AppRecs review analysis
AppRecs rating 4.8. Trustworthiness 65 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 23 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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4.8
AppRecs Rating
Ratings breakdown
5 star
75%
4 star
25%
3 star
0%
2 star
0%
1 star
0%
What to know
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Low review manipulation risk
23% review manipulation risk
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High user satisfaction
75% of sampled ratings are 5 stars
About Lysten: Podcast Player
Share episodes and shows with anyone, irregardless if they have the app downloaded or not. Any iPhone and iPad user will get an AppClip to get them started listening right away. Tap the share button to invite your friends and loved ones.
Lysten is a light-weight and privacy focused Podcast Player. Your followed Podcasts and Episode progress are synced using your private iCloud account. This means that there's simply no way for us to see what you follow, listen to or anything else you might do in our app. We do collect crash reports do make sure the app is as stable as possible, but these reports are anonymous and can't be tracked back to you.
Features:
- Interactive widgets showing your feed and unfinished episodes. Catch up where you left off with a tap.
- Download episodes to listen offline, long press an episode and select Download.
- No registration, sync is made using your iCloud account
- Extremely lightweight
- Sleep timer, set, enjoy & sleep
- Play speed, adjust the play rate to your preference
- Podcasts and Episodes are indexed in Spotlight
- SharePlay support, listen to episodes with friends and family
- Privacy focused
- Written in 100% SwiftUI
If you run into any trouble you or have any questions, please reach out to us your preferred way:
- E-mail: support@ambi.se
- X (Twitter): @ambiApps
- Mastodon: @ambiApps@mastodon.social
Privacy policy: https://ambi.se/privacy
Terms of use: https://ambi.se/terms
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Reviews for Lysten: Podcast Player
tevaliaracks
User privacy business model!!!
First, love to support developers that make software like you’re doing, that make a real attempt to respect users. Love the minimalist approach. Simple, looks great, yet isn’t full of “busy” menus, links, or an overemphasis on externals/appearances over function that works smoothly for how users actually use podcast apps. However, there are still some functional elements that keep me from freely using this app. There are some unhandled exceptions, that appear to make the app crash/close. I’ve noticed this on occasion i think when interacting with download episodes, or switching between episodes and podcasts. Don’t have it zeroed in when it happens exactly. I’d like to have some visible que to let me know that new episodes are available for a particular podcast, or maybe a visible mark on new episodes in the podcast listing so you know which are new or unlisted to. I’d like to be able to at least manually refresh podcasts to check for new episodes, whether it’s simply being able to pull down on the podcasts list or an option in a quick menu. There’s no indicators or way of checking that new episodes are available. I’ve noticed after selecting episodes to download that they sometimes disappear from the download list and I have to go back through the podcasts and download those episodes again. That’s a fairly significant deterrent for me to use this app. Basically, I love the appearance and simplicity of this app, but would love just a few basic user functions that could be included in the current interface that would give it better functionality without changing how it is now. Of course, there are some bugs that appear to need to be worked out.
