Apple Podcasts vs Amazon Music

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] Apple Podcasts 4/5 · US Great App! Just needs more video game choices.: I love it but I constantly need to look for more podcasts about games I like and some people add like one episode which is annoying.
2. [R3] Apple Podcasts 3/5 · US Love podcasts but this app is the bare minimum: The app itself could offer a far superior experience. They seem to only offer up Top Shows. Those are the easiest to find. Seems like it needs an overhaul so people can find shows they’ll like more easily.
3. [R4] Apple Podcasts 1/5 · US Can’t search for episodes: I can’t search any episodes for shows in this app. So if my favorite show had a topic or guest years ago, the only way to find that old one is to scroll and scroll and scroll. Crazy such a feature is missing.
4. [R7] Apple Podcasts 1/5 · US Do apple devs use this app?: This app lacks so many features other apps offer on their free tier. It makes it so confusing to listen to one podcast with only the unlistened episodes in any order new to old or old to new, it jumps to different podcasts when I want to listen a specific podcast episode after episode, it replays episodes I have already played…. I feel with a little bit of interest and
5. [R1] Apple Podcasts 1/5 · US Worst app ever made by Apple: Just try doing a search / it’s the biggest piece of trash you could ever imagine. It is absolutely unfathomable how something that is used by so many people can be so unbelievably useless for things like search. Literally everybody who worked on this app should be fired.
6. [R5] Apple Podcasts 4/5 · US Great but…: This app works great. I’ve been using it for a long time but recently it’s had this glitch where without me touching anything it starts speeding up first two times speed then four then eight then 16 etc., and the only way to stop it is to manually delete and reinstall the app
7. [R6] Apple Podcasts 3/5 · US Used to be better: Quit making changes! I use this app a lot. But now if I select one show from a podcast to download it leaves the podcast showing in my downloaded podcasts even though none are downloaded. I get tired of deleting and reloading the app.
8. [R9] Apple Podcasts 3/5 · US Has a few issues…: Podcasts have a tendency to not play on occasion, and on any kind of parental control/restricted mode, you can’t even listen to the clean episodes of a podcast if it has ONE explicit episode. Oof. You should at least be able to listen to the clean episodes. Also, the interface is pretty buggy, my settings for podcasts keep getting reset, especially the ones that dictate what e
9. [R10] Apple Podcasts 1/5 · US Not working: App doesn’t work welll
10. [R8] Apple Podcasts 5/5 · US Language development: This is the most helpful app that I’ve ever used for improving my English skills! Now i see myself using this app everyday. Is there any way to get rid of this addiction? Haha Please keep this app FREE!
11. [R21] Apple Podcasts 3/5 · US Great App: It’s a great app for podcasts to listen to work and other things but…. Currently for some reason I seem to be getting random ads while the podcast is in mid thought or sentence
12. [R22] Apple Podcasts 2/5 · US Commercial, commercials, and commercials.: It's been a while since I listened to a podcast on my iPhone using the Apple Podcasts app, and I honestly can’t take it anymore. The commercials crammed into a single podcast are beyond excessive. It completely ruins my listening experience. At what point does enough become enough? Does every app have to squeeze every possible dollar out of its users?
13. [R24] Apple Podcasts 3/5 · US Ad free subscription: It’s a good app that i use for all of my podcasts. But it has a problem with the placement of ads in the middle of sentences or other bad spots. Also the volume of the ads seems to be alot louder than the rest of the podcast. Why can’t this app communicate with apple music subscriptions and allow for an ad free podcast experience?
14. [R13] Apple Podcasts 1/5 · US Terrible: The Podcasts product owner does not use this application. It’s dog food. Eat it.
15. [R28] Apple Podcasts 2/5 · US This app could be so much more.: Why are you limiting this app Weirdos?? Put the features in that Every Other Podcast app has. Get it together.
16. [R31] Apple Podcasts 2/5 · US This app has become incredibly buggy.: For over a year this app has become more and more buggy, and as of writing this review it appears to be in the worst state ever. The app has become unresponsive and unusable. Transcripts are unusable and podcasts constantly fail to load. It's not being addressed.
17. [R65] Amazon Music 4/5 · US Amazon Music customer review.: Great music selection but I would only recommend this app if you are getting the paid for version as opposed to free as the in free version you can’t go backwards in a song to restart it and the adds are very frequent.
18. [R69] Amazon Music 3/5 · US Dislike Subscription Ads: I remember when I would ask Alexa to play a specific song by a specific artist, and it would play the song. At times, it’s telling me that in order to be able to do so I need to have the monthly subscription.
19. [R79] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Money Grab: At one time it was my goto music app. It was a minor inconvenience when songs went from free to behind a paywall, but that was alright. Plenty of others available. Now, I can’t download onto my phone for playing free of data usage. My playlists are automatically shuffled, sometimes with other music and no ability to start on the song I want. And now I can only skip a song 2 or3 times.
20. [R81] Amazon Music 3/5 · GB Too many adverts: Would be the best platform if it were not for the adverts. I don’t see why we should have to pay to have no adverts when already paying for Amazon prime membership etc etc
21. [R63] Amazon Music 3/5 · US No station shuffling: Wish we could shuffle stations. The app keeps shutting down randomly during music play and have to restart it. Other than that, it’s ok.
22. [R73] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Two-Song Wonder: It’s great if you want to pay a monthly fee to listen to 2, 3 if you’re lucky, songs before it just quits. Then, after trying again a few times, you give up and start using other streaming platforms. Then, you realize you’re paying Amazon a monthly fee to listen to Spotify or Apple Music. Soon, I wonder when, not if, we start being charged for browsing, every click, and for every
23. [R75] Amazon Music 3/5 · US Good but a little bit of bugs for me: It’s great and all but I get some bugs sometimes that’ll just make a weird sound and skip a song midway through. And for a while it would play around 20 seconds of a different song while still playing the original. Those bugs made it pretty annoying, but besides that the app is great.
24. [R90] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Poor: Not the best streaming service. It has locked ourselves in. It crashes often and if you want to skip too (max 6 I think) many songs, it will then try and make you upgrade.