How to Get Hundreds of Free Magazine Subscriptions Each Year!

If you want to stop paying money on magazine subscriptions, then this page is for you! Just be careful – not only will you save money, but you might also get so many free magazines that you'll lose every inch of kitchen counter and table space 😀

Below is an auto-updated list of every current free magazine offer we've found, sorted with newest offers at the top.

The date shown after each title is when we most recently confirmed the availability.

Current Free Magazines

You can also browse our free magazine archive. This includes both active offers along with expired offers so you can get a feel for the types of freebies typically offered throughout the year.

How to Get Free Magazines

It's amazingly simple. All you need in order to get magazines for free is:

  • A mailing address

That's it!

You will never need a credit card number or any payment information. Do not fill out any form that asks for any type of payment for a free magazine!

The selection of titles and number of magazines will change each month. Most offers are for either a free one-year or two-year subscription.

Why do companies give away free magazines?

That has an easy answer – they want your contact information so they can resell it to marketers and advertisers!

Haha, there's just no way to sugarcoat it.

Many times a single brand will sponsor a free offer by purchasing a huge amount of subscriptions to give away, like 50,000. In exchange, they'll receive a copy of the survey results and contact information of everybody who gets the freebie.

So how do you get around this? I'm glad you asked – don't give real personal information!

Can I use fake info to get free subscriptions?

Absolutely! In fact, if anybody asks, my name is Mr. Snrub. No, seriously, I always sign up with the fake name Montgomery Snrub! 😎 And it's fine – the USPS delivers my magazines each month addressed to Mr. Snrub!

On top of that, I always give fake answers about my age and occupation. There's no law saying you have to be honest on the Internet!

For emails, we always suggest using a free email address just for these type of freebie offers.

You just want to make sure to give your actual mailing address so they know where to deliver the magazine issues each month!

Are these magazines actually free?

💯 Yes! I know it seems too good to be true, but these offers are legit for all the reasons I explained above.

Remember, you will NEVER need to provide a credit card or payment whatsoever. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever.

If you somehow reach a page asking for your payment information, even for just a single dollar, then you have mistakenly clicked on a wrong link somewhere and should exit the page immediately.

Will I ever get a bill?

NO! You will never get a bill for your free subscription.

Some magazines will send you a renewal request that looks like a bill, but if you look carefully there will always be fine print text that says “this is not a bill.”

Seriously, I've been running this website since 2005 and have received hundreds of free subscriptions over the years. Not once have I ever received a bill.

Can I get free magazines if I already have a paid subscription?

Absolutely! Free subscriptions actually stack on top of each other! So if you already pay for a magazine, you can “add” additional years to the end of your subscription for free.

Let's say you bought a one year subscription to People magazine and have three months remaining before it expires. If you signed up for a free subscription today, it would start the month after your paid subscription ends. You would then have your three remaining months plus the next 12 months for free, giving you a total of 15 additional months.

There's no limit on these either. Most magazines are offered for free multiple times each year, so you can keep stacking the subscriptions on top of each other and continue getting your favorite magazines for free!

Is there a limit to how many free magazines I can get?

Not that I've ever found! It would be impossible for me to literally count the number of magazines I've got since I started this site over 16 years ago. I've never once encountered any sort of limit!

What can I do with all these free magazines?

Aside from reading them yourself, you could send them to a friend or family member as a present.

You could also donate them to a local library, school, doctor's office, or business. It's always nice to have new reading material in a waiting room.

Do I have to send the magazines to my house?

Nope! You can send them to your office or wherever else you want. Literally any valid USPS mailing address will work.

This also means it's super easy to sign up a friend or family member for a free sub. It's like getting them a gift all year long that you don't have to pay for!

Where can I get digital magazines?

For digital magazines, check out Mercury Magazines and Valuemags listed below.

Companies That Offer Free Subscriptions

What are some websites where I can access free magazines and ebooks to read online?

You can get enough reading material to last for hours every week and still have plenty leftover to donate, use for art projects, or burn in the backyard for impromptu s'mores.

Mercury Magazines

Mercury Magazines are the irrefutable king of magazine freebies and it's not even close. They don't have a central list of available publications on their site, but instead they release roughly 10 to 20 new offers each month, one at a time. You never need a credit card or payment info whatsoever.

When requesting a freebie from MM, you'll always have to answer three simple occupation-related questions. Then, you'll submit your mailing address and that's it!

You can skip all of the subsequent “special offers” by clicking “No Thanks” at the bottom of the page. After you decline all the “bonuses”, you'll eventually reach a confirmation page for your free subscription. However, you don't actually have to load this confirmation page. I always exit out of the browser immediately after submitting my address!

If you don't want to answer the profession questions, then select these basic responses! 1-4 / Other Industries / Homemaker / Other Function / None / None

Mercury Magazine Job Answers

I've used those answers for years without any problems.

Here are some of the top available Mercury Magazines offer:

RewardSurvey

RewardSurvey updates their free title selection on a monthly rotation, like clockwork. The beauty of RewardSurvey is they rotate some high-value magazines, like ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Time, and Wired.

One difference with RewardSurvey is they require you to spend “reward points” to redeem magazines. However, these are easily earned by taking short – and random! – quizzes. Seriously, my two most recent quizzes were on my choice of travel methods and my choice in peanut butter flavors.

After signing up and completing a short survey (usually around 20 basic questions), you'll get $20 credited to your account that allows you to request most of the free magazines they offer. These surveys only take about 3-5 minutes to complete and then you can immediately redeem the points for freebies.

You can then log back in once a week, take the new survey, and add more free money to your account that can be redeemed for more free magazines or refer a few friends. All in all it takes me under 5 minutes (usually broken up during commercial breaks while watching TV) to get enough credit for the most expensive magazine offers.

It really pains me to say this, but RewardSurvey has gone so downhill over the past few years, but they do seem to be on a rebound. From 2015-2021, they were a freebie juggernaut. Each month, you could reliable get up to two dozen high quality free magazine subscriptions from titles such as Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Rolling Stone, People, US Weekly, and many more.

However, 2022-2023 was a low-point, as they barely updated their supply and hardly anything was available. However, as of 2024, I've noticed a sharp uptick in offered publications – so fingers crossed they're back for good, baby!

Free Trade Publications, Books, & Magazines

One of the most long standing sections of HIF is our free trade publications area. You've probably never heard of most of these. I sure know I haven't. But since they're insanely specific to certain jobs or professionals, I'll sometimes run across computer or website magazines that I sign up for. Seriously, they have an insanely massive list of free magazines up for grabs.

Give the “topics” list a glance to see if there are any you might find useful!

Valuemags

Valuemags.com routinely offers free magazine subscriptions as well. They typically have 5-15 offers available, with new publications rotating in every month or two.

One nice perk with Valuemags is that they'll email you confirmation of your free magazine subscriptions!

If there are any current Valuemags offers, they'll be listed below:

Recyclebank – Closed in 2022

Recyclebank used to regularly offer anywhere from 40 to over 100 free magazine titles. However, they unfortunately pivoted the direction of their company in June 2022 and stopped offering accounts or freebies to most people

RewardsGold – Closed in 2019

Started in 2005, RewardsGold and their sister site RewardsCountry were the premier sites to get free magazine subscriptions. However, in December 2018, both sites went offline for an overhaul. If and when either site returns, I'll post a full list here.

Now please don't sign up for all of these unless you want to give your mail carrier a hernia. 🙂

About the Author: Goob

I'm a nationally renowned freebie finder & sample vetter, which I never imagined I'd be doing while getting my Bachelor's Degree in History almost 20 years ago. In my spare time, I enjoy launching my own space program and disproving the Coriolis effect.

31 comments on “How to Get Hundreds of Free Magazine Subscriptions Each Year!”

  1. I’ve been using your site for years Goob! I get People, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Sports Illustrated, Home Made Simple, Country Living and a host of other free subscriptions. I haven’t paid for a magazine in years thanks to you!

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  2. I’ve been doing Rewardsurveys off and on from this site and receiving magazines for free for at least 2 or 3 yrs now. I mostly get them for my neighbors to have something to read, being we live in low-income housing. I need to remember to do a new survey each week. I love that there is no strings attached, no bills in the mail. You can pay to renew a sub if you want, but why do that when you can keep receiving them for free? Also, you can send free gift subs to friends and family. With the holidays coming up pretty fast, this is a good time for doing just that.

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  3. My survey was about the Olympics, not cats…. so at least it felt more enjoyable, plus it was shorter than some of the past surveys I’ve done. I even discovered I had a $20 credit already waiting for me, so I could get a $30 magazine. It’s definitely worth doing the survey even if they don’t have a magazine that you want right now.

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  4. RewardSurvey options change fairly frequently, so it is a good idea to check in every time you do a survey to see what they have at that time. I’ve been a member a long time, gotten lots of different magazines, and currently have nearly $1500 in credit banked.

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  5. Whoa–they’re actually offering ESPN the Magazine (at the time of this post)! Happy dance, happy dance!! Ooh–I hope the guys down at the plant don’t read that “Happy dance” part.

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  6. I wish they would have less digital mags or at least change the digital ones to physical ones. I also would like them to change their policy of not letting anyone but new subscribers subscribe to some of the magazines like Rollin stone and US. I have some credit built up too.

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  7. I also got this. I love free magazines! I get Better Homes and Gardens, People, Women’s World, Family Circle, Martha Stewart Living, Family Fun, Field and Stream, and a few others all for free!

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  8. They will also ask you to sign up for a bunch of offers (usually) or business publications (or both). You can just hit no on all of it and you will still get your magazines.

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  9. I have been a member for a long time. Lately they have been offering more and more digital magazines and less new print magazines. You can occasionally do well here, I got a New Yorker sub. I also have $651 in credit doing nothing at all.

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  10. I also get 24 magazines a month totally free and no they are not rip offs when you find them at a reputable site, which this is.

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    • its true! I get about 30 subriptions and havent paid a dime! Lets just say that my postman is irritated!!!!!!

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    • Completely true! I have had US Weekly FREE for about the last 3 years because of sites like this and Rewards Gold! I am currently working on getting my points back up for Entertainment Weekly, which I spaced on and didn’t get my points to renew before my subscription ran out….

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  11. I get about 40 plus magazines a month…and its just to much….and yes..my mail carrier has left notes for me already about it just being out of hand. I have taken a break from free mags for a while. I give a lot of them away…cant really read them all. I am just addicted to free things.

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    • Same here Kimberly! Also, when I’m done, the local nursing home loves getting them for the patients. They all love the Readers Digest the best.

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  12. Thanks, Goob! I cashed in some of my RecycleBank points (which I had forgotten all about) to get a free year of Oprah magazine. I’ll just add it to the roughly 15 other free magazines I already get thanks to you! You’re the best! 🙂

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  13. I literally get 33 free magazine subscriptions. It’s awesome if not somewhat overwhelming. Thanks, Man! You have no idea how much I appreciate this website!

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  14. I agree, Goob. Too many times I have gone into doctor’s offices and found magazines a year or more old. I always take my magazines there after I have read them. I love all of the magazines you provide. Love’n the Wall Street Journal too. I always find something in there that intrigues me.

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  15. Kristen, They will send it to you immediately. This will be my third copy. I give them to friends and they love them. You can call the number on the masthead (just learned that is the name for this section of papers/magazines, so I had to use it) and tell them to extend your subscription instead of sending you 2 copies. I did this with another publication I was receiving (WSJ) and got them to send it to a separate location without any fuss. Enjoy them everyone!

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  16. Thanks, now I have one more free magazine. If it wasn’t for Goob, I would not get any free magazines.

    If you decide to go as a Redbook magazine for Halloween, make sure that you take plenty of pictures. 🙂

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  17. My last issue of Redbook comes next month, and I was just thinking today about how I didn’t want to pay for another 1-year subscription. And now I don’t have to! Thanks Goob! 😀

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  18. Screw my husband! I got Men’s Fitness for me. Jax was on the cover this month. Can’t wait to see who is on it in 8-10 weeks. lol

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  19. You can always make me laugh Goob!!! Thanks for being you and being so damn funny! Your free samples are great but I subscribe to your newsletter for a daily dose of humor! Your the BEST! Thanks!!!

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  20. I just did a few subscriptions for my grandson, brother and a couple of newphews. Worked fine for me! Thanks a bunch! Great deals!!
    Love FREE magazine offers!
    Thanks GOOB! Great site!!!

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  21. YES! You have no idea how mad I was when I saw the old Popular Science offer! It was right before I started browsing this site daily, and it was obviously gone by that. This time I got my subscription! Thanks SO MUCH GOOB!

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  22. I ordered this Freebie for my husband last time it came around. He’s already received TWO issues!
    Now I signed my son up for it!
    THANKS, GOOB!

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  23. I’ve gotten several subscriptions from these people over the last 6 months – and other than a few emails ( like maybe 6 total? ) there is no catch.

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