5 stars: I recently switched to this podcasting app and really enjoy it. It lets me create playlists off my downloads. It shows me new episodes but once viewed it doesn't keep them flagged just because I haven't listened to them. I find it visually appealing. The suggested podcasts have been pretty intriguing too. I downloaded this a few days ago and use it for my 2 hour commute to work. Been content with it so far.
4 stars: Love the app and all the features it has, but the app crashes SOOO often (like more than every 5 minutes) when it is not on screen (when you are listening to a podcast but looking at something else). This needs to be fixed! EDIT: App crashing seems to have at least partially resolved, I've added another star to my rating.
4 stars: My subscription suddenly ended before the actual date. And there is no way to contact. Problem solved. Tq
3 stars: Great potential, needs more work. I really love the UI and it seems like devs have already worked out a lot of the early bugs. Deal-breaker: downloading is incredibly slow. compared to any other podcast app, Himalaya takes easily 20 times longer to download an episode. Its unsustainable. Also missing: -The ability to manually hide/mark episodes in a show's list as
2 stars: Buggy, with some weird UX decisions. Most frustrating is that it regularly repeats audio, jumping back several seconds and playing forward again. Sometimes it plays the next episode, sometimes not. EDIT: That skipping issue is rea...