Could be great
I really wish this was a good app because I love the recipes and I’m getting frustrated with the website and all their ads despite subscribing for their subscription. Yet this app is a huge letdown with only access to the magazine really and a silly interface.
Download
I have to continually download editions because I get signed out. When I sign back in, I have to start the process all over again. I’ve done this more times than I care to count.
Need full screen mode
I like this magazine, but the reader app is not great. It wouldn’t take a whole lot to really make this a much better app. Can you simply just enable it where you can have a full screen mode or you don’t have a toolbar at the top or anything else to where you can focus just on the magazine.
Please help yourself Bon Appetit!
The user experience on this app is horrendous. I love Bon Appetit so much, but am so surprised at the lack of proper UX / UI design here. You have an incredible - legendary! - archive of recipes and they are nowhere to be found here! Surely a simple copy paste of the website is an MVP for a better app. Lift and shift! Let me help you, help us!
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A dud
I pay for a subscription and every time I log in I am told I don’t have an account and to call an 800 number. Who has time for that? I will have to keep using the site.
Most Frustrating App
Every time I’ve tried to log into this app it boots me out. I reset my password and then I can get in. I’ve given up on Bon Appetit. It was a great magazine but that’s fine downhill as well. I finally let my account expire - and won’t be coming back.
Doesn’t Work!
I have a Bon Ap subscription, yet the app doesn’t recognize mine even after trying to link. Useless. Guess I have to use the website.
Terrible
I just spent $52 to get the app on line and the print edition. Both online and with the app it keeps asking me to buy a subscription again. Within the app, even though I’m signed in and it says success it won’t let me search for anything this is an absolute joke and a waste of money and I’m going to have to spend God knows how much time Conde Nast to figure out how they can fix it.
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Won’t link print subscription
No matter how many times I log
in with my correct subscription info. The app says it doesn’t exist. Useless!
in with my correct subscription info. The app says it doesn’t exist. Useless!
Digital version of the printed magazine
This app is a PDF copy of the printed magazine that I received in the mail. I could not figure out any links to the actual recipes that are in there and it does not give you access to the whole Bon Appetit website with all their other recipes. The app is useless if you already get the printed magazine
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My go-to app
I love being able to find back issues and recipes!
Signed up but can’t see anything keeps wanting me to pay yet again!
Signed up for a year and can’t get into my account
Not optimized for iPhone
An awful experience. Do better.
Not impressed
I got this app last year to replace The NY Times cooking app. Apparently I’m good without either. I barely used the Bon Appetit app, then a year later awaken to a renewal charge of 42. I spent a week and half trying to get them to refund me before I just told my bank I didn’t approve the charge. I got charged the renewal fee on 11/20 and just now after two emails and two voicemails I’ve left are they calling me asking about my satisfaction w their service. Nah I’m good. Maybe a warning email before renewing a subscription would be a better approach. This was unimpressive through and through.
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Not worth subscription price
I have been paying full price for BA subscription for years, but this app won’t even let me read articles or view recipes without subscribing further for additional price and email clutter - am deeply disappointed - thinking about canceling my subscription.
Not the magazine it once was
Issues get thinner and thinner. The magazine no longer includes recipes that home cooks can easily attempt. The ingredients are not always easy to find and the recipes are entertaining worthy. I enjoyed the magazine when it included real life entertaining tips and recipes.
What’s with the banner across the top??
Have to move page up and down to see entire page in portrait. Why? The idea of the exercise is to feel like reading a magazine. This is dumb.
FRAUD
This is a fraudulent App. NOT associated with Condé Nast or Bon Appetit at all. Pay attention to the actual company’s name before subscribing to anything.
Doesn't work!!
I tried to log in with an existing account and it said no subscription found. Sat on customer service for 30 minutes with people who could not understand what was going wrong because they DONT SPEAK ENGLISH and thus could not help me. Fix your broken websites Condé Nast!!!!!!
So bad it’s shocking
This app is actually unusable. It organizes everything by magazine edition which is very odd. You have to sign in to search for recipes but you can’t sign in because that feature is broken. Really terrible and pointless app.
