We analyzed 288 negative reviews of The Great Courses from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.
The app is constantly unstable and unreliable. Your downloads disappear, settings are lost, you're forced to upgrade or logged out unexpectedly, etc. For somebody trying to listen while away from WiFi this will be a constant frustration. In addition, the depth and challenge of the material seems ...
My wife and I have long been fans of The Great Courses, even during the dark time when it temporarily abandoned its name; this review is for the app, not the content. It is flakey in its basic functionality, even after the supposedly major 8.0 upgrade: • It often forgets the last lecture I played...
My yearly subscription through apple isn’t being recognized by the app… plenty of other apps do this seemlessly, without kicking me out AND continue to recognize my subscription. Fix this ASAP!
My wife and I have long been fans of The Great Courses, even during the dark time when it temporarily abandoned its name; this review is for the app, not the content. It is flakey in its basic functionality: • It often forgets the last lecture I played, resuming instead at the beginning of the pr...
Today I opened up the app and it forced me to update to the new version. I had about 100 GB of Courses downloaded for off-line listening and watching and it deleted all but 10 GB of it! Trying to download again and downloads are basically not working. One gigabyte takes 3 hours and it's not my In...
Every other day have to sign in
I love the content. I have bought a TON of content over the years. More than I’ve actually watched or listened to. The new Plus app is awfully dedicated to pushing the subscription plan. I don’t want a subscription. And I have no search function to just search my purchased content. Why? Worse, t...
Who do I talk to about the glitches in this app? It often crashes. My downloads just delete themselves. When I try to download content again, it won’t load at all or is extremely slow. I’m always having to restart the app or download it again. What a pain considering how expensive the subscripti...
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