Best podcasts app
But can we get a purple app icon?
Pocket Casts just works
Use this app for your podcasts! Endlessly customizable, simple, sleek, straightforward. It is made for the avid podcast listener. Customize your listening volumes, playback speeds, artwork, etc, by individual podcast. Extremely powerful filters if you like to organize.
The main thing is the queue. I get to organize what I will listen to, in what order, and it just works. The auto-download feature is a given, but it works so easily.
If you’re a big podcast listener this app is for you, ignore the rating here on iTunes. The newer updates in the recent year or have made this app the best one to switch to to get out of the clunky native apps or other apps that focus more on music than podcast listening.
The main thing is the queue. I get to organize what I will listen to, in what order, and it just works. The auto-download feature is a given, but it works so easily.
If you’re a big podcast listener this app is for you, ignore the rating here on iTunes. The newer updates in the recent year or have made this app the best one to switch to to get out of the clunky native apps or other apps that focus more on music than podcast listening.
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Great podcatcher app, one big flaw
I love Pocket Casts. Sick of how buggy and confusing the proprietary Apple podcast app is, I switched to Pocket Casts over a year ago and haven’t looked back. The UI is much cleaner and easier to navigate. My one complaint is that the search feature is very basic and only searches for whole podcasts rather than podcast episodes. (So for example, let’s say I want to listen to a podcast episode about the infamous Dyatlov Pass incident; searching “Dyatlov Pass” wouldn’t yield episodes about Dyatlov Pass from various podcasts, it would only yield podcasts whose name happens to be similar to or contain the words “Dyatlov Pass”.) That’s a real shame because the one good thing about the proprietary Apple podcast app was that I liked using the search feature to search for some niche subject I was interested in, and I would discover new podcasts by listening to their episode about the thing I wanted to hear about. On Pocket Casts, I just have to just kind of browse their discover page and hope that I find some podcast that happens to have some episodes that interest me.
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Love this app!
I wasn't going to write a review today but after reading the version notes and seeing what a great sense of humor the writer has I just felt like I should.
The thing that made me love Pocket Casts is that I can use the app and then my computer browser and this SERVICE actually keeps my podcasts updated and I can pick up where I left off while saving phone battery too. That is the whole reason I use it. I tried *many* different platforms, all the big names, that made that claim and I'm sorry to say they lie. To me that was worth the $10. PER YEAR PEOPLE. Not per month....per YEAR! Some of you spend more on coffee in a day than that. So idk, go without that extra coffee for 2 days and you've covered the whole year pretty much.
The thing that made me love Pocket Casts is that I can use the app and then my computer browser and this SERVICE actually keeps my podcasts updated and I can pick up where I left off while saving phone battery too. That is the whole reason I use it. I tried *many* different platforms, all the big names, that made that claim and I'm sorry to say they lie. To me that was worth the $10. PER YEAR PEOPLE. Not per month....per YEAR! Some of you spend more on coffee in a day than that. So idk, go without that extra coffee for 2 days and you've covered the whole year pretty much.
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Great app!
A few feature suggestions:
- Folders, or line breaks between icons because i do a confuse (and maybe an option to separate upcoming lists by category)
- A 'binge podcast as serial' button that automatically starts at the earliest episode, overrides the playlist when you're using it, keeps your place whenever you come back to it, and always makes sure it has the next few episodes downloaded ready if connected to wifi. Maximum hands free laziness.
- An inbuilt browser that lets you instantly pull up an accompanying page on an external websites (eg Paeleocast) - maybe you'd have to crowdsource all the links but you are clever so you will find a way
- on the 'now playing' screen, clicking the podcast icon image should take you to the podcast page. I stab at it in vain every time.
- some sort of waffle-to-sausage ratio thing that lets you warn other users of perpetually self-referential narcissistic gasbags that never get to the point while simultaneously highlighting the meaty episodes with deliciously informative content.
- Maybe add user-generated tags because some good podcasts have stupid names unrelated to what they are about and i will never find them and die alone
- Folders, or line breaks between icons because i do a confuse (and maybe an option to separate upcoming lists by category)
- A 'binge podcast as serial' button that automatically starts at the earliest episode, overrides the playlist when you're using it, keeps your place whenever you come back to it, and always makes sure it has the next few episodes downloaded ready if connected to wifi. Maximum hands free laziness.
- An inbuilt browser that lets you instantly pull up an accompanying page on an external websites (eg Paeleocast) - maybe you'd have to crowdsource all the links but you are clever so you will find a way
- on the 'now playing' screen, clicking the podcast icon image should take you to the podcast page. I stab at it in vain every time.
- some sort of waffle-to-sausage ratio thing that lets you warn other users of perpetually self-referential narcissistic gasbags that never get to the point while simultaneously highlighting the meaty episodes with deliciously informative content.
- Maybe add user-generated tags because some good podcasts have stupid names unrelated to what they are about and i will never find them and die alone
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Best Podcast App on the Market!!
I rarely write reviews, but Pocket Casts deserves a five star from me. I’ve had Pocket Casts for a while after switching over from Apple’s. I can firmly say that this app is miles ahead from every other podcast app available. They over a slick design, simplicity, and amazing customizations. You can customize the playback and skip times to help you skip ads, there’s a volume booster for podcasts that are a bit more quiet, and it has a feature that allows you to cut silence in podcasts. The best part: this is all on the free version and thats only a few of the things you can do on it for free. Pocket Casts also doesn’t have ads nor do they pressure you to buy their premium version. I recommend this app to anyone looking for a good podcast provider.
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Search function and autoplay
The only gripe I have with this app is that the search function isn't particularly helpful. General search will only yield words within a podcast’s whole title (rather than the title or description of the episode). Only within that podcast’s listing can you sift through the episodes themselves using the search function. This means that finding individual podcasts on any particular subject is quite hard, and is only really possible if the entire podcast is dedicated to said subject. I re-downloaded apple’s podcasting app just to do searches.
I also don’t know if other users love the auto play function, but all it does for me is cycle through the last thirty seconds of ads for every podcast I haven’t quite finished.
Other than that, the app is quite nifty.
I also don’t know if other users love the auto play function, but all it does for me is cycle through the last thirty seconds of ads for every podcast I haven’t quite finished.
Other than that, the app is quite nifty.
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Just switched, great app but...
Just switched from overcast mainly due to the amazing cover art style that displays all your podcasts. The only thing missing is that the ipad app is just the same UI as the iphone app just bigger. An interface with more information (column view, etc) would suit the ipad better.
Love Pocket Casts
Something I’d find handy for future updates is a permanent mark against an podcast episode when you’ve listened to it. So if you go back through a podcast episode list and you can’t remember if you’ve listened to that episode or not, some kind of mark to show if you have or haven’t would be so handy. Does this exist already and I’m missing it?
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Response from developer
Hi there! When you have completely finished listening to an episode (or it has been marked as played say if you chose to skip the end of it), when you look at the episode in any list on the right of the episode row where there is normally a download button or a play button (depending on your settings), there will instead be a grey circle with a tick in it. Hope that makes sense! If not, please email us at support@pocketcasts.com and we can send you a screenshot of what to look for :)
What I’ve been looking for... FINALLY!
I honestly don’t understand some of the negative reviews. Some are overly harsh for such minor inconveniences. I don’t know if the gripes are legitimate or just people expecting absolute 100% perfection from an app, and a developer with a stellar, bug-free track record.
I had been using the Apple Podcast app for years but finally ditched it because of syncing issues between multiple devices (no matter how I tweaked the settings). I then tried at least ten others before landing on Pocket Casts. The other podcast apps were usable and each had its pros and cons, but Pocket Casts is the only app yet that syncs the way I need it to. I can listen on my iPhone, then log into my Mac (web interface) and pick right up where I left off. I haven’t tried the Mac app yet. I’m perfectly content with the other web page for listening. I also like the listening stats on the app and how it shows how much time I’ve saved with skipping, speed, trimming and so on.
The layout is great and looks sleek and natural on the iPhone. As one user mentioned in a review, having folders of some sort would be nice. This way all of my podcasts aren’t lumped together, but can be separated by Sports, Science, etc... Other than this, I’m really liking what I’m seeing so far. I subscribed for the year because I really don’t see anything else out there being better. I’ve looked again and again and haven’t found it until now. Thanks!
I had been using the Apple Podcast app for years but finally ditched it because of syncing issues between multiple devices (no matter how I tweaked the settings). I then tried at least ten others before landing on Pocket Casts. The other podcast apps were usable and each had its pros and cons, but Pocket Casts is the only app yet that syncs the way I need it to. I can listen on my iPhone, then log into my Mac (web interface) and pick right up where I left off. I haven’t tried the Mac app yet. I’m perfectly content with the other web page for listening. I also like the listening stats on the app and how it shows how much time I’ve saved with skipping, speed, trimming and so on.
The layout is great and looks sleek and natural on the iPhone. As one user mentioned in a review, having folders of some sort would be nice. This way all of my podcasts aren’t lumped together, but can be separated by Sports, Science, etc... Other than this, I’m really liking what I’m seeing so far. I subscribed for the year because I really don’t see anything else out there being better. I’ve looked again and again and haven’t found it until now. Thanks!
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