Audm - New Yorker, Atlantic App Reviews

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Great listening, app has missing features. The content on Audm is fabulous. Great narrative stories with excellent readers. The app, however, is frost rating. Like other reviewers said, I come here for long form journalism, compelling stories, and profiles. The feed is taken up by 5 min news clips. The Trending section needs to get refreshed for recency. A story about Hunter Biden’s laptop has been the top story for weeks. Who cares. I’d like to filter by story types- longform, profile, narrative journalism, crime etc. I would also like to follow publications. And the queue functionality needs improvement. Currently there is only the option to “play next”. I would like to play next, play later, play last like the Apple Podcasts app.

Used to be better. I enjoyed Audm for quite a while but lately its range has narrowed considerably. Only about three new stories appear per day, mostly about lefty politics, edgy cultural issues and trending entertainment figures. I could not care less about most of these issues. Only by delving into the archives can I find the long-form narratives about adventures, crime, etc that I used to enjoy on Audm. I’m spending much more time on Curio these days. There, I can hear more stories on psychology, technology, economic trends, philosophy, etc., along with the sorts of topics that Audm covers. I’ll probably renew my Audm subscription this year, since it’s fairly inexpensive on a yearly basis, but I’d be much happier if it broadened its scope.

Great! Just great!. I think the service provided by Audm is one of my best finds over the last year. Being able to listen to these wonderful articles in multiple journals while I’m driving somewhere or even just sitting at home listening is a real pleasure. At first I felt a little guilty that I was listening to these articles instead of reading them. But after a while I realized it was no different than listening to the books I listen to on Audible or to the podcasts that I listen to. The narrator‘s are excellent and the addition of this service to my listening pleasure has been exquisite. I strongly recommend it and have actually purchased subscriptions for a few friends and family already. I certainly hope it continues to grow and improve over time but for right now it’s just a pleasure to have it.

Great idea, but not well implemented. As the title of this review indicates, I think the developers of Audm had a great idea. Sadly, it has not been implemented very effectively. From a purely technical point of view the user interface is a bit clumsy. The way in which articles are selected, queued, and played could be a lot cleaner. More annoying is the app’s propensity to crash. For example, as I am writing this (the last day of October 2019), the app nearly always crashes when scrolling through the list of available periodicals. I could perhaps live with these technical shortcomings, but far more troublesome are the content issues, viz., the lack of good articles from which to select. Given the lengthy list of periodicals the app touts, the developer would have prospective users think that there is a vast, vast number of quality articles from which to chose. But that’s not really the case. To cite just one example, the last article available from “The New York Review of Books”, a semi-monthly publication, was two and a half months prior to the writing of this app review.

Outstanding concept and execution. This is the first time I have ever penned a review for an app. AUDM, however, is unlike any app I’ve ever downloaded. Every person has a unique amount of money, intelligence, good fortune, etc. But we are all allocated exactly 24 hours in a given day. The ability to listen to the most relevant long form journalism while doing activities that I must do anyway (driving, exercising, cleaning) means that I am able to get more out of my allotted 24 hours. For this I am grateful. The articles are excellent- I think it is fair to say these are among the best current writers alive today. AUDM makes it even better by engaging the very best narrators in the business to read the articles. Grover Gardner is, without question, the best reader in the history of audiobooks or articles. Julia Whelan does an excellent job every time. The entire narrating crew is consistent and excellent. The app’s performance has been flawless and the customer service is competent, helpful and responsive (I asked a question via email that was addressed immediately). Rarely can an app make a person smarter. AUDM makes me smarter. Thank you for your creativity and delivery.

This is the future of longform journalism. Audm is perhaps the best example of an app positively rotating into my daily routine. Better than meditation. Better than games. Def better than twitter. I love the New Yorker but it sits on my coffee table collecting dust for 3 months until my wife puts it in the pile. And maybe I read the big year long researched feature or maybe not. On audm it is read by a professional voice actor. Like watching a movie on opening weekend or watching a tv show as it airs it allows you to understand the important journalism happening as it is published. I find a lot of pleasure in that. And the catalog is nuts. From Texas monthly to buzzfeed. It’s a perfect app for me. It replaces bad podcasts that I overly dine on. The app is fairly bare bones, but you can imagine it will evolve as the app finds its core audience. I love it.

Great idea but app issues make it unusable. The playback will consistently become stuck at the end of paragraphs for 5-10 seconds. More often than not, when it resumes playback it will have skipped the next paragraph. It’s really annoying to have the app playing while doing something else but have to go back into the app and force it to play a paragraph it skipped when suddenly the story doesn’t make any sense. Then it makes you wonder what other paragraphs it might have skipped that you didn’t notice, but I never have the patience to go back and check. It’s a great idea that I’d gladly pay the price they ask for if it worked as expected, but I’m finding the app unusable.

Great content in a simple interface. I started listening to articles in Audm during the height of the pandemic. When stuck at home all the time, staring at my screens too much, it was such a relief to close my eyes and listen to high quality recordings. I prefer Audm articles over podcasts because they're polished and professional, and also over audiobooks because they're short enough that I can explore a lot of different topics. This is probably the content subscription that I use the most right now, since it doesn't present the same decision paralysis problems as TV / movie apps.

Love this. A few tweaks and it’s perfect!. Have been flirting with Audm for a while. Finally cracked and haven’t looked back. It’s great. I look at screens all day. I subscribe to magazines I don’t have time to read. But I do have time to listen. And sometimes podcasts + Audible + Hoopla just isn’t the thing. So get this, please: it’s cool. It’s also much cheaper than subscribing to all the content in print/online. And they probably need mass subscriptions to make it work at this price. Small gripes: the readings are generally good to very good. But (so far, 2 weeks in) ALL the American-voiced articles pause for an unfathomably long time between paragraphs. In the often-long pieces this can be quite disruptive and, depending on your mood at the time, add up over 25+ mins to a an undertow of mild irritation or an overtow (is “overtow” a thing? It should be!) of madness-inducing rage. Ok, I exaggerate - but seriously, it gets in the way of an otherwise great listening experience. Your mileage may vary. At first I thought this was just an unfortunate glitch to do with the fabulous, eerily accurate feature where the text scrolls with the audio in perfect sync. But, weirdly, English-English voices reading British-sourced articles don’t do this. They pause between paragraphs for a normal, helpful amount of time. So, Audm people, if you can fix this, I’ll give it six stars. You deserve it anyway! 🙏🏻

Authors reading their own pieces sound terrible; tech issues. Audm used to be a great app, but lately it has gotten bad. First, they have started allowing authors to read their own pieces (as opposed to qualified voice actors/readers). Many of the authors SOUND TERRIBLE. I’m sorry, I get no joy hearing an article read by someone with a heavy lisp and awful vocal fry. Second, would it kill them to expand the sources they use? I’d love to see Jacobin or some more cutting-edge journals/magazines featured, not the same things over and over and over again. Third, the app randomly will add and intersperse long pauses between paragraphs for no reason, and/or crash. Please stop having authors read articles. It adds nothing. Use your professional voice actors, the ones we pay for to read these pieces. And please, add some more sources and fix your tech.

“Read to me, please”. My retirement life seems to have far more “listening time” then “quiet time” where I sit in a quiet place with a cup of tea and a long article. For example, mowing the lawn, doing errands for the grandkids, daily exercise including walking. Although I love quiet time and reading, I love even more accessing and consuming long article format in the magazines covered by Audm. An additional benefit is that I get a good selection of articles for magazines that I would subscribe to if the household treasurer would let me subscribe to everything I wanted. However, her eagle eye skips over the modest monthly fee for Audm and I get access to some great long article and Public Intellectual magazines.

I want to like this. Second time around subscribing hoping the scope quantity would have increased, but the articles that are available just don’t seem to be the ones from the publications that I would like to hear. Not sure why expected all articles to be read from these magazines, not a fair expectation, just not sure how they choose with articles to read. Wish they were the ones that I wanted to read. Also, the refresh of new content seems very slow. Today get the writer a mic one piece of software, Audm should do slight edits and boom, much more content. But again no idea their business model so…Kinda just venting. Going to cancel and try again in another year

Amazing Product, Frustrating Application. I love this subscription so much — the ability to listen to long-form news and magazine articles while working or traveling is such a great thing to have. The individuals who do the readings are engaging and soothing to listen to, and the breadth of article availability is awesome. The app, however, is so very frustrating. I’ve frequently had articles stop playing as soon as I minimize the article or when my phone locks, which obviously isn’t sustainable for a listening app. I have also had articles stop playing every time they reached the end of a paragraph. CarPlay integration is similarly dysfunctional. Each article takes up too much space on the main screen, it takes an inordinate amount of scrolling. The author filter is nice I guess, but you have to scroll through an endless list of authors to select one. I think a voice actor filter with the ability to type to complete would be more handy for an app such as this. Genre/topic filters also seem like a no-brained to add. And I pray for the day when the desktop player is finally implemented. I still recommend the service, but it has a ways to go.

A terrific start. I really enjoy Audm at it’s core. Listening to articles I might otherwise miss due to paywalls or lack of awareness makes this app really useful and worth subscribing. I don’t use it as an everyday app as there isn’t quite enough content for my taste for that. Instead, I peruse the available articles and queue things up for when I’m on a walk or on a longer drive as often as I remember. I would use the app more if I could cast audio to a smart speaker while doing things around the house. The UI is also a little clunky and the queue especially could use some retooling in its core functionality. It’s real close to an excellent app.

My favorite app. I really love this app. I really like the longer pieces, and the people who do the audio are top notch. The writing featured on Audm does contain some current events and news, but I prefer the typically longer profile pieces, in depth reporting, narrative nonfiction, etc. I find myself most often selecting articles by the Atavist, Outdoor Magazine, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Sunday articles, just to name a few. The overall design and UI is great. I really wouldn’t change a thing, except that I find myself running short on articles some weeks. Don’t get me wrong, there’s tons of content on Audm, but I use this app constantly.

Horrible. This is a horrible app. The content is fine although you have to pay for things you are already paying for if you are a subscriber to any of the publications. Also, quite few articles are published here. But the really horrible part is the reading. Even if you set it to 2x speed it is mind boggling slow. The worst part however is that every time the article has a full stop the audio pauses for several seconds. As in many many seconds. So stressful and it really makes the app useless. iOS even things the audio has stopped so it pauses and restarts. Very strange. The pause is what you would expect between two articles but not something that happens hundreds of times in one article. Having listened to one article for 40 minutes, which should have taken maybe 20, I have never been more stressed ever. To preserve my health I have now deleted the app.

Review. I love having very important articles read to me that I would never have taken the time to read! In exploring topics that I formerly regarded as “secondary,” i.e.,articles that I didn’t agree with, my eyes have been opened to the severity of dangers to the U.S., it’s legal foundation, and our democracy. Now that I’m aware, I’m talking to my friends about my concerns and fears. Thank you for this superb compilation of readings and thank you for bringing them within my reach by reading them to me. The readers, too, are easy on the ears, and they don’t read too fast which allows me to absorb the material which sometimes requires deep reflection.

Stop using NYT reporters as readers. I like Audm generally but a few things keep me from using it as often as I had hoped. My complaints-1) I’d like more longform pieces. When the feed is overrun by 5-10 minute short pieces and op-eds it’s disappointing. It’s the longer news stories, profiles, features, and investigative pieces that I really want from this app. Also, there are times when a long print piece from a participating publication will get a lot of attention on social media during the work week, and I will think “great, I will catch that on Audm this weekend” and it never appears. Or it takes several weeks. Not sure what’s happening there. 2) The car interface is annoying because you have to line up all of your preferred articles in a queue in advance. You can’t just play straight through the current news feed. 3) This is probably the most important item— please stop having NYTimes reporters read their own work. Stick to the professionals voice folks. It genuinely impacts the quality of my listening experience with this app, to the point that I will often just switch to another article, podcast, audiobook, or NPR because I just… cannot. It is a lot like listening to your classmate being made to read a passage out loud to the class— awkward, and sometimes even cringey, for listener and reader both.

I Love This App. This app is worth every penny. The readers are excellent, and the content is top flight long form journalism. Sure, I wish it were cheaper, but i use it almost every day, and the pricing is fair. That said, I’d love to see more content, and a few more sources. The editors draw most heavily from the larger established publications, such as the New Yorker and the NYT. Although Mother Jones is in their stable, I seldom see articles posted. I almost never see articles read from the New York Review of Books. This is understandable perhaps, but a bit more diversity would be welcome. Utne Reader? Anyway, love the app. It’s great for driving and exercise sessions.

Incredible content, poor delivery.. There is so much great work here, an archive of over five years of great journalism, and little UI support to access it. There should be more effort to deliver the best of past content to the listener. Especially in 2020 — some people want to hear articles from before the pandemic! I got around this though: In an afternoon project (yay unemployment!) I spent a few hours going through EVERY SINGLE publication’s history, built up a 100+ hour queue, and will be working through that presumably through the next few months. It felt like a brute-force hack, like skirting the rules. Not everyone has that much time to kill!

Loving this app every day!. This app is fantastic! Amazing, diverse and interesting content from huge publishers and talents, new pieces every day, gorgeous design, and easy to use. It took me a while to decide to subscribe, but I’m so glad I did and have never looked back. This app has transformed my daily commute and broadened my understanding of so many topics and current events. I even like the voices of the readers. I had one small technical glitch when I first started with it, but I was helped immediately over email. They asked me to delete and reinstall the app, and from then on it’s been smooth sailing.

The “Audio book” for magazines. I’m someone who rarely has time to sit still to read, but I can often absorb a story, podcast, or article while physically doing other things. In the same way audio books have allowed me to absorb way more books than I normally have room for, this app has let me take in some great long-form magazine articles I’d typically not have the time for. The narrators are all first rate and some recognizable from the audio books I’ve listened to. My only constructive criticism would be that sometimes the narrators can lay on the emotive tone a little thick, and dial it back a notch, but for the most part, they strike a good balance.

My new obsession. There is so much great writing out there today, and I’ve always struggled to stay up-to-date on new pieces from the popular press. Audm is the perfect way to “read” the major articles from all of the best media outlets without having to spend additional hours in front of your computer every day, and without having to subscribe to 15+ publications. I’ve been ravenously consuming articles since I purchased the app - it’s been around for two years and you have access to everything produced since 2018 - especially while doing household tasks or lounging around. The voice actors are excellent, and the topics range from politics to technology to art and culture. It is definitely worth the price if you listen to it regularly.

Too busy to read?? You can listen to great journalism. I love AUDM! Grocery shopping, loading and unloading the dishwasher and doing the laundry - along with endless other boring stuff I have to do - is now an opportunity to be catching up on terrific articles that I don’t have time to sit and read. if you are in the same fix and don’t have enough time to sit and enjoy reading great articles, AUDM is godsend for frustrated readers, providing audio versions of great long form journalism from terrific publications and you get access to dozens of articles from an extensive list of magazines including The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker and many more. The monthly cost is best described as a screaming deal - I don’t know they do it, but I am just glad they do!

Couldn’t be better!!!. I’ve just written to the brilliant developers for probably the third time asking a dumb question (if I have to keep slapping my head like this I’m going to do serious brain damage). As before, I got a response so fast I wasn’t even looking for it yet. These people are so kind and smart and you will always hear from a real human who knows this app down to the tiniest detail. I can’t imagine how it could be improved...unless someday licensing permits a family subscription. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 PS I get articles from NINETEEN publications and they are read by the best actors/narrators, all of whom I love from my Audible books

A few improvements can bring this to the next level. Great concept overall, but could use a few improvements to make it even better: - seemingly not up to date with newest articles with Audm recordings. I’ll see a new article on NYT’s own site with a play Audm recoding option but just can’t find that article on Audm. And then it will only show up after maybe a week on audm’s own app. - there should be a link on each recording to the ORIGINAL publication source/website. so if viewers want to look at the pictures / illustrations accompanying each article they can easily do so. - search feature is abysmally useless. Often I first see an article that has an Audm recording on an individual newspaper’s own site, then wanting to find it in Audm. I can type in that article’s name exactly as is from the publisher and the search will show nothing close to that article. Discovering an article should be much easier than that. - No discovery mode, you can only filter by specific publishers and that limits you to the specific news publications you know, hard to discover interesting articles from other sources

Very happy with Audm. I’m so grateful for this service! Getting to experience some of my favorite writers, narrated by high quality professional voice actors and narrators is awesome! I usually stick to The New Yorker, ProPublica, The Atlantic, The London Review of Books and similar periodicals, but having Audm has really opened me up to so many fascinating publications with top tier journalists that I might’ve not engaged with or even known about previously. Notably, the work coming out of Outside magazine is excellent, gripping and very informative. I think Audm does a great job at democratizing access to tons of the best journals, while keeping an affordable price. I know I am not able to afford some of these journals at their normal prices, so having a six dollar a month audio-alternative is great. I’ve also read that Audm pays the publications and the narrators fairly and it all seems to be very ethical and ultimately contributing to greater access to great minds who are pushing the public to think critically about the issues of the day. Definitely worth subscribing! I probably spend about two hours each day listening to Audm. Great for listening while commuting, working out, cooking, cleaning, etc.

Amazing. I’ve never written a review for ANY app but Audm has had such a positive impact on my media consumption / life in general that I feel obligated to tell others about it. For what you get, the price is totally fair. The app functions great. When there was a bug, I emailed and received a reply back from an engineer within a few hours. After the first fix failed, he worked with me to test out another solution, which worked. The app itself: for any of you who love reading periodicals but hate lugging them around or managing subscriptions, this app is for you. I download dozens of articles and listen to them when on a plane or in a car. I just hope they never stop making this app

Excellent way to fill an audio niche!. The production quality is superb, and the breadth and variety of the content is wonderful. The narrators have been uniformly excellent as well. The controls are intuitive and easy to use, and unlike being able to create a queue for the articles I want to hear while also choosing to download or stream them. Another useful feature is organizing or filtering articles by author or publication. Audm is worth the subscription rate for the large number of impressive articles, authors, and publications. Minor hiccups: the app some times is a bit quirky in CarPlay mode — not playing the specific item I choose in a queue or rewinding when I get a call or message.

Amazing Longreads read by great voiceover talent. If you like both the Longread format and podcasts, this is a great app to check out. Audm manages to get really interesting longread content (in a variety of lengths from 15 minutes to well over an hour, sometimes in multi-part serial articles) in a huge variety of topics. I like episodic podcasts also but sometimes on my runs or at the gym, I want to plug into something different and have the ability to curate a really interesting listening queue. I’ve listened to tracks on crime, politics, science, health, pop culture, and some totally random stuff that is so compelling. Some major publications with great credibility. You won’t be disappointed by the content or the audio quality. Over the 18 months I’ve been a subscriber they have made major improvements to the interface and quality. If I ever have a technical issue the dev team responds rapidly - a rarity with apps today. I’ve recommended Audm to several friends so far and they’ve signed up. The bottom line .... I don’t go for my long distance runs or short plane rides without it :)

Good but not Great.. I like this app a LOT because I get to listen to (mostly) New Yorker articles while either crocheting or cleaning or driving... However, sometimes I like to read along. I have a lot of distractions and reading along gives me the most complete comprehension. However, the iPhone and iPad app are terrible to read along with. Is this intentional? Too many elements of the interface interfere, and moving it down changes the visual experience so the whole thing becomes tiresome. Is this necessary? Can you not allow read-alongers a better experience? Also I too would like more than a one-sentence description of each article so I can make a better decision about what to read. One more issue is that I don’t happen to care for some of the voices. I am guessing you try to pair male voices with make writers, etc, but there is one guy I just cannot stand to listen to, because the tone of his voice, while very low, also sounds a bit whiny. Thank you. I do really like this app and just renewed my subscription.

Deep journalism out loud! versus doom scrolling). I found Audm just before the COVID lockdown. And after I blew my ACL. Compared to the repetitive doom and gloom of news (even NPR), the articles presented deep analysis, historical context, and even inspiring pieces about artists and how they work. Listening, instead of reading, is fabulous for a screen-weary time. My quarantine pod listens to articles together while cooking, Then we talk about them at dinner. I listen while I work on paintings, driving, taking a walk. I’ve recommended it to everyone, and they all say it’s a lifesaver. Product requests: (1) Pease let me bookmark articles I like so I can find them easily to share. (2) Let me search articles by keywords. Content request: Work with content providers to Increase number of articles in general, but specifically articles about positive developments in climate action, the arts, countries/cities that are doing innovative things in democracy - give us hope that humans can intelligently, inclusively and creatively solve the problems we face. Revise we can. “Attack the problem, not the people!”

Really Amazing. This is the first app review I’ve ever left. I’m really confused by other reviewers issues with the interface. Everything works seamlessly for me. The content is reliable and has entirely changed the way I commute. It’s also basically allowed me to cancel my beloved New Yorker print subscription. I had an issue with a beeping in my wireless headphones and the developers were prompt in responding to it. Even if there are some kinks - which I myself have not seen - the content far outweighs them. Get in on an early and affordable rate because I really think this app is going to take off.

Generally disappointing. Audio is very glitchy. There’s noticeable chirps between paragraphs and some sentences. Seeking is also painful, probably because of the quirky and questionable UI choice the developer team made to have the text of an article scroll in sync with the spoken words. Kinda a useless embellishment in my opinion, and it makes seeking forward in an article truly painful. Queue sorting is also buggy. Often sorting changes are lost, and more often the app will outright crash when trying to sort a playlist. On the subject of content, i feel a bit cheated by their claims of “professionally narrated content” (or something to that effect, in their marketing). Many articles, particularly those by NYT are narrated by the authors themselves, who are not necessarily professional narrators, a pretty obvious cost-cutting measure. The curation of content is also lacking, or perhaps just slow—i check back often but don’t see a meaningful amount of new articles posted on a frequent basis. By and large this app disappoints, but I’ve already paid for a year in advance so my only recourse is to publicly shame all the very rough edges. Their devs put some effort into refinement. There’s tons of potential here.

Updated to 5 stars. I previously gave the app I think 3 stars because although it was great, there just was not enough content that justified the subscription price. They have since added smaller articles that fill the gap in between the larger, long form articles that are the bread and butter of Audm. Julia Whelan reading Susan Glasser’s New Yorker columns is a favorite recurring shorter article. Every now and then someone like Jane Meyer or Anne Applebaum writes a major article that becomes a 45 minute listen and it’s a breath of fresh air. Important and timely topics are routinely covered in detail. The app has evolved and I definitely recommend it.

Improve vision-impaired interfaces. I want this app because I am losing my vision and ability to read, but the interface is not friendly enough to vision impaired!! I greatly appreciate the app however because it expands my range of material that I have access to so greatly. I look forward to seeing some improvements to this app. I have found their support to be very helpful and responsive, so I feel sure that there will be continuing improvements made to the app. Updating my comments in 11/19, I have to say I am disappointed to see no improvement in features for visually impaired seniors, who can really benefit from this app! As my sight continues to fail, I have more and more need for contrast in the presentation! Why is this so hard to change?

Nefarious Tracking?. The first thing the app does is ask for Bluetooth permission. No audio or video app should ever ask for this. Why? Because playing audio thru bluetooth is handled by the OS and doesn’t need permission. So then why ask for permission? Unless the app needs access to a specific Bluetooth piece of hardware (think GPS or heart rate monitor, etc), when they ask for permission, usually it’s to use Bluetooth as a tracking system thru beacons. So in absence of an explanation for why they need this access, I’m going to assume it’s for tracking. The sad thing is I bet most people click ok to allow access thinking that if they don’t, they won’t be able to use their headphones or speakers or car stereo. Shady. Second: when creating an account, neither the email or password fields do not use the OS api for password creation or management. So you can’t generate a strong password or account during the set up process in the app. Unless you make something up or switch to a password manager and set up an account and cut n paste. Never got to step 3 since I gave up. The Bluetooth permission thing is shady (yes, I denied access, but it shouldn’t even be there) and the bs pain point of generating a password externally we’re enough to stop me from continuing. Horrible UI/UX experience.

Read more those articles you “just don’t have the time for”. I suspect I’m one of many people who will excitedly open a new internet browser window to an intriguing Atlantic, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, etc .... article, only to notice the length and proceed to then sadly either close the article’s window out, or - resolutely suppressing an ever-expanding sense of futility - add the article’s link to some rapidly growing “reading list”; this list in truth serving primarily to induce within me, a curious breed of FOMO. I’ve spent the first day and a half of my free trial listening to one, after another, of this type of article: Narrated to me in an engaging tone by a voice actor; all of this occurring while I organize my room, clean dishes, and generally complete the mind numbing tasks which used to suffocate my ability to read topical and/or deep-dive articles about topics that I wanted to understand.

Could be so much better. This would be an everyday experience for me- fantastic articles and fabulous readers well-worth the annual cost - but there are shortcomings that make me seriously hesitate now that renewal time draws near. 1) navigating within the article is mysteriously difficult- I want to scroll back to sections that were particularly interesting or that I need to refresh my memory for relevant details - sakes alive, some of the articles are nearly an hour long and the 15 second review button ain’t gonna help much. 2) The article menu wastes visual space on pictures that don’t help me decide whether or not to listen to an article. I would much prefer a 2 sentence summary of the article rather than a picture and 6-7 words. If I have a print magazine in front of me, I can easily skim to decide but that’s extra difficult here. 3) i wish I could track and save articles that I particularly enjoyed or that I want to refer back to. As it is now, they just slide ever-farther down the article scroll, endlessly replaced by new articles that make me realize how much I’ve forgotten because I can’t find them again.

Fabulous fabulous. Easy to use. Excellent content. Engaging voices. Good pacing. Incredible value. If you are a person who often looks longingly after articles shared on Twitter that exist behind paywalls that you either can’t afford to pass or know you won’t have time to make it worth it if you did choose to subscribe, then this is absolutely for you. I’ll be honest, if you don’t actively want to read more excellent articles, I am not sure it will create this desire for you, but if you have any inclination towards excellent journalism- I recommend this so much.

EXACTLY what I've been seeking. Not an audiobook, not a podcast, it's the articles I would read if I had the time. Excellent selections read by true professionals, it's truly a pleasure to listen to. And the best feature of all is that the text scrolls in time with the audio! So when they're reading names, for example, you don't need to guess at the spelling to google for more information. I can't believe no one has done this before. Apps like audible truly missed the boat on this one. Without a doubt the best value subscription service I use. Highest recommendation!

Great Idea - Needs More Content. Love the idea and what they do have available is high quality, but as someone who expected to be able to listen to 15+ pieces of quality journalism and writing monthly, it fell rather short. In my opinion, they need to add more sources ( e.g., Washington Post, LA Times, etc ) and I expect content updated bi- weekly for the price of the subscription. If you’re looking for a service that will allow you to listen to 10 or fewer, quality, long form pieces of journalism monthly for $8.99, this is money well spent. Anything more, and you’ll quickly run out of content. Unlike other reviewers, I had no App issues with my iPad Pro. Narration and sound quality outstanding.

Needs some additional features.. I love Audm for many reasons - especially the long form journalism from the New Yorker, Atlantic, NYT, Mother Jones, etc. However it would really benefit from some improvements. 1. It can be buggy and sometimes clears my history/queue unprompted. At other times it gets stuck on the same article (it keeps suggesting that I’m about to listen to an article that I listened to and cleared from my queue a couple of months ago). 2. Most frustrating is that there is no way to save certain articles that I’ve listened to and may wish to revisit later. It’d be helpful if there was a playlist feature that would allow me to sort and save different articles. 3. The content can be inconsistent. Sometimes I want to listen to all of the articles and sometimes there isn’t much added on a given day and nothing really appeals. Other times it gives you a part of a series but not all of the accompanying articles. Why only upload the introductory essay to a series on private equity firms from Mother Jones?

Listen almost daily. At first I balked at paying for yet another subscription service. As a news and podcast junkie, I’m pretty maxed out on subscription payments; however, Adum has replaced podcasts and audiobooks as the first place I check for listening when getting into the car or free time at home. The selections are left and center left in content and include ProPublica and the Texas Monthly. As a subscriber since the beginning, Adum has expanded and increased its daily new content. Another thing is they’ve asked what content listeners are interested in and replied to any query I’ve made. One thing I’d like then to offer is a family streaming service that would let me share content, even for a slightly increased price. That would be awesome.

Too one-sided. I used to listen to this all the time and really loved how many different periodicals contributed. But, as time has gone on, I have found the various stories to be part of an echo-chamber. While the narrators are superb (they really are), the featured stories themselves are all of a piece: primarily NY-based, liberal, etc. Don’t get me wrong; I *am* liberal, but the effect of having pieces from the NYorker, the NYT, the Atlantic, etc...they’re all pretty much the same after a while (or covering the same topic). There’s just not enough variety. I find myself listening only to the book reviews nowadays (principally London Review of Books) or those from Outside. Otherwise...I find the lack of variety of topic and viewpoint to be both stultifying and too much of an echo-chamber. I’m not learning anything “new,” and I will be canceling when my subscription runs out.

Still buggy after all these updates. AUDM has great content though, as others have pointed out, has sparse offerings from some of the publications that may have attracted you. The app is a stripped down audio player with no bookmarking, cross device play is hit and miss if you use more than one device, forget trying to fast scrub by touch—it isn’t supported. The app stutters, does weird time indexing (buffer mishandling), inserts strange awkward pauses. “Did the article end?” “No it’s just pausing for irritating effect.” It is very difficult to recommend the service as implemented despite the great content. Today I could not get the app to play for several minutes without quitting the app repeatedly. Older devices crash the app. These are issues still present from prior versions! No bug fixes for 6 months. Today it lost my profile. I had to delete and reinstall. I discovered that even automated support is nonexistent.

Pleasantly surprised. I originally downloaded this app to listen to some specific article fully intending to delete it after the free trial period because really who needs another subscription, especially when podcasts exist for free. But surprisingly I found that it’s well worth it - for one, subscriptions to all the different magazines audm pulls from would be way more than $9 a month. There’s a pretty steady stream of new articles available too. The narration is audiobook quality and for the narrators who read a bit too slow for my taste, the option to listen on 1.1x speed basically eliminates that issue without making it sound distorted or weird. I spend all day looking at a computer for work so it’s really nice to be able to listen to great journalism without having to spend more time sitting looking at a screen. My only complaint is I wish they had some ways to filter articles by genre or content, like categories or tags for “film” “music” “opEds” “literary criticism” “tech” etc. For new subscribers there’s a significant back catalogue of articles and I’m sure there are interesting finds in there, but it’s difficult to navigate through them if you don’t either have a specific one in mind, or don’t want to scroll through every single one.

Life-changing app, Incredible articles!. I live in LA and I’m in the car a lot. I love my New Yorker and Atlantic, but don’t always have time to plow through the long-form articles… though I want to, since they tend to be well-researched and beautifully written - not to mention about fascinating topics. This app has changed all that. I can “listen” to all these amazing articles by having them read to me by fabulous voiceover artists while driving. What a treat! Worth every penny. The other bonus is I’ve stumbled across terrific pieces from other magazines I don’t normally pick up. It has seriously broadened the depth of my knowledge in many different areas. Highly recommend!!

Too many short NYT columns read by author themselves. I have been using this app for nearly 2 years now and I have been enjoying it. There are still some longstanding pesky bugs and issues with the usability, but that's not what I'm here for. Since NYT acquired Audm, this app changed for the worse. Previously Audm mostly marketed itself as an app for verified longform articles, which were read by professional narrators. I liked it a lot. But since the acquisition, Audm is full of short NYT columns or op-eds which don't have much info. Sure, NYT has good articles too; but what NYT pushes to Audm are short columns that are mostly not very informational. And worse still, those short NYT columns are *read by the reporters*. Where have the professional narrators gone? Sure, some of the reporters have really good voices clear pronunciation, but the quality of the narration varies a lot depending on who reads it. Why all NYT articles should be read by the authors themselves? They are not professional narrators. Can Audm please come back to its old self, the app with verified good-quality longform articles, read by pro narrators?

A must for anyone who loves magazines but have no time.... My favorite app to have on during my commute. I love podcasts, and NPR, and current event stories, but I rarely have enough time to read those interesting/entertaining/smart magazine articles that come up in my newsfeed all the time. This company not only reads those to you, but it’s roster of incredibly talented voice performers makes you feel like the listener and the writer are both taken care of and you can just relax and enjoy the articles. High production value and tons of magazine articles to choose from. You’d be hard pressed to find so much quality and value. Bravo. Love this.

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Always something interesting. A great curation of clever, relevant and thoughtful stories. Excellent narrators. A rewarding middle ground between podcasts and audio books.

Great app. Very useful app.

Needs an Update. Was a great app, but now only works while app is open. Does not work in background or when screen locks.

Almost there. - App still too slow to initialise. - Needs a ‘favorites’ in settings where you choose publications or authors that you want audm to always download latest articles from - Also would be great to have a ‘most listened’ or ‘most recommended by listener’ option.

Refunded me straight away after email. I was charged for another full year subscription, but I should have already cancelled (because when I log in to the app it prompts me to subscribe). I emailed support and received a reply with refund within an hour. Pretty good service after all.

Okay content. Too pricey.. The content is decent but lacks diversity. It is largely left of centre politics, I prefer a good deal of the left and right madness with some sensible centrist content. 13 AUD/month is also too much. For it to become widespread it must be on par with other streaming services, around 5$/m.

Love it. Amazing app

Not possible to delete. This app traps you in subscriptions by not allowing cancellation. Really frustrating as I tried the free trial period, wasn’t impressed, and now can’t get out.

Excellent except when it isn’t.. Love this ap, use it daily, I highly recommend. It’s helped me keep up to date on current affairs. Small glitchy problem when I lock the ap it tends to stop the play, not sure why. Please look into this.

Almost good. I really like the premise of the app and some of what it delivers. I have two main complaints: 1) there aren’t enough narrator voices and I get really sick of hearing the same voices over and over (some of them also narrate on other apps and audiobooks and I’m so over hearing them); and 2) some of the narrators are just much too “old school” in their reading of edgy investigative journalism. It’s not Shakespeare, and I don’t want to consume my investigative journalism via an over-enunciated and borderline pretend English accent narrator. I’d probably rather just hear the journalists read their own stories as they will get the emphasis right, hit the right beats etc.

A great idea for digesting current events. I’ve definitely struggled finding time for the long form articles that often have a more nuanced take on current events. I’d you like audio books but want to keep up with more current events, this is the app for you

Great content. Terrible app.. The content is excellent. The performances are solid and the choice of stories are often topical and popular. Unfortunately, the app is so bad that it makes accessing the content frustrating. Long load times, bad navigation, average user interface to name a few issues. I have persevered with Audm for over a year I think now, but am finally considering cancelling because the app makes accessing the content a chore.

Good stuff. Surprised myself with liking this app, I was just in it for a free taste and now I’m hooked. Plus, it eliminates any guilt about the pile of unread New Yorkers on my coffee table.

🤬. Terrible service. Expensive and fked around by tech support. Avoid.

Great idea, unreliable implementation. The idea is great, both content and reading are of very high quality, but the app is terribly buggy. It often crashes during playback or changing settings. I've been using the app for almost a year and it seems to get worse rather than better.

They charge you before your free trial is finished. They charged the first monthly payment only 3 days after getting the app. The trial period was meant to be longer than that.

No chromecast??!. Year 2020, Audio App, no chromecast (or ANY cast for that matter). What were you thinking????!

Great value, great access to real journalism.. I’ve had Audm for about 2 years. I listen everyday. The range and diversity of material from premium sources is unprecedented. The voice artists deliver nuanced reads that are a pleasure to listen to. That combined with the great writing of the source material rekindles the joys of storytelling. The fact that I can do other things whilst listening like driving, making a meal, walking, even showering, or just plain chilling makes Audm my first selection when opening the phone. I would pay $100s a month to be able to subscribe to all the publications that are delivered here. Excellent production values help too. Highly recommended to anyone who likes depth and detail, good writing and language, and quality production. M

Still charging me for service even though I deleted app. Still charging me for service even though I deleted app

Brilliant idea, great content, poor performance. I’ve been with this app for a while and it’s made great improvements. The content remains strong, and the performance continues to get better. After fixing significant issues, there are, however, still long load times, inconsistent downloads and interrupted playing. Much more work is needed, but the idea is sound and the developers seem committed.

High quality audio productions of great writing. Audm is my most used app. The selection of writing is outstanding. The quality of reading and audio production is very high and the team are responsive with regular updates that improve performance of the app.

Amazing Content. Love audmn, the quality of the content, articulate narrators make it my go to app to catch up on a range of topics.

My favourite app. This is easily my favourite app. I’ve been encouraging my friends who are readers to try it. I think it’s a wonderful idea and I like how it challenges listeners to slow down and commit to thinking.

Good idea, fatally flawed app. Content is very good - great articles and professional narration. However, the app has been continuously flawed over several months. It variously freezes, skips, refuses to rewind or fast forward, won’t pause when incoming phone call is taken. Has reached the stage where it is so frustrating that it isn’t worth the effort to persevere.

App is absolutely terrible and buggy.. Completely ridiculous.

Wonderful app. This app is one of my top favourites. The content is selected well and the idea of having skilled professional actors read the articles is brilliant. I like the whole concept and interface. A reservation: perhaps a little too many US election stories lately, understandable for a US-based app and sources. However, being able to browse the archive makes up for that.

How much?. Wants you to sign up, but doesn’t tell you how much the subscription costs. Automatically charges you after the 3 day trial..... but how much?

Fantastic app. Great app, guys! I've always wanted this. A discounted student subscription would be great! Or even partner with Spotify for discounted subscription? Could attract you some customers.

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Many thanks !. I just love to listen to such a great sélection of articles, when I am in my car. To me, it is the best way to mâle sûre all the time I spend each week in the car. As a French speaking reader, it’s also a mean of improving my English with great recordings of Edoardo Ballerini, or many others Many thanks to Audm !

Audm is great, except for.... ... its lack of a functional, user-friendly player. For instance, why can’t I rewind back a few seconds, or when I take a break from listening in the middle of an article, go back RESUME WHERE I LEFT OFF. One expects that some competitor will swoop in if Audm doesn’t correct this. Otherwise, I enjoy the app.

Audm. This is one of the best apps I have. Wide range of magazines and good assortment of articles. I listen while I am stitching. Very good value.

Excellent app. Delivers what it promises - absorbing articles from serious magazines beautifully read. I began the subscription thinking it would be a luxury, but it has become essential to me. Any issues with the app’s performance or stability have been corrected with each progressive update.

Great content, need to expand. Perfect app for my commute to work (walking), a lot of great stories and reporting. Need to expand to more magazines and include some older stories that are still relevant today.

Great content but app could be better. Why do the downloaded items get deleted? I frequently find myself having to redownload things after I go outside and leave wifi.

Excellent. Great app. Professional voice actors reading top-notch journalism.

Great App. This app is great for listening to articles, handy listening to Audm on my walks.

trump versus cheney. i love listening to great writing being read aloud. it seems to give it an extra dimension.

Robotic narration. Only thing I know about Audm so far is that they supply the narrators for the NYT Sunday Read. It’s super weird: we hear a lovely natural intro from the actual writer, and then it sounds like Siri comes in to pretend to care about the story. Maybe that’s the style they’re going for, but it’s definitely not for me.

Great App. So many articles that I can listen to. Articles are well written and well read. I highly recommend Audm.

Took too long. to improve the design, font size, syncing, etc. Good content, terrible app. Just like the NYT; that bought this one year ago, & only did surveys. I think they’ll launch NYT Audio later this yr, but most of the narrators are journalists.

Best writing on the planet. I listen to Audm more than I listen to podcasts now. Superb narration.

Invaluable- very pleased. This is a fantastic way to stay in touch with news and current events

Audm makes me a better person. My friends constantly ask me what I’ve been reading and I always have something to share. What’s more is the amazing journalism has shown me ideas and perspectives that I did not know about and they have shifted my worldview in significant ways. There is no doubt, this app has made me a better person. Sorry for the quick note, I’m out for a Canadian run and don’t have time to make sense

Really great, but. the 4? pt grey type on mobile app makes reading titles & navigation, when walking or running or hiking, a real challenge. Seems like it would be an easy fix but so far no go. Also the ridiculous censoring of stories, with kiddie show style beeps, is extremely annoying & entirely unnecessary. That aside though, great service that I will be renewing yearly well into the future.

What’s the word for “worse than bait and switch”?. This app starts with a single button to start a three-dat trial. After which time I’m charged automatically. Not a single word about the cost. No “find out more” button. People who think this is classless, and will summarily delete this app on principle, will rarely bother to write a review. It’s a shame that quality publications would shoot themselves in the foot like this.

Wow. Has changed my life.. I was skeptical at first. But I’m actually using this. Great for drives, walks, runs, transit, waiting for your flight. No more articles in browser tabs waiting forever to be read. This actually works.

Why I joined. It reminds me of when i was young and would listen to the friends my mom and dad would have over. Old rimes remembered and good memories. Thank you for thinking of this service.

Great content rubbish app. App is useless ruins experience

Love it. It’s a great complement to my podcasts, there’s always something interesting. As for bugs, what’s more important to me is the response. Christian replied immediately and the issue (playback stopping when moving to other apps) was addressed within a day, and he personally checked in to see if all was fixed, which it was. Great content great service.

Great app!. This has changed the way I consume the longer-form NYT articles I like to read, and given me more cause to explore articles in other publications I enjoy but don’t necessarily have a physical subscription to anymore.

Eyes off the screen ears to the microphone. If you are like me and trying to find ways to continue enjoying well written articles about matters of interest from reputable magazines and have taken to subscribing through e reading here is the answer to rest your eyes by using your ears to absorb those very same articles that you would normally enjoy reading. I have found the readers excellent their intonation and enunciation superb and the timbre of their voices very easy on the ears. I can highly recommend this app if you want to get off the screen but continue to enjoy the benefit of the wisdom and knowledge of the people who wrote the articles in magazines that you enjoy. of course the magazines you enjoy have to be part of this app so you should check it out first

False advertising. The “download for offline” feature does not work at all. I have no ability to listen to anything without an internet connection. I am unimpressed with this company advertising a feature that doesn’t exist.

My favourite App. Wonderful app. I love long form articles but don’t always have the time to sit and read through various subscriptions to such great magazines. It is wild to me that so much great writing can be collected and read aloud by INCREDIBLE readers for those on the go. Love it so much more than the chit chat of podcasts.

Great content, terrible search function. Wanted to love this as has tons of great publications, but the search function was awful. Unable to search by title, very clunky to use.

Great Content, Terrible App. It’s a shame such great content is offered in such a poorly design app. Articles are organized by upload date... and that’s it. So to find an article that interests you, you must scroll down endlessly past topics that hold no interest until you spot one. You could also filter by author, but how likely is a casual listener going to care about specifying the journalist! If the app glitches or closes… tough luck, you’re right back at the top and must scroll past the same content to continue searching. I’m sure there is a massive part of the collection I’d love, but will likely never find unless I want to scroll forever. Half of the content is Politics, which holds little interest to me, yet I must scroll endlessly through it. Would it really be so difficult to create filters for topics or tags? There is a search bar but I find it’s not effective for showing relevant results. As a paid app, I would expect much better quality than this.

Audm. One of the best finds. Great articles from first rate publications. Really enjoy this every day.

Great value but could use more variety. I wish I found this long ago. Incredible source for news and audio storytelling. Skews left. Sometimes hard left. Some weeks 90% of the feed is an echo chamber. I lean this way politically, but appreciate variety these days.

Create an account = delete. Another data collection organization.

Can anybody fix the bugs. I cannot even get access to the app anymore... 🤦‍♂️

App of the year. As my attention span gets shorter and shorter, I finish less and less long form journalism pieces (90% of the time I just leave them open in tabs for months to rot). I was super excited to discover Audm, which provides access to audio versions of long form pieces from, among others, The Atlantic, Wired and Foreign Policy. Read by humans, not bots. Even though the app has its problems (it took me a while to sign up and it sometimes "forgets" where you left off after pausing, which is a bit annoying, so hopefully they fix it soon), I highly recommend it - app of the year so far for me.

Great Content, Horrible UI. The content here is amazing but the UI sucks. The biggest issue I have is there is no way to save an article for later without it automatically downloading to your phone. It eats up all your phone storage with just a few articles. This is a basic feature that all the podcast apps have, I don’t understand how they could have overlooked this...would like to see this fixed ASAP and perhaps a way to create personal collections/playlists of articles (another basic feature that all the podcast apps have).

Doesn't remember where it was in a story.. I've been enjoying it so far but aside from the seemingly static content, if I close the app at any point while listening to an article — be it at the second paragraph or more than half-way through — when I return to the app to jump back into that article, it starts from the beginning. Every. Single. Time. If I'm paying $8/month I expect the app to remember where I left off. If I have to dig through paragraphs to try and find where I left off, it kind of defeats the purpose of it being an audiobook style app, no? If I had to dig through the supplementary scrolling text of War and Peace (the way Audm implements it) every time I jumped back into the audiobook version to find where I was when I left off, I would never finish that audiobook. And if this app doesn't get that fixed quick, then it's bye-bye from me.

I love this. Busy doing Dad stuff and working. I can listen to great articles while driving or working around the house. Love this service.

Such a good resource and amazing writers. I have learned so much from all the articles I’ve listened to. It’s moving journalism from a variety of publications, with good narrators. It would be nice to have access to authors past articles though, although that would be quite a feat 😂 thank you very much, such a fair price for a wealth of insights

News Junkies’ dream come true. I crave multiple perspectives on current affairs but couldn’t possibly find the time to read it all. This app provides audio versions of articles from major publications and the narrators are excellent.

Great concept. The app tends to crash frequently and is a bit buggy BUT it's fantastic when it works properly. I do not regret subscribing.

Great range of articles ... confusing to navigate & manage.. Wide range of articles, well read ....5*s in those domains. Confusing and annoying to both navigate and maintain as it lacks a simple to follow user manual or a talking guide (which you’d think would be the first thing they’d provide). ...... 1* In these domains.

Highly recommended. This is a great app for getting so many different stories all in one place. It’s a pretty good UI as well, not difficult to use and intuitive.

Very exited for when this app truly works. Audm has an exiting idea for a business model. Offer subscribers access to highly professional audio recordings of top-tier print magazine content, for about the retail price of a single glossy paper copy. Everything about the model is well thought through, so I’m very exited for the day the the app itself does not constantly pause, crash, or otherwise make the listening experience unbearable on the iPhone 7 I’ve periodically been attempting to use it with over the last 6 months. I’ll keep trying again every few months, in hopes that the technical development catches up to the professionalism of the rest of the model. Fingers crossed. 4+ stars, when the app begins to actually work. 2 stars until then.

Audm is great. Great journalism, good section of subjects, from a wide range of magazines. Well worth the price.

Great App. This is a wonderful app. Easy to use. Very high quality of articles. Great variety of publications and subjects. My only disappointment is that I cannot keep favorite articles.

Great app.. This is a great app. It is always filled with articles I wish I had time to read. Yet, with Audm time doesn’t seem to be issue as I listen to the article while doing some mundane task.

Excellent.. I finally get to take in all those articles I would like to read but do not have time. And I don’t need a separate subscription to each periodical. Excellent choice of publications, also. Highly recommended.

Good Content Terrible App. I like the content a lot and don’t mind paying for it but this app is terrible. You download a story for offline and the streams re-download in LTE anyway. I went through 9gb of data in a month before I figured out this app was killing it. Support is slow or unresponsive, I don’t know. Still waiting for a reply....

Only had it a few days and love it. The readers are really good, nice voices to listen to and the selection of articles is quite broad, which is really nice. Hearing pieces from publications I wouldn’t normally look at - if you like podcasts, this is a great app!

Terrible App. I downloaded. Created an account via Facebook and it crashed and sent me in an infinity loop telling me i couldn't sign. Another loop meant there was no way to contact the developer. Glad i didn't subscribe which was my enthusiastic intention. Unbelievable for such a "highbrow" app.

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Neat idea, but totally unresponsive support. I eagerly signed up for this - I love the idea and think the price is absolutely worth it. What’s really strange is support is 100% unresponsive. I’ve messaged them several times (in app, via Intercom integration), yet they seem to be ignoring me? Not sure why, but really bummed they flat out don’t reply. If the developer reads this, maybe consider introducing an additional paid tier that includes real support from you? I’d pay a higher price point if it included ability to get a reply from a human. I’d also consider adding warnings to current support that warn to not expect a response, or better yet just remove the Intercom integration entirely. Thanks.

Fantastic for people on the road a lot. Audiobook narrators reading long form articles? Great idea. The readers are really good. I did read a review that is correct. The pauses between paragraphs is exorbitant with some readers. While he is really good, Ron Butler reading the article about integration and affirmative action is a prime example. It paused so long once, I stopped what I was doing thinking the narration stopped because my phone was about to ring. Still five stars though.

Interesting article. Needs larger fonts. I have been coming back to Audm from time to time, hoping that the franchises in browsing articles and reading summaries have increased to help spiritually impaired users. I await larger fonts to make this app much more enjoyable. I enjoy listening to the long form article and learn a lot every day. And hope to be able to stick with Audm permanently. it is simply too difficult to use Apple zoom or a magnifying glass to try to read the summaries. I hope the developers will take this suggestion.

Good content bad interface. Some of the content is excellent, but a lot of it doesn’t interest me and it can be tough to find the good ones. Each story has a summary, but on the main screen you can only see the first line of the summary, so it’s impossible to know what a story is really about. Even when you click the story for more details the summaries are often short and vague. One today is just called “A personal history: volume two”. How am I supposed to know if that’s a good story or not?

The pauses are driving me mad. Before I started using Audm I read a review saying that the pauses between paragraphs are too long and I thought, "that sounds like a nitpick. I'm sure it's fine." Then I started using the app. And the pauses bugged me. And I thought, "I'll get over it." I did not get over it. Instead it got worse. More maddening with every pause. More infuriating. More disastrous. I realized I had to delete the app the maintain my sanity. Other than that it's pretty solid. Good narrators. Would love a more comprehensive selection from my favorite magazines, but you can't have it all. I'd have stayed subscribed if not for the pauses. Good luck.

A Fantastic App. If, like me, you aspire to read more long-form journalism than you actually do, then this is the app for you. It is a fantastic way to experience some of the best writing produced anywhere while also staying connected to issues of import artists the country and around the world. The narrators are excellent and varied. I’ve replaced many Podcats with Audm and feel better for it. I highly recommend it.

Changed my listening life. I am an avid reader. However with my new job, I have 1.5 hrs, at minimum, to commute. This tool allows me to take the articles I start in the morning into my car to finish. I also love to listen to a good story when I can’t sleep. I love that you can follow along with the text while listening. The curation of publications is outstanding, and the wide breadth of article topics mean I’m always able to find something when the mood strikes. 12/10, best thing I’ve subscribed to in a LONG while....

Great idea but poor execution. What a promising app this is but alas it’s terribly executed from a dev perspective. If you pause and navigate to another application the app stops working all together for sometimes minutes and other times hours. Usually restarting your phone works but clearly not what anyone is in the mood to do. In addition the Download feature doesn’t actually download on your phone for offline access. After you download and try to access offline (on a plane for ex), it tries to buffer and connect with predictably no result. Often though downloaded content disappears all together. Sighhhh I had major hopes for Audm :/

More culture think pieces, less short political headlines please. I love the app and listen often. But we can listen to the news on the Daily and other news outlets. I’d love for you to do more of the culture think pieces that circulate on Twitter and get everyone talking. I’m a raging liberal but I don’t need this app for political news. We are inundated. Personally I don’t need 15 stories about abortion and 20 more about the alt right. I want more culture articles, art, history, books, films. Generally I need more pieces that don’t make my blood boil.

Great product!. I have never written a review but I love this app.I like that it lets me listen to these publications (normally a podcast person) and that it has a variety of different stories from different publications for one price. Also my dad used to read the New York Times every day but cannot longer read so it has allowed him to continue through listening. The design is not good though

A terrific start. I really enjoy Audm at it’s core. Listening to articles I might otherwise miss due to paywalls or lack of awareness makes this app really useful and worth subscribing. I don’t use it as an everyday app as there isn’t quite enough content for my taste for that. Instead, I peruse the available articles and queue things up for when I’m on a walk or on a longer drive as often as I remember. I would use the app more if I could cast audio to a smart speaker while doing things around the house. The UI is also a little clunky and the queue especially could use some retooling in its core functionality. It’s real close to an excellent app.

Don’t trust the free intro offer.. Very disappointed by my experience with Audm. I signed up for the free 3-day trial, wasn’t feeling it was what I wanted so I went to cancel on the third day. However the ‘manage subscription’ link wasn’t allowing me to cancel!! Tried for a while, then tried to reach customer service. I couldn’t get a live person for the company - anywhere! Not even through The NY Times. The bot chat wasn’t helping, and now I’ve paid $60 for a subscription I didn’t want. The following day, after I was charged, the manage subscription link was miraculously working. Only after I’d paid the annual fee was I allowed to cancel. Boo!!!

Excellent! Although.... Excellent choice and range of articles, stories. My main complaint is that there are a handful of narrators whose style and voice are like nails on a chalkboard to me. It would be good to be able to de-select/exclude those narrators from a search, even if only by a "select all" feature that lets me manually deselect individual narrators. Is there a way for me to purchase a gift subscription to this service? I can think of several people who would appreciate this.

Love the concept but app is glitchy. I love the concept, selection and production of the readings. The app is glitchy and extremely frustrating at times. I often have to restart my phone to get it to play a piece that has frozen or get it to function properly instead of stopping after each paragraph read. (The paragraph problem seems rarer these days.) I would gladly give the app four or five stars if the app would function smoothly and not make me want to throw my phone against the wall...

Great for a shepherd listen. I really enjoyed this app. These articles are a great option, when I don’t want to dig into audiobook. Especially when I want to have something I can finish quickly. I hope they can get more magazines to participate. They seem to have the same sources and I would like more to variety of viewpoints. The only thing that could be better would be an improvement in the way to save and sort previous articles on a list for recall. Something like audible’s format would help.

What happened?. I am updating my review after returning to Audm following a brief hiatus. Now the narration pauses for an unnatural length of time after each paragraph. Why? Who thought this was a good idea? It feels so strange, that I have stopped listening to some articles because of it. Please stop this feature. Previous Review: I am an avid reader. I do most of my reading at night before going to sleep. This app lets me relax and listen to the same articles I would save for my nighttime reading. I’m surprised by how much I am enjoying listening instead of scrolling through the articles.

Love hate relationship. The content is amazing and I love most of the narrators. I’m subscribing month to month because I almost break up with this app daily. 1. Why can’t I easily rewind to the beginning of the article? Am I missing something? Or do I really have to use the 15 second rewind? 2. Why are there only 5 or so periodicals, but it appears there are soooooo many? I finally subscribed to all of them and still only see articles from NYT magazine, some British book review, The Atlantic, New Yorker and Vanity Fair. I do love these magazines, but could you add more articles from them or others listed? (E.g. Texas Monthly - great writers for that magazine - never seen an article from them) 3. Not enough content Audm and I are still together. I do LOVE the content I get....just wishing for more and better functionality (save, rewind & fast forward by more than 15 seconds and probably other things I’ve just gotten used to and forget they bothered me). Keep working on it!!!!! Xo

Wonderful app. One of those apps that makes you wonder why we didn’t have it sooner. For any lovers of audiobooks, this is a wonderful way to consume great longform and magazine journalism. My only wish is that they had even more variety, and my only hope is that it doesn’t become exclusively or increasingly a platform for *just* NYT stories (the NYT now owns the app). The variety from across news outlets, from NY Magazine to the Atlantic and the Atavist, is what makes the selection so enjoyable.

Better than podcasts. I work in data entry. Mindless work that allows me to listen to things while I work. Podcasts are great, but I missed having the time to read. A book or article has a different feel from a Podcast. This app solves the that problem with content from my favorite news sources read by professionals. It’s the best app I’ve gotten in years.

Amazing Idea, Horrid Technology/Experience. To pay what I pay for this and it be this awful of an app STILL is just crazy. Constant skipping/glitchy audio cuts/pauses literally every single paragraph change. Absolutely cannot handle the Google Maps cutting it, half the time it either 1. skips chunks of the article during the directions being read, 2. Somehow interferes with the directions from being fully read, or 3. Both 1 and 2 occur THEN it stops reading the article entirely, AND the Google Maps directions will stop playing! Putting the infuriating playback glitches/bugs aside, the interface itself is godawful. It’s not organized in a smooth manner; the queue system is ridiculous and often doesn’t retain the order you set; and it never ever works offline for me (even the articles I downloaded in advance for that purpose). The absolute minute a comparable competitor arises, I am leaping ship eagerly, and HEAR ME OUT THERE! i will totally pay even more for a good app that does this same product!

Needs some tweaks. I loved audm at first but cancelled after a few months: not enough articles from different sources (I would have liked more science/entertainment, less politics). Very difficult to search for articles by subject matter. When I close and re-open the app, i have to go back and find whatever I was in the middle of listening to. I might resubscribe in a few months when they have more content and fix some bugs but at the moment the yearly membership doesn’t feel like a good value.

Audio Heaven. If audio content is your jam, you are going to love this app. This subscription is the best money I spend every month. I’ve learned so much and been introduced to so much content I otherwise would not have been exposed to. I pay for magazine subscriptions that I never read. No more! Now I get to enjoy the New Yorker every week, and much more. If you love Audible & podcasts, you’re gonna go bananas for this app!

Yes!. What an excellent idea! I don’t have time to read all of the long articles I want to read - and now narrators with great voices can read them to me while I drive to work! I have not yet heard a voice I did not like, which is so important. The range of publications and articles is so extensive it’s actually hard to choose. Now I just need more time in my commute. My only suggestion is a way to delete the article from the feed once you’ve listened. But otherwise, well done and thank you, Audm.

Great, but why the pauses??. Audm is a great app—they have access to a lot of excellent publications and allow me to hear the latest stories from several of my favorite sites. The one weird thing: The narrators all insert awkwardly long pauses between paragraphs. I get that it’s to make long stories simpler to record, but it goes beyond simply stopping for a moment—it is just annoying, haha.

Fix your Bluetooth compatibility.. Your app has 2 significant flaws that nearly overshadow it’s otherwise profound value: 1: The app frequently refreshes to a default screen rather than opening back to the article or playing screen I was on when I switched back and forth to a different app. This would be like opening Safari with the expectation that you see the same tab you were just looking at and seeing the bookmarks screen instead. Please change; other audio apps do this well. 2: more importantly, there is abysmal poor support for peripheral button control. My Bluetooth headset (a higher-end LG set) play/pause button will not function with your app. “Play” will very occasionally work, but the pause button works not at all, and if you’re in an environment where you are not able to pull your phone out frequently, this is a major demerit. Again, other apps do not have this issue. It is unclear to me why , after several iterations, this app still has this issue. Thank you for your attention.

Audm is better than any podcast. I learn so much while I’m working and driving by listening to Audm, I love the long-form look at current events in magazine articles but I don’t have the time to read or even the attention. But I can listen while doing something else. I listen to Audm to fall asleep at night and I re-listen to the article if it caught my interest when I’m awake during the day.

Best way to “read”. I subscribe to several magazines that are included with this app. I find that I am accessy more of the important messages included in the articles by listening vs reading. Both types of “reading“ have advantages, but I really appreciate the capacity to hear an article as well as read it the old-fashioned way. Actually, I am more likely to listen to an article then to “read” the text. I appreciate the quality of the narrators for articles that this app offers.

Love it!. Never knew how much I would love listening to articles being read. It’s like someone reading me a bedtime story. Audm has good reading voices. Excellent and informative articles being read too. Thought I would just do the free trial, but after it, I missed the readings and good articles. Lots of reputable publications to choose from. So bit the bullet and subscribed for a year. The other and maybe most important benefit of Audm is the practicality of being able to do something while listening to a good article.

Great Idea, Poor Implementation. I was super excited to hear long form stories I have little time to read. Plus this would be great for hearing impaired. But, the stories are weeks to months old. Plus the quantity from the massive catalogs they have access to is pitiful. The price is too low maybe? Or this whole platform has a lack of investment? Either way that’s the main reason I canceled after a month. Plus I also had issues with creating lists. Playback would stop when the app wasn’t open on screen, could be solved by closing out and opening again. Unfortunately that was just another reason paying for this wasn’t worth it.

Really nice service. Super disappointing app. I just canceled my free trial of Audm. While I loved the audio content - as a new user, I was excited to dig into the archives and listen to some articles I’ve been meaning to get to. The search is the app was so limited and so preferential to new articles, I couldn’t find any of the 5 articles I had in mind. Until they add filtering and/or sorting to the search, I’m not going to be able to use the app in a way that’d be worth paying for. The core reason I’d use Audm over podcasts is for digging in deeper and listening to long form writing. The recency bias off the app really seems to miss the point.

LOVE IT!. I’m so thrilled to find this app!! Saw a mention of it on Twitter and was intrigued since I love this type of writing but whenever I subscribed to the magazines they would stack up unread for lack of time to sit and read. (I’m a hospital RN and we aren’t getting many days off of late. Ugh.) Anyway I LOVE IT! My favorite magazines and fave type of writing. Finally!!! Thank you all so much. Hope you will add Orion magazine, Tricycle magazine and other creative nonfiction literary journals sometime in the future.

Thoughtful analysis, on the go!. I’ve been a fan of audiobooks and podcasts for some time, but have quickly fallen for Audm. YES, some podcasts are exceptionally well produced...but only a few contain the depth of analysis and thoughtfulness that exist in the best long-form pieces in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the NYT, etc. Audm now gives me a chance to “read” those pieces while driving, cooking dinner, etc. Fabulous way to keep up with current news & opinion.

Really frustrating app. I like the concept of this app much more than its execution. Why can’t I just see what the Atlantic or Rolling Stone has that I can look at? The “feed thing” is just confusing and makes not want to use the app. I see articles online that say download Audm to listen but often I can’t find the recording of it in the app (this after “including” the publication and the author, I have even searched for that e title) But there in the post for the article is a little play button and telling you to download Audm. I would suggest not too. I’m almost a year and probably will not be renewing again. Make it work better and I’ll come back.

Not what I expected. First, in-app purchases does not suggest to me that I have to spend money for ANY content beyond a 3 day trial. I would assume some free content with the option to buy more. Second, I didn’t feel comfortable with the setup once I opened the app. I guess I had anticipated seeing an index of sorts where I could choose an article so that after looking at the NYT online, I could opt to have certain articles read to me. Instead, I was greeted with articles of minimal interest to me with the option to keep scrolling until I find one I wanted to hear. The app may work well but I decided to cancel my free trial and not bother with it.

Essential. I have only reviewed two apps in 10+ years - a fitness app and this one. This app is a must have for me. Really. If I were forced to have only one app on my phone - this would be the one. Worth every single penny. If you care about being deeply and broadly informed, you will love this app. I hope Audm can recruit more publications. Oh, and more Vikas Adam (who knew that you can become a huge fan of a reader?!) would be great too.

Wonderful App. This is one of the best apps I've ever downloaded. If you like to read long-style articles from a variety of sources, I would highly recommend this app. It's affordable and the voice presentations are well done. The voice presentations are better than many of the audiobooks you'll find. The apps also allows you to read along with the reader. The article scrolls along as it's being read to you. It's beautifully done.

I recommend to everyone!. I absolutely love this app. I have for years been reading audiobooks, and I always wished that there was a way I could have articles read to me. I found Audm through the Atlantic podcast and I’ve never looked back. I listen to their articles from many many different publications and it is great for the car for plane flights and for all the time. Informative articles and fun articles and all different kinds of articles. It’s great!

Customer service lacking. Folks, this is a great program, as long as it’s working. Yes, you can listen to marvelous articles as you do mundane things around your house, read by professional readers who sound as good as famous actors do, but then something will go awry! Well if that happens, forget about contacting “customer service”. It basically doesn’t exist. First time I wrote, no one answered. Next time I wrote, some guy answered me in 10 days. 10 days! I could’ve been dead. Anyway, you get the picture, so just know what you’re getting involved in for your five dollars a month.

Better than I expected. Lately I’ve had trouble maintaining enough focus to engage with long form journalism. (Thanks COVID.) I love listening to audiobooks and podcasts, so I thought I’d see what Audm was about. All around, I’m very impressed. Having the text scroll along with the narration is a great feature. The quality of narrations has been excellent as well. Now I can better absorb insightful articles from publications I value and trust. Thanks Audm team!! ☺️🙏

Strange content choices. They list a lot of publications but the coverage is very spotty. To give an example: they will do New Yorker book reviews or similar minor content but despite listing The Atlantic did not cover their July/August cover story from their Pulitzer award winning journalist. Can’t expect everything from your favorite publication but often it’s only a handful of items, and odd choices at that. In addition the app is glitchy when out of service or in low service. When in very low service the app malfunctioned and would not let me access downloaded content. At this point I gave up. Great concept but needs to be better executed.

Love the concept, the narrators leave much to be desired. I love the concept of this app. The selection of publications is exceptional. And the best experiences I’ve had with this app are when I listen to stories written by the writers themselves. Unfortunately that only happens a small percentage of the time. Most common is for stories to be read by non-author narrators who sound awkward, generic and borderline monotone. I sometimes I wonder if I’m listening to AI. Other times, I chuckle over how Karen and Chad narrator stumble as they read colloquialisms and slang with all the grace of a newborn giraffe learning how to get its legs underneath it for the first time. Let’s get some personality and diversity in narration on here folks!

creepy privacy violations. Version 2.14.0 requires that users leak click info to no less than 6 data brokers. I never agreed to your monetization of my listening habits when I paid for an annual subscription. No way to opt out, which rypifies the internet at its worst, a creepy pervasive surveillance tool. Content is ok but not worth telling data brokers about my interests. For that you should compensate users or provide free content. Enough is enough. Get real. Earlier versions were less bad but unable to start playback without a live network connection. You should try running the app in low-coverage areas during testing. Does not work. Very disappointing.

Missing feature to skip forward quickly. Unlike Apple Podcasts and every audio app, there isn't a bar that you can use to drag your finger along to the exact point of the track you want. You have to repeatedly tap the "skip forward 15 seconds" button. I often listen to Audm to help me sleep. So if I fall asleep at 10 minutes, it takes a long time get back to 10 minutes.

We need more. Thank you Audm. I’m finding myself reliant on your platform as I listen to your varieties of articles from varieties of publications while I do tasks around my house, and work. Could you please release more articles more frequently? So nice to listen to your articles rather than have to put everything down to stare at my phone instead. Thank you for what you’re doing. Please keep it up.

Awful content .. This app has great potential however it lacks any kind of Intellectual diversity. If you enjoy listening / reading everything that sounds like it comes from the same NY Times board room circa 1962 then this app is for you. The only saving grace is occasionally The Atlantic section of chosen papers this app decided to narrate. Occasionally The Atlantic will veer from the endless group think that most of these outlets offer but not by much. There is 0 real FP perspective , 0 differing economic outlooks , 1 byline on race , 1 outlook , 1 hive mind , 1 useless piece of junk. It’s a shame really. The project is quite ambitious and has massive potential but it’s just being misused here. I’d wait till a different company came along or until Audm includes more diverse perspectives.

This could be better. I absolutely love this app. I subscribed immediately. I can get stuff done physically, and entertain myself while doing so. Tell me more stories please. What I don’t like, is listening to the author reading the article. The professional voice readers are so much better, perfect in fact, that hearing a normal voice is disappointing. Additionally, the sound quality is significantly diminished. I don’t want to hear average joe recording in their closet at home. A toggle to display articles that I previously listened to on or off, would make this app perfect.

Love the service, but app needs work. *just an update that the app is still comically dysfunctional, which will make day to day use frustrating. Know this going in. The service itself is great. I really enjoy listening to articles that I would otherwise only have access to in front of a screen. This is a great way to reduce overall time glued to a device. That said, the app really needs work. I find the design uninspiring, unintuitive, and underwhelming relative to the benefits of the Audm service. In particular, article discover ability is woefully inadequate. Most egregious, though, are the technical issues. Most glaring are continual crashes, and the inability for the app to consistently resume playing after being paused. Not sure how much iOS 13 contributes to this, but my podcast app does not have anywhere close to the same issues. Audm: please Invest in the requisite technical and design work needed to make the app align with the quality of content! Without this, all the content in the world won’t keep me as a subscriber.

Love it! But.... I just discovered this and for the first few days I felt like I hit the jackpot. Now, I realize I’m consuming the content a lot faster than new content from my favorite publications is being made available. I understand the challenges- having people available to narrate the latest articles right as they’re published, etc- so this is me hoping they find a way to make that happen. Otherwise I’m afraid this will become more of a mobile library than a go-to app for the latest journalism.

Audm is wonderful!. I love this app! It has become more difficult for me to read, due to a variety of issues including dry eye and loss of some vision following a surgery. This app allows me to dive in and “read” as much as I would like. I love to read. Also, on a Monday during the pandemic, I received a quick (10 minutes?) and helpful response and assistance with my own tech problem with my phone - which was why I was having difficulty accessing the app. I love it!

Truly, genuinely beyond help. The developers of this app seem completely helpless in fixing some of its major issues which have been going on for years (think about that! years! with regular updates happening!). They tried to get me to delete my previous bad review with a slate of personalized emails supposedly attending to my error, but there seems to be literally no future for this app. Like a sucker, I've been paying these guys $7 a month for an app that — literally — cannot stay open in the background. Every time I put my phone to sleep or switch to another app while the playback is on pause, the app reboots. It's truly the worst service I have ever, ever had to pay for. PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS.