Network - Podcast App App Reviews

Small but powerful

The only function that is holding back the 5th star is the lack of video support. I subscribe to video podcasts as well as audio, and without the video functionality, I would need two apps installed, which defeats the purpose. If you only listen to audio podcasts, this is a beautiful app and I highly recommend it. Hopefully the developer will incorporate video functionality in the future

This app is very clean and straightforward to use, once youre familiar with its interface. Simplicity is its obvious core competency, which is a blessing and a curse. If your needs are limited to playing, pausing, or scrubbing through a podcast episode, whether streamed or downloaded, this is the app for you. If you want to do anything else with podcasts to which youve subscribed, like make a playlist or sort podcast or episode order, find a different app. I give it four stars for frank presentation of its limits and beauty of design. I leave one star off because it lacks discoverability of certain features in the name of simplicity.

This podcast app had a real look and feel of OS7. Very simple to use and everything is done in the background. Defines true design and use.

Very simple and clean app.

Search, subscribe to podcasts you love and listen. No tweaking required.

Simple app that does what it is supposed to. I have recently become dissatisfied with the native podcast app and so far this is a great step in the right direction.

This app is excellent but its missing one thing: it needs to give users the ability to share a podcast with friends somehow. Via email or whatever method... Otherwise it would have received a 5 star rating from me.

I downloaded this and found no way to import an OPML file. So I went to downcast and exported into Network. It found all the podcasts, but only downloaded three out of 21. The next day, when 16 more were updated, it did not download them or make their icon color. Tapping on a greyed out icon I found previous episodes which I could stream, but not download. It could not find today’s episodes on over half of my podcasts. I know they can be found because downcast found them and downloaded them just fine. So I think this needs work or instructions. Since it will not find and download all my podcasts, it is useless.

The app is very simple and does not have any options to configure. Subscribe to podcasts, play them, and view show notes. This is what the app is all about. The only issue I have is the black background makes it difficult to see some links in the show notes, which are dark blue.

Network strips away the excessive drill downs to functionality most podcast apps have. Its just beautifully, quietly designed. Its so simple and clean, and yet it could still use a small tour of how it works. This is an impressive, solid, effort. One I imagine will only get better.

Wish it allowed me to download select episodes of podcasts and hide the remainder. Otherwise its a nice app.

It does what it aims to do, which is to provide a minimalistic podcast experience. However, options are not a bad thing. I gave it a shot but prefer the options provided by downcast.

… And I think Ive tried all of them by now. This one is clearly superior. Simple, straightforward, and high-quality sound with very few dropouts. Unlike most of the junk podcast apps that are out there now, this one seems to have been designed and implemented by people who actually use it and thus have pinpointed the problems that the rest of us now dont have to deal with. One caveat: since I updated to IOS 7.1, I seem to be having a few more problems streaming a file, but I havent finished testing that yet. Will do an update when I discover more.

Good: clean UI. Super easy to use. Bad: Spacehog! How can I manually delete? I have 500mb of unwanted podcasts. Battery hog! No settings to adjust how often it accesses the internet etc. Bottom line: great at first. Will most likely delete app if space and battery issues continue.

I use this app daily to listen to many different podcasts. I love the design, and the ease of use. This app does everything I need it to do, and looks great doing it. Highly recommended!

Its a simple podcast and I absolutely love it. Its definitely user friendly and overall its an amazing app. However, I do wish it supported videos.

Pros: I really like the simple UI. Flawless playback. Its never glitched or crashed on my 4S and 5S Cons: The new que feature isnt my favorite cause it just ques the next downloaded podcast instead of queuing the next episode of the podcast youre listening to. I want the que to be easier to edit. Maybe add a select all feature? It downloads duplicate podcasts. I has 96 new episodes from the same podcast 3 days in a row. This is my favorite app but with a few tweaks itd be perfect!

Simple. Easy. Clean. It just works well. Search function works well too. One of the best apps on my phone.

how useless this is.