The Great Courses

8.1.5

The Teaching Company

4.22

4,522 reviews

100,000+
Downloads

Free

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About The Great Courses

The Great Courses was an education app developed by The Teaching Company. It was removed from Google Play May 31, 2025 and is no longer available for download.

Download Statistics

The Great Courses had been downloaded 470 thousand times before it became unavailable.

User Ratings

The Great Courses was rated 4.22 out of 5 stars, based on 4.5 thousand ratings.

App Information

The Great Courses was free to download. The APK download size was 38.41 MB. The last available version was 8.1.5. The last update was on December 17, 2024.

Technical Requirements

The Great Courses required Android 8.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play July 2013.

Description

The Great Courses App enables you to play courses you have purchased from us.

More data about The Great Courses

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	470 thousand
Rating	4.22 based on 4.5 thousand ratings
Version	8.1.5
APK size	38.4 MB
Number of libraries	45
Designed for Android	8.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

The Great Courses has been downloaded 470 thousand times.

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Comments on The Great Courses for Android

★★★★★ I have enjoyed using the app in going through my lessons. However, I have noticed at times my lessons being shown as completed when, in fact, the lessons had not been. This has made it difficult to properly track completed lessons and continue to the next one. I have had to update each to show that it was not completed. Sometimes, it will take me back to lessons I have already completed.

★★★★★ Much better than previous versions. Fantastic that the new Fire TV and app versions now allow access to my digital library without subscribing to "The Great Courses Plus". Glad you dumped the name Wondrous. That was a confusing detour and could only have hurt the Great Course brand. I understand that DVDs are probably heading towards obsolescence, but I prefer something tangible, especially with printed Guidebooks. Don't want to print PDFs and don't like reading online documentation.

★★★★★ Outstanding education. We can continue learning at the pace we choose from a vast library of excellent courses.

★★☆☆☆ This app is utter trash. Constant bugs preventing files from playing, trying to stream courses already downloaded, and failing to open unless in airplane mode. The lectures are great - just download them as mp3s, and listen on any other media player. I've been a customer for over 15 years, and the quality slide has been atrocious. I've seen better apps made by high school students. Save your frustration, and use ANY other platform. Don't touch this company's products, even if you get them free.

★★☆☆☆ I like the great courses, but the app won't recognize the fact that I have a storage card. I have tried everything. That limits my ability to download courses that I own.

★★☆☆☆ The app is terrible. Simply horribly made. It's incredibly buggy. I love the Great courses content, but this app is rage-inducing.

★★☆☆☆ It would be nice if the app had the option of stopping automatically after a lecture instead of starting the next one

Technologies used by The Great Courses

The Great Courses is requesting 14 permissions and is using 45 libraries.

Permissions

Development tools

test access to protected storage

Network communication

view network connections, full network access, receive data from Internet

Storage

modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

System tools

run at startup, prevent phone from sleeping

Extra

android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK, android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID, com.teachco.TGCviewer.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

Facebook

Development tools

Android Jetpack core

Android Architecture Components

Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable Android Jetpack Annotations Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Annotations Android Jetpack Widgets Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Widgets Firebase Android Library Icon

Firebase

Android Jetpack AppCompat AndroidX Activity Android Library Icon

AndroidX Activity Android Activity Saved State Android Library Icon

Android Activity Saved State AndroidX Loader Android Library Icon

AndroidX Loader Android Jetpack Media Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Media Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) Android Library Icon

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)

Android Transition Support Library Kotlin Android Library Icon

Kotlin

Android Support Library collections

Android Support VectorDrawable

AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core utils AndroidX Cursor Adapter Android Library Icon

AndroidX Cursor Adapter

AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager Google gson Android Library Icon

Google gson

Android Support Library Print

Android Support Library Document File Android WorkManager Android Library Icon

Android WorkManager

AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core UI

Android Support Library Async Layout Inflater Okio Android Library Icon

Okio

JetBrains Annotations IntelliJ IDEA Android Library Icon

IntelliJ IDEA Glide Android Library Icon

Glide

AndroidX Multi-Dex Library AndroidX ExifInterface Android Library Icon

AndroidX ExifInterface Google Guava Android Library Icon

Google Guava BoltsFramework Android Library Icon

BoltsFramework Dagger Android Library Icon

Dagger

greenrobot EventBus

Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) Android Library Icon

Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) CircleImageView Android Library Icon

CircleImageView jsoup: Java HTML Parser Android Library Icon

jsoup: Java HTML Parser Moshi Android Library Icon

Moshi

NineOldAndroids Amazon AWS SDK for Android Android Library Icon

Amazon AWS SDK for Android Fast Android Networking Android Library Icon

Fast Android Networking SwipeRevealLayout Android Library Icon

SwipeRevealLayout DBFlow Android Library Icon

DBFlow

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