Amazing with one key lacking feature
The main feature of marking highlights is excellent, great when paired with Obsidian too. UI is great, the paid features of uploading YouTube videos and audiobooks has been well worth it for me. The DJ features have been useful also.
The app just lacks one core addition, one that’s pretty much a foundation part of all podcast apps - Playlists. It is beyond reason that these have not been implemented yet despite being in the roadmap over 3 years ago. If you’re a paid user and decide to upload audiobooks, these will be split into many chapter. Once you have them all in the queue, the second you start listening to something else or add something in the queue for later, it becomes chaos and requires reorganising constantly. It might sound trivial but it’s deeply frustrating and has me considering alternative apps
The app just lacks one core addition, one that’s pretty much a foundation part of all podcast apps - Playlists. It is beyond reason that these have not been implemented yet despite being in the roadmap over 3 years ago. If you’re a paid user and decide to upload audiobooks, these will be split into many chapter. Once you have them all in the queue, the second you start listening to something else or add something in the queue for later, it becomes chaos and requires reorganising constantly. It might sound trivial but it’s deeply frustrating and has me considering alternative apps
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Best for Knowledge Retention
For anyone who wants to retain what they’re listening to, this is hands down the best app. Snipd has carved out an interesting niche for itself. The only two things missing is full video podcast support and hands free communication with AI. Please give us the ability to switch between audio and video, similar to Spotify and YouTube Music, along with the ability to interact with AI using voice for a true hands free experience, ie ask the AI questions during an active podcast with one-touch, ideal for listening while driving and on the go. It would also be nice to have a more dynamic discovery section like Spotify’s, but everything else is perfect!
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Snipd features
Overall hands down the best app for listening to lectures on the go! I would just ask for one additional feature. In lectures there are a lot of filler words and back and forth with thoughts and conversations, I understand the thought of the snipd function is to grab excerpts from the lecture, but if we could use the snipd feature to snipd an entire lecture for review that would make this already amazing app more insanely useful. Thank you to whoever thought of this app, well done!
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The best
Best podcast app I’ve used
Bugs
App is not bad but recently too many bugs when audio does not want to play (timer progresses but no sound). I don't have this issue with other apps
Huge time saver!
highly recommend if you’re impatient like me
The AI functions are great!
The app highlights key points in the episodes, so you can listen more podcasts, skipping boring parts
Interesting but there are serious usability misses
Stories have an arc, and summarizing podcasts into a list of bullet points doesn’t make an interesting story.
Summarizing a 30 minute podcast into a 4 minute podcast is something I might be interested in if I’m prepping for a test on the podcast, but I’m not. I’m listening to the podcast in the background while gardening, cooking, working, playing a video game… the idea that the DJ has saved me 26 minutes assumes my brain is capable of making sense of and retaining facts outside the context of their underlying story.
Not only does this approach make the podcast incomprehensible, it’s also just very boring.
Despite my negative review I do believe there is a general direction this app is headed in that is very interesting.
I imagine this being used to assemble views from multiple podcasts. I could see this being incredible for news, where info is already bite-sized. I could see this being my new way to consume podcasts with some improvements
Some things I’d like to see -
1. I immediately disabled the Snipd sound because it was very distracting. Instead, use the existing podcast’s jingle as the audible anchor between stories.
2. Give me a slider similar to playback speed to tune how deep I want the DJ to go so I can change the summary level minute by minute.
3. DJs are known for gracefully fading tracks from different albums. Use the DJ to crossfade similar topics from multiple podcasts
4. Discover mode - Add an option to Crossfade snips from podcasts I’m not subscribed to, with obvious options to subscribe/block podcasts in the feature
Thanks!!
Summarizing a 30 minute podcast into a 4 minute podcast is something I might be interested in if I’m prepping for a test on the podcast, but I’m not. I’m listening to the podcast in the background while gardening, cooking, working, playing a video game… the idea that the DJ has saved me 26 minutes assumes my brain is capable of making sense of and retaining facts outside the context of their underlying story.
Not only does this approach make the podcast incomprehensible, it’s also just very boring.
Despite my negative review I do believe there is a general direction this app is headed in that is very interesting.
I imagine this being used to assemble views from multiple podcasts. I could see this being incredible for news, where info is already bite-sized. I could see this being my new way to consume podcasts with some improvements
Some things I’d like to see -
1. I immediately disabled the Snipd sound because it was very distracting. Instead, use the existing podcast’s jingle as the audible anchor between stories.
2. Give me a slider similar to playback speed to tune how deep I want the DJ to go so I can change the summary level minute by minute.
3. DJs are known for gracefully fading tracks from different albums. Use the DJ to crossfade similar topics from multiple podcasts
4. Discover mode - Add an option to Crossfade snips from podcasts I’m not subscribed to, with obvious options to subscribe/block podcasts in the feature
Thanks!!
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Extrem instabil
Vom Prinzip her eine tolle App, aber sie stürzt ständig ab. Mega ärgerlich, weil ich die AI-Funktionen und auch sehr spezifischen Funktionen wie Integration in Notizapps sonst sehr schätze, aber wenn das nicht bald gefixt wird, kündige ich mein Abo, so macht die Nutzung keinen Spaß.
Response from developer
Hi, das tut mir Leid zu hören, das sollte nicht passieren. Könntest du uns via dem in-app Feedback Chat schreiben und genauer erklären wann es passiert? Dann können wir dem Problem nachgehen und es hoffentlich beheben. Du findest den Chat hier: You -> Settings Icon -> Feedback Kevin
That is what podcast player should be
that’s how podcast application like Apple podcast should look like it’s my number one application on iPhone
Voice booster
I listen to podcast at work using my work approved headphones which suck, please bring a feature that boosts the volume or even better custom eq band controls. I love this app
Lots of promise but super annoying
Like why is it so difficult to copy from the transcript? The copy button always disappears. Super frustrating. Don’t know why something so simple is overlooked in an app we pay for.
Amazing
This app is simply amazing. Congrats to the developers!
Response from developer
Thanks Nando :)
Great but buggy as heck
Episodes frequently reset to the start and lose my place. Seems much worse recently.
Strange things happen on replay too. Like 30 seconds of the show will replay randomly throughout.
AI minutes are not enough
DJ feature is cool but also very repetitive.
Strange things happen on replay too. Like 30 seconds of the show will replay randomly throughout.
AI minutes are not enough
DJ feature is cool but also very repetitive.
Love it
How did I ever listen to podcasts without the ability to snip and take notes before?? Won’t go back to any other apps — this is the best.
I couldn’t live without this app
If you’re obsessed w/ knowledge retention, try the free version. You’ll fall in love with the app and upgrade to premium. The free version is already incredibly good in terms of functionality (just limited in terms of # pods/week)
Great audio player
I love the interface and they did a good job with the features . Has been my go to player for a while.
The app sorts my thoughts
This is amazing for understanding the conversation
Stop w the trash features
AI dj is like a zero value add utterly pointless “upgrade”… meanwhile basic functionality like “when I press play the podcast episode will start from where I lost stopped” only works like half the time now. I’m wasting so much time refinding where I’d previously stopped listening because more and more “pressing play” means the episode is starting over completely from the beginning. Sad when an excellent tool succumbs to such an easily avoidable failure
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AI is awesome
Very well done, team!
