# Radio Times Magazine — user reviews > 94 indexed App Store user reviews of Radio Times Magazine by Immediate Media Company Limited, rated 5.00/5 from 13 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/radio-times-magazine/id873095189/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/radio-times-magazine/id873095189.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 13 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (19 of 94) ### 2/5 — Dreadful update! *2026-06-02* This was an excellent app. Now it is not. Radio Times is a large magazine. It was easy to navigate because a simple icon took you to a contents page from where you could easily select the part of the magazine you wanted to look at. For instance if you are looking at Thursday TV and you want to to check on something you saw last Sunday or read a film review and then go back again to Thursday TV you have to turn around 80 individual pages twice! I have no problem with the content, that is why I pay for it, but it is now very irritating to use. E Grierson **Developer response:** Hi there, unfortunately we had a problem inside the app that caused these problems. This has since been fixed, and navigation should work correctly inside the issues now. If you continue to have problems, please delete and redownload the issue. ### 3/5 — Gone downhill *2025-12-14, version 8.7.2* Used to work fine but now keeps forgetting subscription info. Really infuriating and ‘help’ is useless. ### 3/5 — Freezes *2025-12-09, version 8.7.2* Sometimes the app freezes, or can’t go any further back after a few issues as it’s a grey background. Also, the double Christmas issue out today in the shops. And other tv magazines and RT on tv. At 15:30 pm no issue on the RT app as yet? I thought subscribers were supposed to be a priority. Maybe I’m wrong? ### 3/5 — Rubbish app *2025-12-04, version 8.7.2* Constantly losing my access to the digital copy & being asked to subscribe despite my payments are all up to date. Waste of time ### 2/5 — Problems, yet again!! *2025-11-27, version 8.7.2* RT are asking me to ‘pay’ for the latest edition, yet again but, I have an annual subscription!!! And yet again, it doesn’t recognise my subscription number!😡🤬 Please get sorted🙏 It’s been 4 weeks now ! Phone Intermedia Radio Times options and every option states there’s a 3-5 minute wait but, on ‘every’ option I’ve waited over 15 mins before giving up !!! Email, hardly gets answered!! Oh! And please bring back the facility to mark programs for recording, we keep asking for this but, as usual being totally ignored!😡🤬 This is slowly becoming useless and a waste of money🤔😡🤬 ### 3/5 — Bookmarks broken *2025-10-08, version 8.7.2* Bookmarks don’t work. You can place a bookmark, but they all just take you to the front cover. ### 4/5 — Reading and writing *2025-07-09, version 8.7.2* You can read the pages just like the paper copy. You just can’t write on them or highlight what you want to watch/listen to. ### 1/5 — No Support *2025-03-20, version 8.7.1* This app is a mess. Many pages are unreadable and blurry. Some just don’t appear at all. The app never seems to remember where you last were and opens up on random pages leaving you to scroll through pages to navigate to the day of the week you were last on. Wrote to the Radio Times and cannot get any response. The app is not working properly. The page display is a mess. Fix it! You’ve taken the money now supply a magazine that can be read! ### 2/5 — Why do we pay more? *2025-02-12, version 8.7.1* My husband likes to have the magazine which is costly! It would be nice to have access to the digital version as well. Surely like other media, this should be included in the subscription? Asking for another £120 odd ££?? ### 1/5 — Subscription issues *2025-01-22, version 8.7.1* The RT App is trying to charge me £4.49 for this week’s edition (week 5). But I have a subscription to 10/06/25 !! I have tried restoring purchases & have also tried deleting the App. and restoring purchases but still says £4.49 due for Week 5. Very poor performance & customer service. An email from buysubscriptions.com states they will respond to me in 24-48 WORKING hours !!!! So if they’re working 8 hrs a day let’s see what happens in the next 3-6 days…., ### 1/5 — Atrocious interface *2024-12-11, version 8.7.1* The issue list is impossible to navigate. You need to scroll for a really long time down a list of slowly-loading issues to reach the earliest ones, with the list randomly jumping back to the most recent as you do. ### 4/5 — Too many failures *2024-11-10, version 8.7.1* The app is good but far too often access to purchases is lost and the subscriber number has to be entered to restore things. Today that does not even work. ### 4/5 — Hopeless *2024-11-09, version 8.7.1* This is a terrible app. It keeps dying or not recognising one’s code. They should refund the subscription! ### 2/5 — Problems, yet again!! *2024-07-24, version 8.7.1* RT are asking me to ‘pay’ for the latest edition, yet again but, I have an annual subscription!!! And yet again, it doesn’t recognise my subscription number!😡🤬 Please get sorted🙏 Oh! And please bring back the facility to mark programs for recording, we keep asking for this but, as usual being totally ignored!😡🤬 ### 1/5 — Unable to sign in *2024-07-23, version 8.7.1* I am unable to sign in to the app on my new iPad - I just keep getting the message that the code I am using is invalid. I have checked, double checked and triple checked my print subscription number but it just isn’t being recognised. This makes the app totally useless as I am not going to pay again for issues that should be available to me as I have a print subscription. ### 3/5 — Needs a better way to sort issues *2024-05-05* I'm researching past Radio Times issues and, while I'm glad this app has the largest selection of back issues I've seen yet, browsing the issues is a real pain. It's really annoying having to endlessly scroll down the list until you get to the issue you want, and the fact the list jumps back to the top whenever you leave the app is especially unhelpful. Please come up with a way to directly jump to issues or organise them better. ### 3/5 — Really annoying app *2024-04-23, version 8.7* Whenever I minimise the app then reopen it takes me to a random page in the magazine rather than back to the page I was previously on. I then have to close the magazine then open to find the current page. Please could this be fixed as it offers a very poor user experience. ### 1/5 — Mark programmes? *2024-03-09, version 8.7* I downloaded this app to highlight programmes. Your app information states I can do this. Nothing in guide showing how. I can bookmark pages but cannot see how to see more than one page that has been bookmarked. More importantly, how do I highlight programmes that I’m interested in? If not please amend your description in App Store as it is misleading. Happy to amend my rating if you can advise how to do this otherwise this is just an e-reader with poor functionality. ### 1/5 — Poor access and poor customer service *2024-01-28, version 8.6* I repeatedly get a screen telling me to sign in with a big blue button that does absolutely nothing. I have deleted the app and reinstalled it which eventually works - until the next time. I have completed the form that the developer has asked other complainants to complete and the response has been to contact Apple. NOT GOOD ENOUGH! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Get it sorted *2026-04-25, version 9.0.0* I’ve paid for a printed & digital copy which is still current but my subscription number suddenly doesn’t work. When I put my subscriber number in it says in-app purchases have been restored but when I look it says I still need to pay. It’s been like it for a few days now! I’ve deleted the app & reinstalled but still doesn’t work. Please sort out ASAP as I’m paying for something which is useless! ### 1/5 — Cannot access subscription *2026-04-01, version 9.0.0* Keeps asking for payment when I have an active subscription. I’ve deleted the app, reinstalled it, clicked restore purchases, entered the subscriber number in the box - basically everything they say in all these reviews that you should try - and nope, nothing works. It still wants to charge me per issue. Absolutely useless. Get it sorted. ### 1/5 — Radio Times *2026-02-08, version 9.0.0* Absolute Rubbish UX ( they’re so stupid they probably don’t know what UX is ) ### 1/5 — Bookmarks STILL broken *2026-01-23, version 8.7.2* Bookmarks don’t work. You can place a bookmark, but they all just take you to the front cover. Despite reporting the problem, STILL broken. ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-01-02, version 8.7.2* I've had problems for months with this app spoken to customer services on numerous occasions totally useless they said they're aware as a problem but nothing happens to resolve it.. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-12-29, version 8.7.2* There is no way to login. Every time I try to view my copy of the Radio Times I am taken to the purchase page even though I’m a subscriber! What a waste of time! Stick with the paper copy. ### 1/5 — Awful App *2025-08-30* I’m fed up with this app. Bookmarks have stopped working and now only take me to the cover page when selected - no amount of redownloading editions or deleting and reinstalling the app resolves this. This app has been nothing but a lazy money-grab based on the good reputation of the printed edition, with little to no effort to improve upon it. Listings do not get updated when broadcasters change them, why? If my TV’s EPG can reflect the new listing, why can’t this app? Why do pages become inexplicably blurry or just blank, requiring me to quit and restart the app? Why is it that whenever I zoom in on part of a page to read the programme description and I accidentally touch the screen and trigger the single page listing, that upon closing the single page view takes me back to the top left corner of the leftmost page instead of where I was when I trigger the single page view? Do the developers actually use this app themselves? **Developer response:** I am sorry to hear you have had any disappointment with the app. The bookmark problem was a temporary problem and the Bookmark functioning is working. The app is a replicate of the printed magazine so the listings pages aren't updated as this is done on our website listings. If pages are blurry that will be because it has been interrupted whilst being downloaded etc. I dont recognise the problem of zooming in. If you continue to have problems please email feedback@radiotimes.com ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2025-06-07, version 8.7.1* When you pay for something, with Apple Pay, also receiving a confirmation email of your purchase, you expect to receive what you have paid for. Unfortunately my attempted purchase of a copy of the magazine only receives the repeated message “purchase failed”. Disappointing! ### 1/5 — Subscription failure *2025-05-30, version 8.7.1* I have a monthly subscription, but I am now being asked to pay for the most recent issue. I deleted and reinstalled the app to see if this would help, but now it states that restoring purchases is not possible!! So I have now lost all my issues as well!! What is happening? ### 1/5 — C’m guys. Upload APP correctly PLEASE !! *2025-05-14, version 8.7.1* The interactive feature on the Radio Times App week 21 which enables users to complete the Prize crossword and enter numbers in the sudoku, etc is not working AGAIN this week. This happened last week and some previous weeks !! There is no problem at my end - deleting & reinstalling the APP makes no difference. When I send emails, the problem is corrected but the technical incompetence is beyond belief. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Bad app *2025-06-14, version 8.7.2* This app has stopped working properly, it’s asking me to pay for the next issue, when I already have a subscription. The support is non existent, Apple support is no better. It’s a bad app and I’m cancelling my subscription. Developers sorted this out now it works okay. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Late Delivery *2022-08-30, version 7.0.0* I have to wonder why i seem to get my version either in the evening or the following morning, when it was already available to buy. Must admit on the old app i could download it on the Monday, now its 9pm Tuesday evening and i still have not got it !! ### 5/5 — Radio Times *2021-01-24* Best TV app in the world for Brit content.👍👍👍 ### 5/5 — Radio Times app - a magazine, radio and TV guide *2019-08-01* I’ve always been a Radio Times reader and fan. The online app gives me everything the old paper magazine did plus more. What’s better is because my mobile is always on me, so is the “RT”. Plus the interactivity of the app, videos, links and ease of use means I find lots more to watch and listen to. ### 5/5 — There is no competition! *2018-11-05* An awesome weekly publication. ### 5/5 — Well designed! *2018-08-16* Very convenient to use...easy to navigate around and the bookmarking function for favourite programmes is very useful. Top marks! ### 5/5 — Good app *2016-08-26* They've worked the bugs out and now it loads easy, navigating is easy. Great to use to see what's coming up on tv. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2016-08-21* Best fashion to follow and choose programs from UK television. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2015-09-09, version 3.3.45* I sincerely appreciate radiotimes for the 8 page spread of Outlander and Sam Heughan. I also love how you have links to videos that are so easily accessible. Us fans worked diligently to make sure Sam got the title and this definitely made it worth it. The article was great. Thank you! ### 5/5 — I ❤️RadioTimes! *2014-12-11* Great magazine, love the articles. And I don't even live in UK! --- *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 2026-08-27.*