Readly: Newspapers & Magazines

I don't like the new design, increased subscription costs and the lack of gift subscriptions, so will look for alternatives to Readily. Bye!

Keep having to sign in every time I open the app. .....???????......

awful app. doesn't work properly

The developers have improved the app somewhat. Still, it does not have the previous functionalities like filtering magazines by language. That is a major deficit. And I hope I don't get a response like "we're always improving", but a time (e.g. in Jan 27) by which this will be implemented. Non-committal statements are obsolete.

a great app. Saved a fortune

pretty decent got 2 months free trial though just eat 😁🥰

I do not want to be told what to read. Since it has been Googlised the back catalogue has disappeared and the search engine has generated random answers.

Wasn't able to cancel my subscription.

Since updating the app my opinion is that it is terrible and difficult to use. Before there was a favourites page where all your titles could be viewed which has now gone. You can follow your titles but this doesn't let you look at them on one page and I find them difficult to find. Summing up the app is terrible. Some things are best left alone if there isnt anything wrong!

I signed up for a free trial. Found it gave good access to titles but was clunky. I went to cancel, was taken through to a page on Play (this app) that showed no subscription so thought it had gone through. I was surprised to then be charged for the next month. Readly have advised I can only cancel through Play. Play shows no subscription to cancel, Readly customer service won't refund & keep advising me to cancel through Play. Poor and unethical practice. Avoid.

Quite sad that Readly doesn't seem to know that some of us are vision impaired and would love to be able to listen to our Newspapers and magazines. I intend to cancel my subscription as Readly doesn't allow me to listen to my Newspapers and Magazines.

Completely user unfriendly. Currently reading option frequently disappears. Navigation cumbersome. Clearing read items becomes tortuous.

Great app for magazine but if you unsubscribe you can't look at magazines that you downloaded whilst subscribed.

Excellent

love your free complimentary trials. wouldn't be able to afford otherwise. appreciated thank you

Impossible to Cancel When you click cancel it takes you to your Play store subscriptions, rather than canceling. Readly doesn't show there. Their customer service were super fast to respond, but completely unhelpful, just told me to claim it back from my credit card. When I selected "edit subscription" I got an error saying "you can't cancel due to a technical error". Total scam and completely fails to adhere to the incoming Consumer Legislation re canceling subscriptions.

avoid it!!! it's a scam app making you to subscribe to them and then when you want to cancel it, they will redirect you to Google play from the app, where you won't find their subscription on the list. so now you leave it thinking it won't extend just to find out later that they will charge your card directly!!! and then they will tell you that to cancel the subscription you need to login on the website!!! so why your app is redirecting to the bloody Google store then???

Stuck in French Language mode. I don't read French, nor do I speak it. Have tried resetting the app to English...NOTHING!

I signed up to readly on an offer but didnt use it. when I wanted to cancel i was directed to their website which you cant access via the phone and theough lack of convenience I ended up deferring the cancellation. since the readly have changed me twice per month at a rate of £40 and even charged me after I cancelled a subscription. I have attempted to contact readly to get a refund for these over charges and received no response and now have no choice but to open fraud case with my bank

Please improve the filter function!! At least, include filtering by language and country, like it used to. This request should not be that difficult to implement.

I would have given the app five stars before Readly changed hands, give us the old app back. This fails to open magazines, doesn't remember what editions you've read or where your place was and you could click the pages, now just swipe to turn a page. Completely gone down hill 👎

the app is rubbish and so is readly. got a free trial and it's coming to an end I've tried to cancel my subscription and I can't keeps saying tec issue I've contacted help and help us t helping or replying to my messages..

can't finish 911 and Porsche world. no pages printed after page 104. Was readable yesterday morning though, then pages went blank.

the most difficult account to cancel a subscription from that I've ever encountered

A smorgasbord of British fiber craft mags.

a bit expensive £8.99a month would be fair

where are the 2018 issues of Cross Stitcher magazine? Odd to not include a whole years issues

Love it

good app

App Won't Load, even the website just brings up a blank page. Using latest Andoid on a Samsung S26. Tech support could only suggest uninstalljng and reinstalling. Tried other devices and got exactly the same. Web site just shows the logo then black screen with footer text in French. The developers Cafeyn are clueless. Oddly if you go to the original Readly developers and download their Readly app it works perfectly.

the app has gone downhill in recent times. Poor layout, no reader mode for quite a few titles. probably time to cancel

when Readly decided to amalgamate they should have insisted on keeping the use of the puzzle magazines and not the Mickley mouse puzzles now on the app.

previous version was much better

Why is everything magazine only available in PDF? The old app was way better! PLEASE! Bring it back!

wouldn't open! New app is rubbish....

very good value. access to lots of magazines for only a few pounds a month.

Content very good,but have to Re-install every morning....?????.

really clunky to try to navigate around magazines when trying to view

Never in my life have I ever seen an app so drastically decline in quality after an update. "Auto download" does absolutely nothing. I spam the "download" button with tears in my eyes, half the magazines don't download. Even when they do, half the time they don't work without internet, sometimes downloaded magazines don't even work WITH internet!!! Hopeless

New app is awful to use and doesn't download issues half of the time

was great but latest update has made the app unfriendly and unusable

The new App is painful. why doesn't it open straight from the icon? Why does it lose the page you were on? Why isn't it in the App store?

pDF sucks. I want to be able to do all the puzzles in the newspaper.

got a free trial and made a note of when to cancel. tried to cancel before end of trial but app wouldn't take me to correct place to cancel when pressing 'cancel subscription' button. I felt like I was ripped off

The latest update has ruined the way Readly used to work. It opens awkwardly on Android devices. The option to hide undesired mags & newspapers is no longer there. The animated page turn has disappeared(not that important)

All your favourite magazines, in one place

You have a puzzles section but it only shows them in pdf so I can't do the puzzles.

Horrible new update, the original was excellent this new version is awful in layout and use, when trying to read a new page it loads blurred for a few seconds then becomes clear, for me you've just destroyed what was a good app 4 months since last review and it's still awful, pages are a blur for several seconds still, has had updates and nothing has improved, original needs to come back.

app is recently very unrealible

Shocking. It used to be perfect, now a shambles

Bring back functionality for older hardware. The older app was far better. It didn't need dumbing down

lovely app, i get to read so many magazines for the price of 2. So read ones i would never imagine reading.

I don't like the new app at all! So hard to navigate. I'm thinking of discontinuing my membership.

it's nowhere near as good as before readly was taken over. the app is really buggy, often covers dont load and you have to restart the device, along with clearing the cache and even uninstalling and reinstalling it. can't download pages as PDF except through Web browser. we are paying more money for a worse product

great app for reading magazines

it's saying I don't have an account. Plus no effort to resolve the issue

The previous app was good. It highlighted magazines that had been read, and kept your place if you stopped halfway through one. The new version does neither.

Since it's move i have had issues with blank pages in magazines.

was once a great app now its garbage slow and not user friendly

Since it's moved onto the new App, Readly is not an enjoyable thing to use. Magazines take ages to download, there is a lag when turning over a page where the words & images are pixilated and take time to focus. The page swipe function has gone, and the whole App is no longer user friendly.

Cannot recommend it enough.

One of the best app on the market.

This is the most superb app and worth every penny. I get my money back on newspapers alone but the amount of magazines I can access is just insane (in the best possible way). I've been able to cancel my subscriptions and the ones I want as paper ie crafts, I can look on here first to see if I want to buy it this month. I cannot recommended Readly highly enough.

I've just come back to Readly again after a year or so away. I really don't like the new app, the old one was so much easier to use and I knew what I'd read and what I hadn't. Maybe I need to delve further into it to see if I have any options on the layout. I'm not sure I'll be continuing after my trial ends.

Awful format. The old app was so much better.

super handig en uitgebreid

Used to be easy to use with clear identification of read and unread issues but latest app update was a big step backwards. Navigation of favourites now overly complex and no longer user friendly.

takes ages to upload magazines. Used to be a lot better. Am thinking of cancelling after my holiday in September.

This app used to be better, now it's not. I choose my countries it gives me others not requested. old copies of deleted mags pop up. you could hide these before now I'm left with a load of stuff I don't want/need. I think I'll cancel this & take out other subs. It's also slow to load. Better before now not anymore.

Why is search SO bad?

great

Difficult to find favourite magazines and newspapers on the new app.

I liked it as it was I'm slowly getting used to the new app thank you getting back to me I'm now loving an app since got a new phone

poor difficult the old readly was best

no good

Subscriber since 2019. Loved the previous version. This app was significantly degraded/dumbed down after the takeover by Cafeyn , with reduced functionality for the "saved" magazines, and an unstable platform that is erratic when you try to read back issues and presents multiple copies of the same magazines. There is no "library" accessible to me beyond the magazines which were in my favorites under the "old" Readly, the download function is inconsistent. Moving what I can to Magzter or Zinio.

Love this app 👍

new app is poor

worse than the previous one because can't do scrolling view. it says "pdf only" I'm using Android latest version Also, can't now change the display to white letters on dark background. I thought the change was supposed to be an improvement - far from it!!!!

lost so many good features since new ownership

Readly used to be good but since being taken over by cafeyn it's become terrible. change it back, please!! I'm about ready to unsubscribe!

Great

previous app was much better. not downloading, always stops, loosing connection. really frustrating

love the choice

cannot unsubscribe!!!!! when I click the manage subscription button its says due to a technical issue, you cannot change your subscription at the moment. this has been happening for days. I dont want to pay for another month when i hate using the service with the new interface...

Updated from the old version. Not a single title available. Tells me I should update my languages. All my downloads are gone. what am I paying for?

The layout is so messy. Last time I used the app there was a separate section for newspapers and magazines. Why the change? I wonder if some papers have removed their content. I had cancelled another news subscription and was planning on paying for a subscription to Readly since they offered a free trial. I'm not sure I have the patience. Finding what I really want to read isn't easy any more.

great concept but lacking some critical user friendly features, like being able to curate a custom news feed, a better 'for you' news feed, 'dont show this' for publications you're not interested in etc. Apple news does this better, but I would prefer to use something else so I tried Readly. I want to be a regular user of this because it's great value for money, but I find the interface and lack of customisation a bit of a drag. I will probably cancel if these features don't appear/improve.

Horrible installer.

brilliant app recommend it ,very handy to read magazines if waiting in the hospital or waiting somewhere else. Its a good idea to pay for magazines as they need support as less people buy them . Then in time they will dissappear of our shelfs.

Nice app now that work has been done to make functionality similar to previous app. Look forward to further progress.

very poor.

Had a free trial from my bank, so I tried it and it was OK, but I didn't use it enough to warrant £12.99 a month. I went on to 'cancel my subscription' on the app and clicked to cancel. It said to do it in the app store and when I clicked ok, it took me to the subscription page of my account on the play store. The readly subscription wasn't there, so I assumed it had canceled. Imaging my surprise when they tried to take £12.99 out of my bank today! You can't cancel your subscription in the app!!

Absolutely awful. Although the content is ok, I decided it wasn't worth the money. Trying to cancel the subscription is proving to be impossible and after an hour and a half the on line help has not been of any help.

A warning to potential subscribers in France where I live: the special introductory price currently shown on Readly's official French website (EUR 8.49 rising to 9.99 p.m.) is a blatant deception! I fell for it, but am paying the full 13.99. Customer Service explains that the offer is incorrect, yet it's been on their French website for months and is still being shown there. That's not just misleading, it's dishonest. Shame on you Readly!

great

Its a lot better now after the recent updates, I recommend you try it.

pretty poor since takeover and new app. files taken ages to download and then unreadable

Really nice app at a fantastic subscription rate. Huge amount of content!

A great app ruined. I stopped my membership a while ago for other reasons, nothing wrong with the app at all. I have just returned to a new 'updated' version and hate it. I agree with what others are saying - you delete a finished magazine and it reloads automatically, an 'only available in PDF' keeps appearing. It is clunky, harder to navigate and less pleasant to view. I won't be continuing my subscription. What a shame.

I used to love Readly but now its absolute rubbish with a search function that doesn't give great results like it did, impossible to find exactly what or close to what I want ie I like the cross stitch craft titles, i used to be able to search for a specific designer and it would show me all the relevant pages but not anymore. Seriously considering leaving as it's just not worth £12.99 per month anymore. 🤬😥

Well, I was initially very unimpressed. The developers have actually turned it round, I put in a bug report and they actually listened and communicated directly, which is rather refreshing in an era where even talking to a human is rare, let alone one that listens. Readly/Cafeyn put out the app way, way before it was ready and it seems that the developers and readers have been left to deal with the mess.

Why did you take a perfectly good app and replace it with one that appears to have not been fully tested before being forced on users? The search results are hit and miss. The app keeps forcing me back to the homepage if I leave it for a few seconds to follow a link. Links in articles are often cut off and so don't work. The whole app feels clunky and not user friendly. I left for a while, hoping it would be fixed but it hasn't been.

Why couldn't they just leave it alone...it worked perfectly. Now things I liked are missing or moved around, it's all laid out differently. When issues were downloading, there was a progress bar, where (and why) has that gone? ...oh and why does an issue now seem to take forever to get here? Also when clicking on an issue, the individual pages appear in pairs at the bottom. There used to be a scroll bar there to quickly move through them, where has that gone, and again.....why???

Readly used to be amazing but ever since they updated it, it's been almost impossible to use. why would you update it and make it worse? The interface is too busy, you can't find what you're looking for easily. I can't find a way for me to save whole issues onto a list that I can come back to later. It's terrible. If you're considering subscribing, don't!

OK But... Autodownload sounds good. But if you download and read a magazine, then delete it, the app automatically downloads the same magazine all over again. A simple check on whether a magazine has been read before autodownloading it would significantly increase usability. This ain't rocket science, it's not even advanced magazine science.

Marginally better now the new regime is settling in. However, still can't do puzzles, and app won't load on tablet or phone without Internet, so no offline reading either, despite this being an apparent selling feature. Even the help techies say if it doesn't load it's due to a poor Internet connection, which kinda defeats the object. 🥺

(update) bug in the auto-download feature, new issue downloads, you read it, then delete it (i.e. don't need to read it anymore), then when you re-open the app, it downloads the same issue again (that i've already read). seriously do your team know what you are doing.old app was fantastic, new app is shockingly bad. Slow and clunky, you have to click a download few times before it eventually downloads. Crosswords don't work (what's the point of having these if they don't work). Honestly shocking

Shouldn't this have been tested before forcing onto subscribers. Can no longer enter text in crosswords in papers. What's the point of carrying cossword and puzzle magazines if it's not possible to enter any text. Worked fine before your 'improvements' to the user experience. Have used 'optimisation' by cancelling my subscription and using epress for free from my library.

Awful.... If I could rate a minus I would. As many users have said the previous app worked well and I never had any problems. This is not only not as easy to use but it takes forever to download anything (if it does it at all!!) I contacted Readly and they suggested it might be my internet connection, it wasn't, and also that I re-install which I have twice!!! it's still made no difference. PLEASE can we go back to the app that worked....

Cancelled after 12 years and my latest trial lasted only 30 minutes, it is that disappointing. Support claimed improvements, but not that i could find.Many periodicals have disappeared. Additions of back issues of newspapers is attempt to add filler but gives one the feeling that it is an attempt to up the issues available stat.

Was good, now changed, The newspaper I want to read states it is a PDF version, WHY? Also EVERY PAGE of my paper states ’ A problem occurred rendering this page ’ I use my tablet, so I need to enlarge the print, but most of it is illegible, I cannot recommend now, although I have done so in the past. I have reported the bug more than once, I have written to customer care more than once and ZERO! I will have to cancel my subscription if this continues. NOTHING HAS CHANGED!

The old version worked fine. With this one it is much more difficult to find magazines. Some which have been downloaded are available offline others are not. Magazines are no longer downloaded even though it says they have been. This version is useless and unless it is changed very soon I will be cancelling my subscription.

Unbelievable!! I have been using Readly for some years Now, it worked well, and was easy to use. So of course, the owners decided to change all that, and make it a total disaster. Has no one on the company noticed the high number of one star reviews? I for one am cancelling my subscription, why pay for something I can't use? Wake up Readly.

no notice of the 63% price increase. more if you had multiple family members on one subscription as you now need to pay for additional readers. An increase in price for decreased accessibility and functionality. The app no longer works on some kindles, decreasing accessibility still further. The former is app was absolutey fine and very easy to use. This change and the price increase to fund it is diabolical and the best thing people can do is hit the company in the pocket - cancel your sub.

Once I've managed to sign into my account it's a great app. Signing into my account is almost impossible; it will tell me it doesn't recognize my email address, (it should),and then it will say I have the wrong password, (I don't). It's a real shame because without the signing in issues I would be singing the app's praises and giving it a ten star review!

Less than excellent. I loved Readly when it started and have used it for years. Now that it has been joined or taken over, I am not impressed. Magazines that I downloaded and followed for years now get deleted automatically and not as many back issues are available. I feel as though I have had a downgrade to a less enjoyable service.

Been with Readly for many years and enjoyed the app. Not anymore, since the so called upgrade doesn't seem as smooth. It is more difficult to find editions of mags I was reading. Morning papers used to be read followed by completion of crosswords which I cannot now seem to do on the tablet. Can we have the old version back please

It was very good, until a change of ownership. The redesigned app is terrible. Too many flaws and bad changes to list. All of my previous downloaded publications have been erased, as have the descriptions I added to bookmarked pages. Some pages (or parts of pages) don't load properly (fuzzy and unreadable), even if I download the publication. This is truly a giant leap backwards in useability. Please restore the old software.

The new app is awful. It's difficult to navigate, hard to find my favourites, the text freezes constantly when reading on my phone and tablet and functionality is awful. I used to be able to easily find a specific article using a couple of keywords, now it seems to be throwing up random rubbish without paying any attention to the publication title I included in the search. I'm very much trapped because I loved this app so much I took out a 12mth subscription and it still has 7mths left to run.

This new update has ruined the app. It's not as easy to use, I was used to having a full page of issues in date order, not the horizontal view to scroll across, it cleared out all the magazines I had downloaded to read and all my saved favourites. I used to like to search for magazines from other countries, I can't see how to select countries or languages now. Put it back to how it was.

This is a nice service although I wish there were more North American magazines and newspapers. I had a hard time with the app transition because the new app isn't available on Kindle Fire, but I'm getting used to the website. There have been some improvements since the old app retired. I also use the app on my phone which works pretty well but I'm not sure how often it syncs with the website (there seems to be some lag).

Not as slick as the previous app it replaced. I keep getting the message "only available as a pdf" then when loading individual pages they appear blurred then gradually come into focus. While this might only take a second or less and is not the end of the world, it does detract from the apps previous seamless performance. Also not keen on the new graphics or layout.

The new Readly app is dreadful - not fit for purpose. I used to use Readly daily to read newspapers, and loved being able to browse and download back issues of craft magazines, which you can no longer do. Navigating it has gone from being a pleasure to a disappointing, stressful experience, so I have sadly cancelled my subscription.

Terrible new update. The old version was so easy to use this new version is awful. Cant find a magazine that I just read, it disappeared as soon as I turned the last page and now it won't show up in the search. It doesn't show which magazines ive read previously, I can't find bookmarks, just 1 single line of my favourites instead of the easy full page to view and that's if they even show up as sometimes my favourites are empty saying I don't have any favourites yet. I may cancel subscription.

When things go wrong. Readly was my favourite app and now it has been 'improved', improved to a state where it doesn't work anymore on Chromebook. I don't want to read a magazine on a small smartphone screen. Why did change when there was nothing wrong with the previous version. I hope you will fix this or I might have to cancel my subscription.

Massive backward step with new app. No logic to layout of screens, No progress bar for publications. Each item takes an age to download rather than seconds. Don't know if anything's downloading. Downloads often fail. Each page takes a couple of seconds to appear as a crisp, readable image. I could go on. Withdraw this, and provide the old app whilst you sort out an improved app.

Complete and utter rubish. I have used Readly for some years now and it has worked extremely well. This forced upgrade has wrecked my previous experience. All my history and bookmarks have been erased. There are no instructions how to use it. IF you have not used READLY before I suggest you do not subscribe to it. I HAVE CANCELLED MY SUBSCRIPTION.

new app isn't good. just looks pretty and flashy. I download my mags to read in a cafe each week, but the mobile signal is bad. when I open the mag, article view simply doesn't work and I have to constantly zoom in, out and around on the mag. old app didn't have this issue at all and article view worked fine always.

Gutted. They took a perfectly fine app and completely ruined it. Downloading is unreliable, often pausing at 75% for no reason. Pages are slow to load even if you've managed to get a magazine to download in the first place. Everything now too busy and the once easy way to navigate your favourite content is now hidden by numerous unnecessary button presses. If they don't sort this out soon they'll be losing another subscriber here.

Not an upgrade. To keep this succinct for the Devs, here's the issues I see which are a step back from last app. Zooming only zooms into the centre of your 'pinch' Faves are 1 long horizontal list, along with finding new issues No tap for page turn anymore (why?!) No scroll bar for the getting through thumbnails Games? I see more monetisation coming.. it's a magazine reader! There's more but get these sorted back to it's former glory would be amazing... please!

Since the buyout, this app is atrocious. It's now just a PDF reader. The new interface is pitiful and the layout is awful. The interact options and the ability to open links has gone. If you exit to look at messages (for e.g.), your place is not saved; you have to find the issue you were on and start from the beginning. Instead of favourites, you now have to "follow" titles and "play" to read them. And the worst thing? They increased my price from £7.99 to £12.99 WITHOUT NOTICE.

Horrendous Update! The app was recently updated and now the display of magazine pictures have changed for the worst! The pictures in the magazines are now blurry and lack the prior resolution sharpness I enjoyed when reading magazines on the app! I'm ready to cancel my subscription! As the old adage says "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

The new Readly app doesn't work on my tablet running Android 14. I can see the cover images but have not been able to open any of the magazines or papers. I just get a message saying only available as pdf and then the rotating circle which never gets anywhere. Previous app was brilliant. This one shouldn't have been allowed to escape.

UNUSABLE & CONSUMER RISK. New app - 'no magazines available in my region', no favourites, nothing. Told to log out - change password link broken and now locked out. Have requested help for 2 weeks with no fix. Told I must keep paying even though errors are new system faults and promised seemless transition in notification email. Other reviews saying they can't unsubscribe - I can't get in to try. That surely must be against EU and Australian consumer law? Have emailed requesting cancellation.

This 'new' version of Readly is terrible! The old version was easy to use, had a good clear layout and did everything I wanted. The new version is the opposite - difficult to navigate around, you can't easily see what's downloaded or find your magazines, etc., off-line doesn’t always work and most infuriating of all I can no longer do the puzzles in magazines as the keyboard function doesn't work. It's a disaster and I will be considering ending my subscription.

Ruined It In April 2026, loss on Amazon a killer and all the hassle over trying to get old saves and bookmarks makes this such a shame. What a poor decision to change what was an amazing app i used for nearly 10 years!! But you have done me a favour, you have pushed me into the arms of another magazine app which is less than half the price and has more magazines. Goodbye Readly.

I'm all for change for new improvements, but it does seem like Ready has decided to back downgrade its app with its PDF files of newspapers, meaning the easy access of clicking a highlight headline and bringing the story up in a digital format, making it easy on the eyes has been removed. I have yet to discover what other shrinkflation things have they introduced. Welcome to the world of paying more for less.

Dear Readly, please return us to the previous software version asap; hopefully, someone saved it before installing this backwards upgrade. Now... Can't load the app on my Fire tablet... No tick against magazines I've read... No star showing magazine is flagged as a Favourite... Each page takes a couple of seconds to come into focus... I can't do the crosswords etc... No beloved article view... Incomplete title search... No searching the whole database for a specific topic... I COULD continue(!)

Having lost the ability to access Readly on KIndle devices (the only reason I bought them in the first place) I tried using the Android app on my Chromebook - absolutely useless, cannot resize without the app stalling, meaning I am left with a small letterbox through which to read the magazine! Not everyone uses a phone to read your magazines. I am sure I am not alone in my predicament in that I can no longer read magazines without having live internet access so is now useless on flights etc..

This is a perfect example of taking something good, that worked faultlessly, and was so easy to use, and completely ruin it. I am paying £12.99 a month for what has become a piece of garbage. The update was forced upon us, it was not an option. Please revert back to the original version or you will see your subscribers leaving, me included.

Unusable. 1. some of my favourite editions were coming as PDF only with the new app but 3 days later this seems to be improving (I changed rating from 1 star to 3) 2. No matter how many times I click on "Show me less of this", the explore section believes I need to read Playboy's articles. I never wanted to see those and never will. 3. it doesn't allow me to cancel my subscription. I was so happy with the previous app,

Unmitigated disaster. It's like there's a disgruntled employee at Readily that has cobbled this together for a joke at our (the paying customer) expense. At the moment there isn't a redeeming feature with this new version. The layout is all wrong, I can't play crosswords in magazines as they are no longer interactive, and there is presently no way to check and adjust your subscription! Horror show! You make it right before taking it to market!

New app is dreadful, I've been a subscriber for 10 years and it was a great app. Now taken over by a French company and using their app rebadged as Readly. Magazines don't render properly, hard to find magazines as mixed in with newspapers, lost all my saved magazines from the whole app. Read people can't cancel put luckily I was able to. Restore the old app otherwise Readly will lose all their subscribers.

What have you done, nothing works, nothing opens. Apparently the app is no longer supported on Chromebooks. Please fix it or revert to the old app or I will cancel my subscription. Edit: Been onto the web site and tried to cancel my suscription and you can't even do that at the moment......see below from web site. 'Cancelling your subscription is not possible right now, but you'll be able to do so within the next few days.'

The app have got worse. The first time I used It after the update I thought it was not working. it appeared to be buffering. That kept happening for my favourite Magazine. I left it in that state and 10+ minutes later it load my magazine. I did the same again on my tablet and it was the same. when I use the web browser on the site it loads to magazine instantly. I have also lost the magazine I downloaded for reading offline. This app is not yet ready for proper use on tablets or smartphones.

The new app is dreadful. The articles in certain papers don't always work and when they do they don't always tie up with the page I'm reading. Have been completing the Guardian crosswords for years but sadly these are no longer functional. Although there is a new puzzles tab, these are unrelated to the newspapers and magazines. This doesn't make any sense. The biggest drawback is that my wife can no longer use the app as Kindle devices are no longer supported.

Hate the new app. Why couldn't old app downloads be transferred. In my downloads I don't like the grouping of several issues of same title. Preferred my downloads to be listed newest first. At least one of my very favourite titles is no longer there. No indication (tick on old app) of magazines that I've partially or fully read. Magazines not downloading at first attempt. Why do I have to choose who's using the app each time. Can't name bookmarks. Old app was great. Why change.

New app and web reader are far more clumsy than the old version to use. Newspapers take a few seconds to properly display when turning pages. Keyword search has gone. I've lost where I'd got to in magazines that I was reading before the changeover. Why do I need to confirm who I am every time I open the app? How do I get rid of the navigation bar in the web reader, so that I can actually read the lower part of pages? I could go on and on, but this is just a really disappointing experience.

Since forced to update to the new app. I find that all my download mags have disappeared. I cannot get to read my favourite magazines. the app responds with ' THIS ISSUE IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN PDF' and fails to load the file. My preferred choice for reading is using my tablet (allows to read offline), I do not have the same issue when i use the website in a browser. The new app is unusable, and have no option to downgrade to previous version of the app. This review was typed on my PC.

I hate this new version - intuitive? who are they kidding???? I used to be able to find what I was looking for not so easy now. I have also found that where you could go to a magazine from 2014 upwards I can't anymore, which is frustrating as I was in the middle of catching up on a magazine and have lost that chance! Please, please change it back!

Not only have I lost track of which issues I've already read as they didn't transfer over from the old app but the new app doesn't even appear to mark when you've read an issue. The new app is also harder to navigate and seems to be pushing articles over full magazines which isn't what I want. I'm considering cancelling my subscription.

No idea why the people at Readly have done this but they've killed the app stone dead. new interface looks and feels worse but most frustrating is that each page of each magazine takes a couple of seconds to load in properly. unbelievably frustrating and am seriously thinking of cancelling and just taking out subscription for 2 or 3 of my favourites.

worse than previous. has to redraw pages when going back. i dont care if it is pdf only so why tell me and block part of the page while you do. I was too quick to post my original comment. its even worse. incredibly slow downloads even on fast connection. an article pop up when reading not wanted or asked for. new feature pop ups while readin are a major distraction and not wanted. this feels rushed out with no consideration for readers who have been using the old app happily for a long time

new app doesn't work, April 19 and deleted old app to allow this new one as recommended. it doesn't work. have reinstalled and reinstalled several times but getting same error ' Warning. an unexpected error seems to have occurred.'. I love this app so will see if this gets resolved in next day or so, otherwise I will have to cancel my subscription as this costs money

Dropped two stars because of the new app format. Readly is great value for money, I have been using it for a long time. I have my favourite magazines marked so I can be kept up to date. However I also enjoyed browsing the magazines as well so that I could see if anything new and interesting caught my attention. But in the old app magazines and newspapers were kept separate. Now if I want to browse the latest magazines I am being bombarded with all the newspapers. Please separate them off again.

Magazine resolution has dropped significantly vs the old app, and pinch to zoom just ends up with pixels. It also appears to load each page when you turn pages, which is clunky and uncomfortable to use. The app also forgets where you were, so you need to find your magazine again. A distinct downgrade from the previous (different ownership) app. After a decade of use I'm off to look at Magzster despite its hideous name.

This has got to be the worst 'update' known to humankind... everything is difficult to find now, I used to just go to my favourites and see which mag had a new issue out, now... absolutely no chance of doing that in an easy, straightforward way, cancelled my subscription and I'll find another way to read the magazines, on the subjects that I'm interested in. As opposed to the content Readly thinks I should be interested in. utterly terrible move Readly, do better or disappear.

Aka how to ruin a perfectly good app The app used to work perfectly. Editions were where you expected to find them, it was easy to see what new issues were out, favourites could be found by pressing one button. Now, since the recent April upgrade? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Nothing about this is logical. Can we have our old app back please? If you do that, you can have the other 4 stars back.

really disappointed by this 'progress'. I regularly read multiple magazines via my kindle. Since takeover by Cafeyn, they are no longer supporting the app via kindle. so it's either in browser (a terrible user experience, you can't download magazine) or via this new - worse - Android app via my smartphone. I don't want to read mags on my smartphone.I want to read them on my kindle - you know, a device for reading. Hope they start to support Readly access via kindle again asap. cancellation?

This upgrade should be classed as a downgrade. It's incredibly slow to load anything let alone try to download it is impossible. I didn't have one problem with the old app but if I can't change back to the old version then I will have to cancel my prescription which I've had for years. I can't be putting up with this. Oh and the new version deleted everything I had downloaded previously in the older version. grrr. it's terrible! and I just remembered that it's incredibly difficult to navigate!

Echoing the sentiments from the other reviews, what the heck have you done with the perfectly fine app? Downloads are gone, I don't like the new way you discover new content, and I've just tried to have a look at when my subscription is cancelled ... and I've been told that I can't access that information at the moment, and that if I'm charged for a new month I will receive a refund. What kind of amateurish setup is this? You don't take a customer's control over their accounts away from them.

Dreadful Update - Complete Disaster - Cancelled Subscription The original version was so easy to use - why change it ??? No search facility - Either to find specific titles or More importantly to search for individual articles about a topic !! PressReader is a much better option + It is free to use if you have a local UK library membership ++++ 🥳🥳🥳

Awful update, making the app unusable. Avoid updating if you possibly can. Despite logging in under my username and password, I'm now asked whose profile I want to access - my own or my wife's. I've yet to find a magazine or newspaper that isn't available in anything other than pdf format, meaning that the app is unusable on a smaller format phone screen due to the amount of zooming, pinching and scrolling needed. Please bring the article view back from within the magazine.

Other reviewers have talked about changes to the Favourites, promotion of articles, requirement to select a profile etc. My own annoyance is that it's messed up reading with a device in landscape mode (tablet with keyboard) - previously it would open the top half of a single page and I could drag up or down to read, now it always opens in a two-page spread and I have to zoom in, meaning navigating the page is messy and I have to zoom out again to go to the next page.

I've subscribed to Readly for quite some time now, but the new app is horrible. In the past you could just scroll through many, many magazines from all over the world. Now I can no longer do that. If you know the title of the magazine, you may be able to find it. But scrolling through magazines of specific genres seems to be gone now. They now show lots of large images suggesting articles which you may find interesting, but I cannot tell what the links are about. I'll cancel my subscription.

Why replace a working app? This is a pain; e.g.: New Scientist is not in the category Science. There's a limit to titles in a category such as Food & Drink where Media stops with titles that start with E. Olive magazine can be found via Search. Search only works for titles not key words. I used to scroll through all the titles in a category and selected based on the cover. I will try it a little longer but am currently not so sure it covers my needs still. I'll update this post accordingly.

Not a fan of this new app (due to the migration to Cafeyn). The UI is unintuitive despite clicking nearly every button and menu to understand it's functionality. Worse I cannot find magazines that were available in the old app - Search is terrible. Tried selecting all the available countries in the catalogue menu, but no such luck. Magazines that allowed me to read in article view before are not available in this new app. If things don't improve I'm cancelling.

I don't normally write reviews, but this is by far the worse app supposed upgrade I have ever encountered. I would strongly advise that this ill thoughtout and delivered upgrade is reversed before you lose a significant number of customers. if I could have given zero stars I would. None of my previous downloads transferred, it takes multiple attempts to download. you have to re-select your profile each time you open the app. it takes time to render even when content is downloaded.

I have been a keen Readly subscriber for many years, this new App Update is a complete downgrade from before. There are so many things wrong with it but worse of all the performance is terrible even when you download a magazine locally. I have also had instances where I have to come out and go back in as the bottom menus are not displayed. The previous app worked great on many different devices. If this is not changed I am going to have to unsubscribe (sorry).

Can't keep scrolling through recent releases, the list just stops. In the downloads section it's not possible to sort by release date or ungroup collections. The app forces me to select a profile each time I start it up. There is no indication if a magazine has been downloaded or if it is a favourite magazine. Overall a very poor experience. I have been a subscriber for over 10 years and unless you update the app quickly I will be cancelling and finding another service.

My downloads are just gone with the new app, that I'm forced to use. Can't access the old app anymore to check what I had. The scroll at the bottom is gone which makes going to the end of an issue more annoying. All this marketing content push with "explore", categories and news is in my opinion so unnecessary. That's not why I use readly. It's getting in the way.

the new app is virtually unusable. all downloads and favourites were deleted, really hard to navigate and find magazines, click on a category and the list of magazines doesn't get past letter E, magazines very slow to download (10+ minutes), the new explore button is all in foreign language. and now the to menu bar has removed my selections. hopefully will be fixed soon, but usable.

Readly WAS great , but after this new major update it's broken, it no longer automatically bookmarks your last page so if you go back to a magazine or newspaper you have previously been reading you now have to now find search for the page you was last reading, there is a option to manually bookmark it but I don't see that as an improvement, if you like arrow words or crosswords or puzzles forget that they no longer work. I can't help but think of the old adage IF IT WORKS DON'T FIX IT!

New app has some bugs to iron out. I tried to download all of my unread magazines using the three dots next to each edition from the archives, but the downloads all got stuck so I had to open each magazine one by one to get the download to work. They have also removed the Single Page View for some reason, which makes the reading experience on phone and tablet less enjoyable as that was my primary way to read. They have also added a new "Summary" tab within the magazines, but it doesn't load.

Do not update yet! All my downloads are not saved and it is less easy to see favourites, especially if you use more than one profile to organise your favourites. Screen layout is now far too busy and needs extra clicks to get to other profiles and downloads. I will be removing this and looking for an older apk to load.

The new Readly App is a mess! Some downloads appear in Downloads, others appear in All My Issues. App is more complicated and less user friendly for no obvious reason. Also had to re-download all my saves issues - no automatic transfer on downloading the new app. Times New Roman style font is also old fashioned and unattractive.

It was great then we got a new app. When I search for a magazine I want to see just magazines with that title not a list of articles. I used to be able to see which editions I'd already read due to the green tick - can't see thst anywhere. Very frustrating update, certainly not an improvement.

the new app is hopeless, i have lost all my downloaded magazines and the price rise is ridiculous. the app does not even save profiles. i will be cancelling my account. it will not install on my wifes pgone and wants to run through a browser. cannot download more than 1 magazine at a time. Cannot browse the full list of magazines in each category. cannot give a zero star rating

The year 2003 called and wants its app back. How to take an app that "just worked"and remove every single useful feature to make it as difficult to use as possible. So it remembers your favourites but only in a single line which you now have to scroll sideways endlessly to find the mag you want. it has lost all your bookmarks and you can't set a bookmark now. And it's significantly slower. There is often a one or two second delay when you change pages waiting for things to sharpen up. Dreadful .

Compared to the original Deadly app, this is not an improvement. I am missing several categories, like Music and Tech. And I am following the "Aeroplanes & Transport" category, but I can't find it anywhere on the home screen. Also, I have to choose the profile every time I open the app, that was not the case in the original Readly app. I hope you'll make some improvements quickly.

This April 2026 "updated" version of the app has ruined it for me. It's now much harder to find, and I now have to choose "favourites" to find publications I might be interested in, but which I might not want to read every issue of. I had several issues saved of magazines I wanted to keep long term which have now disappeared, plus there were magazines I occasionally read that I can't remember the names of, that I now can't find. There was nothing wrong with the original Readly app; why change?