Herd User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews
Neutral10.0% of reviews
Negative experience40.0% of reviews

~ Based on 10 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Herd Safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Herd.

Is Herd Legit?

Herd: Ad-Free Podcast App has limited verification signals. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Herd is 55/100.

Based on 55 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Misleading and awkward

Free trial of a few episodes only. Instructions absent. Should have this clear statement in the App Store .

Flawless

Thrilled about this app. Works great.

Ads not skipping after upgrading

Ad skipping was working during the free trial but after upgrading to monthly it doesn't seem to work anymore.

Response from developer

We experienced an outage recently from a 3rd party provider which caused detection to fail in some countries, it has been fixed in the latest update and fallbacks have been put in place to ensure it doesn't happen again

Bug

App won’t let you delete your account. "Missing or insufficient permissions"…

Response from developer

Thank you for pointing this out. A bug fix is on the way and will be available in the next update. In the meantime if you would like to get it taken care of you can send an email to bryce@herd.au with your account I can ensure your account and all data is deleted.

So far, holy smokes, game changer

I’m a major hater of ads on tv and podcasts. Nothing worse then stopping what you’re doing to skip through 5 minutes of ads…best use of AI I can think of!

Has potential

UPDATE:looks like the app is in some flux, things have started working again so I’m going to restore the 4 stars until things settle down, then I’ll revisit the review.

Bottom line is when it works, it works well, and is definitely an app I can (tentatively) recommend. Hopefully as things mature it will get even better in the future.
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Response from developer

Very sorry to hear you had a poor experience, the transition from 1.0 to 2.0 has been much less smooth than anticipated. As an early supporter of the app I will give you a lifetime membership for free, your feedback is really valuable for improving the app. Send through an email to bryce@herd.au and we can organise the free subscription, plus any detailed feedback for any bugs you are still seeing since the latest update and I will prioritise fixing them asap.

Stinks

Takes longer to download then it would to listen to the ads plus it hasn’t skipped one ad in the several attempts I’ve made to listen. Don’t waste your money or your time.

Works Very Well!

I listen to a podcast that has almost 30% commercials. The other day that podcast started dropping 10 minute segments of their other podcasts into the commercial breaks.
I decided to try this app and it works beautifully. I have subscribed for the year.
To the developers, can I suggest adding an “End of Episode” option to the sleep timer?
Otherwise, this is a great app.
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Needs to be a better podcast player.

No way to just download or mark certain episodes from a podcast is a big turn off for me. Pocket casts allows you to archive all the episodes and then go in and download/unarchive whichever ones you want. This does not do anything similar to that. Just follow, wait for the AI to remove adverts and listen.
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Finally!!!

Gosh ads are so annoying and there’s so many of them. This is great cause now I can just listen to podcasts without interruptions 🥰