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.
A lifeboat on the open sea of millions of podcasts. The way topics and clips from podcasts are organized makes it easy to navigate; on a recent weekend I learned more about topical subjects (NFT’s and the Electoral College) by sampling a few short clips on each from different podcasts, ran across a fresh interview with one of my favorite authors on a podcast I didn’t know existed, and dug into some music topic archives where I learned about the Beatles and the roots of “back masking”, and how the Beastie Boys recorded their first single. Fun community way to discover new podcasts, hear highlights about new topics from a variety of podcasts and points of view, and dig deep into topics.
I am a podcast NUT and Hark is the app that my brain would have dreamed up if it could have. It’s beautiful and is chock-full of podcast moments I can’t find anywhere else, literally, and that I can’t stop listening to. A Harkllist, like the Song Exploder one, took me to another place. I pretty much forgot where I was when I was listening to it. I think this is solving the podcast discoverability problem for both listeners and podcasters. Spending time in Hark is such a treat…it’s impossible to not be moved by what you hear, impossible not to take something away with you when you leave.
If you feel like you’re drowning in podcasts people insist you should be listening to, I have one more recommendation that’s ironically going to solve your problem. Hark curates the best of podcasting world allowing you to catch the stuff you truly NEED to hear. The interesting factoids that will intrigue you. The hilarious stories that you can share with friends. I get it, you only have time for the good stuff—Hark gets you the good stuff.
Being on Hark is like being able to choose exactly what you want to listen to in a way that goes beyond just having a favorite podcast. I am particularly enjoying the harklist on the best moments of artists talking about creating their own songs. Hark also has now replaced all my other news apps—why listen to one opinion when Hark lets me listen to the best bits from all different sides of a top story!
I LOVE Hark. I think it’s a truly brilliant idea and something that I hope blows up in the near future. The Daily Harks are topical, informative, and digestible. The other Harklists are also super interesting and cover a wide range of topics. You can learn a lot about anything in less than 30 minutes! Looking forward to seeing this company grow - perhaps some Hark original content??? :)
The Best Thing to Happen for Podcast Listeners in Years!
Hark Audio is exactly what podcast listeners need right now. There are so many great podcasts buried behind okay ones on big networks and sorting the great indy podcasts from the tens of thousands of bad ones has gotten really hard. Hark introduced you to new shows in Harklists curated by experts and as both a podcaster and an avid listener, I love it!
This is my new favorite app. I LOVE being able to listen to the themes harklists...they’ve exposed me to some amazing new podcasts that I now listen to religiously. More importantly, I’ve found myself listening to lists about topics I would never have thought to listen to an entire podcast on. I am so so thankful for hark!
The daily round up of clips from around the podcast world is amazing. Right at my finger tips is an enormous array of topics organized in a manageable manner. What a relief!! I can enjoy and learn without the stress of searching for the latest info. I love this app and listen daily.
App works well and has a nice aesthetic, i haven't listened to much besides the podcasts I imported from apple. One bug I’ve come across in the profile section, if I hit the history tab then the activity tab the app instantly crashes. Also it would be great if the app kept your place in the last podcast you listened to, i was about 70% through a 3 hour podcast on Friday and by today the app completely forgot about that and I had to search for where I left off. Other than that it’s pretty great so far.
Harks lets me browse and index the sprawling world of podcasts by ear -- with the help of smart, sharp listeners everywhere. It's surprising, informative, entertaining, and really useful: the kind of thing you don't know you need until you have it. Well done!
I like almost everything about this app. However I uninstalled it for the same reason I no longer use Apple Podcasts: No acceptable speed options. 1.00 is too slow, and 1.25 is too fast. Will stick with Pocket Casts.
Just started to use the app. I love the ux and the novel idea. The app is a bit unresponsive at times but I’ll stick around for a bit and see how it goes.
I love the curation aspect of this app! I’ve learned so much about things I never would’ve heard of otherwise, and I’ve also discovered shows that would’ve been a mystery! Download Hark :)
Cumbersome interface and poor listening experience
Interface is hard to navigate and not intuitive. Even worse is that podcasts consistently quit abruptly several minutes before the end and there’s no way to play the remaining content. Frustrating!
So many other podcast players out there, and this one is just too confusing to use. The idea of Harklists and the clipping feature is vaguely interesting, but not enough to distinguish this one. Plus, who is going to see them anyway? Maybe once it takes off, there will be communities around different topics.
I’ve become totally addicted to Harklists. I love being able to hear from a bunch of different podcasts. Half the time I end up listening to a whole episode because the clip was so interesting.
As a avid podcast listener I have become addicted to hark. I really appreciate that they take clips and group them, making it easy to listen to the best parts of podcasts about what I’m into.
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.
I search for my podcast, then select it. The image & info pop up, then the app immediately crashes. For me, it’s not functional if I can’t even listen. Wasted.
This app is essential unusable with how far left each political clip is. You can't get any curation other than typical liberal CNN / MSNBC talking points.
In yet another not-surprising media bias, this supposedly objective podcast support system does its woke, progressive, spineless duty as a pretend objective app to share and promote immoral and subjective content that only a very select group of pedophiles, elite fascists who hold up black men and Americans like carrots for votes and toxic feminists who destroy their own children would support. If you’re looking for at least unbiased, objective journalistic groupings of the millions of podcasts out there, won’t happen here. If you want a forced agenda of ideas grouped together in a way that forces you to believe a biased set of exaggerations and opinions from an elite group of speakers who don’t know babies are humans and men have penises and women have vaginas then this is for you. If you expect a grouping of ideas and news and opinions that stretch across the multitude of worldviews and the majority world view of hard/working Americans who understand the basic tenants of humanity and morality, don’t bother. If you’re looking for the top podcasts in the world - which are almost entirely created by conservative men and women of all races and religions, you won’t find it here. You will find your typical biased progressive news groups spouting opinion rather than journalism as they’ve trained and claim to do. And as an award/winning journalist, I find this most appalling and so should you. We deserve apps and makers that provide equal opportunities for informed choice and information. Communist China made this app with Tik Tok.
Hark is an new way to experience the best of podcasts. Time Magazine included it in its "Best Inventions of 2021" list and Hark was recently featured as "New & Noteworthy" in the App Store. Here’s how it works: Hark editors curate genius podcast moments into ‘Harklists’ - podcast mixtapes - that let you discover new voices, stories, perspectives… and new podcasts! We create Harklists on everything from “History’s Most Audacious Heists,” to “Unleash Your Inner Optimist,” “NBA Weekly,” “Little Known New York Food History,” “Celebrating Joan Didion” and so much more. Every week, you’ll receive “Your Weekly Hark” - a Harklist of podcast moments curated just for you. And of course, you can use Hark to listen to all of your favorite podcasts too. Hark is an easy-to-use, full-featured podcast player that lets you choose your listening speed, create a queue, pick up where you left off and listen on CarPlay or smart speakers. WHAT YOU CAN DO ON HARK Tune in to Hark Daily and tap into the most zeitgeisty podcast conversations of the day. Explore the expanding array of Harklists on everything from Books, Comedy and Science to Tech, Food, Sports, History and more. Experience “Curated by Podcasters” Harklists, created by the hosts of favorite podcasts like Song Exploder, Nice Try and Rough Translation. When you love a clip, tap “Play Full Episode” to continue listening. Bookmark episodes, Harklists and clips into your queue to listen to later. Import your current podcast subscriptions from Spotify and Apple Podcasts with the click of a button. Make your own podcast clips and Harklists. Enjoy a weekly playlist of podcast moments, chosen just for you. Listen on your mobile device, in your car and voice-controlled speakers. All in a beautiful free app curated by people who love podcasts too. Let your ears wander with Hark!
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