WIRED Magazine App Reviews

Read format destroyed. The Wired app had a brilliant format - with every article scrolling seamlessly on the vertical orientation, and shifting between articles in the horizontal orientation. It was dynamic, easy to figure, and kept your reading position into each article as you moved back and forth between them. Now it is all gone and the app is just a (not) glorified PDF reader whcih moves horizontally from page to page with absolutely NO optimization for reading a magazine in an iPad. What a shame! Please bring it back!

Customer service is awful, Wired is stealing from me. After the iOS update, all of my previously purchased issues say, "Error during download. Cannot start download because the file is missing or invalid". I have tried removing the app, reinstalling, and restoring all of my previous purchases. No dice. I sent a message to Wired via their website and they sent me a nice GFY email that said that they'd contact me within 24 hours. They did NOT contact me in 24 hours. I called the phone number in the email they sent and the nice people told me that they cannot help with problems with the Wired app. I asked why they would send me an email telling me to contact them via the phone number and she said, "it's just an automated email system that doesn't know that we didn't make the app. Please call Apple. I have their phone number for you." So, knowing that Apple did NOT make this app, but willing to call anyways, I called the phone number they gave me. Turns out, it's the number to AppleCare. Not helpful. So, Wired magazine has been billing my credit card (via iTunes) and I cannot get the product that I've paid for. Theft.

Poor Formatting. The most recent update is nothing but a single page of the magazine on the screen. What used to be a dynamic way to read WIRED magazine is now just scrolling a multi-page PDF and the view isn’t full screen. Worse, yet, is that one whole page doesn’t even fit on the iPad screen - users have to scroll down just to see the rest of the single page. I’ll keep my subscription, but the app needs to be completely reimagined.

Horrible App— Fix this immediately. App keeps claiming that I need a subscription to view magazines even though I already have one and am logged in. I sent out an email to customer support. We’ll see what they say but man. I mean, a hackathon group can create a more functional app than this in like 3 days. Extremely disappointed.

Very nice iPad magazine. This is by far my favorite newsstand magazine so far. What makes it best of the bunch I've purchased and downloaded? 1. Great, interesting content (after all, it is Wired magazine) 2. Wired's magazines are the only ones I've viewed that make any use of interactive multimedia enrichment. They embed videos, there are articles where you click on hot spots in the picture and they display content. The other magazines just seem to take what they have on paper and throw that into newsstand, creating very flat reading/viewing experiences The only drawback to be aware of - and I can't ding them for this, because it comes with providing rich multimedia experiences, is that each magazine file size is HUGE. This means it takes up noticeable space on your iPad's hard drive, and that it takes a LONG TIME to download each magazine, even with a strong internet connection. I think this is why other reviewers have complained about not getting their Wired magazines. The fact is that all those videos, etc., are big files. But the experience is so great I think it's totally worth the time to download (and managing my iPad storage space). If you want to read something that makes you glad you have an iPad, Wired is it!

$5 is crazy. This is the first and last time I'll be getting a digital issue of Wired. I already get the printed magazine for around $12 for a full years worth of magazine. Print is supposed to cost MORE because it's, well, printed! I know the content in here was cooler. Still this needs to be Free for paid magazine subscribers like my Wall Street Journal subscription is. There needs to be a digital subscription set price. I'm sure they are floating this to test the watts. I imagine a huge drop off next month. People of Wired: no one will pay $60 a year for your magazine. It should be $12 for a full year at the most. I'm sure like magazines everywhere your circulation is down. Making a digital mag may have other costs but certainly there is no CMYK ink and paper involved. Do the right thing and charge a normal piece. I'll gladly pay it. I think a lot of people will. Also, I can't wait to ditch all the paper which is very Eco friendly.

How To Destroy Angels. I purchased this app purely for the article "Constructing a Song" covering some of the work Trent Reznor is doing with his wife. I'm a little disappointed just because I personally wanted a little more in-depth information and not just a few snippets of text paired with pictures and sound clips. I haven't read Wired in a long time and I remember some of the articles being quite lengthy and in-depth so that's what I was hoping for here. The medium and device are definitely conducive to these types of interactive articles as it is a superior experience compared to the web based article, iPad exclusive content aside, I just wish it was a longer piece especially considering it is labeled as a "Cover Story" in the table of contents. If the continuing pricing model is not going to be $4.99 per issue then I will mostly likely become a regular subscriber/purchaser of which I am neither now.

Wired Magazine App. I pay for the magazine and love the content of each issue. My challenge each month is to download the magazine through the newsstand app of the iPad. Nothing is easy I get the email that the new issue is ready to download. So I click the email link expecting that the magazine will download directly from the link... wrong. So I go through all the steps by entering name and address only to find that my name is already registered and to go to the app and enter by using my email and password. I don't remember my password. So I try to use the option to enter my account number from the label. No problem, but wait, there is no label on the magazine... The account label is in the plastic mailing bag on a mailing card that is next to the beautiful woman promoting "GQ" magazine and the 100 sexiest women of the 21st century. I re-focus my attention on entering my account number and tap the submit button, only to find the same result as previous response... "go through app and use email and password". I got frustrated and then hit the "forgot password" button and requested to reset my password. I'll wait for a reply and perhaps get to download the new issue tomorrow. Bottom line, for a high tech magazine, the app is pretty low tech in ease of use and accessing content.

Calm down, you won't be charged twice. First, for those who were displeased (as I was) when your previously purchased copies of Wired disappeared: There is a simple solution. For those editions that you have already purchased, simply go through the motions of purchasing them again and after you confirm that you'd like to buy it and enter your password you will get a message confirming that you have in fact already paid for the edition in question and your download will immediately start. No extra charge. YAY!! Now, about the app generally: I love it. I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 for two reasons: (1) I wish I could subscribe to it, rather than have to buy it every month. And (2) This confusion over reacquiring previously purchased editions has been going on for days and Conde Nast has offered no suggestions or support in the app store, thus causing fans of the app like me unnecessary irritation.

Cute but nonsense for subscribers. The articles in the July issue were nicely done; I especially liked the layered Trent Reznor pieces. However, I already pay for my print subscription (ironically, the dead tree version is the most compelling for me still), and as many people are already commenting, why would anyone pay so much per issue when we already can get a print version for less and online articles for free? The static content lacked the most basic level of interactivity found in any news app. There are too few articles contained in the iPad version compared to the content you are churning out online. Wired sets a high bar in design and content so I had very high expectations for this iPad app. I'll keep my rating at a generous 3 stars in the hope that Wired will rethink its payment model; at least give subscribers access to the same articles online that we already have in our hands!

Expensive for just a single issue. Online mags are not new. Editor Chris Anderson calls this an innovative new idea. Hardly. I've been waiting for a Wired subscription on Zinio for years that i can read on my desktop, laptop, not just on an ipad, along with a lot of other mags I read online. I don't buy paper mags anymore. And Zinio keeps all my back issues available online...going back to 2004. But Wired needs to consider a few things. First this is a single issue. I'm not going to pay rack rate for each online issue. Second why would anyone want anything less than a sub price, except for a special edition. Third will all those issues of Wired require another app button for each....yikes...pileup. Fourth these files are BIG. Where do I store the library of back issues before before my pad runs outa space. Come on guys. You are all giddy with your first digital magazine. SurprisIng for a tech mag. But, you need to figure out the tech better. After all you're a tech mag.

Almost Perfect. I bought the June launch issue as soon as it was released and enjoyed the work WIRED had done to bridge the gap between traditional and the still unknown future of digital content. Two large questions loomed for me, the first was asked by many. "Were they really going to charge $5.99 for every issue?" The second was mostly my own curiosity, "What would July look like?" At that point the app simply launched the June issue but now this update has answered both questions, and I could not be more satisfied. I want to be one of the few to say that I would happily pay $3.99 for each issue of WIRED I choose to download, and I love that the new interface gives me the option. I can see that each month I will be able to make a choice, and skip the months I don't want. Can't do that with a subscription! The only reason I titled this review "Almost Perfect" is in the hope that WIRED never stops considering how the iPad and future devices can be utilized to deliver interesting content to it's audience. Thanks WIRED! Keep it coming.

The way magazines were meant to be presented and read. iPad has finally made it possible for the magazine to be an experience! Wired magazine has done an excellent job of using that technology to showcase their magazine. However, they too have failed to listen to us consumers. If they only had read a couple of the many reviews on any of the other magazine apps they would see that $4.99 an issue is not what consumers are willing to pay. A tiered pricing scale with subscription needs to be adopted. For example: $2 an issue for a two year subscription $3 an issue for a one year subscription $4 an issue if you want to just pick and choose which issues you want. I agree with many that asking $4.99 an issue for a magazine that can be purchased in print for much less an issue is not right. Like the gas station wars, someone needs to step up and drop the prices. Once one does it others are sure to follow. Besides this will actually be saving the magazine money, as far as paper and postage. And when you consider the fact that magazines today are created digitally on the computer it can't be that hard to convert them into the iPad format. Lastly since magazines seem to be picking up on this new iPad revolution Apple or someone (wish I had the brains to do this) needs to come up with an iMagazine app that would work much like the iBook app. You could purchase magazine subscriptions and have them all in one spot, like a magazine rack!

Wow!. I love the magazine on the iPad and exactly what I was hoping for with several of my favorite tech magazines! I just downloaded July and this was my first experience with Wired on my iPad. I am extremely impressed and find it an utter joy to read. However, I won't be downloading many copies at $3.99 each. I just don't understand the publishers of these magazines and news papers. Why are you being pigs on the pricing? Don't you understand that most of us stopped buying your hard copies years ago and is perfectly happy getting our news and info on the web for free? Look, I love reading books and certain periodicals on my iPad, laptop, or my iPhone. But I am not going to fork over $50 a year to do so. Price it right!! $0.99 per copy and I (along with millions others) will buy it every month. But you can't charge more than an annual mail subscription and expect people to buy! I know your biggest cost are the trees you kill for the hard copies. Just be businessmen and charge us a modest price for a digital copy and find adverting partners and bring back your industry! Otherwise, roll over and die and let the bloggers and web news sites take over your readership!

Making it worse. They keep changing the app to make it worse. Now I can’t even archive an issue !

Overall very good. I personally love Wired, and I've been receiving it for years. Being able to get it on my iPad without having to pay any extra money is fantastic, and the extra content that come with the iPad version is very welcome. I like that Wired actually utilizes the capabilities of this medium. That's not to say that improvements cannot be made, however. Background downloads, for one, would be very welcome. Another's have mentioned, having to have this app in the foreground to download a 300mb file can be rather annoying. In addition, it may be nice to have a feature that would allow users who didn't want to take up. Much space to download a smaller version of the magazine, with less media included (maybe a simple PDF). Those points aside, I love this app, and congratulate Wired for attempting to move magazines into the digital age.

Weak, ad-filled, over-priced attempt at a digital magazine. Sorry, this isn't going to cut it for me. The only thing done well with this digital mag was the navigation. Yes, I like that I can swipe left to right, then up and down for longer content. That makes sense. And the simple, one page features like "How a team of commandos would free captured civilians" are smartly designed, too: ten steps, inviting you to tap on each of the numbers. The image and content change as you tap through. Nice. That makes sense. But honestly, that's it. There's nothing else new here. A few videos, a few interactive graphics, and that's it. The real kicker? It was five bucks, and it was filled with ads. FILLED with ads. I don't care if a few of the ads contain a little video for me to watch. They're still ads. And if I'm paying five bucks for digital content, I shouldn't have to look at them. (Oh, and five bucks for one magazine is over-priced, too.) This was a weak attempt. And I won't be buying digital magazines if this is the standard...

Now this is irony: Internet isn’t print!. I’m not giving this app one star because it does work. The problem is that it seem to think it’s print media. On an electronic device, you need to adapt to the device. Others mention no landscape, but that doesn’t bother me. No, what bothers me is there is no way to zoom, no way to copy and paste, no way to do anything other than view images: sometimes showing pictures, usually just full page images of text. And for some reason, the first page's text is significantly bigger than the other pages. This means, for me, the text on the first page is somewhat bigger than it needs to be, while the text on the following pages is significantly smaller than I find comfortable. The best handling is kindle, where you can increase font size; PDF is worse but you can at least zoom in. Well, with this app you can neither increase font size, nor zoom in. Sadly ironic for a magazine that is all about technology!

Well done. I was skeptical if WIRED would be able to pull off a tablet edition of their monthly magazine and, yes, they did. Interactivity and layout back each article interesting and easy to read. Only flaws I see is clicking external links that tKe you out of the App and into safari web browser. But mostly for me, I don't do that so advertisers should find a different way of linking product fan pages to FB etc... I am also a bit turn off by advertising. I really really wished that ads would be more interactive and more engaging than just static images. Although as a new medium i assume the WIRED digital mag has the platform to support that so that didn't affect my rating. Well done WIRED, now if I can only transfer my print subscription to the digitAl edition I'd be set.

Issue 2 greatly improved. With the release of the second issue for wired's iPad app I think we are getting closer to the true future of print media. The video and picture features are all integrated in tighter manner that allow for easier viewing, and don't interrupt the flow of viewing the issue. Also personally I was able to use the table of contents to get around this issue, which minimized the impact of the ads while I sured to whatever article interested me. Then I could go back through things linearly at my leisure. The five dollar price tag is still a bit high, but certainly painful then the initial ten dollar investment. I'd like to see it drop to two bucks. That would guarantee I would get every issue. As it stands the cover story better be grabbing me, or this might be my last issue.

Nice if you like hogs. As a pure wow effect, the issue is impressive. There was a lot of iPad-centric bling to keep me turning the pages. But after all the cute tricks, I found I really didn't learn much. I mean, do I really need Will Ferrel to tell we don't have jet packs? Where's the substance? This is really just a lot of fluff. Also, why such a large file? 500 MBs? I've only got 16 GBs to work with as it is. And what's with the price? You shipped nothing. You risked nothing. You receive zero returned copies. You need proofs, no on press approvals, none of the expense of a paper product. Yet you have the nerve to charge $4 for what? You guys have learned nothing from the record business and yet you write about technology and the future as if you understood it. How can I take you seriously as a visionary magazine if you continue to operate like a 20th century company? Here's a tip: charge .99 for your magazine and I'll give it another try. At .99, if the content improves, and the file size is 100 MBs, I may stick around. The iPad was supposed to save magazines; but the publishers have got to save themselves by putting out products that have value. We want substance not silliness. We want innovators, not comedians.

Decent start, but needs glaring improvement. This is the third magazine app I've used, and the second dedicated to a specific publication (the other two being NY Magazine's app and Zinio). What I love about Wired is that unlike the other two, which basically read like PDF copies of their dead-tree counterparts, Wired takes the next step toward using the iPad's capabilities to generate a new, more complete reading experience. I appreciate this. However, the pricing structure of Wired is simply unacceptable for me as a consumer. Whereas NY Mag lets print subscribers download the digital copies gratis, or Zinio allows you to get digital subscriptions to all their magazine offerings, Wired does neither. Instead, Conde Nast treats the iPad like the checkout lane at the supermarket and charges for issues a la carte. While Wired is a fine publication and they really went the extra mile to present their articles in more iPad-friendly ways, until Conde Nast supports either of the two subscription models outlined above, there's no way I'm regularly getting digital issues (disclaimer: I got the free sponsored issue of Wired to base my review of the format off of). So yeah, sadly, I will be holding off on buying any issues until there's some way to subscribe that doesn't feel like such a ripoff. But there is promise, as long as the Conde Nast executives do the right thing with the subscription model.

Still having Download problems. Wi-Fi DL was stop and start, stuttered and stopped. Eventually just waited till I got home and DL'd via iTunes and synced. I suspect it's partly just new issue rush. I'm VERY disappointed that we're still paying $4 an issue. I'm assuming that the lack of a subscription is just an iTunes logistics issue and that once Apple adds that capability all the magazine vendors will switch over to a more affodable business model. I stopped buying TIME magazine because of this issue and I will stop buying Wired for the same reason if this continues. I bought my iPad for a lot of reasons, but one of the primary features for me was the abiilty to read my favorite magazines portably and all in one location. Love it. But I can't justify paying $5 a week for TIME and $4 an issue for Wired when I can get the same things in print for so much less. And something is wrong with a model that costs a publisher 2% of the print costs but for which they charge you orders of magnitude more. Come on, publishers. Make this vision a reality, get with the iTunes model of high profit through high volume via low consumer cost!

Pricey Oooh and Aahh. I like Wired and have been a subscriber to both the magazine and online publications. Wired's iPad app is the logical next step in the evolution of the magazine and its new home on a tablet looks stunning and better than its print sibling. Interactivity brings a new dimension to the reading experience—though it took me a while to realize that reading Wired on the iPad involves not just scrolling from one page to another but swiping up and down to read spreads that would normally appear side by side. The graphics, interactive features, videos, and extras are welcome additions to the magazine—though the premium price is not. Like other Wired app readers, I welcome all the new innovations of Wired's app, but I would prefer a subscription model that offers a loyalty discount to readers who enjoy reading every issue of the magazine. $60 a year feels a bit steep to read what is available online or one can find in similar but alternate publications. Sure, the ooh-and-ahh factor is nice, but like most things digital it wears off after a few swipes. Wired, kudos for version 1 of what's sure to become a popular iPad app. Wired is slick, elegant, sophisticated, and well designed. However, if you want me to keep downloading, I'll be happy to buy a subscription that makes financial sense for readers on a tight budget.

Wake up. Fix this app idiots

A Must Have Whether You Like the Mag or Not.. This app shows the true potential of future publications with it intertwining text and media in an innovative layout. The July 2010 magazine surprised me in the way they replaced a traditional picture within the magazine with an embedded media object such as rotating a 3D object or listening to portions of musical beat being created step-by-step. Features that could not be done on paper. In the recent issue, they bring in a live twitter stream with a hashtag related to the article, simply showing off at this point, but really bringing past visions of such content to reality. Handsdown with the vast amount of media embedded within each article the price of this app is easily justified (come on its just $4) since it brings you into a new level of interactivity within great articles. I would easily purchase the digital version of the mag over its $1 more counter part and once you really get a good feel for what the app brings you will no longer value paper over digital. My only concern is the size of each magazine. I understand that a vast amount of video, etc. is stored within each download but 300mb+ is just ridiculous. Sure if I only used the wired app on my 16gb iPad I could store a little more than 50 issues on here but I have far more than Wired on my device. And it definitely forces you to download from WiFi at home and no possibility for download over WiFi.

Great content and layout, minor issue with downloading. Yes, the magazine files can be large, and yes you have to leave the app in the foreground for 5 min for it to download. SO WHAT! It'll probably take you 10 times that long to read it, then you can delete it if you're so hard up for space. Unlike other magazines all the content is included in the download, videos and all. If you have a wifi tablet like me you can view all the content without having to be at an access point. The layout is top-notch and it has the same content you've come to know and love from Wired. The publishers took great care to create an pleasurable tablet experience instead of just scanning in their dead-tree version like so many other mags. Never any problems with print being too small and the whole magazine navigation just flows. Fix the downloading issue and it's easily worth five stars.

No landscape mode? No subscription (after 15 years of being a subscriber). I am stunned by Conde Nast’s decision to remove landscape mode from Wired, that is grade-A B.S. Tablets, like all portable digital devices, are designed to be flexible in their usage, and this absurd restriction is literally cutting that flexibility in half. Reading anything on an iPad in portrait mode is, at least for me, *incredibly* annoying, since I can’t set it up on the table, arm chair, etc. to read it without holding it (most cases aren’t designed with that mode in mind), so I have to physically hold the device up in the air while I try to eat my breakfast. Screw that. Ironically, I might not even have noticed the change if they had opted for landscape mode instead. I’ve read and loved Wired for almost 15 years. I was annoyed at having to cancel my paper subscription in order to *just* get the digital edition (even though the latter cost more money), but this is the last straw. I’m sorry to see it go, but I simply can’t enjoy reading it in such an awkward manner.

Wired PLEASE LISTEN!!!. This digital magazine should be the envy of all other magazines offered through iTunes. We have finally reached the pinnacle of electronic media with this Wired issue. I would say it is close to flawless, the content is interesting, interactive and everything I could have hoped for. One thing Wired is behind on is the way Apps are offered to consumers now a days. A paid app should = little to no advertising. While a free app can be bogged down with different advertisements. With a price point of $4.99 is very step, especially taking up over half a gig of space. I love your magazine but please take a hint from Marvel, make an app that contains your magazine, don't make each edition its own app. I'm far from the type of person who complains about the price of an app truly, but its very expensive especially when you can get a years worth of the paper magazine for under $10 with a free hat. Two things, bring it down to a reasonable price, otherwise you will not see as high of a purchase rate (everyone wanted to check out the first one) two organize it in a more convenient way for users.

not as digital as I though. I think it is just another step to creating real digital magazine. But: no zooming, no turning, no copy paste and tons of commercials. With no zooming and turning I felt like my iPad was working only for 20%. Copy paste and better "find" function is a thing I was looking for. Like when the showed glasses frames, I thought I could buy one, tried to google it, but I can't! What is it? But I have direct link to infinity site... I don't care about infinity site, I want to see frames! And last point about commercials: come on guys, there was only 2 commercials about iPad. More than 10 about cars. Do you really think that people that are reading this thing on iPad would be more interested in new car or In new iPad gadget or app? This app was more disappointing for me, than something amazing and must-to-have thing. And it wasn't really a magazine - there was not much to read. It should cost not mere than 1,5$, as it is more like demonstration what a digital magazine could look like, what Adobe can do with HTML5, and with that much of commercials the price of the app seems to be to high. I'm dissapoinetd. That was a waste of money.

Impressive. I've been looking forward to this app since wired announced it a couple of issues ago. I'm a long-time subscriber of the print mag, and I love it. The app is nothing short of impressive. I love the way all the video and animations are embedded; they're part of the page, unobtrusive, and tapping on the target buttons seems intuitive. Now, I paid 5 bucks because it is a must-see, but I will be very hard-pressed to do that again, especially when the print mag is sitting on my coffee table right next to my iPad... Dear wired, please work out some kind of subscription service where us avid readers will not be feeling taking advantage of by paying such a high price for each issue. As another reviewer pointed out, it would stand to reason that the publishing tools you use for the print mag would be similar to the ones used for the digital one. Price was the only reason I gave four stars instead of five. Last word: excellent job!

Awful. Conde Nast should be embarrased with itself! As a major worldwide publisher, it should offer top-of-the-line digital companion apps to its print magazines. I have been a longtime subscriber of a number of their magazines, and yet, I can't even access ANY of them on my iPhone 7 Plus (or any iPhone I've owned prior)?! As a paying customer who is entitled to receive a digital subsciption, it's really awful that I can't access it just because I don't currently own an iPad (I haven't been able to replace my broken one for a long time). And for those who do have an iPad, they may not want to carry it everywhere just to access their magazines. I also agree with others who have said the apps have many bugs and problems. In fact, the apps haven't changed all that much since I owned an iPad 1 -- do you hear that?! A FIRST EDITION iPAD!! You guys probably need to start from scratch and develop entirely new apps for each of your magazines, or perhaps even develop a single app where we can access all of our Conde Nast subscriptions. I'd especially love to read all of my magazines on the go, but Wired and Allure need to be taken care of first. Please don't disappoint your longtime customers. There are ton of magazine choices these days -- and as much as I love my Conde Nast magazines, I'd hate to have to find similar replacements elsewhere just because you guys don't care about paying customers who should be getting digital access and can't.

Digital login $5 FAIL. Upon PAYING $5 for a digital subscription to this magazine, installing, creating a login, the app says “…experiencing technical difficulties” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Joke! Robbery! DO NOT SUBSCRIBE. They will steal from you from the get go. Login is way too complicated.

Lost purchases. Just like the other comments here, updated and lost the issues already purchased. Not happy at all. I won't be buying anymore. It's too bad I liked the app up till now. .... UPDATE: from an email that I received very promptly to my question on this from the Wired staff: (Dear Subscriber: Please read the information below concerning restoring your missing issues. 1) Select issue within app you've already purchased, but would like on your device. NOTE, the issue will indicate that you have not purchased it yet and will have a "Buy" button. This is fine. Continue on. 2) Click on the "Buy" button to begin the "purchase". 3) Apple will ask for you to sign in to your account in order to make the purchase, do so but make sure the account you use is the same as the account you originally purchased the issue on. 4) You will receive a pop up notification that states: "No Payment Necessary. You have already purchased the issue. Touch Download to load it to your device. OK" 5) Push "OK" and then the "Download" button. If you should need further assistance, please be sure to include all previous e-mail correspondence. Thank you for your interest in Wired. Sincerely,Kari) This worked as advertised. Bummer to have to reload issues but I didn't loose anything. Upping my stars back to 4 out of 5. Thanks for the quick resolution to this problem Wired.

Good looking, but not revolutionary. The Wired app has gotten a lot of press since well before it's release. I was really excited to download it because it had the promise of reinventing the magazine. I have enjoyed reading Wired on my iPad, and it has some fun interactive elements, but I don't like that it's 500+ megabytes big. My problem with the size is mainly that I tend to have multiple copies of a magazine available for browsing, and if they each are that big, it's not gonna work. I have also been disappointed with the interactive features. Somehow compared this magazine to a CD-ROM of old, and I am coming to agree with that. I would rather have a PDF with real text than a set of giant pictures of content. With that said, if I'm gonna have pictures of content, i prefer Zinio to the single magazine model. Zinio seems to have a similarly limited set of interactive features, but I can hop from magazine to magazine with ease. Maybe Conde Nast needs a similar app for all of its magazines.

Very Impressive App, Pricing Just Needs to Better Compare to Print. WIRED is easily the most impressive magazine on the iPad. It's almost like you can experience a few select articles and ads in ways that weren't nearly as polished or well-integrated in the past. I'll commend WIRED for not over-compressing the images or video in the app. The extremely high quality media is gorgeous on the iPad. Readers of magazines and blogs aren't used to everything being so stunning. WIRED is the best showcase app for the iPad, in my opinion, since everything is so high quality and there are a lot of things in here that magazines won't do and no websites have done nearly as stunning a job at doing. I hope WIRED can continue to think of new ways to experience articles digitally in every issue, with each a slight evolution of the last. EDIT: Normally, I won't give apps one-star reviews, but I'm disappointed that the price of the July issue is $3.99. This would be okay if there was a way to subscribe annually for $15-$20, but there are no subscription issues. I don't want the future of iPad magazines to cost $50 a year, so I won't bring my rating back up until the pricing is better addressed.

Great UI + reasonable price = future of digital magazines. Yes i know the magazine isn't free but in the near future magazines and information created digitally will cost money. And as long as it stays around $3.99 it is a pretty good deal. This really is the best magazine out there. Flawless UI. At cover, just tap the title or pic and it goes right to the article. Love this app. Highly recommended if you are willing to pay a very reasonable $3.99 per issue. Btw: digital publishing still has costs. Granted they don't have paper or ink but do you think the digital publishing team works for free? And what about the guy who created and maintains the app? It still may be somewhat high but it's a great app and companies are still making the change to digital so prices may be high for awhile. Don't low rate an app just because they have higher prices on their content.

App is okay, subscription model is great. I've been a subscriber to the print version of Wired since the beginning and still get through most issues. I've been waiting for a sustainable subscription model since downloading the first version of the app last year. The "buy once, ready anywhere" approach is great. I would rate the app itself 3 stars. Navigation is intuitive enough and the later versions are pretty speedy. I don't appreciate gimmicky multimedia like last month's intro video upon launch (quite the shocker with headphones) and there really needs to be a way to bookmark and save / share articles (Read It Later, Instapaper, Pinboard, etc., etc. even a pdf or printing capability; link emailing, etc.). For now, all this works. 5 stars for effort, leading the way.

The future is here. After seeing all of the other magazine and newspaper apps on the iPad fail on at least one front (cost, lack of innovation, lack of additional content, poor navigation or organization), the Wired app has done an amazing job. While I'd like to see it under $5 per issue, I didn't feel ripped off like I did with other apps. Wired gave me more material in a better format than the paper copy so I feel that the cost they saved in physical distribution was made up with the additional touches that they added to the app. If they make a yearly digital subscription close to the print price ($10-$25/yr), I would be entirely comfortable subscribing. As for this particular issue, I don't know if they saved up their good stories for this debut digital issue or if it was due to the presentation, but I felt like this was one of the strongest issues of Wired that I have ever read (though the article on home gardening was a waste except for the layouts for your own home garden...it was too much snark and not enough real content). Great job Wired, please just follow up this amazing release with a reasonable and easy to use digital subscription and you'll have at least one happy subscriber. As for anyone else that has a hand in making apps for magazines and newspapers, look at this app for inspiration, this is what the iPad was made for.

Terrible UX. The app is just a regurgitated version of the magazine. This means it doesn’t take advantage of even basic features of the internet circa 1995. No table of contents, no way to quickly jump to an article. Really!! This is what makes people hate publishers like Condé Naste. As much as I like Wired I’ll be canceling

The Future. I think we can all agree that 5$ is too much, and it would be nice to see apple support an architecture (or maybe the publishers can develop it) where we could just "subscribe" to the mag for the whole year (it already exists with TV Shows, why not this?). That all being said i am removing the price as part of the review, because if it were part of the review it'd be like 3 stars. There are technological leaps here that make this the great "Tech Demo" of E-Mags. Interactive advertising and articles. The ability to hyperlink inside an article to both a webpage or another story in the magazine. A Reader mentioned some missing essentials (like bookmarks, etc) but overall, buying this mag as an example of what is to come is incredibly exciting, and wired is the right magazine to bring it to us.

A master class for the future of press. I love it. This is app represents the newsstand of the near future. I know everyone is saying the price is too high, but wow, I've paid newstand prices and this is cheaper and a richer experience. I am spending more time focusing on the details of the mag now more then ever. Even the ads are interesting. Wired had lost most of what made it so compelling and just like that it's relevant in the publishing world again. Great design and presentation...and I think there are even some interesting articles too. It would have been easy to simply regurgitate a web page, yet they have assembled what we should expect from all future publishers in the medium. Two features that would make it the killer app: 1) back-up and viewing purchases on my CPU so I can free up my space and not lose the issue 2) a subscription, of course.

Looks great; usability nightmare. There are certainly a lot of good things in this app, and it's cool to see some of the possibilities for the future of magazines, but if this is as good as it's going to get, that future looks pretty bleak. The biggest problem is navigation. It's half traditional magazine (standard pages with text and images) and half new format (vertical flows and interactive content). The problem is that there's now way to know where one ends and the other begins. For example, I found myself continuously trying to scroll down on single pages, not knowing whether there was more content or not. The whole idea of giving some pages more height than others really seems like an answer to a question that nobody asked; imagine how annoying it would be if half the pages in a print magazine folded out like a Playboy centerfold (only without the centerfold). Similarly, it's really difficult to tell which content is interactive and I found myself trying to tap everything on a page to find out. Other interface issues are no zoom, no back button, no text-only mode (Zinio's got it), and one too many taps to get to the page overview mode (2 to Zinio's 1). Add to this the high price and outrageous file size and it's hard to recommend this app. I love Wired's content and I was really looking forward to this one, but they dropped the ball on too many basic elements to call this a success.

Most innovative magazine app by far!. Yes the pricing issue is a huge problem, but that's already been covered ad naseum. The app itself though: A pleasure to read. The interface is slick and the content is just as slick. The way articles are embedded with various forms of multimedia (eg: video, etc) makes reading very engaging. The navigation through the magazine is, for the most part, completely intuitive and just how I'd imagine and expect an iPad magazine app to be. I enjoy navigating through the magazine almost as much as I enjoy reading it. Also, I'm normally not a fan of ads at all, but they do look gorgeous. The only minor user interface gripe I have is sometimes certain aspects of the interface particularly within articles seems pointless and just a way to show off unnecessarily. For example, many articles will have little numbered lists with explicit instructions to tap each number to see something. If the interface needs instructions that's a sign it's not as intuitive as it could be. Kudos to the developers at Wired. Please be realistic and fair with your pricing though and I'm certain you're bound to have many fans (particularly since every magazine suffers from the same pricing problems).

Great app -- but the shape of things to come?. I've been waiting for this app to come out since the iPad's launch, and it doesn't disappoint. More than all the other magazine apps I've tried (in particular Popular Science's) this one really embraces the digital/mobile medium. It's easy to navigate (much more so than PopSci's app) and has some actual interactivity that distinguishes it from the print version. I only have a couple of reservations. First is that $5 price tag. Even with the app's interactivity it seems a bit much. A subscription pricing model would be much better. Second (and this is related to the first one) it's not quite different enough from the print magazine experience to be the next big thing that justifies the much higher price tag. The interactivity it nice, but it's nothing blind-blowing; it feels added on. What it needs is a more radical conception that's different from the print and online versions of the magazine. This is just the first issue of course, and Wired says this app will be evolving. It's off to a great start --I just wish they'd knock a few bucks off the price.

Love the Mag, but you just don. I've enjoyed the magazine for years. I even like it through this app. Here comes the "but", - but even as brilliant as the mag is, your delivery through this medium, not so much. Obliviously, you didn’t really do any research on what the market will bare as to pricing. You just threw it out there and waited to see what would happen. You obliviously didn’t do any study on how you would get someone to buy each issue. You certainly have some experience in this area with magazine rack sales, which this medium is more likely to model, as you provide a free app to get the magazine (it’s like the magazine rack), but one can’t preview it before buying. Don’t tell me that it’s not possible. It’s just not so. So basically what has happen here is you decided you needed to get on the bandwagon and have an app, pretend you are committed to this medium, and see what happens. I suspect you will have no choice in the future to make this work, but it’s apparent by your current entry, you don’t feel the pressure yet. That’s fine, but it does make your job more difficult in the future to convince the buying public you really have a product that will meet our needs.

The best effort from Conde yet. The reviews saying that this is a mere PDF reflash are way off-base; I have the print edition sitting alongside this version, and the iPad version is formatted totally differently in both orientations, geared specifically to read well on the smaller screen. It also has plenty of new content from the print mag (though I assume it's all available on the website), and having audiovisual components along with the print-style layout is really great. Hearing the individual components of Trent Reznor's song-composing breakdown while reading along was inspired, and even things like the "How to Write a Joke" story feel more fleshed out when you can actually hear the things being written about. My only concern is the price and any subscription bundles, but if it's reasonable, I'd totally ditch my print subscription and buy an iPad one, even for slightly more than the dirt-cheap print sub, which is massively subsidized by ad costs and the printing industry's fine quirks. There are minor quibbles, but overall this is massively better than GQ and Esquire's iPad hack jobs.

Innovative and fun. I think that this is the most innovative and interesting magazine I have yet to read on the iPad. Apart from cost, I'm not sure I understand most of the complaints registered by other reviewers. Maybe I haven't been using this app long enough to realize the glitches, but this is the only magazine I've seen that truly integrates the multimedia aspects of the tablet. This app is what we all aspire to make in journalism school. It's fun, playful and interesting. It adds new levels of content rather than just copying the print edition or slightly melding it with the website. On the terms of advertising, Wired uses far less ads than one would typically see in a print edition. They're even interesting, interactive advertisements, not just long scrolling pages of flat pictures. Advertisers don't seem to realize the incredible level of interest achieved through interactive ads, so they aren't pouring money into a relatively untested system. If there were more ads, cost could go down. But, without ads, the app must be sustained by online newsstand prices. So, either way, someone will find something to complain about until a reliable system of subscriptions can be put in place. But, overall, I have read this magazine from cover to cover, and I plan on continuing indefinitely. Bravo, Wired. Best iPad mag I've found so far.

Useless app. This app makes no effort to work on an iPhone size screen. It simply displays a replica of the print magazine - big pages that have minuscule type you cannot read or zoomed in that become difficult to navigate. Why did Wired Magazine bother creating this app?

Excellent application, but overpriced.. I have a subscription to the printed edition of Wired and have for many years. The digital version of the magazine is more than a document with embedded videos. The digital version is interactive, responsive, colorful, and easy to read. The application has not crashed, consistently loads quickly, and requires little effort to master. The actual samples of music written about in one story made the entire article come to life. The application is very large and took a fair amount of time to download over my broadband connection. This is understandable considering how rich the magazine is, but is something the Wired folks should try to address if possible. The price for this application is high, considering a subscription for one year of the print edition can be had for approximately $12 US. I would hope that Wired Magazine publisher's will lower the price on the digital edition to a more palatable $1.99 per issue.

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What all traditional print media should aspire to. I've downloaded most if not all of the initial attempts to transplant the magazine media to the ipad (Wired, Popular Science, GamesTM, How It Works, etc) and Wired is the only one in this crop that has nailed what magazine-related content should look and feel like in tablet form without prejudicing the classic hard copy form. I have both versions of the current issue in ipad and paper form and I do not regret having paid twice for similar content as the "reason for being" for each form is fundamentally different from the other. The paper Wired is a celebration of lay-out, the 2-page spread, and vibrant print -- it is still one of the best magazines currently being produced. The iPad Wired is a glimpse into the future of how stories, reviews, and advertising flow between screens and embedded media forms contained in a coherent digital pack. Compared to the Popular Science attempt (which rates a 3/5 at best), Wired seems to have invested more design time / testing to how intuitive it would be to the iPad reader. Compared to Pop Sci, moving from page to page in Wired is easy and the interactivity elements enhance the reading experience rather than call attention to itself. Most importantly, Wired for iPad pays its respects to both the new iPad user and the iPad itself for thinking through the new medium and trying things out instead of just pdf-ing the past year of issues (I'm talking to you Pixelmag).

DO NOT PURCHASE. These upgrades delete your downloaded editions forcing you to re-download Gb's of data. IF, and it's a big "IF", it downloads at all. It took me 5 attempts and over 2gb of data to regain an edition I had already installed on my iPad. Their customer support is an absolute joke. They email you a link to the Apple iPad support webpage. The download issue IS NOT fixed. Wired magazine is fantastic. Unfortunately they can only write about tech, they can't deliver it.

Good, But Could Be Better. I'm fairly impressed by the app design and content, but some niggling issues let the app down. No option to disable the intro video is very annoying, as it plays every time you return to the beginning of the magazine -- a simple 'mark as watched' option would suffice for all video content. The ability to bookmark pages is missing, and the addition would be a welcome navigation aid. A dictionary lookup option would also be nice.

Innovation 5* - re-downloading June issue 1*. Great app - unreal content. So many +++'s, BUT getting me to re-download last months ed is a little rich! 500Mb is a fair whack on a single download, but to do it twice @ expensive download rates isn't great thinking. Are we going to have to do this again when you next decide to upgrade the app? BUT a great mag and a great exposition of iPad's features!

Rating is referring to November issue purchase/download problems. I have been using this app for a number of months now with now problem at all. The release of each issue was notified appropriately and downloading was rock solid. I have really enjoyed each issue and think that WIRED is making the most out of the iPad medium. However, the November issues has major problems. After I selected the buy option, it wouldn't complete the purchase process for a number of attempts and when it finally did complete it, it comes up with an error on the download. I still haven't received my issue - please get this sorted ASAP -it's clearly been a problem for a number of days now. I imagine the WIRED team clearly spend a lot of time on each issue, it'd be a shame for it to just sit there on the "stand" - especially since I've already handed over the cash!

Best magazine adaptation out there. Firstly the price is just right, it works out around $20 cheaper than an annual international subscription. The navigation is the best I've seen on any magazine adaptation, it would be helpful for a visual indicator that the magazine goes down the page as this is not always obvious. The interactive elements make this application truly great. It hasn't been over used and where it has been used its in a logical place to do so. Fantastic adaptation and I'm sure it'll only get better.

Best mag for ipad. This is the Rolls Royce of magazines. Great content and optimised for iPad, simply the best magazine app out there. That coupled with content that only gets better and better…I used to buy this (imported) mag for the same price here in Australia as subscription costs me now for 12 Months. Worth the price of the actual iPad alone to read this great mag.

Don. I just downloaded the latest update to the Wired app and when I tried to read my magazines they were all wiped! There's no content on my iPad, even though I had 7 magazines already purchased! Please fix this bug and give me my magazines back! UPDATE: Just got an email back from Wired... if you simply try to "Buy" your previously purchased issues again you will be able to do so without paying a second time. Just click on the "Buy" button then you will be prompted to enter your iTunes password again. After this you will receive an alert telling you that you have already purchased the item and can download it again for free. The only trouble is, you've got to sit through the entire download again.

I Give Up !. What a waste of talent and resources. All that work, the designers are doing to maximise new technologies to deliver, what is, a fantastic product... yet... IT DOESN'T DOWNLOAD !!!! This has definitely got to hurt the company, and the data will show that I, and many others will NOT be risking another purchase of this magazine again. I really really want to support this concept. I wish other magazines can see this as a way of the future, and it would be great if THIS is the model that other publications strive to. However, constant errors, and massive problems with the download will see very few 'pay up' next month, without some kind of assurance that we WILL get what we pay for. PLEASE, just put the file onto a secure website or something so legitimate purchasers have another option to transfer it to the ipad, .... I JUST want the content!!! This is a great failure for what is a quality magazine, and I give up trying to get it downloaded. I feel sorry for the design team who have worked hard to produce something that few people will get to see. Thanks for nothing. I am assuming, even though there would be data of who has paid and unsuccessfully downloaded, that there will be no refund. So, I have lost my money, and therefore, the app will be deleted. Bye.

Good content, clunky subscription. Has all you would expect from Wired, interesting content and I like the interactive parts. BUT don't believe it when it tells you new editions will download automatically and in the background - you have to go in and select download and if you leave the app the download will pause or even forget where it is up to. Pretty disappointing for a tech mag of this standard.

Broken update - charged for re Buy. Update: My "re Buy" of the June 2010 issue was CHARGED to my credit card with a new receipt number! I've email Apple support and have given them the old receipt number. From Apple Support: Kevin, I have gone through your purchases and found that you have purchased app "WIRED Magazine " previously and now in app "WIRED June 2010 [From: WIRED Magazine]" and hence got charged for that. In app purchases are different from app purchases. --- So now its In App purchases, they can charge for it again!? No Way! - They make you re download all previous purchased issues. Managed to "re Buy" one issue, but the next one they are asking to re verify my credit card details! Clicked cancel just in case I will get charged again.

iPad reading done right. This is perhaps the only print adaptation so far to truly *get* the medium. Rather than an afterthought, this really feels like the definitive version of the magazine. The opening editorial promises future issues will continue to experiment with the format. If they live up to that, I'll very happily continue buying future issues.

56 minutes down load. I have not yet bought an iPad ( I will soon). But I've been hanging out for the wired magazine app ever since I heard they were putting one together as you can see it is an impressive peice of work. The only thing I would like to mension to those about to purchase the mag is the down laod times. It took 56 minutes to down load. Im on an ADSL 1.5 connection . Its not a criticism its just what it is a very impresive imag that can take a wile to down load . I hope all future imags are put to gether like this. If so future is looking good.

Unnecessarily clumsy and buggy for Tech magazine. I’ve only just started using it but there are broken links, I am sent into loops if I try to contact Support and menus appear and disappear seemingly at random. I had given up trying to get the current edition after DLing the next month edition and could find no link at all then after trying to shut down the App suddenly there was a home page icon visible which had defied all my attempts at locating it. This is reinventing the wheel, but not round as we know it.

Great.... But September.... It's a fantastic example of how to do a magazine on the iPad, and I've picked up every issue so far, but September is not showing up after installing the latest update - my money is waiting!

Can't see the September issue?. I just downloaded the latest update, but I can't see the September issue. Is it blocked for my region (Australia). Other than that, I've really enjoyed the previous issues on the iPad. Update: I can see it now. They must have staggered the release.

Best app ever. This is the best app ever. Other publishers take note. Only question is where is the next issue and how will you notify us of the next issue? Will it be in the form of a app update to add a store to buy the next issue, or will we have to download each issue as a new app? If that's the case then what a bad way of doing things.

September issue working fine here for an Aussie. Best magazine and reading app for the iPad. Check out the free preview issue to see if you like it, and issues are only $5! August issue contains a dub step track from Rusko which is worth a buck on it's own!

Surprisingly Ordinary. I bought his after reading some of the good reviews and hearing it review well on the appslappy podcast. I don't really know what I was expecting, but what I got was what I can only describe as very ordinary. The anticipated interactivity seems to be related the scrolling in most cases I've come across so far, and usually it's to see images that would usually be inset into a printed page anyway. Articles are short and just skim the surface, and the whole thing is full of ads. When I've paid this much for an online magazine, I really don't expect to get bombarded by ads., specially as most are US focused so don't relate to me in Australia anyway. The one bit of interactivity that I thought might be interesting was Mars showing where missions has been in a format you could spin round. However that ended up as such a user challenge I gave up in the end wishing they'd instead just put in a map and text boxes pointing to the areas. In summary if this is the best that we can expect from an interactive magazine, I worry for their future. I guess if I was to be synical I would say that there is a reason that magazines are laid out how they are. Clear access to concise information. Adding interaction where none is really required is not engaging, just annoying that it is hidden in the first place.

Love it!. Absolutely love it. I think the combination of vertical and horizontal scrolling is just so intuitive and in line with what Popular Science has done. The embedded interactive content makes me feel like I'm in Star Trek. Well done!

Way better than print.. As a way to read a magazine, particularly one like Wired, this pretty good. Better than pretty good really but I don't know what to call that - 4 stars might say it all. I'm driving this through an iPad 1 and some times, with the more complex (bigger??) graphics and interactive stuff my device just chucks it all in and throws me out. Nothing serious, I just climb back in and jump, Evel Knievel style, over the troublesome part. But I get my Wired reading done and the occasional interactive touches are enough to make it feel more than just e-reading. I don't think they really make enough of the technology though, especially for Wired. And some of the graphics where you have to touch the icon to see the descriptions - where there appears to be enough room for the text anyway - are a bit, well, lame. But, heck, they're pretty minor quibbles. My real gripe? I don't know how to cancel my print subscription and just keep the digital access. Now that would be a great addition to the app.

Good articles but got probs. I like the writing of the articles, but there's way too many ads for a paid subscription. You should only get that in a free app and even then it's still too many. Also I bought a year subscription and only got 5 issues before it tells me I need to buy another. What's with that? Fix these things and it would be great.

Wow!!. This magazine on ipad totally blew me away for what it is. The way you swipe between articles, play videos for advertisements, touch buttons which change pictures and just the whole interactivity of it is phenomenal. It absolutely redefines what iPad can gives us a glimpse of what we should be expecting in the near future. Well done WIRED.

Where are my purchases???Back thank you!. Good job everyone! All my purchases have been restored,just have to download them again otherwise I would have reinstated my previous 5 star award for this great magazine. Not brown nosing just stating facts.

That's how you do it!. This is the gold standard for iPad digital magazines. Clever animation and easy navigation. Wired also has a great balance between short service pieces and long form articles. Always a good read. Other mag apps could learn a lot from Wired.

Even better!. Wired have improved the app based on customer feedback. Smaller downloads, cheaper price, better usability and there is more coming. If you like the Wired magazine this is a must have! This is a perfect example of where magazines are heading.

Houston, we have a problem. I love WIRED but there are fundamental problems with this app. Firstly is the fact that you now have to re-download the mag each time you want to read it. And the files are not small. It takes about 5 minutes to download, and if you close the app and do something else for a while, you have to download it again! The content is still great, and the multimedia is a step in the right direction, but the product is not perfect yet.

This is the new frontier. Beautiful. Each article is wonderfully written and informative. Reading a magazine isn't enough. The interface gets readers involved with the article. Things I wish for: ! A forum to allow readers to give their two cents worth of comments and allow readers to communicate with the editors. ! Although the interface is good. It's a bit hard to navigate around the magazine with a too simple toolbar ! More videos!!! ! More interactive buttons...can't specify this enough. The more I get to touch the articles. The more intrigued I am with the article!! Beautiful!!!!

great mag, some server issues... Was a fantastic app, now the latest issue just keeps repeating error during download (won't even begin downloading). Not much point if you cannot access the latest version AFTER having paid for it.. Please issue a fix asap. ** review updated, got around issue by kickstarting the preview download and pausing that to retry downloading the full magazine, all working well now. **

A Good first effort. First time I've read Wired Magazine (in any format). Some of the content I really enjoyed. Content wise, the only disapointment was paying $5.99 for a magazine where most of the articles were only a couple paragraphs long. Technology wise. Adobe's software was very poor. So many times I had to go back to the contents page, to move between articles. As for the Mars explorer interactive thing. It was appalling. Controlling the viewing of probe details was just painful. The technology was most definitely not worth $5.99.

Update process wipes old issues. When you update the app it wipes your old issues. This is completely unacceptable given the size of the download, if you want to download the issue again. You should be able to archive the issues to your computer, certainly not have to download them all over again each update. If there was a better method of storing back issues the rating would be far higher as its a good magazine and a nice app. But sorry, if buying the latest issue means I have to blow nearly a gig of my monthly data allowance to get the two issues I have already bought back on my iPad, they can shove it.

Needs an update. Past few versions have been fine, however after paying fir the November app I get an error every time I try to download it.

Painfully slow download, poor interface. A ripoff.. If you own Zinio, you will immediately see why Conde Naste have the electronic magazine all wrong. Zinio editions can be read immediately as they download while the interface means you'll have to wait. For me, with a slow, regional Australia, broadband connection this takes 30 minutes with several dropouts and 8 out of 10 times a crash. Don't bother! Looks like Wired, but what you've bought is a version you can't cut and paste like a print version; which you can't ogle (no zoom); it exists only in virtual space. I'd like to email bits to friends and students, cut out and keep aside some of the provocative diagrams and images. I can photocopy the print version so why not this one? This is disappointing. I use Wired often for discussion stimulus for my students. I'm lucky because the Uni library gives me access to the electronic version of Wired, but I'm happy to pay for an electronic subscription myself if I actually own it. For a magazine which has championed the digital revolution and led the field, the limitations of this version are retrograde.

Impressive. The first issue of Wired was so good I couldn't wait to download the next. I believe the developers have made optimum use of the iPad reading and interaction features. I look forward to the next issue. It is the ultimate magazine, why have I never picked up an issue before! Oh well, look forward to a long subription from me if they are anything like the first issue.

Not a great reading experience. I wanted something to read. Instead I got some sort of game. I installed and subscribed to this on the basis of the excellent experience offered by the New Yorker iPad app from the same publisher. That works perfectly with none of the annoyances of this app. To start with, every time I launch the app, I have to type in my iTunes password. When it detects a new issue is available, it tries to sell it to me, even though I'm subscribed for a year. Those may be bugs, but once you get past them, the actual designed behaviour is not actually a reading experience that I enjoy. I learned to read without moving my lips and pointing out each word with a finger quite some time ago. Aside from turning a page, reading for 40 years has been a one-handed activity. However this app does every trick it can to hide the text of articles. The screen is typically taken up with a graphic. A hint (or not) is given to where the text might be hiding. You have to press here, scroll there, to reveal it in tiny portions. I should be given points for each paragraph I find, so a ranking in Game Center could tell me if I've really done reading. When reading becomes a two-handed activity, it is no longer comfortable to do sitting in an easy chair or lying down. It's a chore to be done at a workstation. Not what a magazine ever was or would want to be. Surprising that Wired should be the one to so comprehensively misapply the technology.

Utterly Fantastic. I was almost not willing to wait the 3 hours it took to download, my Internet connection is not very good BUT it was well worth the wait. This is fantastic. I felt like I was in a futuristic movie. The content kept me busy for hours. Love all the embedded videos and special graphics. I can't wait for more. Perhaps you should consider making an app that allows you to download the new issues as they become available? This is a MUST HAVE item!! Download it now :-)

OMG - It's actually good!. How can they call this a Magazine? It's not - it's a Maga-SEEN! Sure, as some other reviewers have said, it's not always clear where you can touch (or what you can touch) to get an interactive experience, but I think half the fun is in exploring it yourself! I was wrong when I said elsewhere that the iPad wouldn't save the Magazine Industry... Wired has just set the new Benchmark for other online Magazine Publishers to follow. Looking forward to the next edition - well worth the money!!!

They've nailed it!. My understanding is that the newspaper and magazine honchos have been struggling for years about how to integrate the Internet in to their distribution model. Well, maybe the iPad has provided them with the answer...and the Wired guys took up the challenge. And N A I L E D it big time. What will newsagents sell in say five years time? iPads?

Best mag app around. A lot of work has been put into thinking about how to integrate content with the iPad format and the result is nothing nut outstanding. Not sure how future issues will work as the mag is pretty much one issue standalone. Also sometimes the navigation is not always obvious which direction to flick but it adds the whole surprise element to reading. Hooked, line and sinker! Give me more...

Awesome digital mag, but with teething problems. Wired is one of my favorite mags, and I love the iPad version too. It rocks. I'd have given it 5 stars except none of the videos worked for me in Australia, even though all the sound clips did work. I'll be buying the next version though as I'm sure they'll fix this bug very soon. Looking forward to the next edition already (got any annual subscription specials)?

Too many bugs. My Wired magazine mysteriously stopped coming. After 2 weeks (!) emails with Wired help, I was advised to delete and reinstall. This sort of fixed the problem. Customer service link on the app doesn't do anything. Links within the magazine to stories on Wired's website crash the app so I don't even get to read the articles. Wired is a tech magazine, so for it to be run through an app as bad as this is unbelievable.

Stunning. I admit I was a little skeptical about purchasing this initially, however once I got past the cover, I was just blown away-- the presentation, the images-- they're just visually stunning (even the ads!). Not to take anything at all away from the content, which was just fantastic.. This application doesn't just raise the bar, redefines what's possible on the iPad.

Not that bad.... Hey scrutarius... If you press the home and the lock button at the same time (at any time but even when reading wired) it takes a screen grab of whatever you're doing and puts it in your photos, where you can then email it or print (soon) or whatever. Problem solved... As for the content layout, I like it, and enough thought has gone into it so as to not require pinch to zoom in my opinion, with the font size being big enough. I think the other reviewers reasons against are in fact it's biggest positives, and I flick pages off via email to friends who I think may like it every now and then, when I would never bother whipping out my PHOTOCOPIER!? to do the same thing. The good news is that email is free and doesn't cost extra for colour. Not sure if Conde Nast would have a problem with it or if they're happy I'm promoting their product... I'm sure it's in writing somewhere... I like the magazine, and am giving it 5 stars to try and even out this other un-informed review of what is a pretty good mag, and the best format to date so far, besides the file sizes.

Please stop using the word 'fix'. For this to be 'fixed' there would have to be an improvement however all of the editions of this magazine that I and many many other people have paid for are still not available to us. Your website is still blithely ignoring the issues that you have created which is staggering considering the articles that you have published on the online community and it's backlash for poor customer treatment. At least have the decency to call this an 'Update to reset our App Store rating' rather than a 'fix'

Well it finally works on an iPad 2. At least with this update I can now read my purchased magazines, once I have download them AGAIN!!! Really, you guys should have better QA than this and making people re-download their magazines is extremely poor particularly from what is supposed to be a "technology" magazine. And whilst a free issue is nice idea I would really have preferred not to have to download several gigs of magazine data just because someone screwed up.

Great. This is a great magazine! It has interesting articles on a range of topics and I love the interactive elements. I had the same problem as everyone else with the June to July issue in that it wiped the previous issue and I wasn't able to re-download it again (kept getting stuck at 4.2MB). Fortunately I don't have the same problem this month. The app still contains the July issue. Well done!

What can I say.... Great magazine, there's plenty of content to wrap your fingers around. Well worth the $5.99. An issue I have though, elements that are interactive aren't obvious (requires you to read a touch this to do something notification) and sometimes I find myself tapping areas that look like it should be interactive but it isn't. Back to the magazine, its gonna keep me busy for a while now.

Great Magazine, app may need some fixes. app is great. i love all the articles. its so much fun to read this magazine in digital form. Just have a few things to note. unfortunately, the magazine is a 500mb download, so you can only download it in the safe net of a wifi network. This is due to the mass amount of video and audio content. No way to download off your 3G connection. If you have a slow connection you are going to have to be patient while the magazine is being downloaded. Not only is the magazine slow to download, but you will find that your month in and out wired magazine collection will soon take up all the valuable space on your ipads hard drive. From what i can tell there is no way to save the magazine off the ipad onto a computer or event delete it. Would like to see these issues sorted or addressed in one way or form, otherwise as my heading suggest great magazine.

Keeps crashing, but no way of contacting for support. Why make it so hard to get support... the support link needs you to register and provide the info based on HARD copy information even thought the APP is digital... I just keep bouncing back. Can’t send email as link requires apple email app loaded, but I use outlook... so keeps failing. Can you provide ACCESSIBLE contact for the app so I can get it fixed to NOT crash constantly since the update last week. Aaaargh. I cannot open any of my paid subscription.

Great magazine but upgrade doesn't work. Don't buy the issue it doesn't download. I wish I had read the reviews before I purchased the latest edition. I purchased June issue and had download issues the only issue I had no issues downloading was July. After much back and forth with Wired staff they sent me a foreign cheque for $4.99 which I cannot deposit even though I paid via credit card. I vowed never to buy the magazine again but decided to give them one moors chance in November and the are more download issues absolute muppets in wired have no idea how to deliver an iPad magazine.

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Fix the app and stop the stealing!!. I've enjoyed 3 previous issues of Wired for iPad despite the somewhat high single-issue price. I'm still waiting for fair-priced annual subscription model. But, most importantly, as many other users have noted, the latest issue can be purchased but NOT downloaded. Do, Wired will take your $$$ and give you NOTHING in return. i wish I had read these reviews before buying the latest issue as it seems this problem has persisted for over a week and is STILL wreaking havoc today (Nov. 7).

More garbage, v1.8. Still missing all the issues I paid for - how ironic that a magazine that prides itself on showcasing technology can't get an iPad app to work. Way to fail, Wired. Zero stars.

This is how a magazine should be on the iPad. I seriously LOVE that app. It's beautiful, respond well to your fingertip, easy to read and navigate... love the interactivity you get with the articles... the videos and embedded music is awesome. Totally worth $5... if we don't have to pay $5 every month. I hope the subscription will be a buck or something because I won't pay $5 every month.

purchased issues are gone. Not cool, Wired. The purchased issues are gone and I am asked to buy again? No way. Downloading them again is already a joke since we are paying for download/upload volume. Paying again for the same? Nope. I am done.

New version keeps logging me out. The new version keeps logging me out so I don't see my subscription. It's really annoying having to log back in!

Just ok... really!. I'm not sure why there's so many 5 stars review. The app is just ok. Embedded video? multiple photos per acticle... Nothing really exciting or new. The ONLY interesting feature is the interactive Mars Map. Look at GQ and other magazine, they don't have interactive maps. But they at least have some basic feature that's lacking in this app. 1. Text version for each article for easy reading. 2. Photos of articles should be able to go full screen and zoom. The price is crazy. People are just buying it to check it out. They really need to rethink about subscription fee and standard issue fee. Not worth it! Kevin

Non-functional subscription system. I'm not able to subscribe to this magazine. The interface appears to be broken. Fix the application if you want my money. ;)

Digital version uses multimedia excellently. I just bought the October issue, and I was blown away by the use of multimedia with the digital issue. From videos to voice recordings the digital version is far superior to anything that could be offered in the print version (except for maybe scratch and sniff).

SCAM - It charged me twice for the same issue after I archived it.. I purchased the June issue months ago and I went to archive the issue and it told me I could re-download it at any time free of charge. Today I went to re-download the June issue which I already paid for and it charged me again $3.99. I want my money back for what it charged me the second time for the same issue. What a scam.

Not a bad effort..... The content is a great as always... But I can get that on paper... And paying the same thing... The app is lacking. PDF with large videos and some sounds... Basically the same experience as the other magazines. What makes this great is the iPad but this is not that wired or adobe were aiming for. Also - price. Charge me and skip the adds or fill it with adds and give it to me for free. Magazines charge for issues to cover printing and distribution. They make money from adds and the data they share with ad agencies. Since you are collecting info from my device and there is no printing and transport - and charging 5 figures for advertising, then don't hit me twice for an issue charge. Not impressed... Expensive and quite large app.

Lost all my purchases on upgrade. Having faithfully purchased very issue of Wired since it arrived on the iPad I was mortified to see all my purchases disappear following the update. While the failure to test the app properly seems amateurish, the silence from the publisher, lack of an apology and several weeks that have now passed is inexcusable. I will not be wasting my time and money on further Conde Naste publications.

Cash grab. App is free but all it does is let you buy individual issues for $3.99.

Weird.... … Upgraded to iTunes 10.5 and then synced my iPad (iOS v4.x) and it automatically came up with 'Do you really want to remove the Wired App?' Hit the OK as it kept coming up and thought I'd just reinstall. Now Wired doesn't even show up in the list??? Deleted and redownloaded in iTunes and STILL doesn't even show up in my list of apps so I CAN sync? Why would their icon change to match the current magazine cover? Weird. This funky orange text on light grey background is making my eyes burn as I type. Would expect more from a Magazine that makes it's living with Graphic Artists, etc. Hopefully my subscription is intact...

Stuck at "Updating Library" (updated). Totally unusable. Deleted, re-installed, and on first-launch, it hangs forever on "Updating Library...". Contacted WIRED Magazine Support, no answer yet. The version of this app should be pulled from the App Store until this is fixed, don't know how it was approved. (UPDATE: Sept 28 2011 - it still had the problem but once I deleted and re-installed again - it works, so try that. WIRED support says this is a result of the In-App Purchase outage at Apple)

Awesome!. I had an issue with downloading the latest issue so I downloaded the app again and it's working great! 3.99 is a decent price when you consider what it costs at the newsstand here in Canada.

Took my money and ran....... I tried to purchase the latest issue (18.11). It took my money (it currently says I've purchased it) but it won't let me download it to read it. If this is a regular problem I wouldn't recommend anyone use this app. Every time I attempt to download the issue it tells me an error has occurred and to try downloading later. I've been trying off and on for the last 3 days with no luck.

Conde Nast digital screwed up!. Having your issues disappear on an app upgrade is bad! Worse is not telling people they have to repurchase the issues "at no charge", and of course pay for the 3 or 4 Gigabytes additional on their data plan. Even worse is is to set it up so if you didn't buy an issue you can't bail out before you are charged for it! That to me is FRAUD! G++

Dammit. Okay, updated the WIRED app and it ate all my past issues. Not pleased or impressed. GIVE THEM BACK.

I want my magazines back!. Last update removed all 5 0f my previously purchased issues. Don't upgrade, it's a disaster! When will this get fixed?

It crashes all the time!. It would've been an awesome app had it not crashed all the time! I mean ALL the time!

More please!. This is the kind of content that will save the magazine industry. Even the ads are great (Lea and Perrin sauce interactive ad was really cool). Keep the great ideas coming. You've just scratched the surface.

Don't Subscribe Until They Fix This App. The auto download doesn't work. Despite having a subscription I was charged to download the last issue (double charged actually - once for the monthly subscription and a second time for downloading the magazine within Newsstand). What's really annoying is to read Conde Naste's propaganda about saving money by buying a monthly ($1.99) or annual ($19.99) subscription -- yeah right!! I'm only glad I didn't pay for an annual subscription that doesn't work. Just for the record, it's not the Newsstand app because my National Geographic and Popular Science subscriptions work perfectly.

Promised so much, delivered so little.. Incredibly disappointing. It's like a giant, slow, expensive PDF. They touted it as something revolutionary and it's a waste of time, money and precious space (500MB). Jobs should place a call over there and whip them into shape for delivering such a poor magazine on such an amazing device. Better yet, Wired should apologize and give us all the next issue for free.

Lost all my Wired Issues after doing an update. I had two Wired Issues purchased and now they are gone, the only way to get them back is if I buy them again - including the latest April issue! I want my money back...

Still Completely Broken. Makes no difference how good the content is, if it all disappears after you pay for it. How do I get my money back?? New version April 27 2011 still doesn't recognize (or provide access to) the issues I PAID for. This app should have been banned from the app store by now. It's blatant fraud.

One of the best iPad magazine apps... I have 3 other iPad magazine apps (Popular science, maximum PC and Maxim) and Wired is the best one (tech wise of course). Shows great, love the animations on the articles and the occasional videos. They do a great job with this app. For $20 a year I personally don't think you can go wrong (although if you can get it cheaper from Wired directly why not. I didn't know that). But for the work they put into this magazine I am not complaining and i will renew no problem Always enjoy reading it. Only thing to say for those with a 16 GB iPad you are in trouble because some magazine files are really large and will eat up space quickly. I have a 32 GB and I can hold 9 or 10 mags along with every other mag and apps, books, movies etc before I run out. Of space.

Great content, but.... The iPad adaptation of Wired Magazine is nothing short of spectacular, and the content is consistently great. However, the app has consistently lost my purchases every time I have upgraded to a new version. Wired support have been understanding and have issued -- get this -- CHEQUES as a refund every single time. However, the cheques are US dollar and cost me extra money to cash, and Wired do not and will not include the taxes paid in their refund. The app design and content is great. The management of purchased issues is unforgivably bad. The support team are friendly and quick to respond, but are not flexible enough to do anything about the differences between Canada and the US. I cannot purchase any more issues, regardless of how much I like the magazine -- and I like it a lot.

Useless subscription. When Apple came up with newsstand, I thought the whole idea was that the latest magazine would be automatically downloaded. But it doesn't, even worse, you must babysit the download and you can only download one magazine at a time. It would be better if it was just a regular app. Every time I get on a plane, I pull out my iPad and think, good time to read wired. Nope, 350MB on wifi at an airport usually takes an hour and I can't use my iPad for anything else. Pure garbage. Now I just got an email noting that I have been charged for another year. Managing subscriptions on an iPad is in a ridiculously hidden location. (Store, touch featured, scroll to bottom, select apple ID, then select manage subscriptions). Then you can disable autorenew which is automatically chosen when you purchase an annual subscription.

This app is a disaster. The headline says it all. Worst app I’ve ever used!

More Crud. I will say overall it's not bad. There are some really neat things that pop up. But overall it's just bloated and distracting. And overpriced. It's just not readable. Back to the drawing board Wired...

Lost Library. After upgrading to iOS 5 the stand alone Wired app was replaced with Apple Newsstand as Wired said it would. However when I click on Wired within Newsstand it hangs. I can no longer read my previous purchases nor can I buy new issues.

disappointed. I will be removing this application. Wired EZines are too big and take forever to download adding extra cost to each issue for which the customer gets nothing, only frustration.

After viewing pages upon pages upon pages of Ads I deleted the App. I hate websites that has ad pop-ups and this iPad version of "wired" is absolutely horrendous in terms of interactive Ads that almost hold you ransom on a page. For example the lexus ad that makes you find the vehicles on the page, prevents you from turning the page. On most pages it takes, on average, 3 or 4 swipes to turn a page. On some articles, swiping up doesn't even finish the article so the last sentence on the page leaves you hanging? Then from frustration of being locked on one "Ad" page, I hit home to get out of the magazine to find that even though I did not exit the magazine, the magazine re-starts from the beginning with the automatic pop-up video of the magazine cover. Since the business model of this magazine is from advertisers, I would recommend that the iPad version of "Wired" should be free; and even then I am not sure I would go through this horrendous experience again. Reading magazines on the iPad may be a nice concept, but holding a 2 pound ipad like a magazine creates new meaning to carpal tunnel syndrome "iPad carpal".

I am so angry with Wired tonight. Lost all the issues purchased. I was just about laying down after a long day and wanted to finish reading the march issue and it was gone ! I have to buy it again? No way! I'm done! WIRED : I'm not buying you anymore. Anyways, the same articles are online couple of weeks after ...

Where did all my purchased content go?. Upgrading left me without all of my previously purchased issues. If I could give this app a zero I would! Come on Wired get this fixed, I want my issues back or a full refund. Wired, you're dead to me.......

Very Nice, But.... The two way scrolling is absolutely the way to handle this kind of content. Also enjoyed the clever reformatting of content from landscape to portrait orientations. And the copy size makes for an easy read over the typical PDF dumps of the print version that other iPad magazines are using. But... the advertising overwhelms the articles - maybe you could implement an option setting that would hide the advertising after I had viewed an ad at least one or two times for at least 5-10 seconds. And let's work on a subscription price to reward loyal readers.

Ditto: Lost all of my issues after updating to 1.6. Wired, wake up and get it together! I had 6 previous issues of your mag and would like to read them without re-buying. Please let us know what you're doing to fix the issue. thx.

Return my purchased mags. I lost all my purchased mags, even the one I have not yet read! More bugs created than fixed! Steelwarrior

Doesn. I'm running ios4 on my ipad 2. This is one of the most frustrating apps. Every time I am downloading something, and I shift to another app, it stops downloading. VERY FRUSTRATING. Enjoy the magazine, but the amount of effort to download is not worth it.

Latest Release - V1.8, Still An Unmitigated Disaster. Does anyone test software updates or do you just leave it all to the consumer ? Since updating, this app when launched displays monthly content ok but when I select one, a blank, grey, featureless screen. Please, stop updating this app until you can provide a version that does not destroy the existing editions installed

Ham-handed hacks. Wired continues to drop the ball with this app. Yes, you can redownload previously purchased issues just buy hitting "buy". However, I had three issues on my device (totaling 1GB) and they all had to redownload and reinstall. Dreadful waste of time. Also, I worry that I've now somehow lost a GB of storage on my iPad with corrupted duplicate issues. Love the mag, HATED the technical issues with this app since DAY 1. Get your selves together.

Très belle édition numérique. Donner l'accès gratuit aux abonnés de la version papier est un coup de génie. La version papier et numérique se complètent bien, donnent beaucoup de flexibilité aux lecteurs.

no support. Same as Brad. I had to replace my iPad and since getting the new one there is no way I can find to get my subscription going again. Numerous requests for "support" have been ignored. One word on the support form, when you HAVE to enter a zip code for the form to actually submit, it's awfully hard to do that when you are not an American customer and, therefor, do not have a zip code. I loved the magazine but this experience has turned me right off, no way will I subscribe again.

Good magazine. Nice format. Needs cut and paste.. I like readIng the magazine this way. I would really like to be able to copy text. It's a shame to have the magazine in this format, but be stuck with the limitations of paper. I wanted to look up a name from one of the stories... by the time I got my browser open, I couldn't remember what to search for.

Worst $20 I have ever spent!. I purchased an annual subscription and I have never been able to get it to work. Sent a request to Wired "Customer Service" (is that what's its called these days?) and received no response. As the title states - Worst $20 I have ever spent (and I haven't always made great purchase decisions!)!!!

Used to be great!. I've read wired since it first came out, starting of course in print form, and now on the iPad, but no more. The mag has turned more into a video game than a provider of information. While there are still some excellent articles, each month seems to have turned into a contest of what new gimmick can be added to an article. This no doubt causes the crashes others have complained about. There are so many swooping animations, redirects to web sites, swipes up, down, double clicks and multiple choice selections, the experience is like playing a maze game. They seem to have lost the fact an excellent mag provides excellent information, not just gimmicks.

Can’t have full screen on iPhone XS. The screen isn’t adapted to the iPhoneX and XS. If you don’t fix that I’m cancelling my subscription.

Does not work sine ios5. Very frustrating. Cannot access my past issues since the Wired app was replaced by Newsstand on ios5. The app just hangs! Shame on you Conde Nast.

Crash!!. Used to be a great app. But after update, all this app does is crash. Please fix it!!

DO NOT UPDATE WIRED APP UPDATE 1.6!. I just downloaded the Wired Mag app update and now wish I didn't. All the issues I previously purchased (and that's EVERY one that has been made available for the iPad) is now GONE! I refuse to purchase each issue again as it's pretty expensive once you add it up (and the app is supposedly designed to keep track of every purchase so you can archive past issues and/or reload them as desired). Please WIRED, fix this seriously buggy app update and RESTORE all my purchased digital issues again ASAP!!!

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Great content, terrible app. I subscribe to 10 different new publications and have apps for all of them. Wired’s content is fantastic. The app is the absolute worst of all of them. It’s not even close.

Making it worse. They keep changing the app to make it worse. Now I can’t even archive an issue !

The future is here. After seeing all of the other magazine and newspaper apps on the iPad fail on at least one front (cost, lack of innovation, lack of additional content, poor navigation or organization), the Wired app has done an amazing job. While I'd like to see it under $5 per issue, I didn't feel ripped off like I did with other apps. Wired gave me more material in a better format than the paper copy so I feel that the cost they saved in physical distribution was made up with the additional touches that they added to the app. If they make a yearly digital subscription close to the print price ($10-$25/yr), I would be entirely comfortable subscribing. As for this particular issue, I don't know if they saved up their good stories for this debut digital issue or if it was due to the presentation, but I felt like this was one of the strongest issues of Wired that I have ever read (though the article on home gardening was a waste except for the layouts for your own home garden...it was too much snark and not enough real content). Great job Wired, please just follow up this amazing release with a reasonable and easy to use digital subscription and you'll have at least one happy subscriber. As for anyone else that has a hand in making apps for magazines and newspapers, look at this app for inspiration, this is what the iPad was made for.

Can’t even log in. I just paid for a subscription but can’t even log into the app. What is going on here

Does not work. I subscribed to Wired digital and the app won’t accept my login

Subscription?. Only magazine covers are visible on the app. When I go in through the web it just kicks me out and keeps asking me to subscribe. frustrating.

Can’t sign in. I bought a subscription and get the daily emails, but when I try to sign in to the app to view the magazine, it says there are technical difficulties.

Pricey Oooh and Aahh. I like Wired and have been a subscriber to both the magazine and online publications. Wired's iPad app is the logical next step in the evolution of the magazine and its new home on a tablet looks stunning and better than its print sibling. Interactivity brings a new dimension to the reading experience—though it took me a while to realize that reading Wired on the iPad involves not just scrolling from one page to another but swiping up and down to read spreads that would normally appear side by side. The graphics, interactive features, videos, and extras are welcome additions to the magazine—though the premium price is not. Like other Wired app readers, I welcome all the new innovations of Wired's app, but I would prefer a subscription model that offers a loyalty discount to readers who enjoy reading every issue of the magazine. $60 a year feels a bit steep to read what is available online or one can find in similar but alternate publications. Sure, the ooh-and-ahh factor is nice, but like most things digital it wears off after a few swipes. Wired, kudos for version 1 of what's sure to become a popular iPad app. Wired is slick, elegant, sophisticated, and well designed. However, if you want me to keep downloading, I'll be happy to buy a subscription that makes financial sense for readers on a tight budget.

Great app -- but the shape of things to come?. I've been waiting for this app to come out since the iPad's launch, and it doesn't disappoint. More than all the other magazine apps I've tried (in particular Popular Science's) this one really embraces the digital/mobile medium. It's easy to navigate (much more so than PopSci's app) and has some actual interactivity that distinguishes it from the print version. I only have a couple of reservations. First is that $5 price tag. Even with the app's interactivity it seems a bit much. A subscription pricing model would be much better. Second (and this is related to the first one) it's not quite different enough from the print magazine experience to be the next big thing that justifies the much higher price tag. The interactivity it nice, but it's nothing blind-blowing; it feels added on. What it needs is a more radical conception that's different from the print and online versions of the magazine. This is just the first issue of course, and Wired says this app will be evolving. It's off to a great start --I just wish they'd knock a few bucks off the price.

I am a print subscriber and I can’t figure it out. Boooo, a print subscriber ought to be able to access this somehow!

Where are the new articles?. I wanted a place to read the newest articles and this is just a bunch of .pdfs of the print version. Not helpful

Wired PLEASE LISTEN!!!. This digital magazine should be the envy of all other magazines offered through iTunes. We have finally reached the pinnacle of electronic media with this Wired issue. I would say it is close to flawless, the content is interesting, interactive and everything I could have hoped for. One thing Wired is behind on is the way Apps are offered to consumers now a days. A paid app should = little to no advertising. While a free app can be bogged down with different advertisements. With a price point of $4.99 is very step, especially taking up over half a gig of space. I love your magazine but please take a hint from Marvel, make an app that contains your magazine, don't make each edition its own app. I'm far from the type of person who complains about the price of an app truly, but its very expensive especially when you can get a years worth of the paper magazine for under $10 with a free hat. Two things, bring it down to a reasonable price, otherwise you will not see as high of a purchase rate (everyone wanted to check out the first one) two organize it in a more convenient way for users.

Cannot Login. Sooo Bad. Cannot even login.

Can’t even log in.. Print subscriber, can’t log in. “Technical issues.” Broken app.

Bad photocopy. Yes, oh, that was done. Was that they photo copied every page. A huge waste of opportunity.

Why?. This app is a PDF reader with no active links.

Wired Magazine App. I pay for the magazine and love the content of each issue. My challenge each month is to download the magazine through the newsstand app of the iPad. Nothing is easy I get the email that the new issue is ready to download. So I click the email link expecting that the magazine will download directly from the link... wrong. So I go through all the steps by entering name and address only to find that my name is already registered and to go to the app and enter by using my email and password. I don't remember my password. So I try to use the option to enter my account number from the label. No problem, but wait, there is no label on the magazine... The account label is in the plastic mailing bag on a mailing card that is next to the beautiful woman promoting "GQ" magazine and the 100 sexiest women of the 21st century. I re-focus my attention on entering my account number and tap the submit button, only to find the same result as previous response... "go through app and use email and password". I got frustrated and then hit the "forgot password" button and requested to reset my password. I'll wait for a reply and perhaps get to download the new issue tomorrow. Bottom line, for a high tech magazine, the app is pretty low tech in ease of use and accessing content.

What ap?. It’s a PDF not an ap.

Won’t let me log in. The app won’t let me log in. I have a subscription, but when I click on the option to sign in, it doesn’t work.

Absolutely Appallingly Bad. I like magazines in the iPad format, and Wired is a good magazine. This app however is absolutely abysmal. Right now I'm in the middle of trying to restore my 7 issues after having wiped my iPad. I have fast internet and all magazines and app downloads from anyone other than this publisher (conde naste) download lightning fast. These ones are unbelievably slow to download and the issue is compounded by several things... - the app tells me either 'there is no internet connnection' all the time, or when you do connect to there servers it drops connections constantly (only happens in conde naste magazine applications... nowhere else on my ipad does this happen ever). it won't restore the connection on it's own so you just have to keep trying until it does. - the app keep forgetting which issues i have downloaded. Either that or it has a 5 issue limit or something. I can download an issue, finallly see it complete, read a portion, switch to another app and the next time i come back it can tell me i don't have that issue downloaded. What it decides I've downloaded appears to be completely artbitrary but it's super frustrating. - there is no background downloading. you have to sit there with this app open and watch the horrificly slow downloads. if you switch to another app, if you read another issue, if you allow the ipad to sit idle long enough to enter power save, the app stops downloading. you have no choice but to sit and babysit the download. These problems are universal too all conde naste magazine apps that I've tried. Wired is a good magazine but I'm thinking about giving up on my subscription because I no patience left for this app.

Excellent reporting, Nonfunctional app. Paid subscription user, but the login gives an error. Is it too much to ask that a magazine about… technology, have a passable app?

Where are the articles?. As another reviewer mentions, you cannot click to get to the actual article. Or maybe just I cannot.

Decent start, but needs glaring improvement. This is the third magazine app I've used, and the second dedicated to a specific publication (the other two being NY Magazine's app and Zinio). What I love about Wired is that unlike the other two, which basically read like PDF copies of their dead-tree counterparts, Wired takes the next step toward using the iPad's capabilities to generate a new, more complete reading experience. I appreciate this. However, the pricing structure of Wired is simply unacceptable for me as a consumer. Whereas NY Mag lets print subscribers download the digital copies gratis, or Zinio allows you to get digital subscriptions to all their magazine offerings, Wired does neither. Instead, Conde Nast treats the iPad like the checkout lane at the supermarket and charges for issues a la carte. While Wired is a fine publication and they really went the extra mile to present their articles in more iPad-friendly ways, until Conde Nast supports either of the two subscription models outlined above, there's no way I'm regularly getting digital issues (disclaimer: I got the free sponsored issue of Wired to base my review of the format off of). So yeah, sadly, I will be holding off on buying any issues until there's some way to subscribe that doesn't feel like such a ripoff. But there is promise, as long as the Conde Nast executives do the right thing with the subscription model.

Stop the logouts!. This is insane, every couple of days I have to log back in, what on the Earth is your token refresh policy? I’ve never seen that before.

Garbage App. I cancelled my subscription because of this app format. How is it that the FTimes and Economist can figure this out but Wired and Conde Nast cannot? Jesus! Hire new tech devs and UX teams.

Broken. Persistently down. I can’t log in.

Innovative and fun. I think that this is the most innovative and interesting magazine I have yet to read on the iPad. Apart from cost, I'm not sure I understand most of the complaints registered by other reviewers. Maybe I haven't been using this app long enough to realize the glitches, but this is the only magazine I've seen that truly integrates the multimedia aspects of the tablet. This app is what we all aspire to make in journalism school. It's fun, playful and interesting. It adds new levels of content rather than just copying the print edition or slightly melding it with the website. On the terms of advertising, Wired uses far less ads than one would typically see in a print edition. They're even interesting, interactive advertisements, not just long scrolling pages of flat pictures. Advertisers don't seem to realize the incredible level of interest achieved through interactive ads, so they aren't pouring money into a relatively untested system. If there were more ads, cost could go down. But, without ads, the app must be sustained by online newsstand prices. So, either way, someone will find something to complain about until a reliable system of subscriptions can be put in place. But, overall, I have read this magazine from cover to cover, and I plan on continuing indefinitely. Bravo, Wired. Best iPad mag I've found so far.

Impossible to read text. It is impossible to read text from a cellphone. Should not be hard to fix

Awful. Conde Nast should be embarrased with itself! As a major worldwide publisher, it should offer top-of-the-line digital companion apps to its print magazines. I have been a longtime subscriber of a number of their magazines, and yet, I can't even access ANY of them on my iPhone 7 Plus (or any iPhone I've owned prior)?! As a paying customer who is entitled to receive a digital subsciption, it's really awful that I can't access it just because I don't currently own an iPad (I haven't been able to replace my broken one for a long time). And for those who do have an iPad, they may not want to carry it everywhere just to access their magazines. I also agree with others who have said the apps have many bugs and problems. In fact, the apps haven't changed all that much since I owned an iPad 1 -- do you hear that?! A FIRST EDITION iPAD!! You guys probably need to start from scratch and develop entirely new apps for each of your magazines, or perhaps even develop a single app where we can access all of our Conde Nast subscriptions. I'd especially love to read all of my magazines on the go, but Wired and Allure need to be taken care of first. Please don't disappoint your longtime customers. There are ton of magazine choices these days -- and as much as I love my Conde Nast magazines, I'd hate to have to find similar replacements elsewhere just because you guys don't care about paying customers who should be getting digital access and can't.

App fail. Cannot login to the app, consistently get an error msg. Login works fine in the browser. What’s the point of this app?

Looks great; usability nightmare. There are certainly a lot of good things in this app, and it's cool to see some of the possibilities for the future of magazines, but if this is as good as it's going to get, that future looks pretty bleak. The biggest problem is navigation. It's half traditional magazine (standard pages with text and images) and half new format (vertical flows and interactive content). The problem is that there's now way to know where one ends and the other begins. For example, I found myself continuously trying to scroll down on single pages, not knowing whether there was more content or not. The whole idea of giving some pages more height than others really seems like an answer to a question that nobody asked; imagine how annoying it would be if half the pages in a print magazine folded out like a Playboy centerfold (only without the centerfold). Similarly, it's really difficult to tell which content is interactive and I found myself trying to tap everything on a page to find out. Other interface issues are no zoom, no back button, no text-only mode (Zinio's got it), and one too many taps to get to the page overview mode (2 to Zinio's 1). Add to this the high price and outrageous file size and it's hard to recommend this app. I love Wired's content and I was really looking forward to this one, but they dropped the ball on too many basic elements to call this a success.

Great magazine. But hard to read in an iphone

Logs me out every 5 minutes. Great content! Wish I could access it

The best effort from Conde yet. The reviews saying that this is a mere PDF reflash are way off-base; I have the print edition sitting alongside this version, and the iPad version is formatted totally differently in both orientations, geared specifically to read well on the smaller screen. It also has plenty of new content from the print mag (though I assume it's all available on the website), and having audiovisual components along with the print-style layout is really great. Hearing the individual components of Trent Reznor's song-composing breakdown while reading along was inspired, and even things like the "How to Write a Joke" story feel more fleshed out when you can actually hear the things being written about. My only concern is the price and any subscription bundles, but if it's reasonable, I'd totally ditch my print subscription and buy an iPad one, even for slightly more than the dirt-cheap print sub, which is massively subsidized by ad costs and the printing industry's fine quirks. There are minor quibbles, but overall this is massively better than GQ and Esquire's iPad hack jobs.

Digital login $5 FAIL. Upon PAYING $5 for a digital subscription to this magazine, installing, creating a login, the app says “…experiencing technical difficulties” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Joke! Robbery! DO NOT SUBSCRIBE. They will steal from you from the get go. Login is way too complicated.

App only available to “Print” subscribers. Surely paying for a Digital subscription means you get access to the app, right? Wrong! You need a Print subscription. What????

iPad targeted magazine app. Useless on a phone. No good article views, and no access to breaking news between magazine releases.

App doesn’t work. I love the content from Wired Magazine, but the app is terrible. As a subscriber, I’m betting off using the website; except that I am often reading on my phone- so that’s annoying.

Unable to login. Just keep getting a “technical difficulties” error.

Can't log in. Really?

terrible app. what a disappointment

Log in still broken. See subject line. They should fix this, regretting my subscription

Almost Perfect. I bought the June launch issue as soon as it was released and enjoyed the work WIRED had done to bridge the gap between traditional and the still unknown future of digital content. Two large questions loomed for me, the first was asked by many. "Were they really going to charge $5.99 for every issue?" The second was mostly my own curiosity, "What would July look like?" At that point the app simply launched the June issue but now this update has answered both questions, and I could not be more satisfied. I want to be one of the few to say that I would happily pay $3.99 for each issue of WIRED I choose to download, and I love that the new interface gives me the option. I can see that each month I will be able to make a choice, and skip the months I don't want. Can't do that with a subscription! The only reason I titled this review "Almost Perfect" is in the hope that WIRED never stops considering how the iPad and future devices can be utilized to deliver interesting content to it's audience. Thanks WIRED! Keep it coming.

A political mag. Why does this magazine post so many political editorial pieces. Not the tech mag it used to be. You have alienated me and hence I won’t return. Good luck

Login down. Installed a few days ago and haven’t been able to log into my account since. Useless.

Worst Apps Ever. Wired makes you re-sign in EVERY TIME on their iphone browser. Customer service has no idea how to fix this. Ironically Wired Magazine has horrible tech.

Wow!. I love the magazine on the iPad and exactly what I was hoping for with several of my favorite tech magazines! I just downloaded July and this was my first experience with Wired on my iPad. I am extremely impressed and find it an utter joy to read. However, I won't be downloading many copies at $3.99 each. I just don't understand the publishers of these magazines and news papers. Why are you being pigs on the pricing? Don't you understand that most of us stopped buying your hard copies years ago and is perfectly happy getting our news and info on the web for free? Look, I love reading books and certain periodicals on my iPad, laptop, or my iPhone. But I am not going to fork over $50 a year to do so. Price it right!! $0.99 per copy and I (along with millions others) will buy it every month. But you can't charge more than an annual mail subscription and expect people to buy! I know your biggest cost are the trees you kill for the hard copies. Just be businessmen and charge us a modest price for a digital copy and find adverting partners and bring back your industry! Otherwise, roll over and die and let the bloggers and web news sites take over your readership!

A Must Have Whether You Like the Mag or Not.. This app shows the true potential of future publications with it intertwining text and media in an innovative layout. The July 2010 magazine surprised me in the way they replaced a traditional picture within the magazine with an embedded media object such as rotating a 3D object or listening to portions of musical beat being created step-by-step. Features that could not be done on paper. In the recent issue, they bring in a live twitter stream with a hashtag related to the article, simply showing off at this point, but really bringing past visions of such content to reality. Handsdown with the vast amount of media embedded within each article the price of this app is easily justified (come on its just $4) since it brings you into a new level of interactivity within great articles. I would easily purchase the digital version of the mag over its $1 more counter part and once you really get a good feel for what the app brings you will no longer value paper over digital. My only concern is the size of each magazine. I understand that a vast amount of video, etc. is stored within each download but 300mb+ is just ridiculous. Sure if I only used the wired app on my 16gb iPad I could store a little more than 50 issues on here but I have far more than Wired on my device. And it definitely forces you to download from WiFi at home and no possibility for download over WiFi.

Wake up. Fix this app idiots

not as digital as I though. I think it is just another step to creating real digital magazine. But: no zooming, no turning, no copy paste and tons of commercials. With no zooming and turning I felt like my iPad was working only for 20%. Copy paste and better "find" function is a thing I was looking for. Like when the showed glasses frames, I thought I could buy one, tried to google it, but I can't! What is it? But I have direct link to infinity site... I don't care about infinity site, I want to see frames! And last point about commercials: come on guys, there was only 2 commercials about iPad. More than 10 about cars. Do you really think that people that are reading this thing on iPad would be more interested in new car or In new iPad gadget or app? This app was more disappointing for me, than something amazing and must-to-have thing. And it wasn't really a magazine - there was not much to read. It should cost not mere than 1,5$, as it is more like demonstration what a digital magazine could look like, what Adobe can do with HTML5, and with that much of commercials the price of the app seems to be to high. I'm dissapoinetd. That was a waste of money.