Make User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience16.8% of reviews
Neutral5.3% of reviews
Negative experience77.9% of reviews

~ Based on 113 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Make Safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Make.

Is Make Legit?

Make: Magazine appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Make is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Stalls and crashes

App freezes, stalls, crashes, restarts and repeats. Content looks very interesting… wish I could read it.

It’s 2025

Are you kidding me? It’s 2025. Claude code and Cursor exist. Would take you 30 minutes to update this app to make it even somewhat usable. Plus, how do you even change your password? Open up your code base in Cursor and tell it to review the user experience and to make suggestions and implement the suggestions.
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有料会員なのに読めない

有料会員なのですが、試し読みページの後会員資格のレストアをしても、その後オープニングページから全く変化なし。ずっと前からそのままで、改善もされない。正直な気持ち、詐欺にあったようです。

Have a subscription I can’t even access

Have a subscription but will not let me access it, useless

Bad UI! Read This For Log In Help

Off to a terrible start. The email I got upon subscribing said to download the app & then click the lock icon to log in using your email as both user ID & password.

This icon does not appear on the app or website. There is no apparent way to log in at all actually.

Finally was able to log in using a non-Safari browser, going to Maker.co (NOT .com) & choosing the “Sign up with Google” option & Google password.

Will update with feedback on the rest of my experience with the app.
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Make digital mag

Gets me the top quality content immediately but oh I love the print version

I’d give your app 0 if possible

So I should have taken head to others reviews but was optimistic. Also maybe under your help settings add where we can contact customer support…… just a thought

Remains Horrible

Just finished reading the most recent paper issue and decided to try and access my account and my issues purchased through I Tunes by reloading the app. Abruptly reminded of how bad the app is. Sad, really, for a tech savvy publication .

It’s good now!

I didn’t have the app when these 1 star reviews were posted but I can say the experience for me is great. Easy to navigate and tons and tons of archived issues and articles. Love ‘Make’ and am so happy to have access to this app.

Can’t login

Very annoying to get invalid login on iPad but the same login works on android phone. Why pay extra for digital?

why didn’t I heed the others bad reviews?

Terrible app. Unable to log in. They got my money. No access. No password, no log in, NO ACCESS

Terrible experience. I plan to charge back if they don’t supply me with a log in password within 12 hours from now.

Reviews of this app go back only 2 years

I want to subscribe to digital but you only have reviews of your app going back 2 years. Those reviews are universally terrible.

But you most recent update is 7 months ago.

How is that possible? How is anyone to know your subscription is worth $35?

And if have been burned before by generic apps made by cheap designers who sell it to publishers who don’t know they got what they paid for; a buggy app locked into a feature set you can’t change and poor technical support.

The publisher gets screwed but ultimately the subscribers do with a poor quality app.

Which brings me back why you haven’t allowed reviews in 2 years.

I guess I will have to go elsewhere to find subscribers who can tell me if your app is worth your subscription.


1 star for zero transparency
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All fixed

From downloading the app to being able to subscribe, search and scroll through the entire back catalogue of this wonderful magazine took only minutes - delighted!

iPad Proで動きがおかしい。日本を無視している。

日本語に対応していない。
読めるけどページめくりのアクションがバグってる。
イライラする。
書籍に課金してみるのにこのアプリの完成度はがっかり。
作り直して欲しい。
iPad Proで動かしてみて。バグるから。
アプリ非公開にしたらどうですか?
ストレス溜まる。
私が作り直してやるから連絡しなさい。笑

App is TERRIBLE

The app takes forever to load when it does load.
90 % of the time it does not recognize my subscription.
It is practically unusable. I gave it one star because negative stars are not available.

Appalling Magazine App

Single worst magazine app I have used on my iPad. Does not conform to standard behavior of other mag apps - eg Help - Restore Purchases. Even scrolling cover thumbnails is painful. Avoid.

App broken

Apparently in 2021 it is still very hard to make a pdf reader app that actually works. The app is always stuck in verification mode, doesn’t work offline and is really slow. Guys you suck.

Can’t even login

App is now completely useless. Logging in on the computer for digital is fine, but not via the app.

non funziona

l’app continua a chiedere di inserire password pur avendo sottoscritto tramite itunes

New update prevents ITunes users from using

I have called Make and they say call apple. I call apple and they confirm problem is on Make App side. Make customer service is horrible. Make magazine has good content but not worth my time.