Join the Olikor Beta

Last updated 11 October 2026

What you are installing

Olikor (package com.olikor.app) is a podcast player for Android. It does the things a podcast player should:

• Add any podcast by its RSS feed address
• Stream episodes, or download them and listen offline
• Background playback with the usual notification controls
• Playlists, including rules that fill them for you
• Bookmarks, a media library, and a download manager

There is a free tier and a paid one, Olikor Premium. The free tier is limited to 10 podcasts, 5 playlists, 3 rules per playlist and 10 bookmarks; Premium removes those limits. Premium is a Google Play subscription, so it is billed and cancelled through Play like any other.

What you need

• An Android phone or tablet with the Google Play Store on it.
• The Google account you are signed in to Play with. Play tests are tied to the account, not the device — opt in with the same account you will install from, or Play will not offer you the build.

How to join

This is a closed test, so there are two steps and the order matters. The opt-in link will turn you away until the first step is done.

1. Join the tester group. Testers are managed through the Google Group olikor-testers (olikor-testers@googlegroups.com). Join it with the Google account you are signed in to the Play Store with. If it asks you to request membership, or will not let you in at all, email support@olikor.com naming that account and you will be added.
2. Then accept the test. Open the opt-in link below on your phone, signed in to that same account, and accept. It gives you a link to the Play Store listing; install from there.

Open the Olikor test opt-in →

The group is set to deliver every message, so joining means you will get group mail about the test. That is a Google Groups setting rather than an app one: change it to a digest, or to no email, under My membership settings on the group page — your tester access is unaffected either way.

It has to be the same Google account throughout. A Play test is granted to an account, not to a device or a phone number. Being added under one address and opting in while signed in as another is the usual reason the link says you are not an authorized tester.

Once you are in the group, Play can still take a few minutes to catch up, and a newly accepted tester sometimes sees the old listing. Force-stopping the Play Store app, or pulling to refresh on its listing, usually shakes it loose.

What a test build is like

Test builds arrive through Play as ordinary updates, so there is nothing to sideload and nothing to keep an eye on. Two things are worth knowing:

• It is pre-release software. Builds reach testers earlier than they reach anyone else, which is the point — things can break, and occasionally one will.
• Builds change often. A version that behaves oddly may already be superseded; updating before reporting is rarely wasted effort.

Telling us what broke

The app has Send Feedback built in, which is the most useful route because the message arrives attached to your app version and device. Leave your email address in it if you would like a reply — it is optional, and without it there is no way to answer you.

Email works too: support@olikor.com. A screenshot and what you had just done are worth more than a description of the bug on its own.

Privacy while testing

Testing does not change what the app collects, and the privacy policy applies to test builds exactly as it does to released ones. Two parts of it matter more here:

• Crash reports go to Sentry, a third-party crash reporter. They are useful during a test, but they are not compulsory: Send Crash Reports in the app’s settings turns them off, and the app honours it.
• Feedback you send carries what you type, plus your app version and device model, and your email address if you chose to add one.

Google Play separately tells the developer how many testers there are and which countries and devices they are on. That is Play’s reporting, not the app’s, and it is not tied to your name.

Leaving the test

Open the same opt-in link and choose to leave the programme. Play then treats you as a normal user again, which means the test build no longer updates — uninstall it and install the public release when there is one. Your downloads and subscriptions live on the device, so uninstalling clears them; leaving the test by itself does not.

Leaving the test does not remove you from the tester group, so you can rejoin with the same link later. To come off the group as well, leave it from the group page.

Leaving does not cancel an Olikor Premium subscription. That is a Play subscription and is cancelled in the Play Store, under Payments and subscriptions.

Contact

Anything about the test, the app, or this page: support@olikor.com