New App Designed For Fiction Podcasts Launches

 Audio fiction continues to grow in popularity among podcast listeners. Once a lonely stepchild to the ubiquitous true-crime podcasts, audio fiction continues to expand in the podcast world. 

Audio fiction podcasts like Red Frontier with actor Betty Gilpin involved and the recent Run Rose Run with contributions from novelist James Patterson and music legend Dolly Parton are only two examples of the blossoming of audio fiction in podcasting Amazon's Audible subsidiary has gone all-in on audio fiction.

For those audio fiction listeners, podcast players today mix fiction and nonfiction. They make it difficult to find the show you’re looking for. Episodes don't appear in the right order. You have to wade through their massive libraries. All fiction podcasts get lumped into a single Fiction playlist (that is rarely updated and often only features shows created by them). They simply don’t show audio fiction the love it deserves.

If you are an audio fiction enthusiast, there is a new app just for audio fiction podcast fans.

 Apollo is a new podcast app  that boasts a human-curated library of more than 7,500 shows, it promises “shows sorted by season, and episodes in the correct order”, and has launched in beta for both iOS and Android. 

I think it’s a great example of a niche podcast app that could help raise the profile of fiction podcasting (and, perhaps, lead to new business models).

 Every show is categorized by genre (sci-fi, drama, slice-of-life, etc.) and format (narrator, full cast, cinematic, etc.). Apollo features curated playlists by audio drama creators and seasons/episodes are correctly sorted, with trailers/extras separated.  

The app is available on both Android and iOS)

Finally, you don't have to login to start listening.

If you're into audio fiction, check out the app. It doesn't cost anything, and again you don't have to login to use it.