# Podhero Podcast Player — user reviews > 27 indexed App Store user reviews of Podhero Podcast Player by Podhero, Inc., rated 4.42/5 from 99 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podhero-podcast-player/id1356291416/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podhero-podcast-player/id1356291416.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 79 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 10 ## Newest reviews (11 of 27) ### 5/5 — Love it! Use it everyday! *2019-05-13, version 1.44.0* This app is fantastic. Everyday on my commute I’m able to listen to my podcasts, and see what my friends are listening to! Love the recommend feature. Can’t wait to see what other social features they will add! (Podcast discussion groups, maybe?) ### 5/5 — Love being able to share with friends *2019-04-28, version 1.41.0* Love swoot ### 5/5 — Social Podcasts *2019-04-26* A really good podcast app that make podcasts social, and helps make it easy and fun to discover new podcasts. ### 5/5 — Love the idea *2019-04-21, version 1.40.1* I always wanted the ability to see what other people were listening to, so this is perfect. Knowing what my friends are listening to is a great way to find good stuff to listen to. It can also be a great conversation starter when you both listened to the same thing. ### 5/5 — Podcast listening made easy *2019-04-20, version 1.40.1* I had heard of podcasts and thought about trying to find some but had no idea where to find them. SWOOT makes it easy. As a beginning listener I really appreciate the suggestions. If I was doing it on my own I most likely would have given up by now. Thanks for the easy platform to find and listen to some interesting subjects. I also like the idea of being able to see what friends and family are listening to. Thanks for making it easy to be a podcast listener! ### 5/5 — Newbie *2019-04-20, version 1.40.1* I’m new to podcasts and have no idea what I’m doing. Swoot made it easy to find cool podcasts by checking out what my friends are listening too. ### 5/5 — I love seeing what my friends listen to *2019-04-19, version 1.40.1* I find so many great episodes and podcasts to listen to based on recommendations from other people. ### 5/5 — Finally!! *2019-04-18, version 1.40.1* This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! ### 5/5 — Love the friend recommendations!!! *2019-04-18, version 1.40.1* Awesome app! I always feel a bit overwhelmed in choosing new podcasts to listen to so the friend recommendations are super helpful :) ### 5/5 — Love it *2019-04-07, version 1.39.0* Great app! ### 5/5 — Spiders? *2018-10-13, version 1.21.0* Finally, a podcast app that’s spider-free. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Worthless *2024-06-15* I used to enjoy the app. None of the podcasts I follow have been updated in a long time. I follow use other apps now and all the pods I follow are current. Not sure what happened. Nothing works. ### 1/5 — Avoid... full of trackers... *2020-08-04, version 2.2.3* As soon as you launch the app it connects to multiple trackers in the background. If you value your privacy stay far away from this. Hopefully Apple will put an end to this behavior. ### 1/5 — No Facebook *2019-04-22, version 1.40.1* Using Facebook to populate any data into an app is just wrong these days. It would be better and more secure to let me enter my friend data instead of giving Facebook more data on me and my friends. I'll stick with Overcast. **Developer response:** Agree that data privacy is very important to consider when signing up for apps, but would like to clarify that 1) Facebook is just one option for signing up (alongside Google and plain old email) and 2) we don't share listening data back to Facebook at all. It's simply used to find friends which is what makes Swoot special compared to other apps. Thanks for trying it out! ### 2/5 — Good idea, lousy implementation *2019-05-14, version 1.44.0* Thoughts on Swoot: + Good privacy policy/ToS. Smells like PIPEDA and GDPR. + Supports OPML import/export! + Fairly intuitive interface + Supports downloading and streaming playback - No ability to add arbitrary RSS URLs, which defeats the point of an open podcast ecosystem and removes Swoot from consideration as a real podcast player. - VERY slow (on my iPhone 6) - Playing a podcast makes my phone hot - Used 12% of my battery for 45 minutes of listening - No MP3 Chapter support - No support for password-protected feeds - Tab bar disappears when resuming the app from background - No silence removal feature - Very long sign-up flow that requires an email - OPML import missed several of my shows - No sleep timer - Skip forward and backward takes a very long time when playing above 1.25x - Player view has a down arrow to indicate how to dismiss it, but swiping down does nothing. You have to tap the button all the way at the top of the screen. EDIT: Thank you for your reply! I’m glad to hear that you’re planning to add most of these features to Swoot. However, the fact that “play an arbitrary RSS feed” wasn’t in your Minimum Viable Product strongly indicates to me that you don’t care about podcasting as an open ecosystem. When you’re adding new features, you should figure out how to add that one first. **Developer response:** Thanks for the thoughtful and thorough feedback! Happy to report that most of the missing features you mention are ones we plan to add. We just released the app to the public a week before your review so it's not full featured just yet. :) We take performance issues seriously as well and it is an area we're always focused on and are constantly improving. ### 4/5 — Good App, Hopeful for Improvements *2019-10-09, version 1.63.0* Good podcast platform. Two fixes would make it great: Listen speeds up to at least 3x, and an in-app sharing option. ### 4/5 — 5⭐️'s if... *2019-08-31* Liking the app so far but... Needs to have the ability to Star your favorite podcast episodes. ### 5/5 — Awesome community *2020-12-08, version 2.4.0* What a great platform to have everything together and not waste time. I love that my friends and I recommend podcasts that are great and can sift the ones that are not our interest. Plus Podhero support team is always here to help. ### 5/5 — Podhero *2020-10-31, version 2.4.0* Love the easy format to find and listen to podcasts! ### 5/5 — Great *2020-08-08, version 2.2.3* Awesome layout and everything but needs a cleanup with the home screen, a bit messy. Over all great. ### 5/5 — Pods With Friends! *2020-06-04, version 1.76.7* I’ve been using Swoot for at least 6 months now and continue to be impressed with the way the app works and evolves. I’m discovering new podcasts from following friends and colleagues and having conversations with some of those friends after I’ve listened. Swoot is consistently broadening my perspective too with the curated lists and recommendations shared via social media. Thanks Swoot! And major kudos to your social media manager!! Well done. ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — By far the most useful podcast app *2020-02-24, version 1.76.0* Responsive developers, great tools, social discovery...and it keeps getting better. ### 5/5 — Use every day! *2020-02-15, version 1.76.0* Love this app, I use every day and love that I can easily get recommendations from friends, have found a bunch of new podcasts easily this way! It’s a new app so there’s still occasional bugs but developers respond quickly to fix anything you report so it feels like a personalized app service :) ### 5/5 — The best social podcast app *2019-10-11, version 1.64.0* There are other social podcast apps out there. But this one is the best by far. They are still adding features, but it’s bug free, fast, and everything is well thought through and well implemented. Top notch developers. They also respond to feature requests very quickly. ### 5/5 — Great Experience *2019-10-06, version 1.63.0* I often loose phones and forget to download all my “essential” apps and when I do, I forget how great Swoot is. Easy search, centralized podcasts and I get to see what my friends are watching. ### 5/5 — Love the Idea *2019-08-09, version 1.55.0* Amazing idea but needs some work in implementation. Gave it 5 star supposing it’s team working on it. Don’t like to migrate to another app as I listen to a loooot of podcasts (more than 150 all together) so I wish Swoot make the app flawless and usable. Thanks anyway for making the ideas real. ### 5/5 — Great tool! *2019-06-10, version 1.48.0* So glad my friend Amma Marfo recommended this to me. No more lamenting on how challenging it is to find some listen worthy podcasts. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*