Gets worse with each update
In terms of how it’s set up, I really enjoy the idea of the queue, especially if you subscribe to a lot of podcasts. Browsing for new podcasts is somewhat difficult, I think Apple has a better setup there. The app tends to crash when launching at times, and goes through periods where most the podcasts have playback errors. I think overall, it remains the best podcast service I’ve used. However, it is very surprising that’s it’s not compatible with google nest hub and will instead display a blank black screen.
Edit: now podcast won’t download, and the app crashes when you try to a show page for a podcast
Edit: now podcast won’t download, and the app crashes when you try to a show page for a podcast
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Google Podcasts
Although still lacking in swipe features (mark as played/add to queue) and it is still a 3 step process to mark episodes as played, instead of being able to select all as played or at least be able to select multiple episodes at a time. It is still the only app that truly downloads episodes without needing internet to start playing. With some over hauling this app could and should be the best out there.
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Google Podcasts
Google Podcasts provide app users with everything they seek and more, all access, you can listen to Ted Talks on your device via phone or computer or tablet speaker mode, wired headphones, bluetooth car audio, sluryooth external device speaker mode, Google apps are very connected, very secure for login, and reliable, they offer free support and take feedback very seriously, Google Podcasts coming in hot🔥Impaulsive, Call Her Daddy, etc Podcast access via Google coming 🔜 (mailchimp, proton etc take a seat in the back). As for Microsoft might want to stick to tech podcasts for now (MS Azure, MS Defender, Cloud storage, and all the ROI Corporate career learning that tech folks need to hear).
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Barely Even Functional
It’s as if google is trying to make this app worse and worse so we will all thank them when they eventually discontinue this app and put us out of our misery of having to use it. The app crashes multiple times per podcast, many times it doesn’t keep track of where you left off, and there are many times an episode of a podcast just fails to load. I end up going to Apple Podcasts multiple times a week just to finish an episode. The only logical conclusion is that google is trying to discontinue this app and get out of podcasts. I would already leave this app behind if it wasn’t for the layout or more customizable playback speeds than other apps.
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Google Podcasts
Very good just not great, app can be a bit buggy with some show uploads showing up then going away sometimes until the next day. Still waiting for swipe features or better ease of use with a dedicated mark as (un)played. But the biggest seller is true episode downloads, with Apple Podcasts, which is my general go-to, the episodes are marked as downloaded but still require wifi to to initiate play. This app is very clean and simple, but still find myself switching back and forth time to time.
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Needs lots of bug fixes
New review: Reinstalling the app again has resolved the issues with the crashing. There are two main issues now that need to be resolved
1. Listening location of an episode within the app and syncing to other devices is erratic.
2. Most of my Completed episodes are not showing as completed in the app. They show up fine in the web interface.
Original review: I’ve been using 3rd party apps on the iPhone since before the App Store even existed. This is the worst app I’ve ever used. I mean you have ONE JOB! To simply play audio files. You’d think we’re trying to fly to the moon. The app constantly crashes and forgets locations. On occasion I have had to attempt to start a podcast up to 5 times. I want to use it because the layout is great and like having it tied to my Google account so I can listen through the web and keep things synced. Please fix the app!!!!
1. Listening location of an episode within the app and syncing to other devices is erratic.
2. Most of my Completed episodes are not showing as completed in the app. They show up fine in the web interface.
Original review: I’ve been using 3rd party apps on the iPhone since before the App Store even existed. This is the worst app I’ve ever used. I mean you have ONE JOB! To simply play audio files. You’d think we’re trying to fly to the moon. The app constantly crashes and forgets locations. On occasion I have had to attempt to start a podcast up to 5 times. I want to use it because the layout is great and like having it tied to my Google account so I can listen through the web and keep things synced. Please fix the app!!!!
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Keeps getting cleared from RAM
This is my favorite podcast app, but it doesn’t seem to keep itself in RAM very well. If you don’t keep the app open for several minutes after starting a podcast, iOS will clear it from memory and stop playback. If you lock your phone or switch to another app too soon, your podcast will suddenly stop in less than 30 seconds. The solution is to leave your screen on with the app open for a minute or two after pressing play.
Please patch this bug!
Please patch this bug!
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It’s a start
In terms of how it’s set up, I really enjoy the idea of the queue, especially if you subscribe to a lot of podcasts. Browsing for new podcasts is somewhat difficult, I think Apple has a better setup there. The app tends to crash when launching at times, and goes through periods where most the podcasts have playback errors. I think overall, it remains the best podcast service I’ve used. However, it is very surprising that’s it’s not compatible with google nest hub and will instead display a blank black screen
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iOS version has been very unreliable
I used Google podcasts on my s21 for years without any issues before switching to an iPhone. I've been using this app for a month now and it's very frustrating- randomly shuts off, buggy when pairing with Google home (stops tracking playtime intermittently, so if I try to disconnect from speakers to play on my phone it will not resume playing at the same point of the podcast), inconsistently displays on the home screen, and does not linger in the "dynamic island." Hope they address these issues in the next update.
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Great app design and function but frequent crashes
Everything about the search and find functionality of the app is great. It's very easy to find and create a queue of podcasts, as well as downloaded them.
Unfortunately, at least on iPhones, the app frequently crashes in the background. I haven't been able to figure out when or if there's a pattern to it. Generally I just have to keep reopening the app and trying again until it stably remains open.
Unfortunately, at least on iPhones, the app frequently crashes in the background. I haven't been able to figure out when or if there's a pattern to it. Generally I just have to keep reopening the app and trying again until it stably remains open.
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Unreliable
This has been my go-to app for podcasts since it debuted… I recently made the switch to iPhone after a lifetime of androids and this app has been the only consistently negative aspect of the transition. Some days I will get about an hour into a podcast with no problem, lately I have lost count of how many times PER HOUR I am having to pick up my phone to restart the app to continue listening to a podcast. I have uninstalled several times and tried a few tweaks to my phone but it is such a disappointing experience that really ruins my ability to give my Apple iPhone experience an exceptional review.
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Not overly complicated, pretty easy to navigate, good for history and playback controls
Good for history, downloads control, playback is usually perfect, speed controls have a lot of freedom, subscribing/unsubscribing doesn’t do anything weird (like automatically download new episodes or the entire catalogue without asking or resetting your listen history), sleep timer control is perfect, and jump back and forward buttons are extremely useful. There are no audio effects like volume leveling or skip silence, which I don’t miss. It could be nice if there was an effect that prevented music from sounding crunchy/glitchy/crackly during >1.0x speed playback. It needs time stamp bookmarks and chapter information/jumps. The Explore recommendations aren’t personalized (well) so it’s terrible for discovery.
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Great but some issues
This podcast app is awesome - great cross device sync, ability to skip gaps, episode level search
But the problem I’ve been facing is that the progress in the episode is not represented correctly by the iOS play progress bar on the Lock Screen or sometimes even the podcast app progress bar itself. As a result, I press pause and I jump back to an earlier part of the episode, losing my progress. It’s pretty annoying, please fix this!
But the problem I’ve been facing is that the progress in the episode is not represented correctly by the iOS play progress bar on the Lock Screen or sometimes even the podcast app progress bar itself. As a result, I press pause and I jump back to an earlier part of the episode, losing my progress. It’s pretty annoying, please fix this!
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👍🏼
Came back to google pods from Apple because Apple just took up entirely too much internal space for no apparent reason, while google uses nearly no space in comparison. I do wish the list of downloads had an option to view by show and have the Episodes organized by show, instead of just in your download list in order that you downloaded them. Not really a complaint, just an idea to improve experience.
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Better for listening
While I can’t have it as a widget on my iPhone when it comes to critical role I get an actual good version of the first campaign. Apple podcasts had one version but it repeated skipped of cut out. Didn’t have issues with my other podcasts but overall google after just a few days is a better listening experience.
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Persistent Bugs
I don't remember the app always being so buggy but in 2022 I've been having bad luck with it. The app crashes after a few seconds every other time I launch it and start to play something, having to then relaunch the app.
Many relaunches for specific shows lose the last played position, so I'm constantly fumbling with the audio scrubber, or eventually realizing the app has gone too far back in a track that I'm hearing parts of an episode over and over again, or I lose the last played position altogether, forced to restart episodes from the very beginning.
Also seeing with specific shows that if I download an episode and add it to my queue, it fails to load the download when it comes time to play. So I have nothing playing for whatever’s next in my queue if I’m in an area with poor reception. I have to undo the download for the episode in order for the on demand audio to then actually play. Please, dev team, help iOS users out.
Many relaunches for specific shows lose the last played position, so I'm constantly fumbling with the audio scrubber, or eventually realizing the app has gone too far back in a track that I'm hearing parts of an episode over and over again, or I lose the last played position altogether, forced to restart episodes from the very beginning.
Also seeing with specific shows that if I download an episode and add it to my queue, it fails to load the download when it comes time to play. So I have nothing playing for whatever’s next in my queue if I’m in an area with poor reception. I have to undo the download for the episode in order for the on demand audio to then actually play. Please, dev team, help iOS users out.
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Fine for casual use
I guess this app is fine. But once you have subscribed to more than 20 or so podcasts it becomes tedious to find a podcast that you have subscribed to. I think I have over 100 podcasts that I subscribe to at the moment and the only way to organize them is in one straight line. This is embarrassing for Google. Other podcast apps that you organize by tag or by category or by folder. My other main concern is that it is not possible to limit your search by language. I suppose Google thinks it has such an amazing search algorithm that all you need is one search box. ButThis is far too limiting and its algorithm is constrained by the experience of its own developers, Most of which I assume are monolingual. Or at least only searching in one language. Do they think I want to change the language of my phone in order to tell the search box in my Podcasts app what languages I’m looking for? This is ridiculous.
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Google Podcasts
Likely the best Podcasting app to date, app can be a little glitchy with some show uploads showing up then going away sometimes until the next day. Still waiting for swipe features or better ease of access with mark as (un)played. But the biggest seller is true episode downloads, with most other apps such as Apple they are marked as download but still require wifi to play. Typically my go to, but still switch back and forth time to time.
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5 ⭐️ until last week…. Repeatedly crashing
I have used and preferred Google Podcasts over all other outlets available going on 3 years now. However in the last week or so the app has been having playback errors constantly and crashing several times a day… sometimes within just an hours time.
I hope this issue is being looked at and that a resolution is found soon because I really dislike other podcast apps and strongly prefer not to use them.
I hope this issue is being looked at and that a resolution is found soon because I really dislike other podcast apps and strongly prefer not to use them.
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So much crashing
I actually love, love, love how this app’s interface and functionality. After Apple aggressively trashed its podcast app, I needed something that would let me subscribe to podcast without downloading every single episode. Google was my knight in shining armor. But then… the app started crashing. Initially, just once or twice in the morning, but now it can be six times or more just to start the day! It’s so very frustrating. And don’t even think about listening to a podcast while using another app! Even the weather app is too much. I don’t know why Google doesn’t just fix it. Surely they have the resources!
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