# House Beautiful Magazine US — user reviews > 90 indexed App Store user reviews of House Beautiful Magazine US by Hearst Communications, Inc., rated 4.60/5 from 1,468 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/house-beautiful-magazine-us/id484283470/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/house-beautiful-magazine-us/id484283470.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,242 · 4★ 99 · 3★ 35 · 2★ 19 · 1★ 73 ## What do users think of House Beautiful Magazine US? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🌹 Visually pleasing - 🤩 Lovely magazine - 🤗 Great ideas and presentation **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🤯 Terrible app experience - 🤬 Unusable and frustrating - 💰 Requires additional subscription payment - 🤔 Lacks key features like bookmarking - 🤷‍♀️ Clunky user interface **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes - Download issues - Login/password problems - Incompatibility with devices **Most requested features** - Allow print subscribers to access digital version for free - Add bookmarking/favoriting functionality - Optimize for better reading experience on tablets ## Newest reviews (11 of 90) ### 2/5 — Very glitchy *2023-09-10* glitchy at every page turn ### 3/5 — Room for improvement *2021-07-25* The user interface is a bit clunky, and I can’t get rid of the blue banners at the top and bottom while viewing the content. May be user error. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2017-09-03, version 6.2* This new publishing platform MAZ is terrible. I cancelled my subscription after 5 years because of it. The pages don't render correctly and worst of all, the advertiser's pages are set up to click through to their web page when you touch any part of the screen to move forward. Once you get redirected, you can't get back to the magazine and have to shut down the app. With 70% of the magazine being ads, it is not worth the frustration. ### 1/5 — Hate this app *2017-08-23, version 5.4.4* This thing is terrible. The last app upgrade I show for this ap was just last month, July 2017. I've been trying for four days to download my Sep. issue but the app says I need to upgrade in order to download but there is no upgrade! So I'm stuck going in circles. I love the magazine but every month it seems I'd get it sooner if I just purchased it from a rack. Makes no sense! ### 1/5 — Zero stars if I could *2017-08-19, version 6.2* Impossible to navigate, worst, most obtrusive advertising ever. I plan to cancel my subscription after dealing with that horrible maybelline ad. ### 1/5 — Cannot view entire photo at once *2017-07-08, version 6.2* Both the vertical and horizontal viewing option on the iPhone do not allow the viewer to see an entire photo at once. You have to swipe around to see the rest of the image if it is a larger horizontal image. This doesn't make any sense to me and is seriously frustrating. Even though the image would be smaller I would still like to have an option to see the entire image in one screen. ### 4/5 — Even for a shelter mag fanatic, HB is a joy. *2017-04-18, version 5.4.4* I love all shelter magazines, but HB just makes me feel good. ### 4/5 — Sample Issue! *2016-08-24, version 5.1.4* Great Issue. Good ideas! ### 4/5 — NC Homeowner *2015-05-07, version 5.0.3* Great ideas, beautiful presentation! ### 1/5 — frustrating. unusable. *2014-11-29, version 3.3.2* haven't been able to use for about 6 months. when i try to download a magaizne, it says "upgrade required". when i try to upgrade, the "upgrade" button is visible, but light blue, not usable. so, i can't access what i'm paying for. life is to busy for this kind of hassle. ### 1/5 — House Beautiful *2014-08-19, version 3.2.3* I didn't want to give this app even 1 star. I have digital subscriptions to 1/2 dozen magazines. House Beautiful is the only one I have problems with. Every month I have to delete/reinstall/send emails asking for help. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App without full access *2025-12-11* I am a subscriber and I receive “pop up” notifications of various design articles. I can’t read those when they come through my regular email account and when I go to my HB app I’m unable find those same articles anywhere! This is really frustrating!!! Not how the company claims a person will have full access through using their subscriptions. ### 1/5 — Subscribe for the advertisements *2025-04-13* Because that is almost all there is. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2024-09-07* Digital access doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — All ads and impossible to cancel. BEWARE. *2022-04-08* This magazine is a joke and a scam. It is sold through multiple layers of fly-by-night 3rd parties and is nearly impossible to cancel. They are completely unresponsive scammers. Moreover, you are paying for a bunch of ads. There’s no journalism or real writing of any sort taking place here. ### 1/5 — This is a terrible app *2022-02-05* I’ve purchased other magazine apps with no issues. This is difficult to access and doesn’t even have the current issue. If you sign in or subscribe using the website, you cannot access the digital subscription from the app. It says “You are already a subscriber,” then proceeds to block you from content. Super frustrating. ### 1/5 — I am having problems and getting no help *2021-02-09* I have missed February’s please ### 1/5 — Review of house beautiful. *2021-01-01, version 23.0* I had just subscribed to house beautiful and have a receipt. It said to get the app and sign in with the email address and zip code that had been used in the purchase. I did that. It said mine wasn’t valid. I beg to differ. App or something needs work. ### 1/5 — How do I access this pain in the neck site? *2019-12-27* I have an active magazine subscription but apparently can’t access the app. Because of this I went to the app’s subscription site and bought a year of what I thought was just the digital access. However, when I went to make a new account, the site won’t allow it saying that I am already a subscriber. Go figure. Unfortunately I have no password so can’t get any of the digital magazines and there is no password reset tab. Ridiculous! ### 1/5 — Didnt download all, some pages twice *2019-11-22* Didnt download all. Some pages were in there twice. ### 1/5 — New platform is horrible, worthless *2017-09-09, version 6.2* The new platform and update is horrible. They got rid of all my saved pages (I was warned but I had 4 years of magazines!). Thanks Hearst. Most importantly, Photos cannot be zoomed in, the cut and paste shows up randomly as opposed to the photo I want. It's easier to just go the website and pin it from there. I really enjoy HB, but way to lose a longtime customer! I'm dropping my subscription. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Inspirational Magazine *2026-05-29* I love looking at the different home renovations and decorations. ### 5/5 — A wonderful app to follow and read this beautiful magazine *2026-02-05* Great ### 5/5 — Love House Beautiful *2025-01-04* A fun to browse and a delight to read. Learned to enhance the ambiance of my home decor. ### 5/5 — Thank *2020-05-22* Thank you for give us 5 minutes for review your beloved Magazine 🌹 ### 5/5 — House Beautiful *2020-05-13* Fabulous way to look at back issues! Love this APP & the HOUSE BEAUTIFUL Magazine💕 ### 5/5 — Why bother? *2020-01-13* Great magazine, worst app on the internet. Just get it in print form; the headaches otherwise are not worth it ### 5/5 — Layout *2018-09-06* Layout is unfriendly. I have other subscriptions that follow the table of content and vertical or horizontal,position of ipad does not affect I doubt I will recommend your magazine in this format ### 5/5 — Lovely *2015-02-06, version 3.4.0* This magazine is always lovely and accessible to normal folks. The ezine aspects make it more fun and useful. Kudos for employing this platform well. ### 5/5 — Visually pleasing! *2015-01-11, version 3.4.0* Love the combination of whites, primary colors and bold prints; eclectic is my style! ### 5/5 — Lonely plant 777 *2013-12-07, version 2.6.1* Nice home for my sons and grand baby and friends to call home I miss my family and friends I sure wish I could have Jim he a great guy we meet back in 89 and meet again in 2013. --- *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 2026-09-06.*