Fountain: Podcasts & Music 12+
Audio powered by community
Fountain Labs Ltd.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Fountain connects a global community of fans with millions of podcasts and emerging music artists.
WHY LISTENERS LOVE FOUNTAIN:
• Support your favourite podcasts and music artists directly by sending a payment from the player
• Top up in seconds with your credit card or transfer funds from apps like CashApp, Coinbase or Strike
• Join in the conversation with podcast hosts, music artists and other fans in the comments
• Share podcast clips with your followers or save them as videos to post on any social media app
• Create playlists and explore curated collections on diverse topics and music genres
• Follow your friends to see their latest activity in your feed and discover new music and podcasts
• Get paid by other listeners when they like your clips, comments or playlists
• Every day you have the chance to earn just for listening to podcasts or promoted episodes
FLOWING WITH FEATURES:
• Listen to any podcast and music live, offline or in the car with CarPlay
• Automatically build a playback queue of your favourite shows synced across all devices
• Navigate podcast chapters effortlessly and enjoy custom chapter artwork
• Search accurate podcast transcripts for every episode in all languages
• Enable or disable notifications to be the first to know when new episodes are released
• Create custom filters for the podcasts you follow and personalise your library view
• Choose your auto-downloads, auto queue and playback speed preferences for each podcast
• Import your followed shows from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast and other podcast apps via OPML
FOUNTAIN FOR PODCASTERS & MUSIC ARTISTS:
• Give listeners a way to show their support that is frictionless and fun with no commitments
• Share earnings with your collaborators - just invite them to Fountain and add them to your splits
• Chat to your fans and get feedback on your latest podcast episodes or new music releases
• Grow your podcast and reach new audiences - give listeners the tools to spread the word
What’s New
Version 1.1.9
Fountain 1.0 is our biggest design and user experience upgrade to date. The update brings usability improvements across the app along with some new features including:
* A stylish player design that gives you quick access to powerful features
* A new library design that makes it easier to find and organise your content
* A better way to share, discover and listen to clips from podcasts
* A clean home feed design that surfaces conversations happening right now
* A new and improved playlist feature for episodes, tracks and clips
Ratings and Reviews
Love what it stands for
Shame the app is still somewhat buggy in plenty of places, the odd crash/freeze here, the odd feature or two not working over there.
UI is not very intuitive and feels a bit all over the place…
However don’t let that put you off, hopefully a few polished updates this year will get this there.
Overall love what this stands for and giving you the ability to interact with the show so much easier.
Clunky
I was excited to try a new podcast app and this fitted the bill from the description.
However it’s not for me. Importing podcasts from another podcast app did not work, this was a tedious task to search and add all of the podcasts I follow manually.
It doesn’t download new episodes in the way I expected. When I opened the app nothing downloads. I checked back in another podcast app and new episodes appeared immediately. There’s no “refresh” like other apps.
I changed my settings to only download only over Wi-Fi, but after my internet was turned off for the night, I happened to check my Lock Screen and saw two new episodes of a podcast that were then downloading when I opened the app.
You can’t skip first or last like other podcast apps either.
You also can’t mark as played episodes, when you look at a podcast all episodes show regardless of what you may or may not have listened too.
I’m sticking with PocketCasts but may check Fountain again in the future to see of there have been any updates.
Strange layout with queue and episodes, surely this is the same thing? Couldn’t create playlists without premium.
Developer Response ,
Hey Tammie - thanks for your constructive feedback.
We have just tested the import function again on the latest version (0.7.9) and everything is working correctly. Sorry it wasn't working for you!
If you have auto-download turned on, new episodes from shows you follow will be downloaded as long as you have a connection and have the app open in the foreground (we will add background downloads very soon!).
When you open the app, new episodes from shows you follow will automatically be fetched. Since your feedback, we changed the logic here to ensure this happens 100% of the time as in some cases new episodes were slow to appear in the app. You can pull down on your library to manually fetch new episodes too!
Regarding skip first / last, are you referring to skipping intros and outros? We can certainly add support for this feature.
We recently introduced mark episode as played and this is now live in the latest version.
Regarding layout and general UX, we will be making some major improvements here in the next couple of months. If you have any specific needs or suggestions, please email us at hello@fountain.fm and we will definitely take them into consideration.
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and we hope we see you back on Fountain soon!
Great Potential
The idea to earn sats for listening to podcasts sounds perfect. Unfortunately, there’s no rhyme or reason to when you’ll gain sats or absolutely zero. It’s a new app, so some bugs are to be expected.
It’s good that you can tell broadcasters about the app and encourage them to link to Fountain. This enables listeners to send sats back to their favourite show.
One area of real concern is how hot the iPhone becomes while using the app. What is it doing to my processor? Why is it working so hard? When people have approached the company about this on social media, no answers have been forthcoming.
Developer Response ,
Hey Kinswah - sorry to leave you hanging. We've been working hard to address all of the issues that users have been reporting over the last few weeks and we hope you will find that the app is now significantly improved compared to last year. Earnings are more reliable and the overheating issue is under control. We hope you will consider giving Fountain another go.
App Privacy
The developer, Fountain Labs Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Fountain Labs Ltd.
- Size
- 105.2 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
- Copyright
- © Fountain Labs Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Fountain Premium £2.99