# Gardens Illustrated Magazine — user reviews > 65 indexed App Store user reviews of Gardens Illustrated Magazine by Our Media Limited, rated 4.70/5 from 86 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gardens-illustrated-magazine/id487573767/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gardens-illustrated-magazine/id487573767.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 77 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Gardens Illustrated Magazine? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✨ Inspiring articles and photography - 👍 Easy to navigate sections - 📚 Great content and horticultural information - 🖼️ Beautifully presented magazine - 💡 Useful tips and advice - 📱 Handy for travel - 🌟 High quality content - ❤️ Superb horticultural content - ✨ Inspirational photography - 📖 Wonderful articles - 🖼️ Sensational photographs - 👍 Easy app to use - 🌟 Delight to read - 👍 Great magazine - 🤩 Inspiring garden designs - 📚 Informative content - 📸 Skilled photography - ✨ Inspiring magazine - 📸 Lovely pictures - 👍 Good app - 🤩 Dreamy magazine - 📸 Beautifully photographed - 📖 Thoughtful content and layouts - 📖 Well written articles - 👍 Top class magazine - 📸 Beautiful photography - 🌟 Must read for inspiration - 🤩 Wonderful articles to hand - 👍 Easy to navigate - ✨ Lovely photographs - 📖 Well designed magazine - 👍 Good quality **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes frequently - 🐛 App freezes often - 🐛 App locks up - 🐛 Issues downloading content - 🐛 Downloaded issues become unavailable - 🐛 Have to re-download purchased issues - 🐛 Subscription issues - 🐛 Login problems - 🐛 Annoying pop-ups for back issues - 🐛 App doesn't work with latest OS - 🐛 Slow download times - 🐛 Horizontal viewing gone - 🐛 App makes magazine look like a website/blog - 🐛 Text typeset separately from images - 🐛 Scroll down like a blog - 🐛 Requires signing in every time - 🐛 Lost bookmarks and folders - 🐛 Purchase system issues - 🐛 Continuous subscription charges - 🐛 Unable to cancel subscription - 🐛 App doesn't load issues - 🐛 Blank issues after purchase - 🐛 Poor customer service - 🐛 Mispricing of collections - 🐛 App doesn't recognize iTunes subscriptions - 🐛 App crashes on subscription heading - 🐛 Not accessible as previous digital form - 🐛 Can't get it in landscape - 🐛 Small viewing on iPhone - 🐛 Too much advertising - 🐛 Digital copy costs extra - 🐛 Copy more or less vapid **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes - App freezes - App locks up - Downloaded issues become unavailable - Downloaded issues need to be re-purchased - Subscription issues - Login problems - App doesn't load issues - Blank issues after purchase - App doesn't work with latest OS - Slow download times - Horizontal viewing gone - App crashes on subscription heading - Lost bookmarks and folders after app upgrade - App doesn't recognize iTunes subscriptions - Requires signing in every time the app is opened - App makes magazine look like a website or blog - Text typeset separately to the images - Scrolling down like a blog - Continuous subscription charges - Unable to cancel subscription - App doesn't load - Issues load as blank - No one gets back from app support - Mispricing of collections - App crashes and doesn't recognize iTunes subscriptions - Newest update issues - Horizontal viewing is gone - Issue download time is slow - Doesn't load - Loses subscription - Find it hard to log in - Special Jan 19 edition download failure - All bought Gardens Illustrated Gone! - App crashes and doesn’t recognize iTunes subscriptions - Newest update issues! - Latest update has bugs - Crashes every time I tap on subscription heading - Horizontal viewing is gone - Issue download time is so slow - Doesn't load - Bought two issues, both load as blank - No one gets back to you from their app support - Loses your subscription - Find it hard to log in - Terminate my subscription at the end of the year and subscribe again - Constantly crashing - Keeps crashing - Poor service - Paid over $48 to get back issues and was never able to download - Too slow and crashes often - App is slow and crashes or freezes often - It doesn't work on my iPad - Customer service has been working for a while to fix this problem - Too much advertising for subscription - All my saved folders and bookmarks wiped - Great magazine; horrible app - The app crashes and locks up to point you can't view any magazines or even access their support - Deleted and started over to re download purchased issues - Takes a long time and now app has frozen again - Great magazine...online version locks up - The app hangs up, locks up, and is frustrating to the point I do not read the magazine - I like the magazine but not the purchase system - Received a continuous subscription for which I have been continuously charged - Contacted the App creators by email and by phone to correct this problem but no one contacted me back - Believe I am still being charged for an unending subscription which I'm not using and have been unable to cancel it - Avoid this app - Updated my app as requested- it just deleted my entire back catalogue! - Scam - Needs an update - This was working fine under IOS7, but won't now open under IOS8 - Needs a fix! **Most requested features** - Option to read in landscape mode - Version for Microsoft Surface Pro - Indexing to search back issues - More interactive content - Dark mode option - Ability to stop constant requests to purchase back issues ## Newest reviews (10 of 65) ### 4/5 — Complete your collection *2020-11-28* 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 ### 3/5 — Gardens Illustrated *2018-12-17* 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. ### 2/5 — App crashes and doesn’t recognize iTunes subscriptions *2018-10-27* 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. ### 2/5 — Newest update issues! *2018-10-27* 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! ### 4/5 — Great magazine *2018-02-01* Have been a subscriber for several years great to be able to store favourite magazine and access whenever I want. Had initial hiccups but think this was due to Apple upgrade but not had any other problems with accessing magazine ### 3/5 — Good content, unreliable app *2017-07-30* This is a great magazine. Fantastic photos and informative content. But the app itself is unreliable. It loses your subscription, and find it hard to log in. Which in my case meant having to terminate my subscription at the end of the year and subscribe again. ### 5/5 — Enjoy immediately! *2017-07-23* What a great way to enjoy my favourite magazine. No, even though am at the other end of the world, I can enjoy my fav mag the moment it comes out. ### 5/5 — Good app so far *2017-06-14* Good app so far, only used it about a week, bought the back issues which is handy. It is a bit small viewing on an iPhone , using with an iPad would be easier. ### 4/5 — Saving trees *2017-04-16* Just like the paper magazine, adverts and all. Great articles and fab pictures. Good and useable design ideas as well. Only annoying thing is constant requests to purchase back issues. Haven't found a way to stop them...yet. ### 5/5 — Love this magazine *2017-03-15* Truly great magazine and online version is nice. A bit more interactive content would seal the deal. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Nuisance *2021-01-03* I probably won’t bother to renew do the the annoying fact that you have to sign in everytime you open the app. ### 1/5 — Incredibly disappointed in the way it looks *2020-08-01* 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. ### 1/5 — The new Format is horrible *2020-06-25* No idea why the changed the format. It ruins the whole experience of reading a magazine. **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — Worst app on my iPad *2019-10-18* 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. ### 1/5 — Great Content, Lousy Application *2019-09-05* 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. ### 1/5 — Mis pricing *2019-09-05* 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! ### 1/5 — Don't waste your money *2019-04-01* The support provided is useless. Problems promised to be fixed with updates don't happen... ### 1/5 — Special Jan 19 edition download failure *2018-12-02* 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...... ### 1/5 — All bought Gardens Illustrated Gone! *2018-11-04* I had about 4 years of Gardens Illustrated on my iPad. Now none. “Support” group have not gotten back to me. **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — Doesn't load *2018-01-22* Bought two issues, both load as blank even after trying to access them repeatedly. No one gets back to you from their app support. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Gardens Illustrated magazine *2021-02-24* 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. ### 5/5 — A lovely interlude *2021-02-16* 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. ### 5/5 — Quality gone digital *2020-06-24* 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 ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2020-05-13* Awesome value and superb horticultural content. Very high quality ❤️👍 ### 5/5 — Gardens Illistrated *2019-09-13* 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. ### 5/5 — Great *2019-03-02* 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. ### 5/5 — Garden illustrated *2018-12-17* 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 ### 5/5 — Superb *2018-08-18* Always beautifully presented, with the best designers and ideas. ### 5/5 — Simply Gorgeous Magazine! *2018-04-18* Love the stories and the lovely pictures. Easy app to use. Thanks so much! ### 5/5 — Glorious Magazine *2018-02-14* Garden Illustrated is one of the most beautiful magazines ever produced. The photographs are sensational. The rich colors and inspirational garden designs make this app magazine a delight to read and are matched only by the quality information. Highly recommend this to anyone but it is essential reading for all gardeners. --- *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 2026-09-02.*