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Won’t play consistently on my iPhone 15.

Will play one article, stop, and refuse to continue

Constantly crashing

Unable to launch app for the last few days. It keeps crashing. Tried delete and reinstall, to no effect! Please fix it ASAP.

Sigh

Now the app won’t even open. Crashes repeatedly

No clue why so many low reviews

The reviews are highly inaccurate. App works fine and exactly how it’s supposed to. It is simple and useful. No clue what people were on about. I would love for the audio portion to have speed settings since I usually listen to everything on 1.5-2X and sometimes tune out when people speak too slowly.
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Never worked right

Now it shows that my current issue is Dec 2021, it’s 2025 now! I reloaded it to no avail. It has never worked right despite contacting help multiple times- it has never been able to play all the articles even when downloaded and don’t try to pause !

Dr loogie

Overall just a very poor app. Difficult to navigate. Doesn’t sync with my apple car play. In past used the cd in my car player. To be honest I wish that was still an option

Cannot take the test sometimes

Sometimes, I’m not able to take and submit the test. The submit button is hidden below a green bar, and so I can’t input it to get the credit. Very frustrating.

Unusable

This app is unusably bad. Constant glitches make taking the quizzes impossible most of the time. Restarting repeatedly is needed to get even one question answered. The articles and CME are fine but the App itself is not functional.

C’mon man

For the amount of money you have to pay to get these CME’s, they could fix this program in a weekend. I am sure they could care less but it would be nice to have a program that is more functional. I use it because it is a fast and easy way to get my CME’s and there is the occasional study which is informative. C’mon man, just put a little money into the app, it is constantly freezing and I need to go back and reload tests so I can get credit.
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Clunky

Love the content, but the tech is buggy. For years, some of the quizzes had the same annotated answer (that had nothing to do with that question). Very often, the “submit” button for quizzes overlies the “evaluation” tab, making it impossible to earn cme on mobile format- which is the whole point.

Terrible app!

App is slow and buggy. Keeps logging me out. Takes 5 minutes every time I try to login.

Have to use the desktop for quizzes

This app is ok for listening to the reviews, so in the sense that it can do something so basic that you could just pull an applet off the shelf it gets one star. But it fails miserably in UI/UX given that you can’t reliably take a quiz as the Apple keyboard blocks the “True/False” button which cannot be scrolled up past the keyboard. The entire point of paying for a subscription is ease of obtaining CME credits! You can’t get credit without taking the quiz which has to be done on the desktop?! For what is being charged per subscription, this app is an embarrassment at best and a sign of uninhibited greed at worst.
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The worst app ever? Perhaps

Can I give a zero star rating? How about negative stars? This app is that bad.

Is there less than one star

Wow 17 + years old application and no one bothers to improve it
Before I downloaded I thought must be a mistake average two star rating now I know why

Issue mentioned in previous reviews still lingers it doesn’t recognize your credentials and asks to call to renew subscription
Nonsense !!

It’s a paid subscription and someone should be able able to sync the credentials on this platform so that it recognizes active subscribers

I am sure this review will fall on deaf ears too and no I don’t intend to call customer service
Thank you
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Not working. No clue why

Very clunky non-intuitive app. Currently 2022) shows current and only issue is from 2018. Tried it numerous times. No explanation. I have had subscription for more than ten years.

Can’t log in

I’ve had a subscription for decades. I’ve renewed. And when I try to use the new app it doesn’t allow me saying I have to renew first. I don’t want to spend this much time on technology, when technology is supposed to be saving time.

Response from developer

Please call us at 800-633-4743 or email oakwebmaster@ebix.com to help with the login issue. Thanks.

Good content bad access

Presenters and subjects are great but the app doesn’t work well at all. It stops after the first two articles

Unusable

As many others are saying, the audio playback here is broken. Terrible considering the high price they charge.

App crashed after update

After recent update, I am unable to use App

Thumbs down to upgrade.

Agree with other recent reviews that the upgrade has taken the practical reviews app from good/usable to terrible!!! Hopefully they are working on some fixes for their many listeners.