Player FM — Podcast App App Reviews

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Best podcast app I have used. This is the best overall podcast app I have used. I have tried all the others I could find and this is the one I use. The playback speed controls are far superior to the others among other features.

Takes multiple tries to get working. App is good but I have to open and close it multiple times to start playing a podcast

Good Podcast player. Overall a solid player

Great App. I have not used any other app so I cannot make a comparison but it does what I need. Easy to filter/search, has all of the shows I like, good display. What more do you want from a podcast app?

Highly recommended to podcast enthusiasts. Way better than the apple podcast.

No iPad version. Until you create a version of this app built directly for the iPad I cannot use it. Merely taking the iPhone version and stretching it out won't do. Pocketcasts and a host of other podcast apps have special iPad versions. Want to love this app and it's good on just the iPhone... Just terrible on the iPad. Will have to go back to pocketcasts until it happens I guess. Let us know if such a version is even in the works please. If not I won't bother coming back to check.

Too many bugs, Too hard to add podcasts. Had to try several times before OPML worked, still didn’t add several podcasts and can’t find them through search. Tried adding them through the podcasts RSS feed still not able to add or find several podcasts. Also can’t add playlists it seems like a decent app but in its current state unusable for me

Best available for managing News. I use podcasts to catch and review news primarily. PlayerFM makes it straightforward to find, download, manage, and playback programs, including playback speed. I appreciate it showing a running total of the space used and fully customizable length of retention. These all seem fundamental, but I can’t find them easily in the Apple or Google offerings.

Latest update with ads is creating problems. I’ve used app for a few years and always been happy with it. After the latest update, I noticed ads on the bottom of my screen. Ok, I can put up with that, for a free app. But then, Norton kept giving me alerts about blocking unsafe sites. What unsafe site? I’m not trying to go to that site! Finally figured out it happens when I have this app open. So I’m uninstalling it today. Very disappointed.

Bluetooth issue seems to have been resolved. I can’t find my previous review about podcasts restarting every time I got in and out of my truck. The issue seems to have been resolved and I love this app once again! Thank you!

The sponsored podcasts (aka ads) ruined the experience. I happily used and loved PlayerFM for probably around 4 years and had a paid account almost from day 1. But they started putting “sponsored podcasts” (podcasts shown to users after payment to PlayerFM, which realistically are advertisements) in various parts of the app, including search results. It became too annoying seeing an ad as the first result in EVERY search I did. So I looked around and, much to my surprise, found a podcast app I like more. After 4 years I thought I’d be using PlayerFM until I or the company died, whichever comes first, but the frequent ads where what killed the experience for me. If you don’t mind the ads even with a paid account, it’s a great app and service.

It’s so refreshing to hear people that actually have a brain and a soul. Thank you. I love listening to people that are not afraid of Trump. He is a coward that depends on people around him to do his dirty work. He is a fraud and it’s sad to see 30% of Americans believing his lies.

Beautiful app - Testing Premium for a month. I am a hardcore podcast listener with over 600 subscriptions in my old pod catcher app, mostly Audiodramas. With so many subscriptions in the same genre, having an app that lets me create lists or groups of PODCASTS is an absolute must. Almost every podcast app has playlists for EPISODES only. I’ve only found ONE other player that had podcast lists. I downloaded 14 other podcast apps before settling on PlayerFM. It has a VERY pleasing aesthetic with podcast groups, tagging, bookmarks, custom themes, and advanced controls. Yet it’s not overwhelming or difficult to use. I bought premium for a month before I commit to a year sub. I really like it so far. This is a beautiful and solid app with great features other apps just do not have. Edited review: Developers noted my suggestions so no need to keep them in the review. Had a couple issues but received an update via this review that my issues ticket had been replied to. This was very helpful because my iCloud storage was full. I reached out to dev via a different email and I’m sure I will hear back quickly since the communication issue seemed to be on my end and not theirs. Thanks for the beautiful app.

Navigation. Good selection of podcasts, but I struggled with navigation: lining up playlist items, deleting podcasts, playing continuously etc. I just received a very nice personal explanation from the developers, and am now revising my review to 5 stars from 4. Good stuff, and (now) easy enough to control

A bit unstable, can’t find auto queue. Crashes on XR/iOS 14 randomly. The pause skipping and faster playback do work well. I can’t get why downloaded episodes do not automatically added to the playback queue.

Good interface, but buggy. This has the cleanest interface of any podcast app I’ve used. I just wish it was more reliable. The most annoying problem is that sometimes the rewind and fast forward buttons don’t do what they’re supposed to. I think this gets triggered if a phone call comes in while I’m listening, but I’m not sure. It gets to a state where rewind always takes me back to the same spot. since I often use rewind to replay a passage when something has distracted me, this is a very disappointing bug. No matter how I set the settings, it always waits until I open the app before downloading new episodes. That’s really annoying because I only open the app when I’m ready to start listening, and I have to wait for my downloads!

Amazing Features But…. I absolutely love so many things about this app and would recommend everyone trying it out for a few weeks. The app does a great job in helping you discover new podcast and ones that are very much related to the ones you already love. The app does an amazing job in helping you find new podcast however, there is one problem that is very annoying. It seems very slow in bringing in new episodes. I use a lot of different podcast apps. Player FM is almost always behind in bringing in new episodes. For many people this may not be a big deal but I like getting the new episodes as soon as they drop, this is especially true all of all the news podcasts I subscribe to. I wasn’t able to find anything that indicates how frequently the app refreshes to find the latest episodes. Also It seems on Apple devices that I am not receiving notifications that new episodes are available. I think Player FM has some very good features and everyone should give it a try. However, getting the new episodes as soon as possible and a good notification system seems to be lacking from the app currently. Hopefully, some of these issues will be improved soon and then I could enthusiastically offer a 5 star rating.

So far, pretty good.... I’ve had some issues with glitching audio and controls, and some of the free themes, it’s impossible to see things (reading white on light blue is hard). But, I’m happy to see some podcasts here that I can’t get elsewhere, I’m grateful it has a free option, and I haven’t noticed any ads. I’m very happy I can download for offline use for when I’m out walking. Thank you!

It’s got Bookmarks Baby!. That’s right, this podcast app has bookmarks. I can bookmark any Part of any podcast episode and write a little snippet about that bookmark to help me find it later. Only a few podcast apps have bookmarks. I like the way PlayerFm does bookmarks best. Although, I would like to be able to see all bookmarks in a list without having to click an episode, the way this app does bookmarks remains the best in my eyes! Here’s to you devs.

Excellent and Free!. What more can you ask for??? I’m sick of listening to car dealership and auto accident lawyers, crap music from face tattoo rappists. Now I can listen to news or any topic I really want to, Anywhere, Great app!!!

The BEST. The best podcasting app with the amazing ability to bookmark anything while listening, make notes and save the spot. Great for when it comes up in conversation later, you can literally go right to the spot where you heard it!

Bugs with CarPlay. Trying to navigate either from steering wheel controls or on the Lock Screen restarts the podcast episode. Also had the episode restart issues a couple times when getting back into the car and plugging in instead of it continuing off.

good feature but has annoying bugs. the app is well designed and works well except for 1 very annoying thing. During the playback if I send the audio to a Chromcast device, the display get garbled, and the only way to restore that is to kill the app. happens many times a day, super annoying.

Mediocre. This app will restart your podcast all the time and has a very difficult time saving your place. If you get back in your car, it often restarts your podcast you are listening to all the way from the beginning. It also does not allow you to have custom playing speeds for each podcast. The playlist also doesn’t allow you to customize the play order outside of their preset sort methods.

America’s Forgotten Heroes. As a history buff, I enjoy hearing the details of events that shaped our country. These podcasts are well done, Intriguing and inspiring. I especially loved the ones about Booker T Washington and Jimmy Doolittle and their contributions.

Best podcast player. Only one I could find that allows organization of podcast subscriptions or library - excellent design that should be recognized as “the best”

Used to be better. Episodes randomly restart when using Bluetooth connection. Playback speed not functional when casting.

App closes and stops playing at random. Love this podcast player but the app randomly closes/stops playing every few minutes. iOS 14.7.1

Too many bugs. No longer works with Apple carplay. Audio will play through the car speakers but everything else has to be done through the phone. Also randomly starts episodes from the beginning when resuming playing from the lock screen. I am a premium subscriber and will be canceling my subscription unless the bugs are fixed.

Latest update took a 2 star app to 1, should really be zero!. The new design/layout makes buttons unpressable/completely disabled in the list view. The play button is almost impossible to press and the three “...” settings button cannot be pressed at all while in list view. This used to only occur with the show on the bottom of the list in the previous version. You now have to open each show individually to gain full functionality of the play/settings buttons. Why do you make things worst with each update? Regardless of the ‘new’ look... its just a facade to cover up issues you still have not properly addressed. Also resuming shows STILL does not work as it used to years ago. You still have to play a different show to try ensure your current show resumes from where you let off, what a hassle! Maple Media deserves an award for taking decent apps and magically turning them into trash. I would suggest looking at Maple Media’s Glassdoor page as well. They treat their employees/devs poorly and seem like an awful company to work for, it truly reflects in quality of their products.

Reaaly good app. Using this app as it the only cross platform app with bookmarks support, others only allow to share with position timestamp. I wish it had Apple Watch support the it would be the best podcasting app overall.

Finally!. I have downloaded and tried literally every podcast player app and this is the best by far!

Ads with paid subscription.. Unsubscribed after two days… Everything else was just what I was looking for. But having unknown podcasts show up in my follow lists and suggested podcasts in my library, I cancelled. I know what I want to listen to. I don’t need anyone cluttering up my feeds with suggestions of what a podcast player thinks I should listen to. That’s a hard no from me.

Shop around... maybe there is a better app. The most annoying feature is the apps inability to screen and remove audio advertisements from a pod cast. Don’t believe the pitifully long and off topic answer shown on the app’s FAQs concerning advertising as other apps such as Stitcher when run parallel with is app has NO inserted advertisements. The next annoyance is the premium service, for example, an inquiry as why a pod cast of such date time and sequence was missing, the reply was, essentially, can you fix it for us.

Worth the small fee. Finding audio material that I would like to hear is easy. I’ve had the service for less than a month and am enjoying the service and availability of material I’m interested in listening to.

Love it. It is sooooo hard to find an App that carries the morning radio show I like to listen tok each day — afterwork. This app is so awesome, especially since you even have the option to download series. Super cool 👍👍👍

Almost perfect. I've used a different podcast catcher for years because it is so easy to use. By using keyword categories, this app makes it almost as easy, but can smoothly handle a whole lot more feeds at once. I only have a few items on my wishlist: 1. The categories should function as playlists of sorts. I'd like to just hit ”shuffle” and let the app randomly play unheard episodes from that category. 2. I have a lot of trouble getting whatever I'm playing over bluetooth to resume playing when I get back in the car. I usually listen to something else instead. 3. Any chance of doing monthly or quarterly payment options?

Apple Watch Support is Subpar. Good app and gets access to otherwise banned podcasters. However the Apple Watch app doesn’t have skip forward and back functionality.

Great format & friendly app. App is easy to use and to get around in. It is my favorite app to use for listening to podcasts

Works the way I need it to work. The only podcast app (other than Apple’s) I’ve found that lets me listen oldest to newest and has sensible download behavior when doing so.

There’s a lot of cryptid and horror!. When I looked for best cryptid podcasts on Safari, it suggested this app. There are a ton of really good ones to choose from and the app is pretty easy to organize and tag, much easier than the bigger named apps

Good app. Love the app! Missing one star because there is no “select all” option for Play Later section. From time to time, I want to clear up all the saved episode in the Play Later section but it is a PAIN to individually select each episode and remove them...

Terrible App. I have been trying to use this app for a month or so and every time I use it doesn’t start my podcast till like 5 minutes of me pressing play, when I’m on long car rides I will be in the middle of a podcast and it will jump all the way to the beginning for no reason at all. Overall I’m not impressed at all.

Great App! Great Support!. Love this app! Love that you can (auto)download for offline listening, love that you can heart/love episodes, and it keeps your activity saved to your account! Just had an issue with the app crashing in iOS 13.2 and their support fixed it right away, amazing! Thank you guys! Keep up the great work!

Great. Best function is being able to quickly swipe to add to Queue!

Not bad but some bugs. Update 19 July 2021 Issues listed below are still happening and no response from the developer. So far it is one of the better podcast apps for the features that do work. But there are some issues. - When listening via Bluetooth, in my case my car, it will loose it’s place in the podcast and start over when the Bluetooth connection breaks then starts. This happens when I leave my car then get back in. It makes me not want to listen via Bluetooth - During play and when the screen is locked (iPhone), the app will stop playing without touching the phone. It does not appear to have anything to do with emails or other notifications, not sure what is causing it. It happens at different lengths of times. I have to manually restart the podcast.

Needs better ways to organize playlist. I love this podcast app for the ability to make a playlist of episodes to listen to. However, after a recent update, it’s become incredibly hard to organize my playlist by holding and dragging, as this just ends up scrolling through the playlist 75% of the time. Maybe just up and down arrows to help reorder episodes? Love that there’s Apply CarPlay compatibility now

Used to be one of my go-to apps. Having used several podcatchers over the years, PlayerFM was very convenient for its web interface. Sync with my portable didn’t always operate seamlessly, but I could work around it. When Maple Media bought the app, they put in place terms of use that are unacceptable to me. Given that there are more highly rated sites offering identical service, it didn’t make sense to stick with them. I’m currently very happy with Pocket Casts, in part because it’s owned by public broadcasters. It’s an excellent app.

Use to be good but just ok now.. Use to be good but just ok now. A big plus is it has a web interface which few do. If streaming, sometimes doesn't have speed playback. On iPhone, stutters while on speaker. On Bluetooth, sometimes doesn't play when press play button or loses its place and starts over. Popups to subscribe to PlayerFM. I switched to another app.

bugs galore and failed support promises. I loved this app. It's heartbreaking how much the quality has deteriorated. Want to sync subscriptions? Prepare to be logged out before it completes. Done listening to an episode and ready for the next? Good luck getting out of the player view without force-quitting the app. Even after paying for premium support my bug reports go unanswered and the issues continue to pile up. It's a real shame; this was once a really great app.

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So many bugs. I downloaded this app after Acast became unavailable (an app I never had any issues with). This app has so many bugs! Some shows just won’t play. Some shows just stop mid sentence and won’t play any more. I can’t keep the grid view permanently. I can’t play from the home screen etc. So annoying.

Good with some playback bugs. I’ve used Player FM across platforms for like 10 years and it’s good. Simple clean interface with all the features. It just sometimes forgets its place, especially on long podcasts and goes back to the start if you pause. And its search function isn’t great. So I keep a copy of Castbox as a secondary player for when I have these issues as it’s better on both these fronts.

Liz. Finally found a podcast app where I can group them into categories. Thank you thank you!

Love the app but. The app keeps starting my podcasts from the beginning again if I take a phone call during playback

Frequently crashed. I wanted to replace apple podcast app with player FM. But the app frequently crashed in the middle of show. It's annoying. I have switched back to apple podcast app for now.

Not a bad streaming app. Seems like a nice app. Been using it for a little while. I like that it will remember where you left off and that you can use the “mark all played up to here” feature so you can know where you’re at.

Great app.. With casting support and multiple ways to arrange and explore podcasts, I find this to be the best podcast app.

your app is still broken. your app frequently crashes every two minutes when I tried to listen to a podcast

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Art bell archive. Art bell archive suddenly not there anymore. Very dissappointing. This is the only reason i used this app.

Great app. Have been using it for years, love the app. Connects well across my devices.

Player FM. Everything I want in one place. Easy

Almost.... Love the app. It’s very organized and allows for you to store multiple podcasts for offline listening. However there are some delays with podcast episodes not being available as quickly as on apple podcasts for instance. This is a better app though because it catalogues all the episodes from a podcast unlike apple which only has the last few available. Some podcasts that are more rare aren’t on the app and several that are popular in Canada aren’t on the app either. The app works on my IOS phone well but not on my Kindle, which was super slow

Unsupervised downloads. I am currently having an issue with the app that causes it to download random podcasts whenever it wants. It is getting very obnoxious canceling the download of 84 different podcasts. I don’t even know what half these podcasts are. It is also using all my data when this happens, I don’t see any settings that could cause this, please send me a response or solution if you can.

Simply doesn’t work. Don’t know if it’s just the latest version or whatever but the app simply doesn’t work. It crashes when I try to open a podcast, try to search, try to do anything at all with it.

Layout issues. “Forgot password” leads to a field where I can’t put in information so I have to create a nee account. When I opened the app, the login button was partially hiding underneath “login with Google or Apple “ After installing new, the forgot password leads to no useful choices… should be just a field with an email to enter but again it is masked by other functions (“open in browser or app?” although app is already open… very confusing

Awesome podcasts. Now I can listen more podcasts that I love 10/10 would recommend to my friends and family try it out

Awesome App. I love this app!

Perry. Excellent assembly of podcasts on every subject of interest to me.

Crashes. Looses track of what it has played. Crashes if i lock phone and open again. Has serious issue

Was Much better before. Super busy and confusing user interface. I can:t find my subscribed Podcasts. The app keeps shoving crap I am not interested in AT me. The app used to have a nice clean simple user interface. I can:t recommend this app.

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Grid View missing on Downloads tab for iOS. I’ve used this app for years on Android. The interface for iOS doesn’t include grid view option for downloaded podcasts on the downloads tab at the bottom. This is the primary way I navigate through all my podcasts. When this gets added I will change to 5 stars.

Won’t connect to cloud. App won’t start. Won’t connect to the cloud, so I can’t even try the app. No other issues with connection, only with this app.

Resuming a podcast is hit and miss. I like the player but I have trouble with the resume feature

Great. Best function is being able to quickly swipe to add to Queue!

Still Charged My Account. Downloaded it to listen to a podcast that is no longer on Apple Podcasts. Still charged me for a yearly subscription after I deleted the app. There goes $50 that I couldn’t afford.

Interface change bad. The new interface change made me switch to a new app. Horrible change with poor usability, with zero awareness/consideration tap area separation.

A bit unstable, can’t find auto queue. Crashes on XR/iOS 14 randomly. The pause skipping and faster playback do work well. I can’t get why downloaded episodes do not automatically added to the playback queue.

So far so good!!. So far so good! !

Android version is much better. I am a premium member who just switched from android to apple. The android version works flawlessly. I can’t say the same for the apple version. I tried to get help for my issues but they ghosted me after I sent my logs. You’d think you would get support for an app you pay for. The app does not remove played podcasts if you fast forward through ads at the end. For many of my podcast subscriptions, it does not notify me when new episodes arrive so I can add them to a play list. There are other issues but these are the big ones that worked great on my android phone.

Norm MacDonald Live. You have Norm MacDonald Live

The number of ads is worse than YouTube.. Every 90 seconds to 2.5 minutes there’s the same amount of ads. A 25 minute show will take 50+ minutes to hear.

Very gooooood. Thanks

Not resume after app closed!. Update: Never changed! Today 2022 feb 17, I’m writing this. Still- playing from the beginning of my 90min track! I left playing at around 45min, app was always minimized app. Later I used it via Bluetooth in my car and it’s playing vin car only, with this glitchy starts from the beginning. For Apple Watch app I should buy premium?! Lol what? Price of this app is 9.99 per year! Will never pay more. Create a paid app! Shows 35min of position for some track, when tap play - start play from the beginning. Also, playing in bg, then app crashes/closes. Opening it back - showing position where last stayed during playback, but when I tap play - it starts to play from the beginning. Also2, sometimes it’s not allowing me to do scrubbing, tap +30 buttons just playing the same part every time from one fixed timestamp position. Still bug is here. Also3: i had 2 downloaded podcasts, then I downloaded one more but manually. When I tap download and go back to what I have downloaded- i saw there only 1 downloaded file. It’s removed another! Bug. Also4, after some episode(a-style this is freestyle ep193) was downloaded by me manually, later auto download canceled it, started downloading it again. Also 5: i have 95% of episode downloaded, then lose wi-fi, no cellular plan. Then reconnect to wi-fi and started downloading from 0%! No resume downloading?! You as developers should understand that more code you write more bugs. Just hire another programmers and rewrite all from scratch. Currently it’s bad. Also6: now always error Sync error, our servers couldn’t authenticate you. Please login again. But I logged in and it’s repeat can play music now at all. Removed this app. Lol with such a lot a billions bug you already want to pay 30-40$ per year! Thats pity. Now I’m on Overcast player. It’s $9.99 PER YEAR! With new UI update more new glitches: ... vertical dot menu is not working for downloads. Unable to scrub track after it plays and then pause after some time: it’s repetitive and forced plays from the same position each time I scrub to a different position, so whatever Im trying to scrub. Also nonsense message: upgrade to Space Saver will save 54Mb of space! Lol what?! I have 30Gb free on my phone, I reeeealy don’t care. I just re downloaded this app and all issues bellow is NOT fixed. Playback is glitchy, scrubbing glitchy and so on..

What happened to the app?. Can't sign in or nor I can visit the website. What happened?

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Asked to login whenever I try to like an episode. This has been an ongoing problem for me but only happens on iOS

Randomly crashes all the time. This app might be decent if it didn't randomly crash wherever it felt like it for no reason. Extremely agitating

Throws junk. I tried to like Player.fm but it is crap. I want it to show me just the latest episodes of the podcasts that I follow. Sounds simple right. Nope. When you try to do that they show you all kinds of junk podcasts that I have absolutely no interest in. Buried in there are the podcasts that I follow. SUPER FRUSTRATING. I sent an email to support for help and they ignore. Don’t even try.

Not bad. Seems good

Que. Please add a podcast queue I could not seem to find one.

Apple Watch Support is Subpar. Good app and gets access to otherwise banned podcasters. However the Apple Watch app doesn’t have skip forward and back functionality.

Battery memory leak, might as well use web app. This app has gone so downhill in the past year. Drains the battery fast, heats up the phone, and bad UI gestures are buggy. It’s so bad I just had to switch to the web version. Looking for better apps at this point.

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Error: Couldn’t play requested episode. Error: Couldn’t play requested episode. Player FM would like to find and connect to devices on your network.

Good Podcast player. Overall a solid player

Awesome. Best Ever

Great variety. Love the choices

Worth having.. I listen to The Real David Knight Show here.

Yes, THE podcast app. There are plenty of music and radio apps, but for podcasts this one has always been the best.

Takes multiple tries to get working. App is good but I have to open and close it multiple times to start playing a podcast

Yes. My go-to...love the grid layout, love ease of use, love the graphics, thank you...

Alpha release. This was my go-to podcast app for years on Android. So much so that I thought about forking over the money to upgrade. Recently, I moved to iPhone and after the android experience, I was expecting the same great app. However, the ios port is simply years behind. It has been disappointing to say the least. I really want to use this app on the iPhone but it is nearly impossible in its current state, so I am still searching for a good podcast app on ios. Forget about upgrading. The basic app doesn't work; I would be a fool to consider paying for anything like this level of "service." This is not even a beta release but more like an alpha release that requires a lot more workand testing to bring it up to snuff. I'm on the latest hardware (13 pro max), latest OS version, so this isn't likely to be a hardware problem. I'm reasonably tech savvy and can make the app function nicely on Android. So I doubt it's user error, but I am a touch biased there! The app is unstable, doesn't function anywhere near the level of the android equivalent, the playback controls don't display properly, and newly released podcasts don't download at all. It's simply heartbreaking. - when playing a podcast, the 30 second advance button displays in an uncentered and off-axis manner after just a few minutes of playback. - latest podcast tracks don't download for days at a time, in many cases requiring me to go in and manually force the download; this is a decade behind the android version as well as most other podcast apps. - I subscribe to a lot of podcasts and sometimes keep them on the phone to review later. The android version allows downloaded apps to be sorted by series, but there is no such option on ios. So I can't see at a glance which episodes from which series are on the phone. This is one of the best features...and it's completely missing. Unbelievable. You can sort episodes manually. But I have over 200 on the phone at any one time and have no interest in the manual workaround. Alpha version! - as to the sound quality, the playback itself can only run for a few minutes before the audio starts to throb and skip. In just a few minutes it is so distorted that it is nearly unintelligible. Stopping the episode, starting another track, then re-starting the playback of the first track solves the issue--for a few minutes. And then it happens again. I never had any issues on Android, where playerfm was one of my top apps and so easy to recommend. On ios, it's more of an alpha release. Breaks my heart tonsay it but as of this writing, this is one to avoid on ios. With some good testing and investment in the software and functionality, it's possible playerfm could be restored to its potential on ios. Trust this will be helpful.

Finally!. I have downloaded and tried literally every podcast player app and this is the best by far!

Drains battery- used to be great. Good features, but drains battery on iPhone at alarming rate

Quality sound, but pauses for no reason. Pauses out of nowhere and will not start up again unless I close the app and reopen.

Used to be 5/5. Was fantastic for Android. Got an iPhone six months ago, and now the app is sending me notifications of new episodes days after I’ve already downloaded and listened to them, it will randomly start podcasts from the beginning after I pause/resume, and the worst of it all is that when I speed up episodes, the app randomly starts to skip and audio becomes unintelligible. I have to jump back and forward back to my spot for the audio to play correctly. Easy fix, but a pain in the butt—especially when driving, riding a bike, and doing dishes. Sad.

Love this app. I’ve been using PlayerFM since 2017 and a premium member for 5 years. It’s such a simple app. I’m in my late 50s and consider myself tech savvy but other podcast apps I’ve tried were hard to figure out. Other than it cutting out randomly in my car because my iPhone 12 running 16.5 overheats when plugged in. My android never did this. My car doesn’t support CarPlay wireless so I have to plug it in. Contacted Player FM support and Apple for help. I suspect it’s an Apple bug.

Apple is bad. Better than the mess that is Apple podcasts by a wide margin

Forgets my stopping place. Consistently loses my place in an episode and restarts from beginning. I guess it’s fine if you never hit pause?

So many glitches. My downloaded podcasts stop suddenly all the time. Need to find a new podcast app unfortunately.

Sad to Mad to Dissapointed. This podcast was hands-down my favourite for a very long time. It has unique capabilities and some features that are actually original. With that being said, even well-paying a membership fee I was unable to get adequate customer service while my app flat out would not work. Nevertheless I stay the course hoping to get some legitimate help with the next person I talked to but each time I got the same old suggestions and I never did find someone who cared enough to see my problem through I listen to podcasts all sorts but mostly ones to do with sports gambling in fantasy sports. If you don't know, the world of sports comes with in obscene amount of podcasts. If you take base baseball for example there are three different types of fantasy sports all with their own host of podcast specializing in just those then there are countless podcasts just about your local team, then there are podcasts to do with new age statistics, others that are more matchup based, and others that analyze the market as a strategy for gambling, and this is all just for one sport. . This app allowed me to categorize my extreme number of podcasts in the most efficient way that I have found. It allows you to designate each podcast with as many category tags as you would like and then from there (and here's the kicker) you can set each category as it's on playlist. And not just a playlist but a smart playlist that included every new episode its podcasts came out with. Very cool! I think there are probably a good amount of you thinking to yourselves quote OK dude well pretty much every podcast app I've ever seen does that" WRONG! I'm just bad at explaining what I'm trying to say! So.....ha! Why the three stars then? Well I had been a subscriber for quite a long time and didn't mind paying the per month fee because A)I used it daily daily and B) The app is providing a service the app is providing a service that was actually original that was actually original (something unfortunately hard to come by these days) unfortunately however do you have started to become really glitchy. It was actually right after an update that It got super glitchy and started to take an exceptionally long amount of time to launch. Soon I wasn't even get through podcasts without it shutting down completely. I held out for an exceptionally long amount of time: way longer than I should have to be honest. But I was determined to get back the app that I provided me such a unique service. I must have emailed customer service over 10 or 15 times from multiple different email address is trying to get support; trying to get some suggestion as to what to do to fix this. I was told to send my request through the app so that my request could include some information from my phone or something but each time when I explained that my that when i tried that, the screen just loaded back to the menu, I got nothing as far as legitimate suggestions went. I trimmed down the number of podcastz that I had to less than half, i reinstalled, etc. All the while my conversations were stalling out because with each failed attempt to fix the problem whoever was helping me clearly didn't know how to fix it and seemingly didn't want to deal with the problem. If the app works well for your phone then by all means enjoy! I know I did while it was working. I will warn however that if it stops working for any reason or you have the simplest request, complaint or question youd better hope they care enough to see it through

Great format & friendly app. App is easy to use and to get around in. It is my favorite app to use for listening to podcasts

Chrome cast support is broken. Chromecast no longer works with this app. It connects but nothing will play. Tried out other apps and they work fine with Chromecast.

Needs CarPlay. Add CarPlay, get more of a review.

Excellent App. Works great!

Shuts down often. App shuts down almost every 5min or so.

Time for an upgrade. Can’t seem to play for 5 minutes without it crashing.

Will not allow Siri and other things work....buggy. This app will not work with Siri and Facebook video etc.

It was good. I was just forced to login and I see that all of my podcast I have subscribed to are all gone. I will never find some of them again. That’s infuriating.

Don’t use it. I love the work flow of this app, unfortunately it becomes unusable when you are a “power user “. Minutes long glitches every time I open it. Really unusable. I’m migrating everything away from this app to Spotify. Do not bother downloading.