Scientific American

By far most articles have been written by journalists instead of scientists so it has become more of a news magazine than a popular scientific magazine.

Great magazine, but where at the start of my subscription there where 4 titles available, there now is only the main magazine (and less news stories too). In the last issue of the now removed Space & Physics, it was mentioned content remains available on the web. This is however not all accessible for app-only subscribers.
Choosing the more expensive subscription to read all the magazines, but halfway finding that you can read only what the cheaper subscription offered is very disappointing.

Dear Sciam,
Please fix the bug. I am really annoyed by this bug. Basically your app is useless now, sudden crash after 30 sec. If not solved, I really need to cancel your subscription. Very sad.

I enjoy reading Scientific American. However, every time when wanting to read on iPad I need to login and often I get the message that I am not authorized to access content. And I paid for it!

iOS app “forgets” subscription and proposes to purchase magazines I must have an access to. The magazines that have been already opened, are still available for reading. But I can’t freely open magazines issued in august and before (access to 24 previously issued magazines is included in paid subscription I have).

I always love to read SA. A good magazine with many varied articles to stay on the forefront of knowledge for non-scientists.
A few points to pay attention to (iPhone 6+);
-very hard to cancel your membership (for non-us customers) you have to call them in the month ending your subscription year. So not possible in the app!
-downloaded magazines deleted by the software automatically, due to no memory on phone? Allthough over 1gb still available, so offline reading very hard (you have to put everything in scrapbook)

The restore of my students subscription is successful, but I get the following error: Oops, something's gone wrong. There was a problem with the authorization service. You are not authorized to view this content. I send an email to Scientific American, but have not heard from them after 24 hours. Please help me.

App requires a log in every time, does not recognize my subscription but forgets it every time. Really annoying

I am not finishing one issue completely in one sitting. It is therefore really irritant if the app loses my position. Even worse is that sometimes all downloaded issues disappear and need to be downloaded again. Especially when traveling this is super irritating.

This used to be a great app that looked wonderful on the iPad. The new version offers the option of resizing the text, but the magazine looks terrible now. So, one new feature at a terrible cost...

Lost all my back issues again. Not even on the download site. support is terrible. The are working on it? Why put out an app that doesn't work? I have cancelled my subscription now. Customers are not a high priority at SciAm.

This version is so much better. At long last you can read SA on your iPhone, text is selectable, and can be resized, articles can be favorited, sharing extensions are added and download sizes are down by a factor greater than 25x. Even though re-downloading back issues is a minor nuisance, there is an uptick. In return all the improvements are available for the back issues as well. Worth it to me!

All previously downloaded issues need to be downloaded again. More annoying is that the state (which issue you were reading, which article and at which line you were exactly) is not saved anymore after closing and restarting the app.

After the update, all issues need to be downloaded again. I used to have issues of several years back, but now they are gone.

Already more than a week no download possible. That's bad for a scientific issue.

And after removing the app i cant download it anymore. Black holes, no problem, but an up todate app, then you are Atkins too much

The app worked fine until iOS 8 however now after the upgrade to iOS 8 the app has become usable. Downloading and reading a magazine has become impossible.

Everything worked great until after updating to iOS 8.
Now I cannot sign in and more importantly, I cannot download any magazines.
The app tells me to restart and try again which doesn't work.