# evo Magazine — user reviews > 217 indexed App Store user reviews of evo Magazine by Carwow Studio Limited, rated 4.70/5 from 307 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/evo-magazine/id401980272/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/evo-magazine/id401980272.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 260 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of evo Magazine? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Great content and writing - 🚀 Stunning photography - 🚀 Interactive features (videos, 360 views) - 👍 Well-designed app layout - 👍 Convenient digital format **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🐛 Unreliable downloads and syncing - 🐛 Poor performance and slow load times - 👎 Downgrade from previous app version - 👎 Difficult navigation and poor user experience - 👎 Lack of optimization for mobile devices **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch - Issues restoring purchases and subscriptions - Incomplete or corrupted downloads - Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions **Most requested features** - Search and navigation improvements - Offline reading mode - Ability to save and resume reading progress - Customizable font and layout options - Seamless integration with print subscription ## Newest reviews (16 of 217) ### 4/5 — New version 2023 *2023-10-31* At LAST!!! Landscape mode is available! Yes!!! This finally allows ipad subscribers to enjoy the beautiful double spread photos just as the hard copy folk do. The pages feature enabling quick preview access through the edition is another very worthwhile improvement. I’ve been a reader or subscriber in hard copy or electronic form since Issue One and now I’m as delighted with the format as I always have been with the content. Well done :) ### 2/5 — Great journalism ruined by dreadful app *2023-08-04* About a year ago this was optimised for tablets and IOS. Now it’s a pitiful, badly rendered PDF file. Why oh why did you roll back the well presented digital version to this cheap rubbish? I think I may have answered my own question there… Such a shame. ### 1/5 — Terrible user experience. *2022-05-26, version 4.6* Terrible user experience just a PDF of the mag. Not response content at all. Real shame as the articles are excellent ### 1/5 — A horrible reading experience *2021-12-19* This is just a pdf reader with each magazine completely left as per the paper version. So you are zooming around trying to read paragraphs instead of it being rendered text. Awful. ### 1/5 — Retrograde step *2021-08-19* Insane that this is now a pdf version of the magazine. You can’t skip to a page and have to zoom in on parts of the print that you want. Add in that the app just force closes 30 seconds after opening and you’ve gone from an app that used to be well worth the subscription costs to one that is getting cancelled at the end of the next cycle. ### 1/5 — App keeps crashing *2021-08-11* App keeps crashing and no real new updates. New magazines are no long interactive but scans (not even good scans) of the actually magaizine. Come on guys at EVO, you can do better than this. I’ve been subscribed for years and years. ### 3/5 — Nice app but could be better *2021-06-24* Just got the digital subscription for EVO. Favorite car mag. This app is ok, but it would be great if it could display 2 pages when I turn my iPad to landscape. It only shows one page in any orientation. This applies to the magazines that are not optimized for this app. ### 1/5 — Fix the bugs *2021-06-12* I unsubscribed about six months ago because of many problems - very slow load times, stories frequently jumping back to the start and having to reset my ipad due to various other issues. I had a look at the app since the recent update and none of these issues are fixed. Good mag ruined by a badly written app Now it’s just a scan of the retail mag and not very well done at that. Unsubscribing for good this time. ### 1/5 — You f**^ !? it up with the mobile UNFRIENDLY format *2021-05-19* Why why why did you change it? Why why why don’t you listen to the reviews of your customers??? I’ve been a subscriber since issue 001, addicted to my monthly fix. Now I barely read and ONLY because you’ve made it so unappealing/unattractive and difficult with your mobile unfriendly version. Great editorial and pictures, perfect story telling, passion perfectly in line with what we’re looking for......all ruined because of what? Shame. ### 3/5 — Almost impossible to read because it only loads to half the page *2021-03-19* No use because it just won't download ### 2/5 — EVO *2021-03-14, version 4.6* The Evo content is good but they have changed their presentation on the app so it is now hard to read from a iPhone. They should revert to a format similar to that used by Autocar. ### 1/5 — iPad app update has ruined the experience *2021-02-17, version 4.6* I really don’t know what you've done to theiPad app, but trying to read anything on EVO now is nothing more than a giant pain that doesn’t justify the effort. Money back please! ### 1/5 — A giant leap backwards , I’ve just cancelled *2021-02-04, version 4.6* Who signed off this idea, truly terrible. Come on let us have the old app back this new one is not really an app more a screen shots of the mag. ### 1/5 — Latest version is a huge step backwards. *2021-02-01* Very disappointed in the app the last few months. Latest version crashes all the time, and is not optimized for mobile. They literally just scanned in a PDF of the magazine, and pass it off as a mobile version. Will not be renewing my subscription. ### 2/5 — Great content, poorly designed App. *2021-01-26* The magazine itself is great but the app is simple frustrating to use. How hard is it to make a simple reading app. ### 1/5 — It’s been spoiled *2021-01-21* I agree with the others, this used to be a great digital reproduction of the print Evo. Sadly, it has been down graded to a .pdf which is not readable on the devices it is meant for as it just copies the magazine pages. I have therefore cancelled my subscription. Why on earth did you have to spoil it! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible now, does not download *2025-02-07, version 4.8* Used to be ok, but changes have been made and it does not work offline anymore. ### 1/5 — Old issues gone? *2023-10-05* With version 4.7(16073) the access to old issues seems to have disappeared. Very disappointing! ### 1/5 — App crashes on iOS 17 *2023-10-02* App now instantly crashes on iOS 17, please fix asap! Great app overall! ### 1/5 — App not working in iOS 17 *2023-09-25, version 4.6* Developer not interested in sorting it out ### 1/5 — APP IS NOT WORKING *2023-09-24* I love the hardback version of, but I'm paying for this Evo app that will not open. Maybe the developers need to make it compatible with IOS 17 ### 1/5 — User interface really ruins experiences *2023-04-23* They need to work on reader itself. How the reader format is so far behind makes the subscription not worthy at all. I gave them multiple years support expecting they will improve. I was so wrong. You are too lazy to improve application for the readers and this shows how little you care about readers. Today, I canceled my subscription. Don’t charge if you are this lazy and far behind competition. Simple standard pdf reader is better than you. ### 1/5 — Not what I subscribed to... *2023-03-22* As a long time reader of EVO, I am very disappointed with the digital format as of issue 276. I subscribed to a magazine, not a poor implementation of a PDF reader. And to the editor and publisher, your failure to communicate this significantly material change to the digital customer experience constitutes malpractice. I will not be renewing my subscription. ### 1/5 — Stop pestering me *2023-01-22* The end ### 1/5 — Unsatisfied *2022-08-28, version 4.6* Used to be a great app and now gone back to the dark ages! ### 1/5 — Bad app, bad customer service, good magazine *2022-08-09* Subscribed to a 6 month package, the app then said the autorisation failed and it acted like I hadn’t subscribed. I checked the bank and yes it had been paid, so contacted the magazine, no reply, tweeted them, no reply, emailed again, no reply, contacted the publishers, guess what? No reply. In the end I had to refund it through Apple because their customer service is so terribly bad, I couldn’t get hold of them at all. Really good magazine though, packed with informative articles and some stunning photography, just a shame the app doesn’t work for me and they couldn’t be bothered to answer my questions. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Evo *2024-02-15, version 4.7* The thrill of reading. ### 5/5 — What happened to my EVO!? *2024-01-28* Recently, EVO changed from an interactive version to a .pdf version without warning. Issue 275 was the last proper one, is this only happening to me? Table of contents only lists page numbers and the articles are only viewed in a single page view so one has to swipe in order to turn the page rather than scroll up/down as was the norm? Subscription price stayed the same but the experience is now so poor I may decide to cancel and go back to paper annoyingly. Please bring back the EVO Interactive experience! More recently, I seem to have lost access to all my back issues and emails have not resulted in any help. The best mag with a worsening experience… ### 5/5 — Great Read *2021-11-28* Since I got my new IPad Pro (12.9”) my ageing eyes are enjoying the digital format even more. ### 5/5 — EVO *2021-02-09, version 4.6* The best car app ever ### 5/5 — Poor Performance *2019-11-04* The App is flakey and will not download last two issues. No help despite repeated requests. Inexcusable given today’s technology. ### 5/5 — Interactive *2019-08-18* Could have more interactive content, video clips, sound bytes etc. Get us closer to the cars we love so much. ### 5/5 — Simply The Best Automobile Magazine *2019-08-03* The photography is Wonderful. The writers are experts and interesting! ### 5/5 — Evo *2019-07-18* Simply the best reviews of any magazine ### 5/5 — EVO Magazine *2019-06-19* Best driving enthusiast car magazine in the world; has no peer. ### 5/5 — Staying connected *2019-05-23* EVO on my I Pad! Now that’s staying connected!!!! --- *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.*