Podkicker Podcast Player
Offline podcasts player for streaming trending iTunes podcast shows
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3.47
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Simple to use with an easy interface
- Ability to sort podcasts manually
- Good selection of podcasts
- Easy to search for podcasts
- Good features like jump forward and back
Cons
- Frequent crashes and bugs
- Aggressive ads and prompts to upgrade to premium
- Loss of downloaded podcasts and subscriptions
- High data usage despite settings to limit it
- Issues with podcast playback, such as stopping unexpectedly
Most mentioned
- Invasive ads and subscription prompts
- Frequent crashes and bugs
- Loss of downloaded content and history
- Good interface and features
- Manual sorting of podcasts
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2.10
All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-20 |  | | Edit: Dropping until they update to account for the garbage latest version of android. I can't go home now without it scrubbing to the middle of whatever podcast I'm listening to. It has issues but apparently they are the same as every other podcast player. Wish I could hit "play" on my headphones or speaker and have it work but apparently that's too much for any player. |
| 2024-07-10 |  | | I've used this app for years. I especially love the ability to sort podcasts manually. Recently however podcasts tend to stop for no reason (haven't timed it, perhaps every 30 mins or so) and the app asks if I want to subscribe about 50 times per day (without explaining much benefit, making it clear how or allowing me to stop the interruptions). I'm sad to have to find a new podcast app. Thanks for a good few years podkicker! |
| 2024-07-04 |  | | Simple to use. Good selection of podcasts. It has an easier to use playlist queue than any other podcast app I have used. It is also easier to search for podcasts. The simple interface makes it better than other apps. I also like being able to downloa, and organize in the order I want to listen to. That is working again. However it stops playing at times and doesn't show as a recently used app. Many times it finishes a podcast and stops. |
| 2024-06-29 |  | | I preferred this app over many others for close to a decade now as I go through a lot of podcasts while I work, and this one consistently let me access direct RSS feeds and didn't push aggressive ads or subscriptions. However, it's recently got much buggier and today spontaneously deleted many GBs of already-downloaded podcasts (including ones that are no longer available and can't be recovered) as well as erasing all my subscriptions and listening history. Time to find a new app. |
| 2024-06-28 |  | | Updated review: I used to love this app, but I am now changing my review to 1 star because they've started spamming me with a fullscreen ad to upgrade to premium every time I open the app. This intrusive ad used only happen once a day, now it's dozens of times a day, almost every single time you open the app without fail. What a fall from grace. Avoid like the plague. |
| 2024-06-26 |  | | I've used this app for a very long time, possibly a decade and until recently it was just what I needed. It is even easy to get your subscriptions back when getting a new phone. Lately it has become pretty rough. If I have the app running and switch to my browser for 10 seconds and hop back to the app I have a full screen ad nearly every time to switch to premium which has a couple second delay for the "not now" button to pop up. I might switch if an app doesn't cut that ad rate down. |
| 2024-02-02 |  | | Like many other reviewers, I have used this app for years. I liked that it had an easy UI and was fairly straightforward. It did what it needed to due which was play podcasts. Now, not so much. It crashes every 2 minutes. It is the most frustrating thing ever. I listen to podcasts to sleep, and it crashing every 2 minutes doesn't help. I also don't appreciate getting bombarded with upgrading to a premium version. By all means, get that bag. Too aggressive. Too buggy. Fix the bugs, please. |
| 2024-01-19 |  | | I've used this app since I purchased my first smartphone a decade ago. In the last four months I have watched this app become less and less functional. In the last few weeks, I have found the app stops playing shows you have downloaded. Is this a bug from the most recent update? I am gonna give the Podkicker team a few weeks to fix it. If they don't, well, you've had enough ad revenue off of my phone. There are other podcast apps. Get it together, people! |
| 2024-01-05 |  | | Apparently I gave this app a five-star review a few years ago. My opinions have changed. It's gotten much more aggressive about asking to upgrade to the $20 a year premium version, it's started pushing sponsored recommendations at me, and even though I have it set to only use wi-fi, if I don't let it access cellular data, it will stop playing podcasts that have already been downloaded. If I do let it access cellular data, it burns through my data plan at a prodigious rate. |
| 2023-04-05 |  | | Edit: I'm down grading my review to 3 stars because of the annoying issue (and other issues mentioned, some resolved) of the volume randomly lowering during the playing of podcasts. I have checked the individual podcast settings and the app settings and haven't been able to resolve the issue. I don't experience this on YouTube or while using my music app Seriously looking for a new podcast app. As you should. |
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