Raspberry Pi Official Magazine User Reviews

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Crash prone!

Subscribed for a year and find it crashing every time I try to open the app. I want my money back if you cant fix it! Annoys as before paying for atleast I was able to view the old magazine and free copies atleast!

Wastes the paying user’s time!

Great

Great 10/10 highly recommended am just a beginner and loving this app many thanks

New Subscriber

First time that I have subscribed to the Raspberry Pi’s magazine. I have had a chance to read it earlier and felt it was worth getting a subscription. I will review it again when I use it more frequently. Thanks.

Редкий пример отличной информации

Этот журнал находка для любителей DIY работающих с Raspberry. Большое количество полезной информации в одном месте. Спасибо авторам.

Preprogram

I need a preprogramed sad card that has imager and it ALL. MY laptop is not cooperating and ,y sad card writer blows… help?, anyone?

Horrible usability

The raspberry pi website says this app makes reading the magazine issues easier so I gave it a try. The issues are just a long list of covers and as expected you either buy the issue or subscribe to get access. Preview shows tiny text and does not support zoom. Search is broken - searched for “issue 30” and the results show other random issues. It is also not possible to filter accessible issues either, say if you pay for some or want to read the initial 30 free issues, prepare to scroll until you find it.
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Customer Service A+

Great app. Even greater support team. Responded quickly and resolved my issue.

Magazine is good. App is “ok”.

My particular beef is with having to constantly restore purchases. This is not unique to MagPi. Likely it is an App Store issue. However, when I tried to write a review in the app, it was stuck in portrait view on my iPad Pro and I could not see or use the right side of the keyboard. Also after restoring my purchases (I’ve been a subscriber for several years) it was downloading the current issue and asking me to pay for back issues.
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Doesn’t work

I get nothing but a blank white screen when the app opens and nothing happens.

where’s the account creation page?

Can’t figure out where to create an account on the website

Everything you ever want to know about the Raspberry Pi…

Like it says in the title, if you want to know the in’s and out’s of this little amazing computer — from the people who actually dabble in it — it doesn’t hurt to take a look at this app and all the downloadable e-magazines they have.

Do not subscribe via Apple

Not easy to login in lose my subscription all the time. Cant login

Fantastic!

Great app, easy to use and can search all the back issues. Wish all magazine apps were this good.

Why?

With such an impressive publisher, I’m at a loss as to the point of this app?? I can only guess it’s a random stab at the odd punter for the odd purchase. This app could have been tips and tricks like the recent edition, with advertising, editorial and interaction.

It’s a news stand on the corner of a street.
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Totally disappointed

Very poor app that basically freezes and doesn’t work. Glad I tried it with free back issues before subscribing.

Money Grab

I paid for a subscription but old issues don’t stay downloaded and I am asked to pay for them over just to read. Emails to support go unanswered. Don’t waste your money.

Update after a month... still no response from support, another email to them sent.

Won’t restore purchases

I’ve come to reinstall the app for which I have a subscription but when I attempt to restore purchases it says that there is no valid receipt. If I attempt to rebuy the subscription I just get a message saying that I’m already subscribed. This prevents me from using what I’ve paid for and I get no response from messages sent via the contact us page.
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Poor app

Couldn’t purchase issues due to some connection errors on server side.

Bad support

Lost access to editions I had already paid for. Emailed support and after a week still no response. Cancelled my subscription and will just download the free version from now on. If you’re going to take money for something that is normally free you need to provide a measurable advantage.

It’s great at what it does

I’ve experienced very little issues with this app. When I subscribed, I was able to access my magazines without any issue. However, for those people that would like free versions of the magazines, all you need to do his download the PDF from Magpi’s website in safari and then under the shared tab send the document to iBooks. You’ll have the same experience as the app.
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