ZINIO - Magazine Newsstand Reviews

History

294gj

I wish they had history magazines such as true west, Wild West and others. If they did I’d rate a five star and recommend them. They did at one time but no longer

I use it every day since 5-6 years. I am suscribed to many magazines. The last update made this app terrible. What was one of my favorite apps, now is the symbol of disfunction. It turned slow, messy, difficult, and the worst way to organize mags. Very sad for it!

Update Disappointing

KDub102.4

Zinio has ALWAYS been my favorite mag app......until the latest overhaul. Not sure what prompted the changes, but I’m not a fan of those changes yet. First, when the app opens, it defaults on the SHOP page, and there is no longer the option to set my default opening page. I understand Zinio wanting me to BUY, BUY, BUY, but 90%of the time I’m there to read. That means I ALWAYS have to manually select the READ tab every time I open the app. Aaargghh! The same is the case with what used to be the (elegant) Articles listing, opened by the menu button in the upper right corner of the screen. When tapping this menu button, it opens the PAGES view by default. So, I have to select the ARTICLES tab to get to the list if articles. I wish we had a setting for which of these tabs we want to default to in this view to save the added taps to get where I want to go. While its good to have the option to view my mags in PDF view (as it was before), or in TEXT view, once again I wish we had a setting to establish which view I prefer as my default view. Again, extra taps are needed to get to my preferred way to view my mags. The point is, this update now requires more screen taps each time I use the app. Finally, the ARTICLES listing (accessed by the menu button) is now shown in a tile view rather than what used to be a very elegant, readable listing of the articles. Now, the article titles are cut cut off on most or all of the tiles, and visually the tiles seem a step down from what we had prior to the update. And this on an iPad...

Poor customer service

V7JBS

Very disappointing response trying to find old purchased mags. 2 weeks and still trying to get it resolved

Zinio App Handy to Have

Meteor71

The Zinio app allows me to subscribe to several Mac-related publications that I otherwise wouldn’t have access to as they are not available at newsstands. I can save them to my iPhone/Mac or just read them online. I would have rated this app higher but it has a bad habit of losing my library whenever there’s an updated version of the app. Then I need to contact Zinio customer service who magically restores it.

Refresh problems

Shitzenhaus

When I check out magazines via DBdigital, they may or may not show up in my ZINIO library. ZINIO help doesn’t seem to understand this. I can refresh over and over but the latest editions of Astronomy, Men’s Health and Family Handyman don’t appear. There doesn’t appear any rhyme or reason for the as other new magazine editions appear right away.

was great, now bad

Ayberk Kuday

zinio was my favorite app on my ipad. i stopped buying printed magazines many years ago after zinio became avaiable on Ipad. i’ve been using it since the earliest version. however, Zinio with the latest update, became horrible. Texts are still being rendered clear however pictures are now blurry. if you zoom into them, they even become more blurry. i miss a lot of little features like filters.for exeample I can not filter or sort my magazines by month now. a lot of new little things made once a great app consideribly worse. In short the biggest deal breaker for me is the rendering of the pictures. now I go to printed magazines.

Lost legacy support

mutmo

I'm not happy at all that I have an older iPad running iOS 8.4 & can no longer download new issues that I have already purchased. This renders the app completely useless. All of us can't afford new devices. I've also got an older iPhone running iOS 9, the app is very unstable on that device.

Efficient

Sheenelee

The new update is huge improvement over previous versions. Very convenient & efficient to have your magazine subscriptions available on all your different devices.

Annoying Ads

abuimad

It’s too easy to click on an ad and get taken to safari, some magazines have pages after pages of ads, every time I click on a page to display the table of contents, it takes you to an ad, very frustrating, there needs to be a way to disable that

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