Future Music User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience52.3% of reviews
Neutral8.0% of reviews
Negative experience39.8% of reviews

~ Based on 88 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Future Music Safe?

Future Music appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Future Music is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 172 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

89.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 172 App Store ratings for Future Music.

Is Future Music Legit?

Future Music is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Future Music is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Offline wont display magazine covers

I download the mags after purchase. Once i disconnect from the internet i can no longer see the magazine covers. Wasn’t like this before the revamp. Could you all fix this? I hat hunting for the issue i may want to read just because i can’t see the cover.

Response from developer

Thanks for your review, and we're really sorry to hear you're experiencing difficulties. For further assistance, please email apps@futurenet.com, including a brief description of the problem you're facing and any relevant details or screenshots, and our app support team will be happy to assist further. Thanks, The Digital Support Team

A great magazine!

Very happy that I can now get the print edition of Future Music on my iPad. Wonderful design and great reviews and information.

Didn’t connect with my online account.

It took me three weeks to be able to get back all of my issues from my online subscription. I went through numerous emails and then I tried something different and all of a sudden it worked. I was not happy with tech-support in any means. Love the magazine, but it seems like they do not care about their customers!
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Paranoid app

You can download magazines, but you can’t view them offline. You pay for the magazines, yet you have to connected to view. The more magazines you download the slower the app is to open.

I presently have a 128gb iPad Air 2, I have all the back catalogue downloaded and now the app won’t open, it simply stalls showing a blank screen. My older 32 bit iPad 4 has about a dozen magazines downloaded and has no problems opening.

So much for the future.
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Always slow, purchases disappear

This app is a disgrace. I know that printed media suffers a lot these days, but this app is unusable.

Can’t get my latest issue!

The app wants to charge me again for the latest issue I have paid for with my subscription.

Great magazine

Indispensable magazine for a modern electronic music producer. Full of useful information, techniques and inspiring interviews with expert practitioners.

Horrible thieving app

Get the subscription, the continually bill, won’t log in and they don’t know my email, can’t get downloaded content, but they sure know your credit card to bill. Horrible company.

Future Music App

Needs a search feature and also needs to not erase the majority of your downloaded issues when upgrading

Great digital magazines.

Absolutely love Computer music and Future music all on my iPad. Easy to download the content from filesilo on to my pc too.

Works well

Easy to read, especially on iPad. I’ve been tempted to cancel my print subscription, tbh.

I like it

I find it great! I like that the pages of the magazine become alive and interactive. I’d like to be able to read the mag on my computer, not just my iPad. But it’s great that it’s more stable than it used to be too.

Great content, app a little less

The app is so so... Slow at startup, sometimes forgets what I was reading. But what's important here is the content. And the content is great

Love it. Wish you would...

I wish you would have some more stuff in your magazine about Maschine software and hardware.

Good magazine, buggy software

'complete your collection' purchase option doesn't work (linked from the back of each issue) - and it is not available on the main store page on iPad3 (although in others like Total Guitar, it is). It works on iPhone5.

Some videos don't not work. I have reported it to them last year, but the same videos that had issues before, still do. Jody Wisternoff interview in Aug 2012 will not play and others
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Still the Best Source for Cutting Edge Audio

I've been reading Future Music since 1999 when I worked for Barnes & Noble bookstores in the US. They have the best blend of informative essays, reviews, tutorials and insightful interviews in my opinion. They're not Mix or Sound On Sound, nor are they meant to be. Future Music & Computer Music are more about the artists & producers and how they work, in turn, that which works for fans too. I have 28 issues on my iPad alone without ever having any problems. Highly recommended!
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Unable to download magazines.

I am utterly unable to download any FM magazines through this app. When I buy a magazine and attempt to download it, the download indicator remains indicates Queued, even though there is nothing else downloading. And this is how it stays. Forever.

Great stuff

Excellent value for money. Both Computer Music and Future Music make learning about production a pleasure. My only gripes are that you aren't always returned to the page you were reading but have to click through from the front page of the app again...also I'm often offered deals for back issues I already own hard copies of. I'd like to have them digitally too but don't want to pay twice. It's obvious though that a lot of hard work goes into producing the mags and I've learnt a huge amount over the years.
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Brilliant magazine

This is the top notch magazine for electronic music producers - amazing in all levels.

Excellent magazine

One of the best or better ones around. They keep getting it right, writing about what is going on in the world of audio or better music production. Recommend it to anybody remotely and full on involved in producing.