The Open Culture iPhone App

in Apple, iPhone | July 15th, 2009 25 Comments

A quick heads up. We’ve now start­ed rolling out our new iPhone app. It will let you lis­ten to audio­books, uni­ver­si­ty cours­es, for­eign lan­guage lessons, and oth­er intel­li­gent con­tent on the iPhone. The app is free. And so is the con­tent. So there’s noth­ing to lose by check­ing it out.

We’ve designed it so that all media files open in native iPhone soft­ware — iTunes, Safari, the YouTube play­er, etc. You will need wi-fi (Apple says so) to down­load the con­tent. This app, which was very gen­er­ous­ly devel­oped by Fred Hsu, is a work in progress. Don’t hes­i­tate to give us feed­back. And, if you don’t mind, please leave a nice review/rating in the App Store and spread the word. Get it here.


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  • joe says:
    July 19, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    great app! had not heard of your site before, but saw a rec­om­men­da­tion for the app on a blog and installed it, love it, you are doing great work!

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  • Stan Scott says:
    July 25, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Thanks for this! I love your site, and the iPhone app makes it even more acces­si­ble. Kudos to you and your devel­op­ers!

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  • michelle says:
    July 27, 2009 at 2:35 am

    can you also do the same for the Ovi app store which is the nokia ver­sion of itunes thanks :o)

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  • Reese Nottingham says:
    September 9, 2009 at 10:04 am

    I love this appli­ca­tion. Been using it a lot for the Biol­o­gy — Human Anato­my Cours­es avail­able. Thank you so much for devel­op­ing this app. Absolute­ly Bril­liant!!!

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  • name says:
    October 22, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    is the open cul­ture app released as open source? where is the web­site for the code project?

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  • TravisN says:
    November 5, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Huge thanks for this great appli­ca­tion. I have found it only now, but it does­n’t mat­ter because it will be real­ly use­ful for me. Now I will be able to lis­ten var­i­ous audio books and cours­es every­where. I spend the biggest part of my life out­side so it will real­ly help me. Thanks one more time and I will be wait­ing for oth­er great announce­ments from you.

    Sin­cere­ly,

    Chris Tuck­er from iphone devel­op­ment

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  • TravisN says:
    November 5, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    Huge thanks for this great appli­ca­tion. I have found it only now, but it does­n’t mat­ter because it will be real­ly use­ful for me. Now I will be able to lis­ten var­i­ous audio books and cours­es every­where. I spend the biggest part of my life out­side so it will real­ly help me. Thanks one more time and I will be wait­ing for oth­er great announce­ments from you.

    Sin­cere­ly,

    Chris Tuck­er from iphone devel­op­ment

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  • Brian says:
    March 15, 2010 at 2:48 am

    There are sev­er­al iPhone Apps avail­able online accord­ing to peo­ple taste and used. I will sure­ly check it also. Thanks

    There are sev­er­al iPhone Apps avail­able online accord­ing to peo­ple taste and used. I will sure­ly check it also. Thanks

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  • James Smith says:
    March 17, 2010 at 2:18 am

    iPhone Apps are real­ly get­ting pop­u­lar amongst peo­ple and devel­op­ers are now also focus­ing to devel­oped qual­i­ty iPhone Apps. These col­lec­tion is real­ly good. Thanks for shar­ing

    Williams from iPhone Appli­ca­tion Devel­op­er

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  • iphone developers says:
    April 28, 2010 at 8:36 am

    I‘ve just found your won­der­ful por­tal and liked it very much. A lot of use­ful infor­ma­tion for me here. And that‘s real­ly cool that you‘ve devel­oped an iphone app. I‘ll be glad to fol­low your news both here and via iPhone.

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  • P M says:
    August 24, 2010 at 1:38 pm

    Is there going to be a black­ber­ry app as well?

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  • jazz says:
    October 7, 2010 at 5:08 am

    I am big fan of iphone appli­ca­tions where every time they are com­ing with some new development.I am using iTunes where i can lis­ten songs at best sound quality.I always checked the apple web­site for many iphone applications.Their one new fea­ture where Google mobile app update to sup­port
    Google this fea­ture avail­able in Android.
    Regards.
    busi­ness phone sys­tem

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  • Allie says:
    February 17, 2011 at 3:27 am

    I know this is a very old post, but I want­ed to thank you for pro­vid­ing the free Open Cul­ture iPhone App. I am learn­ing french and this appli­ca­tion would be very very use­ful for me. Thanks & Regards, Allie @ iPhone Devel­op­ment

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  • iphone development says:
    March 15, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    We under­stand well that the suc­cess of your app depends on how well they are mar­ket­ed. Pro­mot­ing your app is not a daunt­ing task if com­plet­ed with prop­er pro­mo­tion strat­e­gy.

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  • walmart scholarship says:
    April 1, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    Iphone is great. :)

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  • Roman Balick says:
    June 1, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    that is a great improve­ment in our life.

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  • Lucy says:
    June 30, 2011 at 8:44 am

    Ah, anoth­er blog post for the cool kids with iPhones. Does any­one ever write about apps for the many users of Palm, Black­ber­ry, and Droid smart phones? It would cer­tain­ly be nice to see that for a change.remove drm

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  • arysroy says:
    July 13, 2011 at 3:30 am

    It was a very nice idea! Just wan­na say thank you for the selec­tive infor­ma­tion you have dis­trib­uted. Just con­tin­ue pub­lish­ing this kind of post. I will be your hard­core read­er. how to con­vert mp4 to dvd.

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  • john33 says:
    August 10, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    My open cul­ture app will not open even when I am in a hot spot. Any thoughts?

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  • Peter Sakis says:
    June 23, 2012 at 10:26 am

    Hel­lo to every­one , it seems that when I go to the app store to locate the app open cul­ture it does­n’t seem to give me any­thing !!

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  • unlockiphone says:
    December 13, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    This is inter­est­ing. And I am so amazed with the improve­ment! I won­der what the oth­er brands will do after this.

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  • madz_arroyo says:
    December 19, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    I love your site, and i would real­ly love to get this app on my iphone, how­ev­er the App Store is giv­ing me the-“It’s not avail­able in the Philip­pine Store”-crap. :(

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  • Peter says:
    October 23, 2014 at 10:54 pm

    Man, how did I not know about this site until now? This is by far the place to be on the web. Amaz­ing work!

    When is the app com­ing back to Apple?

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  • iPhone App Development says:
    January 19, 2015 at 10:04 pm

    Cre­at­ing the first app can be a chal­leng­ing and an equal­ly excit­ing expe­ri­ence. I real­ly love to use your app.

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  • Digifutura says:
    September 26, 2019 at 5:37 am

    Great thanks for shar­ing the arti­cle about iPhone app,www.digifutura.com is also a best app devel­op­ment com­pa­ny

    Reply

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