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.

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?

I generally like the idea of this app and the content quality. However, its design is quite bad. It’s difficult to figure out how to get around and find things in a logical manner. The UI is badly designed once on individual screens with the buttons looking all the same and sometimes blending in too much with the background. The podcast audio quality is substandard. One guy sounds like he’s sitting in a bathroom while the other more professional. Playback also stops when I lock the screen or some other activity happens instead of playing continuously in the background. The playback controls on the lock screen also have no artwork or title or nothing. It’s completely blank.I’d also like to listen to most of the content and not have to read it. Our lifestyles mostly require to be hands free while on the go not sitting in one spot reading stuff on our mobiles. It’s also crashed on me a few times and I lost where I was. When you’re asking about people to fork over some money to pay for your app you need to do better in terms of overall quality, the features and the design of your app.

The magic of school of life is somehow translated perfectly in how this app • operates (the light, genius of something so easy as the card flip. but I look forward to flipping it every single day... sparking my joy & curiosity.) • and the offerings - so many card deck themes and question cards and for any occasion… question and multiple choice (but the UX interface is innovative creative and unexpected!) about your view on something or feelings or xyz and then directs you to just the video article game or learning that might be of interest. I should be getting paid for this but I’m not - if you’re interested in a copywriter/marketing brand fan of the year on deck, I’m yours. But seriously, if you are a lover of school of life, you are going to be so happy once you see what they’ve dreamt up for you when you open it and see. 5/5 A song link could be cool, and definitely add widgets with a thought of the day or the like or an image w word like the card Flip. Thank you! MW