Udemy Online Video Courses 4+

Very poor offline experience

I got the app primarily to view videos offline during my commute (where the mobile data performance is pretty dreadful).
Having downloaded the entire course, and checked that all the icons show success, I was expecting to be able to view uninterrupted. Sadly this is not the case, it looks like more than 50% of the videos actually failed to completely download, even though no error messages or icons were shown at any point when I downloaded them.
When I watch the videos they typically just get a minute or so in and then freeze. This is very frustrating and therefore my main option for viewing these courses simply isn’t feasible.
Unfortunately this means even though they are excellent, I probably won’t invest in any more courses until I learn of a better offline application.

Developer Response ,

Hi Worldoflard. We sincerely apologize for the negative experience. While our engineering team continues working on the issue with offline viewing, can you please try to re-download the lectures individually to see if the issue can be resolved? Thank you for your understanding!

Great library, poor app.

The courses available, and all those I’ve used so far, are great. I’m particularly interested in 3D software (Blender, etc.), and have completed numerous excellent courses. So I’ve given four stars to avoid putting anyone off joining Udemy. But the app is currently very flaky for me.

In particular, I get regular “insufficient memory” errors on an iPad Pro 10.5”. No other video streaming app has ever struggled with memory, so I don’t know why this one should. Also, the sound periodically drops out. Rewinding the video, the sound drops out again at the same point. Need to select a different lecture then return to the original one again, hoping it resumes where it left off. Or, if a lecture is paused for a few seconds, it blacks out and won’t restart, again needing a switch to and from other lectures. Possibly other apps doing background refresh?

The app is updated regularly, so hopefully these issues will be resolved sometime, but for now it’s pretty vexing.

Slow and Clunky

So I love the Udemy library. The variety of tutorials is awesome. The problem is the iPhone app. Loading up takes a very long time even on a good WiFi connection. The main issue I have is downloading tutorial videos so far have proved pointless. They stop mid way and won’t play. So initially I thought I’d download tutorials to watch on the bus and make the most out of my time, problem is launching the app on 4G takes forever to load, then navigating to my library and the video I want takes a painfully long time. Once I finally watch it the video can’t be watched to the end because all the downloads are corrupted somehow. Waste of time. Then I’d go home and try to finish the video on a good WiFi connection (assuming the issue may have been poor network and not the video itself) however the video stops at the same point and I can’t see it all until I delete the download.

Please sort this out. I thought it would have been as smooth as something such as the Netflix app, where I can download successfully and watch easily, even in flight mode