Fathom: Learn Philosophy

Love the UX and ease of this app.

First of all, this review is long overdue. I have been learning in Fathom for 213 days and I’m not sure where I would be right now without it. It’s been worth the very modest subscription fee many times over. Over the past few years, my worldview started to feel like it was crumbling around me, and this app has given me much needed exposure to new ideas and wisdom when things stopped making sense. I wanted a bird’s eye view on the entire field of philosophy and this was exactly what I was looking for. Short, accessible lessons with mini quizzes to help retain information, and a screenshottable infographic summary at the end I can add to my daily journal app along with my thoughts on the lesson (I use Day One, highly recommend). I was traveling recently and missed a day, and when it didn’t automatically use my Streak Freeze I reached out for support to see if I needed to do anything. Kind, quick response, even though they are a very small team. They let me know that it was a glitch on their end and would try to repair it. A couple days later I had my streak back and two new streak freezes to use. The streak is just a number, and I would have still written this review even if it couldn’t be fixed. The fact is that these people have created something that has had a deep and lasting impact on me and I am forever grateful.