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. Additionally, the playback sucks now too. A steadily worsening problem is podcasts skipping back 1-3 mins, randomly. Even more damning, episodes will often refuse to play entirely, even on wi fi.

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 not intuitive. Other than that I really do like the app and the recomended podcasts section is the best and most accurate I have seen

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 from playlist after playing. Where are settings for aux/Bluetooth controls/disconnect? Nothing is sorted anywhere by any attribute. Seeing newest first would be ideal.

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 iPhone as well as on my new Pixel 3XL. The iPhone native app that I used before switching to Himalaya didn't do that.

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 though it has it. It does appear to feature self-help and famous people podcasts, but other podcasts can be searched. It would be nice to see the occasional audio drama featured.

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 random episode begins playing and I have to stop and go back to the episode list and find the episode I was listening to. Going to go back to iheart soon, as much as I don't like them better than himalaya

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 locked, the timer would not work. I emailed Himalaya support as instructed, but no response whatsoever, very disappointed.

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 kill the app to get it to play through the episode.

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 let me see more than 15 shows (I follow 181, even if they didn't update I like re-listening)

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, I know that sounds lazy, but it would make things easier. It would also be nice to access the sleep timer from the Notification UI. Anyway, overall a great podcast app!