Photo District News App Reviews

The content of the magazine is interesting and worth the money. What bothers me is the fact that it is impossible to read the issues offline. Every time I travel and have time to read I get an error message. Reported it two times but the support didnt came up with an update since February 2014. Thats not what I call customer satisfaction orientated management.

Edit - Got an email after requesting support directly from Texterity that asked me to try and view the issue again. Dont know what they did, but it works great now. For the record, what I see on my phone isnt blocky at all. Looks great! Will be buying more issues... Downloaded app last night and ran through the previews. Then attempted to purchase the Feb 2012 issue. Money was taken, purchase shows, the "restore" option is allowed - but no magazine. Subsequently tried on desktop with no luck. Deleted and reinstalled with no luck. Reported issue early this morning and at 4PM EST, still no luck. My advice is stay away until apparent issues are resolved. iPhone 4 running ios5.

0 stars. Waiting for years to see PDN on iOS. What an enormous let down. 1st, none of the news wire links are working. Then, downloaded an issue. Youve got to be kidding. $5 for pixelated images, so bad I cant even read some of it. For a magazine about pro photography, theyve completely dropped the ball on image formatting and digital reproduction. Im embarrassed for them really. The print mag has seemed to be going downhill to the point where I let my subscript lapse. Now this. Really sad what is happening to pro journalism. This use to be a great mag. Looking less so everyday. I hate the rise of the amateur....

caveat number one: search for PDN doesnt show up, but ok, I managed to find the app under its full title. I was really excited to get my favorite magazine delivered to the ipad. The app only shows low resolution images of the magazine - what a shame to present this kind of quality to industry professionals.

Yeah it does the trick. The text is a little small on iPad if youre holding it horizontally (theres a limit to how close you can pinch it in), but vertically is fine, swiping page by page (youre just missing the spreads that way). After spending so much time with Flipboard its a little disappointing to tap a photo and not be able to see it enlarged, but I guess you wouldnt be able to do that with the print version either. Im not mad at it. But I hope they work on taking advantage of the technology. Also, the Newswire feeds are doubled and the Photos of the Day are stretched (or squeezed) to fit. Not that Id spend much time reading intermittent press releases about random photo competitions...

I love the magazine, but the iPad version is disappointing. NOT worth the hefty subscription fee when the small text is hard to read and cant be made larger. My advice unfortunately is ... avoid this!

Goodbye to my print subscription to PDN, the large, bulky folio-sized version, relegated to a static space unless you like to lug around a bulky magazine. I consume magazines on the go, and the new iPad newsstand version of PDN is easy to navigate, photos pinch-up to reveal their detail and impact, and the text options allow for greater enjoyment and easier access of an essential photography periodical. I like it. Kudos for the effort, with thoughtful attention to how the reader/viewer can best use the content.

This is the go-to magazine for working professional photographers. Rather than being a big infomercial, or a frivolous and shallow publication like American Photo, this is the insiders look done with intelligence, serious research and knowledge. And enough fun, page-turning interesting content, and sexiness to keep to everyone working for money and/or passion in the photography world engaged. Very pleased to see it in digital format!

Yeah...

I have been a long time, 30 years, subscriber to PDN. I liked the iPad version because it was always with me along with my other content and apps, much easier for traveling. But the new version doesnt seem to be compatible with travel. Previously downloaded issues have to reload very time you try to read them, so if you are out of a wifi area you are out of luck. Ive tried downloading an issue, made sure it was complete, but once on the airplane it gives me an error saying I need to be online. If you fix this, Ill go back up to 5 stars! Otherwise its a loser.

I’ve been a long time reader of PDN, unfortunately the digital edition is awful. To begin with, even though you ‘download’ the magazine, you cannot read it without an internet connection. I have contacted customer service on two separate occasions about the issue (which they confirm is a problem) and both times they said a fix was coming within a 2 weeks. That was over a month ago. The reading experience also leaves a lot to be desired. You’re constantly fighting with zooming in, annoying animated tabs, and much more. I really hope they decide to create a digital experience worthy of this magazine.

Ive enjoyed reading SOME of the issues, though I havent cared for the content in all the issues enough to subscribe and its a pretty slim mag on top of that! However, on the very positive side, every now and then they put out an issue with content that really interests me like the July and August 2014 issues. I was excited to read it, then I was extremely disappointed to see that both of these issues kept freezing on "RENDERING ARTICLE". After repeated attempts and numerous support calls and troubleshooting with Apple App support, still no go, Apple determined the problem was with PDN issue itself and suggested I call PDN. I requested a refund instead, enough time wasted trying to resolve. Developer should put out content that can actually be read. Come on! : (

You can always read the magazine on wifi. You can never seem to correctly download each issue to read on the airplane on the road in airplane mode - the whole purpose of buying electronic content... I have downloaded each issue multiple times even after it says "downloaded." It still wont b readable without a current connection. I think I would rather subscribe to the paper copy until they get this worked out.

The good news is the app shows the magazine almost in the exact format as the print version. This is also the bad news too. The print version is sometimes very dense with text and images (which is fine given the print version is oversized and suited to that) but this doesnt work well with the app and you are constantly pinching and pulling to read things. The solution is to build the app version from the ground up ignoring what has come before (British Journal of Photography has done this quite well). Another strange problem since this app was first available is you cant delete issues. You must uninstall the app and reinstall to clear out prior issues. Not good since they take up space.

A widely acknowledged problem that PDN refuses to fix, so when my subscription runs out, Im done with the magazine.

Not sure if this is an iOS 8 issue, but since iOS 8 issues dont download. When you try to download an issue, it tries forever and finally comes back with an error message that says "Page not available."

This is a great magazine that I have subscribed to for several years now with one serious problem, there IS NO technical support. This has cost them a negative review as well as a subscriber. The only reason I am posting a negative review is that I have run out of options in my efforts to obtain technical support. Recently I started having issues with the magazine downloading each time I opened it and only the article view was presented. I have been unable to read the actual magazine. This issue has also been replicated across 5 iPads so I know that it is not specific to my iPad.

Where is the actual magazine? I have tried over and over again to open this app to read and flip through the pages of the magazine itself yet recently only able to view the contents page. I want to flip through the pages and can no longer do that. What happened? The update changed nothing. It says the issue has downloaded yet I still only get a contents page! Please fix this! I paid for a magazine and I expect to be able to get what I paid for and flip through the pages!

Wheres the magazine? I agree with Carls review. I want to flip thru the magazine instead of reading just the articles. Please go back to the previous format.

Where did the magazine format go? Like Carl and HamStarMoonPie said, it’s a magazine. I want to be able to flip the pages and see the magazine, just like the one I used to get in the mail. Why was this changed anyway? At least give us both choices like it used to be.