TAG · 13 REVIEWS
Podcasts
Every App Comrade review tagged Podcasts, across every platform.
iHeartRadio is still the best free way to hear local FM on a Fire tablet.
The 2024 redesign added live-radio lyrics, 15 custom presets, and a tighter discovery feed. The free tier remains generous; the All Access upsell remains awkward.
MAY 10, 2026
Pandora still bets the house on the Music Genome Project.
Two decades in and a SiriusXM subsidiary, Pandora keeps leaning on hand-tagged recommendations and personalised radio rather than the on-demand grid Spotify and Apple Music made the default.
MAY 10, 2026
iHeartRadio is still the easiest way to put a real radio station in your pocket.
Free live broadcast streams, a vast podcast library, and a custom-station builder that has aged better than the rest of the iHeart product family.
MAY 10, 2026
Spotify finally shipped lossless, and the rest of the app caught up too.
The 2025 lossless rollout and the 2026 tablet redesign close two of the longest-standing gaps in the iPhone's most-installed music app — even as the third US price hike in four years tests how much goodwill that buys.
MAY 10, 2026
Amazon Music keeps showing up wherever you already are.
Three tiers, two of them bundled with something else, and an app that still feels like an Echo accessory more than a destination.
MAY 10, 2026
Amazon Music's Android app is three apps stapled together — and it shows.
The Free, Prime, and Unlimited tiers each get a different version of the same client. The Prime bundle is still the best value in streaming. The interface trying to sell you up to Unlimited is the price of admission.
MAY 10, 2026
iHeart still owns terrestrial radio on Android, ads and all.
The free tier is the deepest live-radio bench any streaming app offers, and Talk Back keeps the call-in alive. The trade is an ad load that would embarrass a 1990s FM drive shift.
MAY 10, 2026
Pandora still wins the lean-back listen, even as the app fights itself.
The Music Genome Project remains the most accurate hands-off recommendation engine in streaming. The Android client has not aged with the same grace.
MAY 10, 2026
Play Audio Network is a thin Roku audio channel that hides what it actually plays.
A free music and podcasts channel from Magna Union Enterprises that arrived on the Roku store in late 2025 with three screenshots, no written description, and almost no signal about what's inside.
MAY 10, 2026
Call Your Publicist is a podcast in a TV channel's clothing.
JMG PR's twice-weekly conversation about media strategy got a Roku channel in February 2026. It plays. There is not much else to say about it as a TV experience.
MAY 10, 2026
AICulture Network is a curiosity, not a destination.
A small, recent music-and-podcasts channel built around AI culture as a topic. There's an audience for that. There just isn't much on the channel yet.
MAY 10, 2026
iHeart on LG webOS is the same iHeart, on a different remote.
Local AM/FM streams, podcast catalogue, ad-supported tier — all the same as on Roku, with LG's Magic Remote handling navigation slightly more elegantly.
MAY 8, 2026
iHeart on Roku is the AM/FM radio that survived the internet.
Live local radio from 850+ US stations, plus podcasts, plus on-demand music — all wrapped in iHeartMedia's terrestrial-radio empire. Free, ad-heavy, surprisingly useful.
MAY 8, 2026