# Agora 2 — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of Agora 2 by Javi Perez, rated 4.40/5 from 580 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/agora-2/id1211813334/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/agora-2/id1211813334.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 423 · 4★ 72 · 3★ 34 · 2★ 18 · 1★ 33 ## What do users think of Agora 2? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Better than Apple Podcast - 👍 Elegant and polished UI - 👍 Customizable themes - 👍 Intuitive controls and gestures - 👍 Compact and lightweight - 👍 Modern and vibrant design - 👍 Slick and beautiful app **Cons** - 🐛 Playback issues (skipping, pausing, resuming) - 🐛 Inconsistent behavior with importing/restoring purchases - 🐛 Confusing user interface and navigation - 🐛 Slow podcast loading times - 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently - 🔋 Battery drain concerns **Commonly reported bugs** - Incorrect podcast downloads - Broken dynamic theme functionality - Resume playback not working consistently - Podcast search and discovery issues **Most requested features** - Full-screen player mode - Adjustable skip forward/backward intervals - Per-podcast settings (auto-download, playlist order) - Support for chapters and show notes - Apple Watch and CarPlay integration - Podcast organization (smart playlists, categories) - iCloud sync for subscriptions and progress ## Newest reviews (17 of 105) ### 3/5 — Confusing user interface *2023-03-07, version 2.5.6* The app has an elegant but flawed user interface. Of particular concern is the bottom control bar. In none of the themes are the symbols able to be seen clearly. Maybe the dark theme is best in that it makes that bar gray, but then the top of the screen symbols disappear! What’s surprising is that it’s been like this for awhile. Hasn’t anyone complained about this before? Hasn’t the developer given the app design any further thought? ### 4/5 — iPad app? *2022-04-26, version 2.5.6* Love this app it’s amazing love the interface but I would love to see the app have a native iPad app I think it would look amazing please add a iPad app please and thank you ### 4/5 — Love it so far *2022-04-17, version 2.5.6* I was looking for a podcast app that was fairly basic but also looked good. This one is both of those. I love the swipe to play list then auto download feature.I’m hoping it doesn’t end up abandoned ### 3/5 — No chapter support, & show notes look weird *2021-12-19* This is a nicely designed app and I was going to give it a chance as my main podcast app. But the show notes format are all screwed up. For example, if it’s an outline, the hierarchy is flattened to a list. Also links are broken so that they are underlined, but tapping them doesn’t do anything. The biggest problem is no chapter support. I need to be able the skip to specific chapters and easily skip to the next one. A lot of podcast don’t even make use of show notes or chapters so, if none of yours do, give this player a shot because it’s pretty good. But for me I just can’t. ### 4/5 — Design is amazing, missing CarPlay *2021-08-13, version 2.5.6* I’d been looking for a Podcasts replacement and stumbled upon this, finding the design so pleasing and simple. My only complaint is that CarPlay functionality seems to be missing despite it showing up in the change log some time ago and I wish there was an app for Watch ### 5/5 — Good app. Beautiful. But some bugs. *2020-11-11, version 2.5.6* I've been very impressed with usability of the app and how great it looks. But I've also seen some errors with incorrect podcasts of the same name being imported during export to the app. The other issue is incorrect podcasts from another subscription added under the name of another podcast. 4 stars until fixed. ### 3/5 — Bug when trying to resume play on lock screen *2020-09-25, version 2.5.6* Sometimes when I pause it and try to resume play on lock screen. It doesn’t respond ### 4/5 — It’s a beautiful app and I persevere but difficult to use *2020-06-30, version 2.5.5* I love beautiful apps and this is one of them but it’s just too simple. The icon navigation is confusing - I often find it very hard to find things and figure my way around. It be absolutely amazing if some of those niggly bits were figured out. ### 4/5 — Good app. But question. *2020-04-27, version 2.5.5* I do really like this app. But one question I have for the developer is: what does “dynamic theme” mean? I thought maybe it meant that the theme of the app would change with the native iOS light/dark mode. However, when I switched my phone to dark mode, the app did nothing. So I’m confused what this setting does? ### 5/5 — Best way to enjoy podcasts *2020-04-19, version 2.5.5* This app is perfect for podcasts. I’ve tried a lot of options and this one is exactly right. ### 3/5 — Nice app but big problem *2020-04-16, version 2.5.5* App is downloading different episodes under different episode names. Auto download not working. Learning this app is massively confusing. No FAQ ### 5/5 — Amazing App! *2020-03-25, version 2.5.5* Thank you. ### 4/5 — Dynamic theme not working *2020-03-21, version 2.5.5* Beautiful UI, I have gifted developer the coffee for this. But one major flaw is that dynamic theme isn't working. My running environment is below, pls help fix it: iOS 13.3.1 iPhone11/8 ### 2/5 — Can’t do anything *2020-03-17, version 2.5.5* Not intuitive at all. Can’t do anything I want to do. ### 5/5 — برنامج روعه *2020-03-15, version 2.5.5* شُِكْـُـْـْـ🌺ـْـْـْرَاً للمطور روعه Amazing app ### 4/5 — Beautiful, missing something *2020-03-14, version 2.5.5* Beautiful app, extremely well crafted. Missing the option to create smart playlists, like if I want to play only my news podcasts together from oldest to newest. To do so I think I would need to manually create a custom playlist each time, but these podcasts update every day and sometimes multiple times a day. Maybe I’m missing something. Missing a now playing screen that overtakes the playlist. Search isn’t clear how to filter, images too small in list view. I’m critical because I love it, does that make sense? ### 4/5 — Beautiful! *2020-03-14, version 2.5.5* It’s beautiful and refreshing against all the other popular podcast apps. I wish the searching supported auto-complete though and while the minimal design is beautiful, I found some of the settings to not be as intuitive? Like whether I had actually turned the dynamic theme on or off... I feel like denoting this through red to green colours might make that clearer without compromising on the minimal design. Sometimes things also feel a bit slow with the fade transitions when navigating between the options in the menu bar, like going from settings to search ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t use this effectively *2020-10-26, version 2.5.6* Nice looking, but feels like a designer’s playground than an actually usable app. Spent more time tapping buttons with no labels to see what they did than actually using the app effectively. Just not worth using my muscle memory to learn this esoteric UX. You’ll be very confused using this. ### 1/5 — Bad experience for a paid app. Needs a refund *2020-09-12, version 2.5.5* The app is incredibly slow at loading podcasts from search results. Absolutely unacceptable for a paid app. ### 1/5 — An idea filter *2020-03-15, version 2.5.5* This app limits your search results so that you only see what they determine is acceptable, for sure you will get some nice content but you will also miss out on a huge amount of important information that it filters out, it’s like wearing rose colored glasses. ### 1/5 — Broken app *2019-10-31, version 2.5.4* After update you cant change color of app or change icon.. eveything is stuck on dark mode! Uninstalling this app. Developers no have clue what and how to fix bugs.. Update 10/30 devs have fixed app now i will rate this again 5 stars! ### 1/5 — Unresponsive developer *2019-09-20, version 2.5.2* I paid for the icon change feature but deleted the app afterwards. I eventually decided to come back to it and restore purchases, but it won’t let you because that button is nonfunctional and errors out. I’ve contacted the developer via the in-app support button as well as through Twitter to no response more than a week later. I don’t care if I only spent a buck. Small purchases here and there add up and it’s the principle here, not the amount. I’m not paying again for a feature that I already paid for. ### 1/5 — This app is cheeks *2019-06-17, version 2.5.2* This is bad, looks really nice but nah no thanks, can someone tell me how I can get a refund the app keeps crashing or pausing randomly and isn’t really useable for long periods of time, I really want to use the app because it does look so damn nice but in all honesty the Apple podcast app is more reliable and I’m just going to stick to that ### 1/5 — Refund *2019-05-28, version 2.5.1* I want a refund! ### 1/5 — This app makes no sense *2018-11-16* It’s pretty, but highly unintuitive. I honestly want my money back. How do you mess up this badly on a podcast app? 1) It looks like the only way to download an episode is to select the “Auto download” option in settings. Even then, it just downloads the first episode of the podcast and it doesn’t give us an option to download any other episodes in the podcast. What?? This makes no sense. Why can’t I just have an option to download any episode I want whenever? A majority of podcast listeners listen to downloaded episodes; they don’t stream them. This is an essential feature that is missing. Wow. 2) The badge count doesn’t work. No badge count shows up anywhere. What does it even count? Downloaded episodes? All episodes? Fix this badge count issue and allow us to choose how it counts the episodes. Also, there should be a badge count by the title of each podcast in the Subscriptions section denoting how many episodes are downloaded (downloading an episode isn’t even an option, so, lol). 3) In the individual podcast page, all we’re provided is a list of all the episodes in the podcast. That’s confusing, especially when some podcasts have 100+ episodes. Give us an option to select a default view, such as seeing only downloaded episodes, so we don’t have to scroll through hundreds of episodes to find which episodes we downloaded (again, we don’t even have the option to download episodes, haha). 4) There’s no actual dedicated now playing screen/page when listening to an episode; we just get a small player on the bottom. 5) There should be a dark grey theme. Pure black themes are headache-inducing. 6) Give us an option on how the podcasts are displayed in the Subscription page. 7) The app is just confusing. This is a beautiful app, but please consider these changes. This is a highly broken app. For now, I’ll continue using Castro. **Developer response:** 1) All episodes on Playlist are automatically downloaded if you activate that option on settings (a bottom right arrow indicates it’s available offline) 2) Badge icon shows only episodes on your Library to see what’s new 3) On podcast page you can easily see your activity. If you have listened an episode a done icon is showed, also a star for favorites or an arrow for downloaded episodes 4) Now playing screen is not necessary, you can fully interact with your playback with bottom player. 5) New themes will be added with an a new dark mode using middle tones 6) That is interesting. A grid view will be added 7) The app is based on gestures, when you understand that all is drag, drop, swipe and double tap (check the walkthrough on “how Agora works”), you’ll have a better experience Thanks for your feedback, I hope you give to Agora another opportunity. ### 1/5 — Playlists? *2017-11-01, version 1.1.1* I like playlists that put my 110 podcast subscriptions in categories. If there’s a way to make a playlist on this app, I haven’t figured it out. If you like playlists, then this app isn’t for you. It is pretty though. When the app gets updated to include multiple playlists I will update my review. Another feature request would be iCloud sync. ### 1/5 — Useless app *2017-10-30, version 1.1* The app crash on importing Apple podcasts app, ux/ui very confusing. I will try to get my money back as the Apple podcasts app is much better. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Better than apple podcast *2025-08-05, version 2.5.6* Better than apple podcast. This app is light weighted and power saving, "less oil", much much better than apple podcast now in iOS18 ### 5/5 — ❤️ *2025-07-26, version 2.5.6* ❤️⭐️❤️ ### 5/5 — Hidden Gem *2025-04-27, version 2.5.6* This is a great little podcasting app. With an extremely polished UI. ### 5/5 — The best design *2024-05-20, version 2.5.6* It’s an amazing app, one of the most beautiful apps I ever had congrats update: 2024 could you please update the app, it’s a great app just make a refresh ### 5/5 — Modern app that works on iOS 12 *2023-08-01, version 2.5.6* Thanks for making a slick app that still works on older hardware and iOS! ### 5/5 — Pretty good podcast player *2023-04-05* What do you get when you take the convenience of the queue from Castro,add in a compact interface that also allows you to easily plan what to listen to next,and strip away the bulky size? You get agora. It’s queue makes it perfect for things like road trips,and (in my case) gig deliveries,it’s interface is nice and simple,and at the low cost of free,plus the size of a whopping 6.1mb,it really wouldn’t hurt to try the thing out. Who knows,it might grow on you too :) ### 5/5 — Bom app *2023-03-12* Ótimo app podcast! ### 5/5 — Best podcast app ever! *2021-12-10, version 2.5.6* Perfect animation, minimal design with complete features. ### 5/5 — 部分中文显示剃头字 *2021-03-04, version 2.5.6* 如；我/喜/健康等，有很多字都是剃头字，请尽快修复这个Bug！ ### 5/5 — What a lovely app *2021-01-04, version 2.5.6* I can understand how some people might find the UI unintuitive, but as a tech person who can easily pickup on UI queues and enjoys fun design paradigms, this app is ridiculously delightful to use. Great work. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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