iCatcher! Podcast Player User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience89.0% of reviews
Neutral5.0% of reviews
Negative experience6.1% of reviews

~ Based on 444 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is iCatcher! Podcast Player Safe?

iCatcher! Podcast Player appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for iCatcher! Podcast Player is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 1,871 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,871 App Store ratings for iCatcher! Podcast Player.

Is iCatcher! Podcast Player Legit?

iCatcher! Podcast Player appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for iCatcher! Podcast Player is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Still great…

Thank you for the response from the developer. I have now resolved issues. Great app. Used it for years and still the best.

Still great, but...

Probably the only app that keeps me on ios currently. One feature that is massively missing from the recent updates is the ability to move the episodes within a play list. Previous version, I could edit the play order by selecting edit. I could then move it and a number of episodes at once to a different place in the play list. It no longer appear in these updates
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Best Podcast App

This podcast app is my favorite. Joe the developer did an amazing job. I noticed that there an a really. Life major update recently which was great.
I have been happily using this app for many many years on my iPhone and iPad. I love the swipe gestures and the user interface is nice. Swipe left or right to skip ahead or back. Swipe up and to the right to mark as played or draw an L to do the Leo skipping 2 minutes.
Double tap to pause or play. I also love the user interface. I have tried many other podcast apps but prefer this one.
This app can play video and audio podcasts.
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New UI, but disappointing performance

Update: Moore and Moore playback issues. Episodes pause. The streaming of episodes fails unexpectedly. This is becoming unusable.

The new UI is pretty nice, but I have a lot of issues with playback is unreliable since the refresh. For example, it sometimes takes several taps to get a streaming episode to play. Sometimes it jumps forward to the next episode unexpectedly. Sometimes when I tell Siri to go back several minutes it goes back to the previous episode in the queue.
These are not rare problems. I encounter them basically every other day. I’ve emailed the developer and haven’t heard anything; I’m sure he’s busy…
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My favorite podcast app (again)

A mature app, and it keeps getting better. Well-designed, and you can tell that it's had real-world testing. Great usability and attention to detail. With so many features and options, you can configure the app exactly the way you want it. I especially like the Auto Start Sleep Timer, a feature I have not seen in other podcast apps. The developer is responsive and releases timely updates.
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Years of podcasting

I started listening to podcasts when Adam Curry (the Pod Father) produced the Daily Source Code podcast.

I’ve tried different podcast players over the years and haven’t found any other players that work as well as iCatcher. The user features make it both easy to use, and has power-user features.

A great product. 👍👍
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Working well

So much better than Apple's Pmodcast app. It sometimes freezes on the download screen.

Great app, love it

2026 update: added features have made this even better and it’s still the best.

I love this app! It has more settings and features than anything else I’ve ever used. It has everything I need and allows for authenticated podcast which far too few apps do and this is the best of the ones that do

Mise à jour catastrophique

J’adore cette application mais la dernière mise à jour n’est pas au point. Beaucoup de bugs, des fonctionnalités pas intuitives, je regrette la version précédente mais à un point.
J’espère une mise à jour très prochainement pour plus de confort d’utilisation et une amélioration générale.
Cette application reste ma préférée en matière de podcasts mais là je souffre pour la comprendre tout simplement.
Je ne doute pas que ça va arriver 😊
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Bad change to display

The app recently changed its appearance for the worse. Previously when viewing episodes the choice of colors and shading made it very easy to see when an episode was played vs unplayed. And you could easily delete an episode with a left-swipe. Now there is a tiny progress circle that is really hard to see at a glance and the delete podcast episode option is buried.

I would have emailed the developer about this rather than put it in a review, but the email option is disabled.
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was nothing to touch it

but the cracks are appearing. learn from the master evolutes - apple - and don't foist too many changes at once. appearance has changed for worse. light view is an after thought. compatibility with ios18 tenuous. liquid glass is an abomination, apple know they messed up, rewinding changes, hopefully we'll see that here too. otherwise, still the best, just.
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The best out there!

Been using iCatcher for several years, I've tried others but none compare. If you want total control over your podcast listening experience, this is the only serious contender.

Simply the best

The most feature rich podcast app. Plenty of ways to customize and setup the way you want

Don’t look for a better podcasts manager

This is it. Plenty of features for those who loves podcasts and listen them on a daily basis.

One of the best

Used this app for years and it is a daily fixture of my listening. I like the new UI it looks much more modern. The the biggest issue I have with the update, a small item, is the removal of the ability to sort for unplayed/download in oldest to newest. It saves on the endless scold when catching up on podcast and makes it much easier to move to the next episode.
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Refreshed ui is welcome!

So many capabilities. New UI is nice, but a bit too plain in some screens like playlist display. The UI is touchy: too easy to play episodes unexpectedly. Very complex customization options… very flexible. Sometimes frustrating because of the complex settings, but still one of the best.

This is the one!!!

I have been using this app daily for 11 years!! and it just continues to have the richest feature set. I especially love the gestures to quickly skip forward and backward through podcasts and the variable playback speed which can also be gesture controlled. It can also handle video podcasts which many others cannot. This is the only podcast app you need. Thank you Joe for keeping this app updated! For those of you who have been using this app for years like me, please consider leaving a “tip” periodically for the developer in Settings->tip jar to make sure the developer is compensated for keeping the app going. I usually tip $10-15 per year since I use this app every single day. Thank You!!!
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Response from developer

Thank you

The best podcast app just got better

V15.0 bring UI changes and, most importantly, transcription.

I've been using this app for many, many, years, it's unreservedly a 5 star app and by far the best and most customisable podcast player. Thank you devs!

Outstanding

The absolute BEST pod player!

Best app

Long time user. This is the best app for pods, it’s user friendly and feature rich. Highly recommend