Flipster – Digital Magazines

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36/100

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App Rating

2.6

Votes

286

App Age

11y 10m

Last Update

Oct 01, 2025

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Metrics	Current App	Category Top Average	Difference
Rating	2.47	4.53	-45%
Number of Ratings (Voted)	285	1M	-100%
App Age	11y 10m	12y 9m	-7%
In-app Purchases Price	$0	$90
Update Frequency	45d	38d	+18%
Title Length	28	22	+27%
Subtitle Length	0	22
Description Length	681	2 464	-72%
Number of Screenshots	1020	1568	-35 %
Size	16MB	120MB	-86 %

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Flipster is a free digital magazine service provided courtesy of your library. Find libraries near you that offer Flipster, then explore, download, and read magazines any time on your Apple devices. If you find that your library does not offer Flipster, encourage them to sign up today. Features: - Locate participating libraries - Browse, search, and download popular magazines to read offline - Access digital table of contents for each magazine - Read articles in text view - Tap highlighted areas to jump to articles and related websites - Track percentage of magazine read Now it’s time to relax, put your feet up and read your favorite magazines with Flipster!}

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2.6

286 voters

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Arctush

09 Nov, 2025

Last few weeks it has not worked, always giving message,service not available,. Now the few magazines that were there are gone, only 6 magazines from 2022 are showing

Imchillybrr

07 Oct, 2025

While I was previously writing a longer review for this app, the App Store crashed and deleted my progress, so I will simply give a summary of my original review: The app does not appear flashy or overtly modern, yet successfully achieves what it advertises with simplicity and minimalism. Despite the poor reviews of Flipster on the App Store, it is clear that this app is still being actively maintained and feedback is still heard. However, I have a suggestion regarding bookmarks. While I am aware that bookmarking is a feature to an extent, I think that it would be helpful to have the functionality of bookmarking specific publishers (e.g. Newsweek) or categories for speed. I personally read a narrower range of magazines, so having to repeatedly relocate the same few magazines that I actually have interest in everytime I want to examine/download new issues does feel somewhat redundant. Overall, the app is solidly functional and achieves it's mission effectively. While it's interface isn't exactly stylish, it still allows you to access magazines and read them with relative ease. Sincerely, I do hope that the general reviews of this app improve over time, as for one, I'm sure that many people may avoid the app simply because of the ratings, and two, because I genuinely like Flipster. Thank you very much.

kcroyalmetfan

29 Aug, 2025

So far, I really like this app I’m not sure why it has such a low rating. I like reading the People magazine, and a few of the other fun magazines. Plus I get breaking news stories from some of the periodicals.

Jobhomiequan

28 Aug, 2025

Worst app by far. Always unavailable. I wish public libraries could partner with someone else.

AnnasCat

24 Aug, 2025

Why do i always see the Service Unavailable message? My library IS a member! No contact information for EBSCO - what’s a user to do?? Now i have to access the service via the library website, and the reading enjoyment is greatly diminished. Would appreciate some help here!!

fred1271

22 Aug, 2025

I love getting magazines to download and read at my leisure, but the app works about once a month. Once I’ve downloaded stuff the interface is fine and it works perfectly well, but 9 out of 10 times I just get the error message “service unavailable”. Just don’t know why that is.

Lechon Girl

07 Aug, 2025

I wish this app would work because I rely on it when I travel or when I’m in need of a silly break and would like to catch up on recipes or health articles or an essay in a literary magazine. But the app rarely works and I have to remove it from my phone, download it again, etc, maybe two or three times a year. I hope the app developers will fix the bugs of this really useful magazine app..

Eliq2

29 Jul, 2025

Update: Doesn’t seem as if anyone cares if this app ever becomes fully functional ever again. The libraries should move their association to a different, better built app, this one is a disgrace. Stopped working. Is this a temporary situation? Will this be fixed? And when will this be fixed?

Schwisky

13 Jul, 2025

This app is awful. It never works when I open it. It says service currently unavailable. Try again later. Stop wasting our time.

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Additional Information

Rating:	2.61
Voted:	286
App Store Link:
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Email:	-
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Categories:	News
Size:	16MB
App Age:	11 years 10 months
Release Date:	Jan 31, 2014
Last Update:	Oct 01, 2025
Version:	5.7.3

Version history

5.7.3

Oct 01, 2025

Fix Service Unavailable bug

5.7.2

Sep 22, 2025

Accessibility fixes for voiceover

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