Fast Company Magazine App App Reviews

I really do love this app, but having only used it a few times my iPad says it's using 600 MB of space. Only one of my games surpasses that amount of data space, which is a red flag. Hopefully FC developers can optimize its footprint. Once I run out of space this may be the first casualty...

Already have print subscription and they require an additional all access to use the app. Can only be Nicole and dimensions so much, value not there.

Horrible app, slow, full of bugs, difficult log in

I love the app but I am currently an active subscriber to fast company who can't access the app with my login and password. What gives?!

This app took 3.6 gb of space in my phone. The app itself was ok, but it had to be deleted.

The user experience for FC’s app has always been poor, but the latest update rendered the app unusable. I deleted the app, canceled my auto renewal and won’t be coming back.

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’m used to modern periodical apps: New York Times etc. This is photos of magazine pages. Really? Hello, it’s 2019.

The app requires an active internet connection to read. I downloaded the latest issue but when I’m offline the articles are grayed out and I can’t tap on them.

This app is useless...literally can’t read a single article

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.

Great content - and not just a rehash of physical FC paper publication! I was sold on it until I happened this morning to check the free space left on my poor old iPhone 4s which had almost all storage already filled - to discover FC took it down to nearly zero free space! Deleting FC app AND data brought back nearly a half GB of vital free space. Don't get me wrong - on a phone with much more storage it wouldn't be a problem. And I found this new FC product with it's own unique and useful content enough that I plan to upgrade to a newer model iPhone.

Purchases not recognized, had to cancel my subscription and resubmit one.

= delete app.

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 this app

This is too slow and didn't think about current people's reading experience. I will be happy this is like Facebook instant article.

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.

As an entrepreneur, I'm a big fan of FC magazine. In my opinion, this app will create a new trend for reading magazines on your smart phone. It works great most of the time. However, the app is quite slow sometimes. And in some case it didn't update any new stories at all. I had to manually close the app and open it again to reload new stories.

The old app has all my old copies. For some reason, I can’t transfer those here. I’d even accept a way to purchase all the back issues... just not at $4.99 each.

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!

This app 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. This app 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 the app as well. Great Job!

What a terrible experience. Do not waste your time. No support, no updates, no good!

I have had a subscription for years. I have put in my subscription information and the app 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.

Would of been nice if subscription had transferred emailed the publisher at Fast Company .....no response

I’m not impressed. The design of the app is dated. It takes a long time to turn pages and the pages take too long to render. I’d rather page through the actual magazine. The user experience of this iPad app leaves a lot to be desired.

I got the Fast Company app because I never seemed to find the time to read the hard copy when I had it with me and always forgot it when I had the time to read it. I always had my iPad with me and can't believe it took me so long to figure out how easy subscribing through the app would be! The app is well designed, easy to use, beautiful images and graphics and has all the great content I expect.

I’ve being paying an iPad subscription for a while (5 years i think) They changed the app, w/o notice , the new app does not recognize my user... and yet , they continue to charge.. funny, they supposed to know tech ....

Worthless. Paid $20 and it won’t let me reset a pw

Don't think of this app as the digital version of the magazine—it's not. New articles are "published" in the app daily. The user experience of the app is fantastic, as well.

I usually read offline primarily, but the offline access on this app 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.

This app stinks. Not sure why/how they messed it up so much but it makes me want to cancel my subscription.

I really enjoy the reading experience for this app, but I can't believe it takes up 3.3GB on my phone. There as so many ways this could have been done better. At least give me a setting to cap the space or turn off caching. I can't justify leaving this on my phone for that amount of space. Deleting.

Active subscriptions are denied access if you subscribed through iTunes. Pretty frustrating.

I downloaded the new app and it is not recognizing my iTunes subscription. This is very frustrating. Please fix this glitch.

Love the magazine but this new app is a step backwards. Breaking out articles is clunking and ruins the experience. The sleekness of the previous app was a plus to the digital subscription. Now I’m wondering should I bother keeping it because this new app looks like someone in charge owed a favor to a family member who knows how to “code.” Please do the right thing and go back to forward thinking. All these one stars cannot be wrong.

They got everything right with this app. It's beautiful, intuitive, and engaging.

A great extension of a great publication!

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 still like the content, but the new format for the app 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.

This app is the absolute worst. I keep having to write to Fast Co to reinstate my subscription from iTunes because it says I don’t have a subscription (which I definitely do and it has not expired) or that my email is incorrect (I only have one). I’ve canceled the subscription altogether out of sheer frustration.

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 the app does not recognize my account. This new app is almost unusable.

Repeatedly I get alerts/notifications that don't take me the article that's mentioned. So delete....

Sent numerous emails to customer care with no positive results. After 3 attempts still unable to login. Waste of time and money, ironic considering they're a business magazine.

I love the design and all but this app eats your data plan in a blink of an eye ! Unless you're on wifi this apps rocks !!

This app 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 this app is garbage for reading the mag. P.S. If you’re looking for my standard to compare this app to, look at the Wired app.