Why remove other magazines?!
Bring other magazines back. I’m talking about the metaphysics, epistemology and other types that describe the fundamentals of the philosophy.
Cheated.
To be clear, this review says nothing of the content (which I quite enjoyed when I had partial access to it) and instead says everything about the app and service, which should truthfully get 0 stars. So, I payed for a subscription and I don’t even get access to the entire archive of magazines. You still have to pay for past subscriptions. In order to read magazines on other devices you need to login. However, you must *email* them to get login credentials. Okay, great right? Just do that? Well I did and got one email response back asking to verify which email I purchased the subscription under, so I replied back promptly. That was 11 days ago and still no response. So, I try to report a quality control issue through Apple and the complaint doesn’t even show up on my history through Apple, which I understand is a separate issue that I need to deal with through Apple. And of course, no word from anyone at Philosophy Now! regarding my complaints filed so I’m not even entirely sure if it was actually processed. The complaint was filed 4 days ago now. There is also a bug which makes it so that I can’t even read the latest issue. I want my money back but I can’t even request a refund through Apple since I purchased the subscription in September and it is now April. Why on earth would anyone make an app so that you have to email to get login credentials to access that which you have already paid for is beyond me. The least they could do is respond to the email or something if they’re having technical issues. Save yourself the headache of dealing with an app that only just updated 2 weeks ago after almost a decade of no updates whatsoever.
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MUST PAY APP
literally u download the app and cant read anything without a subscription. even news from 5 years ago, i cant read. there are no free reads. they are just maliciously wasting ur time.
Subscription not what I thought
I thought the one year subscription would also give me access to back issues. It doesn't.
Not a bad app.
I only subscribed for IOS, so I don’t have the issues others have mentioned. The app itself is very minimalistic. It’s not a very savvy app, technologically, by any means. But its format is easy to navigate and even allows for text-to-speech on IOS. For the content of the magazine, the quality fluctuates as all “pop” *insert topic* magazines tend to do. On the whole, I find little to complain about.
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Rubbish app (great magazine)
Cannot use with “website subscription”. In hindsight, maybe should have realised that “website subscription” meant “website-only subscription”, but surely one digital subscription should work for both app and web.
First rate read in a poor app.
The magazine itself is excellent thought provoking and stimulating in a way you might expect from a philosophy journal. The app itself is atrocious, it jumps from articles to the magazine front cover in one click is my particular gripe though the lack of a bookmark is also irritating.
Hopefully the app itself can be improved.
Hopefully the app itself can be improved.
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Philosophy Now app
Are the publishers aware that a separate (paid?)subscription is necessary for the app, apart from desktop subscription? First time I have encountered this payment plan.
Two subscriptions?
From what I can tell, you have to purchase a subscription for the app even if you subscribed on a desktop. If this is the case, it’s pretty barbaric.
Excellent App for Excellent Mag
Wish it had the audio feature; listening to articles while driving.
Unusable
Cool idea, but the App is not ready for prime-time. Impossible to access the table of contents without the app freezing up. You’ll be staring at a blank screen, not reading philosophy articles. Wait till PN resolves this issue before wasting your time.
Good mag crap app
Attempts to return to contents page result in frozen white screen needing device restart to clear
Great app for philosophy lovers
Whole lot of philosophy that's easy to access and read.
Glad it’s there
I’m rating the App with 4 stars because what I feel what's missing is a ‘page saver’ feature. When you resume reading an article after exiting, the App doesn’t save the location you were reading and it sometimes takes a while to return to where you left off. In addition, even though the font size can be adjusted, the maximum size is still a bit small, at least for my old eyes and on the IOS 6.1.6 system. The desired font size also needs to be constantly reinitialised every time you open the app. These shortcomings are nevertheless small considering that overall, this is a good app and it provides access to a good magazine for those who prefer to read on the iPhone. I’m sure glad it’s there.
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Waste of money
Nice, functional app that is easy to use.
How brilliant to finally see you on iPad...love this!
Great to have this
