Needs update
With paper subscription, we are told we have digital access through this app - but this app requires an additional subscription. Avoid the double-dip on cost by either subscribing to only this digital app or view digital version on Apollo website with Apollo’s subscription. Don’t pay twice.
Works well on iPad
Works well for me as a subscriber, reading and navigating the issues with ease on my iPad.
Unclear how to connect to existing subscription
If there is a way to connect to an existing Apollo magazine subscription using a webID,it is entirely not obvious. I haven't been able to find how to do that, stuck waiting for customer service reply. That should be made quite basic.
Not really suited for iPhone and poor functionality
This is a cumbersome app. It is illegible on an iPhone owing to the type size and formatting. Perhaps it is fine legibility-wise for iPad. However, even on a desktop it is slow to load and there is no obvious way to print a multi-page article (more than two pages) in one go using the 'printable pdf' click. If there is, it's well hidden. It clearly uses a magazine software template that really is really not up to the job.
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Subscriber Beware
This from the app developer:
"A subscription through the Exact Editions Apollo app, works on an access model basis. This means that for the duration of your subscription, you can access an archive of back issues as well as each new issue. However once your subscription expires you can no longer access issues of the magazine.”
I wish I had known this before I forked over $60. Good magazine and the app itself worked well. But since I chose not to renew, I can’t even refer back to the issues I had purchased.
"A subscription through the Exact Editions Apollo app, works on an access model basis. This means that for the duration of your subscription, you can access an archive of back issues as well as each new issue. However once your subscription expires you can no longer access issues of the magazine.”
I wish I had known this before I forked over $60. Good magazine and the app itself worked well. But since I chose not to renew, I can’t even refer back to the issues I had purchased.
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Devil may cry
First one to write a review awesome but great app tho
Even The Ads Are Cool
The free app gives a preview of the current issue and allows you to scroll the first couple of pages: cover, editorial, contents pages. Contents pages have clickable links to current events in Arts world e.g. Exhibitions, Auctions etc. If you click to read an article you get prompted to subscribe: £40 is a bit steep for me but tempting. Would make a great gift for an art-lover. There are adverts but from major galleries so adverts display paintings, fine furniture, suits of armour etc - I love lingering over the ads! Note to self: find some way to screen capture so you can keep the images. Anyway, the app may be limited but its free content is still worthwhile having as source of sophisticated eye candy images and links to other free content on the web.
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Beautiful, simple, easy to use, stunning images
This is a 100% replica of the printed edition and it sings on the ipad. Worth the download time. The art itself is stunning and the breadth of cultures included is staggering. First rate.
Apollo Art Magazine
If you have seen this magazine in print you will know how superb it is. But on the I pad the art works literally shine and the ability to zoom in gives you the opportunity to see the smallest detail. Links are also provided straight to museum, art dealers and auction house websites. This expands the magazines pages ad infinitum. The March 2011 issue is one of the best issues ever produced to coincide with TEFAF Maastricht. A surprise benefit is the ability to read the back issues exactly as printed. I definitely recommend this to any art lover on both sides of the Atlantic.
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