TED App Reviews

VERSION
7523
SCORE
4.6
TOTAL RATINGS
10,097
PRICE
Free

TED App Description & Overview

What is ted app? Get personalized recommendations that match your unique interests, or browse TED’s library of thousands of inspiring, informative, transformational videos for free.

Features on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch:

・Sign in to get personalized recommendations and sync videos across all your devices
・Watch videos with subtitles in over 100 languages
・Check out the newest and trending videos, browse by topic, or select from our curators’ picks
・Stream videos to your Apple TV with AirPlay
・Download videos to watch offline
・Add talks your list to watch later
・Toggle between dark mode or light modes
・Get instant inspiration with the “Surprise Me!” feature

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App Name TED
Category Education
Published
Updated 18 December 2023, Monday
File Size 48.52 MB

TED Comments & Reviews 2024

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UPDATE - Miss the drip and ripple. I miss the old app, I miss the drip and ripple, I can’t search/find playlists any more, and I tried to add a talk to my list, it said it did it, the plus turned to a check, then it turned back to a plus and did not go on my list. Did this numerous times, I finally just downloaded the talk to save it for later. Still love TED Talks, just miss the old app. UPDATE Got the latest version, I still cannot add talks to my list. The plus turns to a check then a couple seconds later it turns back into a plus. I really miss the old app, why mess with something that worked so well?

Great content. Good App. Would love automatic profile switching and TVOS top shelf customization. Great content. Good app. Please add auto detection of which Apple ID is logged in to the Apple TV so that my spouse watches things on their account and I watch things based on my account without having to manually switch it in the TedTalks app. Also, glad you use the top shelf function on Apple TV. It would be great to populate the suggestions with talks from my watch list or recommended talks based on my watch history.

Thumbs up!. I love the variety and magnitude of topics that the Ted app has videos on and I deeply appreciate the ability to learn all that I can from these speakers in a convenient (free!!) setting. I especially enjoy the "listen" function, as I'll often listen to Ted talks while driving tractor in my strawberry fields. I always love reading the cleverly written update summaries : ) Great job Ted!

POOR app execution. I have been a Ted fan for at least 12 years. This is a Terrible user interface. You would think with “Technology” in their name, they would invest something in their product! I could go on and on, but my two most recent aggravations are (1) when in search mode you must “check the boxes” every time to select your favorites. There is NO functionality to “save” your search topics, so every time I fire up the iPad I need to re-do my searches. Unbelievable and totally frustrating that this program does not have a way to save searches on the topics I want to see. And (2), the “Trending” feature line typically has Ted talks that are 10 and 12 years old. Someone needs to inform these folks what a trend is!! And yes there is more (3) everything should “ALWAYS” be listed from “newest to oldest”. I don’t want to hear about information, news, technology, etc. that’s outdated unless I choose to do so. Really hate this APP since they “updated” a couple years ago.

Connect. It’s 94°F and the humidity is well over 90% today. But my task is painting my sons bedroom and I must get it done. TEDTalks are what’s making that possible. The last one was about the beauty and magnificence of birds and the urgent need to conserve them. Prior to that I was listening to several talks about urban architecture and how we can use it to make our world a better place. I give thanks to all the brilliant lion hearted people giving these TEDTalks and highly recommend them to anyone who needs a little lift to get through the difficult tasks of your day.

Recent updates make app unusable. I’ve used this app for years and it has always worked fine. now it’s broken so badly it fails to play videos in many cases. Screens freeze constantly. tapping on a Ted talk often does nothing. you are lucky enough to get a video to play, the entire app may freeze while it’s playing — including the playback controls. It’s a terrible mess and should never have been released. I see there was a new release just two days ago. It’s not any better as far as I can tell. Ted talks are a wonderful gift to the world and you have made a terrible mess of some great content.

Perfectly fine before it got updated. App was working great for the most part, with just a few bugs here and there. Then came some big update that changed the layout and appearance. Since that update the app has become a pain, often freezing, crashing, or taking significantly longer than it used to to load things. It’s very frustrating, I wish I could uninstall the updates because it pretty much messed up the app for me.

Overall a Really Nice App. For the most part this app does exactly as you’d expect. Easily browse videos and playlists, and the “Surprise Me” feature is pretty cool. There are a few things I’d like to see improved though. The video player lacks the swipe gestures that other’s do (pinching to exit a video, for instance) and I think there are yet more ways to navigate and filter TED Talks that couple be employed. Overall rather satisfied though.

Fascinating talks!. I love how this app is set up, and the content is incredible, but I seemed to have a problem downloading content. I would have like 15 talks downloaded in my list, but when I look again, I only have nine. Not only this, but several of my successfully downloaded talks that didn’t mysteriously disappear just didn’t play and ran into an error. Overall, while the content is very interesting, I had to take a star off for the downloading issue.

App has room for improvement. The content deserves at least a 4 star rating but the app has given me some grief. It closes unexpectedly as the video is loading and I wish talks on the subject matters of interest previously selected would appear on the home screen. Currently there are many talks I have already watched and others that are recommended for me but in which I have little interest. Wouldn’t it be nice if the selection would refresh with talks yet to be enjoyed.

Love-hate with Ted. App seems to work just fine. My problem is with the lack of diversity of ideas over the last 2-3 years which I LOVED Ted for in the past - learning something new or an idea I’ve never considered or even heard of from different perspectives. But now, a lot of the narratives are all coming from what seems like the same person no matter what the topic. All very leftist leaning; socialist ideas = good, individual freedom = bad. Developed countries = bad. Race and gender identity good, individual character = bad. Come on Ted, throw in some other perspectives. Challenge people to think outside of their box and not feed from the same one with people that think exactly alike.

Great app, but downloads don’t play!. I love this app because of the variety of videos on it and the surprise me feature which always brings me interesting videos I haven’t watched before. It also has a clean user interface and well developed search engine. However, whenever I play my downloaded videos offline, I am able to play one but the next one does not play because of a playback error. Sometimes it plays once I restart my iPad, but most of the time it still does not work. Please fix this!

Should we just use the website?. Picture-in-picture closes while audio playback continues. This doesn’t seem like an intentional feature. Video player should be replaced with the stock iOS player. You’ve included no additional functionality using a custom UI, and it’s less responsive. There is an occasional scrolling glitch I haven’t figured out how to replicate. The page jitters struggling to line up with the inertia of the gesture. Scrolling performance is also extremely poor, lagging on long lists. The only standalone feature that sets the app apart from the website is the ability to download media for offline listening. I don’t need this feature enough to put up with the rest of the app experience. The presentation of categories minimizes discoverability. One alphabetized list that lags is not effective. Switching bottom tabs is also extremely laggy. Additionally there is an absence of - transcripts - speaker profile pages - related links to learn more and/or participate in the topic of the video - reading lists - footnotes - comments I can see the negative space in-app where these items are listed on the website so I hope that they’re in the pipeline. Hoping this app will change! I think there’s utility to providing more than a web app, but this ain’t it right now.

Now I know what I don’t know. I’m sure this review is - technically- supposed to be for the app itself. However, I’m having a hard time thinking of the app without the content. For me, the app works; it downloads fine, plays well, and is there whenever I want it. Four stars for that. That said, the content gets eleven stars (on a scale of 1-5). There are so many fascinating ideas that I’ve been completely unaware of that I have to laugh at my own ignorance. Thanks, TED crew, for helping me see beyond.

Great Content - Lacking One Crucial Feature for iPads. I love TED Talks. I just wish there was a bit more functionality for the iPad app because the iPad is my main device. For instance, the app doesn’t take advantage of split screen or have a floating window feature that allows me to multitask by taking notes. Also, more customization in terms of allowing the user to create their own playlists would be great. Thanks for being TED, the world would be a lot less interesting without this platform.

Bad UI. Don't get me wrong, learning is one of my favorite hobbies, and now that I have a job where I need to keep myself auditorily entertained, this app is perfect. Not only can I find mountains of content about all different topics I want to know more about, but I can download these videos for free so I don't have to worry about my work's wifi cutting out (like it does). However, there is no section of the app to find what you've downloaded, and no section to find the things you've added to your "list". I wanted to pre-download a bunch of videos before work, but I have 0 idea where they are, and don't know how to find them. It seems the developers were more focused on showing off their recommendations and podcasts than they were on making the app user friendly and easy to navigate/keep track of. If that issue gets fixed in a future update, I'm happy to redo my review to properly reflect the changes that were implemented, but until then, don't bother with the app if you want to save anything for the future.

Suggestion - multiple lists. First off… Love the Ted App. Suggestion - Would like to create multiple lists and be able to move them between lists. Maybe like Pinterest boards. Examples - Maybe I’d make them for different work aspects, marriage, boards of clips I want to watch with my kids or suggest for them to watch before they can do some mindless other app. Once my kid watched it, I can move to a “Done” board.

Still does not download properly. Even with the updated version I can’t get the videos to download successfully for off-line viewing. I have a dozen or so videos supposedly downloaded in my downloads section, but when I am in airplane mode I cannot watch those videos. There’s also no indication regarding the progress of the download. After you click on the download video button, it just shows up in your downloads section. But there’s no indication how much is downloaded. And there’s no way to refresh the download or restart it.

Great App, Great Content!. Recently I have had a minor addiction to video games during covid because of the scarce amount of activity in my life. This addiction was starting to grow, with accumulating many games on my mobile device, and a gaming console. When I wanted to accumulate another mobile device game, I found a section of apps, with TED within this group of applications. Therefore, I downloaded TED. Although I had a minor video game addiction, i still read books, and watched documentaries. However, while I downloaded TED I broke this minor addiction before it grew and spent more time to invest in education and learning rather than a video game that contributes only entertainment to my life. I love TED because with great quality in learning, there is not much quantity of time consumed! Therefore I could watch many more “mini documentaries” as so I say, than other documentaries. Thank you for your time, and last note. If you are wanting to learn more, I definitely 1,000% recommend this application.

Hmm. You would sort of think that the people at TED would have a brilliant app that…worked (at minimum). I love this app and I spend a lot of time with it. I love the ideas that it brings me. But on my phone, it crashes a lot. Every time they “improve” it, it seems to get worse. The buttons require several clicks before they work. The search feature actually won’t find individual presenters by name. Several times recently I found a TED talk that I wanted to see, and the app crashed and closed before it would start. Just some of them. Not always. Is it really that hard to make an app that gets the basics right?

TED To Go. I love the fact that I can quickly and easily access a variety of talks on my phone. My daughter and I enjoy watching new ones whenever they are released. My only critique would be that I personally would enjoy more science-based talks, as it seems they are veering more towards the social/political realm these days. Other than that, it’s an excellent app!

Love TED, want to love the app. I love TED with a passion, it has helped me change so much in my life for the better. The app however does need some changes but the two are mutually exclusive as far as I’m concerned. I watch TED the most when I’m away from home and lately (I’ve downloaded the latest update) I’ve not been able to watch or listen to any of the talks. Please fix the app, TED is so inspirational! I only gave 4 stars because of how the app is behaving lately.

Beware! Download feature does not work well!. Beware! The Download feature does not work well! First, the app does NOT download the video or audio in the background on wifi so you have to make sure you keep the app open! Second (and even worse) when you click on "My Talks" then choose downloads, it will show your talk as being downloaded when in fact it isn't! (the talk has only started to download or is only partially downloaded). This means that you will consume a lot of unplanned bandwidth when you try to view the "downloaded" talk (which may cost you a lot of money) or you won't be able to access it all all if you don't have an internet connection. It's a poorly designed app. They should have a "pending download" section in "My Talks" and enable the app to download in the background when on Wifi. There should also be a progress bar when the talk is being downloaded.

Not well optimized for iPad. There is no option to edit your account, the Podcasts tab doesn't scroll all the way to the top, so the top three listings are halfway cut off and inaccessible, and the interface is generally not well optimized for iPad. Thumbnails are the most glaring example, just at a glance. The thumbnails for videos when you click on them is low definition and pixelated because it's been stretched out instead of being designed properly for a bigger display. Overall the app functions well, but the iPad design is not good.

Website’s Better. I’m very disappointed with this app. I downloaded it so I could search for a talk my group might find interesting for discussion. I’d started this process on the TED website, and wondered if the app might offer additional controls. The answer to that latter question is, “apparently not.” But more important to me, the app fails as a search tool compared to the website. On the latter, I was able to search by category: Click on the category; see all relevant talks. All I could do on the app was search by words that might appear in talk titles. That latter is simply not very helpful. Oh, well. Back to the website.

Seeking enlightenment. It wasn’t until I became open minded. that I began to learn. These videos are awesome. I’ve recently been going through marital problems. My hope is I can take this information and use it in a positive constructive way in hopes to change the outcome. Although I do struggle with excepting the fact that some people are unwilling or cannot or do not have the ability to be open minded. Through watching these videos I have learned that my approach or delivery to the problem could be why I am misunderstood. So for now I will just forward the videos with the link hope that they take the time to watch them.

Great, but has some bugs. The atmosphere of the app is amazing, and I love the personalized content! However, the app fails to remove videos from my watch list after repeatedly trying to do so, and it sometimes duplicates videos after an attempt. Additionally, the app lags and freezes almost every time I use it. I don’t both going on it as often anymore and putting videos on my watch list because I know I won’t be able to get them off of it! If these were fixed, though, the app would be undeniably great!

Rating & Suggestion. An incredible app that provides easy access to so much good information. I think a way that it could be even better (and gain more users, particularly younger ones) is to adopt a tik tok type feed as well. Tid bits of information filtered through an algorithm that users can scroll through would definitely be appealing to social media users familiar with this format. Just something to consider.

Great Content — Very Poor App. The poor rating is for the new app, that forces me to answer filtering questions and queues up videos to auto start after I finish a video. I have used the TED app since it came out on my first iPhone, years ago. What I most appreciated was the chaotic combination of topics that were always showing up, with no theme holding them together other than combining Technology, Entertainment, and Design. What I valued most was the juxtaposition of wildly differing topics — I don’t want filtering and categorization and I don’t want a TED account, I just want the flood of wildly different topics that characterized the experience in the past. Please provide a way to bypass the filter questions and categorized presentations and just go back to the timeline presentation of topics as they are added to the flow. On top of sticking questions I don’t want to answer in the flow of using the app, at a recent update it lost the results and made me answer them again. Bad programming producing a poor user experience. I was about to give two stars, since that is all the app should get, but it is hard to ignore the fact that the content is still very high quality.

TED Talks Access to Knowledge and Wisdom. I briefly wish to commend TED Talks for having become a magnificent global forum for the exchange of ideas and ideals indispensable to humanity at this and all future stages of its profess and maturation. The largest forward leaps in civilization on this planet have always been directly correlated with public information, education, illumination and inspiration. TED Talks present an entirely contemporary means of providing that service to all by enlightening and stimulating the public sentiment, awareness and conviction by presenting individuals with the necessary access to factual realities, expert opinions, and seasoned wisdom in succinct, digested and digestible presentations of key points on the leading and most critical issues of the times. As the inceptors and fashioners of the breakthrough documents that created and permitted modern democracy to exist, to progress and to thrive realized and emphatically proclaimed, the progress and stability of humanity is dependent on and the product of an informed and enlightened public. Herein do we discover the preeminent value and serviceability of TED Talks in contributing to the ongoing provision of all these essentials to human survival, advancement and happiness.

So politically left. I used to love listening to TED talks. I loved learning of new inventions, innovative and health beak-throughs and business ideas so I decided to download the app and I chose categories I THOUGHT would be pretty similar to my interests: technology, science, design, business, innovation and health. All that popped up on my feed for days was a bunch of global warming, politics (all leftist views), racism topics, feminist topics and just 2-3 topics that seemed unpolitical until I clicked on them...and even those turned out to be liberal and leftist views. No longer interested! I get so sick of people virtue signaling and promoting themselves as self righteous people. I don’t need people to tell me we all have internal racism and we lack diversity when these TED talks clearly promote only one way of thinking. What a freaking disappointment!

Just ONE problem, but it’s SUPER annoying. I love TED. I really want to preface with that before I continue. I’m still going to use the app, because I love the concept of TED. Conversation, connection, knowledge, growth, all great things we need a lot more of. I usually watch them on my laptop, but I recently put it on my phone. One thing I hate, and it makes me scream curse words at this app, is the search section. I will literally put in the exact name of the TED talk I want to find, and it will tell me that there is nothing under that search. I have to go to my web browser, type in the TED talk name, and then open the link that takes me to that talk in the app. You guys are a multi billion dollar organization. Please fix your freaking search bar on your app.

Covid 19 and black lives matter. After I retired five years ago, I enjoyed looking at TED daily for the variety of coverage. Sometimes I scanned my own interests art, architecture and design just to see what others were doing. I titled this these two areas of concern because I appreciated the thoughtful coverage. My grandson who is 21 challenged me to find a group to discuss TED ideas with. Beyond my partner and my church and book club groups. As a teacher I led Socratic discussion, teaching students how to voice their own understanding and listen to others, even if I had to do so during our lunch breaks. I worked with 3rd through 6th grade. TED talks have given me more insight into the importance of discussion and ways of facilitating it effectively. Thank you for the ideas, the vision, and the hope for our future.

It’s Alright. I like the fact that you can still listen to the audio while the app is closed. However, the front page hasn’t updated since I downloaded the app a week ago. Same videos and categories, same recommendation — I mean this is like app 101 the home page should have new daily content to look at. I also agree with a reviewer below that I would prefer no or little categorization and to let the content flow into a beautiful chaos of ideas. I understand TED has to try and remain relevant within the problems and contexts of these crazy days, but what made TED special in the first place was its ability to transcend all of that and make its viewers view problems in a different perspective.

Not very useable. In 2019 bugs were introduced to the TED app that make it very hard to use. The problem was reported to TED support at the time and was responded to with something to the effect of, “We will consider Voice Over (VO) access as a future enhancement.” While the TED app is updated regularly, the bugs have yet to be resolved.” The biggest problem is the lack of button labelling. It is common to encounter screens that are a mix of labeled and unlabeled buttons. I can only conclude that either TED does not test the app before updates are released or people who use VO are simply not enough of a priority to justify the problems encountered during pre-release testing.

An App worth spreading. Keep up with new talks, find talks by category, or get surprised with the "surprise me" feature. It also has a great widget that shows a pic and description of new talks daily. The app itself has a clean and familiar interface so you instantly know your way around. The audio only feature is great when driving. You can add talks to "My list" (like Netflix) and shows your favorites in a list for easy access. For those without unlimited data, you can download talks to watch and or listen to later. Best of all, their developers keep it updated and address bugs quickly; and all without any ads.

TED is my hero.. TED talks have literally changed my life. I love everything that TED is about and the work they are doing. Everybody should watch TED talks in their free time, there is so much to learn and that’s what we were created to do. Grow, learn, and improve / help society one day at a time. I pray and hope to work for them one day, furthering their mission statement that aligns so perfectly with everything I am about. I Love TED. If you want the app, download it. If you don’t, download it anyways and wait for the day when you do. Thank me later! xoxo juliasparks

Doesn’t work (iPhone 6). Never had this issue before, but this app just freezes in the first screen saying “there are two questions to answer to get started “. A few times, the app did move to a screen saying the app couldn’t refresh data (or something to that effect). Disappointing because I loved TED. 3 stars because I used to have this app years ago and loved it so much, can’t bear to give this a lower review. Hopefully it works for others!

Unsurpassed. Let yourself just wander over older topics don't just follow one thing. It is simply amazing about how many incredible people are working on complicated problems, social and scientific, and then can explain them to you in a short burst of maybe 15 minutes. Literally, If you could only have one program to watch this would be the one. Good wandering!!

Todays Exemplary Developments. TED should be broadcasted in every part of the world, free of charge. It should be a given right to have access to this information. PS: Love the notes you guys write when you push an update to the app store! Makes keeping the TED updated, makes me feel like you’re building an app for the users and followers and subscribers😄 (in comparison to Facebook which seems to only make an app for the masses 🙄) Keep up the good work! ❤️

Tiny fonts, worst search function ever.... I gave this app three stars only because it plays the videos without problems. But the search feature is the worst I’ve ever seen on any app. I wanted to find talks on ‘self trust’. Typing either of those words in varying combinations, including with a comma between, turned up two videos or mostly no results. Of course, typing in ‘trust’ results in about half of the entire Ted library. I literally have to use Google advanced search to find videos I want to watch in my Ted app. Sheesh! By the way, when I did get a resul from my search in Ted app, the display was so tiny I had to use a magnifying glass to read them, and I’m using an iPad Pro. That lack of scaling in the display is ludicrous. Additional input: Recently, every time I try to access TED videos through Facebook posts, I am asked to register or answer ‘two’ questions. So I’ve deleted the app. Why does TED need my private info to use their app? TED = Take Everyone’s Data

Please fix. - needs a setting for only downloading via Wi-Fi. – need a progress bar to show what is being downloaded and what has not been downloaded. (One of Ted’s talks state-owned Porten a progress bar is. Irony that they don’t take their own advice.) - videos should be grouped by categories to make it easy to watch similar videos. For example if I want to learn about astronomy, all those videos should be grouped together, and easy to find. I’m giving the such a low rating not because the app is good but because I believe this is the only way the developer will take notice of my comments and fix the limitations I find in the app.

Great app - major flaw. Your app is a great app and I use it every morning when working out to get “educated”. One big flaw is when I choose a video to watch and I see on the right hand side another video in “Related Talks” I’m interested to watch afterward there is no way to find it again. Every time I finish the main video the “Related Talks” have changed again and I’m not able to watch the other video I was interested in. Even more so: There is no way to add a video in “Related Talks” to your watch list. That makes actually the “Related Talks” section pointless since I can never get back and watch what was suggested to me. Please, I would appreciated if you can make it work that the “Related Talk” videos are NOT changing every time I finish a video or add the main video to the watch list but rather that I’m able to go back and be able to watch one of the suggested videos. Thank you.

Frustrated Nerd. Love the TED app. However, in the last few months SEVERAL of the talks, and animated talks WILL NOT PLAY. I have tried to switch to a different wifi, I’ve tried using cellular data only - neither works. The only way I have found to work around this glitch is to DOWNLOAD the episode you want to watch/hear. This is a pain b/c it takes extra time and then the end user has to remember to go back and delete the download to free up memory space. What happened and how quickly can your IT dept. solve this? It would be greatly appreciated!!

The Like button. I rated this app 4 stars because it is easy to find videos you like and very easy to navigate the app in itself. However the like button doesn’t seem to work, no matter what I do it will not save the video as liked. The downloading has worked for me (I’ve only downloaded audio) so far. If they could just fix that little bug in my opinion it would be a five star app.

Surpisingly Stifling. This new version of access to TED Talks is disappointing. Being forced to pick sides (Topics and Motivations) so content that defeats broad-mindedness can be delivered, essentially contradicts a key purpose of TED Talks, to encourage understanding. Besides loading as slow or slower than the latest version of the Outlook app, this new approach to access makes me feel I won't be able to expand my understanding to it's potential. I also expect to be forced to surrender to one of my email accounts to additional spam and junk mail just to continue using the app. Nope. I'll be inventive and find a work around. Bye.

Great content, frustrating app. Other people have detailed other frustrations and I won’t rehash the, here. But I haven’t seen someone mention the broken Picture in Picture for this app yet. I love the iPad’s ability to stick a video in the corner while I’m doing other work, and would watch a lot more TED videos this way, but I try to use PIP and the video does indeed shrink down into a corner, but then it disappears! Sound stays, but the video is gone. Please fix!

Great app, but some things could be better. We have a lot of TEDtalks courses offered for e-learning where I work and I’ve really enjoyed watching some speakers more than others. It would be great if there were options to not only be able to search by actual speaker or more than just a single word when typing into the search bar on the app and maybe only getting a small number of results with the exact word and have to try searching a different word to find the video you’re looking for. It would also be nice if there was an option to create additional lists to save videos to for those of us who watch for both work, personal, and/or any other reason. That way you don’t have to search through all of the ones you might have added to your list to watch when you’re only looking for one that was saved for work.

Fantastic. I absolutely love listening to the wide variety of TED talks while I’m at work. Whether it’s inspiration, passion, motivation, learning, or exposure to a new view that I’m looking for, TED has it. The only problem is that I was using so much data! Well, no worries!! TED allows free downloads of not only audio but video. Hallelujah! The only thing is my phone sometimes freezes when I’m using the app, but it may just be since I recently updated my phone and not because of the app. Overall, highly recommended and so happy!

After many months wait, the download function worked, with many bugs. Having been waiting many months for the download function to work, this version kind of works, yet with many bugs. 1. Crashes when downloading about five or more playlists. 2. When come back, the downloading function will not be able to resume properly. 3. When you play a video, even if it’s a downloaded video, the downloading function stopped. 4. When you first started download a talk, the downloading button shows a circular progress bar. But when you come back from the middle, like crashes, or shutdown, the progress button is gone, and not responsive. 5. No indicators on the download status, I will never know which video has finished download so that I could view offline. 6. No pause, resume 7. No control for individual videos within a playlist. 8. No background downloading.

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Saved my life. Having only discovered Ted Talks in the last few years, it has changed my life.

Unusable. App regularly takes up to a minute to load, if at all before it crashes. When it does load it crashes when trying to load a video. App is frequently unresponsive to touches and extremely slow and lags in reaction to any other gestures. Rubbish and unusable

Screen is totally black. Tried to report a bug from yesterday’s update but no mechanism found on the website. Fail. Since yesterday’s update, the screen goes completely black after loading all the default latest content and is unusable. Pls fix ASAP.

Buggy. The app constantly freezes. If you start watching a talk and then it freezes and you close down the app it doesn’t pick up where you left off nor does it let you fast forward to where you were (it freezes again).

I agree you need to be able to queue a playlist for handsfree. Please implement this capability

Brilliant!. Great talks - interesting, inspiring, thought-provoking. Always something worth watching when you have 10 mins to fill (and it often turns into an hour).

Loved it but too many notifications. Loved the app, tried turning notifications off but they still appeared. Will reinstall when fixed.

Always learning something new. I love TED and this app is pretty much a standard on my morning commute, would have been 5 stars however... one complaint, can someone please update the keywords or whatever needs to be done to change up the curated “Surprise Me” selections. I rarely get something different when I listen to a selection even though there’s a new talk posted daily. Can anything be done about this?

Listen every Day. I really enjoy this App and listen everyday. Thank you

If I’m half way through, I can’t easily find the same Talk later. It would be easier if there was a space for “resume previous talk” at the top of the home page

Crashes when using WiFi. This version is really bugged. Can’t turn on my WiFi when using TED, crashes when I use WiFi. Has to use my mobile data. This is bad.

Great app to learn something new. I have used this app to migrate from mindless games to learn new stuff during downtime. A great way to spend time updating interest or learning more about what you like. Also loved the update description

Poor search function :(. Love Ted, but the search function is terrrible - I cant search for a talk even if I have the name of it, it just seems to bring up random talks - would be better if the search results provided not just the titles but also a screenshot of the video and option to view the summary. Also having a more infinite scroll (or just longer) with more categories on the home screen would be great and helpful in finding more talks in my areas of interest. Otherwise love :)

4 out of 5. Love the app, love that they've kept it free, but I would love to be able to sync talks I've favourited or bookmarked across different platforms (phones, computers, TV etc)

Library shell only. Videos won’t play. After weeks of waiting for the app to load and an update to resolve. Now it is essentially a library to browse with no videos playing, no response when selected. The search function does nothing but load.

Yes! Finally! Syncing with your account!. I try to watch a Ted talk every morning and my one bugbear has always been that your history and likes are not synced to an account. Thanks for making a great app better!

Because you didn’t ask :). I use this app all the time. It’s great... however all apps should be great. My reason for actually coming and giving this review is because not once has you asked or prompted me to do so :). Thanks for the great work!

Latest release needs a little work. Love the app but latest release needs a little work on iphone6. Splash screen is just black and as the app takes a little while to boot up it looks like my phone has crashed. Selecting the red button to answer the questions took a good 10 seconds to change screen and when the options appeared selecting them did nothing. I had to figure out to select the login button at the bottom and then skip to get in - not obvious. It needs a little dev/test/UX love.

Great Content. Excellent site with great variety of information

Video images go black when opening Notification Center. For some reason this app bugs out when videos are open full screen , and then opening notification Centre or even control Centre, eg to adjust screen brightness. Please fix this, it’s super irritating.

Nice 👍. It’s always got something new and it’s very easy to find stuff and it’s just great do I think this app is awesome! 😎

Great !! Update fixed. Thanks for fixing the latest update, I was able to give back my five stars for this great app. Since installing the latest update this app crashes just as it is about to start a talk!!?? I have deleted it and reinstalled several times with no effect. I have emailed the developers last week no reply so thought I should warn people not to update until it is fixed. Still watch Ted talks on the web site. I will reinstate the five stars when I get my app back. Below is my original review which I will stand by once I can use the app. Can't get enough of your speakers. There is a wide range of topics to suit most people, personally I love the science talks the best. If I don't have time to listen attentively I just press the Hart button so I have a personal list of topics for later.

Still a great app but U has degraded. I feel that the update in terms of Ux is a step back from earlier versions: * Defaulting to dark mode on iOS 12 is annoying. * Horizontal lists on home screen are not as intuitive as tabbed vertical lists. I get that it allows you to tailor custom groups but it's far more noisy and moves away from your traditional simplicity which was great. * The search/category screen has removed playlists. This was one of the features I used the most after I'd listened to the top new and popular talks. * What happened to the audio only "Listen" option?? I use this in the car ALL the time. It allows you to play one talk and prepare the screen to view another (to manually queue) for the next talk. Please add the ability to actually queue talks!!! Or build your own playlist... I can't believe after all these updates you still don't have this? How does one listen to 2-3 talks on a commute where you can't use your phone while driving?

No Chromecast??? Quite buggy. Used to be a great app and glitch free or at least not as evident how buggy it is now. Also lost support for chromecast, it’s nice to add certain features and updates but at least get the basics right!

Download function is broken. I love the app so much but why is the download function not working? I downloaded the video but then I still need to be connected to the internet in order to view it. It would be perfect if the download function works.

Works again on iPhone SE (1st Gen). Very pleased to welcome back the app. Following the last few updates it just crashed out completely. Now it’s back (May 2020) Thankyou!

Crashes after Downloading 48 videos. I downloaded 48 videos as I’m going on holidays but now the app keeps on crashing after 10 seconds. I will delete the app and reload. Thanks for the app, I really like the talks.

Technical support issue. On several occasions I have emailed TED informing them of an issue with my app that I’ve been having for at least 6 months. When I try to remove a video from my list after I’ve watched it, it quickly reappears back into my list. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the TED talks, but this bug is continuing to cause me issues. I just want to remove the videos from my list after I’ve already watched them. TED responded with a list of actions I should try to solve the problem, however none of them have worked and I have not received a response from my last email notifying them of this. I am still waiting for a response.

Great app. 10/10 use this app. Great content, you'll definitely learn something. Go on - do it.

Great content! But app freezes every now and again.... Loving the daily ted talks featured! However frustrating when it freezes after tapping in, unable to view. Sometimes having to restart the phone to revive app. Hope this can be fixed soon.

I have a problem with offline video. This apps is pretty good, I use it to listen TED talks everyday. But after the lastest update I had some problems below: 1. The most problem is when I downloaded the videos to see this offline, some of the videos downloaded but can not play offline. 2. When I pause the video to use dictionary, the video stuck and can not continue play I use iPhone 6s & iOS 11

Great app - functionality request. Can you please add a ‘Seen’ or ‘Watched’ tag for each talk?

Fantastic listening. I drive long distance for work and the range of topics and the quality of the presenters keeps me enthralled whilst driving

Lost all saved talks. Over months of watching and saving talks I get an error about database reset and all gone. That was really annoying. Not signing up just to save what ive watched either. Stupid.

Likes and Lists not refreshing or updating. I normally love this app but lately anything I like or want to add to my talk list doesn’t flow through to these lists. So when I try to go back to review they aren’t there. So frustrating as I often refer to these for work purposes.

Love TED but the APP..... Update Why bother downloading episodes for offline play if the app doesn’t work when there is no internet? I’m baffled When on a flight or with no internet, the app starts and comes up with a message telling me to get on the net Please fix so the app can actually be used offline _____________________ I Love TED, but the app doesn't really allow for freedom of search The App needs work. In a functional sense It has ability to search, but you can't seem to filter the results to say, most recent or by Length... For those wanting to just plug in and be told what to watch, then this app should suit u fine, u can add a "theme" and the app will spit out vids it thinks suits. But if you say, want to look up....Genetics, and look for the most recent videos relating to this topic, then you will have to hope they update the app.. Like myself :) This for me makes the app a 3 stars The content is fantastic But the delivery in this app is restrictive.

Learning by listening to stories.. Our family loves TED talks. It opens discussions about everything and anything. We all have ideas worth sharing. Thank you for this great app. It is so good to listen to before bed or first thing in the morning. It helped my daughter sleep with the pain of a broken ankle.

Login Crashes. Having difficulty logging in after the new system upgrade.. it asks two questions.. then your login.. and crash..! 🤷‍♀️ tried a few times over two days.. think it may need to be looked at again..!

App keeps crashing. Just updated to latest version of app. Using os12.3.1. Keeps crashing and going to a black screen. Up to this point had no trouble and thought it was an excellent app

Best App Ever. Best app there is. So informative and interesting on so many different subjects. I wouldn’t be without it

Great, BUT missing one crutial feature to make this app usable. This version of the TED app has a great user experience except for one feature which ultimately the difference between me using the app and not. There is no playback speed controls. As someone who listens to podcasts/videos at 2x speed not having this ability is a deal breaker. Please include this in the next version. Thanks

Downloads still using data. I downloaded several talk while on WiFi. Then played them and they downloaded again and used data. Very frustrating.

Philosophically great. I use it heaps in extension English as it poses philosophical ideas that can be explored. Only problem is the app as a whole is based on experiences and ideas, not facts

Developer humour is great!. Ima fan of the app and the recent improvements are great. What’s even better are your great comments on what you have updated in each release. Thank you for being one of the few who demonstrate that there are still humans behind the app, and don’t just post up a generic “We regularly update our bla bla bla...” Great job!

Play button?. What a stupid app has every button except a PLAY button

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TED app not functioning. App opens momentarily in background in reduced form behind the main screen but it won’t play when you tap on it. It disappears again behind the main screen. I have iPhone 6 with latest software 12.5.5 and the app says it plays on version 11 and higher. Please fix it.

Playback speed setting. Previous power usage issue is resolved. Am I crazy or did the playback speed toggle go missing? Can’t seem to find any way to speed up the videos. That makes the app unusable for me.

The Direction of TED Talks.. TED Talks have a high degree of professionalism. The speakers know their subject. They invariably speak fluently. One can discern a Leftist slant in most Talks. That reflect the views of many, even the majority. Conservative points of view are lacking. The Theory of Evolution is assumed as being fact. God is rarely if ever mentioned. If you could allow more conservative voices, TED would be a much more balanced affair. Michael E. Cox Darwin.

Surprise me... MIA??. Hi, am I missing something... has the Surprise me feature been removed? I’ve been distracted by life recently and have come back to TED for something else to listed to for the next hour. I used to love the surprise me feature where you could set a time for how long you would like to listen & it would schedule in a bunch of talks. Can’t find it anywhere:(

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A BUG 🐛. Hey everything is perfect in this app but there is one problem … when ever i play a video and i forgot to turn on auto rotation and during the video i turned the auto rotation on from the control panel .. the video got freezed the audio while the audio is still in playing … so i have to close and open the video again … can u plz make it fix its very irritating 😠 . Secondly if u can add video quality selection. This is option though

Kills battery. This app 4+ hours of background activity vs minutes for other apps is killing my battery. I have deleted it until it is fixed.

Listens to Users!. Very happy to be able to login to my account finally, and have it sync all of my saved talks! This popped up as soon as I launched the updated app, and everything was seamlessly synced over from what I’ve saved. I have no issues giving this a full 5 stars now!

Doesnt work?. I have been trying to get it to work for ages now, restarting, reinstalling, etc. It is extremely laggy and unresponsive at times, I can play a video but then it stops responding and I can’t pause it or even view any video player options, and even when I close out the MiniPlayer disappears and won’t show up, even though I can still hear audio. All while still not letting me pause or scrub through. I keep ending up having to quit the app and open it up only for the same thing to happen again. Really frustrating because I was super excited for this :/ hope there will be a fix for this soon

No Chromecast support. The content is great (it’s TED.) But no Chromecast support is annoying. TED, can you please add Chromecast support? 🙏🏻 Update: Thank you, TED, for letting me know that it’s coming eventually.

Loading issue. Something isn’t working. The app basically doesn’t load. I can’t even login. Hopefully it’s being worked on for future use. I love ted talks!

TED is informative and inspiring. Love having access anywhere I go.

Awesome app however it is not as accessible as it should be with voiceover.. Your app provides me with a lot of inspirational talks. The issue is all the buttons are not labelled for the voiceover screen reader on the iPhone to read the various controls and menu options. Can you please make sure that your app conforms to accessibility standards and that all the buttons and controls are properly labelled so that a visually impaired or totally blind person using the said voiceover screen reader can access everything the same way sighted people do with your app please and thank you peace out

Ted were not happy we need the update. I’m surprised there hasn’t been anything new on the tee app since dec 2021!! I need more Ted radio hour 🤬

black screen with red dot. On opening the app, there is a black background with a small red dot 🔴 in the centre of the app screen. I deleted the alp from my home screen and re-installed. No change. 😭

Great information shared. I wish they would play let me make a list of things I want to listen to after I pick one short video and have my hands busy doing my crafts, if there a way, please let me know. Thanks! Otherwise I love watching all kinds of Ted vids and broadening the knowledge :)

Just what I need to listen to. Listening to TED talk fuels my long morning runs. The talks are so inspiring that I’m forgetting I’m even running. I focus on the speaker and the points they are conveying and I lose sense of time. I return home feeling inspired and energized. Best part of my day.

Search by author please. + no ad - how come search does support search by author? e.g. I’d like to see all videos published by TedEd.

Love TED, terrible app. I can’t believe the positive reviews. To be clear I’m rating the app, not TED. Although you’d think an organization dedicated to technology, engineering, and design could create at minimum a functional app. Trying to search for a talk via keyword? Forget it. Tap on a TED link in Facebook? If you’re lucky it ~might~ open the talk. More likely though it will just stay on the app’s landing page or even better just give you a black screen of death. Want to remove a talk from your favourites list? Psych! It’ll still be there even after you click delete. Turrible. Would not recommend.

Apple TV. This app needs an update on Apple TV. It has been several months since the last update.

Not as bad as everyone is saying. Although all of the points everyone is saying is true, this app is good for if you’re travelling or something and you have 5 or so minutes you can listen to one of these high quality HD video on all sorts of topics. If you are thinking about downloading this app I recommend getting it. Some minor issues cause it to be a 4 star but it’s good enough for me.

App freezes. Hi. Wondering if anything can be done to fix bugs within the app itself. It’s my only app that doesn’t run well. When I listen to a podcast my menu to pause either disappears or doesn’t work when I press on it. Please fix this annoying bug.

App doesn’t load. So I see that this lagging and not loading has been an issue for many months. I will try to reinstall one more time. If it continues to lag, I’ll ditch it in favour of curiosity stream and khan academy

Doesn’t work. App launches but I only get the loading screen with moving circles. The app never actually does anything. I would use it if I could 🤷‍♀️

Good practice. The app works very well. Additionally, they provide detailed update notes and don’t pester you to rate the app. I have to commend the developers of this app.

crash with iphone 6 plus. Just launch and crash right away with IOS12.5.5

Love it but.... App runs great but I wish there was an opportunity to read Ted articles instead of just watch videos though!

Excellente application. Très belle application pour ceux qui veulent du contenu éducatif et diversifié !❤️

I love this app. Multipurpose, informative, and a perfect resource to learn something new. The videos are fascinating concepts and the TED Ed riddles are loads of fun as well!! This app is great- I have no complaints.

too much advertisement. Please reduce it

Search app is terrible. Can’t search for titles of actual Ted talks, can’t search for “machine learning” and many other reasonable queries. Too bad that so much amazing content is not accessible or discoverable because of how terrible the search feature is. This is a fundamental thing to get wrong for a content app.

Chromecast not supported. Can’t cast to a Chromcecast from this iPad app.

Gets lock. It keeps locking on the first loading page:(

I get a black screen with a red dot in the middle… thats it. Ive patiently waited and even tried reinstalling the app and only get the same blank screen with a red dog in the middle. Please fix app.

Really slow. Hi, this app is really slow. Also doesn’t work correctly often. I really prefer to watch Ted on the website or on the YouTube. I hope you’ll be able to fix it soon. Tnx

Life changing!. Thank you so much for your work! Nothing is better than sipping a coffee in the morning while listening to a TED Talk!

Meh. Glitchy and, weirdly, recommendations don’t change. Even after you’ve watched a talk from the list of recommended talks, it stays on the list. I also feel like the user interface could be better.

Stardust. Hi Ted I'm a user who's blind and has a hearing loss. I enjoy using Ted on my iPad, so far voice over has no problems navigateing the app. I have also visited your website; I can find what I'm looking for, even finding your terms of service and privacy policy was easy to find on your website. Your collections of Talks are many, easy to access, and whenever I finish listening to a ted talk, I feel I want to keep learning. Please keep the app, as well as, your website free and accessible for future blind and visually impaired users. Keep up the amazing work you are doing. Yours Truly

Seems to glitch too much. Most the time I have to close the app a couple before I can play a video, sometimes the videos will be a black screen so I have to restart it again. I really enjoy the app otherwise, it’s pretty convenient

Don’t Bother. TED app takes forever to load and is so glitchy compared to YouTube. It’s great if you can get it going but I’ve been using for over a month and am switching to YouTube instead.

video speed and audio only. great to browse and i enjoy reading the recommendations but please option to change speed and have audio-only

The search function doesn’t work. I tried to search by the title of the talk, never worked. It always returned “No Results Sorry we couldn’t find anything for…” even when I copied and pasted the exact title..

Please add “Sign in with Apple”. Please add the “Sign in with Apple” feature for a clean sign in/ up experience for us that use it!! Actively waiting for this feature before making an account!

Can’t login. I love Ted talks but the app never worked properly. First I could hear the thanks but the images would black out. Now new iPhone, new IOS, new updates and a different problem, it won’t let me log in. It shows loading, but it won’t finish loading. I wish it would be fixed...

Will not open. Since downloading, iOS 17, the app will not work. When opened there appears a very small red dot and cannot access any content. I am a frequent user of TEDTalks and hope this issue can be resolved. Update: thank you so much for responding and fixing the app. Now I can get my daily dose of TED!!

Besoin d’améliorations. -> La connexion par AirPlay est souvent défectueuse. -> La recherche par mots clés n’est pas performante. C’est difficile de trouver du contenu en lien avec les sujets ou la langue recherchés. On devrait permettre la recherche par speaker. -> Il faudrait aussi pouvoir ajouter une vidéo dans la liste de favoris pendant la lecture. Beaucoup d’autres choses aussi... En gros, le user experience est à revoir d’après moi. Mais le contenu est génial.

Login. App’s great and logging in allows you to get preferences and favorites but can you add the feature to either flag that you’ve see the video or remove them from the suggested list or search? TED has a sizable catalogue

Doesn't work. This app hasn't worked on my iPhone 8 for almost a year now. App will open and just never loads.

Basic Features. This app needs the ability to play videos at 1.5, 2x speed, etc. And should be able to chrome cast videos, otherwise it’s better to just use Youtube

Podcasts part have lack of saving or favourit. I’m always use podcast part but I’m always missing my favourite ones and I can’t save them or like them or gather them in a place for listen for second time!!!!! So please for your next update please make some more gestures for the podcast part so that we can save especial ones for listening second and third times And another things is these podcasts definitely would become complete with transcription So please add a complete transcriptions under it Thank you

Sound. The app for some reason doesn’t play the sound for some videos

Best learning tool!. One of my best learning tool! Thanks

Broken. The app won’t load through the login. I just get the spinning circles. Tried resetting password, reinstalling app, nothin will do. The app is unfortunately unusable since the last weeks. Edit (in response): this is on an iPhone XS. I could also confirm that the app does load when I choose not to login at all.

Junk!. This app is one of the buggiest apps I've ever used on my iPad. A horrible app. Downloads don't work. Streaming playback sometimes works but quality is awful. This app is unusable.

Download but need internet ?. Why when i download a video I need internet to watch it?

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LOVE. I love everything about TED. Just too much to tell. If a person can’t find anything to learn about anything, I would be sad for that person. Would be perfect for families to watch together. I watch on my iPad every evening. I really love the TED ED. The most joyous is, it is (do I dare say it?), it’s free.

Finding my way. I have enjoyed all the Ted talk so far IGrew up poor didn’t really know how to read or write guy was 18 now I’m finding motivation by watching the Ted talks and eventually one day I think I’ll have a Ted talk thank you for

New app not for me. I love TED and finding a new fascinating topic. The new updated look is beautiful but doesn’t work for me. Talks load frustratingly slow or often not at all. Swiping sideways is less easy for me than scrolling down, and the list is short. I ditched the app and subscribed to the podcast which brings back the experience of hunting down the talk that strikes me and loading it up immediately. But no video unfortunately.

Good and needs some improvements. I downloaded this to listen to talks while driving. Well, I have to click each video instead of having on a continuous playlist. Very dangerous while driving. There are pre-made playlist but that doesn’t mean there are all good. Please make a “play all” talks in the list feature. Some downloads work, others didn’t.

VERY INTERESTING. Wonderful app!!! However, when you “join” your “interests” are requested. Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but despite selecting science & technology, I still seem to have to search for topics of my interest. Once I do find & watch a video I find interesting, I find I run into a chain of other videos that catch my interest, but each time I “log on” the experience seems very random.

Learning. As a teacher I always recommend this application to my students as a must have. Students are required to pay attention to all details and learn from the best keynote speakers in the world. I highly recommend this app to all interested in talks and discussions on updated topics of the world today.

Fix downloads please!. The download feature of the app is perhaps the most important one, and it just doesn’t work. So many times I had queued up a few videos to watch on a plane, and got burned each time as I realized the videos did not download properly. There is no indication of download progress, status, or controls to start/pause/continue, or prioritize downloads. You click download and then it’s a complete mystery. Very poor programming.

Search function needs a lot of work. I don’t go on this app as much as I I used to, but recently wanted to watch content. Fortunately my favorite videos have been saved, but attempting to find new videos in the search feature is painful. - upon searching, it only lists a few items with no visuals or detailed descriptions. - attempted to search for David Eagleman video I had watched years ago to no avail -searching generically for ‘nicotine’ provided next to no searches and some unrelated (albeit, I cannot suggest if this is accurate relative to the content) I do enjoy TED talks but to be honest the search function makes the whole joy I found of wandering through your app less interesting.

Awesome!. I love this app! It's great when you have a little down time or when you're in the car. My favorite feature is the "surprise me" option. Because of it, I've listened to a ton of talks that I normally wouldn't have clicked on and learned more than would've otherwise.

Where did the listen button disappear !!??. I used to love listening to ted talks without the video content while doing some routine tasks but in the new update I can’t see that feature to be there anymore and that totally screwed it up for me

Less usable. The prior releases had better usability for listening in a car. The current app requires too much interaction to use on Appleplay in a car. Prefer a list of talks that meet the criteria that are queued up to listen w/ minimal interaction to go to the next in the list.

Awful app with least facilities. The application has great information and deeply useful for hightening attitudes and gives fantastic ideas to users. But, it is unbelievably unimproved and it seems there are lots of work to do for expanding it’s potentials and facilities in order to be utilized for more users. The app had a good capacity to be used as a podcast for those who have poor conection or do not want to download video type of conversations.

Ted Talks. The recent app update produced a tiny red dot in the center of the screen when I attempted to open the app after this update. It stays in this mode. I’ve deleted and re downloaded the app numerous time and the app never opens. Thank you kindly for reaching out to help solve the issue.

Great content; App can be improved. The content goes without saying. Great stuff. I, too, lost all of My Talks. In my case this occurred when moving from my iPad 2 to my new iPad Pro. Also, the app says I downloaded the talks but they are not downloaded. Instead, they seem to actually be links back to the TED site, which then serves the talks on demand. Try to view the downloaded files with no WiFi and there is nothing there. Worse still, the app says to save talks to My List for offline viewing but doesn’t say how to do that. And I cannot find either a TED-authored Operating and Troubleshooting Guide or relevant advice on the web.

Used to be good until ….. Far too many adverts on the videos. It has gone like google with its video platform which is full of adverts. Why bother watching educational talks when we are bombarded with adverts? If you charged 99c or 99 pence to purchase app surely this is a better and less irritating way to go! Don’t be like the rest of the tech empires with stupid adverts. The adverts have lost you a customer because we are deleting all Ted talks apps.

Always useful when I’m looking for a different perspective. Whenever I’m feeling unsure about a topic I turn to TED. There’s always something positive that I can take personally or something that I can give insight and inspiration to others.

Cannot play downloaded videos. The downloaded videos won’t play when not connected to the internet still, in June 2020. So according to the reviews, STILL after 2 YEARS, they cannot make downloaded videos play when not connected to the internet. So, what’s the point of downloading videos, hoping to see them when on the airline or out of cell coverage? Just be aware out there, no Ted talks for you when traveling.

Fantastic app but needs support LTE. At first, I can say this app is wonderful not only for learning English, but also for who is interested in various grounds. But I think this app should support the LTE or even 3G for downloading videos. Anyway, that's my pleasure to be one of big fans of this app

Like it BUT...... I actually love watching TED talks but I have trouble adding them to my Watchlist on my phone app. Every time I click the little plus button I see a check mark indicating the video was added but when I go to my list it’s never there. I go back to the video and see the plus sign again as though it was never added. Please fix this so that I can give this app 5 stars.

History and Font size problems. Version 6.x is still very problematic. History items cannot be deleted now, and they’re no longer in the order I watched them, but in TED’s release order. This is supposed to be my history, not TED’s, and it’s broken. Thanks for making the font so SMALL that it's barely readable with no accessibility size choice. It’s about 4 points smaller than in version 5. Please make the font larger like it used to be, or give users a size choice.

BEST PLACE TO LEARN!. Have a question? Come on down to TED!👍 I learned soooo much💯...it really keeps your brain moving, and you see so many stories from so many different eyes of people‼️ 🌐Not to mention it talks about/raises awareness that could help the world and our communities.♻️ 📕learned that time BENDS!!!

Enjoying TED talks.. So glad to be able to support TED! They are always interesting, smart, creative, ideas that people give talks about. From electroshock therapy (recent) to a person who is explaining how to help our children grow up to be well adjusted Adults. So many subjects. Thank you for all the information you have for us!

Feature Request. 1. Mark talks that have already been seen. (Seen=90% Watched) 2. Add the ability to tag and star talks personally. (And filtering search results using them.) This helps immensely in rewatching talks, NOT watching some talks, and recommending talks to friends.

Need Transcripts. Please make transcripts available through the app. I believe I have been able to access the transcripts to each talk through the main website, but have no luck when using the app. Thank you.

Not really a review. I love this app, but I don’t use it very often. The reason for this review is that I cannot find a way to ‘save’ or ‘bookmark’ a video I want to watch later. The description implies that functionality is there, but I can’t find it. Not only that, but I can’t find a help button in the app that might direct me to that feature. Not only that, but I couldn’t find any help available on your “App Support” website either. Not only that, but I couldn’t find a “Contact Us” or equivalent page to point this out privately. It appears that the only way to reach someone who might be able to help is to post a review in the App Store. Hence the relatively negative review. My apologies for using this rather roundabout approach to getting some basic help.

Addictive. Love it! Not the app itself because it’s very messy and hard to find all content... I feel a disconnection between the tv app, the website and the mobile one. The tv app is the worst and I wish you had Chromecast support because at least I could browse and push to tv.

Video not playing. Just downloaded the app and I’m trying to figure it out. The video are not playing so I can’t really watch though I can only hear audio. I am not sure if there is a way to change that but tried the settings but nothing there about audio to video or vice verse.

Bring back old audio options please. Need to have more offline audio options. I’d greatly appreciate being able to easily find more audio only Ted talks to listen to while driving in my car that I can download ahead of time. The old Ted app allowed you to download audio for every Ted talk video. Otherwise used to be a great mobile app for Ted content.

Recommended talks vanish. Unless you abandon the app you’re in to follow the Ted Talk pop-up talk, when you go to the app you find yourself on the TED home page, not at the Talk. And since that recommended talk is not captured in History, and because you don’t recall what the name of the talk was, you can never find it

Advertising choices. I can understand the need to raise money in times when in-person conferences may be limited. I can’t understand how an ad for wheel-of-fortune* got on the Ted talks app. Until now I’ve been impressed with the courage of Ted to take on difficult subjects. You might want to take this one on; how to affordably curate your own advertising without passing it to someone with lower standards of excellence. * I have screenshots.

Please bring back cast feature. I enjoy this app, the topics and videos are great. Primarily i would cast the videos to my TV, now I only see the option to cast via AirPlay. I rarely use the app now because I don’t enjoy watching in my phone and I don’t have Airplay devices. Otherwise the app is great. Please bring the casting feature back.

Finally you can log into your TED account. Previously I gave a bad review for the TED app because you could not login into your TED account to sync your "likes", playlists, and history. Thank you TED app developers! You can now login to your TED account through the app. 😎

Amazing. Tells you straight facts about science, technology, and the mind. I don’t like to read much but want to learn this keeps you from paying attention to the media news that is always misleading. Thank you so much for you science, research, and motivational speeches. - Jessica Paradowski 💕🦋

Blah. TED TAKLS is a world changing great idea conceptually and, then the developers get in the way. There have literally been thousands upon thousands of bugs posted requesting remedies for issues and yet ZERO improvements. The developer whomever he or she is assigned to answer do nothing more than placate and feign empathy but, in the end NOTHING is resolved or perfected. They know it, we know it. HELLOOOO. Look back on the past reviews and actually craft improvements ! Thank you …

Playback issues. I like the design of the app, but I’m having playback issues. One clip will play and when you choose to go to the next suggested video it will freeze. It’s happened every time. I have to go in and shut the app down then go directly to that next video or it will not play at all. Not sure what would cause that, but please fix it because it’s super inconvenient and makes me not want to use the app at all Thanks!

want transcript. hello. I am a english learner so I used to looking through the transcript while watching the video. Also, it will help me to improve my language skills by printing the transcripts and making some notes on it. Would you considering adding the function that the transcript can be shown below the video just as you did on your official website? Thanks!

TED app has gone downhill. The old TED app was terrific and 5-stars. This latest app revision is terrible. It no longer easily connects when talked are linked to through other platforms like Facebook. The search engine is poor as the names of clearly known speakers are not coming up as results. I dislike that the search results no longer include an image of the speaker because often that is how I know I’ve found the right talk. Please rethink the changes you’ve made to your App.

Search Functionality. It would be great if the search functioned like most video searches function. Being given a selection of videos after searching a keyword or phrase would make this app so much better instead of giving a short text selection of video titles and links to them.

“Giving knowledge” part is excellent but “tech of app” really needs to be improved a lot. While I’m just watching the video, it just stops and drops out of App and returns to my home screen strike three times at a video. And while downloading, only the completed ones stay, not in the progress do not show up again and need to start download from the start. That isn’t really convenient for me.

I can’t find the “Listen” button any more. I really like the”listen” button but I cannot find it anymore...i walks a lot during a day so sometimes I cannot have WiFi accessible. Therefore, downloading audios instead of videos is much more convenient for me. it will not eat all my data...:(

But... but... but..... I love TED talks. I have loved them since the moment I first discovered them and I watch them all the time. I'm always telling friends and family that no matter what their interests are, there is a TED talk for them. However.... the latest app update has erased all the talks I had added to my list. I had 60 or 70 talks queued up that I was excited to watch and just like that, they are gone. Still a wonderful app with what I believe to be unparalleled content, but I'm striking one star on account of the major faux pas. Even in the wake of this tragedy (pardon my being dramatic), I learned a valuable lesson: Always screenshot your playlists and every app!

Great content; startlingly terrible app. How does one screw up a video app so badly? This one fails to register taps for minutes at a time, so that it becomes impossible to start and stop videos; if you let it go to full screen, the controls vanish entirely and won’t come back; the talk you wanted to pause drones on and on until you force quit the program. Or sometimes it will stop out of nowhere, having finally realized that you touched the screen two minutes earlier. Bizarre and nearly unusable.

The Best. TED is one of the great sites of the internet. It’s an education you can’t get in school or from television, AND IT’S FREE! Spend, at the most, 20 minutes a day to learn something outstanding from some of the smartest people on the planet. Your future self will thank you.

Notification sound. The app is great. Its easy, simple, and sweet. Hands down The the notification sound for his app has to be my absolute favorite thing about the the app. I wish there was an option of setting it as the default sound for all my notifications on my device.

Problems if you are legally blind. New problem. TED does not work with iOS 17. I am legally blind, and when the app first became available, it worked great with voiceover. As soon as they started adding more features, it stopped working with voiceover. Currently, if you are legally blind, you cannot control the plate features. You cannot pause, rewind or forward any of the videos. as I stated before when it first became available, I used to listen to TED every day. Now I listen to it once a month just to see if it’s working with voiceover.

Excellence!. When I’m facing a situation that requires knowledge, wisdom and guidance I can always find relevant talks that meet my needs and motivate. I also use it to think about what I believe and whether or not there’s another viewpoint that can enhance or alter my opinions. I also utilize them in training meetings.

Search engine is ineffective. When trying to search for a topic, such as “white privilege,” the response is “sorry, we couldn’t quite find anything like that.” So, when trying other searches such as “black poverty,” only two talks show up as results. When searching these two topics alone through an internet (google) search engine on “Ted Talks”, hundreds of results reveal themselves...I would have thought that an app would provide the same number of results, if it more. Poorly designed app!

Good content - App doesn’t work.. After the last update, the video playback features are no longer functional. Once you start playing a video all the control features stop working. You can’t pause, stop, skip, go forward or back. I have to close out the app and go back in to select another video. If I want to jump back a few seconds to catch what was said, it doesn’t work and you have to start the video over back at the beginning.

Great show but.... Since reviews are no good unless they are honest, here goes: Love the podcast, usually really fascinating, but Guy Raz has had his run. Less Guy and more Manoush. Nothing personal Guy, you were great as well, but there are your other podcasts that people can hear you on. Now that Manoush has the baton, let’s see her run. You can cheer from the bleachers when you aren’t running your own races. Thanks

I enjoy app. Ted talks are quite interesting and there is a large variety of them to watch. I commonly start videos only to find that I have seen them before and I wish there was some way to state that it was watched and just a date saying when

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The application TED was published in the category Education on 14 October 2010, Thursday and was developed by TED Conferences LLC [Developer ID: 376183342]. This program file size is 48.52 MB. This app has been rated by 10,097 users and has a rating of 4.6 out of 5. TED - Education app posted on 18 December 2023, Monday current version is 7523 and works well on iOS 12.4 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.ted.TED. Languages supported by the app:

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