Himalaya, a brainchild of Ximalaya 喜马拉雅, is an inspirational content app, featuring short audio courses and motivational stories. Get the insights that can improve your life, and work on your personal development.
Listen to inspirational stories and work on your self-improvement with Himalaya. Get access to a whole library of inspirational short audio courses.
Enjoy new motivational stories every week, and use your free time to learn from amazing biographical insights.
Get motivated every day with a new Himalaya Story, then get ahead by learning from the credentialed experts behind our extensive library of audio courses. Expand your knowledge and work on your self-improvement. Listen to a wide variety of inspirational stories and educational courses.
Himalaya Stories feature the biggest turning points from the lives of the most extraordinary people. Each story delivers an exciting journey with music and cinematic soundscapes, all in 10 minutes or less.
Himalaya Courses cover a huge array of different topics, giving you the insights and new skills you need to succeed in your career and your personal life.
Let our stories motivate you to get the knowledge you need to become the best version of yourself.
Our stories are designed to deliver the most useful and important insights to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. And our courses are divided into bite-sized, actionable lessons from experts like Mark Manson, Arianna Huffington, and Tim Ferriss.
Himalaya gives you the opportunity for a true self-improvement journey. Our stories will inspire and motivate you, while our courses will give you the skills and knowledge you need to set and achieve your most ambitious goals. Audio makes it easy to listen, and become part of a like-minded community making progress every day.
Discover the best courses for self-improvement. Get insights every day to improve the quality of your life.
Learn from the world’s greatest minds, and boost your practical knowledge to conquer personal and professional milestones. Get insights from famous people and their stories.
Himalaya makes it easy to find what you need: explore our entire library of stories and courses anywhere, anytime. If you’re hungry for knowledge and self-improvement, we’re here for you.
◉ Inspiring Stories – hear about the biggest turning points in the lives of the most extraordinary people.
◉ High-Impact Audio Courses - Let credentialed experts help you achieve your personal and professional goals.
◉ Ultimate flexibility – listen anywhere, anytime with a robust, intuitive app.
◉ Bite-sized content – Your time is valuable. Get inspiration and insights in ten minutes or less.
◉ Learn your way – With over 30 topics spanning the personal, the practical, and the professional, you’ll have the tools you need.
◉ Accessible – Listen to free stories and insights every day, and unlock exclusive content at a no-brainer cost.
◉ Immersive – With supplemental material and community helming a flexible learning experience, learning doesn’t stop when the audio does.
Take these stories and courses wherever you go with our robust and intuitive platform.
Enjoy the Himalaya community and unlock an exclusive network of like-minded, intellectually curious people just like you. Start your self-improvement journey now.
Himalaya is an immersive learning platform that provides an extensive library of courses and motivational stories straight to your ears from the world's greatest minds. Fuel your personal and professional growth (self-improvement) with bite-sized and impactful lessons.
I really want to love this app. The UI is beautiful and seamless. However, it suffers from several problems that make the app almost unusable. For one, the time bar on the lock screen or control center is always wrong. Himalaya can say a podcast is 60 min, but the slider on the lock screen only goes up to 30 min, making it impossible to scrub to a later part of an episode outside of the Himalaya app. More recently, the app sometimes just stops showing any information at all. All the shows in my library and the explore page are still there, but clicking on any podcast just says there’s no episodes. In combination, these issues make the app largely unusable. I really love the appearance of the app, as well as the largest library I’ve seen outside of the Apple Podcasts app, but I can’t recommend it until these bugs are gone.
Developer Response
Hi, thank you for your support! We always welcome suggestions. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our engineers will definitely try to accommodate changes moving forward to resolve these issues. We truly value your feedback!
A great app, but needs some refining
JayPeeeee!
This app is great and far superior to the Apple podcast app I’ve been using for so long. It’s amazingly easy to get around, easy to find the podcast you’re looking for in you library, and it’s designed really well. I also really love that I get better recommendations from this app than on Apple podcast. I always see the same shows on Apple and nothing new. But this app isn’t without its bugs. The thing that annoys me the most is that it always starts playing what you’re listening to when you open the app which means you’ll be at work, unlock your phone, go to the app to search for a new show and as soon as it opens it starts playing a podcast for all to hear. It’s not too bad when your alone but it always happens to me public. Also when I pick an episode to listen to it will either play another episode that I didn’t choose or will start playing the episode at a random point so you have to start it from the beginning. Also I’ll be half way through a podcast, stop to listen to something else, and then come back to it it won’t remember where I was. It just plays it from the beginning again and I have to find where I was. Other than a few performance bugs I really love this app. I just want the developers to have a new update to fix them. Then they’d easily have a 5 star from me.
Developer Response
Hi, Thank you for your support! We always welcome suggestions. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our engineers will definitely try to accommodate a change moving forward to resolve this issue. We truly value you taking the time to bring this issue to our attention and for your feedback!All the best,The Himalaya Team
So close to being so good
rachelmo921
Switched over to exclusively using Himalaya over the Apple podcast app because it had become too frustrating to navigate. I like the app overall, but there are a few bugs that are driving me nuts. First, it crashes constantly. Usually while I’m trying to search for a new podcast or browsing discover to find a new podcast. Second, it will randomly start an episode in the middle when I’ve never listened to that episode before. This makes it a little difficult to distinguish if I’ve already started listening to something and moved on, or if it’s just the weird glitch and I should just restart the episode. Besides those two issues though I really like this app and the way it’s setup. It’s easy to find things and to get to new episodes, and I’ve officially switched over all my podcast listening to this platform. Wish it was slightly better, hoping there will be more updates that hammer out these minor flaws in what seems to be a promising app.
Developer Response
Thanks for your support. These two problems will be fixed in the next version.
New update issues
ardegael
This app was great & my chosen podcast app (I listen to a LOT): simple, clean, has everything available, ability to make playlists (which means u can follow podcasts without getting spoilers from most recent episodes downloading). However ever since the most recent update a couple weeks ago I’ve been having lots of streaming playback issues, podcast often starting from the beginning after crash, and more importantly— the audio shuts off whenever my iPhone goes to sleep, which renders this unusable, unless u happen to be on your phone doing other things while listening. It works in lock mode but not when the screen goes black to sleep. Really annoying & impossible for battery life when traveling. I could not find settings anywhere to do anything abt this & wasn’t previously an issue that I noticed. Was working flawlessly before.Will update my review back to 5 stars when this gets addressed- hope it does soon & I don’t have to download a new app, for now reverting to the dreaded apple podcast app!
Developer Response
Hi,Thank you for your support! We apologize for the inconvenience. I have brought this issue to the attention of our engineers, so they can accommodate a change in the next version to resolve this issue. Please kindly update your Himalaya app when you see the option to. We truly value you taking the time to bring this issue to our attention and for your feedback!All the best,The Himalaya Team
【Product Experience Optimization】The “My Listening” page has been redesigned. Your listening history is now clearer, and a new serial update status has been added, making it easier to quickly keep up with the latest episodes.
【Popular Content Updates】
-《Qiao Chu》, the original novel behind the hit drama 《Chu Hou》, is now available for instant listening. Enjoy the story all the way to the grand finale with one tap! Starring Chen Duling and Zhou Yiran. After being reborn, the heroine transforms into a dark and powerful avenger, protects her family and country, and ultimately becomes the true Empress Chu praised by all.
-《Sheng Shi Di Fei》, a premium multi-cast audio drama and the original novel behind 《Mo Li》, starring Bai Lu and Cheng Lei. A marriage-before-love story × a satisfying revenge plot! A powerless noble lady + a so-called useless prince = the perfect match?!
-《Jia Ye》, starring Yang Zi × a time-travel comeback story with a powerful female lead! Li Zhen, a modern ink-making artisan, travels back in time to an ancient family of ink makers. To make a living, she resolutely steps onto the path of ink production. With talent and perseverance, she becomes a rising star in the Huizhou ink industry and leads her family back to glory.
-《Zhu Jiao》, supervised by Zhang Yimou, with the original novel now completed! Come and listen to this captivating opera-themed story. Starring Liu Haocun, Qin Hailu, and Zhang Jiayi. The story follows the rise and fall of individual fate amid dramatic changes of the times, and portrays a moving journey of becoming a legendary Qinqiang opera performer.
-《Yao Yan》, now airing as a hit drama! The original novel starring Guan Xiaotong and Li Yunrui. Another standout work by Shi Jiuyuan, author of 《Shuang Gui》! A highly popular and highly rated completed campus romance on Jinjiang, featuring a proud and rebellious boy × a bright and radiant girl — warm, healing, and heartwarming.
-《A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality》, fellow cultivators, gather now! Listen ahead to this blockbuster xianxia drama. “You and I are both mortals — ordinary, but never mediocre!” Season 5 of the animation premieres on June 13, this Saturday. Listen to the audiobook first and tap Episode 510 now.
Thank you for using the Himalaya audiobook app, the international version of Ximalaya. If you encounter any issues while using the app, please go to “App ＞ Account ＞ Help & Feedback”, or contact us at [support@himalaya.com](mailto:support@himalaya.com).
Version 2.41.0
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Information
Seller
Himalaya Media Inc.
Size
178.3 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 5.2 or later.
Languages
English and 4 more
English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
