# Podtastic — user reviews

> 9 indexed App Store user reviews of Podtastic by Freewheel Group, rated 3.70/5 from 12 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podtastic/id6761050924/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podtastic/id6761050924.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 6 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2

## Most critical reviews (9 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Useless.

*2026-08-04*

App is useless. Said processing. Waited for ages, eventually gave up.

### 1/5 — Broken

*2026-05-29*

Wanted to like this based on a friend’s glowing review, but can’t get past first screen. Bugs out even after many re-downloads. Login screen just flashes on and off.

**Developer response:** Hey Roxy,

I'm really sorry. There were a few bugs in 2.5.0 which have been fixed in 2.5.2, but a first impression means a lot!

If you want to retry it please do and you can always email support@podtastic.app for more.

Best.

Ben

### 1/5 — Unable to add podcasts.

*2026-04-27*

This app sounded exciting because I’m a hardcore listener of podcasts. But I’m unable to add podcasts. I keep getting the error “You don’t have permission to access this resource “. Please tell me I don’t have to get a premium membership to try the app?

**Developer response:** Hey Labanan, you do have to be a premium member. We've added a trial so you can try it out and cancel if it doesn't work for you.

### 2/5 — Good idea, but doesn’t work reliably and it is too expensive

*2026-08-12*

The idea of skipping ads is great, but only if it actually works. The app often skips over parts of a podcast that are not ads or plays the ads even when it’s not supposed to.

$10/month is an outrageous price for something that doesn’t even work that well.

### 3/5 — Great if it works

*2026-08-12*

Great idea. Use AI and user data to determine where in the podcasts are and skip them automatically. And it works great, *if* it works. 

Tested on a podcast episode. Worked like a charm. Downloaded another episode of the same podcast. “Processing” after 2 hours. Asked it to retry processing. Hours after, still processing.

I’ll try this for another week or two, but for now it looks like this is not something that I’d pay $40/yr for. It seems like it’s just not yet ready.

Edit: finally finished processing. I’ll edit the review in a week again.

### 5/5 — Works exactly as described

*2026-08-05*

Always wanted something like this, so glad someone made it. 

Imo much nicer than other apps out there due to having topics, transcripts and skip silence. Haven’t really encounter many bugs so keep up the great work!!!

### 5/5 — Really enjoying the app so far!

*2026-08-04*

As a long time subscriber to OverCast, I just purchased the annual subscription to Podtastic. I love the auto-skipping feature and auto-generated topic lists. While a very different app than OverCast, I like it as it will help me listen to a wider variety of podcasts because it makes it easy for me to skip topics that I don’t personally find interesting.

### 5/5 — Much improved

*2026-05-08*

I had this months back and it wasn’t quite there, gave it another try today and it seems to be doing great.

Great customer service. The developer Ben is fast to reply back to your email if you have any issues. Good work Ben!

### 5/5 — Breeze Past Interruptions

*2026-05-08*

Killer feature here that makes podcasts far more enjoyable to listen to. People are sleeping on this one.

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*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 2026-09-05.*