Gardens Illustrated magazine
When Gardens Illustrated moved its magazine to the App I was a bit unsure if it would be as accessible as the previous digital form of the magazine. Now I have had the App for 2 months and love it. The magazine is still there, but plenty of extras and it’s very easy to navigate through different sections of the magazine, so that I can dip in and out rather than flick through the magazine page by page. I love all the inspiring articles and beautiful garden photography, even though I garden in Australia on the other side of the world.
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A lovely interlude
I love opening up the articles during my working day and absorbing the details and imagery. It brings me to a new place and inspires me to get stuck in when I can get out in the dirt.
Nuisance
I probably won’t bother to renew do the the annoying fact that you have to sign in everytime you open the app.
Complete your collection
I’m invited to complete my collection for a fee but as I took the same offer some years ago to fill some gaps in my subscriptions, AppStore/GI tell me I’ve already purchased it, but this is a new request! Apple Support have been unable to resolve issue and so here I am asking the developers... please. Cheers
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Incredibly disappointed in the way it looks
This app makes a beautiful magazine look like a website or blog and it’s very disappointing. I tried a sample on the kindle app on my iPad and it looked great, like turning the pages of the mag, and I could still zoom in etc. So I downloaded the official Gardens Illustrated app and purchased a subscription through it, thinking it would be the same and it’s definitely not. Text is typeset separately to the images and you have to scroll down like a blog. I’m over looking at blogs, I wanted a magazine but without the storage issues, as I’d like to keep it for reference. Am I getting a setting or preference wrong or the app? I’d really like it to look like the sample I saw.
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The new Format is horrible
No idea why the changed the format. It ruins the whole experience of reading a magazine.
Response from developer
Hi there, Sorry to hear you are not enjoying our upgraded App experience. We hope to deliver our magazine content in a format that is optimised for reading on both mobile and tablet devices, while bringing useful features including search, text adjust and bookmarking. Thank you for your feedback, however, and we will continue to optimise the customer experience.
Quality gone digital
I subscribe to Gardens Illustrated because I wanted to avoid paper storage
I can look at the magazine on my phone and iPad
And it’s the same glossy mag
With beautiful inspirational articles, news and pictures
I can look at the magazine on my phone and iPad
And it’s the same glossy mag
With beautiful inspirational articles, news and pictures
Brilliant
Awesome value and superb horticultural content. Very high quality ❤️👍
Worst app on my iPad
This app is by far the worst app on my iPad. It frequently refuses to allow access to my downloaded magazine editions. This necessitates restoring purchases and losing bookmarks. No joke when I purchased all the digital back issues.
Gardens Illistrated
I subscribe to 5 garden magazines. Gardens Illistrated is my favorite.
My one complaint is that I can’t get it in landscape. It is so much easier to read when you can turn the phone sideways and read whole sentences in print large enough to see.
My one complaint is that I can’t get it in landscape. It is so much easier to read when you can turn the phone sideways and read whole sentences in print large enough to see.
Great Content, Lousy Application
The content of the magazine is great, but I’ve had nothing but problems getting the application to function. I download content, only to find out it’s unavailable the next day. Constant issues with being able to view previously downloaded content. Really a shame, because the content is fantastic.
App support is sketchy at best. No resolution to my issues other than asking whether I’ve logged in through Apple or direct to the magazine publisher. Have reloaded the app three times, still performs the same way.
Not at all what I would expect from such a great magazine.
App support is sketchy at best. No resolution to my issues other than asking whether I’ve logged in through Apple or direct to the magazine publisher. Have reloaded the app three times, still performs the same way.
Not at all what I would expect from such a great magazine.
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Mis pricing
Bought the complete 90 edition collection for something like £44 from a pop up message. Day after I noticed complete back edition for £35 !
Having been a subscriber since day 1 feel completely let down by a magazine I thought was above these sort of dealings!
Having been a subscriber since day 1 feel completely let down by a magazine I thought was above these sort of dealings!
Don't waste your money
The support provided is useless. Problems promised to be fixed with updates don't happen...
Great
I got all the past issues and I love being able to read them from my iPad and I like the paper edition too bit it’s nice to take the iPad with me when I travel and read every time I can.
Gardens Illustrated
The articles are great. Trying to read them on my iPhone 6Plus isn’t. I’d like to see a version I can read on a Microsoft Surface Pro.
Garden illustrated
Love so much been reading this mag for years! it is a uk mag but the info works fine for usa ppl you just cannot purchase any plants from over there. No bugs there is a pull out page so you can pick page numbers which some mags don't have
Special Jan 19 edition download failure
I’d give it zero if I could as no Special weekend download poss, despite updating App today and IPad Air 2 on latest Version 12.1 software. Could swear I purchased all editions from Nov 17 onwards last week, but no longer visible on App. Need to check credit card......
All bought Gardens Illustrated Gone!
I had about 4 years of Gardens Illustrated on my iPad. Now none. “Support” group have not gotten back to me.
Response from developer
Hi Almaty7, There was a bug that was preventing some customers accessing / restoring their previous purchases. Please update to v5.3.5 to resolve this. We are very sorry for the inconvenience.
App crashes and doesn’t recognize iTunes subscriptions
I have been subscribing to This Maxine for a number of years but the new app continually crash and doesn’t restore my iTunes purchases.
Newest update issues!
Latest update has bugs. Crashes every time I tap on subscription heading (come on, I want to renew my subscription!)The horizontal viewing is gone and the issue download time is so slow! While I love GI magazine, I am not happy with the latest app update. Please fix!
