Popular Mechanics Magazine US Reviews

by App Locator

I subscribed.
It says I have a subscription and asks for my account and password- which of course it never let me set up a password- so I Can’t access anything.

Popular mechanics support has NOT been helpful. All that money wasted.

by #1$2&3

Have paid twice and still cannot open the magazine

by Fixit Plse

I love the mag. However I live in a poor internet environment & I download issues for supposed offline reading, when I’m in the US. Unfortunately they are never available afterwards. Is it a VPN issue or what? It worked fine when it was an app available in the Apple App Store. Though now, I have a library full of mags that need to be downloaded. Throwing money away is always frustrating. You would think with a title like "Popular mechanics", they could fix PopularMechanicsMagazineUS .

by Iron1mike

Gives cannot load error on WiFi and cell data. Both work fine. Oh and stop writing “articles” to sell crap for advertisers, thanks.

by Alpinejwh

I give one star because advertising in this book are too many as pay monthly for education? We don't need ads every other pages per education as we either enjoyed or not enjoyed reading and learning. I would put fewer ads at the very back end of the page. I'm so sick of see ads every where......

by Gwest138

Can’t swipe from page to page, contents button exits magazine, and even when you do get to contents, the links don’t work. I literally cannot read the magazine anyway. Copy some other magazine that works please, like pops science. I hate having different interfaces on every dang magazine I read!

by MikeRunRide

I've been reading popular mechanics on my iPad for years. I updated PopularMechanicsMagazineUS and now it locks up, then it won't open. Very frustrating. I have to delete PopularMechanicsMagazineUS and reinstall it when it gets stuck. Nothing else works.

by Nemofoto

Since Hearst saw fit to remove the “News” feature, I feel this is is generally worthless to have unless you subscribe to the digital version of the magazine. I get it. They want subscribers, not “freeloading “ readers. I’ll delete PopularMechanicsMagazineUS from my iPad and phone. I can get the mag on Zinio for the issues I want to read the mag.

by Whythenickname?!?

I'm growing ever so tired of PopularMechanicsMagazineUS losing my subscription. For every new issue coming out, I have to "restore" my subscription info, which doesn't work all the time.

PopularMechanicsMagazineUS will also not start up in offline mode. Just prior to writing this review, I boarded an airplane. My iPad was already in airplane mode. I go to open PopularMechanicsMagazineUS , and it gives me a blank screen with an airplane at the bottom, and an error saying it cannot make a connection. What good is downloading content for offline, if PopularMechanicsMagazineUS to read the content will not work offline!

by Default_name

App has always been poor. I’d prefer a pdf rather than the buggy mess that is PopularMechanicsMagazineUS. For the current issue, PopularMechanicsMagazineUS crashes continuously after about the fourth article.

by G0b0t

I have tried multiple time to log in via subscription, but it won’t let me. I want PopularMechanicsMagazineUS , and love popular mechanics, but i wish I could actually log in 🤷🏽‍♀️

by T. Jinkinz

At least i can read the articles now. Would be nice if i could actually open the pdf of the nag in my own pdf reader, but this works ok.

by RIC 1

I am 64 & I have read every issue since I was 10. You appealed to an ability others said I did not have. Today I run my own company and I still apply the message of using your head and your own hands to simplify a complex world. Steve Ricci

by Tashpool

First off, if you are trying to compare or talk about price regarding the paper format, don't bother. At two dollars a month or less, this magazine app is well worth your time and money on its own right. That alone garners a five star rating and me as a happy subscribed customer.

The formatting is wonderful, you scroll and activate buttons for bulletins and movies just how you would hope. Moving through all the articles can be a bit weird with the drop down and timeline format on the bottom, but starts to work well enough with a little practice. Issue downloads are a little large but with a decent Internet connection you won't have to wait too long.

Using an iPad 2 I have not had any issues with usability or slowness and can only see some improvements in terms of streamlining how you find and view articles that you particularly interested in - perhaps some kind of word cloud. I'm really pleased with the subscription rates and content I get and I think most people will be too.

by Jay_in_Mass

I’m glad Pop Mech has allowed for an all-digital subscription that’s actually better than what you can get in paper form. Many other publications force you to also subscribe to the paper version, which is superfluous with a digital copy. I like how I don’t have to download all the issues onto my device, since all of them are available in the cloud any time. I like being given a choice of how to access the content (as a sort of browser or as a more book-style PDF). This is digital content done right.

by Joe VV

Pleased with PopularMechanicsMagazineUS so far

by Alex Bocioaca

Same great articles as always, but what’s up with all the junk advertisements ?

by Drewofmt

Been reading since 1970 but issues going back to 1953
Always enjoy hearing about the latest mechanical developments.

by Kelt0004

The interface is not working well on my iPad Pro. ‘Contents” button does not work. Swiping and scrolling do not always work.

by Dalequeva

January 2020 issue never came to be downloaded in i pad and it is already feb 2020. DigitalmSubscription paid up to august 2020.
I feel cheated and robbed. A refund would be ok.

by SoftStar

When will this be fixed . Its at least been since early feb its now may...is anybody home?

by Bluecifer0020

Need a new update! Can’t read after the last update. Can’t swipe pages.

by KennethErvinYoung

Whatever issues others are having with the current release I'm not seeing. No crashes, page turns are quick for an old iPad 3. I suggest they delete PopularMechanicsMagazineUS , do a hard reboot to clear out all caches, reinstall PopularMechanicsMagazineUS and try again.

My only complaint that knocks PopularMechanicsMagazineUS down to 4 stars is the layout style they use on some pages require the reader to swipe a thin narrow bar, clearly labelled "Swipe here to change page". I urge them to rethink this page layout style vs user inconvenience of doing a normal page turn swipe multiple times unsuccessfully before noticing the yellow "swipe here" bar.

As always I love the content.

by Kensubscriber

This is my one remaining digital publication and I am looking to get more. Not only is the price great, but I don’t have to search for it and if I’m done, it isn’t necessary to recycle it. When I go to my summer house, it follows me! However, it has been succeedingly difficult to get my download. I get notes like wrong ID format , notifications of new providers, subscription expired. I’m paid up into 2020 through HEARST on line and about every other issue I have trouble opening the issue. Hearst confirms my script! I still don’t know who is the magazine source or where to turn for help. So I ‘m using this and MAZ and PM that should have been e magazines.