# Pocket FM: Audio Dramas — user reviews > 5,550 indexed App Store user reviews of Pocket FM by Pocket FM Corp, rated 4.70/5 from 271,051 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-fm-audio-dramas/id1538433480/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-fm-audio-dramas/id1538433480.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 224,797 · 4★ 23,503 · 3★ 9,654 · 2★ 4,155 · 1★ 8,942 ## What do users think of Pocket FM? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Great stories - 🎨 Interactive with pictures - 🎧 Good narration - 📚 Wide variety of genres - 💤 Helps with sleep/relaxation **Cons** - 💰 Expensive to continue stories - ⏱️ Long wait times for new episodes - 🔁 Inconsistent episode release schedule - 🔀 Automatic playback of unrelated stories - 🤯 Confusing coin/credit system **Commonly reported bugs** - Episodes not unlocking as promised - Coins/credits not working as expected - App crashing or freezing - Inconsistent story progress and chapter numbering **Most requested features** - Ability to purchase full books/series - More affordable subscription options - Improved episode navigation and bookmarking - Option to disable automatic playback - Better customer support and communication ## Newest reviews (17 of 5,550) ### 4/5 — Hörbücher/ Hörserien *2026-09-20* An sich komme ich fast nicht mehr los von diesen tollen Geschichten. Ich liebe sie sehr und habe leider auch schon einiges an Geld ausgegeben, weil ich nicht warten konnte/ wollte. Aber was mich wirklich stört ist dass es am Anfang mit super animierten Videos anfängt, dann kommen nur noch Bilder und dann garnichts mehr. Ich liebe diese Bilder dazu und bin am überlegen die Geschichte abzubrechen, nur weil ich nichts mehr sehe. Man wird damit irgendwie angelockt und dann fallen sie plötzlich weg. Von Video zu Bilder war schon irgendwie ein Rückschlag aber okay. Keine Bilder mehr, ist für mich jetzt irgendwie nicht mehr möglich weiter zu hören. Wenn es von Anfang an ohne Bilder wäre, okay, aber mittendrin keine Bilder mehr ist deprimierend 😣 ### 2/5 — Money Grabbers *2026-09-19* I like have tried 2 stories and I like them both but until now have been frustrated by how quickly the coins I have purchased disappear. Now there is finally a subscription service that gives me a good few hours of listening only to be spoilt by the coins advert after every episode! Why would I wan to buy coins when I’m paying £6.99 for hours. I know you like money ( that’s evident) and I know that you are a business but please think of our enjoyment as well and drop the ads a little! Addition to my original review. Money grabbers still keep grabbing! I pay £6.99 for 15 hours worth of episodes which has been great. It’s a better way to listen to stories, but now after every episode I get the poxy Autumn sale advert ruining my listening. I understand you want I advertise your sale but keep it out of the subscription. 😡 ### 4/5 — Love it hate how they strangle episodes *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* First 100 +\- episodes go fast no interruptions, then the start only giving one episode at a time unless you buy the stupid coins, shame it can’t be a standard 5 a days ### 4/5 — Entertaining but AI *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* The story I’m listening to is engaging, but limited Detailed world building, interesting plot, but makes AI mistakes with continuity and the characters are superficially written. I also get a whiff of Chinese authoritarianism and sexism. Surveillance Cameras and preparation are good. Difference to males. ### 2/5 — Decent app until you’re hooked. *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* It’s a great app with decent stories, until you get hooked on a story and it drops down to 2 free episodes a day, and littered with ads. ### 2/5 — Audio problems getting worse *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* With the two most recent updates, audio problems have been getting worse. First, dialogue had a hollow echo, like it was playing through a stadium audio system. Worse, now some kind of “heroic” music - maybe meant to be played under the ad on the main screen - plays so loudly under the story I’m trying to listen to, that I can’t hear the words! And the music never stops or changes! It is rendering the app almost unusable. ### 3/5 — Like *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* Love the stories but these apps be to expensive ### 4/5 — Excellent Stories but A Money Grab! *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* The stories get you hooked. I only listen to the free episodes, 3 per day. I’ve seen comments where people have spent hundreds. It should be a flat rate to listen to one series!! ### 3/5 — Weakest Beast Tamer *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* Awesome book so far, but my free episodes ran out now. I was getting 7 free a day with the option to use adds to see 2 more, so 9 a day. Now I’m down to 1 free and 2 with ads. I bought 200 coins for $3 in beginning because I wanted a good stopping point, but used them and went to repurchase more coins and now they are 12 coins plus 12 free for $1.99. It cost 9 coins an episode and there are over a thousand episodes. Give me the option to just buy the book for $20 I’m not paying over a $100 using these coins. I guess I will have to imagine how the book ends. ### 3/5 — Worth checking out, but…! *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* I enjoy audiobooks. Listen to them all the time. Just started using this app. First thing I’ve noticed is that I am unable to restart my audio using my headphones. I can pause audio. But I have to take out my phone and open the app to start playing again. I’ve tried this with both my AirPod Pro 3, as well as my Sony headphones. Neither work for restarting playback. I am able to restart audio with other apps. Just not this one. Stories are enjoyable. Though they could use proofreading. For incense, one story talked about a person living in the basement part of the time and part of the time they’re talking about that same person living in an attic. Narrator casts are “off” with who they assigned to read what. An example might be a 10-year-old child with a deep male voice. Or an alpha male adult being read by a woman judging by the voice. It would have been much better and she read the child’s voice, and he read the man’s voice. Their ads can be an issue. For instance, as I write this, I’m running the latest version. Some ads will just be silent. They may have something flashing on the screen, or not. Yet, when I think “FM“ I think of radio I often and I’m not watching the screen so I don’t know whether there’s an ad being displayed with no sound, or if an ad is caused the player to freeze yet again. The last few times I’ve noticed it’s right at the two second mark. I have to close out the app entirely and then reopen it in order to be able to get things working again. Navigation within the app is “OK”. Something’s just aren’t as intuitive as they should be. Overall, if you’re someone that enjoys audiobooks, this is definitely worth at least checking out. ### 4/5 — The Alphas Bride *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* I have been enjoying this story very much. The one thing I find a bit annoying is the adds i have to watch for extra episodes. It seems there is no “x” on them to move on to the next one. I either have to go into the app a subscribe to it, or just shut the whole thing down and go into other things. Why is that?? I don’t have that much space available to subscribe to a lot of games. And the episodes that show up in the advertising on YouTube I cannot find in your app, why? I’ve looked thru a lot of titles and am unable to find them. Some are about dragons, some are about people with a special animal with special battle power, sorry, cannot give you the title names. Anyway to look into this?? Just curious. Thanks, katseye102 ### 2/5 — Disoleased *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* Mm. I am not sure who developed this, but it is a very confusing app. I can't figure out what is unlocked when it says you have 10 episodes unlocked. Every time I try to go back to the one I want, it says I have no coins left. I buy coins and it starts counting with an episode I've already seen. I don't know if it's a glitch on my end or a glitch in the system, but I'm ready to delete this, sadly. I like the story, but I can't figure out how to use the stupid app to hear the story. Is there anywhere I can get assistance ### 2/5 — Bugs *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* Whenever you open the app and play your story an ad starts playing after a few words of your story. The issue? When the ad is over the story starts back and it all runs together and you have to start the episode over again because you can’t understand anything as it is all running together like everyone is talking at once. Can you fix this? This is the only way to contact support. ### 2/5 — Twisted fates *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* Why are other people able to see visuals in this story but I am not ### 4/5 — I like *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* Some of these books I would never buy myself but love the books I have. They are a good way to relax and a couple I would like to see as movies ### 4/5 — Amazing but expensive *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* I love this app and all the stories. However, the cost of coins to continue listening or unlocking is so expensive. To unlock an entire series it would cost hundreds of dollars. I bought the 30 dollar pack that gave me 600 coins which is relatively 75-100 episodes depending on the cost to unlock. Now the packs are 30 dollars for 250 coins?! Like I don’t mind spending money to unlock but damn it’s crazy! Have you all thought about doing a monthly thing? Prices for unlocking whole stories? ### 3/5 — Frustrated *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* I’m definitely enjoying the stories, but am irritated by the app. Last week, I spent coins to unlock an episode only to find it the same one as the previous. No refunds or way to contact customer service. Yesterday, I bought a coin pack which included 1 week of no ads. Opened the stories today, and I’m slammed with ads. Still can’t find any contact for customer service. You don’t get what you pay for, and I never received my bonus coins. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Insane Cost $$$!!! *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* Stories are quite engaging well done there, but if you want to finish a single one, you are spending hundreds of dollars or spending a day for a tiny unlock. This is not fun. Without a better pricing structure - there is no way I can recommend this app. ### 1/5 — Video *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* Why do the stories stop showing videos? They start out with very good videos and as soon as we get into the stop line, they stop playing them. I’m ready to delete the entire app because of this. Are they coming back? ### 1/5 — Shaking my head *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* I’m a frequent Pocket FM listener, but I’m disappointed. I bought 400 coins, and 200 were deducted for a series I wasn’t listening to. I’ve contacted support several times with no response. Paid coins shouldn’t be spent without my approval. I want my 200 coins restored, better control over coin spending, and customer support that actually responds. also mentioned that I was told about this app through a mentor PTSD. in my local VA hospital even though we do get pricey I have enjoyed it. ### 1/5 — Lame *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* I got hooked by the story line of a series they just started playing when I stumbled onto the app. So I joined. And now the story I was hooked on isn’t auto resumed I have no idea the title or how to find it. The most fundamental on ramping absent entirely.Completely absent. Totally lame ### 1/5 — AI Voices *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* The stories are interesting but can’t handle the AI voices which ruin it. If real people did the voice overs it would be great. They don’t even need to pay professional voice actors, just normal voices would be better than the hollow, synthetic and monotone sound of AI. ### 1/5 — app performance needs serious improvement *2026-09-18* The quality of the Pocket FM app has become very disappointing after the recent updates. Instead of improving the user experience, the updates have introduced too many glitches and technical problems. The app frequently freezes, crashes, takes too long to load, and sometimes doesn’t work properly while listening to episodes. These issues make it extremely frustrating to enjoy the stories. Pocket FM has great content, but the app performance needs serious improvement. Please focus on fixing these bugs and testing updates properly before releasing them. Users should not have to deal with new problems after every update. I hope the developers take this feedback seriously and release a stable, smooth, and properly optimized version soon. **Developer response:** Hi, we’d like to look into this further for you. Please email us at appreviews@pocketfm.com with your registered ID, and we’ll take it from there. ### 1/5 — Sad *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* I can’t believe how you take a perfectly good story and change up in the middle of the story to get readers in? They app fail because this is a misrepresentation of your company, ### 1/5 — Over priced *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* Why do people like being takin advantage of? The quality of the stories are laughable. Average $2 for a 12 minute episode. If you take the $20 a month for an hour a day is crazy too. They don’t let you roll over the days you don’t use. This is 50 times more expensive than cable tv or any of the apps out there like Netflix. People stop let them take advantage of you. Your paying like $200 just for one class C story. ### 1/5 — good stories, bad app *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* The stories are good, but the app keeps crashing. The pricing structure is terrible, and the quality of the narrator changed dramatically to the point where it is aggravating to listen to feels like a baiting switch. my vampire system at episode 1048 started to become awful to listen to due to the narration. this listening experience is not worth the price anymore ### 1/5 — Overall costs *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* To purchase enough coins for one series is over $1000 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun stories *2026-09-19, version 3.42.3* Good fun stories to listen to thought out the days ### 5/5 — Excelente Distracción *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* Cuando tienes una agenda tan agitada entre ser profesionista, esposa, madre y ama de casa estos audiolibros son una excelente experiencia de distracción por que te transportan a escenarios fantásticos. ### 5/5 — Love love *2026-09-18, version 3.42.3* My absolute favorite has got to be The Alphas Bride ### 5/5 — Fire *2026-09-17, version 3.42.3* 🔥🔥🔥 ### 5/5 — Good *2026-09-17, version 3.42.3* Rewards work now and I love Luna curse! Thanks. As with all online stories, the proofreading and editing needs work. Unfortunately the free amount of episodes seems to change each day. That is infuriating. ### 5/5 — Love this app *2026-09-17, version 3.42.3* I love this app. The stories are well written and intriguing. I love the different voices for the characters and find them funny as some don’t match the characters at all. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-09-17, version 3.42.3* Love the app. Great stories, definitely download if you’re considering it! ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-09-17, version 3.42.3* It’s a great app but you guys should give the listener the option of keeping the ai narrator or swap to the human one. I was enjoying my vampire system until it swapped to the human narrator then the story lost so much depth, the voices doesn’t change the system notifications are really bad now please add the option ### 5/5 — Grandes historias *2026-09-15, version 3.42.3* Grandiosas historias, me encanta esta aplicación, se las recomiendo, muy pero muy buena. ### 5/5 — Weakest Best Tamer!! *2026-09-15, version 3.42.3* I love this story. Great character development. I’ve been able to earn enough coins by casually playing games in the morning or between tasks. The AI gets freaky after the first 50 episodes or so, but it doesn’t a decent job. I’m hoping they continue to turn the photos into video. Would love to rewatch in the future. I’m around episode 320. Still loving it! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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