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title: "The Great Courses - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "The Great Courses App enables you to play courses you have purchased from us.  The Great Courses brings the world’s greatest professors to millions who want to go deeper on the subjects that interest "
---

# The Great Courses — United States
> Play Your Purchased Courses

![The Great Courses App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/dc/ab/59/dcab5956-5948-30f6-40f4-a929229b685d/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-7-0-85-220-0.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [The Great Courses](https://apptail.io/developer/the-great-courses-qQJ) (United States)
**Category:** Education
**Rating:** 4.2/5 (1,305 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.teachco.thegreatcourses
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 8.2.5 (released 2025-04-09)
**Original Release:** 2013-04-29
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id636818505)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/the-great-courses-qnxe/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/the-great-courses-qnxe/united-states)

## The Great Courses Description
The Great Courses App enables you to play courses you have purchased from us.

The Great Courses brings the world’s greatest professors to millions who want to go deeper on the subjects that interest them most. No exams. No homework. No schedule. Just a world of knowledge available anytime, anywhere, via video or audio. Use this app to:

• Stream any course you have purchased (Internet connection required)
• Seamlessly toggle between video and audio versions of lectures
• Download your lectures to enjoy later when not connected
• Access course guidebooks included with most courses

Your Digital Library includes digital editions purchased directly from The Great Courses, and does not include courses purchased from other retailers.

More than 800 courses available at TheGreatCourses.com.

## The Great Courses Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/42/d2/07/42d2071e-7b88-d913-5820-7fda470557e3/da08c464-8ec0-4b5d-9976-db95de5b42f7_1._My_Library_-_Mobile_6.5.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/3f/e7/db/3fe7db4c-d38b-a2bd-8a73-269f7abb92f8/bd9b99cf-20b1-4497-96c1-acc137fc441e_2._My_Downloads_-_Mobile_6.5.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/56/65/5b/56655b04-a6c6-a630-ed7c-ac102aaa8b47/ab09972d-ec2d-4234-975c-3af0694beb41_3._Sleep_Timer-_Mobile_6.5_U00281_U0029.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/c3/ba/35/c3ba3531-4e70-a3ef-906b-bfe13e4a36e1/6ce297d4-1918-4a67-8423-65aba1eeea5e_4._Mini_Player_-_Mobile_6.5.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/54/07/01/540701f2-4ded-3648-f7ab-4b6586fca1a9/fa37a76c-3cb0-454d-866d-fed985627861_5._My_Lists_-_Mobile_6.5.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/4a/7a/26/4a7a265d-e829-b5f5-4d46-27d2727fb314/61621a84-0967-4979-8171-6cba706e25df_6._Search_-_Mobile_6.5.png/1242x2688.png)

## The Great Courses Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 807 (62%)
- 4 stars: 225 (17%)
- 3 stars: 84 (6%)
- 2 stars: 67 (5%)
- 1 stars: 122 (9%)

## The Great Courses Reviews in United States

### ***-- "Sorta functional"
I use the app often but I never know what it’s going to do. I keep reinstalling it but it keeps coming up with new glitches.
-- LMLHC, 2025-01-03

### ***** "Great content, lousy streaming model: no Apple TV for bought courses."
Forcing TGC buyers to use a subscription (TGC Plus, exWondrium) is just a money grub. Fix it.
-- the_Gander, 2024-11-10

### ***-- "Spyware?"
Find it odd that I haven’t used this app in months yet  this app consumes more cellular data (2.93gb in the past month) than apps that I regularly use and that is including some audio/video apps. Concerning.
-- lord_of_the_underworld, 2024-11-01

### ***-- "Car Play?"
I’d give this app a higher rating but it is missing the ability to use Apple Car Play. I listen to the lectures mostly when I’m in the car and it would be so much more helpful to be able to play it on Car Play.
-- Qwkuyp56, 2024-10-08

### ****- "Lost AirPlay Capability"
The app and the instructional videos are great, but after upgrading to iPadOS 18, the app lost the ability to use AirPlay to cast to my Apple TV device.
-- SangDeLaPur, 2024-09-25

### ***-- "Great courses but the app is weak"
Great Courses has terrific content but the app crashes frequently. Frustrating.
-- JCWKane, 2024-09-15

### *---- "Downloads don’t work"
It took a while for Great Courses to support off-line video viewing (on long flights, for example).  Problem is it still doesn’t work well, crashing frequently and requiring restarting a course multiple times in short time periods.
-- Loves The Atlantic, 2024-09-09

### *---- "Does Not Play Nice with Apple Car Play"
SEVOND UPDATE:  After spending time with customer service, I learn that the problem is even worse than I thought. The app is not sequencing through the lectures in order because I previously listened to them on the app many months ago. Now the app automatically skips every lecture that it thinks I finished — no matter how long ago — and jumps to the next place it finds that it thinks is incomplete. So I end up jumping from the end of lecture 5 to somewhere in lecture 14.  It does not seem to occurto these  morons that a customer might want to listen to a lecture series a second time. There is no way to reset the “finished” flag on the lectures in order for auto play to work properly. Deleting and re-downloading the lectures also makes no difference. I just cannot believe how stupid this is. END SECOND UPDATE.  
// UPDATE: I have lowered the rating to one star. The technical shortcomings are appalling. Most annoying is that it will not sequence through downloaded lectures in order - it jumps randomly. The Great Courses is not so great when it comes to technology. END UPDATE. // One obvious place to listen to these lectures is in the car. Unfortunately, this app does not function properly via Apple Car Play. The “play” button shown on the car’s screen does not do anything. Sometimes there is no audio. Other times, after trying to start playback, two or more out-of-sync instances of the lecture start playing at once. This is really frustrating, and makes this app pretty useless.
-- Voiceguy2000, 2024-09-04

### ***** "Excellent app but please add to Apple TV"
We really enjoy The Great Courses (iOS) and have purchased many of them as supplemental teaching aides. However, I wish that The Teaching Company would add this app to tvOS for the Apple TV (as it did for Roku and others); at this point, our 4K Apple TVs, which we use regularly, only offer The Great Courses Plus, which only delivers streaming access for that particular premium service (not access to purchased courses).
-- jasonhavens, 2024-08-10

### *---- "App has poor feedback on lessons watched, bad chromecast"
While we love Great Courses, the app has the following problems.

(1) Generally there is no feedback that you have watched one of the lessons. We Chromecast to our TV most of the time. I suspect that the turnover of control to the TV takes the app out of the game. An interrupting phone call, also often leads to trying to find out we we left off. Maybe I need my own button on each session. Seems gross, but if the app can’t track usage, then I need a way.

(2) Worse for us who like to ChromeCast the lectures onto our Tv,  ChromeCast is failing from the app in many cases.  The intro to a class may fail but the rest of the series is okay, others just fail.

You can chromecast the same lectures from a PC from the online site if you have a google browser.  This is madening!  Downgrading the review.

And their technical support asks you to wait longer. Years?
-- ExcapingUS, 2024-07-12

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## The Great Courses Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/the-great-courses-qnxe/united-states)
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