Buggy but excellent.
Very good. Use in iPhone 12 mini, current iPad, web. WONDERFUL , easy, free transcripts. Has some on device vs server transcription maker (maybe?)? Not sure but what I do know is that most of my odd ball podcast have transcripts. No speaker/ diarization but that’s fine.
Cons: Buggy last couple of months (across the board of devices). Another con is politics but, whatever. Dev has a popular long running podcast, fun to listen usually and every now and then maybe insightful! Recommend.
I really wish the on the fly / up next/”now playing” playlist system was similar to basically every other audio player ever. This is seriously behind in its UX. Adding to “play next” means nothing as there is no rolling on the fly playlist. Can’t just skip to next / distinct podcasts and then come back to it later to finish up. Can’t bookmark important parts. No “AI” integration. Its audio (speed/eq) is good.
TLDR I’ll probably end up re subbing, on the fly playlist sucks but transcript are sooooooo worth it!!!! AWESOME TRANSCRIPTS. Amazing. Thank you Marco.
Cons: Buggy last couple of months (across the board of devices). Another con is politics but, whatever. Dev has a popular long running podcast, fun to listen usually and every now and then maybe insightful! Recommend.
I really wish the on the fly / up next/”now playing” playlist system was similar to basically every other audio player ever. This is seriously behind in its UX. Adding to “play next” means nothing as there is no rolling on the fly playlist. Can’t just skip to next / distinct podcasts and then come back to it later to finish up. Can’t bookmark important parts. No “AI” integration. Its audio (speed/eq) is good.
TLDR I’ll probably end up re subbing, on the fly playlist sucks but transcript are sooooooo worth it!!!! AWESOME TRANSCRIPTS. Amazing. Thank you Marco.
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Fantastic. Gets better with each update.
I’ve been using it since the beginning. So much better than the Apple app. Happy to pay for this one.
Playlist priority still doesn’t work
Why is this so hard ? Why ??
Love this!
I'm not tech savvy but I grew to greatly dislike the podcast app on my iPad because it caused me constant storage issues. This app is so reliable and has gotten easier over time for me to navigate. Thank you, Marco, for giving us another option!!
Used to be good
Not updating to Apple Watch. Not playing playlists continuously. Developer not answering emails or Tweets. Not connecting to Bluetooth. Volume goes up and down randomly. I’m using an iPhone XR updated to 13.3.1 and Apple Watch updated to 6.1.2. I hope this gets straightened out as this has been my go to app for podcasts.
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Works well
Clear, simple, easy to use
Episode Limits Broken and Stress Inducing
Look, I get that for whatever reason, people did not like episode limit strictness. I personally don’t understand why a strict opinion was even necessary. If a limit is set by a user, then respect it. Period. Now it seems that setting an episode limit has little impact. Among my podcasts, I listen to a few that are news and opinion, and they also have hourly updates. I only ever want to listen to the latest. Now I can’t. Now I have to manually delete or fast forward through older ones (i.e in the car) after the latest finished playing. This is such a basic function that needs to work - even with automatic downloads - that I am now looking at other players or will just use Apple Podcasts. Seriously. I am also unsubscribing because it’s bad enough that an app causes stress and distraction by having to actively work around it (especially when driving). I am certainly not going to pay for that even if the sub isn’t that pricy.
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Amazingly purposeful podcast app!
If there is a committed app to play and organise your podcasts you have found it!
Little hack advice: stop playing at the end of each podcast in the setting is the power user hack!
Little hack advice: stop playing at the end of each podcast in the setting is the power user hack!
Getting worse
Used to be a solid app. Now sometimes it just won’t open and struggles with downloading pods.
Thank God
An excellent design for a podcast app. Lots of good ideas and customization options. If you’re tired of the Apple podcast app’s terrible design, do yourself a favour and try this.
Never loads
It’s been like 3 months since I used this app because the podcast never load try uninstalling it n reinstalling didn’t work
FIX FAST FORWARD ISSUE PLEASE
ONE THING REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS.
You start a new podcast, it starts downloading, and you have cell service or WiFi so the episode plays anyway. But when you fast forward through the first 1-2 minutes of a podcast, usually an introduction or ads, and the download hasn’t loaded the first 1-2 minutes yet, the app fast forwards you to ANOTHER EPISODE. This drives me absolutely crazy.
Otherwise great app.
You start a new podcast, it starts downloading, and you have cell service or WiFi so the episode plays anyway. But when you fast forward through the first 1-2 minutes of a podcast, usually an introduction or ads, and the download hasn’t loaded the first 1-2 minutes yet, the app fast forwards you to ANOTHER EPISODE. This drives me absolutely crazy.
Otherwise great app.
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Great app, annoys me daily
Has bugs. You learn to live with them. Other than that, it’s a great app.
If you're looking for a podcast app, this is it
It's unbelievably, blessedly customizable, but not overly technical. The interface isn't cluttered or cumbersome. It's free but the ads aren't intrusive. It's got a massive library and the recommendations aren't promotional or otherwise irrelevant. There are no shareholders and using it doesn't fund terrible things. You don't feel forced into a subscription, either by excessive ads or by downgrades in the free experience, but Premium still has cool features I'm interested in (plus it supports the app.) Personally, I love that it doesn't try to be a social platform either.
I honestly have no idea how one guy made such a perfect app in his spare time.
I honestly have no idea how one guy made such a perfect app in his spare time.
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Custom Playlists Didn’t Work For Me
Important to say I hate the default Apple podcast so was excited by the rave reviews and passionate single developer backstory.
I had one simple need - different playlists which this is meant to support. I don’t know why this isn’t in apple - I feel like different listens on different days, this can’t be unusual.
Anyway off I went, installed set my basic settings and I created my History and Current Affairs playlist. Populated it with episodes by zipping back and forward from the Apple App. But of a pain but light was at the end of the tunnel.
So far impressed despite it being a little clunky I created my Drama playlist. Open it and it had all the episodes from my history playlist already populated. Odd I thought, oh well and then deleted them. Added a few drama podcasts. Went back to my History playlist. It was now my Drama playlist with a different title.
I decided to try again and found the Appear in Playlist Setting. Set one to drama, set one to News. Added episodes to Drama. Found them in News. Went back to the podcast and the found in setting hadn’t saved. Changed it again. Repeated the process and this time it did work.
Also the episodes in the Lovecraft Investigations were not in Season Order. Season 1 appears all the way down after Season 3 which I only knew from the Apple App.
My experience so far fairly buggy. Feels like I need both apps but considering the experience will probably skip this as don’t want to build lists only to find them needing to be rebuilt
I’m on iPhone 16 maybe it works for everyone else but this functionality didn’t work for me.
I had one simple need - different playlists which this is meant to support. I don’t know why this isn’t in apple - I feel like different listens on different days, this can’t be unusual.
Anyway off I went, installed set my basic settings and I created my History and Current Affairs playlist. Populated it with episodes by zipping back and forward from the Apple App. But of a pain but light was at the end of the tunnel.
So far impressed despite it being a little clunky I created my Drama playlist. Open it and it had all the episodes from my history playlist already populated. Odd I thought, oh well and then deleted them. Added a few drama podcasts. Went back to my History playlist. It was now my Drama playlist with a different title.
I decided to try again and found the Appear in Playlist Setting. Set one to drama, set one to News. Added episodes to Drama. Found them in News. Went back to the podcast and the found in setting hadn’t saved. Changed it again. Repeated the process and this time it did work.
Also the episodes in the Lovecraft Investigations were not in Season Order. Season 1 appears all the way down after Season 3 which I only knew from the Apple App.
My experience so far fairly buggy. Feels like I need both apps but considering the experience will probably skip this as don’t want to build lists only to find them needing to be rebuilt
I’m on iPhone 16 maybe it works for everyone else but this functionality didn’t work for me.
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Episode limits are sane again!
Deleting my prior review to now account for the fact that Marco listened to feedback and fixed the episode limits.
Easy to control, non-pushy
This app has a few banner ads which you can pay to remove but it's not built to try to influence your podcast choices and that makes it better than the vast majority of other apps including the standard apple one.
2026.8.1 Playlists Fixed!
Update: Aug 28, 2026
Curated downloads are fixed and will not delete after adding to a playlist. Thank you. Old review below:
This update including a “strict episode limit” that straight up deletes episodes in progress from both my device and any playlists they’re queued in. It’s now impossible to queue up arbitrary episodes in a playlist without basically disabling the limit entirely.
The old system would occasionally delete queued up episodes as well, but they would at least be maintained in playlists and could be “pinned” by playing a few seconds of them, locking them from being downloaded.
I’m updating this review to 1-star until this change is reverted. It completely breaks playlists and makes it impossible to manually curate episodes to listen to.
Curated downloads are fixed and will not delete after adding to a playlist. Thank you. Old review below:
This update including a “strict episode limit” that straight up deletes episodes in progress from both my device and any playlists they’re queued in. It’s now impossible to queue up arbitrary episodes in a playlist without basically disabling the limit entirely.
The old system would occasionally delete queued up episodes as well, but they would at least be maintained in playlists and could be “pinned” by playing a few seconds of them, locking them from being downloaded.
I’m updating this review to 1-star until this change is reverted. It completely breaks playlists and makes it impossible to manually curate episodes to listen to.
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Best Player App
This is the best podcast player I’ve ever had! And it just keeps getting better with each update. Thanks so much!
Cautiously optimistic after some recent bumps (premium user)
Aug 2026: I’m glad to still be part of this big, passionate community as a premium user. I am super grateful the dev listened and pivoted so quickly after a recent major update caused some of us to lose our queued episodes and portions of our libraries. The dev has posted on reddit they’ll move more cautiously in the future when rolling out big changes.
I do think some folks like me are a little weary of how the dev’s evangelism for AI tools and his trust in them is likely outpacing their actual capabilities. Hopefully more guardrails are put in place?
Why am I keeping it at 4 stars? Users shouldn’t have to be in a discord or on reddit or in test flight to be able to use an app. The dev could be so much better at communicating to users within the boundaries of the app’s text and interface. Also, I’m not sure if it’s changes to voice boost or an aspect of the downloads, but some quality of the audio experience has changed. I used to be able to listen to overcast for hours each day no problem (way longer than apple podcasts) and my ears throw in the towel a lot faster now.
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Previous review:
Love the additional speed increments. Gonna stick with the classic miniplayer over the new one because I always miss words and need to go back. So glad it’s still an option!
I do think some folks like me are a little weary of how the dev’s evangelism for AI tools and his trust in them is likely outpacing their actual capabilities. Hopefully more guardrails are put in place?
Why am I keeping it at 4 stars? Users shouldn’t have to be in a discord or on reddit or in test flight to be able to use an app. The dev could be so much better at communicating to users within the boundaries of the app’s text and interface. Also, I’m not sure if it’s changes to voice boost or an aspect of the downloads, but some quality of the audio experience has changed. I used to be able to listen to overcast for hours each day no problem (way longer than apple podcasts) and my ears throw in the towel a lot faster now.
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Previous review:
Love the additional speed increments. Gonna stick with the classic miniplayer over the new one because I always miss words and need to go back. So glad it’s still an option!
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