Guitar Player Magazine Reviews

I’ve had no success at all with my subscription. I subscribed to Guitar and Bass Player and haven’t been able to access content for either of them. I just get a message stating that “Storefront failed to load”. I’m on a fairly new and up to date iPad Pro.

I’ve reached our for help from within the apps as well as through the publisher website. As a long time subscriber to the print edition of Guitar Pkayer, I already had an account with them. After a couple of weeks, I’ve still not received any response other than an automated email acknowledging that they had received my report and would reply soon.

I called my credit card company and cancelled payment. The print magazine is quite good. I’m very disappointed.

Since update, the only available issues date back to July 2018...??? Where are the rest of them?

This new app is junk. Completely disorganized. I like the old interface where I could see all available issues (labeled by month/year), download as needed, and see what had previously been purchased without having to swipe through endless magazine covers. Please stop trying to be slick and hip and go back to an interface that works. I'd rather go back to print magazines than deal with this.

I am having the same problem that all the other reviewers are having. After updating to iOS 6, I had to reinstall the GP app. Now when I try to open it, a pop up screen asking for email and password appears. It says I'm not registered with them, and there is no way to register. I tried restoring my purchases (one year subscription), and it won't restore. GP has just become one big advertisement anyway. The interviews are just for so and so to plug their signature gear. Never will subscribe again.

After being lured with a free issue that they then tried to charge me for I deleted this garbage app. I've been a subscriber of Guitar Player since 1976 and I thought I'd give the digital edition a try (especially since the printed version has gotten so bad over the years). I would think digital distribution would give publishers a chance to embrace a new technology and innovate, but in this case, a I think not. Guitar Player, you've been an old and dear friend and ill miss you-this experience just motivated me to finally stop reflexively renewing my print edition.

Content is Great as always. Still my favorite for mainstream guitar pubs, but execution of GuitarPlayerMagazine is horrible. Just browsing issues is a waiting game. I usually run for the bookshelf to find the paper version because it hangs trying to first determine if I have a subscription (I do), then whether I have downloaded the issue, if not, a painful waiting game, instead of just downloading in the background like it should. Navigation is horrible. Entire app needs to be re-thought, like many Newstand application. Can't blame GP though. It's time Apple step in to standardize the. UX across the store and publications better, to make it easier to find things, open things, manage downloads, preview. Not that every Newstand publication/application needs to work and be the same, but execution needs to be more intuitive in general.

New app is not an improvement

Don’t buy these magazines.

Poor customer service, dysfunctional app

While the "stack of magazines" concept is meant to mimic real life, on a portable device, it is awful. Frankly, if I left a stack of magazines in my home, I'd be unable to find anything. It's an awful interface. At the same time, it is impossible to see at a glance how much storage is being used or delete downloads as they get older. My app was taking up over a Gig of space on my iPad, and they only way to clear the cache was to delete GuitarPlayerMagazine and reinstall it. I love the content, but GuitarPlayerMagazine is horrible.

Launches and immediately crashes and now I can't access a magazine I purchased to read on my computer. Nice one. Same thing with Guitar World, btw.

I am unable to even login to GuitarPlayerMagazine. It simply displays a message “Storefront not loaded.” But there’s no indication of when the storefront is loaded. My repeated requests to customer service have not been answered.

Downloaded GuitarPlayerMagazine after being charged for subscription and I’m being asked to pay for each issue individually....
Logged in and out several times with luck accessing the digital downloads.... not happy🤨

I have been ready GP since the 80’s. Too little in depth articles and interviews, too many pages of commercials....the education sections are good, but then, in today s world with say a TrueFire do I really need this from GP ?
GP ran a first page cover on Eric Johnson, when he was basically unknown.....we need more of this.

Guitar Player magazine is an excellent blend of equipment and artist pieces, with great instruction thrown in. No fluff, just great stuff.

I’ve been a subscriber for 40 years and I love reading guitar player on my iPad now.

I don’t recall my first issue, but Guitar Player has been a favorite for decades. The old days had Skunk Baxter’s column when he preferred Fenders in case you spilled a beer on the guitar. Thanks for the continued balance of history, lots of great pics and a diversity of genres, nationalities, genders, music reviews. The interviews are incredible and you always ask about the rigs. A fan since the mid 70s.

I previously purchased every issue available on GuitarPlayerMagazine , going back all the way to 2011. After the update, all of my back issues before July 2018 are gone. Hopefully this will be rectified.

I have been reading (cover to cover) since 1973. It is by far the best journal of all genres of guitar. There are other magazines out there but I believe they had to take their formats & etc from GP. I do wish GP had ALL THEIR issues on a flash drive for reference. All that aside, I look forward to each months issue.

It's a subscription! And it's not much money for the best guitar magazine on the planet. I've been a subscriber for over a decade and I'm not about to stop, now.

After being lured with a free issue that they then tried to charge me for I deleted this garbage app. I've been a subscriber of Guitar Player since 1976 and I thought I'd give the digital edition a try (especially since the printed version has gotten so bad over the years). I would think digital distribution would give publishers a chance to embrace a new technology and innovate, but in this case, a I think not. Guitar Player, you've been an old and dear friend and ill miss you-this experience just motivated me to finally stop reflexively renewing my print edition.

Like so many others, you have to have BOTH the print AND the on-line subscription. GuitarPlayerMagazine is great when you have the digital rights. My only beef at all is if you have the print subscription, you should be able to enter your subscription number and get the on-line version as well.

I don’t recall my first issue, but Guitar Player has been a favorite for decades. The old days had Skunk Baxter’s column when he preferred Fenders in case you spilled a beer on the guitar. Thanks for the continued balance of history, lots of great pics and a diversity of genres, nationalities, genders, music reviews. The interviews are incredible and you always ask about the rigs. A fan since the mid 70s.

Like others, I had some issues with my library of GP Magazine when GuitarPlayerMagazine changed. I wrote an email to get support and they responded within 24 hours with a fix that worked! Their support people do a great job. I have been a subscriber since the early 1970’s and converted to the iPad version because I have vision problems; the digital magazine enables me to render all articles into larger typeface.