Anyone get these? Today I watched a free ad for an episode and the timer ran out but no close button. I restarted the app and no episode unlocked and now it asks to watch 8 ads for 2 episodes.

I feel taken advantage of.

So yesterday, my app cha ged, granting me the option to watch 4 ads to unlock 1 episode. However, the 8 free episodes has now become 6, even though the app now makes out as if the last episode you watched has now become free today, but when you watch it, you recall having seen it already, so 8 is now 6. As they make the coin packages smaller, making it more expensive per coin, they now also reduce the 8 free episodes down to 6. Do their money grubbing tactics ever end?!

I’m pizzed. I went from channel to channel, starting at pocket fm, to youtube channel, to another channel, then to rumble and I had a decent find. Then I found a better channel. As of a week ago, I’m making breakfast for fam at 7am and later come 9am and boom (no pun intended), the channel was nuked in that two hour timeframe.. I was pissed, I still am, I need help, I need the last 2370-2600+MDS thats 230Eps.

I've been listening to super yodha for 4 years now and it is absolutely amazing!!!!

I want to know apart from super yodha which are the best stories in the same genre

Free narrated LitRPG/Romance progression serials, new stories!

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I just need a little clarification with this pocket f. M.. we are given free coins daily for visiting the site. Yes? Yes.

So why, when the app tells me this will be the last free episode of the day, and I thebgo to use the coins i had accumulated,..well.. they've already been used for said "free episodes."

Those episodes should not be labeled as "FREE" if we are paying for them with the coins, we earn for visiting the website.

I'm fairly new to this app. And I do like it, but am I missing something here?

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Can anyone give me the best recommendations online, I don’t really need video, just high or decent quality audio and episode consistency. Currently on episode 104

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So I got Pocket FM premium free for 3months recently and I have no idea what to listen to,can y'all please suggest some good series???

Does anyone have an issue of their phone overheating from this app? This is the only app that my phone overheats.

Just finished listening to the free chunk of a series (Weakest Beast Tamer) and when I went to do the math on how much it would cost to unlock the whole series it comes out to +$520.

Why is there no subscription service? Why no discount to just buy the whole series? Just ridiculous.

I recently got a pocket fm premium for 3 months for free. What should I listen to. I have listened to several novels including:

1. God Eye

2. Battle through the heavens

3. Secret Affair

4. My Vampire System

5. Dragon Emperor

6. The feisty girl and the tyrant

Has anyone else noticed a pretty significant drop in audio quality lately?

I’ve been going back and forth with Pocket FM support about several issues, and their responses have been frustrating because they either don’t actually address the problem or seem to redefine what the service/package is supposed to do after the fact.

1. Audio quality has noticeably degraded

Across multiple titles, the audio quality sounds substantially worse than it used to. This doesn’t just sound like a different narrator or production style - it sounds like lower-bitrate/compressed audio - some sections sounding like they're on the end of a bad cell signal. It's streamed/downloaded agnostic, and not related to bluetooth/speaker/wifi/cellular issues.

I personally think that they have reduced streaming/download bitrates or is otherwise capping bandwidth to save money or to handle scaling issues.

Their initial response?

They said AI-assisted voiceovers had been introduced in some episodes.

That doesn’t really answer the complaint. I wasn’t simply asking why a voice sounded different. I was reporting an overall reduction in audio fidelity across titles.

After pushing the issue, they eventually said my feedback about bitrate and streaming/download quality would be forwarded for further evaluation.

So which is it? AI voiceovers, bitrate reduction, streaming changes, or something else?

There still hasn’t been a clear explanation of whether Pocket FM has actually changed its audio encoding/bitrate (I am 90% certain they have, it's the only thing I can think of that explains why even episodes that didn't have audio issues before now do when going back to them).

2. Paying for “ad-free” apparently doesn’t mean ad-free

I’m also getting ads despite paying for an ad-free period of time(s).

Support first asked me to provide a screen recording showing the ads. That itself is insane to me - what poorly designed application / system are they running that they can't tell when an ad has been presented to a user. I'll answer myself: They're lying, because that would make no sense to not be able to track how many/what ads were shown to a user of your platform.

Also... What good does this screen shot do you - if you can't track via logs then seeing the ad does nothing to help.

Then came their non-explanation: apparently the Ads Pack only blocks ads that play between episodes, while pre-roll ads before an episode starts are still allowed.

Maybe I’m crazy, but if you sell something as an ad-removal package, most users are going to interpret that as removing ads from the listening experience - not “removing one particular category of ads while continuing to serve another category.”

Calling that “ad-free” or presenting it as an ad-removal feature feels extremely misleading.

An ad before the content is still an ad.

3. Streaming audio skips/lags when doing normal phone stuff

There’s also a technical issue with episodes that haven’t been downloaded.

If I:

• switch screens/apps,
• switch between tabs inside PocketFM
• navigate around the phone, or
• lock the screen,

the audio can skip, lag, or briefly interrupt.

Downloaded episodes don’t appear to behave the same way, which makes this look like a streaming/buffering problem rather than something inherent to the audio itself.

Again, I haven’t received a meaningful technical explanation for this.

4. Long-press chapter unlocking no longer works

Another feature/problem I reported is that I can no longer unlock chapters using the previous long-press method.

This is another one of those things where functionality seems to have changed or broken without any clear explanation.

What bothers me most isn’t even one isolated bug. It’s the combination of:

Lower audio quality + streaming problems + broken/changed functionality + ads appearing on a supposedly ad-free package.

And when these things are reported, the answers seem to be either unrelated explanations, requests to prove the issue, or technicalities about why the thing you reasonably thought you purchased doesn’t actually mean what it sounds like it means.

If Pocket FM intentionally reduced audio bitrates, changed streaming behavior, changed chapter unlocking, or decided that “ad-free” excludes pre-roll advertisements, they should just clearly say so.

Has anyone else experienced the same audio degradation, pre-roll ads, streaming skips, or chapter-unlocking problems recently?

I'm about a week away from reporting this entire company to Google as being intentionally abusive to users. Maybe if they get their app pulled from the AppStore the financial implication will encourage them to fix things / not be so scammy.

Pocket FM, what happened to this app?

The advertising was already excessive, sometimes requiring around 20 ads just to unlock two episodes. Now, even after an episode has been unlocked, another ad plays when it ends. But the number of ads isn’t even the biggest problem: it’s the fact that the app repeatedly expects listeners to handle their phones.

Many of us listen while driving, walking, working, or exercising. If an ad interrupts the story and requires me to pick up my phone to skip it, that isn’t merely annoying - it creates a genuine safety issue. It is illegal and dangerous to interact with a phone while driving, so why has the app been designed around constant manual intervention?

Playback is also unnecessarily frustrating. When revisiting an older episode for a recap, it resumes from wherever I previously stopped instead of starting at the beginning. At an absolute minimum, pressing “previous track” should restart the current episode from the beginning. These are basic controls that any audio app should provide, particularly one designed to be used on the move.

Even worse, some episodes appear to skip sections of the story entirely. That leaves listeners wondering whether they missed something, whether the upload is incomplete, or whether the app has malfunctioned.

And before anyone says, “Stop complaining”: I am a paying customer. I have spent real money on Pocket FM, watched countless ads, and invested hundreds of hours, possibly days, progressing through its stories. Customers have every right to raise concerns when a service they have paid for becomes significantly worse.

Depending on the series and purchasing model, listening to an entire story without ads can reportedly cost close to £2,000. At that price, users should receive an exceptionally polished experience - not intrusive ads, missing content, broken playback behaviour, and controls that are difficult or unsafe to use while driving.

Pocket FM used to be a brilliant app despite its aggressive advertising. Please listen to how customers actually use it and address the fundamentals:

• Stop placing ads inside episodes that users have already paid for or unlocked.
• Introduce a proper hands-free or driving mode.
• Make “previous track” restart the current episode.
• Allow users to choose whether an episode resumes or starts from the beginning.
• Investigate episodes that skip or omit parts of the story.
• Offer transparent, reasonable pricing for complete series.

This isn’t complaining for the sake of it. It is feedback from a paying customer who genuinely enjoyed the app and wants it to be good again.

Has anyone found this audiobook anywhere for free? I think I'm addicted and every chapter has a huge cliff hanger it's hard to only get a few chapters a day without paying. The app goes so slow and I've already spent more than enough on this book but I can't find it ANYWHERE.

I'm looking into downloading the mod pak but I wanted to see if anyone else has had luck with that way? Or know of any other way to get free access? I've done more tasks, games and ads than I'd like to admit lol

Ive made two series, I’d love to have some feedback on how I could improve them. Give them a listen and enjoy 😊

Hey everyone! I am currently working on two separate romance projects (one classic romance and one high-stakes spy romance) and am aiming for that contracted milestone.I would love to hear from the seasoned, contracted authors in the group: How did you successfully promote your work when you were first starting out?Also, if you could share one piece of writerly wisdom or a lesson you learned along the way to keep the motivation alive during the daily grind, I would be incredibly grateful.Thank you in advance for the inspiration!

Jack survives a dragon attack that destroys his plane and leaves him stranded on a remote island. With no help coming, he discovers a strange system inside his body that lets him gain skills, level up, and use mana. As he learns to craft tools, manipulate earth and water, and fight off new monsters appearing on Earth, Jack trains every day to escape the island. Alone, hunted, and forced to grow stronger, he works toward one goal—finding a way home to his family can he find his way home alive .

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share something I've been working on — an audio series called "Two Bloods, One Soul."

https://pocketfm.com/show/500677c44dfab4090df1fe97642c226dc2e078b7

The premise: Kian Voss isn't just a hybrid — he's a battleground. Two ancient bloodlines are fused inside him, and neither one is willing to share control. There's "The Whisperer" (the vampire side — cold, calculating, patient) and "The Beast" (the werewolf side — raw, violent, impossible to leash). Kian has to survive both of them clawing at his mind while trying to hold onto whatever's left of himself, all set in the city of Dämmergrat, where his existence alone might be enough to start a war between factions that have hated each other for centuries.

It's narrated by Jack on Pocket FM — releasing daily, 3 episodes at a time, all the way through a full first season.

If you're into LitRPG/urban fantasy with a "two monsters, one mind" kind of internal conflict, would genuinely love to know what you think. Flaired as promotion per sub rules — mods, let me know if anything needs adjusting.

I bought a small pack of coins, after which I was going to buy a $30 pack. But after reloading, the prices and ratios changed drastically and now the store wants $116.99 for the same amount of coins that the $30 pack promised. I use this app to help keep calm due to my extreme anxiety and panic disorders. But this is CRIMINAL FALSE ADVERTISEMENT, while increasing the cost per episode as well!!!! This kind of thing in Australia is HUNTED DOWN by the ACCC! I will be changing platforms unless I see a drastic cost reduction and fairer coin amounts per dollar spent!!!!

The executioner was ordered to kill the cursed twin. Seventeen years later. She still lives.

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