I like the stream app and the possibilities. You should allow for a more personalized experience, for example if I could save a favorite, mark a future broadcast for an “up next” feature. I would like to create my own personalized experience within the app without having to download content and taking up storage space on my device. In addition, this personalized experience would be the same on any device. In addition, would love a “continue watching” feature. Meaning, I start watching a feature on one device in the morning, I can continue watching on a different device throughout the day.

The Mormon/Saints channel was SO much better. I'm really angry it's gone. I loved turning on the radio and listening to all kinds of different gospel related stuff. Now the radio is just music. All of the conversations and podcasts from the Mormon/Saints Channel are gone and this new app is empty and vapid. When will the LDS church wake up and catch up? The gospel of Christ doesn't have to be hokey, sappy and boring ya know. I'm puzzled over the lack of coherent content for youth, members, investigators etc. The LDS faith has huge amounts of resources yet their productions are cringeworthy at best (ahem the BofM videos), difficult to find and rarely work properly. The recorded songs for children are painful to listen to because they are poorly done. There are no animated videos for children to go along with the songs. It's almost like the people in charge of LDS production believe their faith is so superior that it will just do all of the work for them. I'm sick of spending tons of time looking into other platforms for religious content for my kids that the LDS church has no good reason not to have available. I'm sick of it. Members are taking it upon themselves to try to do something about it which speaks volumes about our leadership and seeming lack of focus on this area.

So shocking to no one, the church has put out yet another terrible app, and deleted the app that previously worked, not well, but better than this one. Not to worry though, because this app in no way represents the Church of Jesus Christ of Later day Saints. Rather it looks like some crummy app from some random person trying to make money off of Christians. At least this app does not cost anything. I keep waiting for commercials to show up on everything. Nevertheless, fortunately for all it is fiercely slow and arduous to navigate. Once I finally found the thing I wanted it took two minutes to spin up the conference talk. (This last conference.) I encourage you to start outsourcing the app creation. For some reason the church has little capacity to hire people with vision and creativity. Folks might say “but so many people use them.” To which I would respond ‘what other choice do we have?” This is strict terrible app.

I have tried to use this app since it replaced the Media app. I have tried, and it has failed me. It doesn’t do anything that I need that I can’t get from the gospel library app. The media app was so useful in preparing my primary lessons. The trimming, presentation, and playlist features were extremely helpful in putting together and teaching a seamless lesson. As it is currently, I have to go back and forth in one or more apps to find the downloaded content that I am unable to organize as I would like. This leads to lost time teaching the children who are watching me mess with my device. Also, the search features across the board with the lds apps and websites leave much to be desired. I usually end up using google search to find leaf me to what I am looking for on the lds site.