Reason Magazine User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience8.3% of reviews
Neutral5.6% of reviews
Negative experience86.1% of reviews

~ Based on 36 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Reason Magazine Safe?

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Is Reason Magazine Legit?

Reason Magazine is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Reason Magazine is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Fail

It doesn’t work. Just use your browser to log in to your account.

Lost revenue for Reason

I cancelled my subscription because of this app and inability to load content and it’s constant crashing.

Worst App I’ve ever used

I enjoy reading Reason. I even got a subscription so I could read issues through the app.

But it hardly ever worked. For awhile I could get to my issues sometimes, but now the entire app is broken. I can’t even get to the issues I already had & paid for.

RIP Reason App. You won’t be missed.

Unusable

This might be the worst app in existence. I enjoy reading Reason, but this app is totally useless. It doesn’t work. Full stop. Does not work.

Doesn’t Work

I love Reason Magazine but had to cancel my subscription when this app stopped working.

Were we scammed?

Wow, what a bungle.

I like Reason as an organization, and enjoyed this app when it was working. But now, the app seems to have been abandoned, even its servers taken offline. The app no longer loads, and all of my purchases are forever gone!

I feel scammed.

It seems Reason has a new app, but there is zero chance I’ll be paying for anything on it. Terrible mistake they’ve made.
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Unreliable

What is so hard about keeping a magazine subscription app working?

Garbage.

After two years you would think this app would work correctly but no. I think this app was abandoned by Reason and they just haven’t removed it. I just wasted $2.00.

What is the point of this app?

Can’t read recent issues. Also, requires purchase each issue despite being a digital subscriber. Considering cancelling digital subscription after seeing how poor the app is.

Ridiculously bad

This app is an insult. It simply doesn’t work. My experience of the magazine is diminished by an inability to read it in the manner that I (and many, many others) prefer. I’m less likely to read it and - please get this part, Reason- less likely to resubscribe because of it. Fix this, or else I’ll have to exercise my power as a consumer (you know- the bedrock principle of your entire philosophy) and go elsewhere.
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So bad

This app is so poor it cannot render the magazine. It’s just a sloppily place pdf that requires pinch zooming and centering just to make it legible.

This should be sorted by now. What other distribution methods does Reason use? Are people still getting the dead tree version?

Unspeakably bad iOS app.
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It doesn't do anything

I would be pleased if it at least crashed. As it is, it does nothing.

Stops working

New magazines no longer show up and support never responds to requests. Something wrong here!

Keeps crashing

Won't stay open anymore.

Doesn't work - can't restore subscriptions

The app seems to be fundamentally broken in allowing you to restore an existing subscription. I've reinstalled it several times, and the screen doesn't even render properly. That plus the lack of recent updates makes me believe this has just been abandoned. Too bad.

Needs some more effort

I love Reason but their digital magazine feels more like a PDF than a magazine for iPhone/iPad. You have to constantly pinch and zoom in order to read. The actual paper magazine is a better bet until the digital version gets properly formatted for iPhone/iPad. I canceled my auto renew and will now subscribe to the paper version. I need Reason in my life!!!!
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Awesome

Love reason

Subscription Disappeared

I paid for a yearly subscription, and two months later it is telling me that I must subscribe again. Restoring purchases only gives me access to some of the issues I had previously purchased.

Be careful about buying a subscription or any single issues through this app. It may suddenly tell you that you must buy them again.
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Kelps crashing

Can't subscribe and buying single issues is a frustrating odyssey. Offer your mag on Zinio so folks can actually buy your mag. This so frustrating that if I were liberal, I'd be contacting my lawyer right now.

Poor integration with subscription, regular crashes at login

Not ready for prime time. Send back to dev team. Crashes when I try to type age for login, doesn't allow me to share if I am not logged in. Poor quality, no better than a cheap Kindle ap.