Esquire Magazine US App Reviews

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Too political and liberal

I used to love getting the magazine. Now I get daily emails and there is always some article about US politics. I get enough political commentary from the news - I dont need an email everyday with only a liberal slant. Ive canceled the renewal. Too bad Esquire took this path,

To Be A Mans Man

For the tomes when we lose sight of what it means and takes to be a man, Esquire is there.

Been a fan for years

My favorite magazine since 2008...good advice and articles. Its maxim for men in their 30s since the 30s.

I miss Granger

The first "Man at His Best" article in the Oct 2016 issue has four or five paragraphs repeated in the middle of it. This type of sloppy bs didnt occur when David Granger topped the masthead. Esquire, Ive loved you for a long, long time (subscriber since 2002) but I think the to time we take a break.

My subscription

I subscribed for a digital version of the magazine from June to July this year and I did not get any download. I have deleted and done a new download of the app, same thing happened.

SUBSCRIPTION PROBLEM

Im not sure what gives, but I cant see any edition -let alone download- anything since April. This is despite me having an active subscription until the end of the year. The same thing keeps happening no matter how many times I uninstalled and redownloaded the app. This is totally unacceptable. Apple, I need you to do something about this, because otherwise its just plain robbery.

Good reading experience

The app stays out of the way, allowing me to read and experience the magazine, which is exactly what I want in a magazine app.

Latest Update is Crashing

Update received today, 11/11, is crashing.

Version 5.4.0 Crashing

New version of the app wont open.

Abysmal....

....and still hasnt been updated for the 12.9" iPad Pro.

Loading is always a hassle

Every month trying to download the latest issue is a hassle. Get the circle of death "loading." Very frustrating. Thinking about going back to the paper magazine.

So slow!

Such a pain to use. Do not transfer your subscription to digital. Takes forever to download an issue.

Absolutely abysmal

Crashes incessantly while trying to download issues. I cant believe they would allow this app version to be released in Dec making it unusable / incapable of downloading. Im on the latest iOS version and iPad 2. Get it fixed, folks!

Dismal Performance on iPad 3

I love reading the magazines! Especially when it works. The app really needs to figure out the user interface issues (freezing on main page & store page), constant restarts by the app, and slow menu transitions. I will have to cancel my next subscription this coming summer if the app doesnt improve by then. Hate to leave it

They Dont Have Their Act Together

I cant access the most recent issue (Jan/Feb). App prompts me to either buy a subscription or the issue. I subscribed in Oct for a year and got the Oct, Nov and Dec issues. Still have access to those issues. Despite Esquires (Hearst Digital) suggestion to either log out or delete the app and then re-install, I still cannot gain access to the most current issue. They then sent me an e-mail telling me they are having a problem with the Jan / Feb issue. I think they are just making things up and cant get their system to recognize that I am a valid subscriber. Theyre clueless. Wish I had stayed with Zinio, which is a digital fulfillment business that understands their model. Hearst needs to find a partner to deliver the same service that Conde Nast delivers with their digital magazines.

DONT BOTHER WASTING YOUR TIME!

I share the same issues where I have subscribed to this magazine and can not receive my subscriptions. I reached out for feedback and must have been given instructions that were relevant to an earlier version of iOS; because they arent correct. As soon as I can figure out how to keep my subscription from auto-renewing, Im canceling.

No warning & no way to turn off "progressive downloading"

Ive always liked Esquire and was ecstatic when they made the jump to iPad. I think they take good advantage of the digital capabilities available to them. But this update introduces "progressive downloading" with no apparent way of forcing the entire issue to download at once, so imagine my surprise when I took my iPad to lunch expecting to be able to read Esquire, but I was only able to read the first few articles because you need a constant Internet connection to download more content out of each issue as you go along, and the place I was eating at didnt have WiFi. While I can bear not being able to access certain additional article features because I dont have an active Internet connection at the time of reading (embedded videos, for example), I shouldnt be penalized for not being able to access the Internet and I shouldnt be denied content. At least give me the option to download the whole issue at once for offline viewing if I want, especially if I know Im heading into a situation where I wont have WiFi access and want to spend time reading, like a plane flight or something.

Terrible update

The Esquire app was good but the new update will not let you download the whole magazine. Even though the front page say it is downloaded it is not. Instead you get fuzzy images until you download each page separately when you start reading them. I like to read Esquire on flight but I cannot now. They need to do something about this.

What happened to the Esquire App?

This new update is beyond terrible. The appeal of the app was that it gave you a better experience than holding the actual magazine in your hands. I have been a loyal subscriber for many years going from receiving Esquire in the mail to now my IPad. It was great to download the magazine and to be able from the opening cover to see said cover come alive. Now with the April edition the app has taken many steps back. The Big Black Book Spring/Summer 2015 keeps shutting down the app. This app has gone from one of the best magazine apps to one of the worst. It has seriously made me reconsider my subscription.

Terrible update

Since the last update this app has become unusable for me, you cant preload the magazine, forcing you to have a constant internet connection, and even if you have one, seems you have to wait for every individual page to load, even the advertising -some pages taking a lot of time to doing it-. Seriously, they screw it with this update, hope they fixed it soon.

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