Apple Podcasts Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience44.2% of reviews
Neutral10.1% of reviews
Negative experience45.8% of reviews

~ Based on 3,178 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Apple Podcasts

Is Apple Podcasts Safe?

Apple Podcasts appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Apple Podcasts is 97/100.

This assessment is based on 2,075,054 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 2,075,045 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

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What?

There was nothing wrong with the app before. Now you’ve got it all screwed up. Put the play times back on the episodes and remove the stupid sort feature you just put on. Come on.

Very slow since updating iOS, drains battery

After updating tothe latest iOS app has gotten extremely slow. Takes ages to load the library, then ages to load the latest episodes, then more time still after selecting an episode to get more info what it’s about. Also drains the battery terribly. I’d say it used up the battery anywhere from 3-5 times faster than if I watch the same podcasts on YouTube. Or even worse. Just watched my batter decrease from 61% to 48% over 1:30 minutes while the recent podcasts refreshed - it took even longer than that long to refresh. Has to be intentional. Not like Apple hasn’t done it before.
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Ruined by update

Have used this app for years and it was great. Since the update to enable video podcast, it’s become a shambles and has led me to generally stop listening to shows that have the video function enabled. It really needs to be sorted.

Updates made worse

I love listening to podcasts but since the last major update the app does not work right. I’ve always had 10+ GB of podcasts downloaded on my phone. Now after downloading a bunch, most of them will get deleted overnight. It won’t even hold 2GB. This is normal Apple changing things for the worse.

Ads are too LOUD

Not too long ago, there was an update that made the ads quieter. But it is no longer like that! The ads are ridiculously loud. Listening to something to calm me, then having screaming in my ear irritates me and also hurts my ears and makes me the opposite of calm!! I can no longer use this app.

Terrible update!

The update and new displays in this app are terrible. No qualms about deleting and moving to Amazon or Spotify.

No longer able to open

After latest iOS update, the app will not load at all. I have restarted my phone multiple times and deleted and readded the app. Until there is a fix, the app is unusable for me.

Restarting

Every time I pause my podcast or I do something else and then I go to unpause it, it resets the entire episode instead of going back to where I was. This is incredibly annoying and makes me hate this app.

Problem

I can’t listen to asmr

Latest Update

I liked to see what episodes I have saved and listened to. Now that Apple has taken away that feature, I’ll look for a more user-friendly podcast app. Suggestions? It’s annoying that I can’t use Apple Podcasts anymore. I hope they’ll restore the search tools they disabled.

Need more video

Many podcasts I know have video on other services have no video on Apple. Please add more video!!! Also hate that when I have to pause or screen goes dark it disappears when I reopen the phone.

Unusable

Pointless app will not simply play one podcast after another awful how can this get so many good reviews can’t even do the most basic thing.

Six nations of the haudenosaunee

Love the haudenosaunee recordings

The Sarah Frazier show

Absolutely love watching or listening to the Sarah Frazier show…. It’s one of my go to guilty pleasures of minding someone else’s business

Questão de compartilhamento

Precisa ser melhorado a questão de compartilhado, para que seja postado em storys de aplicativos, como: Instagram.

Ainda está faltando essa integração melhorada.

Changes stink!!!

Whatever decisions were made about the Library and how podcasts play did not take any end user into account.
Every morning I was able to go through all my podcasts and start one, set one next, then layout the rest, as I wanted to listen to them, to the Queue. Now, it just plays whatever. I don’t even know where it is finding some episodes that suddenly play. What was once easy and set it and forget it now takes my time and attention. I’ll move my listening to a different podcast app that actually obeys the orders given by the user.
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Keeps pausing

Since the recent update my podcast continue to pause and freeze. What the hell have you done to this app?

Won’t let me finish my podcasts

Like a lot of people I listen to podcasts during the course of my day and have to stop periodically to give my attention to other matters. Whenever I stop a podcast that only has a couple of minutes left, Apple Podcasts treats the entire podcast as having been “played” and moves it out of my “Latest Episodes” queue. I’m not done! Why are you acting as if I am. This is the presumption of technology. This is supposed to be “helpful” but instead it makes what I am trying to do - listen to a podcast to its completion more difficult. Stop it. Leave podcasts that haven’t been finished as unplayed. It has so frustrated me that I am finding a different podcast app. This shouldn’t be difficult.
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Unskippable ads

It seems in the last update they tried to make it so users cannot skip ads. Whatever the goal, now the skip forward and skip backwards, buttons, glitch, and playback stops after each ad. Interacting to restart playback every 2 to 5 minutes completely destroys core podcast functionality as background entertainment.

I am happy to update this review if the glitch is fixed.
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