Mountain Bike Action Magazine Reviews

by Disappointed9000

I hate the time I have to waste deleting MountainBikeActionMagazine and reloading each time I’ve had an app update to try and rectify loss of offline reading. Combine this with then going through the back and forth with MountainBikeActionMagazine developers when that doesn’t work. I do most reading while traveling, so losing ability to read offline defeats value of having magazine on my iPad. It was a stable app for years, but last 2 years not so much.

by Agnejwgm

How a quality magazine like Mountain Bike Action can choose such an inept digital publisher is beyond me. To MBA STAFF: try using this worthless piece of &$&@ and not being totally embarrassed. You rant about industry wheel sizes and publish letters about companies not living up to their warranties but you take people's money and don't deliver the agreed to product.

by Chris Schwartzer

it does no work with the new iOS.
Don't waste your money.

I like the magazine, maybe in a year or so I'll go back to a paper subscription.

by GoodbyeUsefullness

2yrs since last app update. Not optimized for any more recent versions of iPhones, looks like it was last revised for fitting iPhone 8 screen ratio.

by Diego02138

For over a year now I've been having to delete and reinstall MountainBikeActionMagazine for it to hold downloaded content (or even to be able to turn on MountainBikeActionMagazine ). That and the hours of back and forth with their “customer support” (another 1 star) is unacceptable. It was so frustrating that I cancelled my two subscriptions after4+ years. Thee are better magazines out there that you can actually read.

by Cdollick

I purchased all magazines from Jan 2019 - Aug 2019...and then proceeded to download all onto my iPad for offline reading. I can only view 2 of the magazines. All the others tell me there’s an error, with no way to fix. What a waste of money!! DO NOT DOWNLOAD!

by Hockeylover11

Worst magazine app ever. I would give it negative stars if possible. Doesn’t download issues for reading offline and customer support is nonexistent as shown by this long-running problem.

by JoeinAK

Constantly have to download the mag then do it again and again. Really poor work by the developers. Not even worth the one star. Like the physical mag but MountainBikeActionMagazine is a waste of time. Canceling out. Better stuff out their.

by Sluggo999

Will not retain downloads. Deleted and reloaded app several times and still will not retain downloads. MountainBikeActionMagazine has had this problem since its inception. Hi-Torque either doesn’t care or is too incompetent to fix it.

by Mtnbikergiant

Since its inception, MountainBikeActionMagazine has never been that good. But since iOS 10 and recent update, almost unusable for me. Mags will downloaded, but aren't retained. I need to be able to read them offline. New format is redundant-3 pages of article previews and then table of contents. Take a cue from Bike app...

by Killjoy117

Awful performance, no download ability, overall extremely frustrating to use.

by Enrobsot49

Love the magazine but MountainBikeActionMagazine is worthless. You have to load the magazine every time you want to read it. Therefore it's unreadable when you don't have the internet and it also does not remember where you last stopped reading. Please fix this. It's like having a bike with no wheels.

by J&JP

I used to download a bunch of issue for a trip now you can't download any. I watch it progress through the download progress until about 60%, then it stops. When you try to read again later you have to download again. What happened???

by Flynlyons2

Love the content, however the poor app performance (download an issue, yet can't view offline half the time or app tries to re-download?!?) and lack of customer service warrant only one star. I'm actually about to cancel my subscription I'm so frustrated. MountainBikeActionMagazine is an obvious afterthought and not a priority with the parent company of Mountain Bike Action.

by Gashgash

Like everyone says here, the magazine will fail to download rending offline reading impossible.
I’ve reinstalled MountainBikeActionMagazine several times, solves the issue for single magazine, them no download again.
Love the magazine but their decision to go with such incompetent publisher (hi-torque), will force me to cancel subscription. Really painful as would love to support high quality journalism in our industry.

by Fishingjunky72

Have been a subscriber for over 10 years. The magazine is a great product for the mt bike community!! MountainBikeActionMagazine... no this excuse of an app doesn’t store the issues for offline use and now on my iPad Air it’s not even allowing me to view or attempt to download the issues. I’ll miss the magazine but not MountainBikeActionMagazine. Deleting this with a little over two months left in the subscription period because it’s absolutely useless.

by Jch2112

Have to agree with the other reviews. The Table of Contents screen is completely useless and the screen comes up every time you open an issue.
It would also be nice if MountainBikeActionMagazine remembered what page you were on when you reopen an issue.

by Deck617283945

I have enjoyed the digital magzine for the last year. I looked forward to downloading it the first of every month then going through it slowly a page at a time. I particularly liked the hyperlinks to the advertisers that let me chose the ones I wanted more information on. However, recently the magazine went with a new compnay to deliver the digital content And bam my access is gone. I sent a help message a was basically told complain to intunes... So needless to say my subscription is over. It is sad as I truly enjoyed the content. However, it is not worth the hassel of fighting to get the back issues and to download the currnt issue. I do not recommend the digital version.

by Uhhhhhhhhhoh

Not sure what the griping is all about, works fine for me on my iPad and iPhone. Maybe it’s because I use it at home on WiFi while relaxing rather than staring at a screen while out and about 24/7.

by Notenoughspeed

I too had the issue of the magazine not retaining in my downloads. Just delete MountainBikeActionMagazine and re-download it. Problem solved. MountainBikeActionMagazine now seems fine. Great magazine. Been reading this since winter of '89.