Patreon Negative Reviews

Patreon App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Patreon app received 141 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Patreon? Can you share your negative thoughts about patreon?

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✓ Podcasts never loadWhen I try to listen to a podcast some episodes always fail to download or just load infinitely, better to just use the mobile website the app is busted.N0remacVersion: 4.5.7

✓ Just use the websiteThis app offers no advantages over just using the website - in fact, it’s worse than the mobile site in a lot of cases. It doesn’t remember your position, glitches out on regular, blocks full-screen video for some reason, and the layout on iPad is a mess. A poor entry from an otherwise top-tier platform..OrismologyVersion: 8.6.1

✓ Why is it that whenever a good new feature is added 2 more have to go?I feel like the app keeps getting worse. It’s always been hard to index the posts you want, and now for some reason when downloading audio files locally it deletes them after a few hours. How am I supposed to listen to a 2+ hour exclusive Patreon podcast in small bursts when the file keeps un-downloading?? Fix this!.WilnovakskiVersion: 8.2.22

✓ Good app, but...I enjoy the app and Patreon on the whole but I have a couple of issues. One: the app sometimes misses the community tab of my Patreon creator so I am unable to view any posts from other Patreons that support the creator. The only way to fix this is to log out and back in again. This leads me to my next point; Two: If I’m logged out and then log back in again all my downloaded audios disappear, I then have to scroll back down my creators page to re-download them again which is very time consuming. Isn’t there a way to keep the audios from disappearing so as I don’t have to constantly re-download them everyone the app updates ?.WeereadingnookVersion: 4.4.26

✓ Posts wont loadI am so incredibly frustrated with this app. Every time i try to scroll further down to get to older posts, it would stop loading. I can’t load more than 12 of the same posts. It doesn’t help that I cant sort by oldest to new or even sort by month like i can with the website. I have logged out and in again, updated the app, deleted and reinstalled the app three times, and even switched off my iPad a couple of times to see if anything would work. Nothing has worked which leads me to believe that the app is simply terrible. I sincerely hope this gets fixed soon.Frustrated&UnhappyCat14Version: 4.5.7

✓ Inexcusable for no feed order settingsYou can login on the website (not the app) and be able to order the feed by oldest to newest, by month, year, and by subscription tier content. NOT TO MENTION: no option to increase playback speed on app? Why is none of this available on the app? The app also will for some reason reset (?) and send me all the way back to the most recent post by the creator and I have to scroll ALL THE WAY back to the beginning. Terrible and considering the site has these settings, what are you guys doing over there with your time? How is this not one of the very first quality of life changes you add to the app? Really don’t like giving people my money when I feel they’re doing a terrible job with basic things one should expect. Will be getting through this content on the site as quickly as possible and hopefully not coming back (at least it won’t be on the app!). Get it together!!.TheadventuregalleyVersion: 8.2.1

✓ Monthly MembershipFirst of all there should be an option to turn off auto renew without cancelling membership. Most importantly people should realise membership is not monthly as in you get a month worth of membership, instead to pay for that month and get membership until that month ends. So if you pay for membership a week before the month ends then all you get is a week worth of membership. I also hate how you have to pay tax. All companies must pay tax it shouldn’t mean you make consumers pay slightly more just to cover your tax costs. Pay your own taxes, put your gst up yourself.OgreforceVersion: 6.6.11

✓ Terribly complicatedI’ve tried to explore the app but it’s impossible. The idea seems nice but what if you want to explore random creatives. People you don’t know that exist. You just only can search for who you know? What’s the point of being and artist trying to be known if the only way of finding people is knowing who they are already. And if you can do it, then how? It’s really complicated and I’m about to give up. I’m an artist and this doesn’t make me confident that people are going to see my work if they don’t know who I am already..Nala32Version: 4.10.4

✓ Show likes on feed againWhen creators you follows have dozens or hundreds of posts I used my like on a video to easily see if I’ve watched it or not. Other than that great app, I love it WAS perfect before the latest update.CrafttKittyVersion: 8.9.27

✓ The app has a lot to learnI really only tolerate Patreon because of the content creators themselves. As for the app… When pausing a podcast outside of the app, it completely ends the podcast and when you press play it will randomly start playing another podcast therefore you have to go back into the app and find the podcast you were listening to and then press play again. When searching for a new content creator or new podcast, if you don’t have the exact name and spelling- you’re not ever going to find it..RussRussCourtVersion: 7.4.13

✓ Tired of hassles when trying to delete accountI'm disgusted by the way companies make deleting an account a maze of pages. Wanted to delete an old account, can't seem to get to the point. I don't need to read a novel on how you handle my data, just delete the account..Dirtbagp0725Version: 8.10.19

✓ Needs a bit of fixingI love Patreon BUT you need to combine the things that work on the website work in the app and the other way round too! On the app I can post comments but I can’t read all comments or see if anyone has liked my comments. On the website I can see all comments but can’t see community posts? I can’t see if someone likes my comments on either platform or who has liked them. It seems a little like this has been built by someone who has never used a social platform? Would be great to fix it PLEASEEEEE.Mc258Version: 3.6.12

✓ LousyDownloads don’t work offline, the search function barely works, and it doesn’t have any features, really. You hate to see a company that takes so much money from creators barely spend any money on their app. Use the website, it’s about as good..PoeslawVersion: 8.12.18

✓ Clunky, impossible but cool ideaThis rating cannot be accurate , start scrolling, the app is impossible . Maybe eliminate all the initial and naive, hopefulness, and separate creators from supporters and the rating would be more believable . I even wonder if they have purposely made it as difficult as possible!!! I continually have an awful time on Patreon and lost all faith. They have complicated everything, charge you , without clear notice of all charges on 1st of month even if you were stupid like me and signed up on 30th. And try to follow their instructions to cancel that are impossible and not accurate. Fabulous concept, but tedious , overdone and all this benefit and feed lines when I only wanted to support podcasters who do a great job. Listening is tedious as well. Fortunately I can and it’s simple, clear and finely tuned. And I just don’t know why it is so clunky to listen, navigate and to figure out how to simply cancel AND communicate. And I don’t understand why rated so highly., for that is not what half the people say..RosalleaVersion: 8.8.11

✓ IPad OS Version ReviewI appreciate there’s going to be continuous improvements to this and that mobile devices are the priority for the company, so the three stars are given in the knowledge that they will hopefully improve it. I find the iPad experience much worse than mobile. The UI does not feel optimised for landscape iPad viewing, which is how the majority of people hold their iPad (Apple keyboards etc are all geared in this way). For example, when listening to a podcast in landscape, you cannot pause/play or drag along the bar to fast forward because the UI is bugged out. Additionally, there is no handover between devices (and web version). I like to listed to Patreon podcasts out and about and at home. When I’m at home, i don’t want to always be wearing earphones, so I put it on the iPad. But there is no memory of where i was at on the podcast so I have to spend time finding where that is and if I’m in a hurry it’s a hassle. I really do appreciate the updates to the mobile version though, and I think they’re a great developer team who cares about the customers. Hope to see this app catch up with the mobile version, and similarly hope to see an Apple Watch app and then cloud handover between all apps/web app in the future..LC33209Version: 7.6.3

✓ Worst app performance everEverything takes forever to load. What’s worse is that if you accidentally click something you can’t backtrack until whatever is on the page finishes loading - which takes forever. Please implement some async and lazy loading changes 🙏.~SunnyRaeVersion: 7.8.26

✓ Useful for supporting creatorsCumbersome to switch between creator feeds..CMDR A R WHISKYVersion: 7.2.26

✓ EwSeriously y’all need to fix the apps embedded video system every creator i support who uses it the experience is awful, my wifi is perfect not laggy on any other platform except yours genuinely the videos r unwatchable because of how bad the quality is and how much it buffers the ui design is just so bad especially when trying to search for things fix ur embedded system already it’s 2024.Lollipop25452828Version: 9.1.26

✓ This app is atrociousSuch a great idea but the app is hopeless. Needs a better edit feature (mostly crashed the app when I try to use it). And now, after editing a post I can see on my phone, it has removed the whole post on every other device and on the website and yet I can see it quite clearly on the phone where I wrote it. Why on earth would you not enable copying and pasting of one’s own posting. So disappointed to have my interactions so limited by this app..RoweykatVersion: 3.3.26

✓ Can’t go back after searchYou can’t go back to whatever you were doing after using the search bar you have to close the whole app and re open everything needs to be fixed huge problem.Honist blokeVersion: 5.10.9

✓ Remove the “recently played”The latest update includes a section called “recently played”. I don’t know what need this section is trying to fill, at least for myself, it fails. That section is full of podcasts that have one or two minutes left which is the merely Outtro for the podcast I listen to. The worst thing is, I can’t remove the section nor can I remove the items in it! It is taking up space on my screen and I have to scroll down to my “Downloaded episodes” that I have yet to listen to. Fire the ‘user interface designers” that work for Patreon, because they are not doing their job!.Kyi561Version: 7.2.15

✓ Terrible AppHas to be the LEAST user friendly app I have. Not intuitive, a jumbled mess, and no ability to filter out episodes you’ve already watched. I’m likely to STOP being a patron of all the podcasts I support simply because this app is so bad. Other podcast apps do so much better, why can’t you guys figure it out?.Caila06Version: 8.11.3

✓ Popup busterI am just doing this so the popup stops thanks.MuddderfukkaVersion: 8.12.18

✓ App is beyond painful to useI just got this so i could new releases from my fave web author after website wouldnt stop prompting me to download the app. everytime i try to read a post, the comments will pop up randomly and i cant close them. the ‘x’ is unresponsive. so i have to close the whole damn app and navigate back again. what should take 5-10 min max, ends up taking 20-25 jfc.MiliiuVersion: 8.10.19

✓ Picture and Video Quality Consistently PoorI am finding any video that plays, iPad 2 and iPad Pro using this App offered by the Creators I support on Patreon is now consistently the lowest of the low possible quality i.e a blurred mess. I make sure the WiFi connection from my Fiber 100 connected modem is 5GHz not 2.4GHz for fastest data throughput and a Speedtest shows a 60MB/s download on either iPad. One of my Creators confirms he uploads his videos as 1080p and days later when released to general public on You Tube it always plays crystal clear using the You Tube App.... Something needs fixing..PeteM8_NZVersion: 3.3.7

✓ They have fixed a few issues but...While some major (for me) issues have been fixed, there are still a few things that need tending to. Ideally, I would like for this app to be a fully functioning alternative to logging in on my Mac Book. Scheduling posts would be a nice touch. So would changing your profile image. As someone who creates a lot of video & written content. I would very much appreciate the ability to save my video posts without needing the video link. I say this because on many occasions, I create the written portion of the video post ahead of filming the video. The app is getting better, but you do need to login on your computer to access all features. Thank for the efforts so far..Karen-GraceVersion: 3.12.20

✓ Patreon is okThe patreon app is okay. I think there are some basic features that should be upgraded that would significantly improve the user experience. Firstly, if you use Apple CarPlay and want to listen to anything on Patreon. Be prepared to constantly have the audio speed up. The. You have to log out of the app and delete it from your phone, re-download and login for it to maybe work again. Then all your progress has been lost and you have to guess where you were and which episodes you have listened to. It’s obnoxious. Also, even when you still have some of that progress you can’t easily jump back to where you were playing you have to scroll forever to find what you want rather than the app being smart enough to take you where you left off. I’m only here to listen to CJ and TCO. Otherwise I would not be..AlaynaMarie13Version: 7.9.16

✓ Poor DesignAfter the update. It looks super ugly and is difficult to navigate. Please let me go back to the old layout..Void ZeroVersion: 8.10.6

✓ App functionality pretty poorI have given this three stars as I frequently have issues with videos not resuming where I left off, or if I accidentally exit out of full-screen mode. It’s so annoying that I often just listen to the audio version of the podcasts I subscribe to, which is a shame, because I pay for the video content. This has been an issue for quite some time. There have also been other small issues too..Victoriasm01Version: 6.12.8

✓ AmazingLove it.DarilynjaimeVersion: 8.11.3

✓ Not sure why app is so limitedDownloaded this app for the first time today, and yes, I saw some of the negative reviews. I have to say I agree with most of them. I followed an organization that produces podcasts I find very rewarding and then I signed up to be a patron. The signup went through well, but every time I start the app it tells me on the feed screen that I’m not following anyone, and tells me to search for people to follow. I already did that. So I look for the app feedback (I would think this would be mandatory for Apple to even allow an app on their store) but there is no feedback function. I can only send a message to the people I’m a patron of, but even then I have to search for them. They should already be listed as I’m a patron now. Do I have to go to the Patreon website to send app feedback? Is that even available there? This makes no sense at all. This app is needlessly crippled and I don’t understand why. If they add these and other badly needed features, I will update my review and perhaps my rating as well..RicklauderVersion: 5.4.6

✓ Cumbersome & disappointingI downloaded the app because the website appeared wonky on my iPhone, only to find out that the app is pretty much a browser-based wrapper around the mobile site. It does function somewhat better, but the layout is poor and it lacks the nice fluidity of a proper iOS app. Very disappointing, and only marginally better than the mobile site itself. p.s. I just noticed that if you swipe to the bottom of a page there's a button to download the Patreon App on the App Store. Talk about redundant!.StromfeldtVersion: 3.7.19

✓ Scroll of doom ruins itPlease PLEASE can we get a proper scroll bar that skips by month or at the very least a ‘queue’ for episodes? Having to scroll for 5 minutes to get to old episodes I haven’t listened to is so tedious, especially having to do it all over again as soon as an episode finishes because the list jumps back to the top. It is so easily fixed. I follow many podcasts with 1000+ episodes, you’ve had this platform long enough to know how much a quick scroll or even the ability to search by month/year is needed. Such simple features will make the world of difference..HarleighQVersion: 8.12.1

✓ Massive Security BreachA lot of iOS users have reported to have been logged in into accounts that weren’t theirs on 24 September (US time) and they were able to see people’s info like their email address, their pledges and their private messages. This was confirmed by Patreon itself on Patreon Support Twitter account on the same day that it happened and we have yet to receive any emails of Patreon addressing this issue. Patreon seems to have treated this issue as a minor incident when it clearly wasn’t..KaitoSoulReaper99Version: 5.9.25

✓ Always glitching or freezing, no way to search or filter contentI don’t think there’s ever been a time where I open this app and I can listen to something right away. I open it, click on the thing, nothing happens, the app freezes, I have to force close it, reopen and wait for everything to load again, and THEN I can *probably* start interacting with the content I’m paying for. It’s just so glitchy, constantly. On desktop I rarely have issues, but on the phone app I am having issues every single day. Also WHY IS THERE NO SEARCH OR LIST FUNCTION?? I subscribe to two podcasts on Patreon and the only way to find old episodes is to scroll through every single post from that creator. There are specific tags on each episode but you can’t even use those to filter out the content. It is such a pain to scroll through the feed to find something, where the app only loads 10 or so posts at a time and you have to keep waiting for more to load. It would be nice if the app just showed me a list of episodes, or if filters actually worked. Something would be better than nothing..Jjbbcqcqt89654Version: 7.4.23

✓ Bad qualityYou can not change quality on a video on IOS. You have to go to a pc to get higher than 360p. Very dumb!.PhilipMcRevas118Version: 5.12.22

✓ Won’t load EVERI’ve deleted and redownloaded the app, kept it up to date, tried on different internet sources and every single time in the last YEAR I’ve opened this app to continue where I left off, it won’t load!!!! It just sits on a buffering symbol forever. Even if I start a new ep from scratch it won’t load. I can barely use it. I have to restart the app several times, and start an ep from scratch to listen to it, losing my place every time. Please fix this!!!!!.AlMayM23Version: 9.2.8

✓ This is a fine appI really wish I could see whether episodes have downloaded correctly. Also I’ve had minor issues with being able to see comments when people reply to me..GulfofbrassVersion: 8.12.1

✓ Still needs improvementsI love being able to support my chosen artist through this app…BUT I’m finding it so frustrating that I can’t view in full screen mode on my iPad. The option to apply full screen is greyed out, why? And moreover WHY has this not been fixed yet as I believe many people have the same problem? We pay for this so we should be able to watch clearly what our artist is doing or saying and not having part of the screen blocked off in this way! My iPad is up to date and running the latest iOS, as is my app. Please sort it out!.KatyMaryCeeVersion: 8.6.30

✓ Bugs need to be squishedCan’t go back after searching - you have to close the whole app ?! Lags a lot, even doing basic functions. Can’t open the podcast pages to see more information past the blurb, or comment on posts..NeanaosseVersion: 6.1.25

✓ Text to speech is buggeredIf you use the spoken content app in accessibility’s in settings to do a makeshift audiobook, if you stuff up and want to re hear a paragraph or something and try to do it half way through. It starts all the way at the start again. That’s why I use the website 99% of the time..ArgggghhhgoddamnnicknamesVersion: 7.6.15

✓ This app allows Russian bots to close pro Ukrainian sitesDefinitely not continuing with Patreon, creators can lose their income without a dispute process (as just happened to Artur Rehi) Patreon are so arrogant they don’t even provide him with a dispute process. They bend to Russian bots, makes you also wonder if they are benefiting off the frozen funds in Patreon accounts- no thanks.Woz WVersion: 9.2.8

✓ BrokenI can’t even get the app to open anymore, so I may as well cancel subscriptions!.ClingingtohopeVersion: 8.11.14

✓ PrimitiveDo not get too excited about this app. It will give you access to creators and their content but it is very basic, the experience is not good. Specific things like downloading videos does not work, when watching videos it does not go full screen or handle rotation. Many of the functions will just open a browser window and drag you through the login process. I have found it much better to just use a native web browser..Exie2011Version: 4.11.15

✓ Good for seeing Post but not much else…I can see post without a problem but as soon as I use the tagging system it take ages for anything to show up (if it does at all) and it always happens whenever I use the app to look for a specific thing. To be honest the app itself is clunky as best and sometimes it just crashes on my phone for no reason. I’d prefer to use my computer as the websites a bit more stable but the phone app is a lot less desirable to use. If you want updates from creators or just basic use for patreon it’s fine but anything more just use a computer..111Red111Version: 6.6.11

✓ NEEDS FIXINGWhere do I start? As a content creator, it’s a useful service, but it’s Sooo frustrating with all the app bugs and generally poor design. Can’t even reply to people’s comments on my own posts now! It says “become a patron to comment”… The fact that you still can’t upload videos directly to Patreon is a joke. I don’t wanna upload to Vimeo, and I’m tired of the tedious process of copy/pasting links in.. which brings me to my next point: WHY does the post description gets automatically copied into the “Teaser” text box?! Who asked for this feature? I now have to manually erase it from there every time I post something, because it’s basically defeating the purpose of having Patreon EXCLUSIVE content. There NEEDS to be a better way to organize posts. Not a big fan of how “Tags” work… fairly limited. Would love something more practical and visual.. at least as an option for those who produce visual content. It’s a useful platform but needs lots of improvement..Shiny AnticsVersion: 7.8.1

✓ DownloadingYou guys should add features in which we can create a playlist in which we could add our favourite videos and also download them to listen without needing internet connection just like YouTube, maybe some people enjoy listening to the videos whilst sleeping..Indeed ReviewVersion: 6.2.20

✓ Issues with podcast playApp fails and then I can’t listen to it on the app anymore. Close the app completely, it will just say something went wrong and refuse to play it. I use Patreon to listen to ONE artist’s podcast and the app can’t even do that right..LauryMDragonVersion: 8.11.14

✓ Not as accessible as it COULD beI’ve recently had my page published and the app was working perfectly about a month ago, and now it just seems to be very limited in its functionality. I have two accounts and I should be able to switch back-and-forth, quite easily between the two, but the app is not so easily navigated with just the one account so using two accounts with this app is quite difficult. The app really needs to work the same way as the website itself. I shouldn’t have to be logging into a website to check my account. I should be able to just open the app and there is my account with all of the features needed to run my page successfully..LMFFSWTFVersion: 8.11.17

✓ Terrible Customer SupportI love the app, and I love subscribing to/reading from my favorite contributors, but that’s the only reason I continue to use this app. On a scale of 0-10 worst-best, the support team receives a solid 0. The support I received, upon being locked out of adding/editing my payment method(which then restricted my usage), was absolutely terrible. Every reply I received had nothing to do with what I asked, and not once was a question answered. Information was provided that I did not need or request, and my issue was never addressed, as I stated it. I ended up having to DELETE/DEACTIVATE my ENTIRE account because I was locked out of billing, unable to change my card to pay for services, and couldn’t get support from Patreon- an unfortunately ineffective and inefficient way to operate/support locked out members. Though, based on my prior support interactions, I don’t expect an intelligent response (from Patreon) related to anything I’ve written, I hope this is read and perhaps looked at by a human being that operates beyond a script..Colby415Version: 4.6.28

✓ Make videos cast-ableCan you please add the streaming/casting feature to this app? I use a chromecast for all my tv watching and this app does not let me cast to my tv so I always have to use my laptop and the website to cast. Please add this feature!.BeigeponyVersion: 8.10.6

✓ Excellent platform, average appThis is an excellent platform for supporting content creators. The app itself however, is very basic and missing a lot of features compared to website. Interface and performance is good on phones but terrible on tablet. On tablet images often fail to load and are blurry (compared to website) when they do. Possibly a bug but navigation jumps around the feed when going in and out of a post..Blueaura18Version: 5.1.14

✓ Patreon app is one of the worst app I’ve usedThere is too many problems with this app. You want to check history posts? Sorry no if you scroll too far we crash on you. You want to play music? Sorry no there is a chance we crash on you. You want to click on a Patreon link from a post in the app? Sorry no you have to log in again if you click on the link and also remember the email verification :). If you think my phone is too old or something , if an iPhone X can’t even run this app maybe Patreon just gets paid from Apple..125482582846283753682736Version: 5.9.3

✓ Absolutely useless- No sort posts by dates. Have to scroll down for the oldest posts. - No sync for video playback progress. - Absolutely horrendous video player. The on screen control is unresponsive, full screen button sometimes doesn’t show, drag the progress bar to a precise time is mission impossible. The change resolution basically doesn’t work, it shows options but only allows you select auto. Honestly why not just remove this app and let everyone use the website? The video player is equally awful but at least it’s got sorting..Paranoia AgentVersion: 5.3.25

✓ FrustratingThis app stops/freezes every 2-3 podcasts. It is really frustrating having to pay for an half working app..Accesd app suceVersion: 8.10.19

✓ Sleep timerPlease add an ‘end of episode’ option, episodes are rarely the time lengths in the selections available..DustyB.Version: 9.2.23

✓ Still has bad bugsThis app has come a long way as far as fixing bugs so it has gone from horribly useless to poor which is an improvement. I find issues with the UI particularly in how hidden the menu is to search and find new content creators you don’t follow. I think the search for new creators should be out in the Feed section. What I still find horrendously bad is the media player. It never remembers the last position where you left off if you close the app, or go to another section of the app, it does not play in the background, if your watching a long episode the video can abruptly stop and then brings you back to the beginning because again, it never remembers where it stopped. All these horrendous bugs I find it appalling that they have not been addressed in so long. I rather watch content on any other player just because it works much better..Mveras1972Version: 5.6.12

✓ Don’t like new update. I regret updating soo bad.Don’t like the feed because now I’m scrolling for ages and the side bar that showed my creators and their number of updates is gone. Before I could swipe through their pages but now. Seriously some creators upload more than others and still no advance search option or playlist options just seems more inconvenient for me. Let the creators make playlists. Bring back the content creator list..MoneywoahzVersion: 4.10.22

✓ Crashes when I need it not toI try to keep up with those I support, so from the news feed, I select the artist name, the posts tab appears with the spinning circle of data retrieval, then the App crashes/kicks me out. This is for both my iPhone & iPad. My primary sources for Patreon as I don’t have a laptop. If this is fixed, it’s a 5/5 app..RangatologyVersion: 7.4.13

✓ Clunky user experience, laggy feedFirstly, I will say that I like that Patreon allows me to support independent artists, however that is about where my praise ends. I have struggled with the functionality of this app since I downloaded it over a year ago. (And the trouble persists even after multiple app updates, uninstalling and reinstalling the app, and other trouble shooting.) There is a clunky user experience to almost every aspect of this app. Even trying to change my profile picture causes it to crash. Another example: if I click the “like” heart, it often won’t appear as selected next time I log on. Now my feed won’t update and Patreon’s recommended solution is to unsubscribe/re-subscribe to my podcasts?! This should be the responsibility of the developers to fix, not mine. A few other small things of contention; there isn’t an overtly obvious way to indicate that an episode has been played. Also, there is a pop/clipping noise a few seconds into each audio podcast I play, regardless of who produced the content. These kinds of things add up when it comes to user experience, so I’ll be looking for better ways to support these content creators outside of Patreon since the app seems to only be getting worse..LadyVoltariaVersion: 6.11.20

✓ Quelque bugQuelque bug mais super application et pratique.Meli_gougouneVersion: 8.10.19

✓ The buggiest app!This app is awful. It’s hard to search and navigate through the content of your ‘memberships,’ but the worst part is that the app doesn’t even load half the time. It will quit when moving between pages or just flat out fail to load the home page feed. I know it’s not an issue with my OS because I have a newer Iphone XR, and I don’t have these issues with any other apps. honestly it’s just disappointing. patreon plays an important role as a platform for creators to share their work and make a livelihood doing so— this app is so buggy and awful that it honestly works against that very goal. If there were some other widespread subscription service for creators to share their content, I would migrate IMMEDIATELY! To the patreon ios dev team, I really hope you get this app in working order. It’s embarrassing how poorly this app functions, and you do a great disservice to creators and patrons by leaving it in such dysfunction. It literally blows my mind that a company as important and widespread as patreon could mess up an app this badly..Connor_kbrown24Version: 5.7.16

✓ Broken watch laterThis update seems to have broken the “watch later” function for YouTube and when I click share I used to be able to open the video direct in YouTube itself, can’t do that now..KillerPuppySharkVersion: 5.4.6

✓ I don’t understandIt’s honestly the worst and most glitchy app and I really don’t understand why it’s THE app. If I get a phone call while listening it will start skipping and the audio drops out like a scratched CD, it’s hard to find your place or something you were listening to previously, it’s not very user friendly, it randomly crashes every few hours and it drains the life out of my battery 😬.KlscottVersion: 5.9.25

✓ Problem with downloads & new post alert(Knocked off 2 stars due to the really annoying way it recently started showing the little numbers implying new content when nothing’s there. It used to work!) Once you have more than one screenful of downloaded audio files it's difficult/impossible to scroll it down such that you can play files beyond the first page. I've ended up deleting files to solve the problem. Also, it shows a '1' badge despite there being no new notifications (harmless, but irritating!).Simon MorganVersion: 3.11.16

✓ New upgradeNew upgrade is awful..JusvjryVersion: 8.10.6

✓ So many errorsUnfortunately there have always been a lot of issues with this app. The latest- it says “something went wrong” every time I try to listen to audio that a creator who I follow uploaded. Every single time..Laura6724Version: 8.11.14

✓ Latest version is inaccessible and useless.See above..Li5amarroneVersion: 8.12.1

✓ Nice idea - terrible appThe concept of patreon is nice but this app is just terrible. For podcasts, i only use patreon to support podcasters, means this app must be used to download and play them. This is the worst podcast app imaginable, utterly featureless compared with any other player. It barely manages to play podcasts, it won’t download automatically, can’t tell if you played it or not. The rest if the apo is similarly rubbish experience. There is no excuse for publishing apps this bad, plenty of great apps around to see how to make a good experience. I would ditch patreon in a heart beat if something else came to take its place. Oh, and support is non-existent, or just so useless might as well be, can’t tell which..MarkusBiggusVersion: 3.12.20

✓ The worst app I have ever used.I have 2 subscriptions both add content weekly and yet it says that the content does not exist and is not accessible. I redownloaded the app in case of a bug, now it will not let me enter my account without a verification email, every time I click on the verification emails it tells me the code has expired. This is by far the worst service I have ever paid for..Liamlilo25Version: 6.6.11

✓ VideosThis is my second review but one other major flaw to the desktop version when I use my laptop mainly is that when I’m watching videos they stop/pause could be multiple times during the video or just once I don’t know if the links the creators use because sometimes Vimeo works in desktop version then some on the app it says videos unavailable but the desktop version were the videos just pause randomly it a major issue in a platform you pay subscription on that’s what they need to look into it more I know I’m not the only who’s said this!!.JolmjdsehoplnxzVersion: 7.9.8

✓ Recent UpdateCannot access subscriptions on Patreon mobile with most recent update, even after updating iPhone to newest iOS. Not able to use app for almost a month..Mr BurgherVersion: 8.12.18

✓ SubparThe app sometimes doesn’t display all the content from creators. I follow a certain creator who posts a weekly schedule so followers know what to expect and when. Sometimes, it will look like the creator didn’t post anything on a day the creator said they would, however, the truth simply is the app is not displaying all the content. If I switch over to safari and pull up patreon, the video is, in fact, there. It just won’t show up on the app. And, just for the sake of clarity, I do not follow NSFW content crerators so this issue isn’t about filtering or censoring adult content. It’s just that the app is broken. I’ve had this issue since I installed the app last year, but it just seems to be getting worse with time. Sometimes I’ll be able to watch a video from the content creator on the app and then I will come back to the app days later and I can no longer find the video. It is as though the video never existed. I go to safari and it’s still there..Tad CornellVersion: 3.6.1

✓ A couple of issuesFirstly, there’s an annoying bug in the app that doesn’t update memberships that have been cancelled. They continue to appear in the list along with a renewal date. This drove me crazy until I logged into the website and saw that the membership I was trying to cancel was actually cancelled (I hope). Secondly, Patreon are guilty of my pet peeve: A cookie “trap” dialog, which prompts you to choose your cookie preferences and then has only one action button: “Accept”. I suspect (but can’t be sure) that clicking this button to close the dialog will cause you to accept the cookies that you explicitly rejected. This is super sneaky and really sets a bad tone for the brand..FieldAgentVersion: 7.6.3

✓ Aggressively bad appThe only thing I want to use this app for is to play the exclusive audio episodes from people I support, and it is nearly impossible to do on this app I tried to download an episode, and had some connectivity issues, and the download failed. Now when I look at that episode it just says “Failed” and there’s no way to get it to attempt downloading again. Any creator that provides another form of subscription (e.g. Apple Podcasts subscription) I will be ending my patreon membership, and moving to the other platform, because this is just nonsense.Jdgaf646Version: 8.6.15

✓ Better beforeCan’t even see what I have previously watched anymore. Before we had something telling us it was played or not. Don’t know what content is new, have to go on every artists pages to figure it out. I there a way to go back to the old Patreon?.FrancisGagnonPaquinVersion: 8.10.6

✓ Sorting Episodes is a PainFor someone that likes to relisten to old episodes of shows, the media player aspect of the app is severely lacking. Once an episode gets played all the way through it automatically gets archived for some reason. There’s no way to sort by “all episodes” if I want to scroll through to find a past episodes to listen to, just “up next” or “unplayed”, etc. I just want to see the whole catalog. It’s also hard to pick up where you left off in a large catalog. If I’m listening to an episode that’s 50 episodes back and I leave the app to go do something else, when I come back I have to scroll all the way back to find where I was again. The player doesn’t auto play the next episode in the queue either so if I finish and old episode and and just want to play the next one, I have to scroll all the way back down, find the one I just heard, and the select the next one manually. A lot of little inconveniences that make this app a massive pain and make me reconsider donating to campaigns if the extra content I get in return is this much of a hassle to access..IwillitakyouVersion: 7.9.23

✓ Update acceptedI’ve been on the app for a while, but it feels like I’ve been been treated as a as a fan instead of a member when I’m actually a member. this app sucks it might work for people that are fans but not for people they are trying to business use the website instead. Actually when I try to use the website I tried logged in it didn’t work. I tried new list and tried so many times I don’t even know of these website either, you know I’ve been on the app for a while and I still feel like a newbie at this. I’m not sure what Patreon is actually for if it’s collaborating with other artists and other people are creative Well, that’s what it feels like but I know there’s some more to Patreon that means the I am is not showing up in the app. This app really needs some updates. It’s it’s like zoom on steroids..Uraniummia CliftonVersion: 8.11.3

✓ Can’t hold placeLove the concept of the app and what it enables, however I have 2 major gripes: 1. App is unable to consistently remember where in a podcast I left off, like how hard is it for the app to remember which podcast it was playing and at what point?? 2. When listening on AirPods if the audio is interrupted for whatever reason (phone call, reply to a message, etc) when attempting to resume it pauses and plays repeatedly every half second, this is usually when using wireless controls or on Lock Screen If these two items could be addressed it’s make the user experience so less frustrating.BrenClarVersion: 6.6.11

✓ Latest update has less featuresLatest update seems to have removed the ability to edit your profile. As a patron I’d also like the ability to be able to edit my comments and manage my messages from within the app. Sometimes I’ll get notifications, sometimes I won’t. A post can say it has x amount of comments but most of the time they never load. Good app for the basics such as viewing posts but better to use the website for everything else..JuliexdianneVersion: 2.11.26

✓ Need to develop the app/ more features.Guys. You need to develop this app a bit now. It’s getting stale. You need to offer creators more features from the app like adding audio files to posts from phone ect. No reason for this not to be there. And posting live vids or vids from the app, like Instagram or Facebook. No reason this shouldn’t be there now..Buretto SanVersion: 5.8.8

✓ Crashes constantlyThe app worked long enough for me to set up an account and make a pledge, but now crashes constantly and immediately upon open, so I can’t look at any of my rewards or respond to messages, which is... exactly what I want the app for. It also wasn’t surfaced that after paying for my initial pledge on the 27th, I’d be billed again on the 1st of the next month, which is poor form. (Possibly there was something on the billing page about it, but it automatically rushed me through to delivery address before I could read everything.) Patreon seems like a cool platform but man, the app experience has been terrible. Please fix this!.EggotapeVersion: 5.2.25

✓ Not a smooth experience.As a patron, I like seeing the things I’m paying for in a convenient place. This app needs a landing page with a feed just like every other content driven service ever. When I open it, I want to see the new stuff that I’m paying for, not the page of someone that hasn’t updated in 6 months. When trying to edit my payment information that the app informed me I was missing, pages kept flickering in and out of view and I was never confident the information I was inputting was taking. Ultimately after two tries I gave up. Selections kept falling behind black blocker screens. It also gave me the sensation of a desktop site on mobile where it feels like the content is there, just down and to the right somewhere (maybe). For a service that is a middle man for giving other people money, the experience should inspire confidence that said money is being handled with care. This app doesn’t do that. It’s too clunky of an experience for a company that’s been around for 5 years..CheekytrousersVersion: 4.4.5

✓ Awful app but only place to find the podcast I wantThis app is awful. Sometimes just won’t play the audio without a reason. You also cannot pause the audio on the Lock Screen because when you got to resume playing it layers another random podcast on top of it. It also some times does not allow you to download a podcast and will randomly crash Frustrating that this is the only way that I can listen to the podcast I like so I am forced to use this dumpster fire of an app..Jcross_39Version: 6.11.20

✓ Please make it betterSuch a hassle to use and I feel like it could easily be made more user-friendly? I use it primarily for podcasts, and I am so frustrated by how CONSTANTLY the app restarts if I pause what I’m listening to, leave the app running, and use another app for just a few minutes. When I go back to the app, it shows the black background with the logo and then the top of my feed as though I had fully closed and shut off the app and reopened it again. If I am listening to an episode in an extensive back catalogue, which I often am, I usually have to go back and find it multiple times within a single listening session. I don’t know much about app design or coding but I can’t imagine it’s impossible to at least have the app be able to “save” what you were last doing when it shut itself down and have the little currently-listening-bar still be open at the bottom when it restarts, so you can just click play instead of trying to remember what the episode was called and searching for it, or having to just scroll through months/years of posts until you find it if you can’t remember..Cs16753Version: 7.5.11

✓ Great intention but missing some features, also BUGSI love the idea behind this app! Especially with other platforms constantly changing their monetization guidelines it’s nice to know there is a platform in which I can directly support creators I love. However, there are some issues that make this app much not so great on mobile devices. For one, after I created my profile there’s no way to go edit my profile on the app itself (can’t even add a profile picture, like what??). I would have to get on my computer or go through a web browser to do so. Another issue I’ve run into is the interactive capabilities (liking, posting comments, direct messaging) will randomly stop working and will force you to log out and then back in in order to fix the issue. I cannot speak to the experience as a creator so I am unaware of any issues or awesome features on that side of the app. Overall a pretty good app with some flaws from time to time, but still awesome knowing I can make direct contributions to my favorite creators..Justan RayVersion: 6.4.16

✓ It’s decentPateron is a decent app, it seems legit in the way that it seems like it’s designed and maintained by professionals. However the reason I’m giving it 3 stars is because when I load up the app, and try to watch a video, the video itself won’t actually play. It will just continue to show that it’s loading. I did some digging yesterday online, but couldn’t find anything that helpful, however what I did notice is that they are a relatively small company (only about 400 employees). Which might explain why the app using doesn’t work correctly! (I’m using an iPhone 12 running iOS 16.0.2) so I’m starting to think that maybe the only reason why the app doesn’t work on my end is because they just haven’t updated the app to run on iOS 16.0.2. But other then that, the app launches fine, just doesn’t play videos, which is a slight let down in my books..Cool apple 12Version: 7.9.23

✓ Bad updateI am a common patreon user. I use it essentially every day and ever since the update it’s become increasingly harder to use. To scroll and watch older videos, for me to finish them and have it refresh all the way back to the top of the page is so frustrating and annoying. It makes the experience stressful and aggravating. The mobile app is ugly and hard to look at too. I just am really unhappy with everything this update has brought. Update on y me review: The app has gotten even worse with every update they do. I can no longer even access the app when using my cell data. For no reason at all. I used to be able to listen to podcasts while in my car and now I can’t even do that. They have ruined this app completely. I can’t even use it when I want to use it so what’s the point of even having it? No one even provides any help with anything. This is so aggravating. Developers and apples clearly don’t care about consumers..AshleyleezaVersion: 8.12.1

✓ Not goodDon’t bother. Use browser..LordLlaVersion: 7.4.23

✓ Needs to work out a few kinksI enjoy the ability to be able to support creators directly for the content I consume however the Patreon app itself has a bit to work out. For instance it doesn’t consistently keep up with what videos/podcasts you have listened to. Sometimes there will be a green checkmark, other times there will be no indication that you’ve listened to it. In addition when you go to use another app, say you’re on Twitter and a video plays, once you’re done with whatever you were listening to on that other app Patreon won’t always still be loaded on the control center page to play from so you have to go back into the app find that specific piece of content play it AND fast forwards to wherever you were in the episode. There’s also often a long delay while it loads. Sometimes I have to close the app and reopen it just to get podcasts to play. I appreciate the purpose of the app but would like them to work on some basic errors..Tinder in SacVersion: 7.2.15

✓ App setup and functionality could be way betterI’d give this app like 4/10 on user friendly scale. It would be lower if it wasn’t already such a simple app. Could improve a lot if there were easy ways to search posts by when they were posted or scroll between months/days easily. Would also be nice if it would show what you’ve already watched. I use Patreon for one podcast, I know there’s a lot of other creators and media types involved, but I don’t think it would be beyond question to have a functionality that shows if you’ve already viewed a video or post, or that allows you to sort or filter by unviewed. Gets kinda buggy randomly. Which wouldn’t be crazy annoying except if I’m watching an episode from 2020 and it glitches and then I have to scroll back and try to find it again because as I said, that function is trash..NicolerooniVersion: 8.1.25

✓ I just want to search through my patrons posts...App is good and the platform is brilliant. But the one feature I want, above ALL ELSE, is the ability to limit my search to the content of posts my patrons put out. There’s content I subscribe to which is great and maybe a year or two later I want to go back and re-download it. Maybe I only remember a key word or two, but what do I have to do? Hope that I remember which patron it was and scroll for DAYS. Even then I might get it wrong. Please. PLEASE. It can’t be that difficult to add in a search function to only search through the posts of people I’m subscribed to. I don’t even care if I can only do it on my desktop and not in the app - I could deal with that. But having to deal with this issue for LITERAL YEARS is unacceptable for a platform as big as Patreon..INeedNewSocks84Version: 5.4.6

✓ Could be usefulThis is a good app if all you want to do is browse the media stream from creators. But as a creator I find this app to be a huge missed opportunity that Patreon needs to work on. It could be a great asset to creators. I find I need to check the web site to be up to date on the actions of my Patrons (messages, pledge changes, etc). Maybe Patreon needs to split the app, just turn this app into an App that provides Patrons with access to the media stream, pledge info, message system, etc. While splitting out the functions for creators into a dedicated "Patreon Studio" app for creators. Then focus on what each app is for, rather than trying to do everything in one app and not getting it right..MrPawsVersion: 8.5.5

✓ TEXT IS TOO SMALL I CANNOT READ ITPlease fix your accessibility..AnrkyVersion: 9.1.26

✓ Faulty??Whenever I sign in it shows a blank home screen with no options to edit profile, check pledges, post etc..AjdjjfjwjVersion: 4.4.26

✓ New update blows-can’t filter from newest to oldest uploaded -can’t filter audio & video -UI looks terrible and cluttered this app is borderline unusable, just when i had no complaints. straight up disappointed.GordfulVersion: 8.10.19

✓ Functions out of whackI don’t know why this app has such high ratings either because it’s not functional. If I’m using the app on my iPhone I can put the video in the corner of my screen and watch my podcast while using other apps all day. Sometimes I just pause it and slide the video off the screen so I don’t lose my spot but I can start it up again very quickly. On my iPad I can’t use other apps while watching my podcast. Which doesn’t make any sense seeing how that feature was made available to iPads LONG before iPhones. Also, if I’m watching a video horizontally and I decide to change my device to the vertical position the whole video closes making me re start the podcast and finding where I was cut off. And there’s no way to get around it, I have to place my iPad in the position I want to view the video in and never move it until I’m done watching. It’s tedious and it shouldn’t be, sometimes I want to enjoy the luxury of a larger screen without having to travel with my laptop but the only working application you have is for the cell phone. Get it together because that last update didn’t fix bugs..SlumpyKVersion: 6.4.16

✓ Needs a home pageThe app is great but I would much prefer a home page which shows recent posts from every page I follow instead of it being the top page I’ve supported; it results in the page it opens on not loading properly, if at all. I would also prefer email notifications not to be automatically on for every new page I follow as I already get push mobile notifications and would rather my email not be cluttered. But the app works as intended and I can view/follow/support everything I want to besides the top page it opens on..HCM92Version: 4.4.26

✓ If you have to do FAQ search…I’m listening to a podcast on Patreon at the moment and the fact I’ve just had to search the app’s FAQs to work out how to rewind the podcast, the fact I couldn’t find the answer in FAQs, and the fact that I got so frustrated that I’m here writing this review and I’ve missed most of the podcast now anyway tell me that this app is a monumental failure. Maybe I’m an idiot, but any idiot should be able to easily find a rewind button when they are listening to a podcast on a podcast playing app. One star but only because every app gets one star anyway just for taking part.Bummer100Version: 7.4.13

✓ New update is terribleI wish I could give negative stars, but the desktop website it terrible too. The app used to be fine, even if it took too long to load sometimes, it still worked and let me see the artists I supported in an easy way, but the new update is ugly and doesn’t make any sense. Taking away the chronological feed is unhelpful at best, and actively annoying. I want to see everything from the artists I support, not just all the things from the artist who posted most recently. Also, putting notifications that tell me what’s on the feed I’m currently looking at, is so stupid and useless. I would rather push notifications actually work so I can get a notification when someone posts something new, not a retroactive notification about the thing I’m already looking at. Having me click away from my feed just to show me there’s something new on my feed is redundant in the most useless way. Put it back the way it was, because that way actually worked for both artists and patrons..These are terrible peopleVersion: 8.9.27

✓ Can’t recommend after support not replying and it’s been a week now.Up until now i had never had a problem with Patreon, as long as you read the fine print on the pages to make sure your aware of what your paying for and if it’s in advance or not. But I finally decided to cancel a sub I had (which was a pay in advance one and bearing in mind I had taken it out at the end of a month, originally, so ended up paying 2 months subs in a week) last charge was April 1st (so should still of been subbed till end of April). So last week I decided to cancel said sub, before collecting my tier rewards, only to find out even tho my subscription got charged on the 1st... Once I cancelled it removed everything from my subscription to the follow of that Patreon, so lost all access to my rewards I’ve already paid for. Ok you think, a quick message to Patreon support and it will get sorted within a day or two but no, it’s been a week and I’ve still not had a single message back from them. What’s worst is I’m within my right to go to my payment provider to demand a refund but then it’s the person you subbed to who get punished with the chargeback charge, as well as losing the subscription your refunded, so Patreon get off scot-free. Will update this review if they actually bother to solve this problem for me, but not holding my breath on them bothering to contact me back, if current customer service is anything to go by..Staffie85Version: 6.4.5

✓ Poor navigation experience with latest upgradeAn ’upgrade’ was pushed out that changed the user interface. What was easy to navigate around is not now. Opening the new app gave no guidance on how to use the new interface so frustration sets in trying to find material and have it display correctly. Screens weren’t displayed correctly - a poor experience. If developers feel a new interface is required, there should be the ability to select it if you want (or not in this case)..1234WeatherVersion: 4.10.22

✓ Needs some improvementI struggle to find the podcast episodes I’m looking for. There is an ‘audio’ tab where you can find the eps you’re currently listening to but I find it a little unreliable. It would be great if you could filter the podcast episodes into listened/not listened. An option to auto play the next ep would be helpful as well since I often find myself having to manually search for the next ep in a series..E.mac12Version: 7.2.15

✓ Terrible app with no supportEvery time they update this app, they make it harder and harder to use as a creator. And there is no way to get any support either..Diane245Version: 7.6.15

✓ Harder to navigateIt was easier to access all your patreons in the previous UI. This one just feels tedious. More movement to access accounts. Previous version had the middle bottom whereas this on your have to tap top right. Furthermore, searching posts is still atrocious. The desktop version is more versatile and user-friendly. You’re able to search specific months. That feature is amazing for patrons who joined a Patreon with hundreds of posts. Please rectify these problems..GRiMmYdArKVersion: 8.10.6

✓ Terrible customer support and functionality… but still one the most reliable ways to pay creators you enjoy regularly, which is why I’m giving it 2 stars and not one. But, honestly, I was trying to update my email which was being glitchy and wouldn’t let me do the normal way and since getting in contact with customer support and so far they have only made the problem worse. Originally, I was still able to log in to use my account and access my rewards but since they “tried to help” I have had my log ins broken so I can’t get in but I’m still getting charged. To get it sorted, before the log I was broken, they requested a ridiculously long list of requirements to prove who I am, including but not limited to: The IP address in using, the dates and amounts of my last 2 payments to them and card details from those payments (even though I pay through PayPal so they don’t have that info) I told them I could still log in (because I could at the time) so they shouldn’t need that info but I couldn’t change my email. They asked me to do a screen record to show the issue, which is when the log in stopped working. I told them this and they’ve ignored me for a week now so I’m probably going to get charged again without access. Absolutely appalling. Definitely gone downhill since they started doing investment rounds - clearly prioritising their market value over their usability….HaznyVersion: 9.3.14

✓ Love Supporting Content Creators, App Could Use A LOT of WorkWhile I love supporting content creators who use this app, it generally is a really bad app to use for cross-play, video playing on iPads, and general UI purposes. It makes no sense that with all the updates this app gets, there is no update to make sure that I can watch or listen to the same video/audio on my iPad and on my phone and it not sync up. I also can not stand the video player on iPads. There is no way to go into landscape mode to watch a video on my iPad which makes zero sense. It shows that there are no or barely any people testing the app and making sure it actually is user friendly across platforms. The video is too small when not in full screen (because again, it only works on portrait mode on the iPad). It also is now in this more complicated stack of videos and content, which I swear made the video even smaller. I love love love the content creators I follow and subscribe to on this app but the UI is truly abysmal for viewers and for the content creators who trust in this app..NiNizZzRawr! .n_n.Version: 8.10.6

✓ Not workingI love your app.. but I’ve paid for my sub, it used to work,. But now I can’t listen. It says the user has posted nothing, and on the home page, it says I’m not following anyone, but on my membership it shows I do follow them. I’ve deleted the app re-download it and logged back in-yet it’s the same problem. Please fix this !.Dezire.cVersion: 8.5.19

✓ I can’t believe this is a legitimate app with moneyThis app is terrible. For context, I use it almost exclusively on an iPad. Very basic functions of other media apps are just absent from Patreon. The content doesn’t fit on the screen properly, you can’t read comments and watch/listen at the same time, the comments take forever to load and the scrolling breaks constantly, the content doesn’t save your place — god forbid you accidentally click on the comment section while watching — the video will reset to the beginning. I was shocked when the CEO fired 50% of their developers because this app seems like maybe one developer works on it part-time. I’ve been using this app for years and can’t even think of one update that’s happened that made the experience better. I have to imagine that the work being done for the other side of it, the content creators, is the priority. But the people who consume content on Patreon need to be thought about too..DevinmariebVersion: 6.8.9

✓ Please fix your video player!The platform is great for the creators and us patrons. The video player is buggy as hell, the video does not save how much was played on the web player and the tracking on the app is also very inconsistent and there is no sync across both platforms. No option to select quality of the videos manually, the video player randomly breaks and then I have to guess how much video I had played. The new update is great but please focus on these fundamentals first..H ZafarVersion: 8.11.3

✓ CrashedMy Patreon app just crashed as I’m trying to read a report from RMTransit. I reset the app and continues to crash on my iPhone 13. NOT HAPPY..Kr2101Version: 9.1.12

✓ Can’t disable communityI want to disable and hide the community chat feature altogether. I can’t even dismiss the in-app notification indicating I have updates with communities I refuse to join and cannot opt out of. What a terrible, bonkers design..WtcherVersion: 8.12.18

✓ Can’t even download the appI was trying to download the app to watch something, like almost every other person that uses the app and it doesn’t even let u download it. Click the download button, and it’s no my first time installing it, another time I installed it than I deleted it. Today I tried to redownload it and it told me I needed to use my Apple ID so I put it in, than it took me to my payment methods saying I have to verify something and there was nothing to verify, no specific instructions. I thought “oh bc I moved maybe I need to change the address on my card”. Changed my whole adress press done and it said press continue to verify, so I did and it took me right back to my payment methods with NO instructions so what was I supposed to verify??? I tired to retype my information thinking maybe there’s a typo or something and it took me back to “press continue to verify” this time I didn’t press continue bc I was thinking it’ll take me back to my pay methods so I pressed cancel and Patreon was loading and than it stopped and had the little cloud thing that comes up when u uninstall a app and u try and get it back. (Cloud and arrow). I’ve been trying for the past 20 mins maybe to figure out what’s the problem and kept doing the same thing over and over, retyping my information and nothing worked. Fix ur app, this is stupid.(name)-allnamesweretakenVersion: 7.10.24

✓ Player doesn’t workYou are a streaming app, fix your player, you can’t listen to the audio of the video without keeping it open.ColinbamburyVersion: 9.2.23

✓ Synch issues between app and webBig issues of content not in synch between appears in the app and what appears on the web version. Comments postes via the app don’t always appear on the web version and are therefore not seen by others (even though they appear in my app version). Conversely, I can’t see all comments of others appearing in the app version, although they appear in the web version. Latest version does not display photos posted by members in the Community tab??? Photos appear on the web version but do not appear in the app version... Patreon iOS developers. You’ve got work to do to fix these major bugs and annoying aspects of your app..Patreon, fix this!Version: 3.7.19

✓ Needs side scroller and jump to first postNeeds side scroller and jump to first post because it very often crashes as i’m scrolling down my fave creators feed to where i left off..VCTR SQRRLVersion: 9.1.12

✓ Limited functionalityPatreon for patrons is a good tool for following and supporting vloggers, influencers and coachers but when it comes to the group chat facility it leaves a lot to be desired. There is no search facility on comments in the chat and comments on a post are only notified to the original commenter. An email is sent to anyone posting in a conversation when someone comments. Subsequent replies are not notified to the commenter and can only be found by scrolling through the sometimes lengthy chat threads..Bumpkins21Version: 8.8.7

✓ The app needs workI’ve been a patreon supporter for a comic artist, and a podcast for approximately four months now. I’m happy to be supporting these artists. However, my challenge is in the app. For the posts that are text-based it’s all intermingled and easy to lose track of a thread. That said, my biggest complaint is with the audio section of Patreon. I had downloaded ~15 episodes, so that I could easily keep track of what I hadn’t listened to yet. Having listen to about three of them, the next day, all of them were no longer download. Another problem with the audio section is, I will fully listen to episodes, but when I re-open the app some of those episodes are shown as only partially listened to. It doesn’t seem to do a very good job of tracking what I have played or have not played. And clearly I cannot download an episode indefinitely but I have no idea how long a download remains before they automatically clear it. I would like a download to remain downloaded until I choose to delete it. I would also like a fully played episode to be marked complete and archived. And finally, I would like to be able to sort within the app both the podcast episodes by title or date. And I would like to be able to sort the text posts by creator..KsattlerVersion: 8.9.8

✓ Dark mode?When are you guys adding dark mode? 2025?.Harry_cf2Version: 6.2.9

✓ DookiThe worst optimized app in the history of the app store. Absolute garbage. Which is a shame because Patreon is a great platform. Just mind-blowing that after all these years they still have not been able to make a good app. The app is still plagued by the same issues it had several years ago. Podcasts just randomly stop playing and have to force close the app several times to resume. Videos failing to load. Podcasts failing to download. Podcasts randomly turning themselves onto higher playback speed unprompted. The list goes on. These issues have all been around for years. Yet, instead of fixing them, the developers of the app seemingly just rebrand the app - changing to logo and UI - instead of actually fixing apps..Blitzgreg88Version: 8.11.3

✓ Great concept, poor executionI’m so happy to be a patron of the podcasts I love, but accessing their content is so difficult. 1. There’s no way (that I’ve been able to find) to separate feeds of the podcasts I patronize by individual podcast without going first to my membership tab. 2. Can only sort by “posts” and “audio,” no option to sort oldest to newest, newest to oldest, etc. 3. When I’m playing an episode, the progress bar in the feed does some crazy skipping around, changing the total time of the episode from 10 minutes to 25 hours to 4 hours (?!) 4. Can’t adjust time to skip ahead/go back, they’re both only 15 seconds. 5. When iPhone is locked, I’m unable to play from Lock Screen. I have to unlock phone, navigate to app, and play from there. 6. When I’m listening to an older episode and I open the app, it automatically goes to the newest posts so I have to navigate down almost every time I want to listen to the next episode in the list. 6. No option to go to next episode when on an audio post. 7. No search function on the main feed, have to browse to find what I’m looking for. I realize in the grand scheme of things these aren’t a huge deal, but this is a professional app and I expect professional quality. Certainly there are enough developers working for Patreon to fix these minor kinks and make the user experience infinitely better..Kittykat2727Version: 7.6.3

✓ Nice, but not perfectThe app is a massive improvement on the previous iteration - the functionality is great for sharing content and communicating with patrons. But it’s still not got all information you can access on the website version. I’d love to be able to use the app to access the names and addresses of patrons so I don’t need to log onto the site send swag out to them. But I do think it’s significantly helped my ability to upload extra bits and therefore add value to my offering..EarivirVersion: 8.12.18

✓ Can’t log in with email at all.Useless as I cannot access my account through the app. Love the site though!.PassAPoppVersion: 5.5.2

✓ No FunctionalityI recently signed up for a podcast on patreon. I normally listen to podcasts on stitcher as it’s a simple easy experience. But this one won’t show up for me On stitcher, so I have to go through the patreon app. Unfortunately the person I’ve subscribed to has 400 podcasts and the one I’m trying to listen to is one of the first. I can get to it by searching for it on a web browser. But when I try to play it through a web browser (on the official site!) the podcast literally stops every 30 seconds. However I also can’t get it to open in the app. I can find no search function for specific episodes in the app. No list function. No favorite function that would show me even the ones I favorite on this app. The only way I can tell to get to this podcast in this app is literally to scroll through a feed of 400 podcasts which only load 10 at a time. Am I missing something or is this seriously how this app functions? It doesn’t function at all? I can’t believe how much time I’ve already wasted just trying to get a podcast I payed for already to play. Definitely no functionality allowing me to message the creator either. I can’t believe this is supposed to be the official app of a platform supposedly about helping creators easily connect with their audiences..EnforcednicknameVersion: 5.1.25

✓ Everything was great… then the update happenedI literally cannot open the app without it crashing. I have tried shutting off my phone, deleting and reinstalling the app etc etc and every time I click on it I think maybe it will work this time but I have to end up going to my safari to look at my Patreon content. Some of the features available on the actual website don’t even exist on the app which is frustrating too but I believe the main issue is the constant crashing that makes it useless. Please fix this so I can give it 5 stars bc once it does work it’s great!.Senshine0Version: 8.9.27

✓ PodcastsI thought I would have more access to the podcasts then I do..Cher8to8Version: 9.1.12

✓ The app is garbage.Search functionality is terrible(and nonexistent when trying to search through a creator’s feed). Playback functionality is terrible, downloading content fails constantly, and even when “successful” refuse to play. No native video player, and mediocre/awful integration of Vimeo. I want to keep supporting my creators but this app makes it nearly impossible to justify spending money on content I may or may not be able to access. I’ve been using this platform for several years and still no significant improvements. Very disappointing. Update: I’m literally trying to subscribe to a creator but I can’t. I can’t find it in the app, I can find it on a browser, but the browser won’t allow me to sign in, it also won’t allow me to address my sign in problems(like a ‘Forgot your Password?’-type solution). There is literally no way for me to support the creator I care about or access their content. This is an absurd failure in every level of your system. Please pass this on to your developers and chief executives. How can you grow without supporting the end-user patrons? How do you even continue to exist when a patron can’t support a new creator? Fix this..HonestlyReally223Version: 4.8.23

✓ No Functionality for CreatorsAs a Patreon creator I was look for the ability to have some functionality for managing my Patreon creator account. This app has ZERO functionality for this. The description is false. Beware. It is 100% for Patrons supporting creators. That’s great for Patrons, but Patreon might want to consider providing mobile support for their actual customers..M FiveVersion: 5.6.12

✓ Some glitchesWhile it is nice to be able to see what the creators posted without having to open the website, there are some drawbacks on the app. Unlike the website, the app doesn’t have a filter so there are times when you wouldn’t be able to see some of the contents from the creators if you were gone for a few weeks and the creators post multiple daily. There is also a glitch where the app will give you notifications stating that there are new or unseen contents from creators when I have already seen everything. And then there is also an overwhelming flood of notifications on your phone whenever the creators post contents for patrons of and you will see how the creators post something for all of the different tiers. That said, I still like the app quite a lot. I just hope that patreon fixes those glitches they have soon as they are bugging quite a lot..Alice4FunVersion: 3.9.21

✓ Great but could use improvementCould do with better and easier navigation on the mobile app. The website too to be honest, although it is slightly less annoying on there. On the mobile app it’s very annoying to have to go back through sometimes hundreds of posts to find something specific rather than just being able to either search for it or more playlisting or categorising options for creators to make their content easier to access or find..Bei97Version: 5.9.25

✓ Pause /resumeWouy Love to be able to leave and lock phone. Then come back and be on the same video and same spot.Gazza/reidVersion: 6.8.9

✓ MehUse it all the time and the content is great but the app is slow the videos don’t play properly when skipped ahead and you can’t scroll comments while watching a video....KyleirvingtahtahVersion: 5.11.17

✓ Good but where are the NSFW?Listen I’m a tad bit confused why I can’t view NSFW content. Literally the reason I downloaded the app is for this one person and I come to find I can not see their Patreon. Don’t get me wrong I love the concept just not everyone is getting credit and display just for having a few nude drawings or something creative that is expressing the person. I understand if it’s full blown inappropriate but for the sake of the creators that aren’t centred around inappropriate concepts I just want to help the people who dedicate a portion of their lives to entertain us. I spent close to an hour trying to figure out why I couldn’t find the person who I wanted to support and I just feel like this could have been organised a bit better..JustWantMyFreeContentBroVersion: 4.4.5

✓ Shocking AppThis is a terrible app. I have tried to use this so many times for ease with my Patron account and I keep giving up on it. When my creator send me a YT link I click on it and I am automatically signed out. I try the messages system to my creator and it is so awkward to scroll up and down. Then it said half the message had been sent so I sent it again and again and my creator received it 3 times despite me thinking it hadn’t been sent. It just makes things that should be so simple, difficult. So I have deleted it again and just correspond with my creator by email system. Please improve this app, I want to use it but it makes my blood boil with frustration..Dan F73Version: 6.1.25

✓ Needs Work-IMAGES ARE NOT BLURRY ENOUGHI am a creator who recently opened an account and thought the mobile should be just as functional but I was so wrong. Most of the features are halfway there or absolutely gone entirely. There is no way to fix or adjust my tiers. No option to change or edit my payout options and any posts I make disappear on the “post” page. And speaking of posts, the options are incredibly limited! You mean to tell me I CAN’T upload any videos from my mobile device, a device with a convenient camera option that almost anyone has access to? I don’t understand it. It is an incredibly clunky app and I hope that it gets fixed but judging from the other reviews, i won’t hold my breath. Edit: Now when I post my patron only posts, its public view is almost all the way visible???? All of the old pages have completely blurred out images for non-patrons and now you can practically see through my post! Outrageous, what is the point of having patrons pay for content you’re going to show them all anyway??? Why cant we CHOOSE how opaque the blurred image will be???.Vivix MettiVersion: 5.7.25

✓ Only giving it one star because of the app logoJust when you thought logo’s couldn’t get any more simplified.ZooieyRaeVersion: 8.10.6

✓ Absolute garbage app with no search functionThe single worst app on my phone. Would drop it like the hot garbage it is if it wasn’t the only place I could get the subscribed content I’m after. The worst search function in history with the title layout for downloads also equally unfriendly to the paying user. Why can’t we search for an episode in our own subscribed content???? Without manually scrolling through possibly hundreds of entries. You guys are having an absolute laugh. Sort it out..Captain GirkinVersion: 7.3.10

✓ Extremely buggyThings as simple as scrolling through creator posts cause bizarre offset bugs, or straight up crashes in many cases. Opening files that previously worked before the redesign crash outright too. The provided web browser is also severely lacking standard features and should just open in the native browser. Considering how clunky the web interface is on mobile devices I can’t really use it as an alternative, so I’m paying for a service I can barely use. I can’t recommend the platform in its current state..Panic at todiscoVersion: 4.12.7

✓ Good but pointlessThe app works but you can’t really do much with it, just write up a post and reply to messages. It’s kinda annoying you have to use other social medias to promote yourself, it’s such a needless hassle, so I don’t really understand the point of tags on your posts either lol oh well But, if you aren’t posting softcore p@rn don’t bother with patreon unless you already have a large enough following..CoediannaVersion: 7.11.16

✓ Why is this app rated so highly? Use the website...I seriously don’t understand why this app is rated so highly. It’s pretty terrible from both a usability aspect as well design and maybe even coding. It never correctly shows you how many creators/artists you’re supporting. It’s high near impossible to change your tier level or cancel. It’s very confusing. There are parts of the app that clearly kick you out the website, which is fine, but sometimes you’re literally entering in the same information in the app just to be sent to a webpage with blanks! Looking for someone in particular? Good luck with that, since the search function isn’t good at finding people. One of the nice things about the app, is that you can actually download certain files. They remain inside the app to prevent you pirating out to the rest of the internet, which I completely understand. However, every time they change app, or change the website too I think, all your downloads disappear. Good luck finding them again! At least they’re slowly fixing app, bug by bug, to their credit. The app finally handles playing videos well. Turning your phone to horizontal and back during videos caused problems, but no longer. Still, the app is really not ready and seems like it’s stuck in beta testing. You’re better off just going to the Patreon website..XanthinesVersion: 4.11.26

✓ BugsThe app crashes when I try to search. If I want to look at older content I have to scroll and scroll..SimphonieaVersion: 5.4.6

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