Sonar

Sonar for iPhone

Podcasts are better together.

Sonar is the podcast listening community. See what your friends are hearing, share your take on every episode, and reply to theirs.

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  • Friends’ feed
  • Reviews & replies
  • Find your people
Sonar's Friends feed: the episodes your friends rated, each with their score in dots and a heart for the ones they loved.

Podcasts are made to be talked about.
Most apps leave you listening alone.

On Sonar you see which episodes your friends picked and what they thought of them, and you can reply.

Friends

See what friends are hearing.

Follow people whose taste you trust, and every episode they rate or review shows up in your feed.

  • A Friends feed of everything they’ve rated and loved
  • Episodes picked for you, from the shows you follow
  • What you listened to recently, one tap away
Sonar's home: what friends are listening to, new episodes from shows you follow, and episodes picked for you.

Reviews

Say what you thought. Reply to friends.

Write a line or a page about any episode. Friends can love your review and reply to it, and you can answer theirs.

A review in Sonar: a rating in dots, timestamps that jump to that moment in the episode, and replies underneath.

Rate

Rate every episode.

Ratings go on five dots in half steps. Tap or slide to rate, mark an episode listened, love the ones that stay with you, and save the rest for later.

Try it. How was the last episode you heard?

7/10 Really good

An episode page in Sonar, rated four and a half dots and loved, with a short review.

Profile

Your taste, in numbers.

Your average rating, how your scores spread, the hours you’ve listened and a streak to keep alive. Tap any bar to see the episodes behind it.

Listened
23
Reviewed
11
Hours
22
A Sonar profile: followers, a histogram of every rating given, favorite shows and recent episodes rated in dots. Ratings: a 3.2 average from 16 ratings, with a histogram of how they spread from one dot to five.

Discover

Search every show.

Sonar searches the open Podcast Index catalog, millions of shows. Look up podcasts, episodes and people, or see what's popular on Sonar.

Sonar's search: popular episodes and people to follow, under a search bar for podcasts, episodes and people.

What else is in Sonar.

  • Friends’ feed

    What the people you follow rated, loved and wrote, as it happens.

  • Reviews & replies

    Say what you thought, then keep the conversation going.

  • Half-step ratings

    Ten points on five dots, so a 7 and an 8 are never the same.

  • Loved

    The episodes you’d send a friend, kept in one place.

  • Streaks

    Log an episode a day and watch the streak grow.

  • Save for later

    A queue for the episodes worth coming back to.

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Find your podcast people.

Sonar is free on iPhone.

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