ZINIO

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 100 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R18] 5/5 · US Digital Magazines: Great replacement for Amazon.
2. [R49] 4/5 · US Easy, well worth the minimal cost, Enjoy!: You can pick and choose issues you’d love to read, and leave others behind. There’s SO much to choose from! Why not customize a year of magazines (6 or more) from various publications, instead of buying issues you won’t read? Variety beats boring every time!
3. [R50] 5/5 · US Top app: Love it has a lot of everything. Highly recommended
4. [R58] 5/5 · GB Great app: Love the range of magazines available
5. [R53] 4/5 · GB No 1: Great. Free magazines from local library. Easily downloaded and read. Would be 5 stars but for the constant pestering to leave this review. Fingers crossed this gives me some relief.
6. [R61] 5/5 · GB Works really well on the iPad with a NI libraries subscription: Works really well on the iPad with a NI libraries subscription
7. [R65] 5/5 · GB Great service: A wonderful way to receive & read a wide range of publications on a multitude of platforms. Being able to access my "Library" from my iMac, iPad or IPhone gives me a great deal of flexibility in terms of when or where I read my publications. The app has worked like a charm. Our local library now provides access to some Zinio offerings - a bonus feature.
8. [R74] 5/5 · GB Excellent: Had this app for several months and cannot recommend it too highly? It works for me especially as the library enables to download lots of mags for free
9. [R29] 1/5 · US Great way to have magazines for travel: Instead of carrying magazines use your mobile devices
10. [R52] 5/5 · GB Best thing since .....: I love Zinio, I can take loads of magazines on holiday with it - great!
11. [R21] 5/5 · US Great app: The app is great. Able to read easily. Downloads are speedy. Customer service is top notch as well.
12. [R32] 4/5 · US Cannot access eight years of magazine subscriptions: For the last week I have been emailing support and they were able to fix the problem.
13. [R42] 4/5 · US Problems solved: Updated review problems solved
14. [R43] 4/5 · US sale ordering: The only 2 problems I have ever had with Zinio is when they post an email stating that there is a discount or sale, the magazines that I already have subscriptions to won’t let me pick them. I have to call Zinio, and then get a discount code, but always less than the add promised. Somehow, auto renewal was activated without clear notification at the time of subscription. I wil
15. [R4] 2/5 · US It keeps crashing: Now, it won’t even open, then crash again and again.
16. [R6] 1/5 · US Doesn’t open on iPad: All software is current and yet the Zinio app won’t open. Tapping the app icon just opens as a flash up and immediately dissipates.
17. [R7] 1/5 · US Doesn’t work on iPad: I’m running iPadOS 26.1 and this app closes immediately upon opening. This developer isn’t responsive nor are they even trying to fix the app!
18. [R10] 1/5 · US Can't even open it. What a piece of junk software. · translated
19. [R3] 1/5 · US Doesn’t work half the time!!!: It would be nice if this actually worked!! I constantly have to use the desktop site to see my magazines. Why don’t you make an app that actually works?!?
20. [R9] 1/5 · US Will not load homepage or library: The app used to work well. But for the last two months, all that I get is a white screen that never loads either the homepage or my library magazines. I keep the app updated and my iPad has the latest updates.
21. [R17] 2/5 · US Open Sesame!: This app worked great for years. For the last several months, every time I click on it there is nothing but a white screen with a never ending loading indicator. A daily delete app, reload, and sign in are required. Please help! I’m sharing this same information that I sent several months ago. It got better for a short while, and I was going to update my response to a positive one. O
22. [R23] 2/5 · US Inconsistent access to library using iPad: Completely updated app and os, but magazines never open properly in the app. I have no issues in a browser or on the Android app. This one I have to reinstall every time I get a new issue. Clearing the cache is useless.
23. [R13] 2/5 · US Issues with text sizing: The text resizing works only sometimes, and usually only after a reload of the program. Very poor quality programing
24. [R14] 3/5 · US There’s an issue with the reader view where the text is really small: In a recent update the reader view text size has become illegibly small across multiple magazines. The slider no longer works where you can change text size.
25. [R85] 4/5 · GB Good overall app: I have this app on iPad and Windows Phone and it works well on both platforms. My only criticisms are that subscriptions are renewed automatically by default and the size of the text cannot be enlarged in text view on the iOS app.
26. [R11] 1/5 · US Don’t subscribe!!!: Don’t use this app. They make it impossible to cancel a subscription. Every other subscription service through iTunes is super easy to cancel a subscription, but not on ZINIO. Ridiculous! The ZINIO subscription doesn’t even show under my iTunes account even though the billing is through iTunes. Save yourself a nightmare and don’t use this app for magazines.
27. [R51] 2/5 · GB Cycling plus & Cycling Weekly: The app is fine it's the delay between the day of publication and the magazines availability on zinio that is most annoying. Titles released 2 to 5 days late which is especially frustrating on a weekly publication.
28. [R67] 1/5 · GB Late Delivery Of Magazine: The app itself is not bad, however monthly issues of magazines tend to get delivered 2 to 3 weeks after the printed copies arrive in the shops. I shall not be renewing my subscriptions
29. [R78] 3/5 · GB Nearly, but not quite: This app has a few problems that are really annoying. While it's far better than having an app for each magazine you want to read, it's frustrating when you receive a notification by e-mail telling you the latest edition of a subscription is now available, only to find it's not in your library yet, but you can buy it! Stupid! It seems there is no way to filter out magazines
30. [R20] 1/5 · US Zino: I have had this app for years! Up dated my iPad one day and the next thing I know is some of the magazines I bought over the years are there but now they say i have to buy every magazine all over again! I have never had this happen to me before! Goodbye Zino never again!
31. [R33] 1/5 · US Subscriptions are broken: It is March 2025. I just subscribed to Auto and Design and the first issue I received was from 2023. The latest issue is clearly displayed in the store, so why am I getting an old issue instead? There is no place to review subscriptions in the app, and no way to download the latest issue. Why is this happening? Poor app. I need resolution to this.
32. [R68] 1/5 · GB Rubbish since updates: Having used the app since 2012 it's been mostly great but now since update I have lost hundreds of £s of magazines on only 3 are showing or the app just crashes every few secs. Support advised me to use the website. Yeh, great!
33. [R79] 1/5 · GB What a rip off: With 41 issues left on my Aviation Week subscription they now no longer support it. They did not both to tell me until I queried why it had stopped down loading. No offer of a refund! I can have another magazine but they do not support iOS 9. Pathetic.
34. [R75] 1/5 · GB Current version is useless: Tried to open the app earlier and it keeps telling me that there is not enough storage to open the app and closes automatically before I have any chance to delete any magazines. I logged into Zinio on my laptop and deleted all but 8 magazines, as well as deleting 3 apps off my iPad so I know it's definitely not a storage issue as I've previously had over 80 magazines on
35. [R92] 1/5 · GB Rubbish: Constantly tells you device has low space and exits. Even if it's not the case.
36. [R99] 5/5 · GB Annoying: Works ok-ish but now tells me device is running low on space and will close. Asks me to free up space, but I want to delete magazines I have read and it just does not let me in their App, which is using most of my space. Not thought out properly. Zinnio just seems to miss the point most of the time. Wake up please
37. [R24] 3/5 · US Started for school: I started using this to read one of my most coveted magazines that were not really found in stores. Azure Magazine. Well I found other digital magazines in its shelves and decided to download it back in 2011 when I discovered it. Right when iPad was introduced and I was enrolling in school after that. Well it stuck with me for a while then pattered out now I’m back on it catchi
38. [R2] 1/5 · US Terrible app: I stumbled on this app while looking for Apple News alternative, but it was nothing but disappointment. I couldn’t even get to sign up for an account because I kept getting notifications that they’re experiencing technical difficulties. What a lame app!
39. [R30] 1/5 · US Pretty useless: App worked the first time I used it. Now it just hangs there…looking for something. Deleted and re-installed. Nothing.
40. [R34] 1/5 · US Password reset doesn’t take you to password reset: It took a couple tries to confirm my email. Apparently the PW I saved didn’t become my pw. Reset pw link they send me doesn’t send me to where I can reset my pw. Good thing I only paid for one magazine
41. [R16] 1/5 · US App keeps crashing when I try to open: On your latest update, 4.71… when I open the app, it immediately crashes.
42. [R62] 5/5 · GB Brilliant for online magazines: The app works great even on my iPad 1 and Zinio's range of magazines is excellent.