The School of Life 17+

I originally wrote a bad review for this app but am now updating to a good one. I’m an annual subscriber and love their content. Excellent bites of therapy and philosophy for easy consumption and always thought provoking. Initially the app wouldn’t allow me access or recognize my subscriber log in. No easy support link could be found to report the issue. It would deny access to paid content after my log in. They have since responded and provided a fix. Happy with the app now and use it a lot. The content is excellent. I adore School of Life materials, books, everything and the subscription is well worth the money. I enjoy the easy access through my phone. I do hope they put more of their videos on the app.

Hi - Thank you so much for giving us another chance to help fix the issue! I'm glad that we not only were able to help you but you're also enjoying the wealth of content that we have on offer! Thank you also for your feedback, we'll take that critique on-board to make further improvements to the experience :)

1. I don’t understand why app changes the homepage multiple times per day. Each page already contains too much information, so to see the articles constantly being swapped throughout the day is overwhelming and fatiguing. Keep it simple and let me have a few small things to ponder throughout the day. I think there is an article about minimalism in there :)
2. I wish the content had a better mix of education and therapeutic content. It feels like 5% education and 95% therapy content. If we are going to bring up art history and philosophy, treat me like an adult and give me just a little bit more to chew on. For example, why not give me a tad more background on the painting I’m looking at besides just the name of the person who made it? Why is this painting significant historically/culturally? I have no idea! But the author just wants to say “it’s ok to feel sad” or something along those lines. Which is fine, but I don’t know how to think about the painting in its actual historical context.
3. Are widgets coming?

Hello, allow me to explain; the homepage changes every 12 hours based on our learning algorithm which recommends content based on your onboarding questionnaire and your app usage - it learns what content to show you. We do this so users can be shown a variety of content each day, keeping things interesting. You can save these articles for future reference. Thank you for the feedback on the content, we'll feed this back to our content team - if you read the article "Eight Rules Of The School Of Life" this will give you a clearer understanding of our ethos. As for Widgets, this is on our development roadmap as part of a wider range of updates and improvements over the coming months. Thank you for your critique and support.

I lean on the wisdom and encouragement in this app daily! The subscription is well worth it. It could really improve by having a dark mode available. It’ much too bright for my tired eyes, especially at night or during insomnia when I need the app most (even with phone settings at the lowest brightness with blue light dimmed).

Thank you for this great review! We're constantly adding new features and we're happy to announce that a dark mode will be coming in a future release at some point in the next few months. We're working hard to make the app better and better for you so keep taking the updates and we'll keep releasing them. Thank you!