Lions Roar App Reviews

Quick magazine download times, friendly user interface and perfectly functional for your ability to access your magazine digitally. I only do not give it 5 stars because I feel 5 stars means it's an exceptional and goes above and beyond expectations type of app.

This app is useless right now. Issues won’t even load. I’ve already tried to delete and reinstall. Still doesn’t work.

The app has been broken for several weeks now. It won’t load any magazine articles, old nor new. At first I thought this was temporary as the foundation sent out an email saying they were updating something on the backend. However, it’s been several weeks and the app still doesn’t work.

I have this app downloaded on my iPhone X. Once I log in I do not see my issues or really anything at all. When I click the settings wheel (upper right corner) all I see is subscribe or sign in on on tab, and nothing on the prefs tab.

As stated above.

At some point in 2017 this app stopped working for me. Unlike some people leaving reviews, I never got any kind of communication from Lion’s Roar. I did go to their website and saw some notice that the app was being upgraded and wouldn’t function in the meantime (as an aside, what kind of I.T. leadership does this magazine have that totally abandoning your existing app/platform is acceptable while you prepare a new one?). I knew that my subscription through iTunes was ending anyway so I resubscribed directly from LR for a digital subscription after being assured by a customer service rep that the app would be functional in time for the January issue. But that ended up not being true, so I called to cancel and get a refund. All I can get is a prorated refund even though I have not received one issue under my new subscription. The rep I spoke to said they hoped to have the app ready by the end of this week. It’s Thursday, so I’m not confident in that timeline. I went ahead with my partial refund knowing I will never pay a dime to this magazine again. Maybe I’ll go read the issues at a Barnes and Noble while having coffee.

The apps on both my iPhone and iPad quit working. I paid for a digital subscription and no longer have access to it. I’ve deleted the apps, then reinstalled only to find out i don’t even have the old issues to read.

I just subscribed a few weeks ago and have enjoyed the app, but now it's trying to force me to buy issues or subscribe from within the app even though I'm logged in!

Whether your new to the ideas of mindfulness and Buddhism or a long time practitioner, this is the magazine for you. It is always the first magazine I read and “cover to cover”.

I have been a digital subscriber for a long time, now I can’t access my old issues with this app or view new ones. I have 6 months left on my sub..but no new issues and no refund? New issues requires a re-sub...at $10 more per year price increase and still not able access my old issues? Disappointed.

BIGGER TEXT SIZE PLEASE. I’m a long time subscriber to Shambhala Sun, and I enjoy reading this magazine in it’s print form. I decided to give it a chance on my iPad mini, to be more environmentally friendly. The new app works well and I enjoy the dynamic layouts and multimedia format. However, the type size is TOO SMALL. I wish there was a way to set a larger font size to read more easily. This is a good app, but one tiny tweak would make it a great app. Thank you.

The app is working, but it can only be read in portrait mode on the ipad. I would greatly prefer it to be able to switch to the horizontal position.