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Motivation: daily Peptalk
Dark Knight Inc. · 43,038 ratings · ★ 4.9
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Top complaints - extracted from 43 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"subscription"
13 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Annoying with Ads. The app is extremely annoying with ads (uninstalled in less than 30 minutes) and I don’t think the subscription is worth the price. Just hop on good ole YouTube ✌️" - NUBER ONE ISSUE
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"free"
10 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Just want your money. App is made good don’t get me wrong they’ll make it seem like it’s free an genuine. Then after you pick the people you’re going to listen to, they slap 20.00 dollar fee for listening to the same stuff that you can listen to on instagram or …" - nene12384938
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"youtube"
8 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ad ad ad and more ad. Even when I play an audio for ten seconds it stops, says buy ‘Elite’ for 15% off!!! Just go to YouTube. I saw an ad of this app on Facebook. What I saw was not my experience or the vibe. Should have known better. It was a Facebook ad afte…" - Toxicdaywa1kerkenny
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"money"
8 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worthless. All the stuff is the same, they advertised it as a daily motivation, but nothing changes daily. They charge the yearly subscription during the third day not after. Wast of the money." - HallockHServices
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"content"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Motivation is not free apparently. It’s a good concept but almost all content is behind a pay wall subscription. Unfortunately I lack the motivation to pay for another subscription. David Coggins is “Taking Souls”, and these boys are “Taking Payments”…..Stay Hard!" - Outtaenemies
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"motivational"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "it's not worth it. you can find same or better motivational videos on youtube for free. $9/month is overpriced for this" - tomoranonymous
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"sign"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App doesn’t work. Can’t even sign up lol" - Kengede
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"every"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paywall. It’s got a good concept but everything worth having the app is locked behind a paywall, along with fake discounts too. Has potential just run adds for revenue created a great app just for it to be a paywall app owned by greed." - yacdogyuh
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"doesn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App doesn’t work. Can’t even sign up lol" - Kengede
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"work"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App doesn’t work. Can’t even sign up lol" - Kengede
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"paywall"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paywall. It’s got a good concept but everything worth having the app is locked behind a paywall, along with fake discounts too. Has potential just run adds for revenue created a great app just for it to be a paywall app owned by greed." - yacdogyuh
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"everything"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paywall. It’s got a good concept but everything worth having the app is locked behind a paywall, along with fake discounts too. Has potential just run adds for revenue created a great app just for it to be a paywall app owned by greed." - yacdogyuh
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Ad ad ad and more ad
Even when I play an audio for ten seconds it stops, says buy ‘Elite’ for 15% off!!! Just go to YouTube. I saw an ad of this app on Facebook. What I saw was not my experience or the vibe. Should have known better. It was a Facebook ad after all. Thumbs downs. Also, it says I continue watching/listening, but it wouldn’t let me. I press continue and it straight up is set to ignore me. They really want ten bucks. I would give it if they let me use it for at least a few hours. So pathetic for an app basically about growth. Like David Goggins said, just you and your mind. Face it head on bro.
App doesn’t work
Can’t even sign up lol
Paywall
It’s got a good concept but everything worth having the app is locked behind a paywall, along with fake discounts too. Has potential just run adds for revenue created a great app just for it to be a paywall app owned by greed.
Worthless
All the stuff is the same, they advertised it as a daily motivation, but nothing changes daily. They charge the yearly subscription during the third day not after. Wast of the money.
Steal your email to ask for money
Useless! They take your email and information just to make you sign up for a monthly subscription. Avoid!
Just want your money
App is made good don’t get me wrong they’ll make it seem like it’s free an genuine. Then after you pick the people you’re going to listen to, they slap 20.00 dollar fee for listening to the same stuff that you can listen to on instagram or YouTube or Facebook my tip for anyone reading this don’t waist your time unless your going to pay 20.00+ a month the 20 was the lowest option
All content is locked behind a paywall
There’s literally a five second clip to see if you want to subscribe, don’t bother. Devs should be getting charged for the time they’re wasting of users.
Navigation
App sucks, turns off randomly and is hard to navigate, it just pisses you off on a Monday morning when you’re just tryna listen to David Goggins and this dumb thing presents you with ads and won’t play while my phone is off
Ads
Just use Spotify or YouTube with low fund cc
Garbage
They let you watch 1 video for free then you gotta pay… everything on there is also on every motivational page you can find… waste of time and money
Fake reviews
Not free!!!Get all the way to end for the paywall. Just type in YouTube “motivational speech” don’t give these jokesters your money. want an alarm motivation, set a note timer with YouTube link
Everything is behind a paywall
If you like apps where every single video you try to watch about 7-10 seconds in gets stopped and tells you to sign up for premium to continue then this is the app for you!
Was really excited, what a shame.
If almost everything is behind a paywall don’t put the app as free and waste peoples time
Was really excited, what a shame.
If almost everything is behind a paywall don’t put the app as free and waste peoples time
Its just reels
This is just a collection of small social media reels organized by topic
App isn't working after annual subscription paid
I'm trying to use the app and when I click on videos, I keep getting prompted to pay the annual fee which I already paid. How do I get a refund or get this app to actually work?
Greed is a sin
Don’t waist your 7.99 cause it gets you absolutely nothing! Every time you click on something they want you to upgrade. Pure garbage!
No free content.
It’s basically all exclusive content that they want you to pay for. Absolutely terrible.
Poorly curated
Generic, untrustworthy celebrity speakers that I would not want to listen to, let alone pay to hear them talk. I find it impossible to believe the reviews for this app are real.
Don’t let them charge you!
I was charged but received no subscription service. They said I wasn’t charged but soon as I showed them the bank statement they went silent with no response and no service.
Paid for year, got a month
I have been trying to get assistance with this matter and no one will respond. 30 days ago I bought a one year membership. They offer a renewal that will start at the end of the membership I currently have which they say ending September 2026. Cannot get anyone to respond to my emails, messengers, chats or reviews. Great programming but no follow through on problems. Maybe they need to listen to their own programming.
WARNING
I’ve been using this app every morning since I PAID for elite last month. 5 weeks in Ive randomly lost access to my PAID elite subscription. My subscription is for a whole year and now it’s telling me there is no subscription under my Apple ID. I’ve never gone to complain to Apple for a refund but it’s happening today. Oh and there’s no Apple Watch support so go 🤬 yourself if you wanted to go running or workout and listen to this app without your phone cuz it ain’t happening. I’ve reported this app to Apple. It’s a shame because I was really loving this and recommending it but now it will be known as the biggest rip off because every moment I don’t have access to what I paid for my time & money are being stolen. And if this app replies to this hopefully they know we get an email but the email doesn’t open the review it just opens the review section and finding your reply is like finding a needle in a hay stack. Same on all 3 devices… iPhone 15 pro max, iPhone 16 pro max and an iPad Pro M4. I ain’t got time for this nonsense.
Disappointed
Great motivational videos loved using it in the gym but now it’s saying I don’t have a subscription and all my stuff is locked would like to get what I paid for
Scam
I subscribed twice and it didn’t unlock anything and kept asking to subscribe again . There is no costumer service I have sent multiple messages and no response .
The app is fine, however?
The app is good. However, you can find the same content on YouTube. Biggest problem I have with the app as a customer I have the app I changed iPhones and now I can’t find my account and doesn’t offer me a customer outlet to try to solve the problem so now I’m stuck paying with that I canceled effective January That’s all for now
Won’t work
I was super excited to try this app because i play at such a high level of hockey but now it won’t let me sign in so stupid i get past email then do password and i won’t let me click continue also i got in and you have to pay for literally everything this app is horrible do not get!! ps i never write reviews this was that bad
Misleading - Sign up & pay
They make you select all your interests and go through the setup process, only to make you pick a plan to pay afterwards. Probably get people to sign up because they already devoted the time to fill everything out. Be upfront about it.
Be Careful
I accidentally end up with a year subscription when I intended to a shorter option. I reached out to support away, but there is not contact number it a few days to receive a response. Unfortunately, by the time I did, I was informed that they could neither cancel the yearly plan nor adjust it to a weekly subscription. This was a disappointing experience. I hope the company improves subscription options and support, this would make the app more user friendly.
First time using the app
It sent me a notification- I clicked on it; it went like this: “You know, being a woman is just so exceptionally unbelievable…” I closed the app because that sentence almost means completely nothing. Thanks for your motivational influencer marketing campaign with 0 effort.
Horrible
Can even try it out before it starts asking for money you get maybe a 5 second talk and that’s about it
Friend or Foe????
I bought the subscription because there seemed to be no other way to find out what exactly was included in the actual subscription. The plan descriptions seem very vague to me. So I thought, why not give it a try with the cheapest, what could go wrong… Well, a lot apparently lol. First issue was even after I paid for the subscription the app was still functioning as though I hadn’t and because access was so similar to the unpaid, I wasn’t too happy. Next was after my phone updated I could not log in again. After that I ended up having to get a replacement phone and when I redownloaded the app I STILL couldn’t log in. It kept saying account not found when I tried to reset my password.However, I still have the last 5 months of receipts of payments. I was so disappointed and frustrated that this was the outcome considering that it’s a good enough concept that people would actually pay for something they could get for free on like YouTube or something. I hope they fix issues like this, especially if it will be so hard to contact them for assistance. I really wanted to like this app….
total Libs
woke up this morning to hear the most negative Liberal Jimmy Fallon. that was not what I thought this app was all about.
Not "free" paywall every video
Says this is free it's not free 20 seconds into every video you get a paywall asking to pay for a subscription, there's no way to watch the content without paying . I'm not sure how they own any of this content either. So they paywall content that they don't have copyright for.
Wasted potential
The app has good content, obviously. However, it’s not very navigable, and should you ever need any assistance, you might as well beat your head against a brick wall because Dark Knight Inc. won’t lift a finger to help a customer. The utter mediocrity of employees like Clement renders their app much less useful than it should be.
Not letting me sign up
I downloaded the app and went through all the prompts and then it says there’s only one thing left to do which is sign up. It gives you the option to sign up with your Apple account or your email. However, when you click on it, it routes you to a sign in prompt, and when you choose the account you want to use it says no account was found. This is technically true because I’m in the process of signing up, but the app doesn’t differentiate between signing up and signing in. Not a very good start for potential consumer.
Good app, I could not figure out a way to shut off the annoying background music
Wanted to love this app, had some great speakers. But the background ‘motivational music’ becomes annoying after a while, and you just want to hear the message and not the annoying music. Would it be really cool to have a filter or checkbox setting that shut the background music off so you can just hear the motivational messages. I deleted the app and the subscription because of the music.
Fake advertising
Said 30% of so it was $39.99 and was charged $59.99 🙂↕️
Awful
The app has a great idea behind it and the motivational content is genuinely helpful. But the functionality just doesn’t hold up. It crashes often, is hard to navigate, and some features don’t work as expected. I wish it were more polished, because the concept really has potential. Disappointed I couldn’t get a refund even though I had it and will not be using it anymore
Bad
It won’t let me open it it closes after a second. I got a new phone recently, and I thought that it might've just been something wrong with my old phone and I tried downloading it on this phone and it still didn't work after a few seconds of loading into it before I can even actually do anything it just kicks me out
Annoying with Ads
The app is extremely annoying with ads (uninstalled in less than 30 minutes) and I don’t think the subscription is worth the price. Just hop on good ole YouTube ✌️
Motivation is not free apparently
It’s a good concept but almost all content is behind a pay wall subscription. Unfortunately I lack the motivation to pay for another subscription. David Coggins is “Taking Souls”, and these boys are “Taking Payments”…..Stay Hard!
Not different than other AI apps
Honestly, the answers aren’t different than other AI apps. Save your money and use the free apps.m
it's not worth it
you can find same or better motivational videos on youtube for free. $9/month is overpriced for this
Not made for women
Played with it for a few hours. Did not like it one bit. I am not a fan of angry man yelling motivation at me. Very few female options, hard to search for female voices.
Audio keeps pausing
Every audio I select, it pauses after a few minutes. I pay for the annual elite subscription, so I’m not sure why this keeps happening. Annoying, to say the least.
Sentiment summary
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