Doesn’t update edition
App is fine, I subscribed through iTunes. However I have found that the latest addition of the magazine doesn’t appear for me. As you aren’t given a customer number it’s impossible to chase up online. I gave up in the end and stopped subscribing
Poor resolution scans
EarLier editions have some strips that are very hard to read. Normally a pdf you can enlarge, but these get even blurrier if you try to pinch and zoom
Text is now legible
The previously blurred text is now legible. This is now a good app. Thank you
Update to: Latest update was a backward step
All the faults listed below have now been rectified. Well done developers!
I shall leave the original review up for another week or so and then delete the comments below.
Previously one had access to all the previous editions. Yesterday when I opened the app only a few from 2018 were available. The ones I had previously bought had disappeared! Also, some of the features are blurred when you try to magnify them. E.g. Sid the Sexist was almost unreadable. One advantage of the app was that the content could be made readable for people with short sight. Unfortunately that is no longer possible in some cases. Update The lost editions have reappeared but most cartoons cannot be magnified without the text becoming unreadable and the drawings blurred.
I shall leave the original review up for another week or so and then delete the comments below.
Previously one had access to all the previous editions. Yesterday when I opened the app only a few from 2018 were available. The ones I had previously bought had disappeared! Also, some of the features are blurred when you try to magnify them. E.g. Sid the Sexist was almost unreadable. One advantage of the app was that the content could be made readable for people with short sight. Unfortunately that is no longer possible in some cases. Update The lost editions have reappeared but most cartoons cannot be magnified without the text becoming unreadable and the drawings blurred.
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Where’s me back issues gone?
The app was updated 4 days ago. Apparently one of the improvements to the new version is the removal of all of the back issues I have paid for over the last 5 years. I was halfway through re-reading one - gone overnight. Great way to make me consider whether I should continue my subscription.
Lost everything
Years I’ve been subscribing and now I have lost all my old editions.
Absolutely disgusting, I’m so angry and upset.
Absolutely disgusting, I’m so angry and upset.
The most-recent update wiped out YEARS of content!
If you have bought issues of Viz in the past, DO NOT UPDATE TO THIS VERSION! It only now contains issues from 2015, and it wiped out EVERY issue I had bought previously. (Luckily, I discovered this fact before updating my iPad, but sadly, my phone lost everything.) The new app only has issues back to 2015 (and only 2 issues from that year). The old app had issues all the way back to 2011, plus it had special issues available. If you update, you WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR OLD PURCHASES! They will be completely gone! What’s more, when you first launch the new app, there is a tutorial that shows you features that are supposed to be there but aren’t. For example, the tutorial boats of having a “Library icon” in the upper left part of the screen. There is no library icon. The tutorial actually shows images of an app that is different than what you’re actually getting. Version 4.0 (released in 2018) and Version 4.1 (released in 2020) are absolute garbage! If you still have version 3.6.1 (released in 2016) on your device(s) keep it! You won’t be able to buy new issues, but you will still have access to your old purchases. (2021 update - The previous version of the app is no longer being supported. So, purchased issues that you had “in the cloud” will no longer download... 😡. )
(2023 update – The newest version (5.0) of this sorry app is even worse than the last (if you can believe it). This time, they wiped out *all* of my old purchases – every issue I had bought before version 4.0 screwed things up the first time are now completely gone! I had hoped that perhaps version 5.0 would restore all the old content, but those hopes were misplaced. What a waste of money this whole affair had been!)
(2023 update – The newest version (5.0) of this sorry app is even worse than the last (if you can believe it). This time, they wiped out *all* of my old purchases – every issue I had bought before version 4.0 screwed things up the first time are now completely gone! I had hoped that perhaps version 5.0 would restore all the old content, but those hopes were misplaced. What a waste of money this whole affair had been!)
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New version takes away access to old content
I’ve been a subscriber for many years. The latest version of the app took away access to everything except the most recent issue as well as all ten issues for 2018. This is the second time they’ve done this, and the last time they’ll do it to me, since I’ve now cancelled my subscription.
Horrible new update for iPad
The new update is a mess. Text on the iPad has become illegible for some pages of the app. Please revert to previous version as anyone with a 12.9 inch iPad screen will be unable to read the magazine.
Allow access via desktop please?
Hi. I am 54 and have been a fan of Viz for 30 years. And I still love it but could we, please, access digital copies via desktop/laptops?
My ageing eyes find it difficult to view on a phone not to mention the need to constantly zoom in.
Many thanks and kind regards.
Rick Lee.
My ageing eyes find it difficult to view on a phone not to mention the need to constantly zoom in.
Many thanks and kind regards.
Rick Lee.
Used to be good
I used to just login and buy one issue. Now I need a customer number, huh, and can only purchase 3 issues on a rolling subscription basis. Don’t think so !
No longer works
Cannot buy individual issues anymore - only subscribe. All downloaded editions have been deleted apart from the last three. Poor.
Why !!
Love viz,read it for years, been cheerfully downloading and paying on the app for the editions that I want with no problem, now, all of a sudden(Oct 2021) it’s become subscribe only, I don’t have a credit card attached to iTunes ~I just buy vouchers when I need them, I don’t want to subscribe, just buy issues that I want when I want them,please sort this out or I’ll be another lost customer
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Love Viz, app is average
I wanted a digital subscription & have been using the app for 18 months now. It has improved, albeit from a very poor start where access was denied despite paying for a year. Since renewal the service has been uninterrupted.
Overall the navigation is okay, but moving from one magazine to another is not as smooth as it should be. Remembering which page you have reached in previous unfinished issues would be a vast improvement, as would syncing from iPad to iPhone. So one star withheld due to functionality, but the content is as good as ever.
Overall the navigation is okay, but moving from one magazine to another is not as smooth as it should be. Remembering which page you have reached in previous unfinished issues would be a vast improvement, as would syncing from iPad to iPhone. So one star withheld due to functionality, but the content is as good as ever.
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Poor.
Never seen such a badly run subscription. The price is right but the layout is appalling. To log in I need a customer number.
I didn’t get one. So I add my details into some website that they say should find them.
They don’t know my details.
It’s utterly a waste of time, which is a shame cause Viz is a great mag. But this service is poor. And I mean poor! I have one apple account and can’t even add this existing subscription to my tablet even though I’m paying for it and it’s just one account. You can only have have 12 months of mags.
I wish I saved my money and read the reviews, well, bigger fool me.
I didn’t get one. So I add my details into some website that they say should find them.
They don’t know my details.
It’s utterly a waste of time, which is a shame cause Viz is a great mag. But this service is poor. And I mean poor! I have one apple account and can’t even add this existing subscription to my tablet even though I’m paying for it and it’s just one account. You can only have have 12 months of mags.
I wish I saved my money and read the reviews, well, bigger fool me.
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20/20 needed
Not good on a mobile. Fonts are difficult to make out so make it hard work.
Viz
Great magazine but App doesn’t work on an IPad
The most-recent update wiped out YEARS of content!
If you have bought issues of Viz in the past, DO NOT UPDATE TO THIS VERSION! It only now contains issues from 2015, and it wiped out EVERY issue I had bought previously. (Luckily, I discovered this fact before updating my iPad, but sadly, my phone lost everything.)
The new app only has issues back to 2015 (and only 2 issues from that year). The old app had issues all the way back to 2011, plus it had special issues available.
If you update, you WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR OLD PURCHASES! They will be completely gone!
What’s more, when you first launch the new app, there is a tutorial that shows you features that are supposed to be there but aren’t.
For example, the tutorial boats of having a “Library icon” in the upper left part of the screen.
There is no library icon. The tutorial actually shows images of an app that is different than what you’re actually getting.
Version 4.0 (released in 2018) and Version 4.1 (released in 2020) are absolute garbage! If you still have version 3.6.1 (released in 2016) on your device(s) keep it! You won’t be able to buy new issues, but you will still have access to your old purchases.
(2021 update - The previous version of the app is no longer being supported. So, purchased issues that you had “in the cloud” will no longer download... 😡. )
The new app only has issues back to 2015 (and only 2 issues from that year). The old app had issues all the way back to 2011, plus it had special issues available.
If you update, you WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR OLD PURCHASES! They will be completely gone!
What’s more, when you first launch the new app, there is a tutorial that shows you features that are supposed to be there but aren’t.
For example, the tutorial boats of having a “Library icon” in the upper left part of the screen.
There is no library icon. The tutorial actually shows images of an app that is different than what you’re actually getting.
Version 4.0 (released in 2018) and Version 4.1 (released in 2020) are absolute garbage! If you still have version 3.6.1 (released in 2016) on your device(s) keep it! You won’t be able to buy new issues, but you will still have access to your old purchases.
(2021 update - The previous version of the app is no longer being supported. So, purchased issues that you had “in the cloud” will no longer download... 😡. )
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Superb
Brilliant app. iPad experience brilliant
Plenty of sauce!
Nothing compares. Best read ever
