Podcast Republic Reviews

I used PodcastRepublic for less than a week. Audio and expected features are okay, not very user-friendly. I’m deleting it because of suspicious activity on my phone. Ever since I installed it, I got frequent “In-app purchases not allowed” alerts: every time I started PodcastRepublic fresh and several times when it wasn’t even open. After deleting it? No such problems. I’m glad I had purchases disabled because who knows what was being attempted. Be cautious.

Latest update has taken away my ability to choose which buttons I see. Either that or it has been buried so deep in the settings that I can’t find it anymore. Very, very annoying considering the best feature of PodcastRepublic has always been the user’s ability to customize the display to our individual preferences. Now I have 9 different buttons on my screen when I only need 3 of them.

Latest update has also caused playback issues. After listening to a couple of episodes, the fast forward/rewind buttons stop working. So I have to force close. Then when I reopen, the episode starts playing from the beginning for a few seconds before it “remembers” that I’m halfway through the episode.

These things seem minor but I drive for a living & I can’t be fooling around with an app while my eyes should be on the road. So now I just can’t use this player anymore while driving.

Question, are podcasts a cutting edge technology? Does it require top tier military expert experience do make a wrapper that caches an RSS feed and streams audio content? I mean its 2024 and I know podcasts are a new concept thats still in its infancy but, actually the opposite is true.

So why in the heck, has it been just borderline impossible to just find a simple podcast player that doesnt have more problems, errors and crashes than even the most advanced, bloated and heavy apps that I have tried in the past? With the way my iphone gets alarmingly hot to the touch within seconds of clicking a single pod episode to stream, you'd think theres some extremely heavy lifting going on in the background. Yet i can open safari, goto youtube, and actually load and play a high quality video, and even have it in pip in background while working in any other app, and my phone stays at optimal temperature, no issues. If i attempt that while listening to audio pod on PodcastRepublic, the audio slows, stutters, clicks etc every time i perform an action on phone while in background.
I asked around when I first was using overcast and it started behaving strangly, and everyone online told me i needed to be using an app off the "modern podcast player list" and it looked like a well curated list. I have no idea what significance the list has, to me it seems like literally all the worst of the worst podcast player apps. Many of them, like this one, doesnt even have all the features they advertise. And when you ask about it, they just say those features will be in a future update. PodcastRepublic btw only updates 3 or 4 times a year. 😑
Im truly asking, what is PodcastRepublic doing all the time in the background? Why do i have to periodically go into settings and delete the cache? Why, even though i have ALL downloading features disabled, but if i let it play a few hours of pods without clearing cache, i get a notifications of my phone storage being full, and i look and the catch is at like 3gb! Im not even exaggerating, and this is when the 'downloads' section is still empty as it always has been. Even if i had downloaded HQ versions of 3 hour pod, it shouldn't be 3.2gb of data. My data usage on tmobile was over 160gb last month, and i looked at app data usage, 120gb of it was PodcastRepublic alone. Why? What's happening here?

I have been using Podcast Republic for years, previously in Android, and in iOS since March. Since I moved to iOS, I am finding that PodcastRepublic is quite buggy: it shuts down in the middle of episodes; when I resume playing, it starts the episode over and then suddenly “remembers” where I left off; and it often won’t work when I try to use the widget controls, forcing me to open PodcastRepublic and refresh it. These issues have not been resolved with any of the recent updates, including today’s update. PodcastRepublic needs better support with more consistent updates.

I was liking this on android but somehow l can’t seem to get it right on iOS

This was an awesome app for years, but with an update the triple click button has ceased to work. This is a little critical as it takes away a third of screen free button options. Please fix.

I really would like PodcastRepublic to succeed because of its many ways to customize it, but it many times 'takes its time' to respond when you touch the screen, or it just crash and then you have to shot PodcastRepublic down and restart it

PodcastRepublic has potential to be the best podcast player out there. The only thing it is so buggy. The dev is active and updates PodcastRepublic but this is my third shot with PodcastRepublic and I drew the same conclusion. I have to move because it’s too buggy

It would be much easier to set the time for skipping the beginning or end if you could choose from a minute and second menu. As of right now, you have to add up all the seconds if it’s longer than 60. Not a big deal. Just a UI tweak which makes it a smoother use

Could you all please take the play/pause button off the middle of the widget somehow?

Fantastic app. Allows me to sync my podcasts across iOS and Android devices, even reflecting % played at the episode level. Two requests:

1) Show an AirPlay icon on the Now Playing screen, so users can stream to a nearby device while playing from their phones.

2) Add and consolidate “How many episodes to keep” in Global Settings. Right now, I configure this across three settings at the podcast level.

Keep up the the good work!

這款podcast比我所接觸的其他apps都好用，但不知道為什麼評分這麼低（我指的是Googlepaly）
1/可以聽播客
2/可以聽廣播（廣播源自己找，有個網站專門收集全球廣播電台）
3/可以訂閱新聞（rss feeds)
4/可以同步自己的設置（這點很好用）
基本上自己需要的功能都有了。
不知道以後會不會添加TV功能，當然，太花哨了也不好。😀
最後想問下，有時候同步好像會亂，標籤和自定義電台logo也會消失幾個，不知道是不是自己哪裡操作錯誤

I've tried numerous podcast apps. Podcast Republic can be a little over whelming with all the settings. But that's what a podcast app needs, lots of ways to customize it.

If you’re looking for a podcast app that goes beyond a basic featureset, this is it. Mark chapters, customize the your visuals, make notes… PodcastRepublic blows everything else on PodcastRepublic Store away. Everything else seems basic and stripped down. The one thing other apps might have is slightly slicker UI. I searched far and wide when i had to leave behind Podcast Addict during my switch to ios. Also the premium version of PodcastRepublic is a ONE TIME fee NOT a subscription!!! Thank you Podcast Republic for challenging the subscription model of leeching people’s wallets with countless recurring fees.

I have been using PR for about a year now. I discovered it when I briefly switched to Android and was looking for an alternative to Pocket Casts.
I love PR’s level of customization and how quick it is. I also like its UX and overall feel.

I deeply respect the developers' work and the frequency and diligence with which they release updates and bug fixes.

Kudos!

I was so excited to see the iPhone version of PodcastRepublic. While it’s clearly a step below the Android version, it works very well.

So I have had several podcast apps and while the last one I liked quiet a bit this one surpasses them all. It has all the features I want and has a great UI. This is PodcastRepublic for ALL your podcasting needs

I just want to fall asleep listening to my podcasts. I’m up to date on one so I like to go through the episodes at random. This is the only app that has a shuffle. And I can favorite the episodes and shuffle just the favorites. It’s the best. I love PodcastRepublic.

The best podcast I’ve found. A well designed app for podcast listeners. It has many options to customize your listening experience. You can make playlists for routines if you listen to certain podcasts regularly. You can prioritize your podcasts, organize them by tagging. Well done!

Edited, once I found the feature that was right in front of my face 😁
PodcastRepublic has customization options that aren’t available on Spotify, which is my main reason for loving it. The addition of radio stations is a huge plus. Good a job, app developers! This is one of those apps that’s worth paying for.