Pluralsight: Learn Tech Skills App Reviews

Title says it all. Last version would crash or would lose login info and downloaded courses/lessons. New version is nice, has some added functionality and reflex improvements seen on the new site.

This is a maddening app and will impede rather than promote your consumption of Pluralsight courses. It forgets your progress and thinks you have not watched all that you have. It refuses to auto-advance to the next chapter - just spins and spins like its getting zero data. A terribly frustrating experience, and an utterly unworthy frontend to Pluralsights excellent content matter.

App is nice, when using on wifi. Download files doesnt seem to work in current version though :(

Im stunned that the course publish date is STILL missing from the search results.

Its been a decent effort that seems to be getting better with each release. Things to watch for make sure u sync your account before going offline - seems like it does a check to see if your account is valid which for a wifi/offline device can be disastrous. No real issues. Love the fact that my app progress is in sync with Desktop browser. Play Speed + continuous play are lost between chapters when you click on vid. It works when you start from the beginning of chapters though. Also no way to distinguish between downloaded/not downloaded chapters explicitly (liked the orange bar next to downloaded in earlier version) - Can be improved but working for most! PS I use it mostly on iPad not iPhone

Even though I have a premium subscription, and I have downloaded the entire course, the video continues to pause throughout playback.every 5 to 10 seconds.

Cant log in using my Digital Tutors account. There must still be migration issues on their end. Really hope they would finish their merger soon as their new business model is looking really sharp. I wish I could use the mobile app.

I just discovered pluralsight & told myself that if the app works, I will purchase the subscription. I cant log in, my same login info works on the website but not the app. I can imagine that Im not the only pluralsight customer to be lost due to a non-functional app.

I need to fiddle with the app after each section to get he next section working. It keeps showing the wait donut even for downloaded courses. I should be able to start a course and just sit back and watch on the phone or the TV.

It has all the required features. Able to view multiple videos and has various features. Its a lot better than expected.

I honestly havent seen many of the app problems others have seen, and Ive been using Pluralsight on both iPhone and iPad. Definitely not a 1/2 star app from my angle. The download function works great for faster viewing (although it does probably check), the interface is much cleaner, and the content is great as always. My long outstanding complaint is about better assessment testing, and Ive heard theyre actively working on improving the offering. But it doesnt take away from being able to follow along and learn quite a bit from using the content thats there. If youre a active developer who wants to keep up to date, you owe it to yourself find a way to get a Pluralsight account for yourself.

The search mechanism needs work I should be able to search topics by just clicking on the language name. There are courses which dont show in result through the app. Cant seem to find download button, its removed , UI bug or just poor UI design.

This app was a lot better before with the way you could slide to control the speed or go back. This app is painful to use.

I started a course on my PC, closed Pluralsight, and resumed it on my iPhone. Love the flexibility.

As a former PeepCode subscriber, the PluralSight app is very disappointing. The search feature is essentially useless, because it returns a full list of matches to individual chapters, and it returns the, in a narrow pop-up. You cant see enough information about the search results to know anything about them. For example, search in the app for "SharePoint". Your results will say, "SharePoint 2010 Documentation/Meet...", "SharePoint Server 2020 Administr...", "SharePoint 2013 Advance...", and about a hundred other results. Those are chapter titles, not titles for whole videos, so there is an enormous pile of results, and no way to evaluate them. You basically have to search using their web site, then navigate by categories to find the video. Ugh... Update: This app is getting better but its still awful. The only reason I downloaded the latest version was to try to AirPlay videos, since the web version of Pluralsight doesnt support that. The app has that feature but it doesnt work.

The educational content and value of the actual sub to pluralsight is great. This review is about the app itself. Playing back works fine most of the time when just using the iPhone, but casting to an AppleTV via Airplay just doesnt work reliably enough. About 50% of the time after a chapter finishes it will fail to advance and just spin the progress indicator forever. This does not occur when only viewing through the iPhone. If fixed this would be a 5 star app. One trick to get it to not stop after chapters is to use a chromecast, set your iPhone to NEVER auto lock, turn down the screen brightness to dave battery, then let it rip. It will not stop after chapters this way, although thats not an ideal way to have to use the app.

The iOS app is terrible. Others have said it already. At least the old app would work if you put your phone on airplane mode and play downloaded courses. I thought the new design would result in a working app, but its been a huge disappointment. I dont have a good answer to why I spent so much money on this service.

I cant even get a course to load

You would think being able to play video reliably would be the area Devs would put most effort considering that thats all you would be doing about 97% of the time you would be on this app. Its a shame how much great content they have and how hard it is to get to it.

As stated by others, the search features in this app are not very helpful. Returns of cut off titles to course chapters make the search feature pretty useless. Watched content is often not synced with the web account. This forces users to watch content multiple times if we need to be able to demonstrate the we completed a course. With the Dec 2015 update, I can access my account, but not content. The app just spins when I try to access courses! I purchase for my company. One of the reasons I chose Pluralsight was for the mobile support. The Pluralsight subscription and web site are decent value. But I really I will question whether I want to renew our company account. We need mobility. Most of our training is on our own time. No one wants to be tied to a computer on our off time.