# MCN: Motorcycle News Magazine — user reviews > 102 indexed App Store user reviews of MCN by Bauer Media (Publishing), rated 4.70/5 from 171 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mcn-motorcycle-news-magazine/id591424457/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mcn-motorcycle-news-magazine/id591424457.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 140 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of MCN? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Excellent magazine content and editorial quality - 📱 Convenient digital access to weekly issues - 🎨 Good image quality in digital format - 🌍 Accessible globally for international readers - 📖 Faithful reproduction of print layout (when working) - ♻️ Environmentally friendly digital alternative to paper **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - ⏱️ Extremely slow loading and performance - 🔐 Persistent login and authentication issues - 💳 Misleading subscription terms and auto-renewal practices - 📵 Poor customer support responsiveness - 🔄 Constant need to 'restore purchases' after updates - 📄 Missing pages and incomplete article loading - 🚫 Incompatibility with older iOS/device versions - 🎯 Confusing navigation and poor user interface - 💰 Expensive subscription pricing relative to functionality - 🔗 Cross-platform subscription issues (App Store vs direct) - 📚 Missing features like offline reading and bookmarking - 🎪 Excessive pop-ups and advertising **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on startup or during reading - Login fails with 'user cancels process' error - Pages fail to load or load incompletely - App jumps to random pages while reading - Blank pages appear when swiping between content - App loses page position when screen locks - Subscription not recognized despite valid payment - Rewards pop-up has no exit button - iOS update compatibility issues - App disappears from device after updates - Slow or failed magazine downloads - Content blocks access despite being logged in - Restore purchases button missing or non-functional - Account credentials not syncing between web and app - Magazine issues not appearing in library - Paid subscriptions still prompting to subscribe **Most requested features** - Offline reading capability for downloaded issues - Persistent bookmarking that survives library changes - Improved zoom functionality for readability on smaller devices - Individual issue purchases instead of subscription-only model - Better search and archive functionality - Cross-platform subscription synchronization - More classic and smaller motorcycle bike reviews - Web version access alongside mobile app - Improved page navigation and layout options - Better integration with multiple magazine subscriptions under same email ## Newest reviews (17 of 102) ### 2/5 — App is awful *2025-09-22, version 9.18* The app is awful. It takes so long so long to get it to work, I don’t want to read it as I am so frustrated 🤬🤬🤬🤬 ### 2/5 — G *2025-04-13, version 9.17* Content is as it has been for many years excellent. However, the digital magazine is as poor as it always has been. It freezes, crashes, jumps to random pages. I thought by now it would have been sorted. ### 4/5 — Bikes for sale *2025-02-26, version 9.16* I don’t appear to be able to access on digital platform ### 2/5 — Bad experience with the app and subscriptions *2024-08-09* I thought I paid for MCN premium, but it’s not showing me as a member. I also received Classic Bike as a gift, and gave Garden Answers as a gift to my wife. But the app doesn’t allow you to use the same email for different magazines… ridiculous. I’ve had multiple comms with Bauer but it’s still not sorted. Their app needs to improve! **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. We are sorry that you have had a negative experience with our app. We invite you to get in touch with us so that we can discuss this matter further and ensure that your expectations are met. Please feel free to contact us at appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com We look forward to hearing from you! ### 1/5 — Worst App Ever *2023-10-08, version 9.14* You can’t navigate out of the messages centre making the app totally unusable. ### 1/5 — The latest issue *2023-09-06, version 9.14* The latest issue of the digital format does not show on the app. No information as to how to load it. In my opinion this app is a waste of time. ### 1/5 — Was great until it stopped working… *2023-08-31, version 9.14* Been subscribed for a while, was working fine until one day it decided that I wasn’t a paid subscriber anymore and now can’t access any content. Tried contacting them but not had any joy. Will have to cancel my subscription… ### 1/5 — What a Crock (thieves). *2023-08-30* I’ve been buying MCN from local newsagents for years and love it. I decided to sign up for a delivery service and opted for a digital version too to try it out with the intention of reverting to digital only if I liked it. That’s where the problem started. You have to activate an account before you can retrieve it but it would not allow me to access via the email link they sent me, via access on line or by downloading this useless app. I contacted customer services and having explained the situation I was told I needed to set up an on line account. Doh! Oh really I’d just explained that was the problem. Having explained it again twice I decided to revert to paper delivery only and asked them to refund the difference. They cannot do that apparently surprise surprise so I cancelled the whole thing and contacted my bank to be sure they didn’t take any funds. Why don’t they sort this out? I’m not the only one complaining so they’re obviously not listening to customers. I’m off to the local newsagent who sells out very quickly. I wonder why 🤔🙄 Update 27th May. Decided to have another try from scratch and signed up for a paper subscription. I’ve had one four weeks out of date two copies of the same paper twice and the rest haven’t arrived. I contacted today and they’ve refused to reimburse me but offered to extend the contract end date. What’s the point of extending a service I’m not receiving. They are in breech of contract and I’m having to take this further through the small claims court. A bunch of thieves. 🤷‍♂️ ### 1/5 — Update Crap *2023-08-24, version 9.14* I have been a subscriber for many years and now because I have an older iPad I can’t read anything I have paid for, thanks guys ### 1/5 — So slow and half the time doesn’t load at all. *2023-08-10, version 9.14* I subscribed a couple of days ago and have to say the app is terrible! It very rarely functions properly, maybe 10 percent of the pages i open actually load. Theres a bug in the system somewhere and really needs to be sorted as im pretty miffed that this is part of a subscription package ### 1/5 — Unable to link and use active digital subscription *2023-08-09, version 9.14* App worked for one digital subscription only. Now no longer allows access to any editions despite being logged in correctly. Just keeps asking to subscribe!! I should have read other reviews as this app and digital subscription just doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — MCN *2023-08-08* Disappeared from my iPad when updating. Now no access to anything. Can’t reinstall it from App Store. And I have to give it one star! ### 1/5 — iPad App *2023-07-22, version 9.13* Will have to cancel, as have paid for last 3 months with no joy of downloading and reading. Keeps asking to subscribe again. ### 1/5 — Still crap app *2023-06-05, version 9.13* There are complaints on here going back 5 years and it’s still not fixed! The word ‘clunky’ does not even begin to describe how incredibly frustrating it is to use. I paid you good money for a subscription yet you choose to piss me off every time I try to read it. To Richard Newland: You are the editor of the ‘leading’ motorcycle paper but you clearly have no interest in dragging it into the 21st century. With all the might of the Bauer empire behind you is it really beyond your wit to provide a stable, usable platform for your loyal readers? Do I really have to go back to buying a paper version? I have been reading MCN for 50 years and you are now doing your best to drive me away. Fix this bloody mess! ### 1/5 — Useless App *2023-05-07* Been a subscriber to MCN for nearly 2 decades, and I’ve always enjoyed the print version. However, they mobile App fails miserably. They have never been able to get the App working. It a useless App and here is why: 1. It never synced with my digital account. I have both digital and print subscription, and while it says i am logged on, it never allows me to read and MCN issue. When clicking to Restore Purchases, it comes back with the message Restored, but its a fake message, nothing is actually restored. 2. The UI and UX is from a different planet. Trying to cramp everything on one menu is not the way forward. Account is logged in, but none of the other sections work. As if they are asking at every click to subscribe again and pay more. 3. Legally they are failing to honer the subscription I have with them, calling their helpdesk ends with someone saying we will look into this, sadly month later nothing has been addressed. Think twice before subscribing to their digital App. ### 1/5 — Be careful what you sign up for *2023-03-18* Bauer advertise 99p for the first month, then £5.99. ‘Cancel anytime’. Then if you do cancel, they say you can’t because you’ve committed to 12 month, it’s in the small print, but is misleading, probably deliberately so. It’s also contradictory. I’ve cancelled the direct debit regardless. I’m not sure how it works if you go through Apple, but you pay more for it like that. This behaviour is a false economy, I if forced would cancel after the 12 month, also won’t renew a magazine subscription I currently have with them. Wouldn’t even consider subscribing to another Bauer magazine. And won’t use MCN Compare for my insurance. ### 1/5 — MCN App review *2022-11-13, version 9.13* To be honest the paper version has a much better layout out in that it’s much more engaging to read and visually more appealing. The app has none of this. I’ve also noticed that the app doesn’t have the bikes for sale section. I suppose you’re to browse MCN.com. However, it does make me think that you don’t get as much for your money if you were to advertise your bike. The bikes unlimited app (no longer available) gave you the magazine layout and I enjoyed that much more. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Used to be great *2025-09-21* Not sure what’s happening, refuses to log in ‘user cancels process’. When it works it’s a lovely app allowing me to keep up to date - especially good on the iPad to view a newspaper layout and read. I would say 3 out of 5 times the app fails in one way or another and needs a restart. Latest update has broken the login on my iPhone (17, latest OS and update). There’s a point at which you just give up - the digital side of my MCN subscription seems to be a waste of money. ### 1/5 — Can’t seem to get the content *2025-04-08, version 9.16* Even tho I’m logged in, and a paying member it blocks me from seeing the content and asks me to sign up? Seems like a fairly basic thing to get right. Guess I’m cancelling that sub then. ### 1/5 — It doesn’t work *2024-09-21, version 9.16* Just paid for a subscription and it still asks me to subscribe. Pretty poor so far. ### 1/5 — Just Doesn’t Work *2024-07-15* Purchased an MCN offer to see if a longer term subscription would be worthwhile. The App just doesn’t function properly, multiple logins required, keeps requesting you to upgrade even though I have a valid membership. Cannot access any archived material or recent issues with a valid digital subscription. This very dissatisfied and frustrated customer has cancelled his subscription. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. We are sorry that you have had a negative experience with our app. We invite you to get in touch with us so that we can discuss this matter further and ensure that your expectations are met. Please feel free to contact us at appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com We look forward to hearing from you! ### 1/5 — Unable to access online content *2024-07-09, version 9.15* Very disappointed. In unable to access online content since I signed up for MCN. Bauer media have been very slow to give support and explain why this is, or resolve the issue. It’s been over 5 weeks now and still no progress made. I would stick to the paper version if I were you. ### 1/5 — Buggy *2024-06-20* In Archive, when reading an issue on iPad (iOS 17.5.1): You read a few pages then swipe left to view the next page and you get a blank page - solution: restart the app You’re reading a page and then stop to do something else so the screen locks. When you unlock, the app doesn’t remember the page you’re on, it skips forward several pages (on longer issues, e.g. TT special it seems to skip forward a lot of pages) - solution: swipe right to find your previous page You get a ‘rewards’ pop-up, so you click it, but there seems to be no way to exit the screen you’re in to get back to the main app page or to continue reading On the plus side, the image quality is good **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. We take our customer's feedback very seriously and we are sorry that we have not met your expectations. We have discussed the problem you mentioned with our developers and are working on a solution. In this way, we want to ensure that our high standards are always maintained in the future. ### 1/5 — Can’t buy individual editions. *2024-03-07* I don’t like that I have to buy a complete subscription. I can’t afford that, and find it very shady. I used to buy copies if the articles suited me. Now I don’t. You’ve lost a customer. ### 1/5 — Going around in a loop *2024-02-27, version 9.14* I can’t access my subscription on my I pad it keeps saying that I need a later iOS but I cannot download that then it says that is ok download an older version but pressing continue just takes you in a loop. Now am stuck on a page selling moto Gp tickets but no way back to the app ffs ### 1/5 — Horrendous *2024-02-21* This is the most frustrating app ever. You sign up pay your subscription then all it does is ask you to subscribe every time you log in or open it. You try to sign in again thinking you may have made a mistake and surprise surprise you are logged in after all. You open a copy of MCN and it blocks you from reading it because your apparently not logged in. The money is removed from my account every month but I’m not subscribed!! I have complained to customer services and up to now have got nowhere apart from being out of pocket and an iPad that I threaten to bounce of the walls with frustration. Arghhhhh. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. We are sorry that you have had a negative experience with our app. We invite you to get in touch with us so that we can discuss this matter further and ensure that your expectations are met. Please feel free to contact us at appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com We look forward to hearing from you! ### 1/5 — Waste of Time *2023-12-27, version 9.14* Half the articles won’t load and when I try to load any article to read I always get the same article about Laser lights. I’ve reloaded the app and checked my internet connection with no improvement. The web page works okay. I’m on a 4 issue trial but with this performance I wont be continuing to support them. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cross platforms *2025-03-23* I’ve had a subscription via the App Store. Can’t read MCN on a Samsung device as it says I need to subscribe. Surely a subscription is with MCN(Bauer)and not platform dependent. I prefer to read on my Samsung tab, and also on my iPhone when I’m out and about. Shouldn’t need two subscriptions. Maybe I’ve got this wrong. I have emailed twice but no reply. **Developer response:** Dear russmin, thank you for your message and your subscription! We understand how important it is to access your subscription across multiple devices. Please contact us at appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com with your subscription details so we can assist you in resolving this issue. We're here to help! ### 5/5 — Best Motorcycle Magazine *2025-03-19, version 9.16* Absolutely love MCN it has variety, great reviews and is my go to when looking at a bike or accessories. ### 5/5 — Industry News *2023-09-26* The news source I’ve been waiting for many years. Thank you so much, guys! ### 5/5 — Motorcyclenews *2022-04-11, version 9.13* If you’re interested in motorcycles this is the magazine to read It’s also helpful and informative with all things motorcycle ### 5/5 — Used to be good *2022-02-10* Now all seems to be is an advertising platform. Also if you bookmark a page and remove the paper that has the bookmark in the bookmark disappears. What’s the point of bookmarking pages? At least give a warning message saying if you remove from your library the bookmark will be removed. Better still if bookmarked leave it there **Developer response:** Hi balls2019 We're very sorry for any discontent caused by our app. Our customer support would be happy to help you. To contact us you may use the contact formular in the app or just send an email to: appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com Kind regards ### 5/5 — More convenient than paper! *2021-11-03, version 9.10* Once I got used to reading MCN on my iPad I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending the facility to other MCN readers. ### 5/5 — F.W.Evans *2021-09-20, version 9.9* Please don’t trust these people about this online MCN as I have never received mine disgusted paid got nothing not even a reply toco plaint ### 5/5 — I’ve always been happy with a MCM *2021-05-26, version 9.7* I’ve been reading the MCM for over thirty Seven years but now I’ve gone Digital doing my bite to be green . Always been a great read , keep up the great work guys ! ### 5/5 — Feedback. *2021-04-28, version 9.7* Excellent reviews and reports. Especially during lockdown. Would like a few more classic bike reviews. Regards. ### 5/5 — Mr P Keenan *2021-04-12, version 9.7* Can’t believe this has gone subscription only! 45 years of reading MCN comes to an abrupt end. --- *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 2026-08-24.*