9 — 2023-02-22

New links in menu bar

### 4.9.4 — 2021-03-03

Bug fixed for downloaded books

### 4.8.22 — 2020-01-07

Improved functionality and bug fixes.

### 4.8.8 — 2019-07-31

This version introduces an entirely new code base with an improved user interface and faster, smoother operation.

### 2.3.2.1039 — 2015-08-12

Among other enhancements this significant update to AOPA Mags features full iOS 8 compatibility; a new, intuitive user interface; and last page viewed, in which the app remembers the last page viewed in each issue.

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