Hark Audio

Name: Hark Audio
Rating: 4.1 (84 reviews)
Author: Hark Audio Inc

By: Hark Audio Inc

The best of podcasts.

Features & Capabilities

Hark Audio is a new way to experience the best of podcasts. Editors curate 'Harklists'—podcast mixtapes—that help you discover voices, stories, and perspectives you might have missed. Time Magazine included Hark in its Best Inventions of 2021 list, and Hark won the Vision Award from American Public Media for being the experience most likely to reinvent journalism and media.

On Hark, you can explore daily curated Harklists across topics like history, science, books, tech, and more. Each week, Your Weekly Hark delivers a personalized Harklist of moments just for you. You can import subscriptions from Spotify and Apple Podcasts, create your own clips and Harklists, queue episodes, and listen on CarPlay or smart speakers with a full-featured podcast player.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

Hark Audio Inc

Rating:

4.10

(84)

Version:

1.8.3 Last updated: 2025-11-12

Version code:

879645907

Creation date:

2020-11-23

Compatible devices:

Size:

84.73MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-08

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 167,509 ▼ 284

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Developed by:

Hark Audio Inc

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hark-audio/id1540109137

Website:

https://harkaudio.com

User Reviews

Reviewers consistently praise Hark Audio for its curated discovery experience, using Harklists to surface new podcasts and a broad library that makes exploration easier than some competitors. Many find the UI visually appealing and the concept of clipping highlights compelling. However, multiple reviews report serious performance and stability problems, including extreme slowness, freezes, and crashes, plus playback quirks like episodes ending early and losing progress. The clipping/saving feature is also unreliable, and some users find the navigation difficult to master. Overall, the idea and catalog are strong, but reliability and polish need work.

Pros

Excellent curated podcast discovery via Harklists that makes finding new shows easy.
Broad library with easier exploration of podcasts than some competitors.
Positive UI/UX and visual design that many users appreciate.

Cons

Severe performance issues: app is extremely slow, unresponsive, and prone to crashes.
Stability and playback issues: episodes quitting early and not remembering playback position; general playback quirks.
Clipping/saving feature unreliability: users report clipping not working or not reliable.
Navigation/UX can be hard to learn and is not intuitive for some users.

Recent reviews

This app is EXTREMELY slow and unusable at times. Slow to update lists. Slow to search. And slows down the rest of my phone. I suspect they’re running any AI inferencing locally on your mobile. I have an iPhone 11, so this phone doesn’t have the GPU for that kinda thing. Trashing this app, in search of a new one.

by la*****, 2025-08-14

I get the idea here, and I’ll continue to follow my chosen Hark lists, but the app really needs to make it easier to queue up, organize, and play the gems it helps me find. No signs of the stability issues others observed last year, so hopefully those are ironed out.

by de*****, 2024-07-04

There are tons of podcasts and it’s next to impossible on other apps like Spotify to explore them. Hark is an easy way to discover new shows through their playlists - probably the easiest way to discover new shows on an app. And, they have a British host who has a soothing voice.