Thoughtful: Long-form Learning3.5.7 - App Store

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

Version History • Videos now support picture-in-picture, including while the app is backgrounded or your phone is locked. Just tap the new picture-in-picture button in the player.
• iOS 27 polish
• Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.5.7 Oct 2 • Optimized for iOS 27
• UI polish
• Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.5.6 Sep 14 • Optimized for iOS 27
• UI polish
• Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.5.5 Sep 12 • Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.5.4 Aug 13 • UI polish
• Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.5.3 Aug 10 • Made it easier to set up sharing from any app into Thoughtful for new users.
• Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.5.2 Jul 22 • Introducing Thoughtful Breakdown—deep analysis of long-form content to help you know whether content is worth your time, understand it faster, and navigate to the parts you're most interested in.
• Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.5.1 Jul 16 Introducing Thoughtful Breakdown: deep analysis of long-form content that:
• Makes it easy to figure out whether a video, podcast, or article is worth your time.
• Creates fully self-contained outlines of the actual content, with each level remaining self-contained while adding more detail.
• Allows you to quickly navigate to what you're most interested in—a single tap can take you to the relevant part of the video/podcast. 3.5 Jul 11 • Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.4.6 Jun 16 • Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.4.5 Jun 13 • Improvements to Deep Search ("Search by goal") content relevance and quality
• Fixed a bug where content titles and descriptions could be the wrong color in some circumstances
• Fixed an issue where the names of your Focuses could be cut off in the Focus picker
• A handful of smaller bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.4.4 Jun 9 • Improved player usability and polish, especially on iPhone.
• Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.4.3 Jun 3 • More immersive landscape / full screen mode on iPhone
• Improved performance of progress restoration.
• Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.4.2 May 25 • Improved Deep Search ("Search by Goal") experience, experience that allows you to playfully and powerfully explore new interests and dive deeper into existing interests.
• Automatic unmuting when you begin using AirPods or connect to your car
• Bug fixes and UI improvements throughout—thanks for reporting! 3.4.1 May 21 • Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.4 Apr 30 Bug fixes—thanks for reporting! 3.3.1 Apr 24 Thoughtful 3 is now out of beta! 3.3 Apr 10 • This update includes a completely redesigned Focuses experience that is both simpler and far more powerful. When creating a Focus, you can now search for content (both previously saved and from across the whole Internet) that is highly relevant to your goals.
• You can now add or remove content from a Focus at any time. Just tap and hold on a Focus in the dock to "Add Content…" or "Edit Focus"
• Hundreds of bug fixes. Thank you for your bug reports! 3.2 Jan 26 Bug fixes and performance improvements 3.0.1 11/05/2025 • Introducing Focuses, a new way to automatically organize and focus on what matters most to you, whether it’s hobby you’re really into, an interest you’re just learning, a vibe you’re exploring, or a project you’re deep in. With Focuses, Thoughtful doesn't just help you spend more time on "better content," but specifically helps you focus on what you really care about right now, whether it's parenting, mountain biking, design, or building your business.

• A new single, scrolling and auto-playing feed that automatically mixes together your saved content and new content from sources you follow—with a bias toward helping you pick up where you left off. It's as easy to use as Reels or TikTok, but 100% focused on helping you make progress on what's important to you.

• A new native video player that's faster, higher-quality, and free from all of the distractions you'd find on YouTube's website.

• A new History view, which shows all the content you've ever seen on Thoughtful so it's easy to find later on, no matter where you found it.

• Dozens of new features, and hundreds of bug fixes. 3.0 09/25/2025 • Bug fixes and performance improvements 2.9.9 04/29/2025 • Bug fixes and performance improvements. 2.9.8 04/07/2025 • New users can now import podcasts from Spotify during onboarding.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements. 2.9.7 03/06/2025 • Bug fixes and performance improvements. 2.9.6 02/11/2025 • Bug fixes and performance improvements 2.9.5 02/05/2025