Reviews for Himalaya: Stories and Courses

I wanted to like this app. For a while it was the best damn podcast catcher out there. But the updates have ruined it. Notifications cannot be turned off. Ever. The setting to turn them off flips itself back on. It literally wo t let you turn off recomendations. That setting also forces itself on. […]

Really good but managing the actual pod cast episodes is clunky. It would be a lot better and I would completely switch if it was easier. I don’t want to have to click on each episode, swiping or holding and selecting would be better. If there is a way to do it then it in […]

There’s so much missing here. I don’t need saved playlists. I’m not going back and re-listening to hour long episodes in a particular order. I just need a single playlist of queued, downloaded tracks to continuously listen without having to find the next when one ends. Don’t redownload an episode I’ve heard, it should remove […]

I do like the app and UI but for some reason my podcasts (all of them) are skipping back 20 seconds or so at least once or twice every commute (usually between 30 and 45 minutes). That is kind of annoying. Also, I just got a new phone and it did that for me on […]

I love the way this app is laid out. It also has a dark background making it a lot easier on the eyes. I do have to force stop it to make it close so that I can download an episode for offline use. It will sometimes say it needs internet access to download even […]

Ok app. Scratching my head with some of the recommendations. Can’t turn off the bubble that shows when a new episode has posted. Half of the new episodes are nothing but a commercial for a new podcast. I recently updated to the most recent version. Now when I pause a podcast and then resume, a […]

The Himalaya built-in timer to stop playing does not work consistently, sometimes it will run through the whole night waking me up, even though I had set up the timer to stop after 1 hour or so. It also would not stop with an external sleep timer. Once the phone screen is timed out and […]

Would be great if worked right. I finally gave up on this app and wrote some feedback to them awhile ago but didn’t hear anything back. When listening through a Bluetooth device(headphones, car, etc ) if you pause it for a few seconds then play it again it will not stay playing. You have to […]

As of this moment, after using this app for roughly 3 years, I’m switching to another podcatcher. The app constantly messes up (such as needing an internet connection to play a previously downloaded episode), doesn’t actually get a lot of podcasts others do, keeps trying to stay on when I close the app, refuses to […]

I found out about this app from a commercial break during Harmontown, and I’m really liking it so far. Though, it would be nice if I could change the auto play from top-to-bottom to bottom-to-top. I know I can change the order of newest to oldest, but that requires moving to the right page. Yeah, […]

With each update the app is becoming worse. When you go to the homepage of a subscribed show, there’s no way to tell if you have already downloaded a certain episode. And to download a show you have to click three times. Plus there’s no way to change the order of the downloaded episodes. I […]

Everything is laid out well, easy to access a lot of features. My only peeve is that the sleep timer won’t work on the “after current episode ends” setting. So sometimes I wake up and had supposedly listened to three more episodes. This is only a minor inconvenience to me because my phone is left […]

I like the user interface, but it is designed to be a streaming app, and does not allow downloads to be stored anywhere but on the phone’s internal memory. Because of that, this app isn’t going to work for me. Streaming expects continuous connection, horsepower and unlimited data. I have spotty reception, an older phone […]

I downloaded the app because a few of the podcasts I listen to were sponsored by it. For them, I’m going to give this app a solid chance, however there are a few things that really do not work for me: – there is no option to sort the podcasts (oldest to newest, etc…) – […]

Great app, super smooth UI, easy to use. There are two reasons I alwaays uninstalll and go back to Castbbox. 1. The only auto-download option is 3 episodes. Most of my podcasts are current events driven such that I almost never need 3. 2. The speed adjuster only increases in elements of .25. I’d love […]

Stuck in download hell Nice looking, user friendly app but it’s far perfect. This player definitely has potential but it’s missing some key features. There’s no way download progress bar. Only a tiny circle that you have to go into the app to see. Not to mention downloading takes FOREVER. Which wouldn’t be the worst […]

Love the ease of finding any podcast I’m looking for. I like the ability to create lists and to find others’ lists. However, it is very quirky and frustrating at times. Glitches when playing. Sometimes it just goes blank for minutes at a time. (Even if connected through wi-fi.) Now it refuses to even load. […]

I love a lot of the podcasts here, but I have some complaints. It’s very difficult/confusing to add private podcasts (like NoSleep subscriptions), when an episode of a podcast is longer than 45 minutes the app seems to pause and skip or shut down completely, and I don’t like that you can’t add an episode […]

I’ve tried just about all of the free podcast players on Google and this one ranks right at the top. Beautiful UI, seamless playback, and a seemingly unending catalog of podcasts. The only thing I could ask for is the ability to import rss feeds by URL, a sound equalizer, and for it to have […]

Inadequate app compared to the Chinese version. I had the Chinese version, but because of current regulations in the US, a lot of features were made unavailable and I had to switch to the international version. There is no genre options to choose from, so browsing is difficult. If I want to listen to anything […]