Gramophone Magazine

Name: Gramophone Magazine
Rating: 3.2 (19 reviews)
Author: MA Business & Leisure

By: MA Business & Leisure

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Get access to over 1,000 issues of the comprehensive monthly guide to the best of classical music on your iPad and iPhone for just £6.99 per month.

If you want to read interviews with the leading figures of classical music and find out which are the latest must-buy classical releases, then Gramophone is the magazine for you. With its unrivalled 90 years of experience, Gramophone gives its readers the world’s most in-depth and knowledgeable analysis of classical music, past and present.

The iPad/iPhone edition brings you selected pages from the latest issue as soon as it is published. You can subscribe within the application for full access, which will give you the latest issue along with every edition from our 90 year history. With over access to over 1,000 since our launch in 1923 you will then be able to explore one of the most comprehensive and detailed guides to classical music any enthusiast could ever want.

During your subscription you can sync back issues to your device. These will remain in place if your subscription expires, unless your device removes them (for example when running low on disk space). Re-downloading issues requires a current subscription.

The digital magazine has fully interactive navigation and search functionality to make using the digital edition simple. Features include:

• Swipe or tap the page edges to flip to next/previous page. • Use the animated thumbnail view to flick through the pages. • Latest issues come with links to Apple Music so you can hear samples of the recordings • Pinch or double-tap pages to zoom. • Switch between single or double-page view. • Search the current issue or the archive. • Tap any page links to web sites, email addresses, phone numbers or maps. • Tap contents-page links to jump to a particular article. • Sync issues to your device for offline reading (requires wi-fi). • Network connection required otherwise.

We recommend first running the app within a wi-fi area so it can sync the latest issue to your device - after that you can use it anywhere. Subscribers will receive new issues automatically.

Subscriptions are available within the app at the following prices:

£6.99 per month £79.99 per year

In addition, please note the following standard features of auto-renewable subscriptions:

• Your payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Apple Account Settings after purchase. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.

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User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

MA Business & Leisure

Rating:

3.20

(19) 0.50

Version:

15.0.5 Last updated: 2026-01-20

Version code:

881628624

Creation date:

2011-06-17

Compatible devices:

Size:

4.36MB

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Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

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User Reviews

Gramophone’s iPad app delivers strong visuals and a rich, decades-spanning archive with easy navigation and some integration features. However, it remains a basic, PDF-like reader with limited interactivity, a controversial subscription model, and performance/readability drawbacks that affect everyday use.

Pros

Beautiful, high-resolution page rendering that faithfully reproduces print quality.
Extensive archive with cross-issue search (back to 1923) and the ability to bookmark articles.
Intuitive navigation and reading experience (easy swipes and pinch-to-zoom) with offline reading on iPad.
Integration features like links to Apple Music for recordings and iTunes previews/purchases.
Convenient subscription model on iPad that provides broad access to issues and easy downloading of new issues.

Cons

Essentially a PDF-like reader with limited interactivity: no text highlighting or copying, no single-article view, and no easy way to save individual articles.
Subscription/access model is problematic: no in-app subscribe option, access ends when the subscription lapses, and older issues can be erased or unavailable after renewal.
Performance and reliability issues: slow page flips, hangs, and inconsistent or problematic downloads.
Readability/accessibility problems: font size cannot be adjusted and pages are often image-based, making reading on iPad difficult.
Search/archive features are limited or not intuitive: finding specific reviews or navigating the archive is not as straightforward as users expect.

Recent reviews

The app is a very basic reader. No functionality beyond what you'd get from a PDF of the issue. Actually less functionality--this app has limited zoom capability and won't even let you highlight or copy text. No single-article view capability. No ability to save individual articles or reviews to come back to. I can get better functionality by underlining and dog-earing the print edition.

by Bi*****, 2025-10-03

The coverage of recordings, with which one can always disagree, aside, the app itself is excellent. You can search the entire run of Gramophone and, best of all, most reviews link to recordings on Apple Music.