Patreon App Reviews

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Not sure why app is so limited. Downloaded this app for the first time today, and yes, I saw some of the negative reviews. I have to say I agree with most of them. I followed an organization that produces podcasts I find very rewarding and then I signed up to be a patron. The signup went through well, but every time I start the app it tells me on the feed screen that I’m not following anyone, and tells me to search for people to follow. I already did that. So I look for the app feedback (I would think this would be mandatory for Apple to even allow an app on their store) but there is no feedback function. I can only send a message to the people I’m a patron of, but even then I have to search for them. They should already be listed as I’m a patron now. Do I have to go to the Patreon website to send app feedback? Is that even available there? This makes no sense at all. This app is needlessly crippled and I don’t understand why. If they add these and other badly needed features, I will update my review and perhaps my rating as well.

Some glitches. While it is nice to be able to see what the creators posted without having to open the website, there are some drawbacks on the app. Unlike the website, the app doesn’t have a filter so there are times when you wouldn’t be able to see some of the contents from the creators if you were gone for a few weeks and the creators post multiple daily. There is also a glitch where the app will give you notifications stating that there are new or unseen contents from creators when I have already seen everything. And then there is also an overwhelming flood of notifications on your phone whenever the creators post contents for patrons of and you will see how the creators post something for all of the different tiers. That said, I still like the app quite a lot. I just hope that patreon fixes those glitches they have soon as they are bugging quite a lot.

A work in progress. I love the Instigators! I love the concept of “ fan control”, which Apex Athletic Collective brings to the sport of basketball, all together. The Patreon idea is beautiful. The Patreon experience still needs a little fine tuning. Little things, like technical difficulties, still need to be improved upon. I have all the faith, that as AAC, gains more experience, issues such as our live chat, for the games, will be addressed and will quickly become a thing of the past. I see improvement every week, and, that is extremely commendable. That part of my Patreon experience, I give 100% props to the organization. I also feel certain, with the ownership involved, as completely, and directly, as they are, improvements will be seen every week. I thank Apex Athletic Collective, for being here, and bringing this concept of fan controlled interaction, to the fans. You all are the best, and I do love my Patreon. subscription.

Just like the site...confusing. I’m not sure who designs there apps or webpages but None of it is intuitive. This app doesn’t allow you to just see one creators page. Or does it? Hard to tell since it’s not in your face and apparent. Even on their site I find myself clicking needlessly to go where I need to go. Just the other day I realized the Patreon symbol in the top left hand corner was a link to the home page. It’s silly. use words and stop making everything a “discovery”. I don’t have time to be wasting memorizing what clicking certain symbols do on a website. I swear I used to be able to see how many people are donating to someone I back. I have no idea how to do that now. Why do some modern websites insist on being edgy and making you work to get content. Simple and straightforward is all you need. Their app and website creators need a lesson in empathy. And whoever approves this needs to learn what it’s customers want. It really makes me want to use a different platform.

Patreon is great for authors, artists, anyone with a gift and the people who admire them.. As patrons we are usually able to converse with those we follow. If the Patreon artist sets things up, as mine do. The artist gets a much more dependable income allowing them more time to create! The people who follow them are usually given some free-bee’s, discounted & earlier than the general public products (books, art, etc…). The Patreon and followers can directly communicate with each other. Most of the artists that I follow set up surveys that may influence the direction of their work. I really like the commercial-free setup. I feel like more than just a nameless purchaser of their art. For the most part it’s win/win for all parties! I’m adding a podcast for sleep meditation with whispered directions, soft music, and nature sounds.

Clunky user experience, laggy feed. Firstly, I will say that I like that Patreon allows me to support independent artists, however that is about where my praise ends. I have struggled with the functionality of this app since I downloaded it over a year ago. (And the trouble persists even after multiple app updates, uninstalling and reinstalling the app, and other trouble shooting.) There is a clunky user experience to almost every aspect of this app. Even trying to change my profile picture causes it to crash. Another example: if I click the “like” heart, it often won’t appear as selected next time I log on. Now my feed won’t update and Patreon’s recommended solution is to unsubscribe/re-subscribe to my podcasts?! This should be the responsibility of the developers to fix, not mine. A few other small things of contention; there isn’t an overtly obvious way to indicate that an episode has been played. Also, there is a pop/clipping noise a few seconds into each audio podcast I play, regardless of who produced the content. These kinds of things add up when it comes to user experience, so I’ll be looking for better ways to support these content creators outside of Patreon since the app seems to only be getting worse.

A great platform with a few hiccups.... A great platform for supporting creators and kickstarting one yourself. Though it’s not without some issues, sometimes the video player will close something your in the middle of if you close your phone or switch apps. Sometimes comments you write will inexplicably disappear after posting it, which can be frustrating when being able to comment on certain posts can be a tier for certain projects. And lastly occasionally posts won’t appear on the mobile version. I support Easy Allies a group of video game enthusiasts that make video content, for a long period of time they’re patron exclusive series Cup of Jones never appeared on the mobile app. Thankfully they reached out to patreon and worked this out. Despite a few annoyances Patreon is a great platform and a solid app. I wouldn’t listen to half the podcasts i do without the Mobile version.

Love the concept, not the app. Patreon is a great idea. I love that I can support some of my favorite creators. Navigating the app (at least on the iPad) is a pain. When I swipe to scroll through the feed, it works fine until it runs out of pre-loaded content. When new stuff needs to load, it’ll give you a spinning “loading” icon to let you know it’s thinking - fine. But when the new content loads, it rushes up past where you were quickly, so you lose your place. When you scroll up to find your place again, the feed gets super stuttery, making it annoying to find your place (especially since you shouldn’t have to). Some of my favorite artists post multiple images in one post - that’s cool, right? It’s nice to see a group of drawings around the same theme. But when you go back to the feed from within a post, it just puts you somewhere in the feed, usually past where you were when you clicked the post. And if you’re deep in a feed but need to put your iPad aside - say you get a phone call or something - when you open your iPad again, you’re back at the top of the feed. Super frustrating. I’ve had all of these problems in landscape and portrait modes, on the previous generation iPad Pro. It makes for a crappy user experience. I’d suggest using the website over the app.

Almost perfect.. I really love the app, it's a super convenient way to keep track of the artists I like and also keep updated on the content and my pledges without having to get on the computer or comb through my email, however even after having had the app for a few months, it's still kind of hair to navigate. Not impossible but I have found that some of the avenues to get to options that I thought I would find on the main page of an artist are often buried somewhere in my settings. Editing pledges is an example of this. The pages can be a tag glitchy and tend to lag depending on the content, but the scroll works well enough. There is no way to search tags other than scrolling until you find what you're looking for? Also unless you have a Patreon link or you know the specific handle of the person you're looking for, finding someone can be difficult at best.

Honestly okay but could be so much better!. I’ve been using this app since 2019 and every now and then my app just stops working! I’ll get a notification click it and I’ll be redirected to .......redirected to..... still redirected.....! So I just refresh but nope now it’s not redirecting its 2 months worth of posts behind! And if I refresh again it won’t change!!! Sometime the the app will just kick me out before opening properly! It’s not all the time I love all the work I’m paying for it’s just frustrating and a little nerve racking when I have to refresh and app 8 time delete it! Download it again and then hope I get everything I paid for back! Then if I don’t having to ask the creators for a link to the content I lost and I feel so rude when I do! I just had to delete the app again and I’m bit mad but they need to do better on the app side of things. The website works better for me and that’s why I rated it high and because I’m here to support the creators!

The app is garbage.. Search functionality is terrible(and nonexistent when trying to search through a creator’s feed). Playback functionality is terrible, downloading content fails constantly, and even when “successful” refuse to play. No native video player, and mediocre/awful integration of Vimeo. I want to keep supporting my creators but this app makes it nearly impossible to justify spending money on content I may or may not be able to access. I’ve been using this platform for several years and still no significant improvements. Very disappointing. Update: I’m literally trying to subscribe to a creator but I can’t. I can’t find it in the app, I can find it on a browser, but the browser won’t allow me to sign in, it also won’t allow me to address my sign in problems(like a ‘Forgot your Password?’-type solution). There is literally no way for me to support the creator I care about or access their content. This is an absurd failure in every level of your system. Please pass this on to your developers and chief executives. How can you grow without supporting the end-user patrons? How do you even continue to exist when a patron can’t support a new creator? Fix this.

Disappointed. I’ve been hearing so much about patreon so I finally caved and downloaded it so I could subscribe to my favorite podcast. I pay x amount of money a month for this subscription, but due to the glitches of the app the episodes almost never load. It doesn’t matter if i’m connected to wifi or using my data, the app is just so wonky and slow. It’s frustrating because there’s no where else I can get this content, so I rely on patreon to work. Even more, i’m paying for this monthly so I want to be able to access it without waiting 10+ minutes for an episode to load. Even more so, this affects the content creators directly because of the app’s low functionality. Hopefully this gets fixed in the future, however I’ve updated the app several time with no avail.

It’s decent. Pateron is a decent app, it seems legit in the way that it seems like it’s designed and maintained by professionals. However the reason I’m giving it 3 stars is because when I load up the app, and try to watch a video, the video itself won’t actually play. It will just continue to show that it’s loading. I did some digging yesterday online, but couldn’t find anything that helpful, however what I did notice is that they are a relatively small company (only about 400 employees). Which might explain why the app using doesn’t work correctly! (I’m using an iPhone 12 running iOS 16.0.2) so I’m starting to think that maybe the only reason why the app doesn’t work on my end is because they just haven’t updated the app to run on iOS 16.0.2. But other then that, the app launches fine, just doesn’t play videos, which is a slight let down in my books.

Great intention but missing some features, also BUGS. I love the idea behind this app! Especially with other platforms constantly changing their monetization guidelines it’s nice to know there is a platform in which I can directly support creators I love. However, there are some issues that make this app much not so great on mobile devices. For one, after I created my profile there’s no way to go edit my profile on the app itself (can’t even add a profile picture, like what??). I would have to get on my computer or go through a web browser to do so. Another issue I’ve run into is the interactive capabilities (liking, posting comments, direct messaging) will randomly stop working and will force you to log out and then back in in order to fix the issue. I cannot speak to the experience as a creator so I am unaware of any issues or awesome features on that side of the app. Overall a pretty good app with some flaws from time to time, but still awesome knowing I can make direct contributions to my favorite creators.

Needs more work, please. I really love the idea of finding and patronizing through Patreon creators that are doing great work out there. No problem there. What I would like to see is more flexibility with the app. For instance searching a creators posts. Some of the creators that I follow make many posts and refer back to other posts. I have not found a way in the app to search those. Also many of my the creators do video or audio. The app does not let you leave the page or even turn off the screen(for putting in your pocket). It also doesn’t save your place on the vid/audio file if you mistakenly turn off your phone or hit a button while holding it in your hand trying to listen. It might do a bunch of stuff but for me if it doesn’t do these things then it doesn’t really work how I need it to work. Thanks

The VERY BEST!. Steve Shippy and his paranormal associates are the very best in the business! Every investigation is handled with the upmost respect and care for not only the owners but also the spirits. Steve Shippy and Co-investigators capture the most activity/evidence without exploiting the spirits or the ppl; which, is highly different than some of the other individuals in the paranormal industry. Haunted Saginaw and similar paranormal investigation groups need to be more celebrated and appreciated for the respect and honor they bring to an industry that sometimes can feel void of compassion and care for all parties involved. Steve and crew prove that there is no need for investigations to poke,prod, and exploit the spirits in the space to get the very best evidence that there is a realm behind the vail. To some it all up, Haunted Saginaw captures the very best evidence while using the most caring concern and compassion I have ever had the honor of watching. One last thing, Shippy and co-investigators truly care about learning and hearing every person and spirits story; which I think is truly the only way to find the answers and solutions to actually bring piece,closure, and the ability for spirits and the people to co exist in the locations.

Not a smooth experience.. As a patron, I like seeing the things I’m paying for in a convenient place. This app needs a landing page with a feed just like every other content driven service ever. When I open it, I want to see the new stuff that I’m paying for, not the page of someone that hasn’t updated in 6 months. When trying to edit my payment information that the app informed me I was missing, pages kept flickering in and out of view and I was never confident the information I was inputting was taking. Ultimately after two tries I gave up. Selections kept falling behind black blocker screens. It also gave me the sensation of a desktop site on mobile where it feels like the content is there, just down and to the right somewhere (maybe). For a service that is a middle man for giving other people money, the experience should inspire confidence that said money is being handled with care. This app doesn’t do that. It’s too clunky of an experience for a company that’s been around for 5 years.

Functions out of whack. I don’t know why this app has such high ratings either because it’s not functional. If I’m using the app on my iPhone I can put the video in the corner of my screen and watch my podcast while using other apps all day. Sometimes I just pause it and slide the video off the screen so I don’t lose my spot but I can start it up again very quickly. On my iPad I can’t use other apps while watching my podcast. Which doesn’t make any sense seeing how that feature was made available to iPads LONG before iPhones. Also, if I’m watching a video horizontally and I decide to change my device to the vertical position the whole video closes making me re start the podcast and finding where I was cut off. And there’s no way to get around it, I have to place my iPad in the position I want to view the video in and never move it until I’m done watching. It’s tedious and it shouldn’t be, sometimes I want to enjoy the luxury of a larger screen without having to travel with my laptop but the only working application you have is for the cell phone. Get it together because that last update didn’t fix bugs.

Needs to work out a few kinks. I enjoy the ability to be able to support creators directly for the content I consume however the Patreon app itself has a bit to work out. For instance it doesn’t consistently keep up with what videos/podcasts you have listened to. Sometimes there will be a green checkmark, other times there will be no indication that you’ve listened to it. In addition when you go to use another app, say you’re on Twitter and a video plays, once you’re done with whatever you were listening to on that other app Patreon won’t always still be loaded on the control center page to play from so you have to go back into the app find that specific piece of content play it AND fast forwards to wherever you were in the episode. There’s also often a long delay while it loads. Sometimes I have to close the app and reopen it just to get podcasts to play. I appreciate the purpose of the app but would like them to work on some basic errors.

Dear E.T. and the rest of the Character Building squad …. Hey guys ima get right to it this podcast has LITERALLY saved my life I was on the the edge of truly giving up and I know yall get these type of letters…emails…etc but please let me tel you this is different when I say I literally HAVE to like it’s not an option for me I HAVE to listen and talk cause I find myself tlkn back to yall at times but I’m afraid of my actions to those around me so my goal is to come to a event because honestly I NEED yall right now I have a gift but my discipline and mentality are shot…I want to remain anonymous for now because I feel too tainted to even b in y’all’s presence but I know in my heart that this is where I need to b to get my life together and I don’t wnt to die trying I wnt to die tried and true!!! From the bottom of my Heart and I truly mean these words with my soul E.T…Carl…C.J. Jamal…John all talk thank you for what yall do!!! I didn’t reread this so forgive any typos!!!

Always glitching or freezing, no way to search or filter content. I don’t think there’s ever been a time where I open this app and I can listen to something right away. I open it, click on the thing, nothing happens, the app freezes, I have to force close it, reopen and wait for everything to load again, and THEN I can *probably* start interacting with the content I’m paying for. It’s just so glitchy, constantly. On desktop I rarely have issues, but on the phone app I am having issues every single day. Also WHY IS THERE NO SEARCH OR LIST FUNCTION?? I subscribe to two podcasts on Patreon and the only way to find old episodes is to scroll through every single post from that creator. There are specific tags on each episode but you can’t even use those to filter out the content. It is such a pain to scroll through the feed to find something, where the app only loads 10 or so posts at a time and you have to keep waiting for more to load. It would be nice if the app just showed me a list of episodes, or if filters actually worked. Something would be better than nothing.

Please make it better. Such a hassle to use and I feel like it could easily be made more user-friendly? I use it primarily for podcasts, and I am so frustrated by how CONSTANTLY the app restarts if I pause what I’m listening to, leave the app running, and use another app for just a few minutes. When I go back to the app, it shows the black background with the logo and then the top of my feed as though I had fully closed and shut off the app and reopened it again. If I am listening to an episode in an extensive back catalogue, which I often am, I usually have to go back and find it multiple times within a single listening session. I don’t know much about app design or coding but I can’t imagine it’s impossible to at least have the app be able to “save” what you were last doing when it shut itself down and have the little currently-listening-bar still be open at the bottom when it restarts, so you can just click play instead of trying to remember what the episode was called and searching for it, or having to just scroll through months/years of posts until you find it if you can’t remember.

Inexcusable for no feed order settings. You can login on the website (not the app) and be able to order the feed by oldest to newest, by month, year, and by subscription tier content. NOT TO MENTION: no option to increase playback speed on app? Why is none of this available on the app? The app also will for some reason reset (?) and send me all the way back to the most recent post by the creator and I have to scroll ALL THE WAY back to the beginning. Terrible and considering the site has these settings, what are you guys doing over there with your time? How is this not one of the very first quality of life changes you add to the app? Really don’t like giving people my money when I feel they’re doing a terrible job with basic things one should expect. Will be getting through this content on the site as quickly as possible and hopefully not coming back (at least it won’t be on the app!). Get it together!!

Sign In with Apple broken? Update: Works. How do I log in with Apple if Sign Up with Apple isn’t an option? I’d like to support a Patreon and do not have an account. When I press “Continue with Apple” it always replies “Something went wrong”. I cannot tell if it’s a bug or if I did something wrong. Update: Thank you for the speedy response. I don’t have an account so I don’t have Patreon email to send to you. This isn’t a critique, I genuinely want to know - why would I Sign In with Apple if I already had an account? I was hoping to create an account via “Sign In with Apple”. That’s my mistake. I realize now it doesn’t say Sign UP with Apple”. Seems odd to have one without the other though. Thanks again for the response. Update 2: Continue with Apple works. Dunno if the update fixed it or if it was because I reinstalled the app. Thanks devs.

An essential platform for my artistic growth. Patreon allows me to stay in direct connection with my supporters and to provide a platform where I can share my work with potential patrons or simply people who want to be uplifted by what I do. I love the fact that it can be accessed by people who are not yet patrons and they can get a good idea of what I do. I love the fact that they can become a patron for $1 dollar a month. I like the fact that people can give more if they are so motivated and can afford it. I am a strong believer in art for the people and not making artwork so exclusive that its value is raised simply because of its rarity. Art belongs out with the people. Patreon allows me that access. I look forward to growing and expanding my audience through Patreon as well as other social media platforms

Can’t even download the app. I was trying to download the app to watch something, like almost every other person that uses the app and it doesn’t even let u download it. Click the download button, and it’s no my first time installing it, another time I installed it than I deleted it. Today I tried to redownload it and it told me I needed to use my Apple ID so I put it in, than it took me to my payment methods saying I have to verify something and there was nothing to verify, no specific instructions. I thought “oh bc I moved maybe I need to change the address on my card”. Changed my whole adress press done and it said press continue to verify, so I did and it took me right back to my payment methods with NO instructions so what was I supposed to verify??? I tired to retype my information thinking maybe there’s a typo or something and it took me back to “press continue to verify” this time I didn’t press continue bc I was thinking it’ll take me back to my pay methods so I pressed cancel and Patreon was loading and than it stopped and had the little cloud thing that comes up when u uninstall a app and u try and get it back. (Cloud and arrow). I’ve been trying for the past 20 mins maybe to figure out what’s the problem and kept doing the same thing over and over, retyping my information and nothing worked. Fix ur app, this is stupid

Bad update. I am a common patreon user. I use it essentially every day and ever since the update it’s become increasingly harder to use. To scroll and watch older videos, for me to finish them and have it refresh all the way back to the top of the page is so frustrating and annoying. It makes the experience stressful and aggravating. The mobile app is ugly and hard to look at too. I just am really unhappy with everything this update has brought. Update on y me review: The app has gotten even worse with every update they do. I can no longer even access the app when using my cell data. For no reason at all. I used to be able to listen to podcasts while in my car and now I can’t even do that. They have ruined this app completely. I can’t even use it when I want to use it so what’s the point of even having it? No one even provides any help with anything. This is so aggravating. Developers and apples clearly don’t care about consumers.

Benefits of being a patron!. I watch most of the sailing videos on You Tube and for most part I like them all. I started thinking about all the enjoyment I was getting but was not giving back anything in return. So I started paying attention to the patrons and did a bit of research. I soon realised that I could not be a patron to each sailing group and decided that I would pick one and make a sizeable contribution each month. But how do you decide which one is best for you. My thoughts were to select a group that I felt needed me. Not a group that already had a large group of patrons and could spend their money on most anything that they wanted but I would choose a group that I felt needed my help and that I could connect to. I chose Sailing Merawether because she met the criteria that I was looking for. Two young people from two different countries coming together and enjoying each other and working together to just have fun. They had a nice boat, nothing fancy but they were able to make it work. They were aware that they had a budget and were going to live within it. They were not struggling but were frugal with what they had. Kerine seems to have a good working knowledge of the boat and he uses Isabelle in such a way that helps him and gives her the information that she needs to be a better first mate. There were their work ethics, quality of video’s and other factors I won’t go into. And not one of my requirements but Isabelle is not hard to look at. :)

Terrible Customer Support. I love the app, and I love subscribing to/reading from my favorite contributors, but that’s the only reason I continue to use this app. On a scale of 0-10 worst-best, the support team receives a solid 0. The support I received, upon being locked out of adding/editing my payment method(which then restricted my usage), was absolutely terrible. Every reply I received had nothing to do with what I asked, and not once was a question answered. Information was provided that I did not need or request, and my issue was never addressed, as I stated it. I ended up having to DELETE/DEACTIVATE my ENTIRE account because I was locked out of billing, unable to change my card to pay for services, and couldn’t get support from Patreon- an unfortunately ineffective and inefficient way to operate/support locked out members. Though, based on my prior support interactions, I don’t expect an intelligent response (from Patreon) related to anything I’ve written, I hope this is read and perhaps looked at by a human being that operates beyond a script.

Hope and Understanding. There are many ends-of-months over the past umpteen years since Rick Levine has been delivering his astrological updates that I just can’t wait to read the next one. How calming, how uplifting to know that very soon I’ll be able to sit just above all the strum und drang of these horrifying times and breathe deeply with the rhythms of the universe. Rick delivers such a gift to us, highlighting and clarifying all we need to know —offering a cosmic map of our times. How we each move forward with its guidance is our choice, but we are not alone and rudderless anymore. Rick Merlin Levine is always there to offer us a way to make some sense of the senseless, find clarity in the muck and understand a bit better how to find hope and wisdom amid that all we are moving through and sometimes stuck in. Thanks, Rick!

The app needs work. I’ve been a patreon supporter for a comic artist, and a podcast for approximately four months now. I’m happy to be supporting these artists. However, my challenge is in the app. For the posts that are text-based it’s all intermingled and easy to lose track of a thread. That said, my biggest complaint is with the audio section of Patreon. I had downloaded ~15 episodes, so that I could easily keep track of what I hadn’t listened to yet. Having listen to about three of them, the next day, all of them were no longer download. Another problem with the audio section is, I will fully listen to episodes, but when I re-open the app some of those episodes are shown as only partially listened to. It doesn’t seem to do a very good job of tracking what I have played or have not played. And clearly I cannot download an episode indefinitely but I have no idea how long a download remains before they automatically clear it. I would like a download to remain downloaded until I choose to delete it. I would also like a fully played episode to be marked complete and archived. And finally, I would like to be able to sort within the app both the podcast episodes by title or date. And I would like to be able to sort the text posts by creator.

The Best Podcast for everyone!. Good Service Podcast ❤️ This is everything any person could want in a podcast. However what makes it the ultimate Podcast is it’s faith based! They welcome all people ! All walks of life and backgrounds!!! Just like Jesus did !! I can not stress how important welcoming one and all is! Everything they speak on is relatable! This needs more advertising! They need more help circulating their Podcast!!!! It is more then just faith it shows how to reach a community that is all welcoming this is the biggest Hype point because when people feel welcomed they listen and tend to open up! We all need each other and they show you how by faith and by strength in community all things are possible with GOD and a foundation! Love this ! Ben and Kevin are a perfect combination for Podcast and anything else because their vibe is one of acceptance and Love and don’t forget the laughs ! Love the Podcast also shout out to all behind the scenes there !!!! We thank you!

Terrible app. This app is terrible. The user interface is really bad. There isn’t even an option for to add, update, or change payment info within the app unless your payment has already been entered on the webpage previously. They’re currently still charging a card that has been expired… Hard to navigate, no way of knowing if you listened to something already, no way to tell which of your content is related to your subscribed tier when so you can see the difference in content, comments get lost when you want to go back to them, there’s a community but it would be cool if I could follow users as well to see what content they watch to find content of similar interests. The app freezes & there’s wonky issues when changing from portrait view to landscape. I can’t really say anything I like about the app. I honestly wouldn’t use it if I didn’t have to. I’ve been using it for years and the app has always been bad. It’s better than it’s been, but still has a long way to go before it’s no longer a nuisance to use to listen to my fav podcasts.

Best podcast ever. I’ve listened to every episode from day one. This is the podcast I’ve been waiting for, as a lover of sci fi, aliens, spooky unusual things, XFiles, Fringe, and so much more. Derrick and staff do a great job of weeding through the stories to pick the most genuine sounding (hopefully true) stories. Love how each show is packed with calls. Love the banter and soothing voice of Derrick sir, and I appreciate that you don’t talk nonsense in between calls. It’s filled with data, proof or supportive evidence relating to stories, Derricks take on things, and relating discussion (in between calls). The discussion is not over kill or overwhelming like some podcasts. Then, to top it off, Derrick spoils us all with a hidden story after the end of the show! Yes Derrick! Spoil us! There is so much thought put into all the details of the shows. Thank you all for your hard work!

No Functionality. I recently signed up for a podcast on patreon. I normally listen to podcasts on stitcher as it’s a simple easy experience. But this one won’t show up for me On stitcher, so I have to go through the patreon app. Unfortunately the person I’ve subscribed to has 400 podcasts and the one I’m trying to listen to is one of the first. I can get to it by searching for it on a web browser. But when I try to play it through a web browser (on the official site!) the podcast literally stops every 30 seconds. However I also can’t get it to open in the app. I can find no search function for specific episodes in the app. No list function. No favorite function that would show me even the ones I favorite on this app. The only way I can tell to get to this podcast in this app is literally to scroll through a feed of 400 podcasts which only load 10 at a time. Am I missing something or is this seriously how this app functions? It doesn’t function at all? I can’t believe how much time I’ve already wasted just trying to get a podcast I payed for already to play. Definitely no functionality allowing me to message the creator either. I can’t believe this is supposed to be the official app of a platform supposedly about helping creators easily connect with their audiences.

Sorting Episodes is a Pain. For someone that likes to relisten to old episodes of shows, the media player aspect of the app is severely lacking. Once an episode gets played all the way through it automatically gets archived for some reason. There’s no way to sort by “all episodes” if I want to scroll through to find a past episodes to listen to, just “up next” or “unplayed”, etc. I just want to see the whole catalog. It’s also hard to pick up where you left off in a large catalog. If I’m listening to an episode that’s 50 episodes back and I leave the app to go do something else, when I come back I have to scroll all the way back to find where I was again. The player doesn’t auto play the next episode in the queue either so if I finish and old episode and and just want to play the next one, I have to scroll all the way back down, find the one I just heard, and the select the next one manually. A lot of little inconveniences that make this app a massive pain and make me reconsider donating to campaigns if the extra content I get in return is this much of a hassle to access.

Great Service. As a subscriber, I really enjoy the app and having all my subscriptions at my fingertips. I love Patreon as a whole because I am able to support different creators each month and canceling is easy. I do wish all creators charged at the same time, instead of either being immediate or the 1st of every month. Also, it can get confusing if the charge counts for the previous months rewards, but from my experience, most creators make this clear on their social media. My only complaint is when a patreon creator decides to close completely, their profile stays in the section for active subscriptions. Anyone that was a member when the patreon was closed forever sees that profile as part of their current subscriptions. I really wish this would be fixed, it occurs on app and web and it quite annoying when you want a quick glance at your current subscriptions.

Patreon is great, the app needs work.. I love the idea of being able to subscribe to people you want to support on Patreon. What I don’t love is the fact that the app is not intuitive and user-friendly. The app constantly glitches and crashes when trying to watch content on it. It doesn’t background properly. And it also should have an option for background Mo to where you can just play the audio from your podcast or whatever it is you’re subscribed to in a low data mode. I don’t know. I feel like I spent a lot of money on the subscriptions for the app to have such problems and me not to fully enjoy the contact that I pay for, but I still give it 4 stars just for the availability of things that I get on here I can’t get anywhere else.

Love Supporting Content Creators, App Could Use A LOT of Work. While I love supporting content creators who use this app, it generally is a really bad app to use for cross-play, video playing on iPads, and general UI purposes. It makes no sense that with all the updates this app gets, there is no update to make sure that I can watch or listen to the same video/audio on my iPad and on my phone and it not sync up. I also can not stand the video player on iPads. There is no way to go into landscape mode to watch a video on my iPad which makes zero sense. It shows that there are no or barely any people testing the app and making sure it actually is user friendly across platforms. The video is too small when not in full screen (because again, it only works on portrait mode on the iPad). It also is now in this more complicated stack of videos and content, which I swear made the video even smaller. I love love love the content creators I follow and subscribe to on this app but the UI is truly abysmal for viewers and for the content creators who trust in this app.

Needs Work-IMAGES ARE NOT BLURRY ENOUGH. I am a creator who recently opened an account and thought the mobile should be just as functional but I was so wrong. Most of the features are halfway there or absolutely gone entirely. There is no way to fix or adjust my tiers. No option to change or edit my payout options and any posts I make disappear on the “post” page. And speaking of posts, the options are incredibly limited! You mean to tell me I CAN’T upload any videos from my mobile device, a device with a convenient camera option that almost anyone has access to? I don’t understand it. It is an incredibly clunky app and I hope that it gets fixed but judging from the other reviews, i won’t hold my breath. Edit: Now when I post my patron only posts, its public view is almost all the way visible???? All of the old pages have completely blurred out images for non-patrons and now you can practically see through my post! Outrageous, what is the point of having patrons pay for content you’re going to show them all anyway??? Why cant we CHOOSE how opaque the blurred image will be???

Patreon App used for Viktor Larkhill.. I have found so many things go bad when using the internet; misuse of personal information, misuse of credit and debt cards such as unauthorized withdrawal of funds and getting that money returned not being easy; impossible in some cases. I have just recently installed the Patreon App to donate monthly to Viktor Larkhill's Animal Rescue Treatment and Care Organization, headquartered in Spain (I reside in the USA). So far, I could not be happier and feel safer with Patreon's security measures to insure I am the person authorized to access Patreon using my verified device. Most people may not appreciate the extra security step, I for one do. Also, I feel confident that should Patreon find their current security is not fool proof, they will be quick to resolve the possibility and implement upgraded security and precautions. CJ.D.

Clunky, impossible but cool idea. This rating cannot be accurate , start scrolling, the app is impossible . Maybe eliminate all the initial and naive, hopefulness, and separate creators from supporters and the rating would be more believable . I even wonder if they have purposely made it as difficult as possible!!! I continually have an awful time on Patreon and lost all faith. They have complicated everything, charge you , without clear notice of all charges on 1st of month even if you were stupid like me and signed up on 30th. And try to follow their instructions to cancel that are impossible and not accurate. Fabulous concept, but tedious , overdone and all this benefit and feed lines when I only wanted to support podcasters who do a great job. Listening is tedious as well. Fortunately I can and it’s simple, clear and finely tuned. And I just don’t know why it is so clunky to listen, navigate and to figure out how to simply cancel AND communicate. And I don’t understand why rated so highly., for that is not what half the people say.

Why is this app rated so highly? Use the website.... I seriously don’t understand why this app is rated so highly. It’s pretty terrible from both a usability aspect as well design and maybe even coding. It never correctly shows you how many creators/artists you’re supporting. It’s high near impossible to change your tier level or cancel. It’s very confusing. There are parts of the app that clearly kick you out the website, which is fine, but sometimes you’re literally entering in the same information in the app just to be sent to a webpage with blanks! Looking for someone in particular? Good luck with that, since the search function isn’t good at finding people. One of the nice things about the app, is that you can actually download certain files. They remain inside the app to prevent you pirating out to the rest of the internet, which I completely understand. However, every time they change app, or change the website too I think, all your downloads disappear. Good luck finding them again! At least they’re slowly fixing app, bug by bug, to their credit. The app finally handles playing videos well. Turning your phone to horizontal and back during videos caused problems, but no longer. Still, the app is really not ready and seems like it’s stuck in beta testing. You’re better off just going to the Patreon website.

the buggiest app!. This app is awful. It’s hard to search and navigate through the content of your ‘memberships,’ but the worst part is that the app doesn’t even load half the time. It will quit when moving between pages or just flat out fail to load the home page feed. I know it’s not an issue with my OS because I have a newer Iphone XR, and I don’t have these issues with any other apps. honestly it’s just disappointing. patreon plays an important role as a platform for creators to share their work and make a livelihood doing so— this app is so buggy and awful that it honestly works against that very goal. If there were some other widespread subscription service for creators to share their content, I would migrate IMMEDIATELY! To the patreon ios dev team, I really hope you get this app in working order. It’s embarrassing how poorly this app functions, and you do a great disservice to creators and patrons by leaving it in such dysfunction. It literally blows my mind that a company as important and widespread as patreon could mess up an app this badly.

App setup and functionality could be way better. I’d give this app like 4/10 on user friendly scale. It would be lower if it wasn’t already such a simple app. Could improve a lot if there were easy ways to search posts by when they were posted or scroll between months/days easily. Would also be nice if it would show what you’ve already watched. I use Patreon for one podcast, I know there’s a lot of other creators and media types involved, but I don’t think it would be beyond question to have a functionality that shows if you’ve already viewed a video or post, or that allows you to sort or filter by unviewed. Gets kinda buggy randomly. Which wouldn’t be crazy annoying except if I’m watching an episode from 2020 and it glitches and then I have to scroll back and try to find it again because as I said, that function is trash.

I can’t believe this is a legitimate app with money. This app is terrible. For context, I use it almost exclusively on an iPad. Very basic functions of other media apps are just absent from Patreon. The content doesn’t fit on the screen properly, you can’t read comments and watch/listen at the same time, the comments take forever to load and the scrolling breaks constantly, the content doesn’t save your place — god forbid you accidentally click on the comment section while watching — the video will reset to the beginning. I was shocked when the CEO fired 50% of their developers because this app seems like maybe one developer works on it part-time. I’ve been using this app for years and can’t even think of one update that’s happened that made the experience better. I have to imagine that the work being done for the other side of it, the content creators, is the priority. But the people who consume content on Patreon need to be thought about too.

New update is terrible. I wish I could give negative stars, but the desktop website it terrible too. The app used to be fine, even if it took too long to load sometimes, it still worked and let me see the artists I supported in an easy way, but the new update is ugly and doesn’t make any sense. Taking away the chronological feed is unhelpful at best, and actively annoying. I want to see everything from the artists I support, not just all the things from the artist who posted most recently. Also, putting notifications that tell me what’s on the feed I’m currently looking at, is so stupid and useless. I would rather push notifications actually work so I can get a notification when someone posts something new, not a retroactive notification about the thing I’m already looking at. Having me click away from my feed just to show me there’s something new on my feed is redundant in the most useless way. Put it back the way it was, because that way actually worked for both artists and patrons.

Subpar. The app sometimes doesn’t display all the content from creators. I follow a certain creator who posts a weekly schedule so followers know what to expect and when. Sometimes, it will look like the creator didn’t post anything on a day the creator said they would, however, the truth simply is the app is not displaying all the content. If I switch over to safari and pull up patreon, the video is, in fact, there. It just won’t show up on the app. And, just for the sake of clarity, I do not follow NSFW content crerators so this issue isn’t about filtering or censoring adult content. It’s just that the app is broken. I’ve had this issue since I installed the app last year, but it just seems to be getting worse with time. Sometimes I’ll be able to watch a video from the content creator on the app and then I will come back to the app days later and I can no longer find the video. It is as though the video never existed. I go to safari and it’s still there.

Great concept, poor execution. I’m so happy to be a patron of the podcasts I love, but accessing their content is so difficult. 1. There’s no way (that I’ve been able to find) to separate feeds of the podcasts I patronize by individual podcast without going first to my membership tab. 2. Can only sort by “posts” and “audio,” no option to sort oldest to newest, newest to oldest, etc. 3. When I’m playing an episode, the progress bar in the feed does some crazy skipping around, changing the total time of the episode from 10 minutes to 25 hours to 4 hours (?!) 4. Can’t adjust time to skip ahead/go back, they’re both only 15 seconds. 5. When iPhone is locked, I’m unable to play from Lock Screen. I have to unlock phone, navigate to app, and play from there. 6. When I’m listening to an older episode and I open the app, it automatically goes to the newest posts so I have to navigate down almost every time I want to listen to the next episode in the list. 6. No option to go to next episode when on an audio post. 7. No search function on the main feed, have to browse to find what I’m looking for. I realize in the grand scheme of things these aren’t a huge deal, but this is a professional app and I expect professional quality. Certainly there are enough developers working for Patreon to fix these minor kinks and make the user experience infinitely better.

It’s a absolutely amazing App for Anyone needing maintenance for mentorship on platform. Like I was stating, this a very new exciting technology to hit the app world! I’m in high prayer watching it boom every step of the way like I have seen many other rockets ship! These is a must have on your device in case of career business pathway! I can mention one other app that would be a powerhouse if these two app collaborated in upscale the new era of business one on one that’s in not on text books at major colleges campuses! I highly supportive of this app in many points of veiws, yes it’s not everyone cup of tea! These app it requires effort in knowledge fundamental thinking of an intellectual people on a level that is also will, to May or many not pay small dues to the creators within. Take it as you will, and wish you the best of luck here! Rather like it, or not this type of app will be a new crave soon well served up to any clientele on networking platforms in space of aspects! I welcome it with open arm, it’s about time! Cheers 🥂 to the creator of this form! I see value it such design! Highly recommend app!

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I wish the player was a bit better. The player is a kinda buggy and i wish it had a feature that remembers playback/playtime or when you stop or started.

Extremely buggy. Things as simple as scrolling through creator posts cause bizarre offset bugs, or straight up crashes in many cases. Opening files that previously worked before the redesign crash outright too. The provided web browser is also severely lacking standard features and should just open in the native browser. Considering how clunky the web interface is on mobile devices I can’t really use it as an alternative, so I’m paying for a service I can barely use. I can’t recommend the platform in its current state.

Cumbersome & disappointing. I downloaded the app because the website appeared wonky on my iPhone, only to find out that the app is pretty much a browser-based wrapper around the mobile site. It does function somewhat better, but the layout is poor and it lacks the nice fluidity of a proper iOS app. Very disappointing, and only marginally better than the mobile site itself. p.s. I just noticed that if you swipe to the bottom of a page there's a button to download the Patreon App on the App Store. Talk about redundant!

Very Happy Camper!. Brilliant! I've found some of my favorite authors here on Patreon and new ones, too. Also pod casters. This gives me a way to not only get the most up-to-date info on new books, but also I get snippets, ideas, pics and any thing else that happens to cross their minds to share 🤗! I haven't had a single problem using this and I'm more than happy to share this with anyone!

Monthly Membership. First of all there should be an option to turn off auto renew without cancelling membership. Most importantly people should realise membership is not monthly as in you get a month worth of membership, instead to pay for that month and get membership until that month ends. So if you pay for membership a week before the month ends then all you get is a week worth of membership. I also hate how you have to pay tax. All companies must pay tax it shouldn’t mean you make consumers pay slightly more just to cover your tax costs. Pay your own taxes, put your gst up yourself

Harder to navigate. It was easier to access all your patreons in the previous UI. This one just feels tedious. More movement to access accounts. Previous version had the middle bottom whereas this on your have to tap top right. Furthermore, searching posts is still atrocious. The desktop version is more versatile and user-friendly. You’re able to search specific months. That feature is amazing for patrons who joined a Patreon with hundreds of posts. Please rectify these problems.

Good content bad format. I would like to offer some feedback based on the user experience. - I would like to see the settings changed so episodes play automatically when the previous finishes - the ability to change the settings so I’m listening to the oldest episodes to the newest - once the episode plays and finishes, it is hidden from my view and I know where I’m up to . Also to add, maybe take a leaf out of the Overcast app and add features to sort and edit

Scroll of doom ruins it. Please PLEASE can we get a proper scroll bar that skips by month or at the very least a ‘queue’ for episodes? Having to scroll for 5 minutes to get to old episodes I haven’t listened to is so tedious, especially having to do it all over again as soon as an episode finishes because the list jumps back to the top. It is so easily fixed. I follow many podcasts with 1000+ episodes, you’ve had this platform long enough to know how much a quick scroll or even the ability to search by month/year is needed. Such simple features will make the world of difference.

They have fixed a few issues but.... While some major (for me) issues have been fixed, there are still a few things that need tending to. Ideally, I would like for this app to be a fully functioning alternative to logging in on my Mac Book. Scheduling posts would be a nice touch. So would changing your profile image. As someone who creates a lot of video & written content. I would very much appreciate the ability to save my video posts without needing the video link. I say this because on many occasions, I create the written portion of the video post ahead of filming the video. The app is getting better, but you do need to login on your computer to access all features. Thank for the efforts so far.

Content great but app not working. I love Patreon and being able to support creators. However the app can be very temperamental and glitches frequently. This is particularly true if you need to update payment details. Every time this happens I follow the troubleshooting guide and uninstall the app, turn my phone off, then turn back on again, download app and sign back in again. It doesn't work!!! It generally takes 24 hours before it gets back to normal and this is after multiple times uninstalling app etc. its super super frustrating as I love the content on patreon and think the concept is great but the app consistently is a nightmare to use if yoj have issue with payment and need to update payment. Other than that app works ok, just seems to glitch badly when payment needs to be updated or resubmitted thru app.

Good but pointless. The app works but you can’t really do much with it, just write up a post and reply to messages. It’s kinda annoying you have to use other social medias to promote yourself, it’s such a needless hassle, so I don’t really understand the point of tags on your posts either lol oh well But, if you aren’t posting softcore p@rn don’t bother with patreon unless you already have a large enough following.

Won’t load EVER. I’ve deleted and redownloaded the app, kept it up to date, tried on different internet sources and every single time in the last YEAR I’ve opened this app to continue where I left off, it won’t load!!!! It just sits on a buffering symbol forever. Even if I start a new ep from scratch it won’t load. I can barely use it. I have to restart the app several times, and start an ep from scratch to listen to it, losing my place every time. Please fix this!!!!!

Lack of a search functionality. I only listen to one authour “Mike Bennett” who is amazeballs!! But I cannot see a way to search his feed for particular stories, or an wasy one click to where I have my downloads ... I just accidentally found that spot through a number of unintentional taps and screen slides. Could be easier!!

Just use the website. This app offers no advantages over just using the website - in fact, it’s worse than the mobile site in a lot of cases. It doesn’t remember your position, glitches out on regular, blocks full-screen video for some reason, and the layout on iPad is a mess. A poor entry from an otherwise top-tier platform.

Massive Security Breach. A lot of iOS users have reported to have been logged in into accounts that weren’t theirs on 24 September (US time) and they were able to see people’s info like their email address, their pledges and their private messages. This was confirmed by Patreon itself on Patreon Support Twitter account on the same day that it happened and we have yet to receive any emails of Patreon addressing this issue. Patreon seems to have treated this issue as a minor incident when it clearly wasn’t.

Work in progress!. Sometimes when I’m using this I think of ways they could have made it better. But really it has improved in just a few short months so I’m expecting more in the future.

Can’t hold place. Love the concept of the app and what it enables, however I have 2 major gripes: 1. App is unable to consistently remember where in a podcast I left off, like how hard is it for the app to remember which podcast it was playing and at what point?? 2. When listening on AirPods if the audio is interrupted for whatever reason (phone call, reply to a message, etc) when attempting to resume it pauses and plays repeatedly every half second, this is usually when using wireless controls or on Lock Screen If these two items could be addressed it’s make the user experience so less frustrating

Synch issues between app and web. Big issues of content not in synch between appears in the app and what appears on the web version. Comments postes via the app don’t always appear on the web version and are therefore not seen by others (even though they appear in my app version). Conversely, I can’t see all comments of others appearing in the app version, although they appear in the web version. Latest version does not display photos posted by members in the Community tab??? Photos appear on the web version but do not appear in the app version... Patreon iOS developers. You’ve got work to do to fix these major bugs and annoying aspects of your app.

Everything was great… then the update happened. I literally cannot open the app without it crashing. I have tried shutting off my phone, deleting and reinstalling the app etc etc and every time I click on it I think maybe it will work this time but I have to end up going to my safari to look at my Patreon content. Some of the features available on the actual website don’t even exist on the app which is frustrating too but I believe the main issue is the constant crashing that makes it useless. Please fix this so I can give it 5 stars bc once it does work it’s great!

Need to develop the app/ more features.. Guys. You need to develop this app a bit now. It’s getting stale. You need to offer creators more features from the app like adding audio files to posts from phone ect. No reason for this not to be there. And posting live vids or vids from the app, like Instagram or Facebook. No reason this shouldn’t be there now.

Terribly complicated. I’ve tried to explore the app but it’s impossible. The idea seems nice but what if you want to explore random creatives. People you don’t know that exist. You just only can search for who you know? What’s the point of being and artist trying to be known if the only way of finding people is knowing who they are already. And if you can do it, then how? It’s really complicated and I’m about to give up. I’m an artist and this doesn’t make me confident that people are going to see my work if they don’t know who I am already.

Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear.. Always learn something on their Podcasts about life on the other side of the World. Always lots of laughs here and amusing Stories. Bryce always there, to keep the info coming that is asked of him. A Great Threesome they definitely are. ❤️

Crashes when I need it not to. I try to keep up with those I support, so from the news feed, I select the artist name, the posts tab appears with the spinning circle of data retrieval, then the App crashes/kicks me out. This is for both my iPhone & iPad. My primary sources for Patreon as I don’t have a laptop. If this is fixed, it’s a 5/5 app.

I don’t understand. It’s honestly the worst and most glitchy app and I really don’t understand why it’s THE app. If I get a phone call while listening it will start skipping and the audio drops out like a scratched CD, it’s hard to find your place or something you were listening to previously, it’s not very user friendly, it randomly crashes every few hours and it drains the life out of my battery 😬

Patreon is fab. Using Patreon is such a great place to go when you want to be lost in the vortex of entertainment, learning, admiring sheer brilliance. Andrew Tischler is an amazing artist with a wonderful teaching style. He has the unique ability to cover all aspects of oil painting for beginners through to advanced in one session. I couldn’t live without this inspiration in my day.

needs some improvement. I struggle to find the podcast episodes I’m looking for. There is an ‘audio’ tab where you can find the eps you’re currently listening to but I find it a little unreliable. It would be great if you could filter the podcast episodes into listened/not listened. An option to auto play the next ep would be helpful as well since I often find myself having to manually search for the next ep in a series.

Primitive. Do not get too excited about this app. It will give you access to creators and their content but it is very basic, the experience is not good. Specific things like downloading videos does not work, when watching videos it does not go full screen or handle rotation. Many of the functions will just open a browser window and drag you through the login process. I have found it much better to just use a native web browser.

Fantastic. My Husband and I love Patreon it’s our little date after our working day and gives us hope for our financial future we appreciate all you do it shows what a generous person you are and thanks to everyone who assists you and your research 😃 Cheers Andy and Shelly Hobart Tasmania ❤️

Text to speech is buggered. If you use the spoken content app in accessibility’s in settings to do a makeshift audiobook, if you stuff up and want to re hear a paragraph or something and try to do it half way through. It starts all the way at the start again. That’s why I use the website 99% of the time.

Can’t click on links. can’t click on links and ALSO i cannot copy comments. Also wouldnt it be easier if comments were already opened with the post u are viewing like u dont have to click on comments when u view a post but its scrollable when u scroll to the bottom???

Latest update has less features. Latest update seems to have removed the ability to edit your profile. As a patron I’d also like the ability to be able to edit my comments and manage my messages from within the app. Sometimes I’ll get notifications, sometimes I won’t. A post can say it has x amount of comments but most of the time they never load. Good app for the basics such as viewing posts but better to use the website for everything else.

Why is it that whenever a good new feature is added 2 more have to go?. I feel like the app keeps getting worse. It’s always been hard to index the posts you want, and now for some reason when downloading audio files locally it deletes them after a few hours. How am I supposed to listen to a 2+ hour exclusive Patreon podcast in small bursts when the file keeps un-downloading?? Fix this!

The day I heard juzz. The day I first heard juzz blew me away he was jamming with John butler two really great players of guitar and harmonica in they’re own right, watching juzz and John play my favorite John butler song inspired me to get back into practicing harp after a lengthy break from it, it actually gave me goosebumps , my goal now is to find some like minded people/band to jam with and possibly play a few gig’s with forever hopeful before I get too old 🪕

Honesty & Integrity. When you get to 60 it’s hard to not look back at the events that have shaped your life in finance. So after many losses over the years I can now say that without a doubt I have found a presenter that acts with honesty and integrity, which makes it easier for me to be responsible for my own actions, and now on my way to financial freedom. What an awesome human being you are. Thanks James, May you be continually blessed.

Good way to view updates but still room for improvement. The latest update does as it says stopping crash on launch. Not sure why it suddenly started crashing in the last few days and this was needed? Latest update also now seems to let clicking on a notification to take you to that info rather than just opening generally, good but also unsure why this was not working for so long. Unlike on the website the app does not allow you to view all patronage updates in one list but it is a good way to look at each individually.

Poor navigation experience with latest upgrade. An ’upgrade’ was pushed out that changed the user interface. What was easy to navigate around is not now. Opening the new app gave no guidance on how to use the new interface so frustration sets in trying to find material and have it display correctly. Screens weren’t displayed correctly - a poor experience. If developers feel a new interface is required, there should be the ability to select it if you want (or not in this case).

Not as accessible as it COULD be. I’ve recently had my page published and the app was working perfectly about a month ago, and now it just seems to be very limited in its functionality. I have two accounts and I should be able to switch back-and-forth, quite easily between the two, but the app is not so easily navigated with just the one account so using two accounts with this app is quite difficult. The app really needs to work the same way as the website itself. I shouldn’t have to be logging into a website to check my account. I should be able to just open the app and there is my account with all of the features needed to run my page successfully.

Nice idea - terrible app. The concept of patreon is nice but this app is just terrible. For podcasts, i only use patreon to support podcasters, means this app must be used to download and play them. This is the worst podcast app imaginable, utterly featureless compared with any other player. It barely manages to play podcasts, it won’t download automatically, can’t tell if you played it or not. The rest if the apo is similarly rubbish experience. There is no excuse for publishing apps this bad, plenty of great apps around to see how to make a good experience. I would ditch patreon in a heart beat if something else came to take its place. Oh, and support is non-existent, or just so useless might as well be, can’t tell which.

Hard to find new pages to follow/support. It’s great if you know someone you’d love to support has pointed you to their Patreon via another channel, but really difficult to find new or similar people to support (the explore function is too broad). E.g. search by ‘illustrators’, or ‘find similar Patreon artists to this’ I also couldn’t update my profile and profile photo from the app and had to use the website I really love the idea and would love to find similar pages to support financially

Glitchy but good.. Still cannot figure out how to view ‘clips’ from within the app. I have to go to Apple notifications. Even then if I write a comment it starts from the beginning again. Otherwise, a good app. I wish there were more uploads by creators. I follow VANCITY VANLIFE and he’s a good content creator. Others I’m a Patreon for don’t upload much or use all the features. Keep doing updates and making it more user friendly ‘intuitive’.

Could be useful. This is a good app if all you want to do is browse the media stream from creators. But as a creator I find this app to be a huge missed opportunity that Patreon needs to work on. It could be a great asset to creators. I find I need to check the web site to be up to date on the actions of my Patrons (messages, pledge changes, etc). Maybe Patreon needs to split the app, just turn this app into an App that provides Patrons with access to the media stream, pledge info, message system, etc. While splitting out the functions for creators into a dedicated "Patreon Studio" app for creators. Then focus on what each app is for, rather than trying to do everything in one app and not getting it right.

Would recommend. Great site, massive range of ways to interact with creators and fans, does have some problems however have rarely had the same problem twice and a majority have been site wide and not the app’s fault, would recommend for anyone who regularly accessed Patreon from their phone, overall would rate 5 stars if I didn’t just see a comment section filled with people saying they didn’t get an email notification they signed up for.

Can’t believe the ratings.. Considering how crunchy this app is, how have people rated this so highly? A place to support my faves? Great. Love it. Now if only I could actually scroll and look at comments, easily reply, look at likes, receive notifications for replies/likes, communicate better, have less bugs and glitches, be able to look at the media from the people I follow in a clean and easy way. I couldn’t even edit my profile from the app on my phone, there are so many features I literally have to go to the site to access and even then it’s crunchy as f. I’m going to keep using this because if I don’t then I can’t easily support my faves, not to mention access the content they post exclusively on Patreon. We pay for this! Y’all needa do better. Edit: just scrolled through reviews and you’ve had these issues for literal years. This is pathetic, how have this issues not been addressed?

Don’t like new update. I regret updating soo bad.. Don’t like the feed because now I’m scrolling for ages and the side bar that showed my creators and their number of updates is gone. Before I could swipe through their pages but now. Seriously some creators upload more than others and still no advance search option or playlist options just seems more inconvenient for me. Let the creators make playlists. Bring back the content creator list.

Absolute garbage app with no search function. The single worst app on my phone. Would drop it like the hot garbage it is if it wasn’t the only place I could get the subscribed content I’m after. The worst search function in history with the title layout for downloads also equally unfriendly to the paying user. Why can’t we search for an episode in our own subscribed content???? Without manually scrolling through possibly hundreds of entries. You guys are having an absolute laugh. Sort it out.

Great, but could be better. I love being able to support creators directly, so I really appreciate the service Patreon provides. The site could be a little easier to navigate (the few names I have been trying to find haven’t shown up when searching for them?? Had to use a direct link) or maybe being able to search by categories/subcategories of creators would be good. Also, if we’re able to search for new people to follow within the app/browser, maybe some cover page content from each creator so you know more about what you’d be spending money on, rather than kind of a guess?

Absolutely useless. - No sort posts by dates. Have to scroll down for the oldest posts. - No sync for video playback progress. - Absolutely horrendous video player. The on screen control is unresponsive, full screen button sometimes doesn’t show, drag the progress bar to a precise time is mission impossible. The change resolution basically doesn’t work, it shows options but only allows you select auto. Honestly why not just remove this app and let everyone use the website? The video player is equally awful but at least it’s got sorting.

One of my favourites. There are plenty of good podcasts out there but if you play or write music you could very well love this podcast. It’s my current number 1 in my top 5 podcasts. My others are Compleatly Beatles, Industrial Revolutions, The Nutritional Farmer and Behind the Song. Strong Songs is a musical explanation of songs and Behind the Song provides the context and background of a song. Very different podcasts but they compliment each other well

Remove the “recently played”. The latest update includes a section called “recently played”. I don’t know what need this section is trying to fill, at least for myself, it fails. That section is full of podcasts that have one or two minutes left which is the merely Outtro for the podcast I listen to. The worst thing is, I can’t remove the section nor can I remove the items in it! It is taking up space on my screen and I have to scroll down to my “Downloaded episodes” that I have yet to listen to. Fire the ‘user interface designers” that work for Patreon, because they are not doing their job!

This app is atrocious. Such a great idea but the app is hopeless. Needs a better edit feature (mostly crashed the app when I try to use it). And now, after editing a post I can see on my phone, it has removed the whole post on every other device and on the website and yet I can see it quite clearly on the phone where I wrote it. Why on earth would you not enable copying and pasting of one’s own posting. So disappointed to have my interactions so limited by this app.

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Julia. I wish you the very best of her you all work very hard with sincerity, honesty and Love; The sky is the limit keeping your heart fully grounded 😊🙃😇

watching. wish you could mirror onto tv without airplay

Latest version is inaccessible and useless.. See above.

Can’t log in with email at all.. Useless as I cannot access my account through the app. Love the site though!

Popup buster. I am just doing this so the popup stops thanks

Art. I love your work and the teaching with fun. I have been in a car accident which caused some brain issues as the days go on it gets better but I have a long way to go. I have been a creator my whole life and miss painting I am just working on the first painting and can hardly wait to see the outcome. Your work is exquisite and you are a beautiful soul thankyou Michelle 💕

Dooki. The worst optimized app in the history of the app store. Absolute garbage. Which is a shame because Patreon is a great platform. Just mind-blowing that after all these years they still have not been able to make a good app. The app is still plagued by the same issues it had several years ago. Podcasts just randomly stop playing and have to force close the app several times to resume. Videos failing to load. Podcasts failing to download. Podcasts randomly turning themselves onto higher playback speed unprompted. The list goes on. These issues have all been around for years. Yet, instead of fixing them, the developers of the app seemingly just rebrand the app - changing to logo and UI - instead of actually fixing apps.

Patreon is greatreon. Surely

Great cause. I love being able to support people I believe in financially.

YB PATREON. OK SO I ONLY GOT It FOR A GAME CALLED YB (YOUR BOYFRIEND) AND HOLY ITS GREAT HEHEH ALSO I CAN MAKE MY OWN PATRON SO PEOPLE CAN BUY MY GAMES FOR A MONTH AND STUF HEHEH SO YES PATRON IS THE BESTT

much improved!. was already good but now even better with the filter and sort options!

Update accepted. I’ve been on the app for a while, but it feels like I’ve been been treated as a as a fan instead of a member when I’m actually a member. this app sucks it might work for people that are fans but not for people they are trying to business use the website instead. Actually when I try to use the website I tried logged in it didn’t work. I tried new list and tried so many times I don’t even know of these website either, you know I’ve been on the app for a while and I still feel like a newbie at this. I’m not sure what Patreon is actually for if it’s collaborating with other artists and other people are creative Well, that’s what it feels like but I know there’s some more to Patreon that means the I am is not showing up in the app. This app really needs some updates. It’s it’s like zoom on steroids.

This is a fine app. I really wish I could see whether episodes have downloaded correctly. Also I’ve had minor issues with being able to see comments when people reply to me.

No Functionality for Creators. As a Patreon creator I was look for the ability to have some functionality for managing my Patreon creator account. This app has ZERO functionality for this. The description is false. Beware. It is 100% for Patrons supporting creators. That’s great for Patrons, but Patreon might want to consider providing mobile support for their actual customers.

Recent Update. Cannot access subscriptions on Patreon mobile with most recent update, even after updating iPhone to newest iOS. Not able to use app for almost a month.

Crashed. My Patreon app just crashed as I’m trying to read a report from RMTransit. I reset the app and continues to crash on my iPhone 13. NOT HAPPY.

Ew. Seriously y’all need to fix the apps embedded video system every creator i support who uses it the experience is awful, my wifi is perfect not laggy on any other platform except yours genuinely the videos r unwatchable because of how bad the quality is and how much it buffers the ui design is just so bad especially when trying to search for things fix ur embedded system already it’s 2024

Much love. Love listening to you guys so much!! I’ve listened to all your episodes at least 3 times!! The show has come so far, love how you’ve incorporated REM and Ellis more. Your laughs make my day! Xox

Audio navigation is terrible. Main interest in the people I support is a podcast newsletter. If I have to go back in the audio, and sometimes if I have to interrupt the listening / close the app, it will the. Refuse entirely to work. Restarting the app doesn’t work. Restarting my phone doesn’t work. It will only work again when it will want to. I have to finish listening on the mobile site which doesn’t have any of those issues.

Excellent. J’aimerais avoir la fonctionnalité d’Apple car play ça serait encore meilleur ☺️

Such a god awful app. Possibly one of the worst apps. Constant pauses and freezing, and a terrible search engine.

Broken. I can’t even get the app to open anymore, so I may as well cancel subscriptions!

James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman. Listen to them

Player doesn’t work. You are a streaming app, fix your player, you can’t listen to the audio of the video without keeping it open

Ty Herndon. I love the content from Ty Herndon. Thank you

Garbage. Garbage app gets worse with every update

Amazing for recording artists. As a recording artist I’m loving Patreon. It better allows me to serve my core fan base by giving them exclusive content. Please include a built in media player for songs. This way when they listen to songs in their car or at home they don’t have to select each track and press play separately every time. This way they can have a more seamless and listener friendly experience (from their feedback). Thank you.

Can’t disable community. I want to disable and hide the community chat feature altogether. I can’t even dismiss the in-app notification indicating I have updates with communities I refuse to join and cannot opt out of. What a terrible, bonkers design.

Amazing. Love it

TEXT IS TOO SMALL I CANNOT READ IT. Please fix your accessibility.

Great app, since the update even better. I like that i can support m'y content creators

Use it more and more. It will replace YouTube for me one day I hope

So many errors. Unfortunately there have always been a lot of issues with this app. The latest- it says “something went wrong” every time I try to listen to audio that a creator who I follow uploaded. Every single time.

app is beyond painful to use. i just got this so i could new releases from my fave web author after website wouldnt stop prompting me to download the app. everytime i try to read a post, the comments will pop up randomly and i cant close them. the ‘x’ is unresponsive. so i have to close the whole damn app and navigate back again. what should take 5-10 min max, ends up taking 20-25 jfc

Great Idea & Site, app could be better.. I have subscribed to a couple of creators, mainly for listening, so I am a bit disappointed that I can’t choose how long to listen, I only get one podcast episode at a time. The content, however, is first rate.

Patreon is a fine service, but. Their app is laughable bad. Intensely unintuitive, removed features with the last update, default auto-play, errors all around. Lucky for them, they have good content creators that force me to endure. But the recent update is horrific. Unusable.

Podcasts. I thought I would have more access to the podcasts then I do.

Dark mode?. When are you guys adding dark mode? 2025?

Please fix your video player!. The platform is great for the creators and us patrons. The video player is buggy as hell, the video does not save how much was played on the web player and the tracking on the app is also very inconsistent and there is no sync across both platforms. No option to select quality of the videos manually, the video player randomly breaks and then I have to guess how much video I had played. The new update is great but please focus on these fundamentals first.

Not user friendly. Can’t figure out how to post. It puts everything in collections. Very confused with this. Also can’t log on to the creator account on a computer.

I love supporting artists! :D. Getting more content by paying a fee is awesome, I’m looking forward to making a patreon myself someday.

Psychopedia Rocks. I joined Patreon specifically for Psychopedia and I don’t regret it for a second. I love them.

Tired of hassles when trying to delete account. I'm disgusted by the way companies make deleting an account a maze of pages. Wanted to delete an old account, can't seem to get to the point. I don't need to read a novel on how you handle my data, just delete the account.

Downloading. You guys should add features in which we can create a playlist in which we could add our favourite videos and also download them to listen without needing internet connection just like YouTube, maybe some people enjoy listening to the videos whilst sleeping.

Check out. Universal Mastery

Lousy. Downloads don’t work offline, the search function barely works, and it doesn’t have any features, really. You hate to see a company that takes so much money from creators barely spend any money on their app. Use the website, it’s about as good.

Terrible App. Has to be the LEAST user friendly app I have. Not intuitive, a jumbled mess, and no ability to filter out episodes you’ve already watched. I’m likely to STOP being a patron of all the podcasts I support simply because this app is so bad. Other podcast apps do so much better, why can’t you guys figure it out?

Develop apps for Apple TV or firestick. The necessity to play on YouTube then try to connect to either is making me reconsider my sponsoring of your creators.

A way to support my favourite artists. I love being able to support and interact with my favourite yarn dyer, ASMR artists, and journalling artist. It is also, an enjoyable safe space.

Podcasts never load. When I try to listen to a podcast some episodes always fail to download or just load infinitely, better to just use the mobile website the app is busted

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Great Crowd Source Funding app. So Patreon allows you to fund groups and or individuals through small dollar or in some cases large dollar monthly donations. It seems a lot like a tech-black hole to avoid taxes and official incomes for the users but that’s their problem. There is a huge diverse community of thought, content and speech. It is also from my experience easy enough to change your commitments so say if a Pandemic hits you are losing your mortgage. It will be interesting to see where it goes. I also can’t find anything that says how well they protect your information or who/if they “sell” “trade” or otherwise use your account information.

Best Bible Study to keep one motivated!. This is my second round with Tara Leigh and will be my second time to actually complete the entire Bible in one year instead of starting it and only getting to Deuteronomy and then abandoning my commitment once again! Great instructions and explanations and stories keep me motivated and successful! I use Tara Leigh’s “Bible Recap” Book, search all the resources she provides and joined the Facebook PATREON group. I also joined the $15 tier in PATREON allowing me to have bonuses sent to my e-mail and also, one of my favorite, her “Bible Kneecap” ( as on your knees in prayer) where she shares the most beautiful prayers. I’m so happy that a very special young lady recommended this program to me at the most opportune time for me! ❤️

Glitchy. I will make a comment on a post, and I know the comment is there, but I can’t see it. Similarly, I can’t see the last commenter’s comment on any post. More, I’ve been told there is “lots of activity” on my group’s “community” tab, but all I see is one person’s picture. No activity. And good god why can’t I continue to listen to a podcast in the background when I switch to another app?? It shuts off whenever I try to check my email or lock my phone to put it on my pocket. I currently have to listen to Patreon’s content on iTunes podcast app to circumvent this problem, which defeats the entire purpose of having the Patreon app. Finally, ironically, i tried to give this feedback within Patreon’s solicited “feedback” feature. But, when I hit “send” to submit this feedback, I got a “ticket failed to send” error message. Guess I’ll just post here instead

Great Service, Terrible App. I love being able to support creators directly. The service they provide is remarkable. However the interface is miserable. I use it for podcasts and it feels that every update is one step forward, two steps back. I’ve dealt with it not showing proper names or images, forgetting where I left off, downloads not working, bad search functionality, and lately the audio just fall silent while continuing to play which needs app reset to get working again. They offer ISS feeds but that an awful solution, and not a solution at all for iPhone users. They ask for feedback and respond to criticism yet they don’t do anything about it. I’ve used the app for years now because I like supporting content creators but man, Patreon makes it as frustrating as possible to do that.

Love the content, the interface could use some improvements. I’m so grateful to have access to content from creators I respect. It gets frustrating when the app refreshes and I lose my place and have to scroll and scroll and scroll back to get to where I was. If there was a way to do an auto-play or playlist and select most recent to least recent or vice verse, rather than having to scroll through all the posts, that would be wonderful! Also it would be great to search for a particular post/ episode within a specific Patreon. Right now the search function only searches among creators but doesn’t help me find specific content within a subscription I already have. Thanks!

I Hate Patreon. I can't believe people actually like this app. It's awful for watching videos and listening to podcasts. Whenever it try to watch/listen to content it takes forever to start playing. If I happen to leave the app–even for a moment–in the middle of a video, it refreshes and starts back at 00:00. You can't start watching/listening to something and pick up where you left off later. It doesn't have an itemized list of videos/podcasts where you can see all of the content at once. You have to physically scroll back to find episodes. It never deletes episodes that you've already viewed, making the feed completely cluttered when you do need to scroll through to look for content. It's nothing like the Apple podcast app, which is what I guess I'm expecting. Yes, it serves other purposes for different people and that's great. But as an app to listen to podcasts or watch videos, it's completely useless.

Terrible App. Terrible.. The worst app experience on my phone. It resets my playtime constantly—even if I just navigate away for a moment. It NEVER remembers where I was last in a podcast or even what episodes I’ve listened to. If I want to start from the beginning of a creator’s library—I’d better remember what the last episode I listened to was because the app is going to have no recollection of my listen history AND I have to scroll all the way back down the library to even find the episode I want. I will regularly have TWO podcast audios playing over each other at once and I have to fully restart the app to fix it. Then guess what? I have to figure out where I left off myself. Truly terrible. I hate that two of my favorite creators are here because it’s the worst app ever. Why is it so hard to listen to what I want?!

Love Patreon! The App Could Use Some Work.. As a DIY songwriter, Patreon has changed my life. My ONLY complaint is that the app is tricky, it takes fast internet to work properly, some of my patrons in who live in the country have told me that they simple cannot use the app and can only access Patreon via the website. This is a small issue, but I would like to see the app more prioritized in the future as it makes access to Patron content so much easier. All in all, Patreon is a quality platform and this app is really coming together nicely, with some adjustments, I’m sure this app can really boost Patrons experience and allow for even more personalized connection with whoever they choose to support on the platform.

love the service but the app is frustrating. I write this because I care and I want what’s best for this service. I love using patreon. I’m both a creator and a patron to other creators but the app is incredibly frustrating. there are many issues with the app. For instance, the lens function is clunky. It’s frustrating to make lens and to view them. Comments I receive only lens sometimes disappear. some data doesn’t match compared to browser. Also something as simple as being able to click on the likes on my posts to view a list of users who liked that specific post would be nice . In the very least, it would be great if overall usability of the app was considered and the rough edges were polished. I understand if the iOS app is not that high priority for the company but make it at least usable and consistent for those who depend on it.

The Worst App Ever. I love what Patreon does and I use the app almost everyday which is why I hate it so much. This is the least user friendly, worst app I have ever used in my life. There is no history of the videos or audio you’re watching/ listening to and you have to scroll and look things up to find what you were in the middle of. If you’re watching a video and you touch the screen anywhere, the video will jump to that part of the video, as if you touched the video progress bar on the bottom. Whenever I go into the app and exit it without fully shutting the app down, a window takes up half the screen when I try to use the app again, essentially rendering the bottom half of my screen as useless. I love Patreon but this is the worst app ever.

It’s functioning, except…. The Patreon app overall is pretty good and intuitive to use. However, I have one issue when viewing the “tiers” section of my page. I had changed some of the aspects of the tiers such as the price, benefits, etc., and everything is correctly updated on the Patreon app except for the benefits and availability. My benefits list keeps accumulating all of the other previous benefits instead of removing or updating to the new benefit, and it still displays a tier as having limited availability when I’ve removed that option. This issue is exclusive to the Patreon app, as the website version updates correctly. Would gladly change my rating if this were fixed!

Sucked into chaotic news feed to find anything. There are some content creators I adore who use Patreon. I love the concept of creators having access to subscribers directly. The idea in general is great. The problem is the interface and layout of the app. You cannot view the creator you follows content in a clear organized way. One creator I follow reviews different series and topics. There is no way to look at all of the episodes they’ve done on a certain topic. There is no way to just see all of their episodes. The only view access I have is through theFeed that mix is all of my subscriptions in one place and tangles different media types video/audio. I’m here to listen to podcasts of creators I love. I would pay for a lot more creators if the app was better. It’s mostly a waste of my time because I cannot find the contact I’m looking for.

Having to get out of the app to go to the Internet version just to watch a video. I don’t understand, not trying to sound rude but why do I have to get out of an app to go to the Internet version of it to watch the video that’s something that should be fixed as soon as possible that’s a big deal. everything should be accessible in the app please. You Kinda reminds me of these new games coming out where they give it to you for 60 bucks and then it’s not even completed don’t give me wrong I didn’t pay for Patreon app, but I’m paying every month and the app isn’t even complete and like I said I’m not trying to be rude.

Lets creators scam you. I had issues with a creator only following through on one perk and ignoring me and others when asked about the other perks. I tried getting my money back, I provided screenshots of people asking and a live that was promised that would address everything which didn’t happen. They said the creator did nothing wrong. Turns out creators not following through on perks DOES NOT violate their terms of agreements so creators can just do whatever. I feel like Patreon is a way for creators to make quick and easy content to where it’s boring and lazy. It’s just a cash grab. The perks will be boring or they’ll just have something at the beginning of the month but nothing for the rest of the month. Now I’m dealing with another creator who will post at the very end of the month or will post stuff in the new month that was meant for the previous.

Refund process is ridiculous!. I pledged the top tier for a creator for a whole month. After this whole month, I never receive a single thing he promised me. Not a single thing. Not a confrontation, nothing. So, I read about the refund process. The first one is to contact the creator and ask for a refund. So, I did that. I waited and waited and waited, but never received a reply. So, I moved on to the next step, ask for Patreon for a refund. I did the whole shabang and caboodle. Everything was 100% true to my knowledge and I went in as calm as possible. I waited for a whole month for a single reply back. Which they asked me to make a new request. Ridiculous, but whatever. I did that. I received today that I will NOT be receiving my refund, because it “doesn’t fall in line with their requirements.” What requirements? You have no requirements, besides contacting the creator. Which by the way, they mentioned that I “should contact the creator.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????? The whole process was because he NEVER replied, NEVER gave me my benefits, NEVER made a single confirmation/notification, NEVER gave me my requested refund, do I need to go on? Don’t waste your money on here with scam artist creators and scummy companies. Never again.

perfect except.... Everything works well, and they even fixed one of my biggest pet peeves with the app for a while which was not being able to reply to people’s comments via the app.. it was mad annoying, i’d have to log into the online version any time i wanted to reply to someone’s comment.. but now there’s still one thing that’s bothering me.. i really wish that i was able to change my profile picture within the app.. i’m a person that likes to change my profile pictures a lot and not being able to do it within the app really bugs me, it’s the same situation where i have to log in to the website every time and it’s really tedious.. hope they fix it in a future update..

Cant do much.. I love that I can see who I am currently following and my pledges but this app is really lacking the versatility of the website. There is a search bar to look up creators but I can never find the creators I am trying to follow, it is like it doesn’t access the whole database and can only give me limited options. The second I go onto their website I can find the creators I was looking for. It can be a bit inconvenient. Another thing is that it is super hard to sort a creators page, there is no sort tags or anything, you have to manually scroll all the way to the bottom and god forbid the app refreshes and you have to do it all over again. Essentially, great app for just staying updated with the creators you currently follow and their new updates but super difficuly and inconvenient to find new creators and navigate a creators page.

Can be a little frustrating but okay. First off it crashes fairly often and has happened right in the middle of making a post or writing to a patron.. also, I’m kinda surprised how different an experience it is from the online version. I’ve been using the app to communicate with my patrons but have noticed it hasn’t kept an accurate record of what has been sent and received not to mention one message that was sent twice. Makes me look a bit unprofessional. However, I like that you can make a “draft” with the app but that leads me to the question, why can’t I make a draft on the regular online version? That would be fantastic, making a draft that you can come back to would be perfect. Please make this available on your regular site! I’ll keep using the app but I think I’ll focus more on using the regular site more.

Constant crashing. I pay good money to creators I love but can’t get more than 10 mins into a podcast with out the app completely crashing and losing my place in the episode. I deleted the app and redownloaded the app did all the steps you suggest and still constant crashes. This app needs s complete overhaul because there is no search feature for looking up specific episodes. The comments section completely freezes and slows the whole app down. It’s pathetic that a big company can’t put out a competent app that is stable. I want to support content creators that put out content you literally cannot get anywhere else but this app makes me just wanna cancel it all and use something else completely. Please for the love of god fix the crashes it’s a common issue I’ve seen in the reviews and online forums since at least 2018!!! If it doesn’t improve soon I’ll just take my money else where it’s that simple.

Terrible App. This app is terrible and makes me want to cancel the one subscription I pay for. When downloading an audio file (a podcast in my case), I like to download multiple so I can have easy access to them under the ‘Audio’ tab. I also do this when catching up on podcast episodes so I don’t have to always scroll through my feed to find a specific one/figure out when they chronologically were posted. The app will randomly crash, log me out, and delete the multiple downloads I had. It’s incredibly frustrating not only because I have to go back and download them all over again, but Patreon also lacks a feature to tell you which things you have already listened to/watched. It does show a green check when you have already downloaded an item but after I’m done with it, I delete it from my downloads and the check mark also disappears. And the app is over all clunky and lacks many features of the Patreon desktop website.

Terrible app experience but not much alternative. I use the app because I have to Im order ti listen to extra episodes of a favorite podcast, but the UX is so frustrating. Any interruption to the playback (a phone call, a text read through AirPods, an alarm, etc) will cause the playback to glitch and force me to go in and find the episode I was listening to and start it over. It does not save my place in the long list if old episodes, so I am almost always required to scroll back through years of old recordings to find my interrupted episode. It does a horrible job of letting me know what has already been played unless I paused something right before the end so that I can see the completion bar being almost full. I have not discovered a way To make episodes play one after the other, so when one ends I am back to scrolling.

Love the content, hate the app.. It’s like the team who designed this app loved processes and hated content. If there is a way to bookmark something to easily find it later, please tell me. There are at least six steps I have to take every time I want to return to an unfinished podcast, including finding where I left off since it goes back to the beginning. If there is a way to fast forward to where I left off without having to do it in 15sec increments, please tell me. I haven’t spent a lot of time with the settings, because I don’t want to have to learn how to use an app when I’m there for the content. A good app would be seamless enough that anyone could intuitively find basic settings right where you would expect to find them. Maybe these basic functions don’t exist, but if they do — would somebody please point them out? Is it just me?

Great premise, no functionality at all. I’m guessing that most of the people writing positive reviews are either bots or are actually reviewing the content/content creators. The app and website itself DOES NOT WORK. I’ll start with the app, it’s glitches are constant and ever changing but are really never fixed. The app itself crashes constantly, your comments disappear, posts are missing, you can’t download any content even though there’s a download option, no chronological option for content, can’t see who I’m subscribed too and plenty more. The site has similar issues but the main one is it’s incredibly difficult to find older content or bookmark/set aside an episode. In general it seems they need better or more site/app developers and especially since they forced their creators to raise their prices and pocketed the difference I feel they probably have the resources.

Good, just one request. I'm mainly writing to request that the audio download tools be expanded. A lot of podcasters use patreon to post extra content, but downloading it via this app puts them all into one long slush-fund of unsearchable, partially named material. It needs to be better: searchable, with easily-accessible episode descriptions, more like Apple's system- if it's gonna allow artists to produce content that I feel are worth paying for. It's good, but it's frustrating to find what I... kind of paid for. In part. Lol It's also stopped letting me control the app from the lock screen, which means I have to unlock my phone and open the app just to pause something; while with iTunes Podcasts, I can just pause it from my Bluetooth headphones. But there's a chance I've got some setting messed up on my phone. Who knows

Episode Download and play feature doesn’t work. I can download an audio file, but it won’t play through the application. I have to use the Patreon web based program to listen. I have an XR and have downloaded the latest app version multiple times. Rebooted phone. Audio file seems to download fine, but I only get a spinning dial at the bottom of the episode’s screen when attempting to play download. Patreon support responded but was unable to provide any helpful advice except what I described above and tried multiple times since they responded (i.e. try installing latest app again, reboot phone). I have explained the situation again to Patreon support but the problem, unfortunately, remains unaddressed and support has gone silent.

Practically Useless. I’ve been a Patreon creator for a few years now, and this app is embarrassing. It’s functional, but those functionalities that it offers are practically useless. Wanna respond to a message on Patreon? Sure, you can do that! But if you expect this app to give you a notification whenever you receive a message? Forget about it. That’s obviously too much for this app. Speaking of notifications? I’ve had a red bubble notification on this app now for months. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app. I’ve checked every single corner of the app, every notification, every post and every message: there is nothing. It just likes having that little bubble I guess. Seriously: if you’re a Patreon subscriber? Maybe this app is exactly what you wanted. But if you’re a creator, you’re significantly better off just deleting the app and visiting the mobile site in a pinch.

Glad to see some effort being made. Patreon has really dragged its feet on the whole “functional app” thing. And I get it, these smart phones are probably just a passing fad, but it’s good to see that somebody at the company decided to take the initiative. I’m sure it was tricky to allocate some of the $50-$70 million a year they bring in to developing an “app” but they did it, and that’s great to see. In the off chance that the person/people who built said app are reading these reviews, maybe take a look at the smaller features like, can I change my profile picture? Just as an example. Other than that, it does honestly look good. Glad to not need to find a public library when I’m on the go to adjust my page anymore

Love it, but please fix. I’ve used Patreon for a couple years now and I’ve always loved it, but recently I wasn’t able to pay one of my pledges and I lost the benefits (completely fine and expected) but when I tried to pay for it again to re-gain my benefits it said it went through and everything was fine until I went to the page, and it was still locked off, I’ve tried everything to fix it and I’m pretty sure it’s a bug? But I’m pretty frustrated sense I did still paid for it, and yet I’ve been locked out for a while…please fix I love this app so much, it’s kind of ruined the whole point of the app!

Here we go again!. Patreon sends out an email says to watch for a new updated version…. We wait. Hoping it will be a massive upgrade in user friendliness than the current version. Then they update the app and send another email and I go to my app and ALL my downloads are gone. Everything has to be set up again and even after I have redownloaded them, they still don’t show up. there still is no search functionality within a creator and now it plays your downloads in a playlist so you have to stop it from playing rather than it just stopping after playing the one selected. I could go on and on but I just spent a bunch of time reorganizing my downloads. But, for an app I pay to use every month to get a creator’s stuff, it’s the worst app I use and really hope someday I won’t have to use it anymore!!

Love the service, ios app is severely lacking though.. the formatting and user interface for the app are completely terrible, the podcast showing on screen always clips out, the audio will randomly skip or play another podcast episode. The play button doesn’t work the first time most of the time, and there are so few customizable options to edit the interface or experience, which both severely need heavy updates. Random podcast episodes won’t show up or load properly on the first try, and the audio never saves at the right time when i exit the app. I would love to see the UI and everything updated and fixed as well some sort of a sleep timer for podcasts and more accessibility features and customizable settings.

You deleted my account without my permission. Moving forward from this app. I stayed on to support a very nice talented woman. I paid once in the month. After that i was charged twice unauthorized. And then two days later my profile was disabled permanently. I tried to get help from you people, but no one seemed to want to help me. I am a young disabled woman. I was told it was self disabled. Not true. Yes i lost my cool on the last letter i sent you. But it was obviously done deliberately and intentionally. And that’s really not cool and we both know it. Thank you for the lesson. And thats all. The End. The rest is between you and God. Regards, Coco2221

Bugs?. Uploading from my iPad using the mobile app would be great, because it cuts out the extra step of transferring files to my computer and uploading them from desktop. Only, there seems to be a bug where if you choose to upload something to specific tier on your account, it just automatically makes it public on your page. Which, obviously, isn’t cool if I want to post something for my higher paying tiers, but the file ends up being accessible by anyone who comes across the page, Patrons or not. Think I’ll stick to the desktop version instead. Could’ve been great.

Good, but I have a slight glitch. This app is wonderful, but I sometimes get a glitch where it says I have a notification from a creator when there is nothing new being made by them that has been added. I’ve updated the current page of the creator that I was on but it still doesn’t update. I’ve had this problem only with 2 creators, and I stopped it before by no longer supporting the one, but that was due to my financial reasons not the glitch, and the second one only recently popped up. Long story short, please fix the glitch where it says I have a new notification for a creator when I don’t, I’ve even checked the website to make sure that I there was nothing new to see. Also alerts when a creator messages you in dms on the app would be helpful

Bad app for a great service. I love the Patreon concept, but the app drives me crazy. Recently, it’s started resetting all the in-app notification flags every time I open it. In other words, I can no longer tell from the app whether creators I follow have new content without visiting each creator, because all posts from all of them are marked as new/unread in the sidebar every time I open the app. Also, I subscribe to an audio creator and listen to their work primarily from my phone. But the audio interface in this app on it is just awful. I can’t even see all the content because the bottom couple of tracks are cut off. (I have an iPhone X.) I have held off writing a review in hopes these issues would be addressed, but the former has been this way for weeks and the latter for months. Since I access Patreon almost exclusively from my phone, having a clunky app has a major impact on my feelings about the platform as a whole.

STAY AWAY! Unauthorized charges. NO REFUNDS!. BEWARE! Don’t join patreon unless you want to give your money away for free and not be refunded. No refunds when they continue to charge me random fees this makes the 3rd time. I’m fed up. Patreon says to contact creator for refund. Creators I support on patreon have a million+ subscribers and thousands of messages daily! You expect them to reply and worry about refunding money PATREON made the mistake of charging!? I am tired of being charged a random $8.62 when I don’t even have a tier that charges that amount! I have two memberships one being $25 and the other $15. Both top tier and patreon support is SO UNHELPFUL! Their support is Like speaking to a wall. They basically tel you to reach out to creator for refund, if they don’t respond they can try to do a refund request. Well… my refund request was DENIED!!!!!! Shame on you patreon. You are so wrong for this and it’s absolutely horrifying that you guys continue to get away with this. STAY AWAY FROM PATREON!!!!

Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast alone hoists this platform to elite status!. In the world we live in now a days where online seems to be a sea of crippling negativity, where everyone seems to scour the internet searching for any possible reason to viscously attack anyone they can over any possible reason they can think of just to ensure they can virtue signal as hard as humanly possible…. Platforms like Patreon which allow content like Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast are becoming increasingly crucial each passing day! They allow you to just sit back, relax, and release all the negative crap that is constantly trying to be hoist upon you via gut wrenching laughs!

Recently the App has been crashing. Hi, I really like how there is an app for this so you don’t always have to pull up a search engine or use a desktop/laptop or something of the sort. It’s nice to just pull it up on your phone. I don’t know why though, but a few weeks ago when I try to open any creators page in the app it crashes. I can open it and scroll through the feed of all the creators I support, but if I only want to go through one creators page of content I can’t cause the app immediately kicks me off when I try. It only just started happening last month so I’m sure with was something small and accidental that can be easily fixed (iPhone 11).

I love this app but . . .. In one of the recent updates the format changed to showing individual creators on their own separate page instead of the home “feed” page that shows all updates in one page. I would seriously like to have that feed page back bc every time I start swiping through creators I don’t even get through 15 before the app crashes and goes back to the first creator!! And that blows bc I now have to manually go through the menu to pick up where I left off two or three times bc I support over 40 people! So other than that I would love to be able to open zip files! But everything else is awesome! I hopelessly addicted to this app and I hope you can hear my plea for help!

Patreon is great, the app needs work.. I love the idea of being able to subscribe to people you want to support on Patreon. What I don’t love is the fact that the app is not intuitive and user-friendly. The app constantly glitches and crashes when trying to watch content on it. It doesn’t background properly. And it also should have an option for background Mo to where you can just play the audio from your podcast or whatever it is you’re subscribed to in a low data mode. I don’t know. I feel like I spent a lot of money on the subscriptions for the app to have such problems and me not to fully enjoy the contact that I pay for, but I still give it 4 stars just for the availability of things that I get on here I can’t get anywhere else.

New UI is frustrating. Why the change?. I really do not like the grouping system of the new UI. I preferred the old scrolling format honestly. I think seeing the posts as collections should be an option rather than the standard front page. I am subscribed to several comic artists and illustrators so having everything in chronological order made it so much easier to keep track of what was new and what I’d already seen. However now I have to click on the artists group then see the posts, then click on the images to see them full size. When you subscribe to multiple artists that post often it becomes quite cumbersome on my device because I have to sift through what I’ve already seen. Why did the UI have to change so drastically?

Great way to access benefits. I love being able to access my Patreon benefits from an app however there are a few things that I think would help the overall performance of the app. I wish that links to other Patreon posts would open within the app and not open the in-app browser client. This would make navigation so much easier when going through multiple posts. Also, I wish that (like on the website) the post categories that creators have made would be accessible in the app as well. Other than that, glad to have all my benefits in the app, even if they are a little hard to navigate to.

A Great Service to Content Creators. Even though Patreon just had a small hiccup related to payment processing, I can say that this is one of the best ways to support content creators of any kind. Whether it’s art that artists make or videos that Youtubers create, you can easily support your favorite idols with the integrated tier system that lets you, the user, choose who you want to follow, or how much you want pay. You can even get special rewards from creators themselves as a way to say thanks for your support. Even if you can’t support a creator, you can always cancel a payment and continue following them if you so choose. Remember, it’s all up to you.

This app is not user friendly. I refuse to believe this app has enough good ratings to have almost 5 stars. This is one of the most unreliable apps I’ve ever used. Episodes are from newest to oldest, and that’s your only option. It’s annoying to have to scroll for several minutes to get back to an older episode. There is no option to reorder from oldest to newest, or even search for content. It also crashes on me constantly. I will be in the middle of an episode, and when I try to go back to the app, the episode stops playing, and I’m taken all the way back to the top. Then, I have to scroll alllllllllll the way back to the episode I was listening to that it kicked me out of. The same problem occurs if I’m watching something fullscreen. If I try to exit full screen or do something else on my phone, I’m kicked out of the episode, and again, scrolling allllllll the way back to find what I was listening to. The screen will also freeze on me, but the audio will keep playing. So I just don’t touch it, in hopes the episode won’t stop. Overall, I would not use this app if the podcast I listen to didn’t post their content to this platform. All I ask for is better organized episode and for it not to crash every time I use it. Do better Patreon, I beg.

Only Two Complaints. I really enjoy the chance to give help to my favorite YouTubers and Vloggers. It seems only fair to pay them for their time and effort. I really only have two complaints about Patreon. One minor one is that I don’t get notifications when new posts are uploaded. When other apps are doing that, Patreon can get drowned out. I’d prefer a reminder. The second complaint is much more important for me since I have a small phone (an iPhone 5S). I would like to be able to change the posted videos to widescreen by flipping my phone horizontally so I can see details. Sometimes that’s important. Always, it’s irritating! I’m not sure it would be much better if I had a bigger phone, either.

The user interface needs help. First I want to say, Patreon is great. I love that there’s a place for podcasters to easily monetize their hard work. The app itself works seamlessly. I haven’t had any issues from a dev standpoint. My two cents with regard to the UX: Interacting with it makes my brain hurt! If my favorite podcasts didn’t only offer their premium/ad free subscription via this app I absolutely wouldn’t use it. Jumping between Apple Podcatst and Patreon is like going from the current Mac OS to Windows 95. The search feature is lacking quite a bit. There’s no way to search within the feed of a specific show. On several occasions I’ve gone looking for specific episodes, knowing the exact title and haven’t ever been able to find it using the search feature. Since I use this app for only one podcast, the search feature is pretty important. The show “post” feed, in addition to lacking search, doesn’t off the ability to sort or filter episodes. There’s very little delineation between each post. Check out the Episodes feed of your favorite podcast on Apple or Stitcher then jump into the Posts feed on Patreon, there is a night and day difference. Apple and Stitcher have nailed it with regard to offering a user friendly experience.

Love Patreon, but the app is 👎🏼. The Patreon app is unfortunately super buggy and not user-friendly. My biggest issue is that the audio never plays on the first click (I have to play, then pause, then hit play again). It’s also not organized very well. It would be nice to be able to see all my audio content in one spot because I support a lot of podcasts on Patreon, but that’s not possible, so you have to comb through each creator’s feed to find what you’re looking for. I’ve also had trouble downloading the audio content. It fails more often than it works, even though the file works okay when I stream it. Finally, it would be really cool if the app showed similar creators to the ones you follow. I’d love to be able to discover other podcasters and artists like the ones I already support. Long story short: love Patreon, hate the app experience.

Ok... App. I don’t dislike the latest update but issues I keep having are that if I remove a notification option it doesn’t save my choice and will reset back to having all notifications on. Also as nice as seeing each person I support individually I wish there was a general landing page and/or a way I can just see my general profile without having to see those I support. Especially since the app will always first show whoever is at the top rather than who I last looked at. And for me that person is a NSFW artist and I do love their work but I don’t enjoy coming to the app and seeing it as the “starter” view especially if I’ve already seen it. Also I get an issue where it won’t let me change my push notifications. If I check or uncheck anything it automatically resets to only having push notifications.

So many glitches. The main one being is that it doesn’t remember where you were even if you just hit pause and want to start back up again. And you can’t restart from the Home Screen so what’s the point in it showing up there. So you have to go back to the app and hit the play button but it starts over. It’s maddening. And screen mirroring from the iPhone doesn’t work well. The sound is choppy and super annoying. I don’t want to only watch on my devices, I want to watch on my TV. This doesn’t happen with other apps. And if you turn off screen mirroring while watching a video because the sound issues become too annoying the video starts back at the beginning, I love the idea of the app and supporting independent media like The Jimmy Dore Show, but the app falls short.

Two suggestion. I believe this is s great app and the way in which it functions is awesome except for the search bar. You have to know the exact name of each artist with exact spelling to find them, and that can be a bit frustrating. You also can’t type in an item a creator has made and have it show up, so maybe you guys could include a feature for that. Also I can’t tell if this is a creator thing or an app feature, but I’d really appreciate seeing the content I’m about to purchase before I do so. At the moment you have to either really want to support the artist or view their work elsewhere to see it before the subscription. So possibly, in the future, the patreon team could do a preview style of the creators content if that is an app controlled feature. Thanks for your time.

The most buggy and clunky app on my iThings. For the several years that I’ve been a Patreon subscriber this app has been and continues to be a buggy and generally clunky unreliable app. Two major complaints: 1) for some accounts to which I subscribe the number of “new” postings never completely clears, leaving me to think that there is a new posting when there is not. Uninstalling and reinstalling fixes this for a while until it just randomly starts up again. 2) when playing a video in the app, changing my device orientation from vertical to horizontal or vice-versa restarts the video at the beginning. This is just unbelievably lame and no other app that I have does this. It’s like the devs haven’t really improved the core functionality of the app in ages because it’s making them money and they don’t give a crap about fixing stuff.