Himalaya: Stories and Courses

Himalaya - Audio Course

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About this app

📚 Himalaya, a brainchild of Ximalaya 喜马拉雅, is an inspirational content app, featuring short audio courses and motivational stories. Get the insights that can improve your life, and work on your personal development.

Listen to inspirational stories 📕 and work on your self-improvement with Himalaya. Get access to a whole library of inspirational short audio courses.

Enjoy new motivational stories every week, and use your free time to learn from amazing biographical insights.

Get motivated every day with a new Himalaya Story, then get ahead by learning from the credentialed experts behind our extensive library of audio courses. Expand your knowledge and work on your self-improvement. Listen to a wide variety of inspirational stories and educational courses.

Himalaya Stories feature the biggest turning points from the lives of the most extraordinary people. Each story delivers an exciting journey with music and cinematic soundscapes, all in 10 minutes or less.

Himalaya Courses cover a huge array of different topics, giving you the insights and new skills you need to succeed in your career and your personal life.

Let our stories motivate you to get the knowledge you need to become the best version of yourself.

Our stories are designed to deliver the most useful and important insights to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. And our courses are divided into bite-sized, actionable lessons from experts like Mark Manson, Arianna Huffington, and Tim Ferriss.

Himalaya gives you the opportunity for a true self-improvement journey. Our stories will inspire and motivate you, while our courses will give you the skills and knowledge you need to set and achieve your most ambitious goals. Audio makes it easy to listen, and become part of a like-minded community making progress every day.

Discover the best courses for self-improvement. Get insights every day to improve the quality of your life.

Learn from the world’s greatest minds, and boost your practical knowledge to conquer personal and professional milestones. Get insights from famous people and their stories.

Himalaya makes it easy to find what you need: explore our entire library of stories and courses anywhere, anytime. If you’re hungry for knowledge and self-improvement, we’re here for you.

📖 Inspiring Stories – hear about the biggest turning points in the lives of the most extraordinary people.

🎒 High-Impact Audio Courses - Let credentialed experts help you achieve your personal and professional goals

💡Ultimate flexibility – listen anywhere, anytime with a robust, intuitive app.

⌨️ Bite-sized content – Your time is valuable. Get inspiration and insights in ten minutes or less.

🧳 Learn your way – With over 30 topics spanning the personal, the practical, and the professional, you’ll have the tools you need.

⏰ Accessible – Listen to free stories and insights every day and unlock exclusive content at a no-brainer cost.

🌱 Immersive – With supplemental material and community helming a flexible learning experience, learning doesn’t stop when the audio does.

Take these stories and courses wherever you go with our robust and intuitive platform.

Enjoy the Himalaya community and unlock an exclusive network of like-minded, intellectually curious people just like you. Start your self-improvement journey now.

Himalaya is an immersive learning platform that provides an extensive library of courses and motivational stories straight to your ears from the world's greatest minds. Fuel your personal and professional growth (self-improvement) with bite-sized and impactful lessons.

Ratings and reviews

I've tried just about all of the free podcast players on Google and this one ranks right at the top. Beautiful UI, seamless playback, and a seemingly unending catalog of podcasts. The only thing I could ask for is the ability to import rss feeds by URL, a sound equalizer, and for it to have more social integration. (Update: I keep having issues with podcasts not updating. I've had to email them twice and both times it was fixed. But its frustrating and I won't be using this from now on.)

I found out about this app from a commercial break during Harmontown, and I'm really liking it so far. Though, it would be nice if I could change the auto play from top-to-bottom to bottom-to-top. I know I can change the order of newest to oldest, but that requires moving to the right page. Yeah, I know that sounds lazy, but it would make things easier. It would also be nice to access the sleep timer from the Notification UI. Anyway, overall a great podcast app!

Sleep timer is too rigid (10, 20, 30 then it jumps to 60; would it have been so hard to add 45?). There's no auto delete function and I like the player in other software better than this (too convoluted to edit playlists). Other than those gripes it is a pretty solid podcast app with minimal ads.