Premier Guitar Magazine Reviews

Super magazine. But the digital component of the subscribtion is a disaster. After removing it adding it a dozen times, it still won’t load magazine. I get a JS error and saying I’m not allowed to see the content. Customer service at PG doesn’t quite know what to do, so I guess I’ll be paper only since the iPad Pro version seemingly will not work. Too bad. May impact if I re-up my subscription. If you are intending to do a digital only subscription, I’d advise you to do it with extreme caution and be prepared for calling them for a refund.

Every time you launch PremierGuitarMagazine you have to select issue and are dropped on first page of it.

Also has an additional ad bar on top, even tho I have a paid subscription. The top bar is clumsy.

Great magazine, and I’ve subscribed for another two years, but while I’ve had access to PremierGuitarMagazine ever since they started it I’ve never been able to sign in to link my account. In this day and age that is an epic failure.

Great magazine but PremierGuitarMagazine has always had problems since I first subscribed 3 years ago, and apparently they never read reviews or care once they have your money. Now I simply can’t open.

When will the publishers fix PremierGuitarMagazine or go back to the platform from a few years ago that worked great on the iPad?

Slow loading or no loading of content..can’t download with the paid subscription.

Keep getting JS Data Error and a “don’t have permission” warning when downloading issue. Months ago PremierGuitarMagazine worked but soon stopped working. Bummer because I don’t always want to carry around the print magazine.

I paid for a subscription so why do all the issues show a subscribe button? I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD MY ISSUES THAT I HAVE SUBSCRIBED FOR. what gives?

Love the magazine. Unable to download a single issue despite buying the 2 year subscription. I cannot describe how poor PremierGuitarMagazine is.

The content is the magazine, which is good. PremierGuitarMagazine contains a straight copy of the magazine, which requires all manner of zooming and landscape aspect to make even remotely readable.

Stick to the website. It’s vastly superior.

...it just doesn’t work/load. Did you do any testing at all? You need a new developer. DELETE.

Pages are really tiny and unreadable. Love the mag but I am so tired of the iPad app. I give, UNCLE!

After subscribing, tried to read an issue linked through email. There was a banner ad across the top for strings that couldn't be hidden. It was suggested I get PremierGuitarMagazine , I thought, so I could avoid the ad.
Downloaded PremierGuitarMagazine , couldn't get the issue. I was instructed to get the latest app, and to do that I had to upgrade my OS. Got the issue after some email login problems. Still have the ad. Very slow download had to be started again a few times. My internet connection clocks at around 40mps, but PremierGuitarMagazine is sluggish as far as downloading and page turns, and then there's the ad that doesn't go away.
I would totally recommend against a digital subscription.

Love the magazine. Had October before update. Now it's asking me to buy it. Something important was left out of the update--current subscribers. Please fix.

UPDATE: the current solution seems to be to make the current issue free. So I downloaded November. Twenty minutes later, it still takes time to load each page. This new app is plain terrible. The prior app was great. Please go back. Don't try to fix the new app. Trash it. It's too painful to use. There is no reason to subscribe to PremierGuitarMagazine. The free web version is far superior. I guess that I will never be able to access my saved bookmarks from prior versions.

I'm also incredibly disappointed that I did not receive a specific response to my direct e-mail to PG.

PG: you have mishandled every aspect of this attempted update. I can't understand how this went so wrong when the magazine is otherwise so top-notch.

As other reviewers mentioned, you're paying for content that's free on their website, but I thought what the heck, I'll support the magazine since they do a good job. So I thought I'd buy a 12 month online subscription - but then I found that the previous monthly issues were not accessible unless I bought them separately! Again, they're free online but after I just paid for a year's subscription, they want to charge me more to read back issues. Forget it! They've just lost a customer.

So, for the most part, this works just the same as the non-newsstand version. It's clunky and slow. However, this version also allows you to view the articles as a mobile version. The text can now be enlarged so you don't need a microscope. Bookmarks finally work. There is now a search function. Very worth it, but still needs some tweaking.

Contents are terrific, but that's as far as I'll go on its good points.

Why would they take up valuable real estate with an add for their subscriptions? I'm already a subscriber and their banner takes up almost 20% and never goes away!

One would think that the table of contents would be easy to get to. They have chosen to keep if off of their topics list which means I need to select another topic and page through the magazine until I've reached it.

I'm starting to believe that this, and other omissions are strategic where advertisers gain an advantage on frequently seen pages.

To the editors: this publication is for us musicians. You already make your profits on ads. There is no need to punish readers with a poorly written app.

Bummed that free iPad access is gone for new issues. Back to downloading the PDF I guess.

It is a great Mag but this change in PremierGuitarMagazine was a disappointment

This is not a review of the magazine, which I think is great!
Why charge for the new issues, when the PG website offers the digital magazine for free??? Why pay more just because it is on the iPad???
As for usability, every time I quit reading the magazine and then come back to it, I have to chose the issue I am reading all over again and search for where I left off. This did NOT happen in the previous app.
In short, defficient app at a greater cost.

It takes forever to download each issue. And most of the times I have to do it all over again 3 or 4 times before it is actually downloaded. The overall reading experience is terrible. When you swipe it takes a couple of seconds for the downloaded content to be displayed!! Besides everything feels awkward. Hey Premier Guitar, find a good developer and give him some money because that app really needs a serious update.

PremierGuitarMagazine used to work great when it first came out. Then you changed the format and things started going down hill. With the last update all of my electronic copies are gone. I can download some of the older issues, but now it wants me to pay again for the issues that I've already bought with my subsciption. Please just go back to the original app.

The content is the magazine, which is good. PremierGuitarMagazine contains a straight copy of the magazine, which requires all manner of zooming and landscape aspect to make even remotely readable.

Stick to the website. It’s vastly superior.