Leave a Review iCatcher! Podcast Player
Made well & kept simple!
I did a lot of research into my new podcast player and gave iCatcher a chance in 2018…. I’m still here! Why? Quite simply the developer still manages it (glitches are fixed quickly!), they do NOTHING with your data and it’s made for the podcast listener who wants it’s simple, sleek and functional! There’s a few features I love like the gestures, how you can customize just about everything (getting as in the weeds as you wish), ability to download and add to a playlist, switching back and forth between streaming/downloading and they support private podcasts! If you’re in the US and you vehicles made by Honda/Toyota- this is for you!! It’s solid, dependable and has stealthily and slick features that enhance the experience. Again you can get as into the details of how this app works as you wish. Give it a try- you won’t be sorry!Show lessJonesy66789
Very frustrating
This app does one thing very well: it does not collect your user data. Other than that, I’ve been using this for months now and it is very frustrating to use. It has a million features, but half of them don’t work consistently, and the other half are often quite confusing to figure out. For one thing, often it will decide that it can’t play an episode that you were in the middle of that you were previously playing. It will give you some error and ask you to re-download or force quit or just dismiss the error. Sometimes I’ve gotten it to play the episode later by deleting it and manually re-adding it to a podcast list. Other times that just doesn’t work and I just can’t listen to that episode ever again no matter what I try. It doesn’t have a basic recently played list. It has supposedly that will auto fill, but this also doesn’t actually capture all of the episodes you may have recently played. It will randomly tell you that a podcast you were subscribe to isn’t available. This just scratches the surface. I really wanted to like it, because I believe it’s the only one that I found that doesn’t collect my user data. But it has a lot of problems, and the fact that I’ve just spent the last 15 minutes trying to get it somehow to play the episode I was in the middle of the other day, makes me want to delete it entirely. I think it’s time for me to search again for another player.Show lesswg.anna
Best podcast app
This app is very flexible. Love it. Apple messed up there podcasts with ios5. This one is so much better. I never plug in to sync anymore. I love the skip forward and back option. The Leo skip is great. The double tap to pause and play works great especially in the car. I usually go to sleep listening to a podcast the ability to stop it after a time is great. I could go on and on about all the great options. Just use it you will never go back to iTunes for podcasts. Thank you developers.Show lesspixarbug
Almost the best podcast app - needs Carplay!
Other than not supporting CarPlay yet, I love the way this app works. It's logical to use. While playing podcasts, you double tap and they pause double tap again and they resume. You can use two fingers to jump ahead 30 seconds, or one finger to jump ahead 15 seconds. Anyway it's a great app, and I recommend that everybody try it out. Hopefully it will have CarPlay support soon.
Update: seems that since I made this review, they now support CarPlay. I am upgrading my review to a five star review. Thanks!!Show lesskurt
Great!
This app is just what I needed. I have been listening to podcasts for years and it has always been a pain managing them in iTunes and syncing them over or downloading them one by one through iTunes on the phone. This app has all the features I was looking for. Update — I have been using this app for years now and it just keeps getting better. Update2 — this developer has been great he is really on top of things. Constantly keeping the app up to date. No app is bug free but it seems like when I do find a bug this developer has it fixed before I even have a chance to report it. You can’t ask for much more than that.Show lessnights62
Was a great app. But… (update)
I’ve been using this app for months and it makes my commute so much more relaxing and interesting. The app works really well - I love the fact that it moves from one podcast to the next, so I don’t have to pay much attention to it on the road. I also like that I can easily skip ahead 30 seconds or to the end of a podcast that I’m not enjoying. I’ve found it very easy to browse or search for new podcasts. Just a really great app!
Nov 20, 2021 - Lately the ability to play a podcast at different speeds is not working properly. I often play them at 1.25 speed and now they just skip so badly that you can’t hear most of the words. And when I try to change the playback speed, it rewinds instead - sometimes going back to the start! This is a critical enough problem for me to shop for a different app.Show lessDeb d1
The only podcast app I've ever needed
I've been using iCatcher for more than 6 years now and love it! It can be as simple or complex as you would like it to be. It's easy to add feeds and just play episodes, but you can do many other things if you'd like. Being able to schedule a time to refresh podcasts, whether to download over Wifi only, or even only when connected to a specific network, the ability to set up playlists of specific feeds, and many other features make this my go-to app for podcasts. Highly recommend!Show lesskc8pnl
Incredibly functional and easy to use
This is the app that Apple should buy to replace their podcast app. There are so many features and yet it just works. If you don't want to mess with the wide variety of settings you don’t have to. I never have problems downloading or playing any podcasts and it just works. I'm not one to buy apps, especially if Apple makes an 'official' app that covers my needs but, this was worth every penny. All the problems I had with the Apple podcast app just don't exist in this excellent and well supported app. The author emailed me personally when I had a simple question! Worth it. And then some.Show lessBuckBackup
Has all the features I want
I have had issues with the features offered by podcast apps since swapping to an iPhone. This app has everything I missed from Podcast Republic and Podcast Addict.
Search options with multiple episode selection for creating a playlist ( or several ).
Playlist creation tools including auto addition, download or stream setting and sorting (manual, oldest/ newest order)to name a few. Playlist also goes to next episode instead of jumping to the top spot when jumping around a list
The features are slightly hidden and sometimes require an extra button press compared to the previously mentioned, but a small price for being so feature rich !Show lessGrendelsire
Most useful features
iCatcher has all of the features I was hoping to find and more that I’d wished for and never found. Extremely easy to set up, I control what displays, what downloads, how often it checks for new eps. Extremely functional and flexible custom playlists, sleep timer, replay speed setting. It even has a setting to prevent downloading tons of old episodes when something weird happens to a feed! Doesn’t default to trying to get me to subscribe to new things, and doesn’t track my data. Totally worth the price. I wish I had given up on Apple Podcasts sooner!Show lesssarahtippedin
