Macworld Digital Magazine U.S. User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience36.7% of reviews
Neutral9.5% of reviews
Negative experience53.8% of reviews

~ Based on 158 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Macworld Digital Magazine U.S. Safe?

Macworld Digital Magazine U.S. appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Macworld Digital Magazine U.S. is 87/100.

This assessment is based on 365 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 365 App Store ratings for Macworld Digital Magazine U.S..

Is Macworld Digital Magazine U.S. Legit?

Macworld Digital Magazine U.S. appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Macworld Digital Magazine U.S. is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Keeps Crashing

Has to be reloaded often. Royal pain.

Good but needs fine turning

Make the blue text working hyperlinks. Make the page numbers link to the page they reference.

Recent reviews right on target

Took a shot and subscribed awful app shows why publishers are dumping print versions. Total ripoff don’t even bother

I have to contact support each month go download

Horrible app. I am ready to cancel my subscription. I have to email customer support each month to download.

Terrible

This app used to work fine but September was the last month I was allowed to read the mag. It will not populate my library any longer so I was not able to enjoy October and now November and I am about to request a refund it happens on both my iPhone and iPad which has the newest versions and I redownload the app simply crap.
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Can’t use when flying

Unless you’re connected to the internet it requires you to “sign in”, which of course you can’t do when flying internationally. Their tech “support” dept is worthless.

I miss the actual paper magazine

( I used to have every single copy printed) but this is almost as good.
And it is a lot handier because I always have my phone with me.
Nice job guys and gals!

JohnWD3

Can’t get current editions

Have an iCloud based subscription but yet any current magazines are not available for download. Very frustrating. Have tried restoring purchases several times, no joy.

I have to contact support each month go download

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Can’t read on a plane

It seems to require an internet connection, even if I load the issue before takeoff.

Log out, log out, log out

Constantly logging me out and then I can’t find any of my issues.

Cancelling

Every month this year when the new issue comes out I’ve had to reset my account, log out/log in, etc. just to read the magazine. I’ve had to contact Zinio support EVERY month just to read a magazine I’ve already paid for! I am over it. Looking at other avenues. Macworld - the voice of Apple for so many years let down by a stupid subscription service.
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Having Issues Restoring Purchase on Third Generation iPad Air running latest iPadOS version

Works fine on my fourth generation Air and fifth generation mini. Can’t get it working on this third generation Wi-Fi only Air though.

Gets stuck on “Restoring purchases……”

Please fix or give me a refund for the past year

Broken. Broken. Broken

This has been going on for YEARS now. Fix the app, please.

Content Is Great— v. 9.6.0 Of The App Is Garbage

The latest Macworld update breaks the app if you’re trying to read in PDF page format (it’s just a blank screen) and the full-article text for,at sometimes leaves out whole articles. Please fix this! Oh, to have the old magazine back.

Issues with the app.

I’m a subscriber for years… recently new issues are not being available to me. Even as a subscriber - and YES, I checked I’m logged in with the same account - the new magazines keep showing the option for me to subscriber. Weird is that when I select to subscribe then, the app pops a message saying I’m already a subscriber. Still, the new issue are blocked for me. To make it worse, the “App Support” has a broken link.
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Not working on iOS 15

This app no longer works on iOS 15. I have two mini iPads. One running iOS 14 the other (iPad mini 6) running iOS 15.01. iOS 14 iPad works fine. I can see the option to buy a magazine. On the iOS 15 iPad the option to buy the latest magazine is greyed out. I go to my library and there is NO magazines loading in the library. Even after selecting restore. Everything works fine on the iPad mini running ios14 but not the iPad mini running iOS 15.01. Please advise.
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Horrible App

I agree with the others that this app and the corresponding app on PC World your sister publication are horrible!!! The videos don’t work at times. I have bought new iPads thinking it was my technology but, alas it is yours! I also have a digital subscription with consumer reports and their app is wonderful!! You should look at theirs!
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Cancelling my subscription

I am subscribed until February 2022 and can’t access issues beyond December 2020. I’ve read and followed the instructions. Support is useless. They tell me to sync my library and there is no such option.

Response from developer

Sorry to hear that you're having problems restoring purchases with the Macworld app. Please contact us at subhelp@macworld.com and we would be happy to look into it further.