# Make: Magazine — user reviews > 113 indexed App Store user reviews of Make by Make Community, LLC, rated 2.04/5 from 25 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/make-magazine/id752446884/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/make-magazine/id752446884.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 15 ## What do users think of Make? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📚 High-quality magazine content - 🎨 Good visual design and layout - 🔗 Interactive features with in-app links - 📱 Works well when functioning properly - 🎬 Animations and video integration - ⚡ Fast performance after recent updates **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - ⏱️ Extremely slow loading times - 🔐 Persistent login and authentication failures - 📥 Subscription access not recognized - 💾 Unable to download or access purchased content - 🔄 Inconsistent performance across devices - 📞 Poor or non-existent customer support - 🔄 Subscription renewal issues - ❌ Missing or delayed issue releases - 🚫 Confusing user interface and navigation - 📱 Device compatibility problems - 🔑 Difficult password and account management **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch or during use - Login credentials not accepted despite working on website - Subscription not recognized after purchase - Issues fail to download or only show preview pages - App hangs during verification process - Purchased content disappears from library - Login field clips last digit of account number - App incompatible with iOS updates - Restore Purchases function missing or non-functional - Latest issues not appearing in app despite availability online - Pages fail to load with infinite download loops - Authentication failures on specific devices - App won't recognize iTunes purchases - Subscription renewal not processed despite Apple charging account **Most requested features** - Integration with native iOS Newsstand app - PDF download option from website - Restore Purchases button in app - Help and contact support within app - Better navigation between issues - Offline reading without required downloads - Unsubscribe option in app - Better iPad Pro optimization - Password reset functionality - Account number display on app or subscription materials ## Newest reviews (14 of 113) ### 2/5 — It’s 2025 *2025-10-23, version 7.1.9* 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. ### 1/5 — App is TERRIBLE *2020-09-10, version 7.0.7* 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. ### 1/5 — Appalling Magazine App *2020-08-26, version 7.0.7* 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. ### 1/5 — App broken *2020-06-28, version 7.0.7* 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. ### 1/5 — Can’t even login *2020-06-16, version 7.0.7* App is now completely useless. Logging in on the computer for digital is fine, but not via the app. ### 1/5 — non funziona *2020-02-17, version 7.0.7* l’app continua a chiedere di inserire password pur avendo sottoscritto tramite itunes ### 1/5 — New update prevents ITunes users from using *2020-01-10, version 7.0.7* 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. ### 1/5 — Update makes it even worse than before *2020-01-08, version 7.0.7* 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 ### 1/5 — Problems with the iOS app *2019-12-22, version 7.0.7* 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. ### 4/5 — Great magazine *2019-12-07, version 6.0* The app is basic, but it is doing the job, showing the magazine,a great magazine !! ### 1/5 — Complete ripoff *2019-10-10, version 6.0* I love Make Magazine, but his app should be taken off the market. I cannot access any of the issues I have paid for with my subscription. The app just hangs and hangs, on both iPhone and iPad. Just shameful. ### 1/5 — App is super slow / buggy *2019-03-19, version 6.0* I can’t believe such a nice magazine doesn’t have a decent app. I’ve experienced issues recognizing hat I’m a subscriber on many occasions. Forget about downloading a magazine before boarding a plane. Takes forever to download an issue. ### 1/5 — Content great, app awful *2019-01-12, version 6.0* Startup is frustratingly, go get a cup of coffee down the block, slow. Navigation is really not much better than scrolling a PDF and the most endearing feature is the search function which does not allow you to actually follow a link to the entries found, but gives you a thumbnail of the page, but no way to launch to that page. Has anyone on the management or marketing team ever read their magazine using this app? ### 1/5 — Impossibile restaurare acquisti *2018-09-08, version 6.0* Impossibile restaurare acquisti. Il pulsante non funziona su iPhone 8 Plus. Sistemate per favore. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Stalls and crashes *2026-02-17, version 7.1.9* App freezes, stalls, crashes, restarts and repeats. Content looks very interesting… wish I could read it. ### 1/5 — 有料会員なのに読めない *2025-08-02, version 7.1.9* 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。 ### 1/5 — Have a subscription I can’t even access *2025-06-10, version 7.1.9* Have a subscription but will not let me access it, useless ### 1/5 — Bad UI! Read This For Log In Help *2025-05-07, version 7.1.9* 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. ### 1/5 — I’d give your app 0 if possible *2024-09-24, version 7.1.3* 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 ### 1/5 — Remains Horrible *2024-05-26, version 7.1.3* 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 . ### 1/5 — Can’t login *2023-03-02, version 7.0.16* Very annoying to get invalid login on iPad but the same login works on android phone. Why pay extra for digital? ### 1/5 — why didn’t I heed the others bad reviews? *2022-11-22, version 7.0.16* 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. ### 1/5 — Reviews of this app go back only 2 years *2022-11-19, version 7.0.16* 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 ### 1/5 — iPad Proで動きがおかしい。日本を無視している。 *2022-01-31, version 7.0.7* 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 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Make digital mag *2024-12-11, version 7.1.3* Gets me the top quality content immediately but oh I love the print version ### 5/5 — It’s good now! *2023-12-30, version 7.1.2* 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. ### 5/5 — All fixed *2022-05-22, version 7.0.16* 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! ### 5/5 — Vastly improved app. Works great so far. *2019-12-13, version 7.0.7* 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. ### 5/5 — Works fine. *2019-10-30, version 6.0* Got this App to read Make: on my phone. Able to log-in to my account. App works fine. ### 5/5 — Works Fine *2019-02-26, version 6.0* No issues with this app. Been using it since 2017 on a LTE iPad Pro. ### 5/5 — Practical Ingenuity *2016-09-07, version 5.0.8* Great magazine. As of recently subscribe and unlock all previous issues. The recent update is better for navigating, although it takes a bit to launch. ### 5/5 — Exactly what I wanted *2014-10-25, version 1.1* Works great! Love the in-app links. Love the animations too. Sure, there's a little lag time for downloads, but considering what you get, it's worth it. ### 5/5 — Very well thought out *2014-10-12, version 1.1* A very well thought out application. A bit complex, but nothing too confusing. This was my first subscription to MAKE and so far I am very impressed.... ### 5/5 — Great Magazine *2014-09-28, version 1.1* Real fun to read in all formats. Great ideas. Application is great. Thank you very much! --- *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 2026-08-05.*