This American Life App Reviews

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Too buggy!

Love the show, but starting to get tired of the never-ending bugs and constantly having to delete and re-install the app.

Dont Download Update

I wish I hadnt downloaded the update. It was working fine before.

When it works - great.

Excellent podcast- 5+ stars for it. The app is not reliable and I find it incredibly frustrating to be anticipating the next podcast (a Part 2 especially!) and not be able to access it for whatever reason. Please fix. Up the price a bit if you need money to invest in the development of a working app.

Please fix the app

Still having the same problem as before and as others have had - when I try to delete shows saved for offline listening to add another I get the error message saying that I need to delete shows! So frustrating.

Love the show. Hate the app.

Constantly having to delete and re-download the app losing all of the shows Ive already listened to. Its more irritating than anything else, but for a show so popular their app should be as prestigious.

Quite buggy

Buggy but love the ability to listen offline when it works

Great show, terrible app

App is very unreliable. Often wont load shows, especially if you go out of your service area and then back again. Please fix it!

Bugs? What bugs?

A lot of people here are complaining about bugs and I have NONE. I dont have problems on my iPad or my iPod. Theres no point going about the content which you are probably already familiar with if youre thinking about downloading, but is nevertheless always entertaining and informative in a way the news rarely is. I like how all the episodes are organized and indexed so even if I dont remember the title, I can usually type words into the search and find the one Im looking for. I already have a podcast app and I still use the TAL app to listen, thats how good it is.

Terrible app

The show is great, but this app is absolutely terrible. It hasnt worked for over 1.5months since being updated to fix "bugs". All it did was create bugs. You are unable to download any shows or delete previously downloaded ones. There has also been no attempt to fix it, shame on TAL, especially when they launched this in conjunction with a fundraising drive

Amazing!!!!

One of the best podcasts out there. No sense giving lower rating on recent crashes as thats technical and Radio Lab says it will be fixed. Keep doing what youre doing guys, living it!!

Love this radio show!

Excellent app, years of great content. User interface has room for improvement but its not nearly as hard to use as some people suggest

Keep having re download the app!

I love these podcasts, but its been super frustrating having to delete and re-download the app every time something goes wrong, and it happens a lot. All of the older episodes will randomly disappear, I wont be able to save any offline anymore... Etc. And now it keeps crashing. Please fix the bugs!

Great content; horrible app

When I do get to listen to the content it is first rate. However, the app is crap. Downloads are there, then they are not. Sometimes they play, sometimes they dont. The developer should be totally embarrassed by this. I will continue to try to get it working because the stories are such high quality.

My favourite podcast

I listen to many podcasts during my week - this one is my main love

Gr8

Love this show. App seems to be working great so far. Thanks!

Still broken

This American Life is great content... no doubt about that. However, this app is absolutely terrible. Its been buggy since the first version. With every update, something gets fixed but something inevitably gets broken in its place. Hope TAL gets their money back from the developer.

What Am I Missing?

I bought this app several years ago and enjoyed it for quite a while without issue. In the last few years it has been nothing but problems with ZERO support or explanation. I can no longer access the entire library, If I have to pause an episode while listening I am unable to make it play again, often times I cant even make the most recent episode play at all. I have tried deleting the app and re-downloading to no avail. I have tried reporting it in the app to no avail. What gives TAL??? Please fix your App!!!!! I am such a fan and it is so disappointing to not be able to access the content that I did originally pay for with this app.

I used to love this App - now I dont.

Im am early adopter of this App. I loved it at first - now there are so many bugs and glitches. All I want is this App to run properly so I can listen to TAL... Instead Im forever swearing at it, because it either wont: play, stream, update the playlist, delete downloaded content... The list goes on. Get your act together NPR. My suggestion, create a working pledge page in the App for fans to support the development of future Apps? I mean, since this one didnt turn out great.

What now...

Time to hire new developers or start this app from scratch, folks. Whattamess. Again.

Campballse

Great content but the app crashes all the time. Been that way for years.

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