Make: Magazine is a digital publication for DIY enthusiasts, hackers, and tinkerers, providing project tutorials and maker profiles on iOS.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Lifestyle
Sentiment
2.0
25 reviews
Nemesis
Wood Magazine
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire Make: for expert-led technical know-how in electronics and robotics, but the app's poor stability forces them to seek more reliable instructional sources.
For DIY enthusiasts, hackers, and tinkerers interested in electronics, robotics, and fabrication projects.
What does it look like?
Key features
Full digital replica of the print magazine with project tutorials, maker profiles, and diagrams
Step-by-step guides for electronics, robotics, 3D fabrication, and woodworking
Recurring billing cycle for annual access to four digital issues
How much does it cost?
Subscription model anchored at $25.00 annually, utilizing a single-issue purchase option to lower the barrier for new users.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceopaqueShow more...
The app has released only one version in the last 12 days, indicating a maintenance-focused development cycle. With only a single minor update identified, there is no evidence of active feature development or live operations. The release notes are opaque, providing no insight into specific improvements or changes. Development appears to be limited to stability and performance maintenance.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews frustrated.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for Make: Magazine
How's the Lifestyle market?
Make: Magazine operates in the Lifestyle category with a 2.04 rating across 25 reviews, signaling significant friction in the digital reading experience compared to niche hobbyist competitors.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Meredith Corporation
Wood Magazine competes directly for the attention of DIY enthusiasts and makers by offering high-quality, project-based instructional content that mirrors the Make: magazine editorial focus.
- Offers robust offline reading capabilities, ensuring users can access project plans in remote workshop environments.
- Maintains a significantly higher user rating, suggesting superior content delivery and app stability compared to Make:.
- Provides structured project plans that cater to specific skill levels, reducing the barrier to entry for beginners.
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Key takeaways for Make: Magazine
Where is it heading?
The DIY-tech market is consolidating around apps that offer reliable, workshop-ready instructional content. Make: Magazine remains exposed to churn until it addresses the stability gap, so the PM must prioritize technical hygiene over new content features to stop the outflow of loyal users.
- The 2.04 rating indicates a failure to meet basic stability expectations, which accelerates churn toward more reliable hobbyist apps.
- Recent updates have not introduced new features, suggesting the team is currently focused on maintenance rather than growth.
The SWOT
- Strong brand identity within the hacker and DIY-tech community
- Deep technical content library for electronics and robotics
- Implement offline reading to match nemesis capabilities
- Add skill-level filtering to broaden the appeal to beginner makers
Next best moves
Rebuild core navigation and stability because the 2.04 rating indicates high churn risk → improve retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The brand's strength is its greatest liability…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Offline reading mode (available in Wood Magazine) +2
Since the last report: The report shows a narrowing of the competitive focus toward niche-specific instructional apps and a clearer identification of feature gaps like offline reading.
Bottom line
Make: Magazine holds its category lead through strong brand authority but bleeds users to more stable niche publications, so revenue growth hinges on fixing the app's technical foundation.
Unlock 2 critical frictions, 2 market threats, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
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