Patch+

We love Majesty Music and Patch the Pirate. My youngest son was excited to learn of the patch app. We have bought almost all of the adventures except the last few, so this seemed like a great way to have them all in one place and to hear the new ones. The app is easy to use and easy to navigate. The search seems to work really well; however, I really would like to see some improvements. 1) To be able to download the music and stories. I prefer to download stuff so I don’t have to use cell data. Also, the app seems to have almost no buffer in the streaming so if we don’t have a strong signal the music or story pauses. We also were at a place were the cell coverage was low and couldn’t get it to start until after we drove a couple of minutes. 2) It would be nice if it saved your place. My son often listens to things on the way to and from school. Since the app does not keep our place we have to search for where we were at. 3) The App doesn’t give a clue as to how to sign up. I also felt the information on the website was very vague. 4). There seems to not be an easy way to reach out to the app support. The link doesn’t connect. When these things are improved, I’ll be happy to change my rating to 5-stars.

Such a blessing to have the complete Majesty Music catalog including every Patch the Pirate recording all in one location. I can listen to Sissy Seagull any time now! You can even find Sissy Seagull’s instrumental piano recordings under her alias name but she’s always Sissy Seagull to me. The app works with all of the native Apple iOS features that you would want including Bluetooth for playing in your car. Your account allows for three device connections per physical location. This is great so that Mom and Dad can have access. The developers did a great job with the initial release of this app. Glad to support this ministry.

I grew up on Patch the Pirate so loved the idea of a dedicated app for it. I know Patch and Majesty Music produce good, wholesome, Christian material. And I like that the app includes not only all the Patch adventures but also music albums by Majesty Music etc. The idea is great and I hope they keep developing it. The material itself would be well worth $7 a month. This app needs some adjustments before it is useable for me though. The first and most obvious is that the app itself doesn’t offer any information on how to subscribe to the app, yet you can’t access anything without a subscription. I had to go to my internet browser and Google it to find the website, then subscribe through the website, then go back to the app to sign in. They could at the least included a link to their website instead of making me Google it. The second is that the app only offers streaming of their content - I could not find any way to download any content. As my internet is usually too slow to do much streaming, this makes the app virtually unusable for me. They need to offer a “download” or “listen offline” button to their content. The third thing is fairly minor, but is kind of annoying anyway. The design of the app was clearly made for a phone screen, not an iPad screen. Only portrait mode, no landscape, and just overall designed for a smaller screen. They should make a version designed for larger iPad screens and offer landscape mode. If these problems were resolved I would re-subscribe and would give it five stars, as the content itself is good.