PLI PLUS vs West Academic Audio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PLI PLUS
Access comprehensive legal reference materials, including books, handbooks, and forms, on your iPhone or iPad. This app allows for offline access, robust searching, and customizable e-reading features for legal professionals.
- Access legal reference materials
- Offline content download
- Robust search functionality
- Customizable e-reading
- Syncing for notes and highlights
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With the PLI PLUS app, you can access your PLUS account from your iPhone or iPad and have up-to-date legal reference materials at your fingertips. This includes Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) Answer Books, Course Handbooks,Treatises, Legal Forms, and Program Transcripts. Features: Syncing capabilities for your Bookshelves, Notes, Marks, and Highlights Download items to your device when you need to work without an internet connection Robust search capabilities, including Terms and Connectors searching across PLI titles to help you find what you are looking for quickly and easily E-reading functionality including the ability to adjust font and font size
West Academic Audio
Access audiobooks and lectures offline with this app. Download content, adjust playback speed, and view transcripts. It's designed for users of West Academic Study Aids.
- Offline audio access
- Downloadable content
- Adjustable playback speed
- Lecture transcripts
- Improved navigation
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The West Academic Audio app provides offline access to audio content and audio lectures available through your subscription to West Academic Study Aids. Sign in to the app using your West Academic username and password. • Browse West Academic’s collection of audio titles and lectures • Download individual tracks or an entire title • Speed up or slow down a lecture to adjust to your listening style • View lecture transcripts (where available) • Improved navigation to get you to your recently played titles faster and discover new audio titles Looking to read West Academic books on a mobile app? Download the West Academic Library app for access to books while on the go. West Academic is the leading publisher of casebooks, treatises, study aids, and other legal education materials in the U.S. Founded on the principle of making legal information more accessible, and rooted in a long history of legal expertise and innovation, we’ve been a leader in legal education publishing for more than 100 years.
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Verdict
PLI PLUS and West Academic Audio both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of PLI PLUS's written reviews are positive against 46% of West Academic Audio's. PLI PLUS also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription). West Academic Audio's advantage is ratings volume (445 vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PLI PLUS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: West Academic Audio has 445 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of PLI PLUS's written reviews are positive against 46% of West Academic Audio's.
PLI PLUS ships an update every 6 months, West Academic Audio every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PLI PLUS | West Academic Audio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (445 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 46.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 445 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Practising Law Institute | LEG, Inc. |
Customer experience
PLI PLUS
West Academic Audio
Bugs and requests
PLI PLUS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
West Academic Audio
Reported bugs
7 issues- Periodically signs out and deletes all downloads
- Access to audio material is gone, replaced by eBooks
- Tracks refuse to download, then app won't let user log in after reinstall
- App won't download or play anything
- App will not let me login
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- Cannot download content
- App loses place in track
Requested features
5 requests- Wider selection of audio lectures
- Sleep timer
- Reading in addition to audio option
- Sort library by downloaded audios
- Stream instead of download files
In-app purchases
PLI PLUS
No in-app purchases
West Academic Audio
No in-app purchases
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