# delicious. — user reviews > 61 indexed App Store user reviews of delicious. by News Life Media Pty Ltd, rated 4.80/5 from 49 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/delicious/id604733625/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/delicious/id604733625.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 42 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of delicious.? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Great magazine content - 📸 Amazing photos - 💖 Love the recipes - ✨ Aesthetically appealing publication - 👍 Reliable emag delivery **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes and freezes - 🐛 App won't open or load - 🐛 Disappearing purchases/past editions - 🐛 Subscription access issues - 🐛 Difficult navigation - 🐛 App is not user-friendly - 🐛 Repeatedly asked to purchase issues - 🐛 Bugs galore - 🐛 App is a joke and useless - 🐛 Not family sharing - 🐛 No response from support - 🐛 App needs serious work - 🐛 Digital subscription worthless - 🐛 App is restrictive - 🐛 App is a replica of the magazine - 🐛 App is convoluted to navigate - 🐛 App has compatibility issues - 🐛 App has more ads - 🐛 App is not interactive **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and freezes - App won't open or load - Disappearing purchases/past editions - Subscription access issues - Bookmarks don't load - Shows previous downloads but won't open them - App takes several restarts to load - Cannot access subscription - App is useless - App is a joke - App won't open for months - Frustrating navigation - Cannot access anything after purchasing subscription - App keeps buffering saying optimizing content - Read permission has expired - Asked to buy latest issue - Automated response from support - App doesn't work - Not really family sharing - Problem with credentials - Forgot password gets no result - Emails to help desk are not answered - Cannot access new issues - App shuts down every time it's opened - Crappy downloading issues - No feedback from support - iPad issues are not worth it - Unable to use mags online code - Cannot update to the new version - App will not update - Latest update under cooked - New layout is just a scan of the magazine - Have to repeatedly download magazines - Empty oval where download button should be - App is broken - Cannot access subscription - Lost library of magazines - App support takes to subscription pages - App has stopped working properly - Cannot access library - New magazine doesn't appear - Lost all past subscriptions - App has stopped working - Won't let me download last edition - Download button is blank - Current issue isn't downloading - Losing earlier issues - Cannot get latest magazine to download - Store won't load - App needs to be updated - Telling me I am not connected to the internet - App just has the dots (like it is loading) - New update won't let you log in from an iPad Pro - Cannot save recipes as favorites - Compatibility issues with iPad Pro - App freezes on occasion - Not available for download at the same time as hard copy - Not working with IOS upgrade - Does not work at all - Will not work - Cannot get it to download - Message says to close & re-open app **Most requested features** - Improve app reliability and fix bugs - Allow access to past editions after app closure - Fix subscription access issues - Make app more user-friendly - Improve navigation from index to recipes - Allow renaming of saved bookmarks - Add interactive index with links to recipes - Fix buffering issues - Fix permission expired issues - Provide iPad friendly landscape version - Restore interactive features - Improve search functionality for recipes - Allow saving individual recipes - Add yearly index - Make app more intuitive - Fix app compatibility issues with iPad Pro - Allow saving recipes as favorites - Add more straightforward simplistic design ## Newest reviews (15 of 61) ### 4/5 — This magazine is good, but app has some bugs! *2025-07-15* Sometimes I can see reviews about the app just crashes and freezes and needs to be fixed! BTW Good cooking magazine ### 3/5 — Could be more interactive *2020-10-25* I enjoy being able to access Delicious content digitally, but searching for recipes in the app could be far easier. The only way to ‘save’ recipes is to bookmark pages but the bookmark previews give you little indication of what’s on the page. At the very least, being able to rename saved bookmarks would be helpful, or an interactive index with links to each recipe in the edition. It’s just not all the user-friendly in its current state. ### 2/5 — pocketmags *2020-04-23* been asking since the app came out to have a ipad friendly landscape version. years later, still not listening, do they care. an ipad pro held portrait is ridiculous. Pocket mags have the right idea. Their mags apps are user friendly and adaptable. This app has not changed and might as well be a pdf, but more restrictive! please listen! ### 1/5 — Not really family sharing *2018-07-26, version 2.1* This app advertises family sharing, but that isn’t true. Not really very helpful. It is called misleading advertising. ### 1/5 — Where is my subscription. *2018-07-21* I can see older issues but cannot access new issues. I updated my subscription which I thought would fix the missing May, June and July issues. I logged out thinking it would be easy to log back in as I had just used my user name and password on Magsonline but no there is a problem with my credentials. Pressing forgot password gets no result and emails to help desk are not answered. I have previously had no problems but this is so unsatisfactory. ### 2/5 — Great content but TERRIBLE app *2018-01-28* I love the magazine but the iPad app crashes literally every few pages. When it reloads it goes back to the front cover. There has also been a dramatic change in content over the last year - no more lovely interactive parts and way more advertising. ### 2/5 — Waste of a subscription *2018-01-18, version 2.0* Every time I open the app to go through the magazine it shuts down then you have to reopen. Come on fix it cause if it isn’t I won’t be renewing my subscription. ### 1/5 — What the ! +=\ *2017-11-18* Really, initially dropped my iPad subscription due to crappy downloading issues! Emailed my concerns but no feedback from you? Decided to give you a second chance but still the same issues!!! You need to fix this problem to keep your customers happy, great magazine and love it but the iPad issues are not worth it! Have cancelled my subscription again until you decide to fix the problem ☹️ ### 1/5 — Unable to use mags online code *2017-10-24, version 2.0* When I look at your help file, it says to click on the menu and select login with mags online code. But in the app, that option isn’t on the menu. Wish I’d picked another option instead of wasting it on this mag ### 1/5 — Cannot update to the new version! Help!!! *2017-10-12, version 2.0* I cannot update to the new version, the link sends me to the App Store , but not update there. ### 3/5 — Not an improvement *2017-10-12, version 2.0* I much preferred the previous version of the App - swipe left, swipe down. The new one just seems to be a replica of the magazine. ### 1/5 — Latest update under cooked *2017-10-12, version 2.0* What is the matter delicious? I cannot access the new edition of the magazine because your app will not update!!! Exasperation! And I’d just renewed my subscription 😕 ### 1/5 — Just cancelled my sub, terrible new layout *2017-09-06* Having been a subscriber for over 10 years and online subscriber for last 2 years I am very disappointed at the new layout which is just a scan of the magazine and not interactive like it was until it changed in July this year - with a recipe per page. I find it hard to use now and while I loved using the recipes it is not worth it anymore. If you decide to change back to the great app you had I will resubscribe. Why oh why do the app writers not understand that everyday users want something intuitive! ### 1/5 — Repeated Downloads *2017-04-18, version 1.0.27* Other magazines only require you to download the magazine once. Great magazine but I find it annoying that I have to repeatedly download the magazines to find the recipe I am looking for, it is very time consuming! They need to improve the app or I will go back to the print version. ### 4/5 — STOPPED WORKING!!! *2017-02-21* I have loved this app for years, but now I have been trying to download the March edition and it just won't work ..... just an empty oval where the download button should be. PLEASE FIX THIS! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappearing purchases *2025-05-02, version 4.0* Will I be able to access my purchases/ past editions after the app is closed down? ### 1/5 — Awful *2024-02-22, version 3.0* I love Delicious Magazine but hate this app. I live outside Australia so can’t get print edition. App is a joke and useless subscription because I can’t access my subscription. Have deleted app and reinstalled. Shows my previous downloads but won’t open them. ### 1/5 — Great magazine, terrible app *2023-12-24* I love Delicious magazine, but the app needs some serious work. It takes several restarts to get the app to load anything, and bookmarks don’t load at all. Would love to see the team improve this, as it is making my digital subscription worthless. ### 1/5 — Won’t open *2023-11-17, version 3.0* I’ve been using this app for years but I haven’t been able to open it for the last few months. In Canada, on the latest iOS. ### 1/5 — Delicious but hard to navigate *2023-01-03, version 2.4* Love the recipes and articles but find the magazine frustrating. In other mags I can go from the index straight to the recipe. I find it frustrating. ### 1/5 — Crooks *2020-09-21, version 2.4* Not sure who the dishonest people are, either delicious or mags on line. Purchased a subscription and now can’t access anything. Mags on line don’t respond all very suspect and they need to be taken to task. Do not buy from these people, you get nothing for your money. ### 1/5 — Optimising content *2020-07-02, version 2.4* App not working keeps buffering saying optimising content. Any suggestions how I can fix this? ### 1/5 — Frustrated *2020-06-22* For some reason when I try to open past issues I get a notice saying that the read permission has expired and that I should purchase the issue again! I have tried to restore purchases but this does not fix the problem. I am also being asked to buy the latest issue. I have emailed ‘mags on line’ several times but only get an automated response. Any clues how to fix this? Is it an app issue? Needs fixing!!!! ### 1/5 — Bugs galore *2020-05-29, version 2.3* Had the app for less than a month and it doesn’t work. Received a free subscription, certainly wouldn’t pay for this ### 1/5 — This app does not work do not buy! *2019-04-02* What a shame I didn’t read the reviews before purchasing. It doesn’t work. I’ve spent hours trying to get it to work, updating phone, putting the app on and off my phone and iPad, etc etc. it says I don’t have any issues available and is trying to make me pay despite having bought a one year subscription. To make it worse no one has bothered to come back to me about it when I contacted support. Going to get a refund. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Reliability and ontime issues *2023-12-07, version 3.0* Many thanks for your reliable delivery of the emag… always great to get reading and prepare menus! ### 5/5 — Delicious Australia Magazine *2023-10-23, version 3.0* The best photos ever and I love the recipes they provide us with ### 5/5 — A great Publication *2021-01-21, version 2.4* The magazine is not only such a professional product but also atheisticly appealing. There are so many great recipes. ### 5/5 — Needs a bit of technical help *2020-05-26* I’ve been a subscriber since it went on line. Content is still great (although there are more and more adds appearing) but every issue comes up as “buy” and I have to restore purchases each time. Really miss the interactive features too. Was very hand being able to click on a recipe in the index and be taken straight to the relevant page. ### 5/5 — The interactive Delicious was far superior *2020-02-24* Sadly the interactive version was much better and more value. This is just the paper version on the web. May as well buy the paper version. It wasn’t very forward thinking to go backwards. Should have progressed the interactive version to make the paper version seem outdated. Shame ### 5/5 — Mrs Jennifer Rodrigues *2017-02-15, version 1.0.27* One the best magazines available. Worth ever penny. ### 5/5 — Trevor *2017-01-22* This app has all of a sudden stopped working properly.. Every time you try to access the library it just has the dots (like it is loading), then says you need to be connected to the Internet, when I am. I've tried this on another iPad and it does the same thing. All I want to do is get the latest magazine... Signed in via my Magsonline subscription and the new magazine doesn't appear even though my subscription is current. Deleted the app, re-downloaded and still same problem, only now I've lost all past subscriptions and when trying to restore it, it just stops working... ### 5/5 — As the name suggests... *2016-03-18, version 1.0.27* I love getting my latest Delicious mag on the app. The features and usability are excellent. Makes me hungry every time! ### 5/5 — Fab *2016-02-12, version 1.0.27* Love this app, love the food. ### 5/5 — Finally! *2015-11-21, version 1.0.25* I've been waiting for years since moving back from Australia for this!! So far, so good!!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*