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Needs Work
I love Wondery but won’t be continuing my free trial membership because the app is far too tedious. I’m not paying for ad-free content that I can’t easily listen to. The app is SLOW and glitchy. Crashes all the time esp when I let my screen dim, does not remember my last listening position when rebooted, and does not seamlessly sync across my devices. I can barely get through an episode without an issue, including when I download them. Make this app simpler with less bells and whistles (automatic video previews are extremely unnecessary imo) so that it can be functional for it’s most basic purposes. If you can’t get the basics right then it doesn’t matter how pretty it looks. I’ll probably just listen on a different podcast platform.Show lesssamwise412
Really want to love it
As many others have said, the content is excellent, but the app itself needs a lot of work. Episodes often take a very long time to load once you press play, once it starts playing often the buttons to pause, ff, and rewind don’t work or have a horrible lag. I have to restart the app entirely to try to get from the currently playing episode screen back to the library if I’m not into a particular episode because the down arrow doesn’t work at all. Listening to only a few episodes with no other apps open or in the background the other day somehow drained my entire phone battery. Also nearly impossible to get it to work with my apple carplay. I’m sure that improvements will come but not sure I want to pay to subscribe until the app is useable.Show lessCmcgary
Like others, love content but SO BUGGY
If I try to rewind 15 sec it freezes, or keep playing and then 3 min later rewind 15 sec. Every time I open the app, the player displays the very first podcast series I listened to on Wondery (like 6 shows ago!) and it takes a few minutes for it to refresh. Pretty much anything I do, rewind, try to read episode details, go back to home screen, there is a delay OR more times than not it just freezes and I have to restart app and then go through a series of frustrating deejays to get back to up where I was (which I usually can't). For awhile there it. would freeze 2 min before the end of each episode and because the fast forward doesn't work, I'd end up having to listen to about 10 min I'd already heard. The content is totally up my alley... But I want to smash Wondery thru my phone at least three times an episode. I'm on a free trial now but don't think I can justify paying a monthly fee for this... Total bummer!!Show lessLaura in the Berkshires
Developer Response
Thanks for your feedback! We're sorry for the trouble. If the issue persists, please contact us at support@wondery.com and we'd be happy to help you out with troubleshooting!Like many, awesome content - terrible app!
I really enjoy the content of Wondery. I think they’re podcasts are some of the greatest produced!
However, like many others, the app itself is so unreliable. Usually, I have to login every time I want to listen to a podcast. I find that a bit annoying especially if I’m driving to or from work. Now, I’m having an issue where it won’t allow me to login at all. I’ve deleted and redownloaded the app, but it’s still not working. There are other irritating glitches. I wouldn’t pay for the app as is, but if the bugs get fixed I’d definitely pay for the content.Show lessidonotwanttobeapirate
It’s a MESS
First, this is not a review of the content, as they have great content. But the actual app is terrible. It doesn’t work like a normal audio app. Sometimes when an episode ends, the next one starts... often times it does not, and I have no idea why. Sometimes when I open the app, thumbnails do no appear, and there’s no text names, so there’s just big empty spots. If I pause a show while wearing headphones, hitting play does nothing, and I have to go back to the app and manually hit play. And lastly, the app crashes often and many times seems to refresh, so if an episode ends, and nothing plays and I go back to the app, it goes through the opening animation, as if I just opened the app. Not good, to the point where I probably will cancel before the trial ends.Show lessRay The Video Guy
Finally!
Wasn’t even expecting the whole app from Wondery, but this is really a very good app! I would love to listen to all of my podcasts here!
I love the design and search and home page but app can use some fresh ideas and fixes.
Lot of shows missing from the feed besides Wondery +
Where is THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING??? O_o
1) App doesn’t show all of my Wondery + feeds. Shows some but not all, tried to log out and log back in, delete app and reinstall it back in and log in, doesn’t help :(
2) Would be really awesome if I could add my other private RSS FEED podcasts.
3) I really like the player but come one, no air play? No chrome cast? :(
4) library could use sub categories that user could create himself. For example:
My library:
Documentary: Accused, Hope in Darkness
True Crime: Generation Why
History: Tides of History
Self Help: Good Life Project
Etc.Show lessBloomboom47
