Texture Free Trial — App Discontinued, Now Apple News+

What Was Texture?

Texture (also known as Texture.ca in Canada) let you read hundreds of magazines through one app for a flat monthly price — around $9.99/month for full access to 200+ titles, no physical subscriptions or single-issue purchases required. It ran a referral program: sign up through a friend’s link for a free 30-day Premium trial, and the referrer earned a $25 e-gift card (redeemable for Amazon, Target, Starbucks, and similar) once the referred friend became a paying subscriber.

We checked directly: both texture.com and texture.ca now redirect straight to Apple’s official Apple News+ page, and there’s no “Texture” app left in the App Store under that name. Apple acquired Texture in 2018 and discontinued the standalone app in 2019, using its publisher relationships and catalog as the foundation for Apple News+, which bundles magazines (along with premium news articles) into one subscription built into the Apple News app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

If unlimited magazine reading is what you actually wanted from Texture, Apple News+ is the direct successor — it’s built into the Apple News app on Apple devices rather than a standalone app, and it includes magazines plus subscriber-only articles from major newspapers. We don’t have an affiliate relationship with Apple News+, so we’re not going to dress up a fake referral link for it; if you’re interested, it’s available directly through the Apple News app or apple.com. We’re also not aware of a working non-Apple competitor with a referral program active enough for us to confidently recommend as a like-for-like swap, so we’re leaving this page as an honest historical record rather than forcing a pivot that doesn’t fit.