Canadian Geographic app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 4352 ratings )

News Newsstand Travel & Regional
Developer: Magazinecloner.com US LLC

Free

Current version: 7.2.5, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 02 Nov 2012
App size: 26.1 Mb

-30 day FREE trial with every new Canadian Geographic subscription purchased in-app-

Comprehensive, authoritative, delightfully readable and fabulously illustrated with colour photographs, maps, charts, diagrams and pull-out posters. As a means of understanding Canada’s history, people, places, culture, environment and wildlife, there is no other magazine like Canadian Geographic.

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This is a free app download. Within the app users can purchase the current issue and back issues.

Subscriptions are also available within the application. A subscription will start from the latest regular issue at the time of purchase.

-The subscription will renew automatically unless cancelled more than 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for the product.
-You may turn off the auto-renewal of subscriptions through your Account Settings, however you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period.
-Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased.
-If a subscription offers a free trial, at the end of the trial period, you will be charged the full price of the subscription. You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription settings on your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged.

Users can register for/ login to a pocketmags account in-app. This will protect their issues in the case of a lost device and allow browsing of purchases on multiple platforms. Existing pocketmags users can retrieve their purchases by logging into their account.

We recommend loading the app for the first time in a wi-fi area so that all issue data is retrieved.
If your app will not load past the splash page after a first install or an update, please delete and reinstall the app from the App Store

Help and frequently asked questions can be accessed in-app and on pocketmags.

If you have any problems at all please do not hesitate to contact us: [email protected]

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You can find our terms and conditions here:
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Pros and cons of Canadian Geographic app for iPhone and iPad

Canadian Geographic app good for

I was able to read the free trial issue, ok, on my iPod touch 4 th gen. Dont think I would pay the $6.99 to $12.99 that is wanted for the digital monthly issues, when you can get the printed yearly (6 issues) for the advertised rate of around $24. Since there is no printing or distribution costs with the digital versions, these should only cost around $1.50.

I spent a couple of years in anticipation of buying an iPad so I could read my favourite magazines on it. Of course, I love my iPad for many other reasons too but a prominent joy is Canadian Geographic, and Macleans, along with Outdoor Photographer, The Tablet and the occasional Newsweek magazine. In my experience Canadian Geographic downloads fairly quickly and I can start reading the first few pages almost instantly. It is also on my iPhone although the small screen does not do justice to the stunning photographs. It declutters my life not to have the print versions of magazines filling up every space, as I had trouble parting with them. Now I can carry around a multitude in a very compact device. Keep up the good work!

Proud to be 100% Canadian. Even more now since I subscribed to this magazine. Great stories and articles from folks who really care about my beautiful country. The photos are amazing and its a great deal. I recommend.

Some bad moments

Are you kidding with these prices?? Can you say "ripoff"? Instant delete for this app.

The app wont load. I have deleted the app and tried again and received the same thing.Very disappointing. Cannot purchase previous issues. Ridiculous

Cant access my subscription to read on iPad... Disappointing. Deleting and not renewing my paper subscription. Nat. Geos app works flawlessly

Ive had a subscription to the hard copy for years and they are telling me I have to pay again so I can get it on my iPad (full price) They have lost a customer, not renewing my subscription They need to learn how to keep customers happy

Several serious problems with this: The app (the "reader") is very buggy, especially as regards download abilities and speed -- frequent failures during downloads, long and slow download times. App support is spotty and slow, and almost always consists of the same advice -- "delete, reinstall, redownload", which is followed, when these dont work (which they usually dont), by manual intervention by the support staff to "populate" your account with the missing or incomplete issues, a process which can take upwards of a week. Issue availability lags the availability of the print issue by several months -- probably as a result of the following. This "subscription" has no connection whatever with the original Canadian Geographic Magazine (CGM). In fact, CGM, when contacted, will explicitly distance themselves from any involvement with this iPad version/subscription. It is in fact from a UK company called Pocketmags which, presumably, license the content from CGM, and then create a digital image of the print copy of the magazine. This means that the user sees only a digital copy of the magazine which, in full-page mode, is difficult to read on the iPad unless one zooms in for a larger font, which then forces the user to scroll the page within the iPad screen to read an article. Readers should be aware that this is definitely NOT an iPad version of the magazine in the same sense that, for example, National Geographic or Backpacker Magazine are, with iPad-optimized and/or iPad-enhanced content. CGM is a great magazine, if your interests run in that direction, but is very definitely better read in the original print format. On the iPad it just hasnt been well implemented at all. Finally, Apple and the App Store need to make it abundantly clear in their store descriptions of the product what the user is actually purchasing, and from whom. Especially, they should be making clear which "subscriptions" are true iPad subscriptions (check out the afore-mentioned Nat Geo & Backpacker for examples) directly from their respective publishers, and which are third-party digitizations of print materials. Lotar on Vancouver Island

Could never download more than 39% of any issue. Keeps downloading forever and asking me for my Apple ID

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