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This American Life App Reviews

The This American Life app recently received 13 positive reviews on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, and 5 negative reviews. Users in the United States have given This American Life app an average rating of 3.62 out of 5 stars, based on a total of 2K ratings since its release on Dec 20 by This American Life. Can you share your positive or negative thoughts about This American Life?

Ratings and Reviews
Rated 4.23 out of 5

2K global ratings

5 Star
62%
4 Star
0%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
38%

Explore global reviews of the This American Life app: France.

13 Positive User Reviews for This American Life

Long live the app!

I thought at one point they were going to sunset this app — and I’m so glad they haven’t! It makes navigating and listening to episodes a better experience than with any other podcast. If only the Podcast app itself were half as nice as this!

great content and great app

Thanks for keeping the app going, and for letting episodes be saved offline.

Good app, please don’t shut down

This app is amazing. It’s the only thing that makes my days good. I’ve been going through every episode since it was called Your Radio Playhouse, and the app design is wonderful. 100% would recommend!

Favorite App during Covid

This year has been tough and thank god I am able to survive my loneliness by listening to TAL everyday during my daily walk. Please don’t don’t shut it down. Life will be so different without TAL app.

My favorite app

Always the first app Siri predicts for me because I use it so often. It’s perfect.

Please don’t shut down

Please don’t get rid of this app :( I understand the archive is online, but this format has saved me on many a long plane ride. How will I download episodes now? I’m so, all-encompassingly sad.

Love this app

I just wanted to say I love this app and have so enjoyed using it. I like favoriting episodes I’d like to listen to later and easily downloading episodes to listen to while traveling. I will really miss it. Thank you.

Thanks for the good times

Thanks for all the years you ran the app. I will obviously learn to listen some other way.

5 Negative User Reviews for This American Life

not worth it

i bought the app because i thought maybe there would be the ability to queue episodes, but its the exact same thing as the website, which is free, so there’s no reason to pay for this. just go on the website

Needs Spotify Support

Amazing content that so many people are missing out on because of their refuse to let Spotify users stream content and still doesn’t work with iOS 13 native dark mode.

5 star show. 2 star app

The app is frustrating to use. Constantly loses your place in a show, fails to play an episode, and other general bugs persist with no fixes in sight.

This American Life is Not the App

The app is butt. Don’t download it. Just listen online. It’s buggy, has errors every episode, and it doesn’t bookmark where you left off when it crashes.

Playback Issues

I love This American Life! I’m struggling with this app. Every time I pause an episode, I need to completely close the app and reopen it for the episode to buffer again. Since I mostly listen when driving, this isn’t ideal.