BEST OF THE LEFT APP App Reviews

Really love the work Jay is doing, been a fan of the Podcast for a while. Glad to see an app so I dont have to sinc to get the latest info. Only beef is that in the movie file format I cant skip through segments I had time to see in original airing, as I can on the podcast, really like that option, pease fix. Otherwise keep doing what youre doing Jay, America needs it!

I was hoping there might have been a LITE version to try it before I bought it. No offense; it really is a terrific app, but Id have liked to test it to see if it was worth the two dollars (it was, but you can never be too sure sometimes). Five stars for the app; four for the lack of a LITE.

It is so nice to have someone comb through all the media out there and find the really top stories and humor.

If youre a fan of the podcast, this is more than worth the $2. I like the added video content that is a bonus with this app.

I love this app. I go to the gym and plug this in while I work out. I listen while I drive from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. I am in love with this movement and people opening their eyes. Keep up the good work!

I love the podcast. I wont begrudge the $2 donation. However, the app has serious disadvantages: cant use other apps while listening, loading in real time is slow, and if some glitch tosses you out of the app, it doesnt remember where you were after it reloads the episode.

My favorite app.

I love the show and dont much mind coughing up the 2 bucks to try the app. No multi-task support and it takes too long to boot up. The whole experience leaves you wanting more. Simply navigating through iTunes on the phone to the podcast and downloading or streaming it there is a much more pleasant experience.

Wish the app was actually as easy to navigate as the enhanced podcast. ALl it really does is connect youto a streaming mp3 of the show. But then of course you get access to bonus content, and youre sorta helping the show.... so overall a 5! Lol

I cant say enough good about it!

UPDATED: I should have corrected my review much sooner. App works as advertised. AT&Ts coverage does not help the streaming of video and audio. Subscribe to the FREE pod cast. Given AT&Ts spotty coverage area. The App is only as good as your Wi Fi stream. I recommend subscribing to the podcast. That way you can multi task. I love the Pod Cast. The app doesnt offer any more features than a web search could. If you stream an archived show and it crashes due to lack of coverage, you have to restart the app and lose your spot/ start the show over from the begining. I blame the spotty ATT coverage.

I have found best of the left to be by far the best source of political news around! Keep up the great work!

This app and BOTL live up to their name; this truly is the Best of the Left. Fantastic, not just for the exhaustive content but also for the joy of hearing and seeing just how many REAL Liberal and Progressive voices and media sources are out there. I cant give this app too much praise. You should not only BUY THIS APP NOW but also give the show and Jay as much money as you can afford, especially in light of the amount of effort that must go into producing this podcast every three days and running the website. I thought Democracy Now! was the best lefty app in the store and Ive never been so happy to be wrong. Should win a Peabody. Id say Pulitzer except those media elitists wont touch web material.

This is easily the best podcast Ive subscribed to. Ive become a regular listener and encourage everyone to check it out!

Love this app. Its a great show and this app allows for bonus features and downloading the art

I must have missed that section of the US Constitution where Thomas Jefferson promised upper-class tax cuts and no religious buildings for brown people. The Tea Party is rewriting history to suit their needs. After two years of these hyper-patriot anti-everything nuts came to be, most of America still doesnt understand what these people are. The Tea Party is nothing new. It is merely the latest incarnation of the right-wing fringe that predictably overheats whenever a left-of-center reformer is elected to the presidency. It was the John Birch Society and the National Indignation Convention in the early 1960s, the Moral Majority and other “New Right” groups in the late 1970s, and Rush Limbaugh’s “dittoheads” and the militia movement in the 1990s. Only, this group has been molded and shaped by the mouth of corporate media. A media for the people has never Been so important as it is today! Thats were Best of the Left comes in. Taking clips from the most influential progressive voices and compiling a clear picture of todays top issues. Jay does a fantastic job of combining dialog with great relevant music, which is necessary considering the current condition of the average American attention span. Jay airs all the phone-in comments (as long as its not extremely offensive or entirely irrelevant). The app has many great features, such as the ability to download or play past episodes as well as bonus features for iPhone/iPad users. We must support people like Jay to get the truth out there and purchasing this app is one of many ways to help finance the cause. Remember, the Corporate sponsors are part of our problem. Thank you Jay for giving me a little optimism in these dreary times.

Keeps me up to date on current events an the shenanigans of the crazies...

Please support the voice of reason by donating as little as $1.99! Sure you can listen to the podcast for free, but It needs your support. Consider getting this app just for that reason.

Would love to see and hear this, but its not working?!

The show is amazing, but since everything BOTL puts out *except* the bonus content is more easily available elsewhere, the main selling point of this app *is* the bonus content. Though the BOTL app is better at presenting the bonus videos and audio clips than when I first purchased it a couple years ago, it still is terrible to catch up with missed bonus content. There is no way to tell what you have or havent watched, and the app has no consistent way of remembering your last opened page, either. Perhaps an automatic or user-editable playlist for the bonus videos is in order? iOS 5 lets users see the full title of any playlist item they long-press, so you could be just as descriptive as the current app is about the videos content. Im not as interested in the PDF show notes or the "wallpaper" bonus content, since those are mostly be of use on either a desktop or an iPad, but theyre mostly fine as they are. However, a preview of the wallpaper would be really nice, since I cant know what it looks like from the bonus content page alone (it just saves directly to the camera roll).