# Hark Audio

> The best of podcasts.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1540109137](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1540109137)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1540109137`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Hark Audio Inc
- **Category:** Entertainment
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (85 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.8.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-12
- **First published:** 2020-11-23
- **Size:** 85 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hark-audio/id1540109137)
- **Website:** [https://harkaudio.com](https://harkaudio.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://harkaudio.com/privacy](https://harkaudio.com/privacy)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #150,386 — Overall

## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1540109137)