# ImagineFX

> No.1 Guide For Digital Artists

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id451426922](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id451426922)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id451426922`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Future plc
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (626 ratings)
- **Version:** 7.1.14
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-12
- **First published:** 2011-10-12
- **Size:** 25 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/imaginefx/id451426922)
- **Website:** [https://www.creativebloq.com/imaginefx](https://www.creativebloq.com/imaginefx)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.futureplc.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.futureplc.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

ImagineFX is the ultimate magazine for fantasy and sci-fi digital artists. Explore step-by-step tutorials on character design, environments, and visual storytelling; exclusive interviews with top illustrators, and curated galleries from around the globe.

Download this app to access back issues, specials, and future issues, with a 30-day free trial for new subscribers and flexible subscriptions. In-app purchases, pricing, auto-renew details, and privacy policy are available inside the app.

## Rankings

- #66,959 — Overall
- #51 — publish

## Review summary

Although ImagineFX offers strong content and a good digital reading experience, most reviews highlight persistent reliability problems. Users praise the magazine’s art and tutorials, but repeatedly report failed purchases/restores, slow loading, download stalls, and lost access to subscriptions. Support is often unresponsive, and server migrations/cross‑platform issues complicate use. Overall, the content is valued, but the app’s stability and account management require major fixes.

### Pros

- Excellent magazine content and artwork with interviews, tutorials, and inspiration for artists.
- When it works, the digital reading experience is intuitive: easy navigation, tappable links, and zoom.
- The digital format offers convenient access to ImagineFX’s issues and is highly valued by readers.
- Wide coverage of digital and traditional art topics makes it a strong resource for artists.

### Cons

- Purchases and restoration often fail to unlock back issues; readers report being charged without receiving access and refunds are difficult to obtain.
- Chronic performance problems: slow loads, crashes, and being stuck in a download queue.
- Lost or inaccessible subscriptions/back issues due to account/server migrations and slow or unhelpful support responses.
- Ads, cross-device syncing issues, migration to new servers, and limited full-screen support on some devices.
- Offline issues: blank cover images and problems viewing content offline.

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