Esquire Magazine US Reviews

Once, Esquire Magazine was the pioneer of digital media. Their digital magazine was a thing of beauty and a delight to read. Images sprang to life, text was searchable and interactive and consumption of the text and inserted media was fluid and wonderful. What a great experience it once was.

Recently, Esquire has chosen to abandon it's excellence in digital media for the no better published PDF "app", Maz. The so called magazine platform does nothing more than publish an image of the magazine page. No more interactive text. No more flowing articles. Just crappy, unscaled images that do nothing but open hyperlinks to ads. You're better off purchasing the paper copy.

From a long time Esquire reader who found joy in Esquire's transition to digital and pursuit to be better than the other publications.... Be better than the PDF.

UI could be a bit better

As a loyal subscriber to Esquire since 1982, I am extremely disappointed by the subscription model that you have adopted. Many other magazines, including Time, GQ, and Sports Illustrated, allow their print customers to access their iPad versions for free. I will not participate in this misguided approach.

To make matters worse, Esquire has completely destroyed what was once a nice iPad magazine app. Now that you have “improved” the iPad app, I cannot even view the content for which I have paid!

I called this morning to cancel my digital subscription. However, with this level of incompetence by Esquire, I am not certain.

Room for enhanced mobile device content accessibility by way of text-font size, background tone adjustment settings for readers. To improve content browsing experience, reduce visual fatigue (battery life of screen) from white background only settings. (Times New Roman, Georgia font, black background suggestion, 10-12 pt font like on Kindle app).

They’re no longer monthly, and you should avoid any subscription powered by Maz. After canceling, I lost access to my issues during my subscribed period. Esquire used to be great.

Original review: Looks like they simply skipped the Big Black Book for Spring, and I keep getting monthly charges even though they’re combining multiple months into seasonal issues. Great content when it’s there, but lately they’re a no show.

DO NOT subscribe through EsquireMagazineUS. Like every one of the Maz apps it is filled with bugs and will take you forever to actually access an issue or issues you’ve purchased. Piece of 💩

Previous experience was much better. EsquireMagazineUS is functional at best. The simple fact that full bleed pages can’t be viewed full screen is sloppy. EsquireMagazineUS feels like a simple PDF reader with limited additional functions. Media isn’t integrated in an interesting way. It isn’t fun to use and has no draw to keep you returning. I’m disappointed every time I open it - which is rarely anymore.

I renewed my digital subscription after about a year-long break. I was sorry to find the once feature-rich and engaging digital editions had been tossed aside and replaced with soulless page scans. I can’t even revisit my old issues in the format I loved and remembered. Instead, they too have been stripped bare. What remains is lifeless. Stay away or stick to print. It’s not worth the dollar to have both.

I have been unable for 9 months to see the magazine yet my subscription is fully paid . Written to HelpDesk no luck, do something already

Dear developers, please add iphone x support to your otherwise excellent iphone app! On a different note: the news section seems cumbersome and not intuitive in its current form, perhaps you could show as a list with smaller icons?! Anyway, good luck with the developement!

I was an app subscriber until 2015 and loved how interactive EsquireMagazineUS was, now than I returned, all I see is a pdf reader which doesn’t even works well, I mean, trying to look one page full screen is a pain in the ...there aren’t videos, no gifs, no sound, justa a plain pdf reader, is just boring.

I get at least a daily blast from Esquire with a lot of great articles- I need to sign in each time - why not have all of these articles in EsquireMagazineUS ? Or have the link in the email open EsquireMagazineUS ?

I subscribed for the digital service a month ago and have yet to be able to access anything of value in EsquireMagazineUS or online. All I seem to be able to get is five minutes of access to the latest issue DESPITE PAYING FOR A DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION! Their customer service is nonexistent. DO NOT BUY.

What a huge disappointment! I used to go to the old app daily. I also subscribe to the magazine.

This new app is so bad and so utterly useless... I will un-install it. I’m so disappointed I may cancel the magazine subscription as well.

Whoever came up with the strategy behind this new approach for EsquireMagazineUS should be fired.

Esquire used to be a great app. The change in tech a couple of years ago made the reader experience much worse and now it has ceased to function. Download not working and even home page images won’t load.

Total garbage

Is EsquireMagazineUS working for anyone? Is Esquire paying any attention? EsquireMagazineUS has stopped working for me completely. Issues will not download at all. App freezes and crashes. No updates or bug fixes. No customer support. Worst men’s magazine app I’ve seen. Do not subscribe to this digital disaster.

Poor design, awful UX, buggy, unable to use. App is awful. No response to multiple outreach. RIP Esquire.

Paid for years of subscriptions, got a new device, contacted Esquire many many times to restore purchases and they will not honor past edition purchases.

This is the only app that doesn’t work well of all of the men,s mags.
Glitchy and slow. Freezes all the time, even after reinstalling several times, every time.

This was a 5 star app before MAZ took over. The new all doesn’t work properly, is buggy and doesn’t have the same ease of use as the previous app.

Perviously, the digital subscription was free with my monthly magazine subscription and it also came with the black book for free as well.
And on top of all that it worked great.

Esquire has really dropped the ball with this one.

MAZ is garbage, they need to drop them and go back to how it was.

There once was a great benefit to subscribing through EsquireMagazineUS - additional content, interactive experiences, and more. But now it’s just a scanned version of the print magazine. Unless something changes, I’m cancelling my digital subscription by he next cycle.