Bullhorn Podcast App & Player 12+

Easy to use and had speech to text transcript feature

I tried a handful of top ranked apps and while many were indeed good, I ended up settling with Shoutout. Some of the features I like: variable speeds for playback, sleep timer, transcript feature, seeing podcasts episodes with descriptions and time aired, and ease of use. Looks nice and clean too.

Areas to improve:
1 Add actual date of episode airing, not "7 months ago" etc. Episodes released on the same day can appear out of order. Maybe additionally number the episodes. May help with item below as well.
2 "Autoplay next episode" feature is buggy. Either doesn't work, or sometimes adds episodes in reverse order (may depend on if you have the episodes listed oldest vs most recent first)
3 Add an ability to "hide" or unhide episodes (versus deleting them completely) from your subscription.
4 consider adding an ability to record part of the audio to share (some other apps do offer this and it's a cool way to share a particular part of the podcast, rather than just linking to the whole thing)
5 given the already existing transcript feature, would love the ability to automatically pull up Wikipedia or IMDb articles on relevant people or events in the podcast. This is a cool feature in Entale podcast app for example, and the reason I keep it downloaded on my phone (to automatically pull up info on participants in NPR wait wait don't tell me, for example).

Thanks.

Developer Response ,

Wow, what a great review you just made my day.. Thank you for all the wonderful feedback and for using Bullhorn. #1, #2, and #3 will all be implemented in our next release in September. #4 and #5 will take some more work and discussion from our team about how we complete these features.

Keep on using the app and please don't be shy to offer anymore suggestions.

WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?

I’m not a big user yet…just started listening to podcasts a few months ago but am getting a lot out of a couple. Did trials w/the two big name providers, did not enjoy the interfaces, and didn’t renew. Bullhorn has everything I’m looking for, including my 2 favs, plus the brilliant listen-by-phone feature I’ve seen nowhere else. I tried it a couple times; sound quality was def. lower. But love the concept (duh!) and option, and of course, the FREE price…That’s all w/no more (fewer?) ads than the big 2. Best of all—if there can be better than something good that’s free—is that as far as I can tell, it’s neither Apple, Bezos, Google, Microsoft, nor Zuckerberg, meaning I get to feel better about the world and my place in it while listening. SOLD ;-).

Developer Response ,

Thank you Punknhead! We truly appreciate your support.

Not working:: Updated!

Edit: I deleted the app and reinstalled so it is now working. Not sure what may have caused it. But here a note to anyone having this issue. Create an account before you delete your app so you don’t lose all your saved pods. Thanks

Since the version update last week, the app will open but nothing comes up it’s completely blank. I’ve been checking all week for an update to the update, but nothing yet. The app has always worked flawlessly and never had a bug, so I’m positive it was the last update that killed it. Please release a fix.