Gramophone Magazine

Be aware that if you have a subscription through iTunes and cancel, you lose every every magazine you purchased. Given the cost of a subscription (around 120 dollars annually) that is very disappointing.

As magazine apps go this one is mediocre at best. Given the effort that many other publications have put into designing their digital versions "from the ground up", this is little more than a print version that has been turned into an interactive PDF. The only real benefit the app provides (apart from the obvious convenience of having the magazine on your iPad) are the links to albums on iTunes.

Gramophone needs no introduction. It's the best classical music magazine in the world, and the digital version is first-rate. You can even search and read reviews from the entire history of the magazine. BUT. Unlike every other magazine I've subscribed to on the iPad, if you don't renew your subscription, the issues you've downloaded to your iPad are no longer accessible! They're locked against further access, even though you paid for them! This is simply wrong. I can understand losing continued access to the review archive, but if you've paid for the issues, you should be allowed continued access to them. This policy is not disclosed anywhere on the store. Gramophone, change your policy! Apple, does this accord with the terms of your agreement with the publisher? I'm very upset by this. To top it off, this is not a cheap subscription!

I have had this app for almost a year and love the magazine but for the last couple of weeks it has crashed over and over again. Have reinstalled a couple of times and no change. Will have to cancel my subscription. I cannot even open the latest issue for more than 5 seconds. Please fix this.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across anything with such a chronically dreadful search engine. Try searching Vivaldi Gloria, for instance. Everything you search yields such poor results it is a completely worthless app. It finds nothing you want and everything you don’t. Navigation is also poor failing to remember what you’re looking for. AWFUL.

This issue is missing in your back library, it’s replaced by a repeat of the January 1940 issue.

With embedded links to Apple Music, this is the perfect companion for perusing reviews and listening.

The app is wonderful (mostly) but I did have an irritating problem where every time I opened it, I got a subscription activated message. Happily, the Exact Editions techies solved that, so it goes back to being a favourite. I’m still learning how best to use search on past numbers.

Almost impossible to renew successfully if you have a subscription to The Gramophone itself rather via ITunes. Firstly you can ONLY renew by post or telephone - yes really. Secondly you cannot regain access to your content without ringing them up another time, second call to get access to review database. Now, I can’t get access to the magazine, email and password not recognised even though they are saved in Safari, and I’ve checked they are correct. No way to contact the them via the app not even a reset password link. Shoddy. 1990s programming and it’s not cheap. Utter rubbish

This has the full contents of the printed magazine and is to be recommended. In addition, on the Mac version (not iPad) there is a text only version of each page underneath the original, good for looking at in other apps once exported or for further study. Only 4 stars because there needs to be better navigation and links to other websites else no complaints and it saves on paper too.