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I have thoroughly enjoyed Motivate. The videos are so impactful that I’ve started watching the daily videos first thing every day. However, two videos were posted today (“Sink or Swim” and “Loving over Loneliness”...not certain that second title is correct) that I can only describe as disappointing. Amidst a body of motivational videos, the language of the two mentioned above is shaming and closed-minded. It is not motivational, much less correct, to insist that the only “cure” for loneliness is God. There is nothing inspiring or helpful about telling someone in an abusive relationship, whether it’s their first or hundredth, that they asked for it. Motivate works when the videos avoid sweeping generalizations...any language, really, that could ostracize part of your audience.

I loved these quotes…read them each morning and often shared them with my teenage boys and husband. And then they stopped. I can see them daily on my Today View but if I click the quote to see it in the app, the screen is black. The icon bar appears at the bottom. I don’t really care about the music and video content, just the quotes. Click that icon and the quotes icon, screen stay black. If I click the star to see my favorites, it gives me three of them and says to subscribe to see the rest of them. I totally get paying for content in apps and think your price point is fine based on the amount of music/video content you offer but I’m not looking for all of that. I wanted the basics which according to the item description offers me hundreds of quotes. But my only access to them is a widget on my phone screen - can’t save them or mark them as a favorite to come back to. Again, cool with having a paid version but some transparency in what you get (or don’t) with the free version is warranted.

I’ve had this app downloaded for at least two years now, and absolutely loved it when I first started using it. Back then, all of the content was completely free. I ended up getting through my rough patch and stopped using it for a while. Fast forward to this morning, when I decided to start using it again, and I was outraged to see that nearly every video is now behind a paywall of $99/yr to watch. No announcement. And after reading many of the other reviews here, the developer responses have been very canned, always beating around the bush and never directly answering why the 5 videos a day are now all Motivate Pro. After two years, it’s time to clean it off my phone.