Apollo Podcasts

I’m appreciative of the app overall, but the reported bug fix is apparently still not functional. I downloaded the app to my iPhone 11 for the first time AFTER the reported bug fix. I am unable to save any shows I’d like to follow. They all disappear from my Followed Shows tab within minutes. I tried deleting my account & the app, then starting over with a different email, a new account, and a re-upload. This time, the Followed Shows tab listed ALL the shows as Followed when I opened the tab… and then they all disappeared, too. I tried following some shows after this, and they’re still disappearing. Curious whether the bug fixes have gone through yet. I otherwise enjoy the app quite a lot. Would be nice to keep my favorite shows on the followed tab rather than having to do a search for them every time

I was going to sign up but wanted to try the free trial from what I’ve been reading on the reviews. When subscribing I don’t see that there’s a free trial. I only see $90 for the year. So not sure if I’m going to get charged the $90 and not get the trial. Not risking!!! Maybe when you fix that I’ll give you guys a try.

Thank you for creating an app for just fiction podcasts. My only complaint is that you only feature only a few podcasts in the playlists. and a lot of time the same ones and in my opinion mislabeled. So I end up seeing the same 10 shows over and over. How many times can you recommend the bright sessions? And second it’s not about superheroes at all yet it’s in the superhero playlist. Can you please just have a list of ALL the shows in that genre? Please and thank you 😁

Great to find things with but no good to use as your listening app. For some reason this app doesn’t have basic playlist functionality. Every other audio player does. The technology exists. The buggiest no name androidTV pod catchers can handle it. It doesn’t make any sense that this app hasn’t included that key function

For audio fiction lovers, this does a decent job of categorizing curated lists by category to help discovery. However, the user experience is terrible. I love audio fiction and I support what this app is trying to do, but Apollo isn't a reason to give up on my favourite podcatcher yet. The app resets your place too often so even finding the podcast you're currently listening to requires a query to the server *every time*. Finished with an episode and want to go to the next one? You'll probably have to search for it again and hopefully you remember the name or number of the episode because there's no indication of your listening history. This includes sometimes not saving your progress at all, such as when you listen all the way through an episode then halfway through the next one, take a break, come back, and you're back where you started at the previous session. No rewind/fast-forward controls are available on the lock screen. You must unlock each time to seek within a track or skip to the next. I didn't try with CarPlay. Slow and frustrating. Maybe I'll revisit in a year.

This app is unique in that it has so much more to offer than any other podcast app in the App Store. Yes, there are bugs, but most recently, adding the genres has change the usage of the app for the better! I can easily find podcasts and stories just by the genre and that has increased my usage tenfold this great job

At first glance everything about this app is great, then you dive into it and it’s one small thing after another. It doesn’t keep your place in the story your listing to and the previously viewed never has the last show you were listening to, so you have to search for what you were listening to last, plus it doesn’t mark episodes you’ve already listened so unless you remember you have to find out yourself (extremely annoying). It’s chalked full of these goofy dungeon and dragons shows that unless you play, they don’t transfer from game to story very well. And that’s just a couple things. There are so many little things wrong the add up into a poorly designed app.. and now there charging for some content. I don’t trust this app to actually buy content. Who knows what you would get or even get the. Right and probably end up losing it or getting overcharged. Not worth the hassle

Thank you for fixing login and library menu! Every part of the app (screenloading, tap responsiveness, lag time etc.) is very slow, with the exception of playback. Aaaand the app suddenly quits sometimes. But I’m giving it 4 stars because it looks great, has an easy, intuitive UI, and an excellent discovery/suggestions menu. I’ve just been using Stitcher all this time, but I’m slowly migrating my many podcast subs to Apollo.

It’s wonderful the collection and organization of podcasts, but the app functions very slowly. Every new click takes a while to load, and if you want to skip ahead or back, it is delayed considerably and even crashes. Hopeful it will be improved in the future, as I would love to continue using such an app!

I love the fact it focuses on drama but I’m unable to sign into my account despite requests for help with changing my password. Prior to that problem every time I left the app and came back to it I had to re-login. Now I can’t even do that. I’m going to have to either delete it or transfer the podcasts to my iCloud podcast app