Imprint: Learn Visually ١٢+

I’ve always laughed at the “I never write reviews, but…” reviews. Well here’s karma, because it’s my turn. I don’t write many reviews (at all) but I am so happy with Lucid that I had to. The content is first-rate, the visuals and storyboarding work well for my ADHD self, the format is intuitive, the layout clean, the quizzes incredibly helpful, and like one review said… this has replaced my doom-scrolling of social media with valuable learning and growth. I crave this app. And I love it’s iPad friendly, too… makes reading so much more enjoyable. Side note: help is fantastic… I reached out over synching issues and the response was A+ from a genuinely helpful and concerned team. This is a great way to get the key concepts from the most relevant titles of our time… and if one really hits a home-run with you… it’s quite the test drive before you buy the full book. I can’t begin to count how many apps I delete after the trial period, so this is out of my norm… my trial period is up tomorrow… and I’m all-in for the full version. Test Lucid and really dive in… you’ll be glad you did.

I was enjoying this app until today when I discovered that my course, Essential Philosophy, was cut short. Even though the app shows that I am in the middle of the course, with many more open circles to reach for, there are no more content sections available. The app says I’ll be notified when more content is available. I paid the full $100 for this app, so why am I not receiving the full content? It seems that the topic I’ve been studying is only half published. Does this mean that there are many other courses or topics that I can’t complete because they were never finished by the authors?

Does this mean that I need to stick to the much shorter topic discussions with less content? The problem I have with that is that the nuggets of information on the shorter topics are basically book blurbs in comparison to the main courses.

It appears that there is a lot of content on this app, but the more I look into it, the more I see courses that overlap and are duplicated in subject areas that are not relevant to my interest of study. This seems to suggest that there is more content than there really is. If there are tons of topics across many subjects that have unfinished content, what is the point of spending money on this app?

I absolutely love what this app does but I can’t believe that in 2023 you can’t allow the screen to reorient on the ipad, which means it’s for iPhone and not for iPad. Many of us do our reading on our iPad but because the app doesn’t allow the screen to re-orient when I use my iPad in the horizontal position like a laptop (which is 100 percent of the time), I have to hold my iPad vertically or prop it up. I find myself deciding not to do my imprint readings at coffee shops, etc. because this is extremely awkward and the iPad gets quite heavy if I have to hold it that way for long and impossible if I’m juggling coffee, etc.

When you make the next update, can’t you please add a genuine ipad version so that I can use it? Seriously, on most iOS development apps, this is literally accomplished by clicking on a checkbox before compiling. As I say, I love the app but if you can’t put out an iPad friendly version then I am going to end my subscription once the freebie week is over. Once that happens, I won’t be back as there are other more iPad friendly options out there. I really would like Imprint the best if it weren’t for this limitation that is basically developer imposed.