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Podcast apps: 3 product opportunities

134 people left one-to-three-star reviews or posts about podcast tools that say something someone else also said. Grouped, that is 3 distinct repeated complaints; the strongest scores 81 out of 100.

Apps in the evidence

The apps these complaints were written about, by low-star reviews in our sample.

The opportunities, ranked

1. 0181Podcast app with reliable playback progress saving129
2. 0248Locked — subscribe to read this opportunity3
3. 0345Locked — subscribe to read this opportunity2

Score out of 100, then the number of people who said it. The top complaint in every category is shown in full; the rest, with the reviews behind them and the score breakdown, are Pro.

What they complain about

• Too many ads×2
• Subscribed podcasts disappeared
• Queue reorganizes unexpectedly
• Queue gets deleted repeatedly
• Pop-ups and ads that lock the app requiring restart
• No way to remove unwanted podcasts
• Missing bulk add-to-queue functionality
• Malicious pop-up ads at sign-in designed to force accidental presses