Patreon Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience41.1% of reviews
Neutral10.4% of reviews
Negative experience48.5% of reviews

~ Based on 2,974 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Patreon

Is Patreon Safe?

Patreon appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Patreon is 97/100.

This assessment is based on 581,635 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

97.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 580,648 App Store ratings for Patreon.

Is Patreon Legit?

Patreon appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Patreon is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Good content, works okay

Good content on here, like how it’s easy to group things for the creator and like the idea of more connection with creators but the app just doesn’t work very well in comparison with Apple Podcasts.

I constantly have to go in and find where I left off to get back in the order of episodes for creators with many entries in a list. Next button can go anywhere if you left the app for a day. Download management is tedious. Basic missing features. I’m back to Apple Podcasts.
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The worst

Don’t try to sort a collection by an artist because you won’t see all of the results. 276 unplayed episodes and all I can see are the first 3.

Pause the episode in the middle, wait a few hours to start it again, open the app and it rewinds it by several minutes.

I see they still haven’t fixed the queue- why would I want to listen to episode 3 when I just finished episode 4?
This app just sucks.
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COMPLETELY UNUSABLE!!!

I spend my hard earned money on money on something I expect it to work what are all this updates for it it isn’t helping anything. Completely disappointing.

Images cropped, comments won’t load absolutely miserable experience using this app

Images are cropped on mobile for long so you cannot fully view them. Comments and replies to threads won’t load often. A message sent doesn’t appear. Chatgpt 1 could have probably built a better app. I have 0 idea how difficult it is to get things right in a relatively simple interface like Patreon. Terrible terrible. I’d put the entire dev team on PIP.
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A consistent favorite

My issues are that on mobile, if you pause the content and your phone falls asleep, it will continue to fall asleep even when watching videos. I also very much wish there was a TV app. Also, it should be much easier to find my subscriptions without extra algorithmic content clogging my feed up. But I love to support indie creators and get their exclusive content
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Stay away from Patreon

At this point, I'd give negative stars if I could. I count on Patreon for my income, and used the platform for over ten years. Sure, they've had some issues in that time, but have always worked through the issues with me in a personable and interactive manner.

But something has changed drastically. They suddenly and unilaterally deleted my account, denied my appeal, and any attempt to get any answers to my questions results in either (1) giving contradictory answers or (2) ignoring my questions entirely.

I depend on this income, I don't know what to do, they're not helping me, my backers are complaining, I don't have answers, and I may genuinely end up homeless. And this whole ordeal has been over a month long, at this point.

The way Patreon is handling this is so incompetent, it's unethical.
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All my faves are here

I love being able to support my favorite artists in one place.

LGBTQIA+ content

Trixie and Katya have been bringing me so much joy for years and years and I love everything about them and their guests and what they stand for.

Podcasts Need Transcripts

First of all, I love Patreon. It is an excellent platform for financially supporting your favorite creators on the internet.

However, some constructive criticism I have is that podcast episodes you play within the Patreon app do not have readable transcripts. To make Patreon more friendly and accessible to disabled folks, the developers should immediately start working toward implementing automatically generated podcast transcripts (with the option for Patreon creators to edit said transcript or even replace it entirely with their own transcript file)
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Useless Home Screen

Okay. Don’t understand the point of allowing downloads if you can play them without internet. Also please update your app to support the duo.

Dishing with Dana

She is the best at deep diving for information

Why algorithmic feed?

Why is the first item when in the Patreon feed always an item from an account I don’t follow? I use Patreon to follow specific creators. I open the app to view their content. Now every time I open the app I first see content from creators I do not care about. The experience of using Patreon is now worse.
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Edit messages

Needs the ability to edit messages at least within a 5-10 minute span

Stop requiring to update

Please stop forcing people to update. Not all iPads can handle new IOS, please let people use older versions of the app!!!

Auto-Nope

I would enjoy this app a zillion times more and subscribe to more content creators if it wasn’t for the forced autoplay feature. Just give us a toggle, I beg of you.

Guess that movie

Neb High football rules !

Fabulous channel

Her stories are absolutely fascinating! I’m a cinephile and my husband is a music journalist, and she puts my knowledge to shame! Well worth the membership. I likely will upgrade.

Great business and concept, terrible UX execution on the app

Great concept, the platform is SOO buggy. Cuts out every 45 seconds 100% of the time. Ffs please fix this. It’s an awful experience. I don’t want to be a paid member to creators on YT but you’re forcing me to.

Stop with the bloated app UI

I don’t want to be advertised about other creators. This app is so trashy. Hate that I have to use it to access the three content creators I subscribe to, but 90% of my feed is stupid ads about other creators I don’t care about.

Solid app

Love catching up with my favorite creators on Patreon, app is reliable and easy to navigate. For the podcasts I would suggest adding a transcription of the audio into text form, that would make it perfect.