Shane Carlson 78
Sunday, June 22, 2025
(Android 15) app is extremely unresponsive, episodes from various podcasts take ages to load, while other apps load content in the blink of an eye. The search function for finding podcasts is also garbage. Half the time it will show only episodes and not podcasts, even when doing a search like "serial", where I know there is a podcast of that name. Edited
Automattic, Inc
Monday, June 23, 2025
Thanks for your feedback! Please update to the newest version of the app and test search again. We'd be happy to investigate the issue with slow loading times further if you can send us your app logs via the app at Profile > Help & Feedback.
Tim Delaney 6
Monday, June 23, 2025
It won't play downloaded podcasts while phone is in airplane mode, making it useless. I think it's started injecting ads into my podcasts and I suspect that's part of the problem. If it can't pump ads in my ears it won't play my content. But I want to listen when flying or hiking. And I don't want it burning my cell data.
Automattic, Inc
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Hi, Tim! We do not add any ads to episodes. Any ads you hear will be from the podcast author themselves or their hosting provider. We have more information on that here: https://support.pocketcasts.com/knowledge-base/ads-in-episodes/ As for playing your downloaded episodes, please reach out: https://support.pocketcasts.com/contact-us/
Andrew Bennett 36
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
I'll come back in a year to try again. Tried to bring over my 85 entry opml file. Success, but no subscriptions. Ran the import again and they showed up. Two larger podcasts don't have all their episodes listed - this is covered in a FAQ entry and requires me to contact support to fix. One of these caused the browser tab to hang, although it worked in another browser. Refreshes had a strange error message, and this went away. Another podcast, 2x/day BBC News, stopped updates 3 days ago.
Automattic, Inc
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Hi, Andrew! We had an issue with the BBC Global News podcast, but that has now been fixed. For your other concerns, please do feel free to reach out if you'd like to give the app another shot. We're here to help: https://support.pocketcasts.com/contact-us/
Scott Mars (Neon N3mesis) 35
Friday, May 9, 2025
It's better than YouTube music as far as the interface goes, but one huge problem I have is it doesn't pause during phone calls. You can't hear the podcast, but it continues to play silently while you're on your call forcing you to search for where you were when you hang up. Also, I hate that I can't use the scroll on the side of the screen. I don't want to swipe 30 times to get to an old podcast episode edit: issue above is still not fixed and I cannot cast to Chromecast while using a VPN Edited
Automattic, Inc
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Hi Scott!
We'd like to investigate the issues you have reported, as we have not received other reports of such. Have you had a chance to contact us via https://support.pocketcasts.com/contact-us/? If you can provide more details such as your app log or some screen recording, that would be helpful. Thank you!
Dan Noonan 48
Monday, October 28, 2024
The app works pretty well. There are times when it shows it's playing but no sound is coming out. It sometimes has to be force quit a couple of times. Lately there have been a lot more ads. Usually it's 0:30-1:00 but the last week or so there are multiple minutes of ads that you need to go through at the beginning and middle of episodes.
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