Boating Mag Reviews

Boating Mag Reviews

Published by on 2021-04-15

🏷️ About: Bring Boating Magazine to life with the iPad and/or iPhone digital editions and enjoy the convenience of having your favorite magazine on demand! An industry leader for more than 50 years, every issue of Boating delivers: • Expert advice for boaters who want to sharpen their skills in seamanship, navigation and maintenance • Reviews of accessories and new boating equipment • Personal watercraft reviews • Evaluations o.


       


Overall Customer Experience 😎


👿🤬😠 Negative experience
71.2%

🙄💅🫥 Neutral
16.4%

😎👌🔥 Positive experience
12.4%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 43 combined software reviews.



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Works fine on iPad Air 2

- Content is identical in both apps



Read 20 Customer Service Reviews 👿🤬😡😠💢😤

4.7 out of 5

Terrible

2022-05-22

Been a subscriber for 10+ years and always have to “renew subscription” every time I try to read a publication and it works about 25% of the time. Not worth the trouble. CANCEL!

Not for paid print subscribers

2022-06-23

Extremely disappointed to find out after I subscribed to the print edition that it does not include access to the iPad app. Please allow electronic access to print subscribers; this is a major drawback. Actually paid more for print to support a local school. See how rewarding doing the right thing is?

print vs electronic

2022-07-24

You can go pound sand if you think that I am going to pay for a printed subcription and an electronic version. My print version is good for another 4 years. I will see you on the boat with my printed magazine.

Customers are not Guinea Pigs !

2022-08-25

So sick of companies such as this publisher releasing apps that don’t work because of careless work and poor design. For example, this magazine BOATING has two apps, identical in how they look except the color of the cover. Contents of both are identical ! The difference between them - one seems to work, the other one puts you in login hell by having you creating an account using Facebook and being told “error” with of course no reason why. That’s really only the result-the frustration in getting there is enough to want digital magazines to be declared illegal. 1 star is a favor.

Shouldn’t be this hard in 2018

2022-09-26

BoatingMag is not intuitive whatsoever. The new version is keeping me from being able to access new issues, even though it shows me logged in to my account.

Dysfunctional

2022-10-27

BoatingMag can not exit issues back to your library in iOS 11. It’s broken. I contacted support in November of 2017. They indicated an update should be coming in the next couple weeks. It’s now halfway through January of 2018 and BoatingMag is still broken. I’m beyond furious.

Not ready for Prime Time

2022-11-28

I have an active subscription but cannot load my subscription in IOS 8.0. Get error messages. Have sent into support but no response. Crazy. Shows up in Newsstand but keeps wanting me to restart BoatingMag to get the downloads. A rip off at this point if I don't get a proper response.

Good but not great

2022-12-29

Bought app back in 2012, been working ok! Just purchased the DIY handbook and can't get it to work! If I load just the handbook it works once or twice and then just locks up. If I try to reopen BoatingMag it starts then crashes. Now I can't even get to my old issues or download the new one. Very frustrating!!!!!!!!

Won’t load

2023-01-30

Latest edition won’t load. App is always asking to restore purchases for new version. At least this used to work. Doing so with latest version successfully restores old purchases but not latest edition

Frustrating trying to create account from print subscription

2023-03-03

Instructions to setup your access using your hardcopy subscription account number are terrible. Instructions say account number can be found on the mailing label. The label has lots of numbers and symbols, none of which is identified as an account number. Gave up.

Waste of time and effort!

2023-04-01

BoatingMag worked better before I input my subscription information, and entered my subscription number. After I entered it I couldn’t access just about anything except the top four lines of an article, as a teaser. It really just makes you angry. Thank it is so sad, the magazine clearly says print and digital. Then you can’t get the digital. Bonnier publishing ruins every periodical they touch.

They lie in the magazine - paid print don’t get digital

2023-05-03

Page 32 in the April 2020 of my paid print subscription clearly says that paid print subscribers can read online version.

That’s a lie. I logged in. Got acknowledged of my subscription and then it won’t let me access any digital copy or article unless I pay an additional fee.

Don’t download. WASTE OF YOU TIME.

Keeps charging

2023-06-03

I bought the annual subscription but was repeatedly charged for downloading individual month magazines. Also, the downloads need to be repeated every time you want to read an issue. I tried to contact iTunes to no avail. Ended up paying 3 times the print subscription cost which I get also.

Problematic app, but good magazine

2023-07-05

Don't purchase this through iTunes. Every month it refuses to download the new issue. I've done all the updates, I've talked with tech support at both Apple and Bonner (the publisher) and it still continues. Both blame to the other. I'm disappointed as it is a good magazine, but they just can't seem to make their technology work.

Poor services

2023-08-05

App freezes nearly every time it's opened. Sometimes a force quit fixes it but I had to delete and reinstall once. Not worth the trouble, canceling my monthly subscription.

President

2023-09-06

Potentially good app, however, an annual subscription to the print magazine DOES NOT include a digital subscription. I fell like folks at Bonnier Corp are just trying to make a few extra bucks on their faithful print customers…Bad business!

New update broke it for me

2023-10-08

Was really looking forward to reading the issue but the new version won't load. Used to work great but now, been after a few delete and reinstalls, it flashes like it's going to load but doesn't. Very disappointing. Hope it's fixed soon!? 5 if they fix this.

New iOS 8.0 update is creating issues

2023-11-08

I'm seeing messages that confirm Boonier is having issues with the iOS 8.0 update. I have several subscriptions through them and their all doing the same thing. I hope they get it fixed or I would imagine they will be giving a lot of refunds!

New notification badge won't go away...

2023-12-10

...even after reading and deleting issue.

Good on iPad, quirky on iPhone 7

2024-01-10

Works fine on my iPad Air 2. On iPhone 7 I can’t figure out how to get back to the main menu. I’m stuck in the current months issue and none of the menu options take me back to the main menu.



Is Boating Mag Safe? 🤗🙏


No. Boating Mag does not seem very safe to us. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 43 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.7/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Boating Mag Is 14.8/100.


Is Boating Mag Legit? 💯


No. Boating Mag does not seem legit based on our analysis. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 43 Boating Mag User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Boating Mag Is 34.4/100..


Is Boating Mag not working? 🚨


Boating Mag works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.



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