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Vogue Knitting App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Vogue Knitting app received 162 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Vogue Knitting? Can you share your negative thoughts about vogue knitting?
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✓ Needs workWorked fine at first. Great reading experience. Since last update it's very very very slow to download. Additional comment: yet another ineffective update. Incredibly slow..Version: 4.0
✓ Lost Issues PurchasedI updated my app and lost the issue I had purchased and after trying to recover my purchase still can’t access. Very upsetting...I’m extremely upset as I was about to start the shawl I purchased the magazine for...rip off!.Version: 11.0
✓ Loses purchases, poor tech supportThe Vogue Knitting app denied access to an issue I already purchased, and had even downloaded to my iPad. I tried their Restore Purchases setting, which did not work. I used their contact form to email tech support, explaining that I had already used Restore Purchases. Five days later, I received an email telling me how to use Restore Purchases (which I had told them I had done), and stating that if that didn’t work they couldn’t offer any assistance. The patterns are good, if you can access them..Version: 18.0
✓ DO NOT PURCHASE SUBSCRIPTION!I can only warn people not to purchase a subscription! SoHo Publishing has not published the magazine since Spring. I paid for 6 issues and received 4. They also do not respond to any emails. They now appear to have changed the login credentials, which means that I cannot access any of the magazines I purchased - not only through the subscription but also back issues I purchased for £5.99 each!.Version: 19.0
✓ VogueKnittingI have subscribed to the digital version. VogueKnitting have blocked any access to instructions—unable to print or keep my favourites, even as bookmarks. The app reloads each time all your subscriptions. Some of the time it asks for resubscription and doesn’t allow access to issues paid for. Useless subscription, useless app, useless for knitting enthusiasts. I have tried to contact VogueKnitting many many times without reply from them. Don’t waste your time and don’t bother with the subscription it us a complete waste of money—just useless and a ripoff..Version: 12.5
✓ Terrible appSince my last update no past purchases are available. Contacting customer support I was told I can’t access any past magazines because I don’t have a current subscription. These magazines were all purchased in the past not simply rented. I have spent well over $100 to purchase these magazines. Even if I want to renew my subscription (which at this point I do not) the app won’t allow me to..Version: 19.0
✓ Vogue difficultYour last way of sending subscriptions was just so much easier. I find the app very frustrating.Version: 11.0
✓ Rubbish updateWill you be fixing the rubbish up anytime soon?.Version: 2.0
✓ Dissatisfied customerPlease fix this website. I have bought lots of issues and cannot open the app.Version: 3.1
✓ Think Twice - Unless you don’t mind waiting months for an issue!I used to love this app. I would get my issue as soon as it would come out reading it before the print edition was out. Now it takes at least a month after the print issue is available to get the digital copy. And there is no support. My first email was never read if the reply was any indication. It was over a month before I received a second reply and by then I had my issue. The current issue came out weeks ago and I’m still waiting. I canceled my subscription and may do hard copy instead. Or not at all..Version: 19.0
✓ I wish I could leave zero starsMy subscription just renewed, and I can’t download the current issue, much less my previous purchases! Vogue, I just cancelled this subscription, although I realize I won’t get my money back. This hideous app has just lost a subscriber, and most likely a reader, for you. Ugh!!! Thanks for nothing..Version: 11.0
✓ Theft of merchandiseAnother great digital magazine DESTROYED by a company called Maz who takes over running them and then kills them. I have about 10 years of digital copies of Vogue Knitting that I can no longer access. THESE WERE ALL PAID FOR and I can no longer access them. I ❤️❤️❤️ Vogue Knitting but don’t give a penny to this app. UPDATED: I continue to have the same problem with the new provider. I have paid for YEARS of issues that are locked for me. Why isn’t this considered theft?.Version: 19.0
✓ Totally disgustedMy app has also stopped working. I contacted them last week at the email address given but have not received a response. If I can't get access to the magazines I will have spent a significant sum with no benefit. Not happy at all! Only giving one star as it won't let me give none! 26 July 2017 - even after the recent update it still won't open. No-one at the help centre is replying to emails. What is happening - they clearly don't care about customer service!.Version: 3.1
✓ How much time do you haveI cannot get magazines to download. It keeps saying waiting to download and queued. I cannot cancel. I now switched on and off. Nothing. Feel I have wasted money..Version: 7.8
✓ App no longer worksSince last update. Please fix..Version: 2.0
✓ Please can we have the old app back!I can’t figure out how to navigate the new app or how to highlight patterns I want to return to (if there even is a way). I’m deeply frustrated. Later...ok, I give up. I am going back to the print editions where I can at least take a picture of or photo copy a sweater I want to make. THIS IS THE WORST magazine app!.Version: 11.0
✓ CrashingVery frustrating app. It crashes constantly, making it impossible to use for knitting. And I agree with the other reviewers that they should allow a look into the issue so you can decide if you want to purchase it. I also would appreciate the ability to bookmark a pattern or article I want to refer to at a later date. The new app is even worse! Can’t navigate between pages not read the magazine cover to cover. Very frustrating indeed. Worthless. Hope they fix this!.Version: 12.5
✓ Lost all my previously downloaded magazines!I used to have a subscription, but let it lapse. The old version of the app allowed me to keep and use my previously paid for magazines. Updated to the new version - and lost access to my old data! Two years worth of magazines disappeared in a flash and the app asks me for $10 per copy..Version: 4.1
✓ Broken and unresponsive tech and customer support teamsAfter finding out the fall issue is available but not in the app, I submitted a ticket to the tech support team. After two weeks and several follow ups, there has been no response or movement on the ticket. I also tried to come tact Vogue customer support and have received no answer. Very disappointing because Vogue is a reputable brand. I will be canceling my subscription. UPDATE - 1 Dec 20: Now that my subscription expired, I’ve lost access to issues I had under my 1 year subscription. And after two months, my ticket finally got an answer but I’ve been told to contact the publisher for this latest issue. My advice, subscribe only to the print version if you like this magazine because their electronic subscriptions are worthless unless you keep renewing, which I will not..Version: 19.0
✓ Not worth the timeOne minute preview is all you get to determine if you would be interested in buying an issue and that is clearly not enough. It is enough to know that this app is not friendly to knitters. There are no tools and I don’t think any way to export to another app or a PDF. I wasted my time, don’t waste yours. Will delete app now..Version: 12.5
✓ Vogue Knitting Mag appThis app has some nice features like the 360 view of the knitted garment. But you can't print out the pattern instructions. Which is handy to make notes on and take to the yarn shop. My tablet is awkward to drag around shopping or pickup in the middle of a row especially when the screen times out. Please update this app with a 'print' option for pattern instructions..Version: 1.1
✓ A knitting magazine that wont allow printingAny knitter or crafter realizes how serious an issue that is. I respect the effirt to protect the material, but i need to be able to print the instructions and write notes on the document! You cant print it. You cant email it. You cant transfer it. This app is useless at tge moment. I think i will let my subscription expire and buy piecemeal paper copies as needed..Version: 4.2
✓ Theft and FraudI thought that Vogue would be a trustworthy vendor. However they have stolen all of my magazine content and books that I purchased. After calling customer service they told me they do not know anything about the digital platforms. Apple this app should be removed from the App Store. And I would love it if you would take responsibility for seeing that my purchased content was returned or my money returned..Version: 19.0
✓ Such crapNothing works properly and you get no support..Version: 12.5
✓ No app supportCan't get latest update to work. Nowhere on app to contact support & if you click on app support in App Store it takes you to VK web site where there is no app support. Pathetic.Version: 2.0
✓ Difficultés techniquesJe ne sait pas si c'est vrai que cet app est meilleure sur le iPad, mais sur l'iPod, il plante toujours. Pas moyen de visionner le magazine que je viens de payer 4.99$. Décevant puisque tout semblait fonctionner avant que je paies pour ce magazine!.Version: 2.1
✓ Need to get with the timesWhilst the app functions in a satisfactory way and looks nice, it is not connected in any way to the Vogue Knitting website. So, if you have an account on the app and an account on the Vogue Knitting website they are not connected. If you purchase a digital download (digital version of the magazine) using the app, you will only be able to access it via the app, and you will not have access to it via the website and vice versa. So you will now have two separate Vogue Knitting accounts. I have many apps for digital magazines and I can access any and all downloads via both the app AND the website, with one single account. Why would Vogue Knitting have such an inconvenient app?.Version: 1.3.2
✓ Lost access to all my back issuesI have over 10 years of subscriptions to back issues on the VK app. I also have books in the VK Books app. This August, I did not renew my subscription but should have access to all the back issues that I have previously paid for. The VK app asks me to pay for individual issues and no books show at all in the Books app. I have tried restoring issues, re-logging in, deleting and reinstalling the apps and nothing works. If I try to log into an individual issue, the app says my email does not exist, even though I can log into the app as a whole with the same email. I have tried support through MAZ (the app support), and although keen to help this did not provide a fix and have had no reply to two messages to the publisher. Am very disappointed as I love my VK magazines and books..Version: 19.0
✓ AwefulThis is horrible. The magazine crashes and now I can't even read the magazine at all. The app wants me to buy it again. They don't respond to emails. Give me the proper mag any day. I won't be using this again. I've lost my money..Version: 5.0
✓ Not getting what I paid for, terrible serviceMy digital subscription is paid up through May 2021 but I have not received the latest edition and Fall 2020 has now disappeared from the app. No response from emails to Vogue. Cancelling my subscription but from May but no way to get my money back for editions I have not had..Version: 19.0
✓ Not great for knittingI guess this app is fine if you just want to read the magazine- which you have to buy. However I wanted to use the patterns. I ordered the wool and when I wanted to start my project I found there was no way to print the pattern. I was pretty disappointed. I like to print them so I can mark rows off- especially colour charts. Also I am not the only one in the family using my iPad so having to use it the whole time to knit my sweater makes some people a little impatient. I wouldn't use it again.Version: 1.3.2
✓ No longer able to access bought magazinesI have subscribed to Vogue Knitting for years and suddenly I can’t access any magazines that I have subscribed to. It gives me 1minute free access and then asks me to pay £5.99 per magazine!.Version: 19.0
✓ This App Won’t Download on my IPadProSo I just subscribed to Vogue Knitting which is supposed to give me both paper and online issues. Not only have I not received an email confirmation (2 days now) of my order, I can’t get this app to download on my iPad Pro. It’s there, it says download, and then it won’t. Does anything work with Vogue Knitting?.Version: 12.5
✓ All previous purchases goneI’ve lost all my previous on line purchases. Have deleted and reinstalled app, logged in and out etc etc. The tech support is basically useless. I’m surprised that such a useless « upgrade » was launched....I can’t be the only subscriber who has these problems. And yes, I am very tech savvy....I have a PhD in engineering!.Version: 4.2
✓ Can't open appThis app is not fit for purpose. It crashes every time I try to use it. Needs to be fixed..Version: 2.0
✓ Will not be renewing unless they return to the old appThe new app does not work properly, is less user friendly and not worth the frustration.Version: 4.1
✓ Improvements neededI was really pleased to see this available for the UK, but I'm having no end of problems getting it to work! When, eventually, my purchases downloaded, I thought all might be well. But the next day, all I got was "download queued" next to what I thought WAS downloaded, with no way to do anything about this. I really hope I haven't lost my money on this, but sadly I'm already losing patience. Hopefully the developers will put a lot more work into this app! There is, also, only a limited amount to download compared to on the website; more back issues, separate (and free) patterns should and could be added. Although there's no point adding anything until the app actually works! Stick to the website and magazines for now....Version: 5.0
✓ Terrible terrible updateThis is awful there is no.longer the overall feel.of the magazine I tried to look at the instructions for pattern 20 in the previous issue - used to take seconds scrolling using the reel at the bottom NOW you have to scroll through all.the instructions which are no longer full page but one column wide and with no easily identifiable breaks - unusable I have bought every digital copy of VK i will not be buying anymore.unless the interface changes I am also extremely cross that my existing collection is effectively no longer available to.me as the app.is so horrible to use.Version: 4.1
✓ Bad updateNow I can't even open the app, same with Knit Simple.Version: 2.0
✓ Not happyThis latest update removed all of the magazines i had purchased, then refuses to download them again. Also has revoked a magazine I had purchased. This is very infuriating as I am currently in the middle of knitting something from it. Are you expecting me to purchase it again? App will not download any magazines even though I followed all troubleshooting suggestions.Version: 7.5
✓ VK Knitting AppSince recent update app closes immediately after opening. Cannot access library..Version: 2.0
✓ Unhappy with the new formatMany frustrations with the new vogue knitting, least of which was the weeks I had to wait to get missing issue restored so I could resume knitting, but the biggest frustration is no longer being able to mark up the issues as I knit, or make notes. It is now more antiquated than a hard copy with a pen..Version: 11.0
✓ So horrible, I wrote my first reviewAbsolutely worthless. It’s a non-functional app. I can see magazine covers, sometimes even titles of articles, but no actual content. Part of the reason I subscribed to the print edition of the magazine was to have the app access. I feel tricked. Also very frustrated from trying to get it to work. Delete..Version: 19.0
✓ Useful only as a preview to hard copyI like using this app to see new issues before the hard copy arrives in my mailbox. Otherwise it’s pretty useless. You can’t print anything other than little snippets of text and the links in the resource tab are broken (stitchionary, stitch workshop, how to, etc). It seems pretty clear that nobody at Vougue is using this app nor cares about customer service..Version: 12.5
✓ BssuzLovely patterns, and great info, so I downloaded the App and purchased my first edition because the magazine is not easily available in the UK. Extremely disappointed in the navigation of the magazine. Having read the help info you should be able to navigate each editin by pulling up contents. Not so. All the navigation bar allows is to bookmark (but no way of accessing bookmark), the icon to share, and another icon to split page. The only way I can look through the magazine is to flick through the pages. Annoying if you are on the first page and want to look at the back. You have to go through every page to get where you want. I regularly read magazines on my ipad and find them a pleasure to navigate. It's is very badly designed. Feel cheated!!.Version: 7.10
✓ Pointless.App may be free, but all content has to be downloaded separately and paid for. Do we really need an app to buy an e-magazine?.Version: 2.1.5
✓ Can’t see/purchase latest editionThe app doesn’t display latest edition or back issues. Therefore, I can’t purchase the latest edition. I tried deleting and reinstalling the App but issue still persists. What is available on the App are only editions which I have had purchased and downloaded..Version: 3.2
✓ My purchases are gone!I have been buying various single issues of Vogue Knitting over the years since they released them digitally. I even bought the few Crochet magazines they published. Now, they are gone, all gone. All I get is a parade of magazine covers. If my purchases are somewhere on the app, they keep them well hidden. Really poor design, not designed by a knitter. Don’t use social media specialists to do a knitter’s job. Bring back the old app. It worked just fine. If I don’t get my magazines recovered fast and for free, you have lost me as a customer. I wouldn’t trust you again. It’s fraud to erase my purchases and try to make me buy them again..Version: 12.5
✓ Broken program!!This used to work great, but now it's broken and no longer allows access to past or current editions, even after paying for them. I have contacted via email for support but have not had any reply. The update in March never fixed it either. Steer clear until it's fixed - you'll waster your $20 siging up for the subscription as you can't download or access the editions promised.Version: 5.0.1
✓ Frustrating to use and can’t printPretty useless - can’t print from the app or save out PDF’s..Version: 11.0
✓ CrapCan’t even log in with a subscription. Well done..Version: 12.5
✓ No customer serviceI feel the same. For 27$ you can have the printed and the app included. However the reverse cannot not happen because customer service is not really interested in customer service. Based on their photo, I think they hired high schoolers In short I must pay both subscription prices....since that is what the records indicate!.Version: 4.2
✓ Cannot access app/no app supportI just subscribed. I have the confirmation email from Apple. Could not log in on my iPad and accidentally logged myself out on my iPhone. App says my email is not recognized. Tried to ask developer for app support but my email isn’t being recognized so request won’t send..Version: 19.0
✓ App OK, bit content slow to be available.I’ve been looking for about two months for the current issue shown on the VogueKnitting website to be available via the app. I really can’t understand the delay.... This is only a recent thing - but surely not pandemic-related..... I removed and reloaded the app, recovered my purchases but no... now Winter 2020/2021 is available, it is Mid-March and I’m in the mood for Spring knits..Version: 19.0
✓ Vogue KnittingCannot open the app for the latest Vogue Knitting- it always worked before..Version: 3.1
✓ Download jokeYou get 1 minute to view an issue. It takes 45 seconds to download!!!!!!! 🙁🙄🤨😤.Version: 19.0
✓ RUBBISHThis app is one of the worst functioning i have come across. RUBBISH.Version: 19.0
✓ Unable to access paid for issues - no response from magazine or app developersHave subscribed for many years, this year 1 issue not published, no communication, understandable in current situation, however the latest issue is still not available on the app. App developers responded (thank you) that the issue had not been made available to them. Still no response from magazine publishers so I did not renew my subscription, I have now had access to all my previous purchases denied. No response from either magazine publishers or app developers..Version: 19.0
✓ MistakesHow can I trust the knitting instructions/charts as almost any piece I try to knit has got mistakes?! Have been using the magazine for over 3 years but now have fear to start knitting anything from the mag as instructions might be stuffed up. Again. Lost of time and frustration at seeing a pattern coming out all scewed! Vogue - tripple check charts before publishing new editions!!!.Version: 7.10
✓ Bad user interfaceThis app has the worst user experience of any of the magazine apps I have used. I have been a subscriber since it was first introduced, and the changes made a year ago have made it incredibly buggy and hard to use. The article navigation doesn’t work, the pages are unavailable in offline mode (even when it says available offline), and there is no option to view the pages side by side, meaning that half the time the text is describing something you can’t see. In addition, they have now made it impossible to export or print any of the instructions. Which for a magazine of knitting patterns is really inexcusable..Version: 12.5
✓ ReloadIf the app crashes you need to delete and reinstall, then it works..Version: 3.1
✓ Crappy app!One should have the zero star option! Highway robbery!!!!.Version: 12.5
✓ Getting worse, much worseThis latest version of the app is HORRIBLE. Gone is the convenient ‘editions’ view where you can see pages showing tiles of the magazine covers and their availability and select one. Now we have something called ‘magazines’ that forces you to scroll through the covers ONE AT A TIME (with several of them being blank because they take too long to load). There are probably about 60 magazines here. One at a time. Really? What a waste of time! I’m better off going to my bookshelf. And we can no longer scroll through the magazine. Now we must look at a menu of articles and open them, ONE AT A TIME. Are you kidding me? There’s a huge banner ad at the top of the main page. Once you’ve seen it, what’s the point of keeping it there? It just gets in the way of what you’re trying to do, which is look at virtual magazines. Especially if we already own the advertised book. It used to be a pleasure to browse through the virtual magazines on my tablet, but this is torture. Back to the hard copies! I’m trying to think of at least one positive thing to say, but honestly, all of the convince and appeal is gone. Is it possible to install an old version? VK, the least you could do is allow users to select the view that suits us so that we could use the app without it getting in the way of what we’re trying to accomplish. Please be respectful of our time..Version: 12.5
✓ Don't buy a subscription, this app doesn't work!I've had a subscription to the iPad edition for some time, but, after sending me a push notification that the new issue is available to me I have found that the app again requires me to pay. This has happened each edition and I've had to pay again and then ask the nice people at iTunes to refund it! This current edition is the same, but I'm not going to allow SOHO Publishing to keep getting away with this. Vogue should be the premier knitting magazine in the world, but badly run apps like this seem pretty third rate and are an affront to subscribers who are being treated like third class people. Get your act together, Soho!! The Knitterati will rise!.Version: 1.3.2
✓ ThievesThey steal back what you have already paid for. I was a subscriber for 2 years and I have NOTHING to show for it. A “downloaded” issue you paid for can disappear at any time. At least when you buy a hardcopy, they don’t decide after a couple of months they’ll break into your home and steal it back. DON’T BUY THROUGH THIS APP UNLESS YOU HAVE MONEY LITERALLY TO GIVE AWAY. You don’t even get to KEEP the magazine. Thieves..Version: 18.0
✓ Broken since UpdateUseless since last update. Paid for content and cannot access now..Version: 2.0
✓ Entirely Unintuitive and Bad ExperienceVK is probably the most frustrating app I’ve ever used, and it’s a struggle every time to just look at magazine articles. I always end up in a viscous cycle of logging in and finding everything locked, needing to change the PW and “Restore” does not find everything I’m entitled to. How about a saved library for easy access to purchases? Does not deserve even a single star since I’ve NEVER had a good experience with it. Every time I open it I go away angry and unsatisfied, and I’m not stupid nor a tech newbie..Version: 19.0
✓ Useless AppWhile this is a good app for browsing a magazine it is pretty useless for a knitting magazine. When someone buys a copy of Vogue Knitting they need to be able to make a copy of a pattern that they wish to knit. This is so that you can make notes, etc on the pattern while knitting the project. There is no way to do this. All you can do is browse the magazine. If it was possible to export pages into a PDF file for printing or use in a PDF write app then this would be good. As it is I will stick to purchasing my vogue magazines as hardcopies..Version: 3.0.1
✓ One minute of time to preview a magazine is a jokeThere are so many pictures etc., my iPad cannot open a magazine in the 60 seconds, so I see nothing but a slow moving progress bar while it tries to download, only to be told I am out of time. This app is better than the old one, but the designers are still not clear on the user experience..Version: 11.0
✓ Needs workThis is a beautiful mag, but needs some fine tuning. My app keeps crashing and not all videos will load. Very frustrating! I look forward to an update to correct these flaws..Version: 3.0.1
✓ SwitchingVogue apps on my iPad and I have purchased several of the older magazines. Since I’ve only been knitting a couple of years I missed them when the 1st came out. I have no trouble accessing them on my iPad or on the phone I had until 2 weeks ago but I can’t access them on this phone..Version: 11.0
✓ Good but should be betterIt is good to have the magazine on your iPad and I like the functions for getting about quickly with small pages you can scroll through at the bottom. Very annoying that you cannot print or even send patterns to iBooks at least to print. Seems a bit lazy in the apps development to tell you to print the app by taking a snapshot which of course is not ideal at all seeing there is often 2 patterns on the one page. The pattern is what it's all about and they need either a PDF link to the pattern either directly on the magazine or linked to one online. Cheers.Version: 1.1
✓ Doesn't work nowThis app won't work since June 2017 update - please fix..Version: 2.0
✓ Buyer beware!Apparently once your app subscription ends you cannot access magazines any more! Six years of subscription totally wasted !.Version: 19.0
✓ Impossible to get subscription supportMy September 2020 renewal resulted in my receiving no new issues and I was cut off from the two previous issues. Support for subscribers is by email only and the responses are all templates, no helpful or valid info. I’m trying to get a refund through iTunes..Version: 19.0
✓ SO disappointedI have to agree with other bad reviews. I would give a negative rating of I could. I used to love the ease of access to past issues and being able to send myself a single pattern. I've had issues with this app the last couple of years. This latest update is pitiful. When you tap on the article there's a black screen until you tap on text. It took me 2 months to get access to the patterns I paid for 8 years ago. The tech support is not good either..Version: 12.5
✓ Needs workCan't at least see photos of patterns before I buy a book; very disappointing. Keeps crashing! needs work..Version: 3.0.1
✓ No download!Had half a day trying to download this app. Eventually got the pattern I wanted, but it is SO small I can't see the charts properly, it's going to make me go blind! Also can only print out very tiny as a photo, so no help there. Bit of a waste of my time and money. Shame as I loved the pattern I was after..Version: 1.3.2
✓ New version of app is awfulI have subscribed via iTunes for many years without problem: However, the last magazine came with a so called upgrade to the app. Firstly, the magazine didn't make it to iTunes for at least a month after it hit the newsstand and then didnt download properly to my iPad: only the cover and not the content below. Then when it did download i found the new format quite horrible to use as it missed a considerable amount of the magazine out. Thankfully, you can read as a pdf, which is far better. It took 2 months of asking app support for help (They would reply a week to 10 days later to each of my replies) and only after about a month, they started to understand the problem. I eventually saw my copy about a week before Christmas. Now the latest issue is on the newsstands and I can't see this issue within the app. It looks as though I will have to go through the whole painful process again. They will be able to hear nme scream from the UK, where I can't even buy a paper copy. In addition, I have tried this app on the new MACbook Air (with the new chip suiitable for certain IOS apps - Vogue Knitting being one thats compatible), and although the old VK magazines read and download okay, I only get the cover of the late fall issue and the Winter issue isnt anywhere to be found, as with the iPad app. (There is nothing below the cover, so you cant even read as a pdf at this stage) The late fall 2020 magazine content was so disappointing after all that hassle, so the winter 2020/21 had better be something special or i'm cancelling my subscription. Please get your act together folks!.Version: 19.0
✓ App works on relaunchDelete your old app and reinstall to get it working. I am glad that all my subscriptions are still in good working order..Version: 3.1
✓ HORRIBLE APPI have been a subscriber to Vogue Knitting since the 1960’s and have EVERY issue. Was so excited when I was able to do things easily. Another case of let’s fix it till is BROKE and DOES NOT WORK!! I can no longer print my pattern to work off of and write notes... what’s up with that. Apparently whoever the brain trust is behind this app is not a knitter!.Version: 11.0
✓ Wish I could give it negative stars!Adding to my mid-June review. Just received an email to renew my subscription even though the App still isn't working. Adding to my previous comment. Since last update cannot launch the app. Really disappointed. Will be using/downloading interweave magazines instead of vogue knitting straight from their website from now on. Tried to leave a zero star rating and the App Store won't let me. Don't purchase this app. I agree with other commenters, very difficult to print patterns, in-app "comment" tools are useless and even though I have a valid paid subscription, I have to pay for the newest issue. Not worth the money..Version: 2.0
✓ Help not working!As others are saying mine has also stopped working so I can't access any of my magazines, and I don't know how to contact them, pointless paying for something that won't work..Version: 2.0
✓ Subscription issues lost - really not worth subscribingI concur with previous reviewer. An issue of Vogue Knitting I bought has shown up in my bookstore but all previous editions purchased through subscription have disappeared. Impossible to contact and no resolution at this stage..Version: 5.0
✓ What is this?The set up of this app is ridiculous, which is a pity because the mag is great. I bought one issue and it’s 1) tough to navigate to - you have to scroll through the latest issues to get to it - and 2) you can’t download it. What’s the actual point? Who created this app? Not a knitter, we’re logical folk who love good design..Version: 19.0
✓ Very DisappointedYou get the covers and nothing else. A small collage of pictures of the main patterns would not hurt to preview if you want to purchase that copy. I'd probably buy more this way. At present I could purchase 4 issues and not like anything in any of them, and my money is wasted. And you can't save to iBooks to print. When I knit or crochet, I often have annotations all over one copy (eg. tracking rows) and a clean copy on my iPad..Version: 1.3.2
✓ DisappointingPoor graphics, crashes all the time. Expected more from Vogue....Version: 5.0.1
✓ AppNot that user friendly. All previously purchased issues are nowhere to be found..Version: 12.5
✓ Good app but downloads slowI like having the magazine on my iPad, but the initial download of each issue is VERY slow. The download times out over and over again before finally completing. Also, the recent update has deleted the two issues I already had and so they have to be downloaded again. They are available but it means two more VERY SLOW downloads to be completed. If this problem could be resolved, the app would be a 4 star..Version: 3.0
✓ Crashing all the timeIt crashes whenever i try loading the entrelac edition and another reference edition. I want my money back for the books as i cant open and use them anymore. Do something with this app, people! I bought this app last year hoping that bugs will be fixed. Looks like Vogue doesnt seem to care about customers - it is one of the worst newsstand apps..Version: 7.7
✓ DO NOT SUBSCRIBEI paid for this magazine for 8 years. When you stop your subscription you no longer have access to the magazines for which you paid!!! You can get them back….but it will cost you another years subscription!!! Zero stars.Version: 19.0
✓ FrustratingThis app has potential but is extremely frustrating as it crashes VERY often. I will wait for an upgrade and test it myself before I spend another $4.99 to almost read a magazine. Too bad since there are so many good iPad apps for reading magazines. Instead of badly re-inventing something that doesn't work, why not use an existing portal like Zinio. At the very least, they could have tested it before unleashing another half-baked app on the unsuspecting public..Version: 2.1
✓ Needs a library sectionGood app for buying new mags but not easy to go straight to purchases especially if these go back several years. It needs a ‘my library’ section so I can easily see my purchases and read them..Version: 19.0
✓ Vogue knittingI subscribe to this magazine and I can’t download it. I am allowed 1 free minute this is rubbish. Vogue knitting online subs don’t recognize my email so I can’t even send them an email about this on the contact us page. Very unhappy.Version: 11.0
✓ Too hard to get to purchased issuesIt takes ages to try to scroll horizontally to get to my purchased issues. The images take a long time to load, and half the time when I try to swipe/drag across, the line of cover images jumps to the right again. Talk about "two steps forward, one step back". Also very hard to spot the ones you have purchased, because they may be shown as larger, but all the images change size (and bounce back and forwards) as you scroll. I started to feel seasick trying to find my issues to download for offline reading. I am pretty sure you used to be able to go to "my purchased items" before and see only the issues you had paid for. Obviously created with no user testing or understanding of user needs. The older version worked fine, but I suppose it didn't look "cool" enough. Well, now it looks cool, but I can't use it..Version: 11.0
✓ 💩 crapWhen you buy a magazine you cant print it or save it for offline its not what i was expecting as when i knit i like to be able to write where i am. For the price we pay the online magazine i really not suggest to not buy or even download the app..Version: 12.5
✓ Pretty uselessApp does not recognize my user name and password. I’m trying to understand why the website encourages downloading the app. An hour of my life I’ll never get back..Version: 19.0
✓ ImpossibleI got this app specifically to get a knitting pattern I knew was in Holiday 2017. I’ve bought it but I can’t find my purchase anywhere now and it was impossible to download it as well. So now it’s lost apparently..Version: 19.0
✓ Buyer Beware!Zero support. I made the mistake of renewing my digital subscription of several years with a combo print/digital subscription. I lost all those years of back issues on digital - the app says I’m not subscribed. Contacted support and was told to reset password. Didn’t help. Recontacted support and crickets….waste of money. Just get the print version, if you want it. I’m no longer a fan..Version: 19.0
✓ Vogue on the go!I love being able to read this mag on my iPad - the pictures look so good, even on my first gen pad, that I often use this app to demonstrate magazines online. I just wish you could print from the magazine: I like to annotate patterns when I'm knitting, and the resolution on the pages you can email is too poor to read..Version: 7.8
✓ Nightmare to useSuperb content but the usability is shocking. It's impossible to find anything so you might as well give up..Version: 7.10
✓ Broken with Zero SupportCredentials from publisher aren’t recognized, and publisher points to app creator, who just closes tickets (looking at you, Vikas). When pressed, tech support says to contact publisher, who immediately replies instructing to contact tech. I’ve had subscriptions to VK for 20+ years, and reactivated for app access. The $40 (or whatever the 2-year subscription fee ) is the last VK will ever get from me based on the fact that evidently they lie now. It’s impressive they’re doing so well publishing paper that they’re able to disregard customers..Version: 19.0
✓ Poorly sustained purchasesSubscribed to Vogue Knitting for some time but when the App updated all my downloaded issues were lost. Don’t recommend this App. Every time I tried to post this the nickname was taken. Went through many to get it posted. Surprise, surprise. Wonder if it would have been as difficult if my score was 5 stars..Version: 12.5
✓ There have been no new magazines for a year! Not sure what I’m supposed to be paying for.There have been no new magazines for a year! Not sure what I’m supposed to be paying for. Have sent an email with no response.Version: 19.0
✓ Is Vogue Knitting still supporting this app?The latest issue has been on the stands a while yet is still not available on this app. I can view all of the issues that are available on the app but it is clunky and difficult to maneuver. I feel very cheated. Do not subscribe to this. It is cheaper to order a print subscription..Version: 19.0
✓ Can't print out patternsYou need to be able to print out patterns when you are working on a garment. Hopefully they will update this in the future..Version: 1.1
✓ Poor poor serviceI feel cheated, I switched to dowloads from the magazine, since update i cant open all the downlads I PURCHASED before 2015. No support, as other reviewers say you go round and round in circles. I feel cheated and have no way of getting the money back for patterns purchased that i CANNOT SEE.Version: 1.3.2
✓ Terrible way to view a magazineDon’t by the vogue didgital subscription unless you have and ipad or kindle fire. The iPhone app is abysmal, you have to click on individual articles that are poorly payed out, and the patterns are in one giant pdf that is dissattatched from the photos. Also, latest edition still isnt up. I’ll be asking for a refund because this is insane.Version: 19.0
✓ Not up to snuffHave been trying out the trial version and note that you can't email images to yourself for printing, which is a definite problem for those of us that need to write all over our patterns while knitting! I wouldn't use this app because of this. Also, as others mention, the usability is crud..Version: 7.10
✓ Not workingSince the update on 16th June this app has stopped working. The app was brilliant before this and I would have given at least 4 stars, but until it is working again sadly I don't feel I can give any. Very frustrating..Version: 2.0
✓ This magazine is no longer being publishedThe publisher of this magazine does not appear to make online versions available. The paper version of Winter 2020 has been out for 3 months, but is not available online, so not much point in having this app....Version: 19.0
✓ Purchased issues are hard to findGreat quality of pictures, but purchased issues are hard to find, it even seems impossible to save them for easy access in the app.Version: 18.0
✓ VK is unresponsive to issuesAgree completely with previous review. This is a hot mess and a complete waste of time. I’ve contacted tech support to get in but that was temporary. Left email and phone messages asking for help. Nothing is ever returned. Says I’m already registered but won’t let me access even with temporary password they provide. Won’t let me register as new user. Horrible customer service!.Version: 11.0
✓ Vogue knittingI have purchased many magazines over the years but cannot access any of them. Apple says talk to Vogue and Vogue says talk to Apple. Disappointing..Version: 19.0
✓ Please fixLike others with update now unable to access app, so deleted and re downloaded which it did with no problems, now it won't accept email address and unable to restore previous issues losing them all , unless willing to pay again, not happy ! please fix this up.this used to be a good app..Version: 2.0
✓ HATE itThis app is terrible, nothing is intuitive in it and nothing is explained. It’s like it was designed by someone who’s never read a magazine, much less used a knitting magazine. Finding the PDF view is hard, finding the actual patterns is hard, you can’t download the entire magazine as a PDF (that I can see, no instructions for downloading whatsoever in the FAQ). The pattern photos don’t connect to the actual pattern. You have to scroll through a million pages to find your pattern. So how do you knit something from the magazine?!.Version: 19.0
✓ Initially disappointing, now working fineCannot access the subscription. Have e-mailed the developers twice and have not had a reply. A waste of money it seems. UPDATE: I now have access to the magazine. It works fine. Still no reply from the developers though. I did have some help from the paper subscription office in the meantime, which was welcome..Version: 5.0
✓ Rip off if subbed to print & digitalNever received anything but canned response from both the app and Soho Publishing. I can’t access the digital portion of sub and not getting help. Vogue so disappointed..Version: 19.0
✓ Vogue appIt crashed a lot but made the magazines conveniently available. Unfortunately it has now stopped working and I no longer have access to the magazines. I find this unacceptable after all I have paid for the magazines that are now unavailable..Version: 7.5.1
✓ Vogue knittingWas subscribed through Apple but got a note saying my subscription had been discontinued after renewing in March and now cannot access past copies that were paid for. Publishernot replying. Dont bother with this app.Version: 19.0
✓ Can't open since previous updateI haven't been able to open this app since the previous update. Just installed the latest update, and it still crashes on the first screen. Would like to be able to access my recently renewed subscription!.Version: 3.1
✓ UnhappyI never did receive a reply to my many requests regarding my inability to access the remaining issues in my subscription. Now I cannot even access the past issues I know I purchased. Very poor job for an online magazine Vogue..Version: 19.0
✓ AwfulAfter purchasing the magazine I should be able to print the patterns. I do not want to have to keep my iPad open to see the pattern which is too small.Version: 19.0
✓ HorribleThis app is completely unusable. I have a subscription for the print and digital and yet it won’t let me sign in to have access. I am glad that I have the actual magazines, I would never buy a digital version only..Version: 19.0
✓ Absolutely horrible app and app support.Vogue Knitting = Good App for digital version of Vogue Knitting = Very Bad. I have been a subscriber for several years, and buy the subscription to the physical magazine and the digital magazine. It was working good, then recently, something happened to the app. Somehow, it has been paused. My subscription is still active until Sept 2025. It’s been a week and the tech support for the app has done nothing to fix the problem. The Vogue Knitting Customer Support even sent their app support an email stating that my account is active and does not expire until 2025. Still, the app does not work. Vogue Knitting get’s 5 stars, the app for the digital version of Vogue Knitting gets -100 stars (minus 5 stars, twenty times). The idiot who is the app developer’s tech support gets -1000 stars, fired, and sent back to school to hopefully learn a trade he can be useful in..Version: 19.0
✓ Terrible appLost all my issues.Version: 19.0
✓ Stick with print versionThere was a 3 day lapse in renewing my subscription, due to a lost credit card number that had to be updated. Prior to that, I had access to every issue back to 2009. Now I have access to the current issue only - unless I am willing to purchase every issue again, individually. It took 5 calls to reach customer service to renew the subscription; they are not returning my calls/emails to unlock the previous issues..Version: 19.0
✓ Do not subscribe!As a follow-up the my original review—do not subscribe to this magazine. You will not receive what you purchase. I have tried to contact them via email, phone, message through the app, and their Facebook page. They do not respond. The current issue of the magazine has been released, and even though I have paid through 7/21, I cannot access it. The developer has been responsive, but they direct me back to the magazine. Do not waste your money on this, because you will receive nothing! Vogue Knitting Magazine announced earlier this year that they would be cutting back to two issues per year. In view of the current economic situation, I completely understand this. However, I would have appreciated an email from the magazine letting me know about this. I had to Google it online to find out what was happening. Now I am unable to access the new issue which is just come out for fall 2020. I get no response to my questions about this. My subscription is paid through July 2021. This should not be happening.. Buyer beware..Version: 19.0
✓ Can’t access any issues I’ve paid forThis app used to work fine, but late in 2020 I could no longer download any new issues under my subscription which does not expire until August 2021. I’ve tried to log a ticket through the app. I’ve been sent from the application developer to Vogue and back to the application developer to no avail. Now I will be making sure the subscription does not renew and lodging a complaint with Apple. Such a shame because I have enjoyed it in the past when it works but now it is just throwing away money..Version: 19.0
✓ No longer working!Since the update on 16 June the app won't open! Fix required.Version: 2.0
✓ Went from OK to horribleI used to use this app regularly Then it was ‘updated’ to something horrible. I have to be a current subscriber to even SEE my past issues. And you are asked to make a second log in to Maz. The app can’t find my subscription. And Maz has one tech to ‘help’. The digital copies now show up WEEKS after the mailed issues. And those are just the issues with initial log in. Once in the app you can no longer see past issues without ‘scrolling’ through covers that don’t load quickly..Version: 19.0
✓ Subscription does not workI bought a subscription to VK yesterday, but the system only let me download one issue and it seems I have to pay for all following issues. I also can't sign into the subscribers log in as I never received any details from VK. Quite disappointed, will definitely contact subscription services about this..Version: 4.0
✓ No access to what you paid forVogue Knitting was the magazine I looked to for techniques, fashion and the ability to wear knit/crochet garments from the best designers. When the app came out, I was excited to have the issues available on demand. Sometime around early 2020 strange and unexpected changes were made. My subscription ran out late last year and imagine my shock to learn that the issues I had already paid for were not accessible - unless I bought another subscription! Seriously Vogue? Nothing about this is mentioned in their own FAQ and forget customer service. As others have mentioned, the communication channel is non-existent. Don’t waste your time or money..Version: 19.0
✓ Terrible appInefficient, lost purchases and loss of previous mark up ability. Not user friendly on new issues. Why in this day and age are we going backward in this app. From being used to Raverly and then trying to use this terrible app is appalling..Version: 12.5
✓ Customer support a complete waste of time!I've tried every conceivable way to contact Vogue Knitting/Soho Publishing over months but nobody is responding. What is the use of knitting patterns if you can't download and print them as pdf's..Version: 1.3.2
✓ File missingUntil this point, I've loved the magazine. I've now purchased another edition, and keep getting an error message of "missing XML file" and am unable to contact support to resolve the issue. I've paid, I want to at least be able to view what I've bought. Disappointed!.Version: 5.0.1
✓ Not Knitter Friendly AppI wish the app would have the issues I’ve purchased available to hold open/read from. If I exit the app to check other apps, I have to re-located the issue in the list and then reopen the issue and find my spot. Extremely annoying, given that my preference is to have my knitting patterns more readily available and open to the pages I’m working from. I love the patterns (of course) but the app is decidedly sub-par..Version: 19.0
✓ Horrible customer serviceAs others have said the Fall 2020 issue has never been loaded into the app. We paid for it but they according to the app developer Vogue hasn’t loaded Fall 2020 into the app. Called Vogue and left 2 messages but it still hasn’t been loaded into the app..Version: 19.0
✓ Kind of uselessAt least in the past, I could annotate a pattern, so it was like taking a paper pattern with me. Now, I can’t. Basically all I can do is read the magazine. I’ve tried many different ways to use their export utility, but all it does is route me back to the app. Essentially the only way to get a PDF of the pattern is if you do a screenshot..Version: 11.0
✓ Subscription BluesLove the print version, but the app? No. There was a mixup with my print subscription after I signed up at Vogue Knitting Live NY in January & the delay had me miss my first issue. The issue was later resolved, but now I’m unable to to logon to the app. It tells me my subscription is expired and/or they don’t have me email address on file. I can’t even look at the current issue which is still part of my subscription. If an app could be considered rude, this on would be it..Version: 11.0
✓ Rotten appFor a large corporation that has received lots of money from me in the past, this is THE WORST app I have ever tried to use. In the past I have enjoyed using the VOGUE patterns, but now I intend to avoid ALL of their patterns, even the magazine versions. I am quite shocked that VOGUE would offer such a frustrating and useless application to their long-time fans..Version: 12.5
✓ Guve up get the paper versionThe new interface wont work on older ipads and if you want to borrow someone else's ipad in your family to read the magazine you paid for, you cannot. Basically the publisher has locked you out and stolen your money, congratulations, you have been scammed..Version: 11.0
✓ Another goofy updateDownloaded the latest edition just fine, but the bottom of the magazine pages are covered with the ‘slides’ of all the pages. The bottom part of all the pages are inaccessible to read. Please fix..Version: 4.2
✓ Don’t do it!I am a huge fan of Vogue Knitting magazine so I decided to get the digital subscription when my print one expired. It took two months of back and forth with customer service just to get my first issue. I have continued to have problems through my entire subscription and just recently requested to have it switched to print. Customer service was awful! I had to email multiple times just to get a response and it was always a brief “we’re working on it”. I tried calling as well and would have to leave several voicemails before I would ever get a response. Even after requesting specifics as to the problems they never actually answered my questions and would just say that they were sorry and were trying to resolve it. Just don’t do it! Stick to the print version!.Version: 19.0
✓ DireJust terrible: patched together images to make up full pages, that then overlap to omit key lines; crashes constantly; very slow; the no way to get paid for content printed into usable format (if held open crashes after a minute or so so you cant really knit from it). The email facility only allows very small section of page (chosen at random seemingly by app) to be printed..Version: 5.0
✓ Doesn't openI have had the Vogue knitting app for years and now since the last update it will not open. Very disappointed that I can't read the issues I have paid for :(.Version: 3.1
✓ Needs a lot of work.I can download single issues but when I subscribed I cannot access the sub. I am not alone as I know others have had the same problem. The support avenues through yudu, soho and Apple have not been able to fix my problem. Very unhappy..Version: 5.0
✓ Don’t subscribeI have been a subscriber to Vogue Knitting for about 20 years. The app seemed like a good idea, saving paper etc. I now have about 10 years of digital copies, but when I ended my subscription, I lost access to the magazines that I have paid for. If I want to access them, I have to pay another subscription fee. I’m not sure this is legal..Version: 19.0
✓ Waste of moneyI have the same problem..Version: 7.8
✓ Last update will not launchAs a digital subscriber of many years this is not acceptable. Last update has resulted in no access - the app will not open, no access to past issues in the library. I received email notification that my newest issue was ready, but the app is not. If zero stars was an option as a rating that would be my selection. Frustrating as patterns need to be accessible to make this subscription worth having. FIX required ASAP..Version: 3.1
✓ Print Patterns?I love this magazine-so easy to receive, and read it digitally, but we really need to be able to print the patterns. They're virtually unusable otherwise..Version: 1.1
✓ Poor Design & Difficult to ReadThe old version of Vogue Knitting was easy to read, easy to copy a pattern so that one could make notes as they knitted each section of garment. This new version is not knitter friendly and should be Redesigned by people who actually knit!.Version: 12.5
✓ Not usefulLogging in tells you that your subscription is okay, then won’t let you access the content. Not quite sure what the point of this app is..Version: 19.0
✓ Very frustratingGreat magazine with lovely interactive features but can't get editions to download without crashing. Very frustrating to pay for magazine or book and then be unable to view more than a couple of pages because the rest won't download. Don't know if this is Apple or Vogue to blame..Version: 5.0.1
✓ Terrible AppWhat a disappoint and a waste of money have lost all my purchases and can't even delete app.Will never buy another magazine through app will purchase only paper version in future..Version: 7.5.1
✓ What a terrible app.When you download magazines from this app, there is no way to save the content to iBooks or as a PDF on your device. I have had several emails with the developer who keeps sending instructions for me to restore purchases. This is not the issue and it appears to be a cut and paste response which does not address the problem!! These are knitting patterns and you’d expect to be able to print them or save to iBooks. This is clearly a known problem and the only redress I’ve been able to get is for the Vogue team to send me a scanned PDF of the pattern instructions. Disappointing and frustrating that this glitch cannot be rectified..Version: 18.0
✓ App not opening after updateNeeds fixing after latest update as app doesn't open.Version: 2.0
✓ Bad to worseI bought a physical copy and a digital copy of a past issue. I have an active subscription to the print magazine. The app hasn’t worked for awhile. Now I have to purchase a subscription to access the digital content I already purchased? If I wasn’t half way through the project I would delete the app. As it is, this is the last Vogue Knitting project I do. You don’t get to sell subscriptions to digital content previously purchased outright. I will be reporting this to Apple and anyone else I can find..Version: 11.0
✓ Awful appNice to have instant access to the magazine, but the app leaves a LOT to be desired. Can't print instructions, can't copy and paste in a different app, buttons become inactive after you have accessed them once and then clicked away, not user-friendly for knitting at all. Update: in same boat as others. App won't even open now; no access to my PAID subscription..Version: 2.0
✓ TerribleYou cannot print the patterns out clearly, even when ailing them to oneself. If you think I'm going to knit a pattern from this small screen, you're nuts! Waste of money..Version: 7.10
✓ Their Site and app not syncLike another reviewer, I got stuck in password limbo between app and their site and to realize it’s not me. A long time user of their app and magazines (print and online) but considering how every time it updates I have to sync again and the worry it won’t sync up to me one day, I’m hesitant on getting any more issues..Version: 19.0
✓ Poor since app updateHad no problems before the app update last year. Since then have spent weeks last year trying to get issues resolved with Maz. They provided a fix, which was temporary. Now having issues again & can’t unlock my issues. Shame as it was such a good app before :-( Here I go again starting the email trail to get it fixed! :-(.Version: 12.5
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