Real Simple Magazine Reviews

Great portability of an excellent magazine with few glitches

Bongir

I love Real Simple magazine. Being a collector (subscriber) of various Home,Garden, Fashion, Photography, Architecture, Financial, and Travel magazines - I have often said if I had to pare down my subscriptions - Real Simple would be my first choice to keep. That being said, availability of an e subscription made it easy to keep the issues I love without the clutter. Downloading an issue was fairly easy - removing an issue was a little trickier as even tapping the issue for selection to delete would open it. Most of the links to websites for items in the magazine worked flawlessly (even links within those websites that were opened) and navigation back to the magazine was a breeze. Color quality of pages was almost perfect - had a slight "washed" quality to my eye (compared with other e versions of magazine that I have). Type size was reasonable for reading - and zoom was easy. All in all It was good - with one star deducted for pains in deleting issue, slight fuzz on colors, and glitchy website links (I am picky about my 5 star rating).

Lots of bugs

TerryInMaryland

Real Simple is a good magazine but this app is buggy. I downloaded it, then tried to open it and set up my online subscription. I couldn't, though. The error message said that the app had been purchased with a different Apple ID. No, I'd downloaded it moments before. Frustrating. It's ironic that the app is called Real Simple.

Real Life app

Cant use my own name

So far it locks up more than it has functioned. Took my money but gave me nothing in return

Love the e-version

Jennylou1593

Love the crisp images on my iPad. Plus love that I can click on items to get more detail or even purchase.

Real Simple app IS real simple.

alkaline61

I love the fact that I can now take my magazine(s) with me on the go ... without having my carry-on feel like it's loaded with bricks!!

$23 Wasted.

K80fab

I was excited to subscribe to Real Simple on my iPad. Too bad the page freezes and won't open. How do I cancel and get my money back? Total ripoff.

No more digital with print

dorcol

Hate that I no longer get the digital with my print subscription. I am on the road a lot and would love the ability to do both without paying a fortune.

Not impressed at all

ajonesdesign

All the below is based around the iPhone app. I don't own an iPad so I can use those functions... Just got the subscription as a gift, and just signing up was more trouble than it should have been. The app doesn't even fit my iPhone 6. It was built for what it looks like, an iPhone 4. I'm also disappointed with the fact that it doesn't rotate and you can't view it in 2 pages mode as if you were reading a real magazine. I was also bombarded by ads and can hardly find the art led because of them! Very disappointed. We're headed towards a digital age and just because I signed up for the magazine also doesn't mean I want to take it everywhere I go like I do my phone, which is more convenient when I'm somewhere waiting and wanna read your magazine. This should be a priority and considering that the bigger phones have been out for over a year, I can see that it's not.

Horrible excuse for an app

Katgirlwithers

Every magazine from the same publishing company has a separate app. App updated and it forgot my subscription purchase with no straight forward way to fix. Restore purchases does not restore anything. Now I have spend time fixing rather than just reading the magazine.

Subscription

Morgbraz

Subscription is very difficult to setup

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