Pocket Casts is being flogged for showing advertisements to legacy users who were promised an ad-free experience. The first reports started to appear in early September in the Pocket Casts support forum and subreddit. The issue is a bug, according to Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Pocket Casts' parent company Automattic, and will be corrected. Pocket Casts launched as a purchase-only app in 2010, charging users a one-time download fee of up to $10, depending on the OS and platform.
"Our mission [...] is to help with relationships and increase conscientiousness," Achariam said. "That's always been our North Star, and all the features [...] reinforce that by bringing these different aspects of relationship management into one platform and one tool."