Popular public radio program This American Life will be coming to the iPad on Tuesday. The show has already released mobile apps to the Android and iPhone platforms. With a cost of $4.99, the iPad version of the app is costlier (the smartphone versions sell for $2.99) but promises to provide a richer feature set.
New features include:
- The ability to bookmark favorite shows
- Download three episodes at a time for offline listening
- Select individual stories within an episode with a button
- New episodes are added to the app automatically
- Access to the entire archive of show episodes
- Audio and video extras
- Link to live weekly stream