Apple Podcasts User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience45.3% of reviews
Neutral10.0% of reviews
Negative experience44.7% of reviews

~ Based on 3,018 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Apple Podcasts Safe?

Apple Podcasts appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Apple Podcasts is 98/100.

This assessment is based on 2,074,003 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

97.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,074,003 App Store ratings for Apple Podcasts.

Is Apple Podcasts Legit?

Apple Podcasts appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Apple Podcasts is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

What

Where am I again….. oh right here

I used to have it and now I don’t because of age rating

Set it back to 9+

Meh but Makes me really mad

I like using this app but for some reason it deleted my whole list of episodes because I tried to listen to it offline. Then when I went back to re-add those episodes it wouldn’t even let me see those episodes. So I think I am going to start looking for a different podcast app if this doesn’t get fixed soon
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Downloads not working offline

Regularly not downloading shows correctly and fails to play them once offline

Playlist generated from random podcasts

I can delete this episode but when time I open the app, it reappears. Not a podcast I’ve ever listened to. Not a fan of the recent update

Apple Podcasts

okay so the app rating is good last time i mentioned this app i rated it one star just because of a stupid girl podcaster named sloth im so sorry podcasts okay,podcast,please forgive me

Moved to Spotify

Become progressively more buggy, shows randomly stopping and refusing to resume, or restarting even though the timer shows later in the show which then caches and loses my actual place. Says episodes aren’t available when in fact just won’t load. Have used this app for years but having to move on bc can’t go a day without hitting one of the above.
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I like podcasts

Now I can hear the dwts podcast

Annoying User Interface Choices

Why do you hide the controls and show a transcript? So stupid.

Circle round and story pirates

I don’t know

Mmmmm

Soo cool

Broken by new video feature

Do you listen to podcasts offline? Well, you can’t anymore. No more podcasts on the tube, no more podcasts on the train, and absolutely no podcasts if you have a low data phone plan. Apple has inexplicably nuked this app with a broken video feature and it has ruined my commute.

Does What it Needs To …

Really dislike how, despite deleting my downloads when I’m finished with them, the title card REMAINS in my downloaded tab. I have to delete the app every so often to clear that page, so I know what I’m actually wanting to listen to.

Issues

I listen to Apple podcast daily I love the app but the last two months the apps been having issues with stopping audio as the show it playing and cutting out constant. I’ve listened to many shows and it keeps happening. I don’t really know anywhere else I can talk about this issue I’ve looked. If it’s fixed the app is perfect!
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So poor

Consistently dissappoints, hard to do the most necessary of features, to just play the next episode…

Last major UI update severely degraded the experience

Collapsing the now playing bar into the main navigation was a major degradation of the overall experience please go back to having them stacked. Additionally I continue to find the omission of 20 and 25 minute intervals for the sleep timer mystifying. Just add them already.

Not user friendly

All I want is to be able to listen to a podcast episode and have it stay on that same podcast. If I finish Episode 3 of Podcast A, I want to listen to Episode 4 5 and 6 after. Why does this app sometimes switch me over to Episode 14 of Podcast B? And when I have to go find Podcast A god forbid I’m able to find it on the home page of the app without having to sort through podcasts I do not care about at all. Just take me back to what I was listening to without having to click into several pages and tabs!! It’s the same thing on my Macbook as well. I’ve never had to think this hard about podcast app UI/UX since switching over from Spotify. Please make this better!!
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Verse by Verse

In regards, to the topic of religion...
Christianity, is to be Christ, like.

I really enjoy listening to this particular station broadcasted from Apple Podcasts.

Not only for the fine men, who have done much research on biblical text...also, for the research and development in the material they provide for free.

If that does not speak volumes. As to, ethics and intellectual property. I'd suggest you look inward to evaluate your own moral compass.

Here then I would apply my grandmother's great practice of the mirror theory.

Thank you, Apple Podcast for providing a platform to listen to God's word through such a powerful ministry.

Thank you Verse by Verse for being pleasantly inspiring and engaging force for the Bible and how to imply biblical practices in our everyday lives.

How lucky we are to have such fine men at the forefront. Would you not agree?
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Block button

Needs a block button for individual podcasts.

Can watch podcasts on iPhone but not TV app

I don’t think so, honey, that I can watch Las Culturistas on my phone app but not my TV. Got Apple TV to boot.
For the first time ever, I try to watch - I know it doesn’t make any sense and I’m embarrassed to even say that I did - a podcast and I cannot without casting. Apple, you need to get it together. The UI is there (although ya need more apps to join as channels/function), why do I have to cast my iOS app to my Apple TV for visual?
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