Thoughtful: Long-form Learning
Thoughtful, Incorporated Education iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Thoughtful: Long-form Learning is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Thoughtful, Incorporated. Rated 4.6/5 from 36 ratings. Requires iOS 26.0.
- Rating
- 4.6
- 36 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 157 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 24
- 2026 · v3.5.8
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About Thoughtful: Long-form Learning
You spend 14 hours a week scrolling through feeds. How much of it would you do again? Thoughtful is your personal corner of the internet. One place for videos, podcasts, and reads for all your hobbies & interests—organized into collections you curate yourself. No algorithm. No ads. WHAT THOUGHTFUL DOES Build Focuses—personal collections around the things you care about most. Technology. Fitness. Cooking. Parenting. Whatever matters to you right now. Save content from anywhere—YouTube, Reddit, podcasts, Substack, Kindle, Audible—and it goes straight into the Focus where it belongs. Find the Best Content—search across YouTube, Reddit, podcasts, the entire internet, all at once. Just type what you want to learn about and Thoughtful pulls results from every platform. Spend less time bouncing between apps and more time on what's actually good. Jump Back In—every time you open Thoughtful, you pick up where you left off. No ads. No distractions. No recommendations you didn't ask for. Just the content you already picked, ready when you are. HOW IT WORKS • Organize everything into Focuses—collections built around your interests • Just type what you want to learn—search across YouTube, Reddit, podcasts, etc. • Save content from any app or website using the share extension • Follow your favorite YouTube channels, podcasts, and blogs in one place • Pick up where you left off on long videos, podcasts, articles, and books • Discover content through people you trust, not an algorithm WHY THOUGHTFUL EXISTS Social media feeds are designed to keep you scrolling. Thoughtful is designed to make you feel glad you opened it. Every minute you’re here is a minute you chose to build the life you want to live. No ads. No tracking. No engagement-based algorithm. Just a subscription that keeps your interests aligned with ours: your time well spent. Built by an engineer who helped build the first Facebook iPhone app almost 14 years ago—who eventually left Facebook to build what he wished existed. That’s Thoughtful. Terms of Use: https://thoughtful.community/terms Privacy Policy: https://thoughtful.community/privacypolicy
Ratings & reviews
4.6
36 ratings
What’s new
Version 3.5.8 · Updated October 24, 2026
• First pass at optimizing for iPhone Duo—more to come! • More iOS 27 UI improvements • Improvements to share extension metadata retrieval like titles and images • Bug fixes—thanks for shaking to report!
App privacy
The developer, Thoughtful, Incorporated, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Product Personalization, App Functionality
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