Ayn Rand Institute

The Ayn Rand Institute

About this app

Experience the world's best Objectivist content in one place with the official app of the Ayn Rand Institute.

- Learn Objectivism from the world's leading experts and Ayn Rand herself through fifty years of courses, lectures, videos and articles.
- Get answers to your questions through Aria, the Ayn Rand Institute's AI research assistant with exclusive access to thousands of pages from Ayn Rand's published works.
- Take online courses designed by ARI's faculty.
- Access exclusive content reserved for ARI's supporters.

Designed for Learning On the Go
Download content to watch or listen offline. Save your progress. Create and access playlists that group together the best content.

Ask Aria
Have a question about what Ayn Rand thought or said? Aria, ARI's AI research assistant, will tell you —and exactly where it found it. It’s the fastest way to find what Ayn Rand actually thought: no summaries detached from sources, no hallucinations, just precise, fully cited answers.

The Biggest and Best Objectivist Content Library
ARI is dedicated to sharing and preserving Ayn Rand's intellectual legacy. ARI's Archives house the world's largest collection of Ayn Rand's resources, many of which are available exclusively through the app, with new material added all the time.

Access All of ARI's resources
Find all of the Ayn Rand Institute's content including videos, podcasts, courses and more, featuring commentary on current events, culture and ideas from experts dedicated to preserving and extending Ayn Rand's intellectual legacy.

Ratings and reviews

The core of the app, the lessons work fine. But so many parts of it are broken, it's obvious it didn't go through the most basic quality assurance. e.g., the notification titles don't work. when searching course, as soon as you click on the search bar, it disappears! Fortunately it still works, but it's completely invisible. The app is promising but needs some basic attention.

The content of the app is fantastic. All the lectures from ARI in one place, and this app is very easy to use. The videos take forever to load even on WiFi, and the videos will randomly pause for minutes at a time or stop loading all together. I think this will be 5 star worthy in the future, but this first release is buggy.

Must have app and content! I'd like to report an annoying bug. After playing and stopping a lecture, everytime a phone call, or any other media event will happen (such as playing audio notes, videos or music) the Ayn Rand University app will automatically continue playing the last played lecture. I would understand that happened while in the process of listening to a lacture, but the app continues playing the last lecture even if I wasn't using the app. It continues regardless of usage state.

What’s new

Brand new, relaunched app edition.