ESPN The Magazine Reviews

Not recognizing I own previous issues

I am so frustrated with this I could scream. Cutting through all the story for now, they have for nearly a year told me to just sign up to get the magazines using my long time membership (including ESPN The Magazine subscription), including TODAY. But signing up never does more than offer to sell me the magazines I am already subscribed for.

I would have let it go but for today's new misleading offer to get me to signup, when all that again does is let me pay again for this.

I subscribed to ESPN promotional offer with magazine and digital edition along with insider access a few months ago. But now as everyone else reports, after app upgrading, I could no longer download and read digital edition. Support basically stopped working to solve my problem after being told I subscribed to ESPN. Nice way to rip existing customers off as I still have 1.5 years of subscription.

Tip: don't buy from them!!!

Okay, here is a review after examining this version to the previous stand alone version. In the previous ESPN the Magazine, the graphics and fonts were clear, sharp and easy to read and manage. I still have the previous version on my IPad , and it looks a whole lot better. The new version needs a lot of improvements. Navigating is okay. Fonts are blurry. Picture quality is so so. For a while, I had a hard time accessing my account, but I learned a trick to help others;
I checked "forgot password" and entered my email address to have my password reset. That did the trick to access previous issues. Until improvements are made, I will reserve giving this magazine a higher rating.

This just cements the fact that SI is much better than ESPN. Now I won't be bothered by ESPN and the alerts on things that they so desperately want to be news but aren't. ESPN has reduced itself to nothing more than a women's talk-show of a bunch of hens hemming and hawing about nothing. 90% of the "alerts" that I receive, that aren't related to my selected favorite teams, are laughable. Seriously, I don't care who Michael Sam showers with... Pitiful that ESPN can't, or won't, fix the issue that doesn't let current paying subscribers log in and view issues of the magazine. Don't be fooled, purchasing ANOTHER subscription thru ESPNTheMagazine will not help. I've read a lot of reviews from people who did and are still not getting access.

ZERO STARS. Same experience as others on here. Can't log in to app to view digital subscription (which emails from ESPN say that I should be able to do when my issue is "ready") Just spent 20 minutes on phone with ESPN to have the rep tell me that they "don't control ESPNTheMagazine any more, that apple owns it" and that I need to contact them to fix. Having tried to log in using ESPN and Apple credentials, both give me same error message. This is a terrible user experience and will likely lead me to cancel my ESPN Insider subscription as they can't seem to get this right. Bad all the way around!!!!!

This is the perfect example of a company that uses technology for greed rather than enhance their customers experiences. Every time ESPNTheMagazine is updated and espn insider subscribers aren't able to access I will continue to re rate it at 1 star. Wish I could give it 0 stars.

Even with the update. The espn mag app has been horrible. Finally excited to see this one (in newsstand where it belongs) only to find out my insider subscription doesn't work with it. I pay 44 a year for the magazine but now people can pay 17 for ESPNTheMagazine yearly. This is horrible to loyal customers.

I have been a subscriber to ESPN for close to 10 years and have upgraded to Insider access for my account. I get both the print and app version, but for some reason the new Magazine Stand app doesn't recognize my user name and/or password. When I try the forgot password trick - the screen just freezes up and I have to close out... Don't waste your time, The Mag app is far better - I think 1 star is too much for ESPNTheMagazine and expect much better from a company, with the type of revenue that ESPN generates, for it's customers that have been loyal paying subscribers for years...

Extremely disappointed. I am a current ESPN Insider and magazine subscriber. I tried to log in to the new app with my current information without success. I call ESPN customer service and found out that my subscription will not cover ESPNTheMagazine, but that I can access the magazine through the website. The problem is that the website requires Flash which my iPad will not run. The rep said that I would have to pay an additional charge for the Apple Newsstand version. It will be a cold day in hell before I do that.

ESPNTheMagazine itself has gotten better over the years.
It is more stable, more intuitive and easier to explore now.
Only, they deprived the rights to the "Insider" contents now with the magazine subscription without proper notifications and reshuffled and introduced their new "espn+" membership where they charge 5+ dollars a month. So, all of sudden, I cannot access to all the Insider materials since late last year. Well, personally, the Insider access was one of the main reasons I suscribed to the magazine in the first place. So, be noted that their website's exclusive contents are now off-limits which wasn't the case for many years.
Seriously thinking about ending subscription on next renewal, since it seems like there're more useful contents on the espn+ than the magazine these days.

For those of you who used to use the espn magazine app, your insider login will no longer work. Espn has decided to try to make more money by making a separate subscription for the iPad. There is no reason for me to buy the iPad subscription if I already get the print version, but it was nice in the past to be able to have access to the archives with the old app. ESPN gave no loyalty to their customers who have been with them for years, I highly recommend looking elsewhere for your sports needs.

No love for current ESPN insider customers? What is up with that? You give us access to a digital copy on the website but since it uses flash, people using iPads can't read it. Magazines were one of the reasons I got an ipad and assume the same is the case for many Apple customers. Therefore you're really isolating customers who have been loyal to both Apple and ESPN. If you're paying for an ipad and have an ESPN insider subscription you probably have a decent amount of disposable income which is also a highly sought after demo to advertisers...

Charter subscriber to ESPN the Magazine, thought it was a nice combo with Insider. Read the magazine on my iPad about as often as print. Everyone else includes the digital with their print version, or at least as a very modest upgrade. And no one with no notice changes the rules and denies access to the digital version by long time subscribers. Except ESPN. Might want to fix this before thousands drop their subscriptions. I survived for years with Sports Illustrated alone. I will do so again.

For those having issues, I reset my password though the magazine app and was able to download the issues again.

Wish I didn't find this out after almost a year of not getting them. Called the ESPN help desk previously and they were dumbfounded and unable to help. If just resetting your password is the issue, they should've discovered this a long time ago.

ESPN, you owe me a check for my non read issues and for figuring out your technical issues.

Foolishness!!

I tried to log on a few months ago but like many others I was not successful. I deleted ESPNTheMagazine and forgot about.

This week I received an email from ESPN indicating that my account had been set up. I used the credentials in the email - different than my normal Insider information - and was able to read the magazine.

Not read it easily though. Because of the physical mag's ginormous dimensions, the print is very small on an iPad. I do like the navigation and other features, though. Quite slick.

All these people saying they can't log in blow my mind. It's not your normal ESPN or Apple login, you use the login info that they email to you. Took me less than a minute to download and successfully log in. App works fine.

If you have an active subscription/ESPN insiders, ESPN sent you an email,back in June with your logins for ESPNTheMagazine. So all the complainers on here if you just read the faq you would know that instead of complaining that you are being "ripped off." Just follow the instructions in the email

Just seen review by 'cosette15', who must work for the competition and I felt compelled to write this. I have been using ESPNTheMagazine for over 1 year now. I am an ESPN insider and use my official ESPN account to access the magazine as this is the official ESPN app. Once I understood how to login to my insider account (see About/Customer Support) it been great.

I don't rate apps very often, but ESPN deserves some slack here. If you are a Subscriber to Insider, (and currently receive the mag through mail,) you DO get this for free.

They supply a NEW PASSWORD for the digital version. It probably has something to do with Apple News Stand and in-app purchase policies. Works fine and looks great. Follow instructions, people.

Not sure what everybody is complaining about. Had the iPad app when i had an iPad and it seemed difficult to navigate so i never used it. I got rid of the iPad when i got the 6 plus so i am excited that i can get the magazine on my phone. Looks pretty easy to navigate. Logged in with no issue. ESPN issued a special password for ESPNTheMagazine so I used that instead of my normal insider password, I wonder if that is the issue for some reviewers. Would love to see a digital only subscription to reduce paper waste.

It's been a year now and no fix. I can't log in. No word from ESPN if it will ever get fixed. Misleading and dishonest. I get an email about the new magazine issue and can't ever access it on my iPad. ESPN's only answer was for me to access it at my desktop computer. I'm never at my desktop computer, I thought I bought the iPad version. Very disappointed.

Like other reviewers, I'm an ESPN insider subscriber and yet it won't let me sign in. I tried to see if changing my password would do it and it freezes and doesn't send an email. What a waste!

Zero stars.