Fast Company Magazine App Reviews

FastCompanyMagazineApp continues to impress. I thought I would come through and update my review. I stand by my initial review and have since take to using the Fast Company magazine app as well. This has by far become one of my favorite mediums to consume my reading.

30 minutes in and I love it already. There are few magazines that can publish an app and get it right. Fast Company does not disappoint. FastCompanyMagazineApp is quick and responsive. Articles are just "there" and the interface is smooth. I can see me using this on a daily basis to catch up on lots of reading. And I look forward to seeing how subscriptions are integrated into FastCompanyMagazineApp as well. Great Job!

The Home Screen of FastCompanyMagazineApp is a jumbled mess. Despite having both an online and print subscription, it always has a timer telling me I have a minute or two of free reading before I need to subscribe. Even after logging in, it never seems to recognize me as a paying reader. I love the articles, but FastCompanyMagazineApp experience is like kindergarten. A shame because, again, I like the articles more than articles from other publications that I pay more for.

Love the magazine but the new app is not usable offline. I’ve downloaded a few issues for offline reading and they say they are available offline, but when you’re not connected to the internet the articles show grey and cannot be read.

I tried logging into my account but it does not recognize my login. I validated my login info on the website but FastCompanyMagazineApp does not recognize my account. This new app is almost unusable.

The new app is slow and each article has to be downloaded separately. No longer reads like a magazine, but now a series of articles, more like having access to a paid news site than a magazine. Had an existing subscription, and forced to extend subscription which was easy to pay for with my finger tip, accessing what I paid for twice is more difficult. Disappointed my time is valuable, worth more to me than the hassle involved with this new app. Love your content, not your new app.

FastCompanyMagazineApp took a total turn for the worse. It used to be a nice, slick app to read my subscription and now it’s just a cheap PDF version. For the other articles FC puts out, I’m reading via the News app already so not sure what the intent was here. I love FC so I’ll keep reading the paper version but FastCompanyMagazineApp is garbage for reading the mag.

P.S. If you’re looking for my standard to compare FastCompanyMagazineApp to, look at the Wired app.

I have subscribed to this forward thinking mag for years. However for the past year your app performance is disgraceful
Every other publication that I read digitally has upgraded their app to function on an I pad and recognizes ITunes subscriptions
After waiting 30 days to get an email response from your help desk notifying me of the new app. Which I could not access with my iTunes subscription. I cancelled

I really like Fast Company magazine and the various articles about innovative companies and innovative leaders. However, the digital version of the magazine is very poorly constructed with very cumbersome navigation.

Periodicals and newspapers like the New York Times, which have been around for many years, have a better iPhone navigation then Fast Company. Your digital navigation should be in keeping with the overall theme of your magazine - innovation.

I had a yearly subscription through the old app but this new app seems to be unable to pull up account info for anything that happened in the previous app. Not great since the last issue available in the old app is Sept 2018. Not sure how Fast Company could have missed that scenario in building this new app.

Pretty terrible customer experience. Cancelled my subscription and won’t be renewing.

The new app is really frustrating. November 2018 just came out and it’s not even showing in my app.

(1) Not being able to access offline even if it says if ‘available offline’
(2) Trying to save (click star in each article, which is frankly shouldn’t be the case if you want to access the issue offline) but it’s asking for an account number I don’t have
(3) New issue not in FastCompanyMagazineApp

I usually read offline primarily, but the offline access on FastCompanyMagazineApp does not work, even if each issues says it is available offline. I am months behind now and reading other magazines because of the inconvenience. Amazing how such a tech and innovation forward company can get an update so backwards, and not fix the shortcoming in any update since its major release.

I first paid for an annual subscription online, which does not sync to FastCompanyMagazineApp so I couldn’t read it on my phone. Then I tried to pay for a monthly subscription on my phone, but that does not let you read the actual magazines. So far I have paid twice and have read nothing………

I initially setup my account on the web-based version. When I try to sign-on to FastCompanyMagazineApp it states that the email does not exist. I’ve notified through the contact function, but it’s yet to be resolved.

I bought a subs on iTunes and I am having infinite trouble just logging in. This is 2019. The process should be smooth and easy. Way too complicated. Unhappy.
Even providing a nickname to post this negative review is a hassle. But since I’m now doubly irked I’m motivated to trudge thru the process just so I can post this unfavorable review. Terrible job reducing the friction. Fast Company??? Not from my perspective.

FC is supposed to be about tech, yet their digital app is unusable. Each issue is slightly different, some can be acccessed offline, most can’t. Fix this. Your old app was actually something I could read on a plane. This new one is horrendous...makes me want to rethink my whole subscription if you guys cannot fix your own tech, much less write about it.

I have already paid for a membership but is hard to use FastCompanyMagazineApp in different devices or open content from external links.

It always assumes you’re not a subscriber.
The web and app experience are disconnected and apparently it seems like you have separate accounts. What a mess.

Loved the old app but have had endless trouble trying to download and access subscription the last several months. Enormously disappointing considering some of my favorite parts about FC - innovation / tech / creativity. Surprised a new overhaul hasn’t come out given feedback going back several months.

Love your content, want to pay for premium, but this is simply a poorly designed app. Cannot even read the headlines because of obnoxious images behind the text with no shadow or dimming on the image.

I have had a subscription for years. I have put in my subscription information and FastCompanyMagazineApp refuses to retain the information and requires me to enter the information EVERY TIME I want to read the magazine. It is not worth having and I am deleting the application. A good magazine company, like Condé Nast would never let this piece of junk out of garage. Terrible.

I just renewed in July through iTunes (as I have every year since 2013!) New app wants account number. THERE is no account number. I’ve gone round and round via email, each time being told to enter the nonexistent account number, and even called your hard copy folks. RESTORE my subscription!

I still like the content, but the new format for FastCompanyMagazineApp is rather annoying. Seems like they. Wanted to take it as far from the feel of a paper magazine as possible, but this was done in a way that is not user friendly.