Gumroad 17+

Needs Work edit: It's good now!

edit: the Gumroad staff seems to have corrected and patched the flaws I once lamented in this post. Congratulations to them! The app is now quite sleek and usable. Good stuff! Thanks for all your hard work.

old post: It looks nice but it's been crashing often. The video content I'm using it for has audio when I watch it on the pc but doesn't in the iOS app-this is a pretty big deal. I'm looking forward to some of these problems getting corrected and giving the app and the hard working team behind it the five stars they deserve, but it's just being held back by a few unfortunate flaws at the moment.

Developer Response ,

Hi, our technical team has resolved this problem. Please update your app to the latest version. If the problem persists reach out to us at app.gumroad@gmail.com. We will try our best to locate the issue and make the app right for you. Thanks again!

New Format Makes Finding Content Harder

This update is a step backward, in my experience. In video courses I’ve bought—ones with many, many chapters—videos now take a lot longer to find. The content inside these modules used to be titles-only, in a compact list, but now they include an “expanded” view of what are supposed to be video thumbnails (no thumbnails actually show). I used to scan titles quickly in a compact list view. Now, to find a video, I have to scroll down way farther to find the titles I’m looking for, and it’s making the app a lot less convenient. There’s too much fluff when trying to navigate my course content. Please change it back, or give us the option to switch how our material is displayed: in a more compact list view, or this new expanded icon view. For complex online courses, the new format isn’t working for me.

Great! Why can’t I buy things here? :(

As above - the app works wonderfully, and I have few gripes. I can easily view any content I’ve purchased, download it, etc., which is perfect.

However, I really wish I could browse the website through the app. Plenty of times I’ve clicked the link to a Creator’s page from a product I’ve bought, and rather than seeing their page in the app, it opens it up in Safari.

I can guarantee, I would be purchasing twice as much content and supporting so many more creators if only I didn’t need to jump through that extra hoops of swapping apps. It’s no dealbreaker, but it sure is an inconvenience. Would really like to have an all-in-one experience in this app in the future.