UWorld Legal | Bar Prep

I’m a July ‘26 bar taker. The app doesn’t work 70% of the time. You open the app, it prompts you to log in, and when you try, it either (1) spins forever and ever without ever loading the app, or (2) tells you you have invalid credentials even though you’re logging in on your laptop with the same credentials. Upon a little research on Google and Reddit and Twitter, this has been an ongoing and pervasive issue for 90% of Themis users for years, and they still never fix the bug. Occasionally, you can restart your iPad or iPhone and switch WiFi networks and get into the app on the fifth login attempt. But this is unacceptable for a $2000 bar prep course. It’s advertised as being available on mobile, but the mobile “availability” is in effect none. And I find the fact that Themis is aware of the issue and has been for some time to be incredibly dishonest in their advertising to students at law school presentations. If I would have known I was going to be tethered to my laptop at a desk all summer instead of able to listen to lectures at the gym or doing housework, I would’ve bought Barbri. And if you try to talk to Themis about it, they just give you the runaround and pass the buck to UWorld (“oops we can’t do anything sorry”).

The items on the app are very beneficial when they work. As others have said the videos will randomly stop playing sound and you’ll have to stop and hit play again. I tried seeking support with the app but they said redownload the app which the issue persisted so they said it was my WiFi, so I disconnected and it happened on cellular data. Then they said it’s my phone volume and I should use earphones to hear the video but I usually have earphones in. It happens with or without earphones and on WiFi or on cellular data. Very frustrating.

I keep running into issues where the app will unexpectedly freeze or refuse to load, and it won’t function unless I force quit and restart. It often will lose progress on whatever practice session or video I’m on when it does this. Second, it’s impossible to mark a single section of an outline review as completed in the app. The app marks ALL review tasks related to the outline as completed if you try. To accurately mark a single outline review as completed for daily tasks, you have to log into the website and do it from there. Outlines/worksheets are not formatted for a mobile app. Instead, UWorld just slaps the print version into a PDF viewer. Text is very tiny and difficult to read in consequence. Unless I completely missed it, there’s no way to digitally fill in the blanks or take notes on a worksheet — kind of a pain for the MPRE review, specifically, as you have to print out your own copies to write on. At least they mail you the outlines/worksheets for bar review. It’s kind of embarrassing that Themis charged over $3,000 for the bar review course I’m taking and the app has this many issues. I didn’t even get my discount for purchasing early, so spend those dollars on the programmers or something.