Stitcher For Podcasts App Reviews

What a great podcast!! I am obsessed!!

Update: I’ve already contacted your support team multiple times through your app, twice. They didn’t help either time. So thanks for the nothing response! Original: Episodes will constantly not play/load correctly or are titled incorrectly. Shows pages don’t load properly, so some episodes aren’t even listed/available. And these issues aren’t being addressed. I was told it was a glitch and would be fixed soon, and then new update came and nothing changed except the UI.

Why do you keep making this app harder and harder to use? Surely you must understand that many people use this app in their cars. The latest version of this app is even LESS usable in a car than previous versions The problem is that you have HUGE picture icons for the brand/show you are listening to..but the type for the specific episode is tiny. So if I am quickly glancing down at my app, I can confirm the show I want but I cannot easily see if I am on the EPISODE that I want. Further, too much tapping just to get to the shows I want. Please fix this. This are making this app unusable. —————- Here is the review i submitted a a year or two ago: Been using Stitcher for about a year. Really like the content and ability to listen to what I want, when I want. The app used to be easy to use. The most recent app is illogically organized and WAY more difficult to use in the car. Where did my home screen go? Where is the refresh button? I don't mind the ads but I really need to be able to USE the app and easily get to my content. Go back to the old versions!

It was once a very simple and easy to use app, now it's very frustrating and I haven't been able to get to work correctly. The supposed upgrade has me moving elsewhere to listen to podcasts. Update 9-2-18 It has gotten better, it still has a hard time remember where you left off, it frequently skips back to a stopping point from a prior listening session, so you have to fast forward a long ways, or it will start almost back at the beginning.

Episodes will constantly not play/load correctly or are titled incorrectly. Shows pages don’t load properly, so some episodes aren’t even listed/available. And these issues aren’t being addressed. I was told it was a glitch and would be fixed soon, and then new update came and nothing changed except the UI.

I love stitcher but I hate when apps update for the worse. Where is the sleep function? No longer in settings. And the update before this one made it harder to find my episodes. Keeps getting worse. Why? Just itching to make it different shouldn’t justify negative changes. Very quickly replaced the sleep timer. I still don’t like the changes to how the podcasts list but I use this app all the time, gotta update to 5 stars.

What is this? The logo feels chunky and outdated. The interface on iOS is disconnected with overblown graphic elements and counterintuitive menus. Real sloppy, Stitcher. Not a fan of the new look.

I’ve been using Stitcher daily for years but I am now looking for a new podcast option since the redesign. I agree with other reviewers that this new version is unbelievably buggy. I’ve experienced extreme amounts of latency issues such as the app frequently freezing after it’s been opened and then needing to be forced closed and reopened to work. The roll out of this new version is very disappointing as I’ve spent years using this app and now feel it’s become inoperable. Also, I hate the new app icon, it’s really u*** and I really don’t like having it on my home screen

The new redesign is cumbersome, counterintuitive and just plain ugly. It’s much harder to navigate and is buggy as hell. Would love an option to have something more similar to the old design. This junk is nearly enough to make me stop using stitcher altogether.

I loved this app and never had a problem until this update. It skips and shuts down every episode and now... this morning it won’t play at all.

The new design that came with the latest update was not fully baked. I keep trying to delete played episodes from my saved list and they keep reappearing! How much of my phone’s storage space is malfunctioning redesign taking up? I was considering upgrading to premium before the redesign but now I’m going to wait. Why pay more for a buggier app?

Yikes, I don’t often review apps, but I must say this new design feels like it harkens back to iOS 6. Definitely missed the mark.

I’m a fan of the app. I’m not sure yet what added value the updated format provides. Please give us an overview. I’ve had some trouble deleting episodes I no longer want in my saved episodes page. When I remove the “save” X it keeps popping back up. Clicking on edit and then remove seems to work. Not sure which place to go to see the newly added episodes - home page? Favorite shows? They seem to be in a different order and several do not show up in one or the other.

The only thing that keeps this from being a 5 star for me is the limited listening stat tracking. I’d love to see what all of the statistics are, not just top five for two weeks and 90 days. Wouldn’t be hard to implement I don’t think and yet no podcasts app seems to have it.

I’ve been using stitcher since 2015, and I am very impressed with the new update. It’s smooth, the filtering is a lot more effective, and the search function is much easier to use now. Thank you!

New interface is a good idea but the order of my favorite playlist keeps switching. I want the most recent on top and no matter how many times I sort it like that I flips to something else. Incredibly frustrating. Please fix in next update

It was barely tolerable before. I know, let’s make it worse! What kind of k*** approved this redesign?

I love almost every show on this network, got premium for great shows like deeper shade of shade, threedom, wild horses, but the new ui is HORRIBLE. I really loved the old screen of seeing my old podcasts i follow with little tabs showing what was new. Did they show this ui to any human before updating it? It boggles the mind. They just decided "well let's make it bad instead". "Home" is now a useless unconfigurable list that only fits two episodes on the page. Again, love the content, absolutely hate the new ui. Why did you do that.

Used to be a good app. I even paid for premium to support them. But now they’ve “improved” the design. Uh, no, you didn’t. I read your instructions for how to find the sleep timer and you are flat out lying to me. Anybody have recommendation for similar product that will work better?

Unfortunately I had to end my premium subscription. The updated user interface is not a viable option for a daily user. Please Stitcher go back to your former glory.

Hate the latest update

On my iPad, I see none of the changes you describe as being in 9.0. No ‘My Podcasts’ section, no menu icons on the bottom (or top). And where did the sleep timer go? Looks like the previous version, without the sleep timer.

I was very happy this morning to turn on Stitcher and receive the newly designed App. It really is easy to read and easy to find things and it’s clear and clean looking. so thank you very much for the redesign. Is it possible for you to make the car mode easier to find? And if possible allow Siri to activate car mode on demand? The car mode button is buried somewhere and it’s not convenient at all.

Sleep timer is missing on latest update..

I love stitcher but I hate when apps update for the worse. Where is the sleep function? No longer in settings. And the update before this one made it harder to find my episodes. Keeps getting worse. Why? Just itching to make it different shouldn’t justify negative changes.

The podcast no longer continues if you leave the app, either by downsizing the app or by the phone turning to standby. You need to fix it quick!

The new ui and even icon look terrible! I cant find my favorites playlists or anything. Tge playlist thumbnails look terrible. The mosaic of pixelated strangely cropped thumbnails. Im not sure what anyone was thinking but its trash. So much white my phone screens so much brighter and glaring. Utterly destroyed the app after its been perfect for years.

I see none of the changes you describe as being in 9.0. No My Podcasts section, no menu icons on the bottom (or top). And where did the sleep timer go?

I like this app, and I like the premium content, which is why I started using it. But I don’t understand the Front Page at all...it seems to choose episodes at random and it’s not the stuff I usually listen to. I also would really appreciate an Apple Watch app, so that I could control it on the fly. Other than that, this is a less buggy podcast app that’s giving some of my favorite podcasters a good platform!

I can no longer find things using new UX. Most buttons are not useful.

I like the app keeps getting better and easier to use. Premium shows are awesome. Well worth it.

I liked the app until the InfoWars podcast was removed. I do not respect or support companies that pander to liberal agendas. Very disappointed.

Used to love this app. But now they are censoring free speech. Time to delete after over 6 years of almost daily listening.

Is Stitcher censoring Alex Jones, too? I’m not a fan, but find the partisan hypocrisy disgusting. I grew up to the mantra, I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. Shame on you!

Not happy that you are not updating The Alex Jones Show!!!!

After 4000 listening hours I have deleted this app. Cannot support a business that removes content they disagree with. Private business can do what they want but I'll find a new pod app. #nothoughtpolice

This app used to be so good but they have absolutely destroyed it with most recent updates. Episodes don’t download or cut out even if they were downloaded and then it just automatically skips to a show you don’t want to listen too. Seriously they should fire everyone who has been working on this app recently.

Alex Jones is an idiot but I simply cannot pay money to a company that censors people. I’ve deleted my account and I’m moving on. People deserve the right to speak regardless of what they are saying.

Stitcher is anti first amendment and a silencer of Conservative voices. After 5 years of using Stitcher I will be deleting this app.

Nuff said. Go Stitcher!

Nothing gets any sort of attention, shows/episodes are constantly offline, the UI is u*** and there isn’t a simple option to have a shows entire episodes listed on one page. I’m not holding my breath for this to get better, it’ll just continue to be this half baked app.

Thank you for standing up for truth, and not allowing greedy conspiracy theorists to peddle their nonsense.

Stitchers way of prioritizing content is on their terms, not yours, which is inconvenient from a user point of view. But more importantly, stitcher has trouble loading content and absolutely never works when accessed via Carplay. I would rather listen in low def, from a dial-up modem directly from individual podcast websites than continue using this app on IOS.

This is an adequate podcast app if you plan on listening only on 1 device. However, it does not sync well between different devices (i.e. iPhone, iPad, Echo). Given it’s poor ability to sync between difference devices and the fact that you have to listen to their ads, it is a terrible experience.

If you have phone screen off, playback will freeze between episodes. I have to view Stitcher app before next new episode in queue will continue playing.

The app does not work in the background, meaning you must have it open and your phone open for it to continuously play. Otherwise, if you’re using maps or get a phone call, the app stops working and you must restart it. (Oh and it blames whatever interrupted it.) This also means it doesn’t work with Bluetooth headphones: it will play, but you can’t use your set to pause it. Every episode change, again, the app stops playing. You have to restart. Finally, it has an utterly atrocious UI. For whatever reason the devs seemed to think users would only want to “play next” and not “add to queue.” Meaning you have to constantly reorganize. The episode playlist function is completely useless. As soon as I hit “send,” I’m looking for a different app.

iPhone 8+ Interface is a little clunky but manageable with some getting used to. The most annoying thing I find is the audio frequently cuts out and the only way I’ve found to get it back is to kill the app and relaunch it. This happens 100% of the time if you”X” out of the initial advertisement that plays on start up but also seemingly at random.

I love this app. I do. I am a stat junkie and love seeing how much I listen to podcasts and which ones. I don’t like that it crashes and won’t let me delete one in the queue without a crash. I don’t like how it freezes. Or that I can’t “play later” like basic Apple podcasts does. Fix these problems (let me add a podcast to the end of the queue not the beginning) and fix the crashes and I’ll love it.

I’ve been using this app since 2012 and it’s been great. What happened this last couple of weeks? Now it freezes a lot. Doesn’t resume in the car once google maps gives verbal directions—why??? What’s going on?? I’m about to look elsewhere.

I like the interface but I have some major technical issues: 1- Podcasts won't start after a phone call interruption. I have to manually open the app again and press play again. C'mon guys it's 2019! 2- "up next" doesn't always work. This is very frustrating especially when you hand curated your cue list.

I am disappointed with what is going on with this app. Every update is causing functionality loss and instability. I loved this for a long time but now I am looking for a new app. Update: Stitcher helped me with some of the issues this week. I am still worried about instability. Started using car play and it seems to branch out to issues there too. I am tentatively dipping my toes back into the stitcher water.

Wish it was possible the reverse the order episodes appear in. No further complaints as of yet.

So I like Stitcher a lot, it has practically every show I listen to, including many that are broadcast in Welsh. I like that I can add shows to favorites and the app will download them so I can listen to them on subway. But it doesn't do a good job at clearing out the stuff I've listened to. I would also like the downloads for daily shows not to get cleared if I don't listen before the next episode comes out. I can go back and download it easily, but I find it then have to tell the app to delete it.

Bad app design almost makes the content not worth it. Unintuitive, many dropped downloads, and s***** subscription settings.

I been a Stitcher user for YEARS now. I know it like the back of my hand. I recommend it on a daily basis. I’m a serious Stitcher “guy!” The one and ONLY thing I wish wish wish you guys would do is GREATLY improve your stat-keeping on us, your Stitcher users. My fave thing is to remember that “oh hey...I haven’t checked my stats in awhile, I wonder if I broke my record for days in a row listening!?.” and I drop whatever/whoever I’m doing and I look. You guys can easily keep better stats. C’mon. I want a layout of months-to years-to all time listening statistics. I am a HUGE maker of lists! Everything in my life revolves around this grading/rating/listing system where things qualify for my personal “Hall of Fame.” Or my “Top 5,” and of course the end-all “All-Time” lists. How the heck am I supposed to know which podcast is my All-Time Fave? Which shows are to be inducted into my “Hall of Fame Podcasts” and what about my “Top 5 newer true crime shows”? Think of the possibilities here folks. I’m not alone in this I feel. You have to be kinda nerdy to be into this whole podcasting thing anyway don’t ‘ya? So I’m guessing there’s plenty of folks out there that would agree with me. So the next meeting you ppl have, instead of voting to improve the visibility of the “skip ahead 5-10-30seconds” button for the 16th time, do something epic!!!!! Announce that you’ve decided to implement a whole new statistic tracking feature that can tell you everything from our all-timer fave show, to which podcast we check-out of prematurely most often, to what times we listen to what show. All of it!!! Because frankly.....I need a big change. You guys are becoming boring! This would lock us all in for another LeBron-like contract with you. Go go go..........-Jay

Deleted this app because they do not support free speech. Whether I agree with a person or not, they should NEVER BE CENSORED. Especially when you allow countless other podcasts which are extremely racist. Goodbye.

I like how I can use Stitcher on my phone or a computer, unlike the stock Apple podcast app. This being said, I've noticed recently that it will crash unexpectedly while I'm in the car: either when working independently or sometimes when running along with another app. Also, sometimes an episode won't play. I think because other episodes will be playing. At times, I'll try to play and download, then it crashes.

I don’t know why this is made so difficult. Even if I change the order of the episodes in Favorites or a custom playlist it ignores me and just does something else. I tried Stitcher due to Freakonomics podcast and I will do a paid subscription to support that but not until this basic sorting feature is fixed. Back to Overcast I go.

This app drives me crazy. I listen to a ton of podcasts while driving and it is constantly reloading!! It loses my place and takes me back to the home page every time! I haven’t been able to listen to one episode successfully yet!

This is the least user friendly, least reliable, buggiest app I have ever used. I have never been moved to leave a review for an app before, but this one is awful. The options regarding offline downloads and other settings simply do not do what they are supposed to. New shows consistently do not show up on the app, it drops episodes when listening offline (despite being fully downloaded), and sometimes literally wont even load/play a downloaded episode while on WiFi. I hate that I pay for premium, but the content is the only redeeming factor for this app. Someone needs to fix a lot of features in this mess of an app.

The same problem as last time. Please fix this.

No way to justify $5 a month for this. The app functionality is pretty week and it doesn’t even remember where you left off once you close the app. The shows are mediocre at best and most all the content is accessible for free elsewhere.

I have used Stitcher for years. The new design looks great. My biggest bother with the App is that in offline mode a banner comes up each time notifying me I am in offline mode before I can do anything. I am often in offline mode and without service. This warning can be a dangerous distraction to just skipping ahead.

Man this app can't seem to get it right. I'm at work on my company's really fast wifi. Most of my podcast downloaf, except this particular one which is my favorite. No matter what, the app always says waiting to download, or will tell me downloading is complete which the episode has not downloaded. Getting tired of this

I find that it is difficult to use another app while listening to a podcast through Stitcher, and iOS Battery Usage confirms Stitcher as by far the biggest drainer. (BTW the developer’s “our bad” response is from an older review of mine where I had found a car-mode problem.)

I subscribe to over 100 podcasts. If I can't import or export with Stitcher, I'm not going to use it at all. This is the downside of your transparent attempt to trap users in your app. People who happened to start elsewhere couldn't bring our lists if we wanted to. Oh well. Breaker is social too and shares lists like a champ.

I have been an Audible listener for a number of years but was looking for something “different”. I love true crime and the unexplained and the podcasts on Stitcher has these topics and so many more! So far, Stitcher has been easy to navigate, scroll through and listen to my podcasts, organize, and add new ones. Totally enjoying “Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories”. Give it a try!

The app is unpleasant to navigate, not only is there a bizarre combination of swipes and clicks to get around but the buttons are just a shade different from the background and are too easily over looked. Not only do you have to work at finding the content you want, the mechanics of the app are equally frustrating. Often the podcast I’m listening to will suddenly stop and say it’s no longer available. Now this could be a third party issue (ie soundcloud) but the one that really bugs me is even tho I’ve set my playback preference to play oldest to newest it refuses to do so and will only play the next oldest. Why?!

I’ve been using this app for almost a year and for the most part I’m fairly happy but there are issues within the app that are so wildly frustrating, I’ve been on the verge of just moving on to a different platform because of all the issues. I have to download episodes or they won’t play but it deletes my downloads randomly so then I have additional issues. The customer service reps are ok. They can be helpful but also over talk you and can be condescending when discussing the issue. Word of advice to the customer service reps: be less condescending. We don’t work for stitcher so we don’t know the inner workings. Check your attitude.

The 7/21 update fixed it. :) It randomly will or won’t play continuously, yes, I have it set to do so. Even deleted and reloaded it and changed settings back and forth. Just plays one of my favorites then stops. (I say randomly because this is a years’ long issue, on various devices, I’ve used this app since 2008 and sometimes go to other apps when this one irritates me too much, but this is my favorite one, please fix this :/)

The app constantly crashes, terrible loading time and all around just clunky. I was forced into this app because of the earwolf contracts and the pro-versions. I can not wait for the day a better product comes out or a new company sets the bar a lot higher then this. Avoid if you can there are better podcast apps out there!

What the heck did you guys do? How do I go back to a previous season episodes ????? Are you s******* me?? The latest update is a hell

I put up a review the other day giving one star because of a bug in the latest update, boom, they fixed it right away, and now I’m happy as a clam with Stitcher for listening to podcasts again!

I tap the free trial button and app shows endless spinner

Working just fine again

Subscribed premium so I could listen to full archives of a specific show. They advertise that you can listen to the full archives of this show with premium. They DON’T have full archives of the show. “We’re sorry, this episode is no longer available from the content provider” is the error message for every episode I click on. Not even sure how I can get my money back.

Tried using this for a couple of podcasts, but if the podcast’s picture is mostly white, all the controls are difficult if not impossible to see against it. Other controls on the app or so poorly contrasted with the background, that I didn’t even notice them the first few times I use the app. I’ll be going back to my other podcast app that has excellent accessibility support.

I downloaded this app for a specific podcast's archives. Now a lot of the archived episodes are no longer available. I choose an episode that I'm interested in and it's not even the episode listed. Waste of time, waste of money. Worthless to me, so why pay?

I can’t find older episodes of podcast (The Read to be exact).

I love this app but this is just to let the developers know that since the new update a week ago, the “play next“ feature no longer works. I have a long list of podcasts that I want to play, but what happens is whatever is playing finishes, and then nothing follows on after it. The play next list is still there, but I cannot access it, I have to go to a new podcast and tap to start it, and then all my play nexts are there in plain sight, but it doesn’t matter, because none of them are going to play next. Please fix, and I’ll change this review.

It randomly will or won’t play continuously, yes, I have it set to do so. Even deleted and reloaded it and changed settings back and forth. Just plays one of my favorites then stops. (I say randomly because this is a years’ long issue, on various devices, I’ve used this app since 2008 and sometimes go to other apps when this one irritates me too much, but this is my favorite one, please fix this :/)

I like a lot about how this app works. I like being able to go through my shows, pick the episodes, and have them appear in a list of saved episodes. I can sync between my devices so that I don’t have to add them to multiple devices manually. I can even save stuff I have already listened to in an archive. The “My Front Page” is a useless mess, but the app gives me the option to start with my Favorites so that I don’t have to see it if I don’t want to. Oh, and I can add it to Sonos and play through Sonos. This app loses two stars, and maybe should lose more, for one reason. It’s missing several of the shows that I want in its directory, and there’s no way to add a feed URL that I can find. If they don’t have it in their database, I can’t add it. This means that I have to have another app just to hear some of the shows that they do not carry. It’s not just one or two missing, it’s several . . . Bioethics on Air, The Jennifer Fulwiler Show, Catholic Answers Focus, The Catholic Cafe, The Doctor is In (Ray Guerendi), and Stephen Herreid. With that many shows not available, it makes the app a whole lot less useful for me.

CarPlay skips to the next track, it only plays one cast in a row, it does not download until you press play, there is no sorting and the played items are all jumbled.

I’d like to be able to turn off suggestions. About 1 in 10 is something I actually want to listen to. There are some playback issues sometimes, where a podcast I’ve already finished will start again at a place I’d previously left it, even if I’ve finished it since I left it.

^^ see subject.

I haven’t really listened to many podcasts I am a v***** podcast listener as one might say. So I really don’t have much to compare this app to but I really enjoy hearing from the people involved in these cases it is not easy to stop once you have started listening!! A friend recommended the app and now we can discuss some of the cases together. I enjoy the app! Keep up the good work! Thanks!

Have had this app since....2012? It can be confusing at times but stick with it. It’s great! My only request is for you to bring the titles of the shows back, not just the name of the episode and when it downloaded! I appreciate the streamlining efforts but when you’re driving (i know I know) it’s not enough to just have a little picture/icon in the left corner to show you what the show is. Also this version is really crash-y. But hey. I love ya. I’m here for ya and all of your improvements and I respect you doing new stuff and constantly trying to make it better for us. Don’t let all these Bitter Betties with their one stars get to ya.

Writing this as I am waiting for the app to buffer. I have nothing but problems, often having to shut down the app multiple times before it makes a connection. When I try to play a podcast, I’m often met with a buzzing sound, almost sounds like an old tv turning off. The interface is difficult to use, the search engine is not efficient. Apps like Spotify and the old howl app are significantly more user friendly. I keep my subscription because of the amount of great content, *shoutout Guys We F#%*ed* but if it doesn’t get better soon I don’t know how much longer I’ll continue paying.

every podcast i looked up had 1-10 shows only, with a loading error message at the bottom. not sure if this is an upgrade ploy or just bad software. i uninstalled within 5 minutes, not worth it.

EDIT: Thank you for reacting so quickly to this issue. I realize that you are doing your best to provide an awesome product, and I appreciate that.

I have used Stitcher for years. I used to love it. Now it won’t download my favorites no matter how I set up the settings. I have it supposedly set to download the most recent episode of my Favorites podcasts, but now I have to manually “re-download” them. This means that often I don’t have my podcasts when I want/need them. Very frustrated that the new look had decreased functionality.

Much easier navigation, saving episodes and download management has improved, search function actually provides relevant results, and podcasts now have catalogues that can be browsed by year. It’s so much better after the last couple updates. App no longer skips. They keep making deals with awesome content creators, and they have me pegged as a consumer 🤷🏼‍♂️

Interface is terrible, app crashes often and it’s interminably slllooowwww. Don’t bother with Stitcher.

This used to be one of my favorite apps to the degree it was in the pole-position spot nearest to the home button on my iPhone. The new version forces the interface to be square logos instead of the vertical list of podcasts within my playlist groups. This past version list included visible way to quickly see what I had listened to with a glimpse of title. 2 days ago I updated and I am regret this app update so much I am writing a review and searching for other podcast listening options. Grrr argh

This used to be my favorite podcast player and I have logged 5600 hours in it. When downloading episodes was added that made it the only player I used. Since then, the updates have made it more difficult to use. And in January, 2018, my paid subscription to Fox News MegaCast podcast stopped updating and disappeared from the Stitcher search engine. Since then I have asked tech support and Help-Contact Us for help in getting this podcast back. I have been told 1 - the podcast no longer exists, 2 - I should be able to access it, 3 - they will help me restore it, and 4 - the publisher has removed it from Stitcher. Every one of these has been proven to be false. Why not just tell me the truth about why this and other paid podcasts have disappeared from the search engine. It really seems that the customer service and tech support people don’t know as much as they should about this app.

I love filling my work days with listening to podcasts, so any app that allows me to access my favorites easily is one I’m willing to check out. Stitcher is a bit of a disappointment to me, as I had heard a lot of good things, but each time I open it I experience bugs. My front page is a blank white screen, no matter if I’m securely connected to WiFi or cellular data - it just never loads. If I pause the podcast I’m listening to, I have a 50/50 shot that it will start again when I’m ready for it to. These bugs aren’t necessarily detrimental, but they are annoying. I haven’t stopped using it yet, but I will when I find something better.

Ok so far

Very good. Allow sorting of downloads and I will up my rating to 5 stars and spread the word to all my other podcast friends

Edited review to reflect that Facebook bug is now fixed.

I love this app but often when I download a podcast it’s gone from my downloads when I go to listen to it. This has happened multiple times. Otherwise it’s great!

I finally relented and decided to give podcasts a try... I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. After a week of binge-listening, I sought out podcast apps and learned of Stitcher. It was/is the best I found. It's very easy to use and worth the investment. A+

I’ve logged 1736 hours on Stitcher since 2008, and it’s still my most-used app. The current UI isn’t my favorite, but it’s fine.

Will take 90+ seconds to load a podcast on wifi or full bars. Restarts podcasts without warning with no way of finding your place again. VERY poor work, I would switch but they locked me in for a year so I could get How Did This Get Made. If you have any choice, avoid like it’s Ebola.

I’m not particularly enchanted with Apple’s native podcast app so I decided to try Stitcher having heard it was far superior. I also wanted to check out a few Stitcher premium shows. I’m annoyed because apparently I can’t just pick up where I left off. I usually listen to podcasts before and after work and on breaks, so there will be a few hours in-between when I use the app. The play/pause button on the bottom goes away by the time I want to continue listening so I have to search for the episode all over again. It seems so fundamental to be able to easily go back to the latest played episode especially when I’m still in the middle of it. Also, I stream just like with Apple’s podcaster, but this one quits on me way more easily if I lose service. It plays that creepy sound over and over (the sound of a finished record on a record player I think). Both the lack of functionality to keep streaming and the use of that sound effect are annoying. I’ll finish out my free trial but I’m reluctantly going back to Apple!

I moved to stitcher a few months ago when my previous app was not downloading my podcasts in the background like it should. All in ask is that when I walk out the door after being on WiFi for the last 12 hours that my favorite podcasts have been downloaded. Stitcher did this for a while but I've had nothing but problems the last couple weeks. It will say it's downloading 1 of 2, then 2 of 2, but when it's done nothing has actual downloaded. When I try to get it to did download manually, that doesn't work either. I also get frustrated that it deletes the last episode- even if it's unplayed - when it downloads a new one so I'm constantly re-downloading something that should never have been removed. And if this is a space saving feature, maybe a better option would be to download played episode, which can linger for a long time. Even when I'm getting space warnings, I have to manually remove those played episodes because stitcher isn't smart enough to do it For an app people can actually subscribe and pay for, I expected better. Why is it so hard to find a podcast app that will consistently download my new episodes when they're posted - without my promoting- and remove them when I've played them? I'm not asking for the moon here!

So far i have liked everything about this app except that i can't control it from my iphone's lock screen, additionally hitting the button on my headphones that typically would pause any audio coming thru does not work with this app. i don't know how this app can't use these basic phone function. if they would fix that i would gladly rate 5 stars

If you lose network connectivity at any point, the app goes haywire. Usually a close and restart fixes it, but seriously? App does a bad job of dealing with connectivity gaps and episode resumes afterwards. Or loading enough of a cache that the episode won’t crash when you go underground in a subway or takeoff in a plane. Interface is fine, but app infuriates when you press “play” after a loss of service and nothing happens.

I was a Stitcher user for six years, and I finally quit after I got tired of the ads. It’s a pity, because I preferred the interface to Apple’s app, but the frequent (and repetitive) ads on top of the ads that I already have to listen to in the podcasts themselves were ultimately too off-putting.

I don’t know if “crashes” is the right word; I am in and out of my car all day long. As soon as I unplug my phone from car play (or just hit pause and exit the app) I’m always taking dice roll on whether or not the podcast I was currently listening to will be waiting for me when I get back to the app. If you don’t save or star the current episode you’re listening to, then it can be quite tedious to find again. A lot of times I find episodes through the episode search function and start to listen to something while driving (streaming it and not saving) and if I don’t finish the podcast in one sitting, it may as well be for nought.

After the latest update the app keeps crashing, especially when editing the playlist. Plus the desktop player won’t let me sign in without letting it post to my Facebook feed. After years of enjoyable use I regretfully have to switch to something more reliable.

I favorited a podcast then was unable to unfavorite it. The app will show I've unfavorited it but the second i refresh it's favorited again. Doesn't show what I'm downloading, it'll tell me something is downloading but when i check all my downloads are from 2017. Sometimes it won't even play the podcast i have managed to download. This is just a few issues among the cavalcade in this app.

Great interface to organize my favorite shows. Background downloads, saves for offline listening. Perfect.

So I downloaded the Stitcher app because they have the earliest episodes of one podcast that I want to hear. I have a code to get Stitcher Premium for a month for free, but I can’t find where to use it. Hoping for a developer response to advise me on this... would like to be able to use the code to try the free month before deciding whether or not to subscribe. Thanks!

Do I love Earwolf’s original podcasts? Yes. Do I love my podcast app crashing on me every few seconds? No. My preferred settings never stay the same they always restore to default setting every few days, my downloads get deleted constantly, I select that I only want to download on Wi-Fi, but it ends up using up all my data anyways. I have installed and reinstalled, tried turning it on and turning it off again, and logged in and out like the mind customer service representatives suggested. But this is not something they can help. The organization in the structure of the app and podcasts change from podcast to podcast. So basically one podcast can be organized from newest to oldest, but the next will be the opposite, the next will be organized in numerical order, and then the reverse of that like a countdown for some reason? Another podcast can be organized by episode title alone, and some seem to have no organizational pattern at all. These issues matter in many podcasts, even if they didn’t what if you wanted to listen to them in the way that they aired? Why do some podcasts have seasons and others are an infinitely long list that you have to scroll down to the bottom of if you want to listen to them in order. When it comes to podcasts that have to be listened to in order and have 300 episodes, this is very unnecessary and frustrating. But then podcasts with 25 episodes are broken up into 5 episode seasons even when their continuity doesn’t really matter? This makes no sense. Frequently my other podcast apps have episodes that don’t appear to upload on Stitcher at all and Stitcher is the only one that I’m even paying for. I’ve contacted customer service plenty of times and while they were very polite and tried to help, none of the troubleshooting efforts ever work. Because it is the app that is the problem. It needs to be completely revamped. The end result leaves me paying for a podcast app simply in the hopes that I may be able to listen to the original content that I am attempting to pay for when I want to listen to it and that is not always the case. More often than not I get frustrated with trying and give up. It frequently downloads podcasts to my phone that I don’t even want, no matter what I do, what settings I change or how I use the favorites or saved episodes features, which in and off themselves are very useless and confusing. The only options to download new episodes are to download them all or deselect the feature which deletes them all. Which feels like this weird thinly veiled threat? Like either you download every new episode to keep our numbers up for ads and sponsorships or we delete everything you want to listen to. This whole part of the process is very manipulative and odd. So I either download it all or nothing? Or sift through a list of 500 episodes every day to find the ones I want and still have to get stuck downloading ones from years later I am nowhere close to being on. It seems as if the developers of this app are not quite sure how to do what they are doing. It is imperative that professionals be employed, because there are simple issues fundamentally wrong with this app that could easily be changed. When I as a user with little to no knowledge of programming could fix an app overnight you know you have a problem. I will continue to pay for Stitcher to have access to Hollywood Handbook, Off Book: TIMP, Wild Horses, Raised By TV, Threedom and many other Earwolf and Stitcher originals. And I am grateful when I am actually able to listen, and when I can’t I just look at the money being taken away from me in my bank account and write long letters to whomstever will listen about my distaste for this app. I’m gonna keeping using it, so take my money but you get 1 star and that’s for access the content (sometimes) not the actual app itself.

I used Stitcher to listen to Judge John Hodgman, and Jordan Jessie Go! Unfortunately, I learned that they put these podcasts on the app against the express wishes of the creators and of the network of podcasts they belong to (Maximum Fun). It's a decent app, but incredibly underhanded to generate ad revenue from stolen content. I'm moving to Overcast.

I canceled this service in January 2018 and have still been charged for the past FIVE months. There’s no way to verbally talk with someone I’ve submitted multiple emails with no response. I have no clue how to cancel

Stitcher offers many advantages over apples included podcast app. Streaming, interface advantages, sleep timers,… All of the good enough to withstand listening to a couple of ads in exchange for better service. But now I constantly get timed out downloads and I am forced to relisten ads that I’ve already her three times while the podcast stops playing. They also seem to be a lot more interested in selling me premium content than running a good app. Onto the next one....

I got Stitcher, and went Premium, so I could get the entire back catalog of “How Did this Get Made”. If I had known how terrible the player and streaming engine is I never would have signed up. I listen on a very fast WiFi connection with great cellular data backup. I can’t Get through an episode of anything without it hesitating, stopping, repeating and ultimately bombing out of the episode. It disappears from my playlist and I have to go track it down if I want to hear more. I try to download...even when an episode shows as downloaded, it still will bomb out. Frustrating and maddening. If I find the same content on my iOS podcast app, I will stream with commercials to avoid the frustration of using this player. And, on the same WiFi connection my iOS podcasts playback beautifully without a stop or a drop. The issues are entirely with the shortcomings of this player/streamer.

What happened? And the selection that shows in the favorites list doesn’t say what episode going to be up next. I’m a long time listener, but no more.

I’ve had a problems with this app with UI and bugs, but it’s gradually improved with each update to where it’s much more stable and easy to use than a few months ago. It’s still not my favorite podcast app to use (good content though) but I’m glad they’ve been listening and fixing issues

I’m glad the FB login prompts have been fixed.

Why earwolf studios would switch by far the worst podcast app I’ve ever used is beyond me... the howl app was terrible, but stitcher is worse. It’s too bad there isn’t a coherent and functional way for me to get access to all comedy bang bang episodes. Really should be so easy and straight forward to use.... they should be terribly ashamed to have, what should be such coding, be so hard to use

Awesome content, wish it wasn’t h*** getting to the point of listening to it. Awful functionality.

I love the stitcher content and was super excited to get premium. The app, however is so awful that I’m no longer using it. Overcast is simpler and easier to navigate. Stitcher auto downloaded the newest episode of every podcast I subscribed to, even after listening and deleting the file. The playlists were very difficult to set up and didn’t organize very intuitively. To get back to the main dashboard you have to hit the back button multiple times.

Interface is really bad. Signed up for premium service to get around paywall and you can’t even access all the episodes for supported shows. What is the point of paying for this garbage???

I went from loving it to dealing with this app on the newest update. How do i get the previous playlist layout back? Cant stand the tiles nor the list of current episodes. I want the previous version back.

The May 2018 update broke car mode — now the app just crashes after a few frozen seconds.

I don’t think these people are so inept , they must have some serious shady practices. They don’t let you change your email address in app or in web and they don’t make it easy to delete your account . BEWARE.

Love the longer sleep timer than my previous podcast app!

I’ve used several podcasting apps over the years. I was tempted to try Stitcher for the premium content. Too many touches to do things. Listening to content isn’t intuitive or simple. Marking items played/not played was a chore. Deleting items from any screen other than the downloads screen is laborious. Great content, and available on multi-platforms which I require. I wanted to like the app as much as the content, but couldn’t. I’ve got no issues paying for content or an app. Ads I understand as well. TL:DR great content, app needs UX love

I have 3887 hrs of listening clocked on Stitcher and at no point did I ever use a Facebook login to access my account. Now I get incessant login errors and requests. As if I want Facebook to know and leak even more information about my life than it already does. I have roughly a hundred podcasts that I’m subscribed to on stitcher but I can move them and then I will have the added bonus of not having to listen to the between episode ads.

How come the podcasts are skipping now?

I’ve tried a lot of pod apps & none of them come close to Stitcher. Well done!

I love that I can sort my podcast into business, crime, funny, etc. I recently had to delete and redone load because it would error out and make me sign in with Facebook then sign me out again. Also I will set it up to listen while I drive and if I get a text or the maps gives a direction it will stop. Never had his problem before. I love you it please fix these problems.

They are sloooowly making the UI/UX better but it still needs LOTS of improvement in those areas and also has one persistently annoying bug: the app logs me out and briefly forgets I have a subscription every time it automatically renews. So once a month I have to log back in and go to manage my subscriptions to confirm that I am still signed up for an ongoing premium membership. Kind of defeats the purpose of having auto-renewal if I still have to manually remind it at the end of each pay period.

I have been using Stitcher for years. It’s one of my most commonly used apps. Evidently I accidentally change the speed, but the developer responded below so I am editing my rating and comments.

I’ve been patiently waiting for an update because they seem so frequent, but it’s been days since the last update that broke the app and still no fix. I’ve got an iPhone 7Plus and every time I try to open the app, it says I need to log in through Facebook and as I click through the pop ups it will crash...hoping for an update before I switch. Happy user since 2010

I currently have about 600hrs of listening and over 1700 episodes played on my Stitcher premium account since last summer. This app has always been close to unusable for me - unintuitive and clunky UI, strange content organization, and automatically deleting downloaded episodes? Now, with the most recent update I get an error (two, in fact, and they have occasionally come up several times at once) that say I need to log out and connect to my Facebook account? No thanks. Never had it connected to any social media, never changed any settings - but now I have to push EVEN MORE buttons in order to get to the content that I want. Let’s not pretend that anyone who uses Stitcher (and, more specifically, pays for the premium subscription) does so because they prefer this app to anything else available. We are here for the Earwolf content and back-catalog and no other reason. Were I able to listen to older Comedy Bang Bang or Spontaneanation, etc, or Offices and Bosses and the other premium content elsewhere... I’d do it in a heartbeat. I understand a company wanting to delineate itself from the competition, but, as the old saying goes, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” - there are plenty of podcast apps out there (BeyondPod, for example, which is unfortunately only on Android) who handle categorizing and presenting a user’s subscription list simply and efficiently. There are apps that give access to exclusive content, but also effectively present the publicly available content, there are some apps who generally do not do anything special (*cough* Apple podcasts *cough*) that survive solely because of their existing prevalence, and there are some that do little but do it well... Stitcher has somehow missed all of the positive attributes of each and cobbled together this whatever-this-is. I’ll throw my name on the list of people who don’t understand why we need to hear some woman tell me that the episode is resuming - I KNOW, I PRESSED THE BUTTON. Does anyone who works at Stitcher even use the app? I am longing for the day that I am no longer forced to use this app in order to get the comedy podcasts that I enjoy.

Switching to a new podcast service app. Keeps crashing wanting me to sign on through Facebook. I don’t mind and have tried multiple times, however it keeps crashing the app. Good bye stitcher.

Much better that Apple’s native podcast app. Easy to see and search for what I want.

Pretty good but would be better if you could speed up the audio like 1.3x or 1.5x or 2x like other players.

When I open the app it tells me I need to login to Facebook again to get to my account, which is fine, but then that prompt pops up again. After that when the screen for Facebook login comes up it crashes. I miss my podcast please if this soon. Quick Update- I just hit cancel on all the prompts to login and I was able to get into the app and I was still logged in, please fix soon so I don’t have to get through several prompts just to use the app.

I’ve used stitcher for a few years a logged a few hundred hours, overall it was pretty solid. However lately there have been a ton of bugs. After the newest update the app is constantly giving me an error regarding signing in through Facebook, which I do not do, and keep popping up on my screen. Also new episodes have not been updating/downloading and I have to go looking for them in the app. Really not the best podcast app right now, but with some more bug fixing could be great.

App will lose my place mid podcast, sometimes the lock screen buttons don’t work, can’t skip commercials in free podcasts..., side nav is slow to use, and whyyy do I want a woman saying “resuming episode” every time I hit play?? I like being able to group podcasts into categories, but there’s no easy way to switch from the episode I was listening to in my comedy list to the episode I was listening to in my history list. Recommendations are pretty wack... “Because you like Threedom: Bible Study Ephesians 4” unless that’s some hilarious but inconvenient aukerman metadata trolling

Hope you didn’t want to actually play a podcast. Downloaded an episode twice and tried to stream but it will not play. That ‘play’ button? Absolutely useless. I wish I could say this was an anomaly but it happens 90% of the time.

Why they have the front page thing always open up is so annoying. Makes so many steps to playing a podcast.

I am on a road trip with spotty cell service so I downloaded a bunch of episodes so I would have them. When I went to listen to them, they were all gone. I thought I s****** up so I re-downloaded them and this time watched the download. Went to listen to the and p*** they were gone yet again. Back to Apple Podcast. At least they don’t delete downloads that haven’t been listened too

The app is unpleasant to navigate, not only is there a bizarre combination of swipes and clicks to get around but the buttons are just a shade different from the background and are too easily over looked. Not only do you have to work at finding the content you want, the mechanics of the app are equally frustrating. Often the podcast I’m listening to will suddenly stop and say it’s no longer available. Now this could be a third party issue (ie soundcloud) but the one that really bugs me is even tho I’ve set my playback preference to play oldest to newest it refuses to do so and will always play the next oldest. Why?!

I was dedicated until you sped up the audio on my favorite podcasts to the point of destruction. I was forced to go to ITunes for my news. They answered me and they were right. All is well and I'm back with Stitcher. Thank you, developers.

Love it because it's the only way I know of to hear all Teacher's Lounge episodes. However, you know how every podcast uses episode numbers? Not Stitcher! I have to Google the episode I want to listen to and find its release date and then go back to Stitcher. Also, you have to play an episode and then tap the info button if you want to see who is on the episode and it's not always listed. Howl did a better job with UI than Stitcher. I shouldn't have to open the iPhone podcast app to see who I'm listening to on Stitcher. "We're normal now."

I have been using the app for 2 years now and am thinking about switching to some other app. The reason is that I cant give podcasts review in app!! Why? Easy to implement specially since you can give a review on their web! Just give me a link that opens up the browser in the right spot! Fix it please or Im leaving! Add this and Ill change my stars!

Stitcher as a service is absolutely awful. I made the mistake of paying for a year of premium so I could listen to podcasts on my sonos system without knowing how unreliable this service is. Numerous “premium” podcasts have file playback issues on the app, the horrid web interface and on their sonos service. I’ve sent them four emails with screenshots and have never gotten one single reply. Avoid this service, they won’t be around for long and are completely clueless when it comes to customer support.

- confusing interface with wayyyy too many options for how to access your podcasts and episodes - too much unnecessary content being plugged; i just want to see what my favorites or new eps are, and can browse elsewhere if i choose - bizarre that you can’t remove a download from an episode “currently playing” ... which means you literally have to start a new one to take this action - most insanely, i can’t open the app if i have no service, even if i have previously downloaded episodes. which means i can’t use the app if i’m on the subway and hadn’t opened the app prior to going underground. seriously? would absolutely never use this if the service didn’t have two podcasts i listen to that aren’t available elsewhere.

I just downloaded stitcher because some of the podcasts I like have older episodes on here. I have spent 2 days trying to listen to 1 episode. It stops playing about every minute. I haven’t made it more than maybe 2 minutes of continuous play. I should just hit play.... unless I’m doing something terribly wrong here. I’m disappointed and very frustrated.

I switched to this app because I wanted the Earwolf content but compared to Instacast and Apple pod app this app is clunky and doesn’t make sense. The “play next” function really needs work. Please update the UI, the content is totally work paying for but the app is not great.

I listen almost exclusively in my car, and I like the car mode. My recommendations to the developers: * Do not let the device sleep while in car mode. * Add a “Play Last” function, to go along with “Play Next”. This will make it easier to construct playlists. Thank you!

It is constantly failing. I can’t turn off the s***** mobile thing that comes on in the car. Then I’m having to reboot it thirty times to get it to play for 5 minutes just to have it fail again.

Using directly on phone works ok but with CarPlay I’ve had many problems and find it unreliable.

The content on Stitcher can be excellent (e.g. How Did This Get Made) or unlistenable (e.g. 85% of the others). But the format, layout, navigation, features, intuitiveness, accessibility and ease of use are so bad it defies belief. Restaurant websites from 2002 has a better design. If you’re listening to new podcasts as they publish, I guess it’s okay. If you’re listening deep in an archive (which is the main reason to subscribe - all the good programs are already free on other platforms), it’s brutal to find a specific program or browsing to find something that fits your mood. Two stars only because “HDTGM” is phenomenal.

I was dedicated until you sped up the audio on my favorite podcasts to the point of destruction. I was forced to go to ITunes for my news.

Got this app to listen to the rest of true crime garages episodes and see if I liked it more that apple podcast... half the time it won’t load what I was previously listening to, and when it does, it’s not in the spot I last stopped, when I try to fast forward to it, the whole bar that has the play and fast forward disappears. Really c***** 🙄🙄

Doesn't seem too hard, it's just podcast, if you need a PM call me but this UI is so bad. Just looking at my playlist there's a green fill play button, white filled green outline, blue filled, white filled with blue edges. What are you thinking. There's a ridiculous voice that says resuming episode every time, nobody wants that. This app just needs to be simplified, addition by subtraction.

I have been using Stitcher for years. It’s one of my most commonly used apps. But the last couple of weeks it seems to have some bug and I haven’t seen anything about a fix for it. It plays all of the podcast super fast where I can’t even understand them. I’m not sure what to do except maybe to delete it and reinstall because I have updated it. I have not found a customer service link.

I tried stitcher because I just can’t stand Apple podcasts anymore. The app takes some getting used to which I'm fine with. What I'm not OK with is that all of a sudden I'm getting ads! Don't know how to remove them. They are annoying and constant.

Not user friendly. Over complicated. Deleted in 1 day.

Hard to use, gets hung up often, fills the confusing interface with pod casts I don’t want. Need to find a better way to get the 3 I only want

Also, when it did, I don't like to tap twice to save podcasts. But maybe that's fixed except I can't see it. Tap on podcast; wait for detail; tap to save. Too cumbersome. Thank you.

Why are the things I have listened to still in my feed. I like the last version where everything that hasn’t been listened to will always be at the top. Very annoying trying to find what I have left to listen to through all the stuff I already heard.

was listening on desktop version, tried mobile for the commute. keep getting ‘can not access’ error. you had 1 job...

Hi is there a way for me to creat playlists with the episodes I have downloaded? Other than using the play next function, I’d like a bit more control Also how do I delete lists that I have made but are now useless. Is there a listing of functions that were added

I highly value Stitcher; it is a great service. The most recent April release seems to be causing issues. When attempting to access episodes and lists, the app will freeze and take several seconds to respond. I have never experienced this before. Other have this experience?

Apple: no one can make a worse podcast app than us Stitcher: hold my beer

Had been using this app for months, then stopped working suddenly... Save your money.

Howl wasn’t that great, but I really miss it. This app is very difficult to navigate, especially if you’re trying to go back into archives. Even then I’ve been getting a lot of error messages on older eps that are supposedly available to premium subscribers. Probably not going to renew

I got this app so I could listen to older episodes of my favorite podcast but now it’s telling me I can't listen to older episodes as those episodes are no longer available from service provider. They’re still listed, I’ve updated the app and reinstalled it.

Look at other apps & COPY THEM. I put up $$ // won’t get offended if you gotta cheat in order to FIGURE OUT what a playlist actually is & how to make it happen💡

everything started downloading automatically after the last update which was frustrating. also, PLEASE STOP bringing up the connect to facebook webpage when going to view the listening stats. I don't want to connect it.

I have been using Sticher for years. I’m now approaching 1000 hours listed. What started out as a great, light weight, podcast app has turned into a bloated, poorly functioning, piece of garbage. Ads are injected constantly. If you pause a show for too long you get hit with another add. There are audio ads and pop up ads. These are in addition to the ads that the podcast normally include as part of the shows. The save offline feature never works right. The app is constantly switching to other episodes when I play/pause. After so many issues I finally tried the Apple Podcast app. So far that seems to be a light weight method to listen to my podcast. Good bye Stitcher.

The content here is great. Premium access is totally worth it. The problem is that this app rarely works like it is supposed to. Episodes don’t show up when they are out half the time. Shows sometimes won’t show up in a search even if you use their exact name. Just a very clunky app that needs a lot of work. Again, the content is great. I just wish I wasn’t forced to migrate from the howl app (which works and has extra features such as recording photos and actor bios) to this app which barely works as intended. I’ll change my review if the app improves.

Is there anyone that works there that knows anything about how to make an app work? It gets worse and worse.

Love this app. Listened over 850 hours with it, but the new app update does not work with Mini/BMW screen control system. Please fix! Update: 4/22/18 - they fixed it! Back to enjoying my podcasts! Thanks again!

I moved to Stitcher a couple of years ago and loved how simple and intuitive it was to use. I still love it but the swipe to delete is driving me nuts, and apparently the app too. Sometimes it works, but after unsuccessfully swiping repeatedly, the app crashes and restarts again. I wish they was a way to easily clean up my Listen Next list.

I’ve noticed that new episodes aren’t being displayed or downloaded as they’re available in the episodes view of my playlists. It seems to be an issue mainly with Earwolf and Stitcher Premium shows, which seems odd. I can access the new episodes by checking the episode list of each show and downloading it from there, but have to remember to do so before I leave the house and lose my WiFi connection. Love the app otherwise and will update my rating after the issue is resolved. Thank you!

I assume that I am not alone in my desire to keep my wireless data use low for podcasts that I should be able to download on WiFi and listen later. How does this work in the Stitcher App? Well, the safest thing to do is to tell your phone not to let stitcher use wireless data, and I did this for many months. The problem is, if you use it in offline mode Stitcher almost always forgets where you were in your podcast episodes that you listened to in offline mode. Super annoying. So then, silly me, I decide to trust Stitcher. After all, they have a button under settings that restricts downloads to when you’re on WiFi. If I let the app use wireless data, maybe it will actually remember where I am in the episodes I’m listening to, but won’t eat up my data? But no! For some reason when Stitcher reaches an undownloaded episode in my playlist while I’m not on WiFi, it begins downloading it! Doesn’t even ask for permission. And yes, the button in settings still says that it should only download using WiFi. What gives Stitcher? Why can you not record episode progress client-side? It’s like 2 bytes of information per episode. And why do you allow the App to download whole episodes when your own settings explicitly forbid it?

Probably one of the worst apps ever used. Everything is so confusing, and hard to understand why? Only used to get commercial free access to how did this get made. I wish it was worth it. Terrible app, don't pay for it. If I could give it less starts I would.

Very easy to use. If it’s not on stitcher, I’m Probably not listening to it.

The content here is great. Premium access is totally worth it. The problem is that this app rarely works like it is supposed to. Episodes don’t show up when they are out half the time. Shows sometimes won’t show up in a search even if you use their exact name. Just a very clunky app that needs a lot of work. Again, the content is great. I just wish I wasn’t forced to migrate from the howl app (which works and has extra features such as recording photos and actor bios) to this app which barely works as intended. I’ll change my review if the app improves.

Updated April 2018: Stitcher is the most convenient way to listen to audio podcasts and live radio. I've been using stitcher over 6 years. I started with a Free subscription. Several years ago I upgraded to Premium subscription, which eliminates ads between podcasts and allows you to access Premium content. I think it’s well worth it. However, you can subscribe for free, if you don’t mind commercials, or want to try Stitcher. Stitcher is easy to use. It enables you to place favorite podcasts into playlists, order them as you like, and then play a playlist’s stitched podcasts straight through from beginning to end. You can download via wifi to listen to later. Another nice feature is selecting one playlist to play immediately upon opening the app, which I use for my news playlist. This is my go to podcast app. I use it every day. Highly recommend.

Cannot get anything to play on CarPlay. Completely useless.

Confusing and basically unusable. Recent change means newest episodes aren't even displayed. Just terrible.

Stop messing with the app. You are ruining it. Every update is worse than the last. Interface is useless now.

Show me episode numbers. Show me the guests in the episodes. Let me play a show from oldest to newest. “My front page” is pointless. I’ve never found any of the content there interesting or relevant to me or my listening habits. The search function is abysmal at best. Make sure the episodes are in chronological/episode number order. Get rid of the “resuming episode” voice. And then tell someone to fix the web interface. The best part of the iOS app is that it’s 10x better than the web version. There’s so many pointless features being added (Facebook/share with friends?) when there is so much opportunity to fix the core functionality of the app. You guys have access to the best premium content, but the app is frustrating to use. For what it’s worth, recent updates have been a couple steps in the right direction. I don’t doubt any of the developer’s capabilities. You have a nice looking, functional app. But I question the direction of the features that management (or whomever) is driving.

I’ve been a long time user and this app keeps getting worse. The download and saved episodes are now two separate playlists. There used to be save for offline which was useful and easy to understand. Aside from the horrible ux the app is still buggy. If I listen to a downloaded episode it will say it’s still downloaded but I can’t listen to it again. Have to delete and redownload and even then it sometimes does it work. Sometimes I leave a podcast playing while doing other things and want to go back and actually pay attention to it! Impossible currently.

What’s the deal? I’m not leaving Howl.

I use Stitcher 100% ONLY because of all the Earwolf Stitcher Premium shows but half the time the episodes don’t release at the right time OR (like today with the Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project) they show as released but are unplayable, which seems to be due to a server error but the error that comes up makes sure to blame the podcast provider and not Stitcher itself. I don’t understand how errors like these are still COMMONPLACE - like in a way you’re doing SOMETHING because the baseline bare minimum function of this app now works about 75-80% of the time instead of 60% like it was when I signed up but WHAT exactly are you fixing when you work on updates if it’s not these catastrophic problems? HOW is this still happening?? Also Hollywood Handbook: Pro Version is the best podcast on this app or anywhere else for that matter, please don’t be so jealous that you take their show away just because you know the damage it could do to all the other shows if it really got out there about how good it is.

Plenty of great stuff to listen to on the app but the interface isn’t great.on top of that both times I’ve downloaded it has caused my phone to loose charge quickly and doesn’t work in my car. The howl app on the other hand worked fine for years it wasn’t perfect but stitcher is a mess

Using this app is an uphill battle. There's no way to browse by year, which for Never Not Funny listeners means passing (and waiting to load) hundreds of episodes. By the way, seasons 14-20 are missing right now. My listening history has been cleared three times. Looking for an alternative app.

I have used the app since 2012. It's been my go-to since then, using it everyday. This latest update doesn't work. I started using it because it was one of the first apps to play podcasts back-to-back. After the latest update, the app often freezes between shows. Upgrades are supposed to improve the app. This one has me considering another app. I've given it a couple months and the problem persists.

Update now causes blinking constantly on BMW X3's screen. Buffering refreshes constantly. No problems before. Others seem to have the same issue. ---still blinking after latest update for bug fixes. (March 2018)

One of the first things this app did was play out loud a recording introducing me to the app. My volume was all the way up. I was in a very quiet medical waiting room with a dozen or so people. It startled all of us. I’m worried how many times this might happen with the app and am afraid of keeping it. Edit: Developers response to my initial complaint above doesn’t seem to address my core issue. I’m uncomfortable with the app because it auto-played something immediately after I opened it. That shouldn’t happen. I should have complete control over what plays when.

Finally caved and switched over from howl since that app isn't being updated anymore. Instantly regretted it after seeing this clunky, horrible interface. In order for this app to be usable there needs to be several changes made. I don't listen to my podcasts in playlists (which this app seems to push heavily) just give me a feed that shows me what's new. There has to be navigation buttons added to the bottom of the screen to let me get around easier like in howl and apple podcasts. I shouldn't have to be hitting the back button five times to get back to where I started after looking through podcasts from categories. Seriously if you want to be the be all, end all podcast app, take a look at other apps and find out what they're doing that works. Howl and apple podcasts were far from perfect, but this is easily the worst podcast app I've used from a navigation standpoint (I haven't even had the chance to listen to anything yet because this thing gave me such a headache). It really bums me out that howl is dead and got merged into this. I'll probably just cancel my subscription and go back to apple until this gets sorted out. Because as of right now, this is absolutely not worth paying for.

This has been a great app for awhile, however I been having issues with podcasts failing to load and play. Looking elsewhere to stream podcasts and will not become a subscriber.

This app is horrible. I am a premium member and it is no longer letting me access the archives that I am paying for. You cannot contact stitcher directly. Instead you can send them a message and they will not respond to it. I will be complaining to apple that this app is fraudulent.

Tap on podcast; wait for detail; tap to save. Too cumbersome. Thank you.

Absolutely garbage. You can’t see the names of the guests on a comedy bang bang episode. Timer doesn’t show how much time is left. Constantly crashes. Now I have to report a bug to support since when I scan through an episode, I’m not able to play it again. Trash.

Honestly, I’ve barely ever taken the time to write reviews because I feel nobody looks at them. With that being said this app is absolute trash. I always get errors when looking up specific people or episodes. Some episodes don’t play and when I’ve tweeted to the company multiple times I never get a response. The ONLY reason I keep this service is for the “howl originals”.

Stitcher is constantly dealing with bugs and functionality. They are getting better but the only thing worth the app is if you pay for the premium content.

Other reviews have said it but I still gave this app a chance. Well it won't be for long. This UI is awful. Its extremely unintuitive and buggy. There are graphic elements that do NOTHING. Search within a podcast doesn't work. You may have gotten one month or premium out of me but no more.

Stitcher Premium has amazing content. The connection to earwolf is what keeps me subscribed. That said, this app is bad. No pictures of guests (that was a feature on howl, the app I left for this one), no guest names in the description if they are playing characters, episodes stop randomly stop playing, not to mention episodes deleting for no reason. It’s not all bad but there is huge room for improvement.

In general, the app is good when it works. However, the Stitcher Ford interface to my car is almost unusable and I can't seem to turn it off. It hangs at "Connecting" and I can't control the app after that point. I updated the Ford Sync application thinking that would help and it didn't. Considering using another app.

This app is absolute garbage. Wanted to listen to some of the premium shows that can only be listened to in this app but it is not worth trying to navigate the horrible interface. Downloaded episodes delete themselves for no reason, the front page/newsfeed is just a very dumb idea... from top to bottom, this app is unintuitive, clunky, and terrible to navigate. I’ve never cared enough to write a review for any app before, but this app is so terrible I wouldn’t want anyone to waste their money. At the very least, there should be a way to subscribe to Stitcher Premium shows but listen to the episodes in another (functional) podcast app.

Much easier navigation, saving episodes and download management has improved, search function actually provides relevant results, and podcasts now have catalogues that can be browsed by year. It’s so much better after the last couple updates. All that having been said, this app skips. I’m not sure why or how it happens, but this app skips during any given episode of any given show. You’ll be listening to an ep, and suddenly you’ll hear the same words repeated, sometimes it’s at the very beginning -other times it’s midway through. Just irritating, as I can’t think of any other podcast app with this issue.

Thank you for updating app. It seemed to fix all the issues i had! Glad to be a customer again!

... for the update allowing me to sort my favorites playlist in various ways. This will no doubt encourage me to use the app more often!

Hi is there a way for me to creat playlists with the episodes I have downloaded? Other than using the play next function, I’d like a bit more control

You got me.. I signed up for stitcher because I love Wild Horses and the yet to be released Threedom. I have no problem paying for a subscription and the price is reasonable.. but for the love of g** please make this app at least up to par with the apple podcast app.

I’ve been using this thing for years (over 3000 hours on here). It’s always been incredibly buggy, but I’ve never found a good replacement. The good: It’s playlist is fantastic, it gets the job done, and it’s library is constantly expanding. It’s seriously the easiest to use podcast app out there, especially if you want to just listen to daily playlists, etc. The bad: One of the most annoying things is that it just randomly crashes all the time now on my iPhone—probably a couple times a day. For all the years I’ve used it I have never understood the offline playing features. It’s not very intuitive. You will get network errors, whereby podcasts won’t play and it will give you a loud disconnect noise that’s terrible (the same noise you get on a large speaker system when you unplug an aux cable).

Tap on podcast; wait for detail; tap to save. Too cumbersome. Thank you.

I decided to download in order to listen to bonus episodes of podcasts I love. Now that I’ve paid for a yearly subscription the app has decided I’m not actually a premium subscriber. Even after logging out and logging back in and deleting and re-downloading the app I still can’t access the content I’m paying for. I emailed customer support and got a form email saying they’re only open Monday-Friday and an initial response may take up to 72 hours. So that’s even more time I’ll have to wait before this is resolved. Reading other reviews I see I’m not the only one who has had this problem. They’ve already got my money for this year but if problems like this persist I won’t be renewing in the future.

I tried stitcher because I just can’t stand Apple podcasts anymore. The app takes some getting used to which I'm fine with. What I'm not OK with is that all of a sudden I'm getting ads! Don't know how to remove them. They are annoying and constant.

Finally caved and picked up Premium because Earwolf is putting more and more content behind this paywall. This is the most awkward and non-intuitive podcast app I’ve ever used. Playlists are useless; just put the new episodes up! Why should I have to go through multiple steps? Why do old downloads keep popping up after deletion? How about controls that can be used without paging back and searching. I have my complaints about the Apple pod app, but compared to this one, it’s genius. Won’t be keeping this after I run through the free trial. The two stars are for the content. I would happily pay for Earwolf pods—but not as long as they’re on this app.

I’ve used Stitcher for a number of years, but I had to let it go. I can’t remove the badge app icon and if you’re OCD like me, well you get the picture. Good luck 👍🏼

Great function but dangerously confusing for use by drivers (who will, despite any advice, use this app). The icons, which are just slightly lightened white-ish superimpositions on the podcast owners’ logo, are nearly invisible and require a long time to find, especially if you are changing your focus from an intense, bright light activity like driving. To compound the problem, basic function buttons are initially offscreen and require scrolling to find. Having to find invisible buttons by scrolling around so much makes this app a major, potentially multi-second distraction for a driver. There is a “car mode” for an in-progress show but those particular controls are the least distracting in the main UI. Since the majority of app use is starting new, saved or favorite shows, the “car mode” does not make this any safer. Fixing the invisible buttons would be an easy and possibly life saving first fix. Fixing the scroll heavy navigation should also be a priority. This review is for the iPhone version.

Inserts their own ads into someone else’s shows. Big pile of nope. I have nothing but contempt for such a practice.

I’ve used stitcher for many years and I liked that it worked... although imperfectly... with apple CarPlay. I have a long commute and I used it daily. The latest update has caused serious issues with the getting stuck and never playing, even with saved episodes. Sort out this bug please.

I had some folks recommend this app along with some of my favorite podcasts - I was a poor experience all around. I do not recommend this app.

I really thought this was going to be a great app. However, even with episodes that are downloaded, it will stay on “pause” indefinitely. It doesn’t give me any indication that it might be buffering or anything—just literally I will push play on a downloaded episode and it brings up the episode, pause symbol in the middle, and DOES NOTHING. It just sets there, on pause. I can overlook these issues a few times but it is happening far too much for a service I pay for.

Won’t load on CarPlay on my motorcycle

I have never written a review of an app before but I hate this app so much! It won’t open in offline mode! What is the point of downloading something if the offline mode doesn’t even work? It also will randomly decide to download podcasts that I didn’t ask it to download and I cannot find any settings to change this. It’s never a podcast that I actually want! Why??? I need podcasts to sleep and this app just ruins my life. The only reason I use it is to have access to the Teachers Lounge which is essential to me. Please! Make this app better! Please!

It’s a shame this company is locking good content in this terrible to use app.

I started using stitcher for the premium content, but my frustration is quickly outweighing the extra listening options. I can’t customize my download options for individual podcasts. The front page keeps bringing up suggestions that have nothing to do with the types of shows I’ve added to my favorites. The playlists only let me add shows, but I have no control over the order of the episodes. I added the premium Wolverine show and it automatically added episode 2 to the playlist. That makes a lot of sense. It takes a lot of clicks to do anything and it’s way too easy to click on the wrong thing due to the poor layout. It’s too bad that the company that is leading the way to produce premium content forces us to access it with this app. I’m going to keep using it for the remainder of my premium trial but after that I’ll probably go back to using Overcast.

I love the interface but one of the reasons I listen to podcasts is so I can just put my phone away and not touch it while I’m going about my tasks - sadly, stitcher has been constantly crashing lately. It just stops playing the episode (I can’t find any correlation between other apps / a reason it might be getting interrupted.) - I guess I’m hunting for a new podcatcher, again.

I have 1,138hrs listened to on this app: it was beyond my favorite. Beyond that it crashes, skips, gets stuck repeating a few seconds of audio, doesn't resume where I left off, and plays ads at VERY high volume...the new interface is horrible. All good things come to an end, but I will mourn Stitcher. RIP, old friend.

I only reason I ever use this cause it’s the only way to access a bunch of earwolf content. It lacks most of the features and usability I want in a podcast app... Like, when I click on a show just take me to a complete feed with every episode listed in whatever order I want it sorted. Don’t take me to the newest episode first and make me press a second button to see more, and don’t divide the episodes up into submenus according to season or year. Those things could work as filters but the first thing I get should be a complete unfiltered list of every episode And let me make playlists however I want. As in, I make a playlist and add whatever individual episodes to it I want. Maybe it’s ten episodes of a single show, maybe a mix, it’s up to me. I should ALSO be able to make a smart playlist that is the newest episodes of select shows but that should not be the default. Not everyone wants to treat podcasts like a tv or radio station. For some of us it’s more like binging shows on Netflix. Other people probably have different ways of listening. Basically the current design is clunky and severely limits you to consuming podcasts a certain way. The best podcasting apps have streamlined interfaces and pretty granular customizability. Unfortunately for me it seems like more and more shows I like are putting their back catalogs behind the paywall so I’ll keep periodically using the app for now but if it doesn’t drastically improve I’m going to have to cancel my premium subscription. It’s pointless having access to that content if I can’t listen to it the way I enjoy.

The new fix is great with the saved list but it’s so annoying to download and save is there an easier way I am missing???

I’ve used this app since 2011 and I really have enjoyed it. The introduction of commercials after every pause is pretty frustrating though. I may switch platforms if it continues.

With the updates I am able to download and listen later. The download are again in order of that makes the podcast flow oldest to newest. I've been using there free version for many years. I think that this app has the best search function. Sticher offers so much subjects and downloads that is easily searchable. On the topics that you want to listen to.

Crashes whenever I try to cast to chrome cast

But until it can work without constantly giving me the “connection error” when trying to open, it doesn’t seem worth it to use this app.

I’ve been using the app for a couple of years, and the recent updates continue to improve the app. The new navigation by seasons/years is particularly useful.

This new interface makes listening to podcast such a joy. Puts other podcast apps to shame, esp. Apple’s.

I preferred Stitcher for many years, and I did not mind the ads (as others have lamented). But this fall/winter, the app refused to recognize my account and the reset password options didn’t work. I suspect something temporarily buggy, but it was enough to make me give up. The new user interface is inferior to the old one (although still better than some other competitors). I’m not here for all this scrolling. And what is with the random podcasts they keep pushing in the feed? I listen to podcasts precisely because I don’t have time or the ability to read an article or pay tremendous attention to my phone (e.g. driving, mornings, etc.). If I want Tumblr-style experience, I can download that app.

Always on 24/7 365 .1 😍

Latest update caused me to restart my phone to get out of edit mode to listen x 2 has not lately recurred.

SSIA

Best app for quick news and podcast. Been using for years and it's great

Stitcher shows how many hours you’ve listened using the app. I’m coming up on 7000 hours. It is my GO TO app for podcasts. I love that I can customize lists. I have one for the dozens of True Crime podcasts I listen to, one for news, one for history, one for fictional series and several others. Plus you can search for content in show notes and show titles, so when you suddenly need to know about that one thing, you’ve got a bunch of options. Auto download is my fave new feature.

Wow time flies, almost 13yrs enjoying my progressive shows. Love you Stitcher App

Apple Podcast is now a train wreck. Stitcher is easier to use, it keeps your stuff organized. Only downfall is it won't allow you to save many episodes without paying.

Every time I tell the app to play podcasts OLDEST to newest. It doesn’t even follow those settings. No matter what it played Newest to oldest. Why would I want that?? And the download settings are a mess too. I have recordings it just won’t let me delete after I’ve listened to them. App is a mess. I’ll give more stars when you actually make the app functional. I never have any of these problems with the Podcast app. My 1 star review is based on the app. I enjoy Stitcher premium very much. But the app makes it such a complicated hassle.

Love this app. Listened over 850 hours with it, but the new app update does not work with Mini/BMW screen control system. Please fix!

Love the new interface, with easily accessible episode info and controls. I have just one item left on my wishlist: Please give me a setting to ALWAYS stop at the end of a podcast. I can’t be the only one who uses podcasts to fall asleep to, and the sleep setting, that i have to reset each podcast, is buried too deep and a pain to set for every episode.

Easy to use, never crashes. My favorite podcast app

The number of times I have to reset the app because it won’t play is shockingly high. Premium subscriber...but for how much longer?

This app constantly advertises shows that I have no interest in listening to on the “my front page” section and will not let me ban certain shows so they are always there hiding the few shows I actually want to listen to. If there was any other way to listen to Hollywood Handbook pro version I would unsubscribe in an instant. Avoid it

First, the app stopped recognizing me as a Premium subscriber even though I’m on an automatically renewing monthly membership. I tried deleting the app from my phone, reinstalling, and logging in and now it won’t even let me log in! Sounds like other users are having the same problem and I’m surprised to see there’s been an update recently that didn’t include a fix for this. An issue that literally keeps users from logging in and accessing paid content! Getting help from “support” has also been an issue and I couldn’t even find a way to submit a support ticket on the web app.

So I really loved using this app but they have issues with randomly shutting down or just not working or forgot all my favorites. I am going to continue to use it with the hope that updates will help. It’s good just not great.

Maybe I just didn’t get how this app worked but I’d download a bunch of podcasts to listen to during a 6 hour drive that I regularly take. If I didn’t listen to them within a couple days it seemed that the downloads would disappear. I got sick of fighting with the app so I went back to the one on my iPhone.

Just terrible. The interface is as unintuitive and cluttered as possible and I can't even get the channels to load anymore. I pay for premium and don't get to listen to any podcasts because the app does not work. And if you like privacy don't ever give them your credit card number because they will keep it forever and not give you the option to delete it from their site.

Stitcher has always been a considerably good option for podcast listeners; after opening up Stitcher Premium, it’s become a lot more of a platform that I use, as well. They update it often, in useful ways, and the developers listen to those that use the app, which is always a huge boon. The reason I didn’t give it five stars, though, is because, when I try to listen to certain podcast archives, like Never Not Funny, I can’t sort it in reverse order. I’m trying to listen to a few podcasts from the start, and since they have hundreds at this point, it can be kind of inconvenient to have to scroll through each of them just to reach season one, and it makes me want to not do it at all! If they could organize these archives like Comedy Bang! Bang! is organized, or at least allow sorting between Oldest to Newest and vice-versa, it’d really impact my use of the app. If this gets fixed, I’ll change the review to 5 stars! Thank you guys for all you do!

Listen for years however many problems with car play and failing to sync. I am forced to move to another app for podcast.

Honestly, my biggest gripe is the completely unnecessary “resuming episode” voice that tells me what I already know. I don’t need audible confirmation of this. On the flip side, maybe add MORE to this feature. Have a voice tell me when I do anything in the app. Continue to support the voice over industry by paying another British woman to tell me when I’ve “Unsubscribed to Premium”, for example. Also, the failure of the app to support custom URL’s keeps me from making this my default podcast app. Many of the featured shows in the app also have Patreon supported content you cannot listen to in app as a result. Based on developer responses to reviews I do believe they’re trying to address the issues with bugs and some unintuitive interface things, so please please please give me a way to turn off that voice and add custom feeds. Thanks!

I’m addicted to podcasts and I find that Stitcher has all I need to organize, order, download and listen to them online and offline. They keep improving it and when they made a change nobody liked, they fixed it within weeks. This is my go to app.

I really like the Stitcher app but it constantly freezes on me. Let’s say for example I start a podcast, then take a break, exit the app, and return 30 minutes later. Once I return, it is almost always frozen. It just sits there and does nothing. I have to power down and restart my phone in order to get the app out of this state. I’m using an iPhone 7, and my software is always updated. I was hoping that the latest Stitcher update would address this but no luck :(

Doesn’t recognize my Howl subscription. Also, just generally doesn’t work well. Still sticking with Howl.

I subscribed to stitcher premium for how did this get made only. It's the literal only reason i used this garbage app. Payed the 4.99 a month for 'premium' so i could have access to the entire library of HDTGM only for the app to delete every single episode i downloaded for no reason. Thanks for nothing. I'll be sure to avoid this app in the future.

Lately app does not remember where I left off on a podcast, starts from the beginning when I try to jump back in. Annoying, really. No rotate on interface.

The last update helped, but it’s still not the most intuitive thing. The sleep timer needs to have 5 and 10 minute settings like apple podcasts. I also found sometimes it would resume an episode like 15 minutes before you stopped listening the last time so it’s hard to find your spot. I probably wouldn’t use it if it weren’t for Teacher’s Lounge and Hollywood Masterclass.

I’ve tried for several months to like this app, but it’s just not worth it. It crashes constantly, and as of the new update, it’s now crashed my phone 3x. (Also annoying is that it seems the app isn’t optimized for the new phones, as closing the ads rarely works, where it used to work for my 8 Plus). I’m done.

I love the app if it worked, but I must remove and redownload this app at least twice a week. It always freezes.

It does what it's supposed to, but poorly, so two stars. If I pause a podcast (which is frequent) I'm lucky if the app remembers where I left off and doesn't skip back 30 minutes or start over completely. Also, if the app is minimized for more than 2 minutes it returns to the home screen like you are just opening for the first time. The controls are garbage and there are zero features that makes this app stand apart from any other podcast app.

I have been using stitcher for years and generally like it. Typical use case is listening in my car during my commute. Used to work great, very convenient, did what was expected. But recent updates have broken this functionality, introducing annoying behavior. These comments are about the free version. 1. The app starts playing on its own at random times. I will be in a meeting or talking to someone and a podcast will start playing. Very embarrassing. There is no one button way to silence it so several seconds pass as I fumble with my phone to pause playback. This one bug is sufficient for me to look for another app. 2. Inexplicably, app will forget that episodes have been played and will start over, forcing a manual scrub to the end of the podcast. 3. When resuming the app, it often skips to the next podcast rather than resuming the one that was last playing. Unless I manually select the previous podcast - a distraction while driving - I end up with several partially heard podcasts in my playlist. 4. I mark all my podcasts to be downloaded for offline listening, because I have a cell service shadow on my route. Instead of playing offline episodes, app tries to connect then announces it can't play anything because there is no connection. New features are fine, but if the basic functionality is broken, those features won't keep me around.

Been a stitcher user since2011. I have reached my limit of deleted shows and episodes don't show up for days. Tunein has become much more reliable.

My needs are simple and Stitcher used to be brilliant. No longer. I simply want to listed to today’s episodes of today’s 3hour radio show that I miss while at work. Stitcher used to download them automatically and allow me to listen to hour 1,2 and 3 in order on my 2 hour commute home. Not anymore. Today I am presented with hour 3 or yesterday’s show. Looks like I need a new pod catcher.

App needs fix quick. The podcast will just randomly turn on without me going into app. I’ll be on call and it will play over my conference call or I’ve been laying in bed at night and it starts resuming episode and scares the c*** out of me. Total glitch that needs to corrected soon or I’m gong to remove app.

Recent updates now force the use of Ford Sync while connected via Bluetooth or USB in a Ford vehicle. This integration simply does not work at all, and you can’t just play from the phone, it forces you to use sync. So the app is useless if you want to listen in your Ford vehicle.

I’ve been a listener since 2010 and this new update makes everything more difficult. Goodbye Stitcher.

I love this app, have been using it since 2010 and I promote it regularly to anyone I know that enjoys podcasts. I recently bought a new car that has CarPlay. I live in an area that has spotty internet coverage. When I start up CarPlay it stalls out 90% of the time or takes minutes upon minutes to start, if it does start. If I unplug from it, it starts fine. I can then plug it back in and start playing right away. Every other app I use with CarPlay works great, even when the internet is spotty. Stitcher really needs a feature right when CarPlay starts to switch to offline listening. I think this may alleviate some of this. As soon as this bug is fixed I’ll move my rating back to its usual 5 stars.

I’ve been using the Stitcher app on my iPhone X and I’m not happy. For no apparent reason, the app starts playing podcasts when I don’t want it to. In addition, it doesn’t remember where I left off from where I left it. It’s very annoying to have a podcast playing in a meeting.

Hi Stitcher, I have been a loyal fan for a long time (~850 listening hours) but your interface needs work. Search and sound are fine but, in a world of hard pressed and swiping, why do I have to go into a separate edit screen to reorder or delete podcasts on my favorites list? What about a hard touch to move a podcast up and down the order and a swipe to delete?

I can’t download episodes since the update. I listen to hours of podcasts, pease fix!!!

Or should I say, there is none. I set up an account for a friend of mine and unfortunately s****** up her email address. First of all that should have been caught when signing up as an error but they just took my money. There is no customer service anywhere on their site, I’ve emailed them 2 times to some department that has nothing to do with customer service. No response. I’ve tried to go through their site but they still can’t be bothered to answer. I’m sure they are quick to answer all of your questions and help you out if they haven’t received your money but after you’ve paid, forget about any service. I’m going to call my credit card company to dispute this charge if they don’t get it straightened out today. Don’t waste your money

Honestly, my biggest gripe is the completely unnecessary “resuming episode” voice that tells me what I already know. I’m resuming listening to an episode of a podcast I stopped listening to so I could live a life for a while. I opened the app. I hit the play button again. I don’t need audible confirmation of this. On the flip side, maybe add MORE to this feature. Have a voice tell me when I do anything in the app. Continue to support the voice over industry by paying another British woman to tell me when I’ve “Unsubscribed to Premium”, for example. Based on developer responses to reviews I do believe they’re trying to address the issues with bugs and some unintuitive interface things, so please please please give me a way to turn off that voice. Thanks!

This used to be my go-to podcast app but the new update has made everything difficult. It was easy before to just click the “listen later” button to pods I found interesting and they were stored in a playlist. Now I only have a favorites playlist and a saved episode playlist. Of course, just because you put the episode in saved does not mean it is downloaded, you have to click a separate button for that. Likewise, with the listen later function you just deselected the “listen later” button and the pod went away. Now you have to delete the pod, but also remove it from saved episodes to get rid of it. Needlessly confusing. Difficult to tell what is download and what is not because they are mixed together. Terrible terrible update.

Ever since the 8.0 update, my podcasts start over the majority of the time I go back to resume episode. Really really annoying. I hope the new update fixes this problem. 5 stars to 2 stars.

I’ve used and loved stitcher for years but the interface changes in the latest update are really clunky: scrolling archived episodes is no longer smooth... it seems like it’s set up more for people who don’t know what they are looking for instead of podcast lovers to search, organize and enjoy the shows they already love.

The app is good, I love having my podcasts synced across devices and the ability to make categories for the podcasts I like. It's a nice platform and I've stuck with it since 2012 because of that. Beyond that the app is clunky and gets in the way with "recommended" as an opening screen. There are some bugs in playback but nothing that prevents me from using the app. The big downside to this app is the ads. I've seen freemium kids games that have less ads. Full screen audio ads at the start and intermittently between episodes, banners at the bottom, and hey sometimes an ad when you open the app!! It's very quickly draining any loyalty I have for the app and they need to stop.

Can’t automatically download more than 1 most recent episode. Can’t delete playlists. Can’t export OPML. The lady saying “Resuming episode” is unecessary. You can find me on Overcast!

The new update is horrible and clunk. It's much harder to use and with more steps/clicks than the old version. So this is progress? I used to love this app. Now I can't find podcast and there is no way to add other podcasts not on "their" list. Some podcasts have just disappeared without warning but I can still find them on other podcast players so the question becomes why use this one when other free ones are better? Why change things and not make things better for users? Are they actually asking users what they want and need? I have used this podcast player a lot through the years but am very disappointed in the lastest design and updates. Not user friendly at all and it still needs a lot of work. Not a fan of the squares design front page. I do hope they change that and give the list option again as option.

At least on my 6S+ with the current version of IOS. I have to k*** it and restart it every time.

I’ve been a stitcher premium member for a while now and I’ve contacted them so many times and I still have not gotten a response.

Update is much better like the layout better way better than before set all this c*** coming up on the regular screen about the stuff that I listen to anyway thanks

Fast simple, imported all my podcasts from Apple auto when 8 signed in. Sunk across all devices. Has sleep timer. Very nice.

Once you get an ad, there is no way to remove the ad screen or to stop the ad audio as you need to hit a small x to remove the add. However, that x may superimpose on a back button in the upper right corner (right of notch). So if there is a return button there from iOS, the x to stop the ad from stitcher is not usable.

Stitcher Premium is clunky and confusing. I switched from the Howl Premium app which was organized in such a way that I didn’t even notice how it was constructed. It was simple. Stitcher needs to be seriously revamped because it is incredibly unintuitive. It’s disappointing, but since I’ve already paid for a one year subscription to listen to my favorite content, I’ll slog through this backwards and frustrating interface. Please consider a large scale update. P.s. I wish there was an option to keep the ads for some programs. Comedy Bang Bang and Spontaneanation have funny and entertaining ads and I miss them.

Even when it says some have downloaded when you play them it stops after 2 seconds and pops up an error that forces you to skip... To one that isn't downloaded and won't play either. Dumb da dumb dumb dumb.

Have had this app for 4-5 years now and I initially loved it but recently I have noticed that the feed does not update automatically . And then when you force it to refresh it will not add any shows. When I open the apple podcast app I can see that there was a podcast put up 5 days ago. Real b***** but besides that and a few instances of it crashing it could be a much better app than apple podcasts.

Much easier navigation, saving episodes and download management has improved, search function actually provides relevant results, and podcasts now have catalogues that can be browsed by year. It’s so much better after the last couple updates.

I love all the shows, podcasts and episodes provided by Stitcher. However the navigation, interface, and especially playlists, are brutally over complicated. Somehow the app still is unable to allow for an easy creation of playlists and downloads.

I like the app for the most part, but would LOVE the option to view podcasts sorted by network. I’d also like to see ratings and reviews. For the premium, I don’t feel like I’m getting too much due to the fact that most podcasts have their own ads so it isn’t really an ad free experience.

I switched over to stitcher as a Howl user and wasn’t a fan at first. Since then the app has greatly improved. Feeds update on time now, playback is much smoother, and navigating within the app has gotten easier. One feature I would like to see is the ability to search within a particular show. For example, if I’m listening to a show like Comedy Bang Bang and want to find all the episodes with a particular guest, it would be nice to be able to search and only see results from that show instead of searching every podcast on stitcher. Other than that, it’s great, and has basically replaced all of my other podcast apps.

Overnight the app now has me logged out of premium, won’t let me log back in & worst of all has deleted over 50 hours of saved shows. Was fun while it lasted, your recent updates ruined this s app.

UX still really needs to be improved. Still way to many clicks to get to listen to the podcasts that I have already favorites for. That should be the main screen not the discover screen. Getting to an old episode should take no more than three clicks. I really wish you would talk with the pocket cast guys.

Stitcher is awesome. I’m approaching 5000 hours of stitcher listening. Stitcher has gone down a few times so I’ve tried other apps. None match stitcher. The only reason I can’t give a 5 Star review is that they make it exceedingly difficult to upgrade to premium in recent years. Free service is great. Up until 2-3 years ago I subscribed to premium - something I’d be happy to do again if I could.

Be careful with the new update it crashes on me frequently every day. 😑

Hello, I try to update this since three days ago without success. Badly for this company that release the update but not send correctly the update. Fix it!

I’ve been using this app for several years and recommend it often. It’s nice that there is finally a playlist feature. Only being able to arrange order of podcasts while connected is a setback too but otherwise very good. Amicus podcast is broken only in my stitcher now since they accidentally added a logon requirement for it. No way to fix this it seems. But I still like the app.

I love this app, have been using it since 2010 and I promote it regularly to anyone I know that enjoys podcasts. I recently bought a new car that has CarPlay. I live in an area that has spotty internet coverage. When I was starting up CarPlay it stalled out. I posted this review, Stitcher’s reached out to me in a response, and I got a chance to try the new beta. So far I have not had issues! I’m back to being a lot less frustrated and loving everything about this app. If you like podcasts, then this app is for you.

I've used Stitcher for years and always loved it - until the most recent two or three updates. I can no longer get podcasts to start playing consistently. Ugh. Please fix this. Shutting the app down completely and restarting it does not fix the problem. Update: Developer asked me to email for help. I couldn't find email option on mobile version of website, but I found solution for above problem. Turn phone all the way off and back on. Glad to have this working again.

It was once a very simple and easy to use app, now it's very frustrating and I haven't been able to get to work correctly. The supposed upgrade has me moving elsewhere to listen to podcasts.

Update 12/20/2017: I noticed that the day after I posted this review the developer responded (here) that they were working on the problem and were hoping to have it fixed in the next release. Well, version 8.0.07 was released 5 days ago (~ 12/15/2017) and the problem I reported using the app’s “Contact Us” screen (on 11/28/2017) still continues. And by the way no one has responded to the message I sent using the app’s “Contact Us”, so it appears the only way to get the developer’s attention is the write a review here.... Original Review (written Dec 2, 2017): I have been a very long term enjoyer of Stitcher, but the current iPhone version is creepy: it starts playing all on its own, usually in the middle of the night. This started around Nov 26, 2017, and for two days in a row, it woke me up from my sleep. I finally reported this bug on Nov 28, after it started playing at 4:50 am, then again at 5:10am. I received an automatic response saying they would respond as soon as they could. That was 5 days ago and still no response. Meanwhile, I started keeping my iPhone in the next room and would grab it as I left for work. On Nov 30, after a night of sleep, when I went to the next room to grab my iPhone, I noticed it was again playing a Stitcher podcast. And this morning, while I was reading the news on my iPad, my iPhone started playing Stitcher. This problem is only on the iPhone. The Stitcher app is also installed on my iPad, but the iPad is not performing like this. I’ve reported all of the above, but no one from Stitcher has responded to the creepy bug I reported five days ago.

Love this app & am a premium subscriber but unable to update or download the app on my iPhone XS Max.

I used to love this app but in the last 3 months it has gotten so bad. It freezes repeatedly and I have to restart it. Or it hangs and then crashes. It's forced me to moving my subscriptions to Downcast, which is more stable and sends crash reports when it does crash.

The two new updates have turned this into frustrating hep of crap. I've tried several times for about three weeks to get help and the is no support. The FAQ section does not line up with what you see in the screen, downloading has become painful. The podcast will not be inorder regardless of how you want them to be. Be prepared to listen to the third hour then the first hour then the second hour unless you search through a multi step process and listen one at a time. I have left my old review of the old version below. I would hope they rerun to the great app it was. I've been using there free version for many years. I think that this app has the best search function. Sticher offers so much subjects and downloads that is easily searchable. On the topics that you want to listen to.

Stitcher has tons of content, some of which I can't find anywhere else. That's the only reason I use it. It can't handle simple tasks like resuming playback from where I left off. I never write app reviews but it seems like the developers read these. Here's hoping for a better experience in 2018!

If the waze banner isn’t gone by the next update, I’m back to apple poscasts.

I pay for Premium but am now forced to close a Waze pop-up every time. I have almost 8000 hours in Stitcher but this is annoying enough to put me back to using Apple’s Podcast app.

I have been a very long term enjoyer of Stitcher, but the current iPhone version is creepy: it starts playing all on its own, usually in the middle of the night. This started around Nov 26, 2017, and for two days in a row, it woke me up from my sleep. I finally reported this bug on Nov 28, after it started playing at 4:50 am, then again at 5:10am. I received an automatic response saying they would respond as soon as they could. That was 5 days ago and still no response. Meanwhile, I started keeping my iPhone in the next room and would grab it as I left for work. On Nov 30, after a night of sleep, when I went to the next room to grab my iPhone, I noticed it was again playing a Stitcher podcast. And this morning, while I was reading the news on my iPad, my iPhone started playing Stitcher. This problem is only on the iPhone. The Stitcher app is also installed on my iPad, but the iPad is not performing like this. I’ve reported all of the above, but no one from Stitcher has responded to the creepy bug I reported five days ago.

Omg I’m done!!!.... I’ve used this app for all my true crime podcasts but no more!..... half on them will no longer download and the app will not update .... tired of wasting my time!

NG

I’ve been using Stitcher since 2012 and am finally done. For about four months many of my podcasts aren’t updating or are totally missing from my favorites feed. It also crashes in the car or goes offline for no reason. I’ve contacted support via email and reached out on Twitter with no response. There’s too much competition from apps that actually work to put up with this anymore.

Press play, get pop up advertisement. Used to be able to tap the x in the top left and they’d go away. While the x is still there, when you tap it, now nothing happens. And to make matters worse sometimes the advertisement just persists and you can’t listen to your podcast. Frustrating. FYI on iPhone XR

I am a Stitcher Premium member (for now, anyway). I was having issues with my player and emailed customer support. I received a notification that it could take 72 hours to receive a response. That was a week ago. I have sent a follow up email that has also yielded no response. Download the app if you want, but know that you will receive absolutely no customer support from Stitcher if anything is wrong with your billing, your player, or any other issues.

After the latest update if you choose the cast button you must either cast to a listed device or well that’s is the app locks from any other function forever.

Been using this app for years. Now no longer works with CarPlay. Won’t load properly.

This is definitely an improvement over what the app had been but now there is an issue where episodes that have finished playing in the safe playlist do not mark themselves as being played, and stay where they are. In addition, multiple instances of the same episode are now being downloaded. I'm sure this is only a temporary glitch that will get fixed. I do much appreciate the green button and the much easier method of removing an episode.

The most basic requirements for a podcasting app are that the app can search for podcast episodes, download them, play them, and remember where you were when you stopped listening and resume at that spot when you start listening again. Stitcher consistently fails at all of these. I was a Stitcher Premium subscriber for many months and unsubscribed due to the app being unusable. Congratulations Stitcher!

Long time user, over 8000 hours. But the UI updates that are messing with my ability to just get to the favorites I love and the overwhelming amount of ads; pre show, post show, between pauses is the WORST. These combined with the inability to add RSS feeds for my subscription shows, awful search functionality and not adding new podcasts is making me look more to my other podcast apps. Hope these issues can get resolved otherwise Laughable will be my new go-to for podcasts.

Honestly, my biggest gripe is the completely unnecessary “resuming episode” voice that tells me what I already know. I don’t need audible confirmation of this. On the flip side, maybe add MORE to this feature. Have a voice tell me when I do anything in the app. Continue to support the voice over industry by paying another British woman to tell me when I’ve “Unsubscribed to Premium”, for example. I can assure you I will be unsubscribing and saying goodbye to Stitcher should they not fix this and other bugs. Also, the failure of the app to support custom URL’s keeps me from making this my default podcast app. Many of the featured shows in the app also have Patreon supported content you cannot listen to in app as a result. I previously noted that I thought due to the developer responses that they were trying. Unfortunately as each version of this app fails to address it’s own counterintuitive interface and useless “features” no one is asking for it would appear this is just lip service. It’s a shame as there is a fair amount of content exclusive to the app I’d like to hear, but in a world overwhelmed with content, it hardly seems worth the bother.

Can't find a search button in Sonos to locate desired shows. Very frustrating. Hope this gets better!

According to my profile I have listened to 21,000 episodes. To be fair, I was probably asleep for a maybe 50 percent. Stitcher has had its quirks, but it really has gotten better every release. Stitcher opened up a whole world to me years ago, when I would have otherwise been tethered to a sync cable. So I have stayed with them.

I’ve been a Stitcher user since 2015 and I’m dropping the app due to functionality problems and an increased use of ads. First, the good. Stitcher is great at recommending new podcasts that are catered to my likes. It has a simple interface that works pretty well. It’s easy to jump in and out of podcasts, save favorites, and browse. Now the bad. On my home page, Stitcher pushes podcasts that are not in my interest range, most likely because the podcasts paid a premium to be advertised. The homepage is also too narrowly catered to specific genres. I listen to news pods daily but also listen to story telling pods fairly often. The problem is, I only see news pods and unrelated sponsored pods on my homepage, which doesn’t totally reflect my diverse consumption. Stitcher is slow to update new pod releases sometimes. Not sure if this is a problem on their end or on podcast developers. Either way, lately I’ve been going straight to the web source for some of my favorite podcasts because Stitcher doesn’t have new episodes until, sometimes, four or five days after they’ve been released. Stitcher bombards you with ads before and after every episode. This is unacceptable when I can access podcasts straight from the web without additional ads. Stitcher also pushes sponsored podcasts on its users. I’ve never listened to pop culture gossip shows before but I see them all over my home page and as adverts before listening to a pod. Sure, you can avoid the ads by purchasing Stitcher premium. Or you could download, like, any other podcast app. As such a long time user, it’s a shame to drop the app, but it just isn’t worth the hassle anymore.

Approaching 6k hours of listening. Have appreciated the evolution of app over time. Recent 8.0.7 release was a nice fix to the 8.0 update. My only general comment is that the more a listener can do regarding the current episode without having to scroll the better. Thanks for your work and continuing to make podcast listening easier.

There have been five updates after my last review complaining about search capabilities, and I still cannot find specific episodes of a show in this app—not even using Boolean search. At this point, one must conclude that the marketing strategy is to get users to listen to more podcasts by obscuring the content they came for, because no matter what you look for you can only find content posted in the last couple of days. Shame on Stitcher for luring people into subscribing for episode archives and then making them impossible to find.

Full of bugs, clunky search, unintuitive interface, and I have the specific issue of pausing a podcast while my phone is locked and in order to resume I have to search for the episode and find my place as the tracking is spotty to say the least, then take my phone off wifi in order for the episode to buffer. Step that s*** up sticher, I'm tired of hearing 1,000 commercials each week for a b** service.

Cannot unsubscribe from stitcher premium with the app. Do not use this

I love stitcher. I love the recommendations and that it alerts me when my favorites have new episodes. I love that it tracks what I’ve heard whether I play on my phone or on Alexa. It’s also fun to see my listening streak (231 days!) and almost 1,500 hours logged. I often use the sleep feature to stop at the end of the podcast. The problem is that if there is an ad first, it will stop after the ad and not play my pod! This is annoying while driving or playing a podcast at bedtime, to think I’m set up and have to fiddle with the phone and timer to listen. Please fix this!

Please fix. Podcast restarts every time I leave the app. Also playlists used to stay on preferred page.

1.25 speed is great! Recently upgraded phone and having some issues with ads not closing when pushing the x. Hope that gets fixed

I love having all my podcasts sorted but the volume is a constant problem. 48 hours is so quiet I have to turn it up and then the stitcher ad comes on and it’s twice as loud. Same in the car.... I have to crank the volume and if I am listen to directions the podcast is at volume 10 and the directions are at 25. It’s very jarring and hurts my ears.

Updated 12/11/17. Since the update I am happy to say all my prior issues have been fixed. I’m loving it again! Thanks Stitcher for listening to your consumers and acting promptly to resolve our concerns. ———— I have been using this app for over 5 years and over 5000 hours. I generally love it and use it literally everyday. I even paid for premium service. My biggest complaint with the new update is when I connect it to my ford sync. I can no longer control the player from my phone. You see my vehicle auto plays my iPod and I used to be able to just hit play on my phone app for stitcher to play but now it just shows a black screen that’s says ford sync and connected. I can’t control it at all from my phone. I have to unplug it, go to my app, press play then plug it in and then tell my vehicle to play usb with a voice command and hope it plays stitcher.

An OK app - not a huge fan of the interface, but generally works as advertised and hey, it’s free and has all the podcasts I want to hear, which is a large amount. However, I just (Dec. 2017) started having some problems with Bluetooth connectivity (thru my iPhone 7 running iOS 11.2 and latest Stitcher app update) in my 2013 Toyota Camry SE. Downloaded podcast titles appear on the car’s display, but will only incrementally play fractions of a second every 10 seconds or so. Tried un-pairing and then re-pairing the phone with the car, rebooting the phone, etc., but that did not solve the problem. Don’t have any problems connecting and playing downloaded podcasts on Stitcher through any other Bluetooth-connected speaker devices, including ones that were manufactured prior to my Camry and with older Bluetooth software. Also, no other problems playing podcasts and music through other iPhone apps in the car, so I’m relatively certain this is an issue with the Stitcher and hope the developers can remedy it, please.

Lots of playback and Bluetooth bugs, resuming episode bugs. Episodes drop later than on other platforms, limited shows/podcast network affiliates. I found Premium to be not worth my money.

This is the first time I’ve disagreed in general with other reviewers on the App Store. I’ve tried many apps. I listen to podcasts for about six hours a day while I work, every day. I have tried about half a dozen other podcast apps. Stitcher is the only one that works consistently. Podcast play continuously. I can easily create different playlists. Playback works on Sonos. I can skip, I can write each episode, I can speed up episodes, the interface is great, and I have enjoyed the app for years. I hope these really bad reviews mean very little and that the app continues to develop and remain great. It is my favorite of all the podcast apps I’ve tried. The one thing I really wish for, but which none of the other apps I’ve tried has anyway, is that when I play Stitcher through Sonos I could speed up my episodes. Pocketcaats also plays nicely with Sonos, but with them I still can’t speed up episodes through Sonos. And with all podcast apps that play through Sonos, there is still an annoying issue that unheard and heard episodes are not synced properly.

I downloaded this app because my Earwolf one finally stopped working. Even that glitchy app was better than this. If this app doesn’t improve I won’t be continuing my Earwolf subscription, which kills me because listening to Jason Mantzoukas to fall asleep to every night is quite wonderful. Earwolf, just fix your app. Forget this Stitcher nonsense. 1. Search function is garbage. When I search “Farts and Procreation” it gives a Thanksgiving episodes. Come on guys. Get it together. 2. Eps don’t download, and if/when they do its impossible to find them. 3.If there’s a function to have it stop playing a podcast after a certain amount of time, I can’t find it. 4. Interface isn’t intuitive at all.

Below, you will find the original review that I wrote for this app about a year ago. If you had asked me my opinion earlier today, though, I would have revised my “5 stars” to “1 star;” since the latest update, Stitcher has continually said it was in Offline mode and has been a complete PITA. This morning I ended up deleting and re-installing the entire thing, and now I’m back up to a 4- or 5-star rating. I like the new interface (especially now that it is actually working!); I like the Saved Episodes function; and other aspects of the app seem well-designed. I do think they should allow drag-and-drop re-arranging of the playlists, though; it’s incredibly annoying to have to scroll all the way through my (admittedly long) Favorites playlist in order to find podcasts that have been favorites for years. In general, I think they could do playlists better. Another beef I have, has to do with my Slate Plus podcasts — I cannot understand why they don’t have a dedicated stream — but I suspect that’s more of a problem on the Slate side, and not Stitcher’s fault. I agree with others that the ads can be annoying and seem to be increasing by the day, but at this point, at least, we can still skip past them. Once that functionality goes away, I might end up investigating other podcast platforms because that might just be too annoying to stand. Here’s my former review, for what it’s worth — most everything I wrote, definitely still applies: I absolutely love this app. I have used it every day for several years, and today realized that I am so appreciative of its quality and functionality that I really owed it to the developers to at least take the time to write them a review. Especially since it is free! As a dedicated Mac user since 2004 (and as someone who has only minimal patience for technology-induced frustration), I guarantee you that I would have reverted back to the standard Apple Podcast app -- or sought out another alternative -- if Stitcher hadn't been as good as it has been for all of this time. Instead I have this easy app, which is always at my fingertips and automatically syncs across all of my platforms. I can download over wi-fi without incurring cellular data charges, if I like, since even that functionality happens automatically without causing me any hassle or distress. It saves past episodes when I want to archive, and playlists are super easy to create, reorganize, and maintain. Not only that but they also offer all the best podcasts I could want and I'm frequently introduced to new ones that are well-suited to my interests and tastes. It's a great app and well worth trying out, at least.

This app crashes constantly. It also doesn’t always remember where the playback left off and when switching between devices for listening there is no guarantee that it will sink between them. I expected more from application that I’m paying to use.

Whenever the network disconnects (try riding the NYC subway) then this awful high pitch sound plays like feedback to let you know the podcast stopped. This is so annoying and it cannot be turned off.

The app has some benefits and some premium content I enjoy. That being said, an app I’m paying a subscription price for should work better than the free apple podcast app. This app constantly freezes if it does not remain open. I’ll move from another app back to it to fast forward or start a new podcast and a grayed out version of the screen appears and none of the functions work. What I am listening to continues to play but I have to hard shut down the app and restart it if I want to use it. Not fun. Additionally, I got the app specifically because it advertises its ability to sync with Sonos. Specific content is hard to find on Sonos and the app no longer keeps track of where it is. I have to try and remember exactly where I’m at in a podcast if I am listening through Sonos, find the podcast on my phone through the sticher app, and then fast forward to where I was to continue listening. This is necessary in reverse as well going from the phone to Sonos. The apps controls in Sonos also do not include any fast forward or rewind buttons other than the buggy option of trying to hold the forward or backwards buttons down. Feels like I’m using a tape player. Not very premium for the price.

It’s even worse than the default podcast app that you get with every iPhone. It doesn’t organize podcast episodes well (whyyy are you listing #871, #870, #670, #869...?), it fills up the home page with t***** shows I never asked for, and it never removes those shows when I tell it to do so.

If you listen to podcasts in the car using CarPlay, and you like swearing, throwing your phone across the car, pressing an X on the screen over and over again in the futile hope that you will be able to actually control your podcast, then this is the app for you. Otherwise, avoid stitcher like the plague.

Ruined it on iPhone for car. Always pops up”try again”

I already wasn’t crazy about having to use this app when they made their deal with Howl/Earwolf. It’s literally impossible to search for the episode you want. Just go ahead and try it with episode title, show title, guest names... Then with this update, I lose my progress every time I pause and come back to an episode. Pretty much podcast poison, useless.

With this latest update on launching the app in the longer plays my favorites automatically even though the setting is set to do so. 🚩Update: 11/30/2017- Still having the same issues even though stitcher has a couple of updates since my initial 11/10 post. Ive even reinstalled the app 3 times, Out of all my years of being an iPhone/ and mobile app user I’ve never had such issues with a former well established and stable app such as Stitcher. What’s GOING ON? Though you seemed interested in my plight in your response here you’ve never followed up with me after I contacted you. I’m getting to the point now where I’m seriously contemplating deleting the app for good.

I really love this app; but there is a glitch. I hope this is something that can be fixed with an update. On Fridays, some of the episodes I have already listened to and deleted- get redownloaded. Super annoying...

A podcast app should not require registration to use. absolute garbage

I found the interface to be difficult and time consuming to navigate. Guess I should have researched more before I bought premium because I though all or most shows would be add free. Actually...only a select few are add free. They push a few sponsored podcasts which makes it harder to find others. Also, I think it’s pretty low to have a pop up banner for Waze cover a quarter of the screen every time you start playing a show after they have just got $35 from you for premium.

Since 8.0 it doesn’t hold my place when I exit it. I’ve got to go find where I was. Sometimes it’s 3 minutes back, sometimes it’s all the way back at the beginning. The interface is not real intuitive but neither was the last one. There’s no “play later” button, only “play next”.

1. Everything about the UI on this app is incredibly bad. No searching within podcast feeds... For instance, in you cannot say to yourself, “hey I want to find that one episode of Fresh Air where Tom Hanks was interviewed.” You have to just search “Tom Hanks” and scroll through every podcast episode in the universe that mentions Tom Hanks (or anything else you actually care about.) Alternatively, you can google “Tom Hanks fresh air episode,” find and write down the date that particular episode was released, then go back to the podcast in stitcher and scroll down till you find the episode published on or around that date. (In other apps, you simply tap on Fresh Air, then search Tom Hanks. Boom there’s your episode ready to play.) 2. The feeds on this app don’t appear to read or display the rss info accurately or completely. For instance, I see episode titles, but no subtitles in the way I see them on other apps. 3. The fact that each episode is displayed as a giant bubble that takes up a large chunk of the screen makes it insanely difficult to quickly scroll down through a large archive of episodes. This style worked for Pop Up Video, not so much for podcast organizing. 4. I don’t even know how to see which shows I’ve subscribed to. There’s a “favorites” section, but this seems unnecessarily different than literally every other podcast app I’ve ever seen. How about a section called “your podcasts,” or “subscriptions,” etc.? “Favorites” seems like it should be a distinct subset of podcasts you already subscribe to. The only reason I’ve got this app on my phone is because certain shows I like host their entire back catalog on stitcher premium, the subscription service stitcher offers. Honestly though, it’s so hard to find specific old episodes of podcasts on this app that it’s not worth the money. Maybe I’m just a traditionalist when it comes to RSS feeds. I liked google reader (RIP). It seems that this app completely ignores the “REALLY SIMPLE” part of the RSS acronym. I am worried that people who have never listened to podcasts will start by using this one and then run away screaming because of how unintuitive the interface is. Use Downcast instead.

Very disappointed. I only listen to podcasts in my car through its audio system. Stitcher fails to play that way at all half the time. When I reach my destination and stop playing, it forgets where I left off and starts that show at the beginning next time, with no way for me to manually fast forward to where I left off. I'm deleting Stitcher.

The podcasts behind the paywall are totally worth the price, the app itself is unreliable and hard to use. The new updates have made it worse. I miss Howl.

Stitcher used to be one my favorite appsfor almost 7 years, then the new interface changes in fall of 2017… What happened? This is not it all more intuitive. Was this c***** design intentional so that the next phase of changes look that much better?

New upgrade is terrible. It is not intuitive. I can't see my listen later feature which was the best part. App has become unnecessarily complicated and counter intuitive. Not helpful I guess I need to find a new podcast app

Not a very good update. I don’t like the way the show pages are laid out now . It’s too cumbersome to find older shows and too easy to click on “remove this show from favorites” rather than “view more episodes” I’ve been a loyal Stitcher listener for years and have logged in nearly 1,000 hours of listening to podcasts through this app. Each update is more and more frustrating. And each update causes problems with saving the spot that I was listening to in a particular episode. I am usually driving while using this app, so it is incredibly frustrating when there are more and more issues that pop up.

Keep having to download pic casts over and over. Doesn’t matter if they are ‘Favorite’, ‘Saved’, or just ‘Downloaded’. Super frustrating and makes it absolutely useless if you go offline 😒

adding to the cacophony here: i like this app overall and i use it a lot. the problem is the actual player more than anything else. it doesn’t work very well. it sometimes takes so long to buffer a podcast that i end up going into the apple podcast app and finding what i want. fast forward and rewind don’t work nearly as well as they do in other apps i use regularly either, as far as buffering goes. search function doesn’t work very well. it’s just kind of a mess as far as the player goes. the content is solid and is what keeps me coming back.

Very intuitive, I’ve been using this app for about 5 years and it’s still my goto for listening!

Can’t resume where I left off. Podcasts with lots of episodes are even worse to browse then the terrible way it was before

Used to love this app and have listened to 100s of hours but after the update I can barely use it

Stitcher lured me in with a "BlackFriday" promo code but has figured out a way to not honor it. They don't respond to paying customers asking for help with this matter either. Downcast is excellent - I recommend them.

This app used to be 4 stars. Lacked some key functionality for it to be 5 stars however it was fairly good. With the latest update they changed their UI and other elements of the app. It is barely a 2 Star app now. Not a good user experience.

Way better than downloading mp3s from the podcast store. The only way to listen to podcast. Feedback: However I wish I could easily see the episodes easier rather than trying to find the "View more episodes" link in the bundle of 5 other links. I usually want to see the other episodes, not remove, download, add to saved, etc. Maybe that's just me though.

Every time I try to use it, it freezes on some page or another. I “click” on something and the screen freezes. If it does work, it pauses for 10-20 seconds first. Bummer, cuz it’s otherwise been a great app.

The just started popping up waze ads for paid subscribers.. its awful.. otherwise love the app

The app used to work fine, I would listen to a podcast, close the app when I was done, then when I reopened the app, it would save the progress of the episode I was listening to and start from where I left off. Since the latest update, this no longer happens. It consistently starts the episode from the beginning after reopening the app. Please fix this issue.

This app hit rock bottom and started digging. I frequently find it has deleted episodes that I’d previously downloaded and now it doesn’t integrate correctly with CarPlay.

I don’t know who designed this train wreck, but I find navigating this app so confusing. What a great idea, what a mediocre execution.

Please bring back the green play button for dowloaded podcasts!

I have 1006 hours on stitcher and I used to love it. Since the update, I’ve had issues where it wouldn’t keep my last spot in a podcast, would play a different podcast episode after I chose it to continue one, and not play when pressed from the iphone swipe up menu. Also the UI doesn’t show the episodes in order!

The app starts playing randomly. Bad update

I live and thrive listening to podcasts day in to day out. I subscribed to Stitcher when I got a new phone and lost my backlog of HDTGM and CBB episodes, and I’ve never been more frustrated and angry with an app experience. You cannot easily save episodes or look up episodes without having to scroll to the bottom. For some reason it allows you to make playlists but doesn’t let you put specific episodes in said playlists. It’s so difficult to find the things you need because the search function is basically useless. I honestly want to cancel my subscription because of the terrible interface. We shouldn’t have to pay for this garbage. Not worth the money whatsoever, which is a b***** because the podcasts are great but seriously figure your stuff out. The second there’s an alternate, I’ll be deleting this POS app.

Since the recent updates to the app, stitcher routinely forgets my place in a paused episode and will restart it from the beginning. Vastly decreases the value of this app...

I have tried to open this app almost a dozen times. It won't open. How can I use an app that doesn't even open? Eff this app.

Please put the UI back to how it was. This version is incredibly unintuitive and irritating to use. At least put an option in the settings to use the old UI.

I subscribed to Sticher for the ability to listen to different podcasts consecutively without lining them up in settling to “play next”. Now the recent update appears to be emulating iTune Podcasts features, it takes extra time and effort to line up the episodes I want to hear. What’s the point of this?

The new banner plugging the Waze integration is annoying and despite clearing it, it lets coming back. Hoping the developer sees this and resolves it.

New design seems a bit better. I’ve not experienced many of issues reported in the one & two star reviews, but also haven’t felt that the changes have added much more functionality than was there before.

The latest version has a couple of issues which really bug me. The user playback interface is harder to use, especially when skipping forward or back. Mostly I'm frustrated because when it resumes playback of a particular episode it replays a section I've already heard or starts over altogether!

Problems with Stitcher Radio that have been reported many times and they have not been fixed. Here’s the breakdown menu by menu. 1. Upon Launch-play My Favorite List. Launch time out and never starts playing the most recent podcast as in my settings. The app plays what it wants. Podcast I didn’t select. 2. Auto Play on Launch-function isn’t working.Times out. The app doesn’t start playing upon launch. I see the circle of doom and watch it time out and do nothing. So I have to manually play each podcast. 3. Playlist-the app didn’t skip podcast already played, but plays them again and again. 4. Continuous play no longer begins or works. 5. Mark played on skip- isn’t working. The app resumes episode of skipped content. 6. Debug is turned on but not sending the problems to Stitcher developer(s) to fix. So that’s not working. 7. I have cancelled my $34.99 subscription effective 4/18. Because I’m paying for premium access that I don’t get. 8. The HELP menus doesn’t tell me the end user how to fix the developer's problem. 9. I will be reporting this app to Apple. Perhaps they can pull it from the App Store until such time it performs as expected. So before you ask me any more… I have gone menu by menu to share the problems that affect me. So as the developer, I feel this should be a part of your checklist to correct.

I started using Stitcher for podcast listening August 9, 2010. I’ve tried other apps, including Apple’s provided one, but prefer Stitcher. This year, I decided to pay for the premium version. Some changes for organizing content, have made it more difficult to find things that I used to find easily. I share podcasts in messenger, Twitter and messages frequently.

I hate reviewing stuff but woooooooow....Who made this? It is incredibly hard to find what you want in the search and unless you have navigated it for a while you have no idea how it works in general...that is for sure not how an app should work right? A redesign is so necessary that its insane....ill probably cancel my membership until something happens, which is unfortunate because I love some of the podcasts on this app but if I cant figure out how to find something without getting frustrated while also paying money for something its kind of hard to just weather the storm that is this terrible app...

I have been using this app for over 5 years and over 5000 hours. I generally love it and use it literally everyday. I even paid for premium service. My biggest complaint with the new update is when I connect it to my ford sync. I can no longer control the player from my phone. You see my vehicle auto plays my iPod and I used to be able to just hit play on my phone app for stitcher to play but now it just shows a black screen that’s says ford sync and connected. I can’t control it at all from my phone. I have to unplug it, go to my app, press play then plug it in and then tell my vehicle to play usb with a voice command and hope it plays stitcher.

This app used to be my daily app during commute. I was listening since 2011. Now the episodes are not downloading for offline playback. The messed up my playlist also. It is sad that the app gone bad after going premium.