Empire Magazine

A little bit pricy for Russia, but still cool app

Best movie magazine, just it!

После перемещения в "киоск" не работает.

While I absolutely adore the magazine’s content for years now, the app and login mechanism (obviously needed for content protection) has become an real mess. When you value your privacy, like I do, and choose to reject storing (any) cookies, the login pop-up box with username and password does not load/appear and instead a spinner is shown indefinitely... Even more annoying is that you get stuck since the cookies setting pop-over won’t or can’t be revisited. Neither in-app nor in Safari. I would call this a major bug. Can this be fixed or is there some workaround? Riddle my this: Is it true I am required to allow cookies, that also include a range of ad trackers, just to gain access to content I already paid for? I’ve now even lost access to my locally stored (paid) magazines of 5 years for offline reading. Also, I did not receive any response to my earlier in-app bug report on corrupted bookmarks - cause by a previous app update. I could cry. I just want to read on my iPad. Please.

Al jaren geniet ik van dit maandblad, zowel in print als digitaal. Goede artikelen, diverse achtergronden en soms zelfs filmische tv. Hulde.

While I adore Empire's dual subscription and this app continues to brings the content to the iPad the way it was originally meant, I did observe a few problems upgrading to the latest version (4.10) of the app: - Sadly my bookmarks didn't get migrated. Wasn't it possible to keep those? - The update didn't clear the Document & Data cache while the already downloaded issues from the previous app version become inaccessible and waste space. I had the remove and reinstall the app to clear it myself. - Loss of function since you now need to download the full issue before you can start reading instead of the progressive web loading we had before. Also, 2x the issue size is needed as free space which can be 1.3 GB so you can never use you last 700 MB on the iPad. - Finally, the lovely covers in the library appear a bit small to my taste a space is wasted on repeating label text like "Empire Magazine" and white padding space around it.

Usually in the old app the issues were about 400mb. I have no idea why this one is 3.5 times bigger than the others.

After downloading latest update and following instructions on restoring previous issues, I no longer appear to have enough storage on my iPad to actually download the latest version (which I had already downloaded prior to the update). It needs at least 1493 MB!

Terrible support!!!!!!!!!! My login stopped working and Bauer media & Apple refuse to come with a solution. They are pointing at each other. 4 phone calls, 10+ emails, 2 chat sessions - Still no solution for me... I'm an avid empire magazine reader since the nineties and this is what I comes to????

The best magazine app I've encountered so far. Great design and you can tell lots of love went into it.