Rolling Stone Magazine App Reviews

Im a subscriber through iTunes and I cant download new issue, even after "restoring my iTunes purchases." Please fix.

Downloaded the app and purchased a couple of RS issues and now when I try to access them, all i get is blank screens. I can open the table of contents, but whatever I click on is just a white screen. What an incredible rip off. Never again.

No sense in reiterating all the other reviews. I used to tell people that the app was the best I ever used. Now it is not worth the effort. Good luck finding audio samples. This is not an app, it is just a series of screen shots.

I received 2 or 3 charges from them and then couldnt view the magazines without signing up to be charged again.

This new "upgrade" is the worst yet. Got me to the unsubscribe from Rolling Stone after many years.

I did away with my long time print subscription for the digital version 2 years ago. But then in December when I went to log in after my auto renewal, not only were all my back issues gone, but Rolling Stone says they have no record of my subscription! And both Apple and RS are playing a great game of pass the buck, but neither are doing anything to resolve the problem. Major fail for both Rolling Stone and Apple. I hope no one else wastes their money on this shoddy app.

The old rolling stone app was great. It was easy to read and had interactive features. Now it is difficult to read and difficult to download and remove issues. And there are no interactive features. Even though Rolling Stone is a great great magazine I will not be resubscribing.

You simply dont care about your subscribers! Im paying for a subscription but instead of just being able to download new issues Im asked to us them full price or get a subscription that I already have and when I complain you blame it on iTunes. I cant open older issues that I have already paid for. I have to buy them again or get a subscription... That I already have !

It’s a shame, really. Rolling Stone was the perfect magazine to adopt the bells and whistles of a truly digital edition. You could put ears to the featured artist playlist without the hassle and legwork of seeking out each track yourself. The issue’s reviews were just a click away for your own consideration. Navigating the stories was always intuitive and enjoyable. It was quite possibly, in this writer’s opinion, the gold standard and the point of a periodical even offering a digital-only subscription. Enter the new and suddenly lack-luster Rolling Stone “App” — read: PDF clone-viewer. The once splendid and feature-rich digital edition now reduced to a shell of its former glory, no more usable than looking at a print copy through a window five feet away. You can still zoom, edging it arguably closer to the adjective legible. But should you decide to do so and then have the audacity to scroll through a multi-column article that way, be prepared to restart your enjoyment of that particular article by selecting it from the app’s main menu. Scrolling seems to be more difficult a task for the app to manage, crashing it often enough to reconsider your stance on the ease of digital subscriptions. I understand that publishers have to do what they have to do. But it’s a shame, really, to have learned what it felt like and seen what it looked like to thumb through a proper digital magazine.

Content is good but very frustrating to not be able to click thru to stories on a frequent basis