Top 10: Magazine Reading apps

2025. Personal Magazine Management software - Mission Impossible?



Let's consider two situations - when you have a bunch of paper magazines and when you want to manage a database of electronic magazines. Physical/paper magazines are mostly accumulated by collectors. Perhaps you once subscribed to some publication and received its issues for a long time. It's a pity to throw them away, but if you store them in a mess - you get no use from them. You need a program that will allow you to keep track: which issues you have and which ones are lost, on which shelf each issue of the magazine is located, in which issues there are memorable materials. If you give magazines to friends for a while - you need to keep track of which issue you gave, when and to whom. ***


2025. Smashing - AI-powered app for reading articles



Smashing, a new application curating the finest of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now accessible to the public. Like Goodreads, the app aims to build a community around content. But this time, instead of books, the emphasis is on web content — such as news articles, blog posts, social media updates, podcasts and more. Additionally, Smashing is unveiling an AI Questions feature that enables you to interact with the content being shared in various ways, including by viewing a news story from alternate perspectives or asking the AI to critique the story, among other things. By exploring different facets of a story, you can see how both the political left and right perceive the topic. Or, in the case of a company’s stock, you might be shown both the optimistic and pessimistic viewpoints.

2024. Overdrive Libby is improved for reading digital magazines



Libby has updated its functionality for digital magazine readers. Over 56 million magazine issues have been added to the service from digital libraries, with 4,000 magazines currently available. Instead of appearing alongside ebooks and audiobooks, magazines are now displayed in the separate section Magazine Rack. In this section, users see the latest issues of their subscriptions. Users can subscribe to new magazines using the convenient new Subscribe feature. When a new issue is published, it is automatically added to the user's Magazine Rack and generates an order for your library. When users find a magazine in your collection, they can open it and start reading with a single tap, thus generating an order for your library. Most libraries offer several popular magazines that partner with Overdrive. These include Time, Us Weekly, National Geographic, PC World and Women's Fitness.


2021. Amazon will no longer be providing free access to Kindle magazines



Amazon will no longer be providing free access to Kindle magazines to subscribers of paper editions unless the subscription is made through Amazon. This change does not impact the status of your subscription with the publisher. If you would like to continue receiving the Kindle edition of these titles, you can subscribe from Kindle Newsstand. Any editions of this magazine already on your Kindle device will not be affected.


2013. AlfaReader - new cool PDF/EPUB reading app for Windows PC



The creators of the popular ebook management software Alfa eBooks Manager have developed a new ebook reading application for desktop PCs - AlfaReader. It's promoted as a lightweight and speedy ebook reader, perfect for reading electronic magazines, educational textbooks, medical, scientific, technical books and illustrated children's books. It supports PDF, EPUB and TXT formats and allows users to create an attractive virtual bookshelf, set bookmarks and view ebook metadata. AlfaReader offers various e-reader templates, including a realistic virtual book with page-flipping effects. What we find most appealing is its EPUB reader, which enables users to split a book into pages, bookmark pages and view zoomed images. AlfaReader is completely free, making it a great option for those who prefer reading books on a desktop.