Stitcher has issues
I switched to Stitcher because Itunes is simply not user friendly and because Overcast (to me the best podcast app) suddenly stopped working. Stitcher is fine- easy enough to use and way better than Itunes. Two negatives- I can't get all the podcasts that either Itunes or Overcast offered ( a minor issue), but the biggest problem by far is how glitchy Stitcher is when playing pods. I NEVER experienced so many skips or repeats (like 10-15 seconds) with the other apps during playback. It happens multiple times in nearly every episode. It's just an annoyance when the episode jumps backwards 15 seconds and then keeps playing, but when it skips forward and you wonder what you missed it can be frustrating. That's my feedback.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback. Please send your logs by going to Settings > Scroll to bottom > Send logs > Follow prompts. Thanks!
Also can’t search, so frustrating
I just looked at the app reviews and feel better knowing I am not the only person who cannot search for a title. I was also having an issue where the latest podcasts were not downloading. The only problem is in trying to troubleshoot my issue (refreshed cache), now I cannot access any of the podcasts I used to listen to.
I used to love Stitcher but I am now searching for a replacement app, after seeing the search issue seems to be ongoing and unresolved for many folks.
I used to love Stitcher but I am now searching for a replacement app, after seeing the search issue seems to be ongoing and unresolved for many folks.
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Love, but what is with this update
Hello, team Stitcher. I have been using your app for years and been very pleased with it. This should be a glowing 5-star review. The UI of other podcast apps are ugly, their controls are often unresponsive, and the apple native podcast is the most disorganized and unintuitive of all. And now that’s what I’m using, because stitcher basically just stopped working. I can play an episode, but not the most recent one, because those don’t refresh. The home screen doesn’t refresh, it gets stuck and the loading icon spins forever unless I change screens. The app is unusable, but I use to love it. Please fix it? I despise the Apple podcasts app. Please help me not use it.
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Response from developer
Please contact our support team so we can report this to our developers. You can contact us from the app by going to Settings > Give Feedback > Follow Prompts. We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Great podcast app, but annoying queue management
Really enjoy the layout of the app and the quick access to your podcasts. Annoyingly, the only way to queue up episodes is to use the "up-next" queue which puts episodes at the front instead of the end of the queue. I have to decide how many episodes I want listen to first, or else I need to reorganize them all back in order. I can't quickly add another episode to my queue either, I have to re-order it to the back every time.
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The WORST app on my phone
It used to work fine, but something changed after the latest update(s), and now this app freezes nearly EVERY TIME I use it.
Nothing I’ve done has been able to resolve this issue, and it doesn’t resolve itself, so I have to constantly reinstall the app or restart my phone to get it to work again. It’s INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING, and it looks like this is happening with a lot of other users as well.
Stitcher Premium just isn’t worth it until they do something to fix this issue.
It freezes at least once a day, it’s ridiculous.
Nothing I’ve done has been able to resolve this issue, and it doesn’t resolve itself, so I have to constantly reinstall the app or restart my phone to get it to work again. It’s INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING, and it looks like this is happening with a lot of other users as well.
Stitcher Premium just isn’t worth it until they do something to fix this issue.
It freezes at least once a day, it’s ridiculous.
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Everything I need
Stitcher has everything I need, and complete control over how and when I get it. I stopped watching TV three years ago, and I don’t regret it for a moment. Life is so much more functional when you have some voices you want to hear accompanying it.
Great service!
I’ve been subscribed to this podcast service for about three years and I can tell you that it’s wonderful I originally joined because I love the podcast How Did This Get Made?, but they have so many other wonderful podcast that are very informative and engaging that are only available on this platform, LeVar Burton reads is one of my favorites the application is very easy to use and the off-line function is great. I’ve been living overseas and I can only use this application with my VPN turned on so the off-line version is really helpful. I recommend this service. The one thing I would say is it is a little pricey but worth it to get all the features in Stitcher premium content
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Response from developer
Thanks for the great review. It's awesome. Happy new year!
Just about the best
I've been with Stitcher for years. Everything you want is right here. It's well organized, intuitive, they have sleep timers, good profiles on the podcasts, and you can find just about anything you want - even if you didn't know it. I say that because I have explored and found some obscure podcasts that were absolutely fascinating! They playlist function works well, adding and deleting is easy, and IF you need to contact Stitcher, they.... Play the drum.... Answer!
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Response from developer
Thanks for the great review. We really appreciate it. Happy new year!
Such a great product and service
Stitcher makes my daily commute so enjoyable. The software itself works perfectly, and the convenience of streaming podcasts beats having to manually prepare playlists ahead of time.
Best Podcast Player Ever
I’ve been using Stitcher since 2008 and have never, nor will ever look back. I love it’s ease of use, the features that it keeps adding and tweaking - 30 sec skip forward and back, playing at 1/2x-4x speed, widgets, etc.
I don’t have a lot of loyalties when it comes to apps, but I certainly do with Stitcher. Almost 40,000 hours and counting 😎👍
I don’t have a lot of loyalties when it comes to apps, but I certainly do with Stitcher. Almost 40,000 hours and counting 😎👍
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Buggy. Requires kill and restart of the app regularly to fix UI lag
When you use the app, then go away from it and then back to it, it is regularly slow and laggy upon scrolling through favorites or more or less doing anything. Killing the app and restarting it fixes the problem, but it’s annoying. Stitcher didn’t have this problem until a few months ago, but the bug has been around now for a while. I wish they’d fix it. Outside of this annoyance, it’s a great app. I’m using an iPhone XR on the latest version of the OS fwiw.
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Update ruined it
Gaaah, I've been using Stitcher for 10 years, I've always loved how user friendly it is.... but they took away my favorite feature! I listen to podcasts to sleep. I can't sleep without them playing all night long, I know, I'm weird. But that means that I relished to episodes over and over and over. I used to be able to really easily "mark unplayed" by simply tapping down the row of "played" icons. Then I just hit play on the bottom one and boom- hours of uninterrupted sleep. Now I have to click on every episode, open it up, mark it unplayed and to play next. Grrrrrrr.
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Response from developer
Possibly a bug with the sleep timer. Please write in from the app so we can take a look. Settings > Give Feedback > Follow prompts. Thanks!
Great app
Been using the app for almost a decade. Extremely Easy to use. Very few flaws. (1000% better than the website) Navigation is a bit cumbersome. Wish there were a filter for searching shows. Podcasts that are downloaded is a super simple option and very fast in doing so, (within seconds) but I wish there were more options to organize them ( alphabetical, etc) this includes the show that are followed in your favorite shows list. Not possible to organize, which would be great to be able to do when searching for a specific one on it.
Despite my petty complaints I love the Stitcher podcast app. Prefer it over all others. Wish I used it more often. Great variety of shows. You wont regret this purchase. Id give 4 1/2 stars but no option to do so.
4 1/2 out of 5 stars
Despite my petty complaints I love the Stitcher podcast app. Prefer it over all others. Wish I used it more often. Great variety of shows. You wont regret this purchase. Id give 4 1/2 stars but no option to do so.
4 1/2 out of 5 stars
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review and helpful feedback. Have you tried using Groups? On your My Show page you can create Groups and drag and drop shows into those Groups. This would then allow you to listen to all the new episodes of that group in a row. If you need help, let us know at support@stitcher.com. Thanks!
Used to be great
This was my favorite podcast app but it's going backwards. Recent addition of Bluetooth request is too much, no I don't want to give you access to that because you don't need it and you ask me EVERY TIME I START A PODCAST. I'm also missing the ability to sort my latest list that used to be there, now I have to f' with my phone while I'm driving to hear the shows in the order I want. Yes it's a free app and you need to make money but it appears that you're going down the path of profiling your users to sell their data. Time to look for a replacement.
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So frustrating!
I used to love stitcher, but this app has been having problems all year! I’ve deleted and re-download it more times than I’d like to. Losing all of my download content every time, and trying to remember what was there in order to re-download it again. I refuse to lose all my downloaded Content again! Waiting for you to fix the app in an update so that I won’t have to lose all of my podcasts, again. Please figure out a way to fix this for me and the many many others with this same issue, thanks
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Feature Request
I’m a fan of Stitcher and greatly enjoy using it over other podcast players, but there’s a big feature missing that I wish was there: filtering downloaded episodes by show group.
Even when I click “episodes” with my show groups, it only shows the latest episodes per podcast. What’s the point of show groups then? I would love to see all my downloaded episodes by show group from all time, not just the most recent episode from each show.
Right now I really like Stitcher and will keep using it, but there’s nothing stopping me from switching to another podcast app if that feature is available there…
Even when I click “episodes” with my show groups, it only shows the latest episodes per podcast. What’s the point of show groups then? I would love to see all my downloaded episodes by show group from all time, not just the most recent episode from each show.
Right now I really like Stitcher and will keep using it, but there’s nothing stopping me from switching to another podcast app if that feature is available there…
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Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback! Our "playlists" are called "Groups" - once you follow a show, you can group them together essentially creating a playlist of those shows. You can find this on your "My Shows" page. Create the group and then drag and drop which shows you'd like to be in that group. You can also use "Likes" in a similar way for episodes.
Great but for one glitch!
I prefer Stitcher to Apple Podcasts for every reason EXCEPT I am unable to actually read the information about episodes without the app glitching and defaulting back to the top of whatever is written. It doesn’t seem to matter which show I’m listening to because it happens for every episode I am trying to read up on. Would LOVE a fix for this issue!
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Better for me than Apple podcast
I like that I can adjust playback speed in 10% increments. A host of a particular, popular conservative podcast talks way too fast and if I slow it down 20%, he sounds normal to me. I can’t do this with the native Apple player. Apple does have a bigger library, but Stitcher has most of what I have ever searched for, so it’s better app wins for me.
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☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Generally the best features and tools of podcatchers. There’s issues. I know their team works hard. Search function is imprecise. Loading and reloading or refreshing the app can be necessary before playing an episode. The play list function and playback speeds fit information junkies like a glove.
I regret buying a year of premium
Possibly the worst podcast app that has been released. Instead of ranting I will leave my feedback in a bulleted fashion:
- Downloading podcasts is useless as it defaults to using Wi-Fi/data even if it is downloaded. You must activate airplane mode for it to play from the downloaded file.
- Refuses to play a podcast until you tell it you don’t want to activate Bluetooth. Asks several times after you refuse. I know when I want to use Bluetooth, stop asking me!
- Slow connection and errors when you are on 300mbps Wi-Fi or have full 5G bars.
- crashing during podcasts and forgetting progress on podcasts, regularly.
- each update progressively makes it a more poor experience, increasing errors, crash rates and features that provide no benefit.
- Downloading podcasts is useless as it defaults to using Wi-Fi/data even if it is downloaded. You must activate airplane mode for it to play from the downloaded file.
- Refuses to play a podcast until you tell it you don’t want to activate Bluetooth. Asks several times after you refuse. I know when I want to use Bluetooth, stop asking me!
- Slow connection and errors when you are on 300mbps Wi-Fi or have full 5G bars.
- crashing during podcasts and forgetting progress on podcasts, regularly.
- each update progressively makes it a more poor experience, increasing errors, crash rates and features that provide no benefit.
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