Amateur Photographer Magazine

The app just doesn’t work, and just endlessly cycles instead of restoring purchases through the app store

Whilst text scales cleanly when you zoom in, the pictures do not. When using iPhone the pixelation renders images very poorly with no obvious way to improve detail - bit of a major shortcoming for a photography magazine. The iPad app is only marginally better for picture quality. Surely the app should be able to download higher quality images if the user zooms in, lots of other emagazines manage this. Also couldn't get any hyperlinks (if that's what they were) to work correctly. Not what I'd expect from a 2016 app.

I recently changed to a digital subscription and I'm enjoying the app (and the saving). Ideally it should be viewed on a large iPad or tablet as there is a lot of content per screen (exactly the same as the printed page). It would be great to see a search function across back issues. Update: 30/10/15 I've had frequent problems whereby the App doesn't recognise that my subscription is paid and it wants to charge me for each issue. Last time it took over 2 weeks to resolve. Not cool.

It is a excellent app and it saves some trees in an Eco system and about saving you to buy a copy, handy to keep in bag or pocket and ideal to travel around with.

I love AP and have read it on and off for years. But the present is this app does not do it justice. The whole point of a photographic magazine is the presentation of great images. It is impossible to look at this images properly especially when they are a double page spread. Other apps do this better (see the Sunday Times) - click on the image and it goes to full screen.

The general presentation is excellent, however there are a couple of really irritating bugs. Page six always opens blurred for some bizarre reason. You have to swipe past it and then back again to get it sharp. The library page always opens in portrait orientation, even if your device in in landscape, so you always have to pick it up and twirl it around to get it in landscape. Not a biggy, but after several months of doing it, you’d be amazed just how irritating it can become.

The magazine is great and extremely informative, nonetheless I would love to see more how to and top tips.

'Requirers iOS 11.2 or later'; I'm stuck with iOS10. Given you are not displaying the latest issues on the old app I guess you don't want to sell any more. Actually I haven't bought a single e-magazine on this paper-weight since that awful rubbish piece of software the publishers fobbed us off with a couple of years ago. At least a paper mag remains mine. Q Magazine seems to have gone down the tubes, who next I wonder. As far as elppA is concerned it only takes one cook to spoil the broth. Old-school coder.

The new version doesn’t allow you to zoom into a double page spread, so photos spanning two pages can’t be enlarged as one. Touching the page brings up a navigator bar which is quite annoying. Latest edition is not visible. Avoid.

This is review of the application, not the magazine, which remains the best photography magazine available by a long way. I returned to the tablet version after already having abandoned it once before. I wanted to save paper and i hoped it had improved. It hadn't. Regularly fails to load, and most irritatingly, even when moving away from it for a very short while (e.g. to look at a referenced Instagram account) it invariably returns to the cover page. Surely it is possible to retain the user's current page. Sadly I have an annual subscription but will be seeking a refund shortly, so I can return to the reliable paper copy.