# Taste of Home Magazine — user reviews > 98 indexed App Store user reviews of Taste of Home Magazine by Trusted Media Brands, Inc., rated 4.44/5 from 279 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/taste-of-home-magazine/id494090075/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/taste-of-home-magazine/id494090075.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 199 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 28 ## What do users think of Taste of Home Magazine? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📚 High-quality, practical recipes - 🎨 Beautiful photography and vibrant colors - 📱 Convenient digital access on iPad - 💾 Easy recipe saving functionality - 🎯 Interactive features in magazine format - 📖 Portable magazine library - ✨ Responsive customer service when contacted **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - 🔐 Persistent login and authentication issues - 📥 Download failures for current issues - 💰 Expensive subscription pricing - 📖 Poor navigation and user interface - 🔤 Text too small with no zoom capability - ⚠️ Inconsistent access to purchased content - 🌐 Slow performance and loading times - 📧 Unresponsive customer support - 🔄 Frequent loss of downloaded magazines - 📱 Cross-platform compatibility problems - 🗑️ Heavy advertising clutter - 📄 Scanned image format instead of interactive **Commonly reported bugs** - Login credentials not persisting between sessions - Form fields clearing on submit - App crashes when printing or copying - Authentication failed errors - Issues loading current month issues - Purchased magazines disappearing from library - App not launching or appearing in app list - Continuous redirect to login page - Slow or stalled downloads - Incompatibility between iPad and Windows versions - Registration fields clearing after submission - Missing or unavailable back issues - App store link not functioning **Most requested features** - Print recipe functionality - Bookmark and favorites system - Recipe search and filtering - Copy ingredients to clipboard - Recipe card sizing options (3x5, 4x6) - Shopping list generation - Text zoom and accessibility features - Direct customer support chat - Offline reading capability - Cross-device synchronization - Landscape orientation support - Recipe sharing with friends - Advanced search functionality ## Newest reviews (12 of 98) ### 1/5 — Impossible to read *2022-03-18* I bought the app in hopes I could zoom in to read the minuscule print. You can’t and it is very disappointing because I cannot read any of it! ### 1/5 — Don’t Bother *2021-04-08* A long time ago this was a great site. Now it is practically impossible to use. Another reviewer says that they blame Apple. I have a lot of apps on Apple and I can’t think of another as bad as this. The recipes here are very good, but it is no longer worth my time to fight this app. Now it is so crowded with advertising and the app malfunctions constantly . Advertisers, please take note; it is not worth whatever you are paying to be on this site. ### 1/5 — This has been a bad app *2020-12-31* This is a great magazine but terrible app! Buy print version, do not get this app. I began subscribing through apple on iPad about 4 years ago instead of print. Every now and then, the app loses all of my library and asks me to pay for the current issue, even if I show a current subscription. When I contacted the app developer, they say it is apples fault. Apple says it’s the developers fault. I decided to go digital with my magazines for simplicity, but this app has been anything but simple. The developer, TrustedMedia has inadequate customer service. ### 1/5 — Trash Trash Trash *2020-05-27* This application is trash. I love the magazine, I can log in on my Windows 10 Laptop computer.....BUT NOT ON MY IPAD......sad....SAD....SAD.....Junk.....I have also sent them two email using their “report a problem” link and it doesn’t work....So I think it is not Taste of Home ToH it is the developer of this application. ### 1/5 — Poor Application *2020-05-06, version 5.0.1* I am unable to copy ingredients or print them out. If I try to print the application closes. If I try to copy ingredients the application closes. Then I have to go back to the issue was looking at, flip to the page I was on. I am not happy with the application. ### 1/5 — App Issues *2019-02-25* I Purchased this magazine with the understanding that I could use the app on my iPad. It has been an issue from day one trying to get the app to work. It allowed me into one issue and now wants me to pay for additional issues. I wrote an email but there has not been a response from your technical staff. If this problem with the app does not get fixed I will not renew my subscription!!! ### 1/5 — Yearly subscription horrible *2019-01-15, version 5.0.1* This is my second year to subscribe, not all months in 2018 are available for download and now the January 2019 issue isn't available. Not happy ### 1/5 — Awful *2019-01-11* I’ve bought but can’t get current issue. Always asks me to login & provide password. But I bought on iTunes via Apple ID & app won’t recognize. I go to my settings and lo and behold, iTunes has it and I’m being charged. I just can’t access. Save your money. This app is the online version of a vending machine that eats your money & doesn’t give you your drink or snack! ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2018-09-20* I can log in when I access my account online but not from this App. I have a brand new 2018 iPad. What’s up Taste of home!!! ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2017-09-02* I have so much trouble with this app. I try to open it and my log in is gone. After I finally get it to work half of my purchases have prices by them and I can't open them. I've tried reinstalling and still my purchases have prices on them. Big disappointment. This happens just about every time I try to read my magazines. I've had this app for a long time and at first I didn't have this much trouble. Don't know what happened. ### 1/5 — Update? *2017-04-07, version 5.0* What the heck is going on with TOH magazine? This "latest" version of the online magazine feels like a cruddy "Beta" version. Not good at all.... I used to love all the features with the magazine on my iPad. Saving recipes, opening up to the last page read, favorites bookmarked and easy to locate, these features are all modified or nonexistent now. Whoever heard of an update with a magazine downgrading the experience instead of cool new improvements.... thinking about canceling this online mag. Sad ☹️ ### 2/5 — Back issues have returned but..... *2017-03-19, version 5.0* So much got my back issues back, but now the app seems to crash a lot. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Lousy customer service *2025-07-23, version 5.8* Cannot download June/July issue. Nobody seems to be able to help and nobody wants to take responsibility. Waste of money! ### 1/5 — Paid subscrbtion *2025-03-01* I have a paid subscription and the June issue won’t load. There is no direct contact to fix the problem. I submitted the issue with the App Store but I don’t know if they can help. I will probably have to cancel my subscription and I don’t want to because I love the magazine but I’m not going to pay for it if the magazine won’t load. ### 1/5 — Multiple requests for help, still no access to magazine *2024-07-25* I have been a digital subscriber for years. Lately I keep having problems accessing the magazine. I have a current subscription with about 8 months left in my subscription. Yet I cannot access the magazine. Each new issue that’s released requires me to contact support to ask for help to be able to view the magazine. It is now one week to August and I still cannot access the June/July issue. I have sent numerous requests for help. I get email replies asking to send my info including receipt of payment. I have sent the requested info multiple times. I still cannot access the magazine. I do not recommend this app. It is nothing but frustration. ### 1/5 — Lousy customer service *2024-07-20, version 5.3* Cannot download June/July issue. Nobody seems to be able to help and nobody wants to take responsibility. Waste of money! ### 1/5 — Missing issue *2024-07-12* I have not received my June/July 2024 digital issue of Taste of Home. I have reached out for help and only received one email asking questions, which I have answered over a week ago and no response or magazine have been received. Subscription will be cancelled in December. At least an eleven year subscription and I get no help. This happened last year, too. ### 1/5 — Paid subscrbtion *2024-06-12* I have a paid subscription and the June issue won’t load. There is no direct contact to fix the problem. I submitted the issue with the App Store but I don’t know if they can help. I will probably have to cancel my subscription and I don’t want to because I love the magazine but I’m not going to pay for it if the magazine won’t load. ### 1/5 — Terrible app with nothing useful *2024-02-25* I absolutely LOVE Taste of Home magazine. But the publishers really need to come into the 20th century when it comes to technology! Yes, I meant to say 20th century! This app basically is a copy of the magazine. That’s it. Nothing actually functional. Their app is useless and their website is incredibly slow and so heavily laden with pop up ads, it is nearly useless as well. It’s a simple concept: develop a real app that functions like your website is intended to be, and make it accessible to those who subscribe to your magazine! ### 1/5 — Can’t access *2023-12-28* Every time I attempt to register my print subscription to gain access to the app, the fields clear as soon as I hit submit. ### 1/5 — Can’t access *2023-11-12* Every time I attempt to register my print subscription to gain access to the app, the fields clear as soon as I I hit submit. ### 1/5 — Won’t work *2022-04-28* I have been trying for weeks now and can’t get this thing to let me access my subscription. So frustrating!!!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — App is garbage *2024-07-17* This app is terrible. Long time subscriber, very disappointed. Going to cancel my subscription if I can’t access it! ### 5/5 — Excellent Service *2024-01-12, version 5.3* 1/11/24 UPDATE After posting my critical review, I sent an email to Taste of Home support. It took quite a few emails back and forth for me to accurately explain my problem with the registration but the ToH people were patient and persistent. Yesterday I received an email stating my registration had been completed and I’m now able to access the app with all its benefits. Their service and commitment to satisfy this one customer has been amazing. ### 5/5 — Not happy… *2021-07-22, version 5.2.2* Not happy as sometimes you can get it to download, other times not. Aug/ September won’t download. ### 5/5 — Love it *2020-04-24* Love it ### 5/5 — Great Recipes *2019-09-06* Love every recipe I’ve ever tried here!! Love the hard copy but miss the old glossy version, the pictures were so much more tantalizing. Been a subscriber for 20 years. ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2019-01-25* I enjoy looking at it online as well as the hard copy. ### 5/5 — Taste of Home *2017-06-19, version 5.0* Good recipes! ### 5/5 — cmv013 update *2017-03-17, version 5.0* Update Used iPad to contact customer service told them what happened...got message they received my message ....later saw all my past issues so I didn't lose any of them....thank you so so much!!!!!😀😀😀😀😀😀😀 helps to contact customer service....they did outstanding job.....now have all my issues...I didn't loose any of them!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 ### 5/5 — Great practical recipes. *2016-10-31, version 4.2* We use this app for 2-3 meals per month. Great buy! ### 5/5 — One you can actually use! *2015-06-27* It offers more than just one or two great recipes. New delicious and healthy side dishes to take to a potluck or serve to your family; grilling recipes, desserts, healthy drinks. The true testimony is that all my friends want to borrow it, so it changes many hands and I have to track it down to get it back!! It also is very inexpensive. 😜👍🏻 It's get for getting out of the rut of the same old same ol. Family and friends love bbq's when they offer a new surprise or theme. 👏😋😍😜🍡🍧🍥🍰 --- *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 2026-08-21.*