Fine Woodworking Magazine App Reviews

The app loaded fine until they took my $35 for a subscription. Immediately after paying the app crashes on startup. I have the newest iPad. Reboot didnt help. Now to try and get a refund.

In general I welcome digital versions of handprint but here a couple of things are missing/annoying: the link between articles and features doesnt work, the loading of the magazine takes too long and tends to crash quite a bit. Most annoying however is the confusing subscription policy if youre not in the U.S. Everything could be made slicker and quicker and more transparent.

Best magazine app I use. I like the extensive yet unobtrusive hyperlink systems placed throughout the content.

The online version of FW provides readers with some enhanced features like videos of projects and links to vendors websites. This reviewer likes the portable nature of an e version. As the magazine matures in this medium, one hopes it will offer more online content linked to stories. Using the app to migrate through FWs paywall on their website to access additional content on the FW website is very much a work-in-progress and FW would do their readers / customers a great service by improving this aspect of their magazine. 3 stars for the photos, the text and the featured videos / vendor websites.

While I would agree that the magazines are a little slow in loading, I believe that it is because of all of the enhanced content (I.e. Blinking) that allows me to jump straight to other content and or web pages with additional information. I have enjoyed having this content travel with me as I shop or plan my next project.

Love the way it auto links to the extras for me. Also love how it saves on my iPad so I can read away from wifi

Nice layout and works well. No complaints.

It would be nice if some testing had been done before it was released. Hangs. But even before that: very annoying app: the constant flashing page by page of every possible linkable item is visually annoying and cannot be turned off. Download of issues takes forever, and even once the issue is downloaded, it takes forever (10 minutes) to open. lets hear it for paper...

This app is slow and crashes often, very annoying. The articles are ok but the app seems not ready for release yet.

The app has completely stopped working. You try to open it up and it says there are no issues. Email support and they say that they know its an issue and to use their website - if you know about it, fix it!

This app is so slow I usually have time to cut the lawn before the issue downloads. The constantly flashing links are terribly annoying. Taunton, you need to rethink this!

I have one IPad and one iPhone but cant utilize only one at a time. Is it possible to log on both? Thinking about not renewing my subscription...

Unreal dont download.

I love having the magazine on my iPad

The paranoia of FWM and their publisher puts a blemish on this wonderful magazine. Going online is GREAT, but putting this much complexity and control into an online publication is so 1950s. Get it together FWM before You become the 2010s Dodo bird. My recommendation: borrow an issue from your friend that gets a print version.

Exceptional magazines. Love reading them. The electronic version means I can take them with me anywhere. Thanks FWW

Fine woodworking is a nice magazine, lots of info, well researched and presented. However, this app is unusable for me. Im living rural where the only option for internet is via cell phone towers. This means very expensive data plans. I can get over the large downloads per issue, but not over having to re-download issues over and over again. After every update of the app it looses all issues. Making a full backup doesnt help. Issues are not back upped. Also subscription info is lost after updates. Disturbing. This all is too bad, since the readability is good (e.g. compare with the pdf versions of Pop Wood). A bit annoying are the bullet indicators of links. Visually I dont like them, but that might be just me. Sometimes there are many on one page, too many to remember. You have to reload the page to see where they all are. Defeats the purpose I think.

Nice magazine app. But seeing as how Fine Woodworking has a robust website that features many useful articles and videos, quite disappointed that this app limits you to only the magazines.

Anyone having problems with the app, I have Fine Cooking, Fine Homebuilding and Fine Woodworking and all apps seam to have the same problem quite often of closing when scrolling trough the magazines. Live their magazines, but when they close up for no apparent reason you need to reopen them and re scroll to find your location. Very annoying. App performance 1 star, magazine articles I would say 4.5 to 5 star. Please look at fixing this app.

Unfortunately this update did not solve the problem of not restoring purchases on iOS 5.0.1 and iPhone 4. I cannot download the new and older issue without paying the full prize (I have a year subscription indeed)