Turns out it’s a scam
Previous review: Social podcast app? No thank you. I don’t want to talk about my podcasts or share them with my friends. I don’t care what anyone else is listening to and I don’t care about discovering or searching for new podcasts. I have several custom RSS feeds for ad free podcasts that I pay for via Patreon. I want to import them to an app via URL, listen to them, AND SAVE THE BEST EPISODES TO A PLAYLIST TO SAVE FOREVER SO I CAN RELISTEN TO THEM EASILY. I have tried a dozen podcast apps and searched high and low on Google. I finally found this app through a Medium article and I want to cry. It actually works. Import via RSS works. Listening works. Adding my favorite episodes to the favorites playlist works, and I can customize the settings to keep the episodes from being deleted on listen. Finally. I have not been able to find a single other app on the internet that does this and it’s literally the only feature I wanted. And I didn’t even have to fork over cash to try the app. Well done. I will be subscribing to get more playlists now that I know this app does what I need.
This app keeps getting worse and worse 😞
It doesn’t bother me that there are so many bugs, or that it doesn’t work consistently. What bothers me is that I see regular releases of new features when the core functionality of the app is incredibly unstable.
Things as simple as playing back podcast from the last session don’t work. The UI for pop-ups literally obscured the buttons that you’re trying to use just to tell you that the app is switching to “nighttime mode.” This would be like your car stopping in the middle of the highway in order to tell you that it is turning on the air conditioning. 🤦🏾♂️
I have really tried. I have been a paid member, I have been a premium member, I have sent feedback, and the app just doesn’t get better. It’s like there’s no prioritization for the core functions of the application.
No one needs all the bells and whistles. I just want to listen to podcast. I thought that maybe after the company was acquired, that things would get better, but really, they have just gotten worse…faster.
Anyways, hopefully this review will save someone else four years of anger and frustration. Find another app.
Garbage
1. Downloaded podcasts still need app to go online before playing (?)
2. Very slow updating even when on Wi-Fi
3. Past shared links of podcasts on twitter now just go to an advert for sister app Player FM - my entire twitter history been destroyed
4. The opml file exported to move to another podcasts app is not standard and doesn’t work(!)
Response from developer
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Mr_Proud. What you experience is surely not how our app should behave. For us to investigate your issues, can you please send a report with logs in Settings | Help | [Contact us]? We look forward to receiving it soon. Cheers.