ICatcher! Podcast Player Negative Reviews

ICatcher! Podcast Player App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

ICatcher! Podcast Player app received 14 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using ICatcher! Podcast Player? Can you share your negative thoughts about icatcher! podcast player?

ICatcher! Podcast Player for Negative User Reviews

✓ Very frustratingThis app does one thing very well: it does not collect your user data. Other than that, I’ve been using this for months now and it is very frustrating to use. It has a million features, but half of them don’t work consistently, and the other half are often quite confusing to figure out. For one thing, often it will decide that it can’t play an episode that you were in the middle of that you were previously playing. It will give you some error and ask you to re-download or force quit or just dismiss the error. Sometimes I’ve gotten it to play the episode later by deleting it and manually re-adding it to a podcast list. Other times that just doesn’t work and I just can’t listen to that episode ever again no matter what I try. It doesn’t have a basic recently played list. It has supposedly that will auto fill, but this also doesn’t actually capture all of the episodes you may have recently played. It will randomly tell you that a podcast you were subscribe to isn’t available. This just scratches the surface. I really wanted to like it, because I believe it’s the only one that I found that doesn’t collect my user data. But it has a lot of problems, and the fact that I’ve just spent the last 15 minutes trying to get it somehow to play the episode I was in the middle of the other day, makes me want to delete it entirely. I think it’s time for me to search again for another player..Wg.annaVersion: 6.8.3

✓ Buggy and unresponsiveI loved this app. iCatcher was the best podcast app by far. Since the last update, ICatcher has new bugs. If you go into individual podcast settings, it’s set to download every episode of the podcast without limit. When you set limits on it and save it, the changes are never saved. It goes back to unlimited podcasts episodes on every podcast. That comes with associated errors related to “too many downloads.“ If you could actually change the settings in such a way that it would save, thatwould help. Likewise, unsubscribing to a podcast does nothing. It continues to be subscribed and as noted above, it continues unlimited downloads. Please fix this..FarmboyphotographyVersion: 7.0

✓ Was great, now has bugsBeen my go to podcast app for years and been 5 star. Recently has stopped playing when on Lock Screen or when opening up another app (not audio related). Tried switching phone off. Deleted app and reinstalled and going through all podcasts to add - worked great again for a few days now same issue happening again. Please create bug fix and app update..VitomacVersion: 8.2.6

✓ CONSTANT CrashingI’ve had this app for years, and it is so much better than anything else out there, but it CONSTANTLY crashes. The last 3-6 months have been so frustrating. Start a show, close the screen, pocket and start dishes - multiple crashes over the next 5 minutes. I’m so close to switching, but argh, overall the app is so much better UI, functions, etc. than alternatives. The crashing is killing me though….BSwitchVersion: 8.1.2

✓ Good customization options but misses key elementsThis a good podcast app with many customization options, in fact too many, which can be confusing. It would be my go to app for podcasts if it had a Play Next queue that you could organize. Without it, you are limited to playing podcast episodes from playlists, or one episode at a time from the podcast subscription. I also find it confusing the way it adds all downloaded episodes when you create a new playlist, before you select the podcasts you want to include in the playlist, its not intuitive. If they improve these areas, this could be the best podcast app right now, it has some other nice features, like the well designed use of gestures to handle playback..Don GamaVersion: 5.2.1

✓ Lots of features. Complicated UIICatcher is packed full of features. More features than I’ve found in any other podcast player, which is great. But as a result, the UI and settings are pretty complicated and sometimes difficult to figure out. Some things could easily be improved, such as allowing us to set podcast priorities using simple drag-and-drop, rather than painstakingly going to each podcast’s settings and tapping the up/down arrows a million times. And it requires like 5 steps to re-download and re-play an episode that I previously listened to. That should be a single-tap thing. Other parts of the app are just a bit outdated and reflect how old the app is. For example, iCatcher came out before iOS had emojis, so it has a small set of a few dozen icons that you can select for playlists. A more modern app would let you choose an emoji instead, which is both easier and has many more options to choose from..BigstickCarpetVersion: 6.4.3

✓ BrokenImpossible to load new podcasts… It worked well in the past but now the app is completely useless. I can’t recommend this to anyone..Amaruq05Version: 7.0.3

✓ Nice app, but……why does not allow to stream the podcasts on the Apple Watch??.JjulianFVersion: 7.6.3

✓ Broken nowOnly all I have that started almost perfect and got worse with each update. Now unusable. Latest break: importing OPML doesn’t work. Good luck adding your 70 podcasts individually on a new phone..CenprimeVersion: 6.2

✓ Works, but no real iPad interfaceThe interface for iPad is really just a stretched iPhone interface..Rdwill75Version: 1.7.6.5

✓ Crashes!!It crashes nearly every time I try to use.Tyler.sk.31Version: 2.9.3

✓ Annoying New Issue***Newest update unfortunately has not fixed the issue. Still exactly the same as it was...appreciate it being addressed, even if it’s still a problem at current. Attempting to drag and drop within a playlist to change the order of episodes appears to now be broken... it exits the app and sends you back to the iPhone menu... or it simply puts the item you just dragged and dropped back where it was and won’t change anything. This is hugely frustrating and has just begun happening over the past month. One addition I would love to see added is for an option for episodes to begin at the first bookmark rather than the start...I bookmark the beginning of main content to try and avoid the ads or the fluff I’m not interested in, and it would be great to have the app immediately go to my bookmark when each new episode begins. I’ve used iCatcher for several years and it will always be my go to... each problem (or which there have been very few) gets resolved quickly. I have no doubts that will happen again and I will bump back to five stars..JMartRadioVersion: 5.2.1

✓ This is a good podcast app with minor flawsTwo things drew me to this app: it’s a one-time purchase, and it doesn’t collect data about me. Everyone else wants a subscription. ICatcher is a full-featured podcast that does everything I want, like automatically check for new episodes and add them to my playlist, has a search feature to find and subscribe to new podcasts, has an in-app browser, everything you’d expect. There are some minor irritations. Every once in a while, it redownloads old episodes I’ve already listened to, marks them unplayed, and adds them to my playlist. Also, I have a few podcasts that I’m catching up on and don’t want the newest episodes automatically added to my commuting playlist, and while it odd easy to exclude those podcast episodes from being automatically added to the playlist, I also can’t manually add episodes from the excluded podcasts. I’m pretty sure that’s a bug. I emailed the developer through the feedback option in the app, but I haven’t gotten a response. As I said, I like the one-time purchase, but I also like the tip jar, and I plan to use it. I’m glad Apple copied that from Windows Phone’s App Store. It’s a great way to support developers without being forced into a subscription..TNITEAATAVersion: 7.6.3

✓ Buggy and lacks finishIt's a shame that podcast subscriptions are not built into iOS iTunes so apps like this are necessary. Unfortunately this one is a buggy and lacks finish. Of the 10 or so podcast I've tried to download only 5 were successful. The rest failed with a generic error message. While searching within the application, creating playlist etc. the application will try to use the audio API and interrupt anything else that is playing. I don't recommend this App..BthubbardVersion: 1.0.1

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