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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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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
Can’t even login
App is now completely useless. Logging in on the computer for digital is fine, but not via the app.
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.
Update makes it even worse than before
On iPad Air 2 iOS 13.3, after this new update the app runs sluggish as hell! Also I can no longer read any of my past purchases. There’s no option to restore past purchases, and the UI is confusing and not intuitive even if it was running smoothly, basically make deleted all my purchases and now wants me to pay for them again if I want to view them
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Problems with the iOS app
I’ve a 12 month subscription but can’t get this to unlock from the preview on my iPad Pro or iPhone. Would be really good to get a fix for this issue or get a refund so that I can get the web subscription.
Vastly improved app. Works great so far.
I was literally in the process of writing a 1 Star review and getting ready to cancel my subscription, but when I opened the App Store I noticed that (finally) there was an update to the Make reader application just 15 hours old. I’m not kidding. The old app was terrible. I had just opened the old app and it took over 2 MINUTES to “Verify my subscription” — during which time I couldn’t even read issues I had already downloaded. Talk about a terrible end-user experience. After two years without an update, I had given up hope that the situation would ever be fixed.
But I’m extremely happy to be proven wrong. The new app is like night and day. Reading and navigation on the old app was alway pretty decent (after the interminable opening wait time) and the new app retains some similar functionality but is even better. You can still read in the traditional “magazine” layout style or you can now read with a more free form “web style” interface. Most importantly, it is FAST. No long opening delay, and you don’t even have to download your issue before you can start reading. You still can download purchased issues if desired (which I’m guessing is for access even when not connected to the internet) but there seems to be no requirement to do so.
Anyhow, I’m (finally) a happy camper. I’ve always enjoyed the “Make” content and I really wanted to support the whole ethos and ecosystem, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore such bad design and apparent indifference to the customer. Now, I no longer have to.
But I’m extremely happy to be proven wrong. The new app is like night and day. Reading and navigation on the old app was alway pretty decent (after the interminable opening wait time) and the new app retains some similar functionality but is even better. You can still read in the traditional “magazine” layout style or you can now read with a more free form “web style” interface. Most importantly, it is FAST. No long opening delay, and you don’t even have to download your issue before you can start reading. You still can download purchased issues if desired (which I’m guessing is for access even when not connected to the internet) but there seems to be no requirement to do so.
Anyhow, I’m (finally) a happy camper. I’ve always enjoyed the “Make” content and I really wanted to support the whole ethos and ecosystem, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore such bad design and apparent indifference to the customer. Now, I no longer have to.
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Great magazine
The app is basic, but it is doing the job, showing the magazine,a great magazine !!
