Better Free Options
It’s a great concept but it always feels like it’s repeating itself over and over and over again. There are infinitely better options out there now, especially NotebookLM
No Free Trial
I tried to do the free trial and it charged me up front. My card declined the charge but it's lame that you advertise a free trial and then automatically bill your users without actually giving the free trial to check out the app. Disappointed.
Scam app
I’m an indie author sometime I like using apps like this to hear about my story’s from another angel and everytime I tried to listen to the podcast it cut it off 2 minutes in even after I paid for the subscription I tried reaching out no one got back to me honestly part of me wants to sue for my money back
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lies about free trial
robbed me of my money, will change my review once i get my money back from my free trial that literally did not clock in.
Stay away.
Any reviews above one star must be fake. This app DOES NOT WORK. Don’t download. There are better options that do the exact same thing. Wouldn’t be surprise if they’re doing a cash grabbing scheme.
What the..
What are these celebrity hosts? Why would you focus on them instead of having more likeable AI hosts that actually sound like a podcast? Andrew Tate and Epstein… why would you ever think that is a good idea? The app is so slow to generate as well and mispronounces half of the words I try to get it to talk about. Terrible
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Waste of money
If you upload anything semi long it just takes like 10 minutes to generate and says they were unable to create a transcript
Got scammed
I did the free trial and it charged me regardless
Bad
This app generates 40-50 minute podcasts when you only want 5 minutes, and it repeats the same stuff like 10 times. Plus, the sound quality of some voices is terrible.
Free Trial My Butt
It only played 10 seconds then said free trial up. Who the hell gets know if an app is worth paying with only 10 seconds of use???
Scam
I signed up for the free trial and it charged me anyways.
Promising but flawed
The idea of this app is great, and I like how the deep research podcast setup works. My main issue is just that the app is quite unstable. Sometimes podcasts I’m trying to generate just won’t generate, sometimes it’ll say they’re 30 seconds long or something and I won’t be able to use the playback bar since it gets to thirty seconds and keeps going for the duration of the podcast (in which case pausing the podcast also restarts it), and the fact I can’t delete podcasts I’ve generated and have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the my podcasts playlist each time is annoying. The price for the subscription does beat the other more refined versions currently on the market but the app frustrates me enough that even with that I don’t think I’ll get another subscription to the app unless it’s made substantially more stable and user friendly.
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totaler mist
ich habe mir das jahres abo für ca. 30€ gekauft aber die erstellten podcasts verschwinden einfach. ich kann die app nicht über meine apple id geräteübergreifend verwenden. ich musste die app einmal löschen und nach erneutem installieren wurde mein abo nicht anerkannt. 30€ wurden somit einfach in den sand gesetzt. abo direkt gekündigt und app gelöscht. ich komme damit überhaupt nicht weiter.
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Erstellen von Podcast geht nicht
Premium abgeschlossen und die meiste Zeit geht das erstellen von Podcasts nicht. Scam würde ich sagen. Nutze jetzt eine andere App die funktioniert. Sonst ist die App gut aufgebaut, aber eine hübsche App bringt mir nichts wenn das Keyfeature nicht geht. Bitte beheben!
No support. Paid for a subscription. Podcasts locked.
I paid for a year subscription and my app/account doesn’t work. No support, no help, no “redeem subscription”. It lets me listen to about a minute before locking the rest of the podcast. Useless
Short
Can only get 30 second of podcast for free
Have to keep repaying?
I paid for a yearly subscription that should have ended in February of next year. I went to login and it logged me out and is now trying to charge me for another year and keeps looping in my payment screen because I refuse to pay for something I already paid for. I reached out to app support and sent a email to the contact listed and still have not received a response. Loved the app when I could actually get on it but now that everytime I close it, it requires me to resubscribe is beyond frustrating…
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Ability to delete a podcast
I don’t see an option on how to delete a podcast? Other than that it’s great.
Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback! You can delete podcasts by swiping left on them in your library. We're working on making this more intuitive in future updates. Appreciate you using Castify!
Paid for Premium & now app won’t work!
I paid for premium beginning in June of this year, the first few weeks everything was fine. They use AI to create your podcast so if you’re using it for studying the information might get jumbled a bit but overall things were great. Fast forward a few months & they’ve updated their app and it keeps asking me to subscribe to a premium subscription EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY PAID FOR A FULL YEAR UP FRONT. The app is completely unusable, & there’s no way to get in contact with customer service. I wouldn’t recommend it at all in this current version. Absolutely terrible.
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Response from developer
We are so sorry about this experience - we had a major update that mistakenly asked some existing subscribers to pay again. Please email nate@castifyapp.com and we'll give you immediate free access for the trouble. This should absolutely not have happened and I apologize for the frustration.
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It should have a free trial even for a few documents and should list which languages it works for. How do you except me to pay without knowing if the app is good?
