Pocket FM: Audio Series 17+

Great App

So this is a great app with a lot of stories on it. I’m confident that everyone will find something that interests them up here. I do love that all of the stories I have listened to so far gives you a good amount of chapters for free so you can get a sense of if this story is really for you. Fair warning there are some stories that get really long (1000+ ch) and if you’re like me and can’t wait to find out what happens next, you can pay to unlock the next chapter but that can get a little pricey. Most stories will let you unlock a certain amount of chapters daily for free, I suspect using ads to offset the cost. I will admit the timing of the ads can be a bit annoying, often triggering mid-sentence in a story. There is a VIP coin package that disables ads for a certain period of time. I like listening to the stories while driving so If that interruption bothers you I would recommend getting the package if it’s in your budget. But overall very good app and the only criticism I have is I would like to see more customization options for arranging favorite stories in my collection/library. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Not bad but needs improvement

Developers have made it so that when you are using coins, the story continues without letting you authorize it so it will continue spending your coins unknowingly to yourself.
Developers have also gotten rid of the X, which would allow you to stop something from playing. You’re only allowed to pause it not having an )x button does not allow you to close it out/stop it.
Seems like they’re doing more and more little things like this, where you cannot have control of when to end the story, or stop a story from playing that you don’t want to hear, or spend coins on. (I feel it is sneaky and underhanded schemes.)
Coins are spermatic sometimes people get free coins when a story ends and sometimes they don’t- there’s seems to be no stability with coins being given.
They’re also is no easy way to cancel a subscription! 🤬I believe this is done on purpose. A lot of underhanded things going on with the app, which is quite sad because some of the stories are enjoyable. There is a lot more I could say, but as you’re going down this journey of listening to stories on your own, you will come across them yourself. The ones I have mentioned are the ones that have upset me the most. I don’t have a problem with spending coins, but I have a problem with the app make it difficult for me to choose when I want to use my coins.

It’s pretty okay, pretty good 👍

Okay so this app is okay. The stories seem interesting and I love listening to these when I do dishes, but I have a question. So I clicked on a vip story and I thought I had to pay like coins because I read some reviews, but it didn’t charge me anything. Im a bit uncomfortable because I don’t want it to charge me after the whole story finishes. So please let me know if I pay or not. Okay now I have a problem. So I read review of someone who had the same problem. I clicked on the app one day and all the stories including the free stories on my for you page were gone. Nothing showed there and now I read the vip stories. I still have a free story i’m reading though, but I need that to be fixed. I tried deleting the app but that didn’t work and now I’m upset. I kept the app and still listen to stories but it would be amazing to get that fixed. Im not logged in so maybe that’s the prob but I don’t really want to log in. If that’s the case, let me know please. Thank you for listening and hearing me out. Edit: I found out that I need to pay with coins to listen to the whole story. I can also listen to vip stories.
Edit: I don’t think I wrote this but I actually really like this app and all my problems are solved, I have no problems in this app so yeah.
Thank you for responding to me!

Developer Response ,

Hello there, We apologize for any inconvenience that you faced with respect to coins. The coins system is a pay-per-usage model plan which helps you to select and hear the stories that you love instead of purchasing an entire plan like a subscription. Please write to us at care+1657710072@pocketfm.com and we assure you that we will solve the issue at the earliest.