Do not purchase.
Wonderful magazine content (and staff). Woefully-coded app. Crashes continuously, and now will not allow me access to the content I’ve paid for. Whoever coded the app needs fired. Go to the publisher & purchase directly.
What has happened to this app?
This has never been the easiest app to manage but now, October 2025, it has stopped working altogether! I have paid for a subscription but cannot view the issues I have already paid for. SOS has great content but they really need to get the app sorted, and soon. SOS - are you bothered about taking people's money without caring if your app works or not?
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Terrible App and experience
The app makes browsing SOS a real pain. As a matter of fact I stopped using it all together. It is meant to allow browsing downloaded content with ease. Instead is a real pain as I cannot get to read an issued magazine without crashing or requiring to download already downloaded content.
Great content, terrible app.
Why does the app always go to the home page every time you open it, and not remember where you were on last viewing. Even if you switch out and back for a minute it reloads the page, so if you were half way through an article it scrolls back to the top. Also, why does it always take such a long time on opening while “loading content”? What is it loading? The content is world class but the app is one of the most useless examples for reading content. Imagine the kindle app never remembering where you were in a book and having to remember yourself were you were the last time you were using it.
Updated app November 2023 even worse. Now every time I reopen it it takes 20 -30 to load and takes me back to the summary of available editions and when I click on a purchased edition it goes to the buy option and I have to restore previous purchases. Unbelievable that we wait 2 years for an update and it is even worse.
Updated app November 2023 even worse. Now every time I reopen it it takes 20 -30 to load and takes me back to the summary of available editions and when I click on a purchased edition it goes to the buy option and I have to restore previous purchases. Unbelievable that we wait 2 years for an update and it is even worse.
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Appalling App
I have been subscribing to and reading SOS for ever. I am getting to the point now, where I just can’t bear the experience I am having with the app. This is a music technology magazine and as a technology magazine, surely the SOS app should be stellar, like your competitors!
