“This a FB product that just bombards the listener with personalized ads. So much so that sometimes it boggs your device down. Always trying to load the ads onto your device. Although I am thankful that I am able to listen to uncensored…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 924 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★331,178 ratings
1M+Downloads
12+Age rating
123 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Find great podcasts. Podcast App is the #1 most downloaded independent podcast player on iOS. Millions and millions of downloads, over 415,000 ratings, and named one of Apple's Apps We Love.
Podcast App is built around one idea: getting you to your next episode as fast as possible. You're usually on the go, so everything is simple, intuitive, and takes the fewest possible steps. Save episodes and build playlists in a tap as you discover them, and get back to anything you've saved or started just as fast. And it's reliable where it counts: new episodes arrive the moment they're released, and your audio never stops, because we know you're listening while doing everything else. Less time fiddling with an app, more time enjoying what you love.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 7.20.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 7.20.0, updated 2026-09-23.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 3.35.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.35.2, updated 2026-08-13.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 31 distinct reviewers — 6.0% of the 519 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“No longer let's you find oldest episodes and runs way too many ads. Used to be my favorite app but they flew too close to the sun.”
“too many ads”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 7.20.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$24.99
Highest$199.99
The Podcast App PLUS Plan$39.99
Podcast App Lifetime Premium$199.99
Unlock Podcast App Premium$36.99
The Podcast App Pro$39.99
Unlock The Podcast App Premium$36.99
Show 4 more purchases
The Podcast App Wellbeing$49.99
Mastering Communication Course$24.99
Podcast App for Students$36.99
Product Development Course$49.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.