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CLUSTER MAGAZINE-DIGITAL-CULTURE · 68 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2010-05-26

Digital magazine subscription apps

This cluster consists of digital magazine apps and platforms that deliver curated, often subscription-based content across a wide range of topics, from niche hobbies and lifestyle topics to news and culture. The dated history begins in May 2010 and continues through 2025, with monthly entry counts mostly between 1 and 5, indicating a consistent but modest level of new entries across the period. Traction is led by established titles—New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and Harvard Business Review—which show the strongest activity signals.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2009: 1MAY 2010: 1JUL 2010: 1AUG 2010: 1SEP 2010: 2OCT 2010: 5NOV 2010: 1FEB 2011: 1MAR 2011: 1APR 2011: 1AUG 2011: 2OCT 2011: 4NOV 2011: 1DEC 2011: 2JAN 2012: 3FEB 2012: 3MAR 2012: 3APR 2012: 1MAY 2012: 1JUL 2012: 5SEP 2012: 2OCT 2012: 2NOV 2012: 1DEC 2012: 1JAN 2013: 1APR 2013: 1JUL 2013: 1SEP 2013: 1SEP 2014: 1FEB 2015: 1MAY 2015: 1JUN 2015: 1AUG 2015: 1APR 2016: 1FEB 2017: 1APR 2018: 1AUG 2018: 1SEP 2018: 1JAN 2019: 1MAY 2019: 1MAR 2022: 1FEB 2024: 1DEC 2024: 1MAR 2025: 1SEP 2025: 1AUG 2026: 1
OCT 2009AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 7 commercial · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 61Otaku USA Magazine0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialDigital magazine app that delivers current and back issues of an anime and Japanese pop culture publication with subscriptions.
  2. 62Smithsonian Magazine0★8 mostalelivecommercialDigital magazine app delivering editorial coverage of history, science, nature, culture, and travel through subscription and single-issue purchases.
  3. 63WIRED Magazine (UK)0★9 mostalelivecommercialDigital magazine app covering technology, design, and culture news with subscriptions and offline reading.
  4. 64Vanity Fair Digital Edition0★9 mostalelivecommercialMobile app that provides digital access to monthly magazine issues, articles, photography, and entertainment coverage via subscription.
  5. 65WIRED Magazine0★9 mostalelivecommercialDigital magazine app that delivers reporting and analysis on technology, culture, business, and science to subscribers.
  6. 66ELLE Magazine US0★1 yrabandonedlivecommercialFashion and lifestyle magazine app that delivers digital issues, previews, and social sharing of content to readers.
  7. 67Maxim Magazine US0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialDigital magazine app that delivers current issues of a lifestyle magazine to readers via paid subscriptions.
  8. 68Softsource - Discover the Limitless Digital World0★unknownliveOnline publication providing articles, tutorials, reviews and news on technology, software, mobile apps and games.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.