Teach Yourself Library User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience30.5% of reviews
Neutral13.7% of reviews
Negative experience55.8% of reviews

~ Based on 95 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Teach Yourself Library Safe?

Teach Yourself Library appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Teach Yourself Library is 77/100.

This assessment is based on 143 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

71.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
23.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 143 App Store ratings for Teach Yourself Library.

Is Teach Yourself Library Legit?

Teach Yourself Library appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Teach Yourself Library is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Error

It doesn’t open from today

No funciona en mi Mac Air

Seguramente sea la culpa de la basura del Mac. 1200 euros gastados en el ordenador, engañado por la reputación de Apple de ser los mejores ordenadores, y luego me tengo que descargar el Google Chrome, porque el navegador que llevan décadas desarrollando, Safari, es una patata que da problemas de todo tipo, en el McAffee que me colocaron en la tienda no consigo activar el firewall, aplicaciones que no se abren, en fin, una puñetera estafa. Solo hace dos meses que me he comprado este cacharro y ya estoy amargamente arrepentido, podría haber gastado 400 euros menos y no habría adquirido un ordenador peor. Si esta reseña sirve para que alguien evite a los bandidos de Apple, habrá merecido la pena escribirla.
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Enhanced ebooks?

To my understanding, I should be able to click on the icon within the ebook to hear the audio but it does not work. I can only seem to listen to the audio by going to the audio playlist. It would be very convenient to be able to use tap on the audio icon in the lesson to listen.

Downloads not working...

Download to library constantly fails which makes the app useless.

Crashes on launch

Crashes on launch on a M1 Mac

always turns off

Keeps logging me off the app and not allowing me back into accessing the book I downloaded , literally have to delete and re download the app multiple times to fix it

Needs updating

Good app however it wont let you open app on iPhone anymore due to not real easing a newer version :( so I cant continue my studies but annoying I hope they sort it soon

App closing spontaneously

I have been using this app a lot for both reading and the audio. For some reason, it has been randomly closing on both of my devices(iPhone and iPad Air) when I’m using it. It says it is up-to-date and it wasn’t doing this until recently. Please help

does not work anymore

it was a mediocre buggy app before that got its job done, now it’s a hot mess. Concretely it keeps saying that an internet connection is required which I of course have and if any feature is selected it keeps crashing.

Just an awful experience

This app is an iPad app that was made available for macos with no extra effort to actually support macos. You can't even use the arrow keys to turn pages! There's nothing in the menus other than stock commands.

What little UI exists is a mystery. Clicking near the edges of pages goes forward and back, sure, but there are things in my book that look like buttons, and clicking them...pages forward and back. There's no way to pop directly from the guts of a book to my whole collection (supplemental audio for the book). Visual affordances are utterly lacking. Sometimes clicking on the page makes text appear or disappear on the page instead of paging forward or backward—I have no idea why! Book content that should really be shown together onscreen is broken across pages, so I have to go back and forth too much.

Also, the default font is incredibly tiny, and opening the font settings and clicking the larger A changes the margins and line spacing, but the font remains the exact same size. That's...not helpful. Then I opened the Advanced submenu and suddenly the font got bigger. Yay? Some of the controls on that menu don't do what they promise, but at least I got the font size upped.

Reading the book I bought is going to be a struggle, and I doubt I'll be buying any more for use in this app.
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Good content, horrible app

This is easily the least stable app on my phone and the worst e-reader I have encountered.
It doesn’t stay open for more than a few minutes without crashing. It doesn’t save your progress where you left off on books, so every time you open the app it’s a race against time to page flip back to where you left off to make any meaningful progress before the app crashes and you have to do it all over again.

The only thing saving this from being a 1-star review is that the actual content of the books is quite good.
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Needs track repeat

Great app! If it had track repeat I’d give it five stars.

Cannot download and play audio

The app has really bad user experience. I downloaded multiple audios but can’t not play some of them-there’s no way to re-download the audios again and I can only reinstall the app . However reinstall the app doesn’t help at all, I still can’t play some audios

Not for IPad

This is a terrible iPad app. It won’t let me sign in. No problem with other apps. It won’t even let me rate it with 1 star.

Great but it does have bugs

Overall this is a great app. It has many different languages that go along with the complete book with the language you are learning. Or you can simply just learn by listening. It has many different options and you can buy things if you so choose.
The unfortunate thing is that it is a glitchy app. I have to hit pause twice, sometimes skipping 30 seconds twice, and it is extremely slow. Beyond the overall performance of the app, my reason for docking a star, I give it a four out of five stars.
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Bad design and functionality

I never write reviews, but this app desperately needs an overhaul. It’s buggy, the buttons are too small to click, and often the audio doesn’t play. It’s kind of ruining my language learning with the Teach Yourself books. Doing the listening exercises as readings instead.

Poor poor poor

The people involved in this app should do a teach yourself course on how to make an app, as they are clearly ignorant on how to do it.
Yellow text on yellow is not readable
No proper categories for genres
Very little accessibility option

Good

Suitable for what I need it for.

OK. Needs improvement.

Good app to learn a language. Chapters should be listed as a default. Jump forward and back should be way less than 30 seconds as average chapter length is 1 or 2 minutes.

Complete Catalan

I really enjoyed the lesson but all of a sudden it disappeared from my iPhone. I would like it back on my iPhone as well as on my iPad.
Thank you.