Rue Morgue Reviews

I subscribed to digital Rue Morgue for a year and then renewed. Recently, I had to delete RueMorgue to correct some technical problems on my iPad. When I restored purchases, it recognized only my current subscription and NONE of the previous issues. I complained online with no response.

Two weeks later, RueMorgue is updated after a years-long dormancy. I thought “Great! Perhaps this will fix my missing issues problem.” No. Just the opposite. Now RueMorgue will not only not recognize my past issues, it doesn’t recognize my current subscription either. I was only two issues in with four more to go. Now, I have ZERO issues from my subscriptions in my digital library despite paying for two years worth.

Screw you, Rue Morgue. I’ll never subscribe again.

I love the content in Rue Morgue, but the accessing it via RueMorgue stinks. I've had a digital subscription for three years now, and never had problems until two months ago. I constantly have to delete and reinstall it to restore purchases of all the back issues, or to get RueMorgue to even respond after it opens. The main menu page will pop up, but is totally unresponsive. I love the magazine, but man, RueMorgue is a serious bag of farts.

I subscribed and was very happy with the magazine. After l had to reinstall RueMorgue l lost all of my back issues- ‘restore issues’ was unsuccessful. I tried to email Matt’s but that failed too because my browser, Firefox, does not have JavaScript. So, all my issues gone. Don’t throw your money set! I tried emailing the fraudsters but even that returned an error. Do NOT buy anything from this company - a bunch of rogues!

Subscribed but the previous months issue is now locked and only available for purchase. Even though it was part of my subscription. Not happy with how this is handled, and no login info to see what exactly I own. Fix ASAP. It’s 2020

I signed up again and all my previous issues I had bought are gone. I can’t email anyone because I get an error message. I requested a refund through the Apple Store since I was ripped off. Don’t subscribe to this crap.

While I enjoy the magazine, RueMorgue is terrible. With the last update, I have lost access to both purchased and subscription issues. Further, after multiple emails to the in-app support, I have yet to receive any kind of response, I’m terminating my subscription. Even if I was to be understanding about app upgrade related issues (which I generally am, having been on the developer side before), the lack of response to multiple requested for assistance is not acceptable. Stay far away from RueMorgue.

You cannot use RueMorgue. It crashes immediately.

Editions fail to load even after they’re “downloaded” onto device.

App is essentially unchanged since its inception.

Support is unhelpful and just ignored once they realize they can’t do anything since the actual app is garbage.

Don’t waste your money, buy the physical magazine or buy Fango instead.

Paid for a subscription for a year. Had to update iPad and subscription got wiped and cant restore purchases. Complete waste of money. Dont buy.

I used to love this magazine until the editors started subjecting its readers to their unhinged political agenda.

Echoing the sentiments of other reviewers here. Rue Morgue is an excellent magazine to which I've had a digital subscription for years without major incident. Then suddenly, within the past 6 months or so, RueMorgue started acting like hot garbage. Constant (as in a near literal 99% of the time) freezes and/or crashes immediately upon launching RueMorgue make it impossible to even access any issues of the magazine. Sometimes, through a random combination of exiting and re-opening RueMorgue enough times, along with deleting and reinstalling RueMorgue two or three times in a row, then finishing off with a few soft resets of the iPad and maybe a hard reset for good measure... then, and only then am I given the opportunity to actually access, let alone read, an issue. And the whole time I'm reading, I'm waiting for an inevitable crash or lock-up, indicating it's time for me to do something else before I throw my iPad at the wall. The last 4 month's worth of issues have gone completely unread by me because RueMorgue makes it impossible. I hope this gets resolved somehow, preferably sooner than later. Until it does, I'm stuck with an unusable subscription to a great magazine. Sometimes I get to see the cover art for the latest issue, soooo.... I guess there's that.

Well, everything was going fine. Now all of a sudden , The latest issue ,march, is not coming up on the available issue page to purchase and download. Tried to contact app support, no website found. I was going to subscribe in the future. No way now. Too big of a risk for 49.99. this app , please respond and fix this. great mag and I want it back!

App is now crashing before it even launches. Can't access any of my purchases. UPDATE: Deleted RueMorgue and re-installed, seems to be working fine now. It's still clunky, but at least I can access all my content again.

I've had none of the problems other users have complained about. I have been very satisfied with RueMorgue . Good work from my favorite magazine.

Now that Rue Morgue is part of the news stand, gone are the issues that plagued the older app. The pinching and zooming are now more responsive. I can finally give this great magazine the five stars it deserves.

The problems people are identifying are old and have all been corrected. This is an amazing app of an amazing magazine. The amount of additional content that is available by the click of a button is amazing - links to You -Tube videos, web sites, etc. this is the future of the magazine industry!

Well, I was having the no load in issue. Very annoying. I emailed the magazine itself and actually got a personal response. Concerned for the trouble I was having ( which, by the way, it seems I'm not anymore ) and asking for details to help fix. Hope it's all good now, but in any case great service from these guys. If RueMorgue keeps sucking I will just buy the paper copy!

This is a fine, fine magazine.

Been wanting to read rue morgue on my iPad forever but they weren’t in the iTunes Store but now I finally can with this beastly app thank you jebus

RueMorgue had been notoriously slow loading and buggy. However, the latest updated provides the smoothest and quickest loading version ever.

Crashes when opened. Needs update desperately. I can’t access my magazines!

RueMorgue is very cool - I like that it is an exact copy of the paper version with links to video clips and sounds (Audiodrome is much cooler this way) There is no restore purchases function, but RueMorgue does let you download again for free.