Premier Guitar Magazine App Reviews

Just opened the new Premier Guitar app and it was the worst magazine experience Ive ever had. First, it forgot my purchase history -- all that I paid for was gone. Next, the "reader" is like something from the AOL days. It wasnt full page, it was slow, it kept taking me online when I didnt touch a link, it shut down twice, the page numbers in the browser didnt match the pub. Embarrassingly bad. Its enough to make me stop reading the mag. Too cumbersome.

Love the magazine. Had October before update. Now its asking me to buy it. Something important was left out of the update--current subscribers. Please fix. UPDATE: the current solution seems to be to make the current issue free. So I downloaded November. Twenty minutes later, it still takes time to load each page. This new app is plain terrible. The prior app was great. Please go back. Dont try to fix the new app. Trash it. Its too painful to use. There is no reason to subscribe to this app. The free web version is far superior. I guess that I will never be able to access my saved bookmarks from prior versions. Im also incredibly disappointed that I did not receive a specific response to my direct e-mail to PG. PG: you have mishandled every aspect of this attempted update. I cant understand how this went so wrong when the magazine is otherwise so top-notch.

I have a print and digital subscription, so with the update i can now only buy the latest issue. There is no way to access my subscription or to restore previous purchases. Please fix it and test before submitting it to the Apple app store

All the delightful interactive features from the previous app version are now gone. New version is no better than using a PDF reader to view the free issues on the PG website.

New update and everything is gone with apparently no way to restore. Why does this happen with an established app and magazine?

I know that PG switched to a different platform for delivering their magazines, but this platform is less functional and not at all stable. Crashes 100% of the time trying to download the current issue. Back issues its crashes from time to time while downloading... So much for buying an electronic only subscription to cut down on the tree usage and not being able to download it... Argh... Great magazine, terrible electronic delivery platform. You would think that after running an e-magazine for three or four plus years they would have this well established.... :-( :-(

The app used to work great when it first came out. Then you changed the format and things started going down hill. With the last update all of my electronic copies are gone. I can download some of the older issues, but now it wants me to pay again for the issues that Ive already bought with my subsciption. Please just go back to the original app.

Thanks for removing my subscription and no restore missing issues button. Lame. Are you going to be providing a refund?

Im not sure what bug this update "fixed" but it wasnt the one that crashes the app when you try to download the latest issue. Every update gets worse. How hard can this be?

Half the time it just doesnt work so I had to delete it.

So another update which when applied deletes all the issues that youve previously downloaded & wont let you download them again. What are they fixing? Is it this app? I dont think so. The one thing I do know is Gearhead Communications is the worst app creator Ive ever come across. Can we have the old app back. At least that one worked!

Great magazine! Great articles! Crappy app! As above, keeps crashing, downloaded issues disappear, and so on.... My British mags work just fine - fire the dudes who put this mess on and get it fixed!

Amazing. I am a subscriber and I get to carry my subscription in my pocket WITHOUT paying extra. Premier Guitar is a true class act.

So, for the most part, this works just the same as the non-newsstand version. Its clunky and slow. However, this version also allows you to view the articles as a mobile version. The text can now be enlarged so you dont need a microscope. Bookmarks finally work. There is now a search function. Very worth it, but still needs some tweaking.

This is not a review of the magazine, which I think is great! Why charge for the new issues, when the PG website offers the digital magazine for free??? Why pay more just because it is on the iPad??? As for usability, every time I quit reading the magazine and then come back to it, I have to chose the issue I am reading all over again and search for where I left off. This did NOT happen in the previous app. In short, defficient app at a greater cost.

Bummed that free iPad access is gone for new issues. Back to downloading the PDF I guess. It is a great Mag but this change in the app was a disappointment

As other reviewers mentioned, youre paying for content thats free on their website, but I thought what the heck, Ill support the magazine since they do a good job. So I thought Id buy a 12 month online subscription - but then I found that the previous monthly issues were not accessible unless I bought them separately! Again, theyre free online but after I just paid for a years subscription, they want to charge me more to read back issues. Forget it! Theyve just lost a customer.

Easy to read and good content

The magazine content is not at issue here, but the readability of the text in the app is very difficult to read on the iPhone 4S. When you zoom in the text gets very grainy and looks like smeared ink. As others have noted; why the extra charge for back issues??? After all this is a "digital" version. Whats free on the web should certainly be free after you pay for a subscription on the app. Have the "marketing weenies" taken over the magazine?

Hate that I cant get the newest issues on the app anymore. Also dont like that I dont have access to the PDF file on my monthly email. Very disappointed.