Sky & Telescope Magazine App Reviews

When you zoom in the text just gets blurry. The new issue wont load past page 23. BS! Has allot of room for improvement.

Downloaded app. Tried to subscribe to magazine. Received 1.3 of Feb 2013 issue. No links for support, help or to cancel subscription. Send complaint to Apple to unsubscribe and am going back to paper until you finish development. I dont like to be a public beta guinea pig. Recommend you wait.

This app produces a catastrophic (unrecoverable) crash on start-up requiring a re-boot to get the iPhone working again. NOT INTERMITTENT--EVERY TIME!!! Cmon Apple!!! Get this PoS out of the store, and start enforcing some basic quality controls. Your vendors failures give you a black eye too!!

I could download the latest issue, but the app would not allow me to download the last couple (I do have the paper copies as I have a subscription). I am told that I dont have a subscription even though I used the same log in for the current issue (the save password button doesnt work).

Next to impossible to load an issue. Next to impossible to keep running. Next to worthless.

I am a long term subscriber and want to read the current edition on line. The Ap asks for my email and my password. 1) I see no way that it confirms that I am a subscriber. 2) It asks for a password that I dont think I have given them. So far, my conclusion is that this site is not user-friendly. I did get an automatic reply that they would investigate and get back to me. Well see how long it takes.....

The frustration I have with this app is no doubt part of the restrictions imposed on it by design. Not able to download back issues I already paid for in my subscription for one. In a more recent case I downloaded the feb 2014 issue but havent had a chance to read till the march 2014 was already released. Now the app refuses to let me open the February issue even though I already downloaded it. Dont have these problems with other older issues I keep. It seriously makes me question the odds Ill keep the e-sub if I cant even view what I paid for if I dont look at it before the next issue releases.

Love the mag and the fact that you get print and digital editions, but it crashes frequently on IOS 7

Used to be able to buy individual issues without a subscription. Cant do that any more

Over the last year Ive hoped the developers would fix this app, because S&T is about the only magazine I really, really want to have on my IPad. You see the basic problems in the other reviews: issues cant be accessed, old issues once accessed go away, app refuses to acknowledge you as a legitimate subscriber... Id uninstall then reinstall and it would work for a while, then stop. Calls to Apple and the magazine yielded only finger pointing. Frustrating beyond belief. Turned me off of the use of Newsstand completely. Developers are either unable or unwilling to fix this app.

I cannot recommend that anyone purchase Sky and Telescope through this mechanism. The app is completely useless. Every month I cant get to the magazine that was purchased through the store. I have to restore purchases, and that doesnt always work. I tried reinstalling the app and now I cant download my history. I would recommend buying another way or maybe check out Astronomy mag to see if their app is better.

The app has stopped recognizing my subscription. My subscription expires 2/14, but I havent able to download anything since the October 2013 issue :/ No help from Apple or Sky and Telescope. Buyer beware......

I love the magazine, but cannot access half my recent purchases. I wish it werent so, but neither Apple or the magazine publisher will help. They referred me to each other--last time I tried. I cancelled my subscription. Content: A Support: F

Login doesnt work either. iTunes keeps charging me but I still have to log in with a sky and t account that is separate and has nothing to do with my apple account. I am now going to cancel my digital account since nothing has changed since I wrote the first version of this review. Great magazine, good digital, terrible customer handling electronically. I often travel and was looking forward to reading issues on the plane. I get mostly broken pages in an issue when I am on the plane with no connection. I then tried loading a few issues at home so they would be in the library already. In that case, I see no covers in the library when I am offline. When I click to read one, same problem, a bunch of broken pages with no way to read them. Other magazines I have work fine. I have the same problem when I am out in the field away from my home, but that is less frequent than trying to read them on the plane. This should be a simple bug fix.

Dont buy. Cant subscribe or buy issues. Buggy. Havent been able to access for months.

Dont digitally subscribe to Sky & Telescope unless you want to throw away money. I made the mistake of subscribing for a year ($37.99) and now cannot restore any issues that I want to re-read...issues that I paid for. Unlike every other magazine app which allows you to re-download purchased issues, once you delete a purchased Sky & Telescope issue from your device, you might as well kiss it goodbye forever. I called them twice to inquire. First time, they said it should be fixed within a few days and just hold tight. Called back a few weeks later and this time they blamed Apple. Clearly, they have no clue what the issue is with their app. My full year subscription completely lost. Total rip-off.

I have to echo what so many other reviewers have written. I have been a print subscriber to S&T for many years, and an online subscriber for going on four years now. I am completely fed up with having my online subscription disappear. The record keeping system is just awful. The magazine is good, but stay away from the online sub.

This could be good app for a good magazine. But noooooooo. The app fails in the essential role of downloading content. You can see what you _might_ access. But if you choose READ you end up with a perpetual, but pretty blue screen. If you choose DOWNLOAD you pop back to the Newstand. Shamefully, S&T seems to have turned its back on the problems: previous update was in 2013.

I got it to work for about an year. During that time it would occasionally ask me to subscribe but would in time access my subscription info. Even then a rather clumsy download arrangement made it slow. Reading was ok but seemed to rely on downloaded PDF or something.

THIS APP IS BROKEN! AND THEY WONT FIX IT. DO NOT GET THIS APP, YOU WONT BE ABLE TO READ THE MAGAZINE THROUGH THE APP. Seriously.