Mac|Life Magazine Reviews

Not good

penaleixo

I have a subscription until March 2019, and they have started to charge me for downloading magazines, since November. Apple will not refund my money, the say it is up to the app developer, and the developer doesn’t answer my requests.

App difficult to use and no customer support

Rovrallovr

I am missing back issue, one I really need and call plus email to support yields no results. I would say find another avenue for MacLife, this is annoying. The font is too small and cannot be changed. You can’t even expand something. The scroll is annoying. Not book or magazine like. Extremely disappointed and won’t be renewing. Even though they start hounding you after half the subscription saying you should renew.

Content, great. Delivery, meh.

Practigal

I have enjoyed the content of this magazine since it was MacAddict and print only. The content has in fact improved tremendously in the last year. However, the digital delivery system has been wonky from the start. Issues download very slowly (in contrast, Consumer Reports downloads in a blink). Now, despite having a subscription, it doesn’t show me as a subscriber (it does in iTunes), won’t restore purchases / download my magazines of which I now have none because FAQs recommended deleting and reinstalling the app. Of course, Support is very hard to get a hold of because there isn’t a fast lane for the technically savvy. Answer TBD....

iPhone app is from 70’s

Definition by character

While the iPad app is good, only problem I have is that I can’t bookmark, the iPhone app is terrible. I actually open it and close it back because it’s not been updated for iPhone X. Please fix the iPhone app and picking up where you left off is not syncing well between my iPad Pro and iPhone X. That’s where bookmarking would have helped but like I said, I can only do this on the iPhone which I don’t do because the app is terrible. I just started subscribing and hope experience of iPhone app is better soon.

Informative and concise

Original T- man

I find the articles in MacLife to be very informative, concise, and well written. When I was moving from the PC world to Apple MacLife was, and still is, a great resource for information. I love the iPad version. This app is well worth the price.

Needs iPhone X support

GilMunoz93

Please add iPhone X support. It’s fine if it still has bars when not zoomed but it needs this update. It’s been long enough. There’s no excuse as to why it’s not out yet.

I love this magazine but very much dislike their technical support

Pbrothha

I have been a lifelong subscriber of MacLife and love the magazine. However, I purchased an issue a bit back and have subsequently upgraded my phone to the new X! All of my issues have loaded back onto my account except the one (mentioned before) that I really need right now. I have emailed the “support” folks, several times, hoping that they could help and haven’t gotten any answers back. I’d say get the app, just hopefully don’t lose any of your purchases as their support staff are nonexistent. Hopefully they don’t cease production as good luck finding anyone who cares!

Good and bad

Negro896

Contents is good, but the app need more work.

Makes useful Mac info alive

WalterCeebee

MacLife is one of my first magazine (apps?) experiences within Newsstand. It's working well generally. I response time is good. New issue load time is long - not something to do just before leaving the house or a Starbucks. In-magazine navigation is intuitive for the most part, with helpful cues (and the initial help screen is handy), but sometimes there is a sense of too many different ways to reveal another page or section. Maybe I need to get some practice! In the end I can read the content, share it and that's most important. I will add that going back after a break to an open mag can be frustrating with having to start in the library screen and wait a long time for the mag to open- fortunately on the page you were in. Make the app smarter and snappier!

Looks (AND WORKS) FANTASTICALLY On My iPad Pro

AppReview_NOT_CostReview

MacLife was the one magazine I would still buy in print form in the grocery store, as I really like the content and look. But, for less than the cost of two print issues (which is still true, I think), I can get an entire year. And, with the Retina display on the large iPad Pro, it seems to actually look BETTER than the print version. And, of course, there’s also all the capabilities that come with an “active” publication (like links and such). Plus: I have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE as to where all these other reviewers are getting these problems! They must be using a different app or something! ;) Seriously, though, I’ve actually NEVER had a problem with the app itself, or with the purchasing of issues! Plus, I’ve just turned 60 years old, with my brain and memory getting worse and worse, and I’ve been able to read issue after issue with (LITERALLY) ZERO problems. So, this app is ABSOLUTELY AND VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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