Climbing Magazine App Reviews

App is great

Great job! Never expected to anticipate the new view as much as the mag, but I do. Thanks!

Simple, easy to use. Cant believe how much bonus content gets packed in for iPad users!

Excellent!

Very nice

This app is good and brings more experience to the reader besides text. I like how other media are incorporated. But the admin panel of this app needs improvement. At times it crashes and other times just never seems to load completely. I dont like the fact that the app has to be up while downloading the next issue because that takes a while and you cant do anything else on your pad or it will stop downloading. Seems like that is something that could run in the background.

Im a little surprised to read the positive reviews. I was initially very excited to see Climbing magazine in Newsstand but this implementation is severely lacking. In short its nothing more than hi-res images of pages which must be viewed in portrait mode, making the process of reading an article or viewing a photo a frustrating exercise in pinching, zooming in and out, and moving a page back and forth. There are blocks of text which span an entire page that are too small to read when zoomed out, so the reader is forced to pinch-zoom in and move the text back and forth. Very clunky and annoying. Likewise, there is some beautiful photography which would benefit from a double-tap-to-zoom mechanic to isolate the image from the text, like in iBooks. Look to apps like Cooks Illustrated for and excellent example of digital print media presentation.

Pretty much all the ads are retina, but most of the content isnt. That includes text; why are the popup captions an image?! I cant even read them because they are so pixelated! Even stories are a pixelated image instead of text!! Dont waste your money...

This app gives me the freedom to read when the opportunity comes up as well as catch up on back issues

The content of the magazine is awesome, but the app has been trying to load a new edition for a day and hasnt finished, they need to make it so that it loads in the background

Definitely worth the price

It is obvious that in order to save time and money the print magazine is being roughly converted. I pay for a digital subscription because I want the digital experience that offers a rich world of functionality that this magazine is for the most part leaving untapped.

Subscribed for a full year only to discover that it wont download. I have an ipad IOS 7. So, you guys cant manage to provide content, but you can manage to take my money. What a rip off.

Love the little extras—audio from photographers and video from athletes and editors. It’s no NatGeo but Climbing is doing things right.

Great magazine, but text is so small on my iPad that my eyes hurt after a page or two. It looks basically like a PDF of the print magazine, fixed in a vertical format, without any way to magnify the print. One solution would be to show the pages in horizontal rather than vertical format on the iPad.

I like what youve done with the app and I never have any problems with it but it would be nice to be able to enjoy some of the beautiful images featured in this magazine in a higher resolution format.

I thought this might be interesting, so downloaded. But all roads, so to speak, lead to "Buy" or "Subscribe."

I just downloaded it today and its amazing. The photos are beautiful, and I love the articles.