GQ Reviews

I’ve been a subscriber to this app since I was 13 years old, it’s now thirty years later. I literally can’t stand the magazine anymore. It has lost its way. It is possessed with street style that looks good on Instagram instead of what looks good in real life. It has become beyond “woke”. Every month I download the latest issue, scroll through it looking for something interesting to read. Every month I am disappointed. Everything began to change when they got rid of the now late Glen O’Brien. Then when clickbait filled Buzzfeed wrote a negative review of this app because this app wasn’t woke enough, this app took notice. I thought this app would laugh it off. After all Buzzfeed is just a muckwrecker, the birthplace of cancel culture. Well, here we are now. With this app now bowing down to those who don’t even read this app to begin with. this app is just out of touch.

Slow to download, you can not pinch Zoom in on pages to read the smaller print. Lots of lost information due to that. Reading on a mini iPad or phone makes it too small to read

This doesn’t even work.

I regret purchasing a subscription to this digital mag. I use the large iPad with a Magic Keyboard. I don’t want to hold my iPad while I read or use the digital keyboard when I need to type. Unfortunately, this stupid app forces portrait mode so I can’t do that. I’m not going to use GQ I just paid for so I’m really annoyed. Why can’t digital content creators get with the current technology and make their apps work in the mode the user wants to use instead of forcing one that doesn’t play well with every setup? Stupid stupid app.

I have subscribed to this app magazine service
1. You can not download magazine in background. You need to make sure,you remain in this app app to download the magazine.

2. If your able to download to magazine, it always gives network error and content not available.

Total waste of money unless they update their app and address the above problems .

Signed up, tried to log in/register. App let’s me register, but then password and email doesn’t recognize. Just puts me through a constant circle.

I have been trying to link account to subscription and is sending me in circles for the past 20 mins

I updated the ap and now it says my subscription can not be verified. I can’t access any of my previous purchases or the new ones. I am subscribed until December 2019. I’ve contacted this app and the are “looking into it”. That’s a joke!!! It’s a digital subscription so why are they constantly asking me for my mailing address? If I could I would have given it a ZERO! Apple needs to ensure rip off artist like this don’t use their platform. And one more thing, #*#@ you this app and Condé Nast Digital because you have clearly #*$@%^ me!

Been reading this app for ages
Can’t believe last issues
Unsubscribed quickly
Regards

GQ is really sub par. It doesn’t download magazine like it’s supposed to. The user interface is clunky, it really is unfortunate that a company like Condé Nast couldn’t do better.

So let me start off by saying that ha takes forever if you hi the magazine rout like I did saw an add on instagram for a sale for 2 years for only 20$ so I was like sure that’s cheap Good God it took two months to get my first magazine with the gift so I can sign up correctly on GQ so I can read on the go

I really use to enjoy this magazine when it’s complete focus was men’s fashion. The articles have always been an occasional plus but I buy it for the fashion. It seems that the magazine has lost its way. There is less fashion, less pages, just plain less and a lot more BS. You need to really get back to what your magazine so successful all these years. Figure it out.

Do not have to worry about carrying my physical copy (I love the physical copy) with me everywhere. This makes it easy to carry issues with me.

My mother got me a subscription to this app when I was a young teen as I didn’t have a father living with me and she felt it would be a good guide to manhood. I sadly can’t see what I’m typing, it’s white letters on a white background, but I am suggesting that any man of any age will benefit from this app.

False advertising illegal.

I can’t get enough of the this app MAGAZINE! Every cover gets better and better each month! (:
Def going to renew my subscription next year!

Just fantastic

Where’s my hat? Been checking the mail. Where it’s at?

This is the first time reading this app. I am loving GQ as well as magazine. Keep up the good work!!

Always great information that highlights the times.

GQ should be called 'can't connect to server try back later'. I have 3 subscriptions to magazines from this publisher and all of the apps suffer from the same issue (they are all basically the same app - different content). I'm currently trying to restore about 10 issues (switched devices-had to re-download) and I've been trying to download at random times through the day for 3 days... i still have 5 issues to go (for reference it took around 30 minutes to get 15 issues of a different magazine in that same time period). No download queue either... just one at a time then hope you can connect to get the next one. Even when you can connect to their servers or once you've finally downloaded an issue they are constantly in your face with buying subscription services (which most people probably have if they are using GQ ), or overpriced individual back issues which as far as i can tell you can't seperate out from the content you have paid them for. I have nothing positive to say about GQ.

restoring apple purchase doesnt. work on this version

You made it now sow complicated to navigate on it.

The Better Business should due notified that Conde Nast is falsely advertising that their publications are FREE and available as an IPad app: it's not true. And the most hilarious part is reading their emails from customer service where they suggest they are looking into it. As a subscriber who pays $12 a year for a magazine, it seems quite unreasonable to pay $4.99 for one single issue, and as a current subscriber, to actually have to pay for an issue is an insult. But the real insult is the shananigans they are pulling by sending with each issue a subscription number that one imagines is the way to access the digital issue, when i suspect they are actually saying this is how you can access the site where you can purchase the issue, as if getting GQ was about having to spend some money. This is a fiasco and Conde Nast should immediately issue clarification about whether or not, subscribers are entitled to the digital issue. Period.

I bought GQ and subscription despite reading the many reviews that said it constantly crashed. I naively thought that the bugs would be worked out since many of the reviews were from may, I was wrong. I've had GQ for about 2 hours, 30 min of which was spent downloading 1 issue. The rest of the time actually went well, although the swiping and scrolling were not as responsive as I expected. Then, as the reviews warned GQ began to crash, over and over as I was attempting to read an article (very frustrating). I'm hesitant to ask for my money back because I have confidence in believing that this app being such a classy magazine would rectify these problems as quick as possible, which I'm sure would satisfy their many fans. But if this persist I would be forced to ask for my money back because I cannot use an app that doesn't work. - frustrated customer-

I've used GQ for 18 months and, overall it does most of what you would expect in 2013. Beautiful content, acceptable navigation, and some nice feature that aren't available in magazine.
Of course, sometimes small changes or glitches can make you pull your hair out. For me, the most recent is the "my book" icon that pops up on the top right corner every time you land on an advertisement. I get what this app is trying to do, but from an UI perspective it's distractive and with no way to turn it off, it's unacceptable. It muddles the simplistic (and enjoyable) page by page browsing a user would expect. Imagine, while reading your favorite novel, every time you flipped a page, you saw a blinking light. At first, you would just ignore, then you would start anticipating it, then you would do anything to get rid of it (while mumbling about the downfall of society and yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off the lawn.) I digress.
Yes, this app I get it. You are doing everything possible to make me spend a few extra dollars on one of your advertisers products. And in some brainstorming meeting some Sr Mgr said " we need to make it easier or more convenient or increase rev" while really saying "I have no good ideas but I need to be heard"...
Bottom line, allow me to get rid of the "my book" icon, and I'll stay a customer.

I am in love with having this app on my iPad! The inclusion of videos, song previews, and direct links to websites are all awesome details that I really appreciate. There's one thing about these digital issues that has been frustrating me though: the inconsistency of photos/ads when compared to the print version. I always enjoy looking at the ads presented in this app and I hate that they're different depending on which direction I rotate my iPad! There will oftentimes be completely different images depending on whether I'm in portrait or landscape, and even within articles that include images, they can sometimes get cropped so severely that most of the image is gone.

As the digital magazine evolves I hope the this app team addresses this inconsistency and more accurately mimics the print version.

I love the magazine and I also enjoy the iPad experience. But it's just painful to have to keep GQ open to download every issue. Considering how large the files are, it can sometimes take forever. The only thing that would make GQ perfect is being able to download new issues in the background. I'm sure that the this app iPad team can make this happen. Or at least make it an option for people that don't mind using their data all the time. Other than that, GQ never crashes, and the experience itself is pretty amazing. Its not too different from the print version, but its much more interactive and feels more personal. Most of the time I don't even bother opening the print issue and I do all my reading on my iPad.

I absolutely love what y'all did with GQ. The zoom out article navigation makes browsing a cinch. What I love most are the interactive buttons riddled through GQ so I can buy a pair of shoes shown or see extra pics. Please continue to iterate on the interactivity as it will set you apart. Currently they are a little hard to notice and are rudimentary in functionality, but I can see the potential.

My complaints are that the size of each issue is humongous, and that you don't have background downloading. Being in software development, I understand how some priorities have to wait so I applaud you with what you have and can't wait to see how you improve.