# WIRED Magazine — user reviews > 516 indexed App Store user reviews of WIRED Magazine by Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., rated 3.60/5 from 487 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wired-magazine/id373903654/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wired-magazine/id373903654.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 276 · 4★ 43 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 23 · 1★ 129 ## What do users think of WIRED Magazine? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent interactive features - 🚀 Innovative magazine format - 👍 Intuitive navigation - 👍 High-quality content **Cons** - 💰 Expensive single-issue pricing - 🔍 Overwhelming amount of ads - 📦 Extremely large file size - 🐛 Buggy login and download issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Login issues and inability to access purchased content - Frequent crashes and download failures - Compatibility problems with iOS updates **Most requested features** - Subscription pricing model - Ability to save and access past issues - Text-only reading mode - Improved performance on older devices ## Newest reviews (19 of 516) ### 2/5 — Latest Issue not available *2026-07-14* Last issue shown is may /june 2026, does not update to the july/ august issue, whose print issue is already in Germany. ### 2/5 — It’s like having a pdf of hard copy *2026-06-21, version 6.0* Why is this app so clunky? All you get is pictures of the hard copy. Meanwhile, as a subscriber I’m getting paywalled out of articles linked from social media. Why subscribe? ### 2/5 — Where’s the news??? *2026-05-16, version 6.0* It makes so little sense that you don’t have the same articles that are available in your newsletters and the website, especially for a tech magazine. ### 1/5 — Beautiful journalism, terrible mobile experience *2026-05-14* The WIRED app is basically unreadable on a phone. The “digital issues” are just tiny print-page replicas that require endless zooming and panning. I genuinely don’t understand why there’s no proper text/reader mode for mobile devices. Great journalism, terrible mobile reading experience. ### 2/5 — Paywall is obnoxious and has been for years *2026-05-01, version 6.0* Every time I try to read an article or use the app I get stopped by the pay wall which sometimes doesn’t even recognize my login. It used to forget my password requiring a reset, doesn’t like working in foreign countries either ### 1/5 — Wired app *2026-04-28, version 6.0* Does not work - can’t access with subscription ### 1/5 — Garbage App *2026-03-31, version 6.0* I cancelled my subscription because of this app format. How is it that the FTimes and Economist can figure this out but Wired and Conde Nast cannot? Jesus! Hire new tech devs and UX teams. ### 2/5 — Needs more than just the magazines *2026-03-11, version 6.0* This app’s functionality is extremely limited. You’d expect to be able to view and read stories as presented on the website, but you cannot. You can only view and download digitized versions of the print magazines. Other publications which use the same app framework for their mobile experience do this. I expect better from a tech publication, especially one i pay for. ### 1/5 — Bad photocopy *2026-03-01, version 6.0* Yes, oh, that was done. Was that they photo copied every page. A huge waste of opportunity. ### 2/5 — Weaker every year *2026-02-24, version 6.0* Wired used to be monthly and leading the technology revolution. Now, this app is verges on being pathetic after repeated downgrades and feature removals. It’s little more than a PDF viewer with terrible session management that constantly logs you out only after a few days. The lack of font sizing means you are reduced to pinch to zoom for everything. This may be partially due to the variable layout, but could be made adjustable or more flexible if it wasn’t wedded to the print version. The articles are still worth reading, but the app has become a source of frustration. ### 2/5 — Needs improvement *2026-02-21, version 6.0* As a reader, when I open the app - I should see a bookshelf with the magazine issue I am currently reading and open up to current bookmark. The app doesn’t save progress currently and that needs to be fixed. Favorites section has bugs where it saves two pages instead of one when starred. When I access a bookmark the magazine issue should load and I should be able to continue reading the entire issue from the bookmark. Currently only the two pages are saved with no access to the whole issue. ### 1/5 — Log outs *2026-02-05* Getting logged out every few days uselessly, this is either a major bug or a token refresh policy that’s way too strict and short. I’ve been a subscriber for 15 years by the way, do better! You’re a tech journal! ### 1/5 — A political mag *2026-01-29, version 6.0* Why does this magazine post so many political editorial pieces. Not the tech mag it used to be. You have alienated me and hence I won’t return. Good luck ### 1/5 — Where are the articles? *2026-01-18, version 6.0* As another reviewer mentions, you cannot click to get to the actual article. Or maybe just I cannot. ### 1/5 — Surprisingly Lowest tech for a magazine focused on tech *2026-01-03, version 5.9* Really surprised that the app only allows to download a pdf of the magazine. That is not functional to read articles on a phone. Now I only log through the web. Very surprising for a magazine focused on tech, that they have not figured out a way to deliver content through various media. ### 1/5 — I thought Wired was a frontrunner in tech *2025-12-28, version 5.9* This app makes me question my decision to get a subscription in the first place. This is supposed to be a go-to for tech news, yet you have to “link” your print subscription by jumping through multiple sketchy and confusing sign-in loops, just to get access to a PDF? Y’all, why did you even bother with this? ### 1/5 — Extremely confusing *2025-11-26, version 5.9* This app only gives access to a PDF version of the print magazines, and does not give access to the news content from the Wired web site. It also does not tell you this, and I went some time without understanding that there was more to my subscription. There is no reason that the app should not also give you access to the articles (including news articles) in a more readable format. Look to the Economist app to see how this can be done right. ### 1/5 — Staggeringly bad for a tech magazine *2025-11-22, version 5.9* Please, Wired, have some self-respect. UX design is a thing, maybe look it up. Crashy. Subscriptions often don’t sync. Tiny static pdf pages. Pinch/zoom/pinch/zoom/pinch/zoom. Do you hate your readers? There is absolutely nothing to like in this app. Negative one billion stars. ### 2/5 — Clunky *2025-10-29, version 5.9* Clunky phone interface makes it difficult to read on phone. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Always logged out *2026-08-23, version 6.0* Incredibly poor development from a tech publication app ### 1/5 — Wired app doesn’t work on iPad *2026-07-31, version 6.0* I’ve contacted wired. No answer. ### 1/5 — Abysmal- Shame on Condé Nast *2026-07-20, version 6.0* Wired is not a neighborhood church newsletter but the app runs it as if it is. All we get is a picture of each page of the magazine. No hot links. No jumping to your article. No reading your article - unless you enlarge the page with your finger, then slide it around to find where it continues. I subscribed to the paper copy for some years. My app subscription is three hours old and I’m appalled. ### 1/5 — Garbage app from a bad alternate reality *2026-07-18, version 6.0* Wired has an incredibly dated app that makes it all but impossible to access your subscription and actually read an article. It’s like someone in the 90s designed the app and then they just never changed it. I just read it online and I won’t renew my subscription when it expires. ### 1/5 — Won’t update with most recent issue *2026-07-12, version 6.0* Now won’t show most recent issue. Shows all past issues. It says I have an active subscription and I have linked the print version to the subscription. Was working fine for years but now broken. Have tried logging out and back in, uninstalling app and reinstalling. Nothing works! ### 1/5 — Great magazine, terrible app design *2026-07-10, version 6.0* My mom could vibe code a better app than this, and she’s 70 years old. The days of just simply uploading the print version of your magazine and calling it a mobile app are long gone. Wired needs to completely redesign this app and make it a multiple version of their website, optimized for the iPhone screen. If you wanna just upload the print version of your magazine for the iPad, that’s fine. That’s a non-starter for an iPhone app. ### 1/5 — Can’t use the App unless you agree to it to share your information *2026-07-05, version 6.0* I purchased a 1 year subscription and decided to download this App. I went to sign in (hoping to be given an option to set up an account), but instead I got a pop up that read, “Wired Wants to Use ‘I’d.condenast.com’ to Sign In This allows the app and website to share information about you”. WTH? I couldn’t get past that pop up and there was no other way to set my new account so that I could use the App! What is wrong with these people??? Is everything - even WIRED - now a Grift?? So low class of them. Furious! ### 1/5 — Impossible to navigate *2026-06-17, version 6.0* I cannot get anything or anybody to help in navigate, good news if you want to get to page 80you can get there by swiping 1-79 one full page at a time …….there is no help from their help line either …….it not “helps” problem and they just pass the problem off to a third party, who assumes no responsibility….while I haven’t checked recently I have never had this problem with their New Yorker mag app that while changes are often annoying they always work for me. ### 1/5 — Cancelled, still charged *2026-06-01, version 6.0* Beware they make it impossible to cancel. I cancelled, then was auto renewed despite cancelling. Then supposedly my account could not be found but I’ll be getting auto charged $65 a year forever because you can’t manage to cancel my account. So, strongly advise to never ever subscribe to Wired for anything period. ### 1/5 — Stop the logouts! *2026-05-17, version 6.0* This is insane, every couple of days I have to log back in, what on the Earth is your token refresh policy? I’ve never seen that before. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Loses subscription *2025-12-25, version 5.9* This app keeps losing my subscription. When I “restore” my purchases, it acknowledges “purchases restored “ but I still can’t access the issues. ### 5/5 — Landscape mode… Finally! *2024-12-27* Great mag, finally landscape mode. ### 5/5 — The best way to read magazines on iPad *2022-04-28, version 5.2* The Wired app is a joyful revelation. All other magazine apps (including other Conde Nast titles e.g. Vanity Fair) recreate printed page layouts. The low-res images and arbitrary text columns are just wrong on a touchscreen. In Wired, each article is typeset vertically. Scroll down to read, swipe across to navigate through the magazine. Wonderful! I hope this layout tech is rolled out to more magazines. It might even help save trees, the environment, and the planet 🌏 ### 5/5 — Wired *2021-08-02, version 5.2* Best in the West…of the Galaxy ! ### 5/5 — First great mobile reading and design experience *2021-06-04, version 5.2* This is the first time I’ve come across a digital version of a magazine that keeps the design language and readability of the physical copy. Love it! ### 5/5 — 5 🌟 when it doesn’t delete all my downloads! *2020-07-28, version 5.2* I like to keep all the issues, because there are articles meant to be read more than once 💖 But today, even if my settings are for NEVER delete any magazine and I have lot of room , 512 Gb, they were missing because “Not enough room” ?! Please don’t do that and yes landscape mode would very much appreciated. Thanks ### 5/5 — Well set up and app and great journalism *2020-01-17, version 5.2* Love reading wired via the iPad app. The app is user friendly and intuitive. The journalism is great too. ### 5/5 — The BEST *2020-01-12, version 5.2* WIRED is the tech magazine for everyone - amazing futuristic articles, clear explanations of tech for today and tomorrow. It’s the only magazine I get offline! ### 5/5 — Works beautifully on iPhone SE *2019-11-26, version 5.0* Thanks to the dev and content team for an amazing experience, even on a small 4” display. ### 5/5 — Keeps crashing, but no way of contacting for support *2019-09-08, version 5.0* Why make it so hard to get support... the support link needs you to register and provide the info based on HARD copy information even thought the APP is digital... I just keep bouncing back. Can’t send email as link requires apple email app loaded, but I use outlook... so keeps failing. Can you provide ACCESSIBLE contact for the app so I can get it fixed to NOT crash constantly since the update last week. Aaaargh. I cannot open any of my paid subscription. --- *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 2026-09-09.*