Overall best app with one flaw
I love this app. It has all the podcasting 2.0 features and uses native components which looks and feels very polished.
There is one downside, when playing on Bluetooth in the car, if you turn off the car while playing a podcast (without pausing it beforehand) there is a chance that the app will get confused and loose your place. Next time the app starts up the podcast starts from the beginning!
If this can be fixed the app would be perfect!
There is one downside, when playing on Bluetooth in the car, if you turn off the car while playing a podcast (without pausing it beforehand) there is a chance that the app will get confused and loose your place. Next time the app starts up the podcast starts from the beginning!
If this can be fixed the app would be perfect!
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Great but has a major flaw
I love this podcast player and don’t want to rate it a two. However, it has started over multiple podcasts at the beginning several times. Very frustrating. This app needs more work put into the player features before it’s worth using. Starting over, audio artifacts, things that aren’t in more mature players like Overcast.
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Response from developer
Hello Kozmo24, if you long press an episode in a list, you can then touch the "display shownotes" option in the menu.
Best podcasting app - but…
I keep loosing my spot on a podcast. It’s specially annoying while driving. Good luck getting to the point in a 3h podcast where the app lost it. I’m a premium user but switched back to Apple podcast just now. Hope you fix it.
Almost Awesome Podcast Player
Amending my earlier review but fully ready to update when fixed: playback is not smooth. Everything else about the app is very nice, and I mostly like how the features are organized. I particularly like how it supports podcasting 2.0 features and hope it’ll support more in addition to having the playback fixed. I usually play podcasts with gap zapper on classic and leveling set to automatic. It’s very possible one of those features is causing the issue.
It does everything I’ve needed so far. My one wish at the moment is that it would make the shownotes for an episode easier to view. I have to start playing the episode, which I don’t always want to do. That doesn’t feel clean, but otherwise the UI and functionality is great!
It does everything I’ve needed so far. My one wish at the moment is that it would make the shownotes for an episode easier to view. I have to start playing the episode, which I don’t always want to do. That doesn’t feel clean, but otherwise the UI and functionality is great!
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Response from developer
Hello Kozmo24, if you long press an episode in a list, you can then touch the "display shownotes" option in the menu.
Awesome Podcast Player
It does everything I’ve needed so far. My one wish at the moment is that it would make the shownotes for an episode easier to view. I have to start playing the episode, which I don’t always want to do. That doesn’t feel clean, but otherwise the UI and functionality is great!
Response from developer
Hello Kozmo24, if you long press an episode in a list, you can then touch the "display shownotes" option in the menu.
I love it, but…
I can only say that it is one of the best applications for listening to podcasts, by far. I give it a 99%. That 1% to be perfect that it lacks is because I can only play podcasts on AirPlay compatible devices, therefore to listen to podcasts on my Nest Mini speakers, I have to use Pocket Casts. If this functionality could be added, I would not hesitate at all to subscribe and support the creator.
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Response from developer
Hello, thank you for your review. I would love to add support for Nest speakers and all Google Cast devices, but that would mean integrating the GoogleCast SDK. GoogleCastSDK is a closed source library that collects and transmits user data (location, id, activity) to Google. Castamatic is designed and built to respect the privacy of the user, unfortunately there is no way to integrate the GoogleCast SDK without completely compromising this.
Almost Perfect!
Loving this app, but had to drop my rating after extensive use. There is no way to quickly select multiple episodes for download, and the swipe ability is too touchy to be reliably used consistently. Wish we could manually set actions for swipe L/R. Also need a badge that shows # of downloaded ep for podcasts - not # not listened avail. Finally, need to be able to display just downloaded episodes (like you can do with show/hide listened). Finally, the app has gotten sluggish and unresponsive since I've added my full list of podcasts I follow. Would love to work with the developers on testing and new features.
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Often stalls on certain podcasts
I downloaded this after hearing it recommended by Adam Curry of “The No Agenda Show” )”the best podcast in the universe, according to the Mueller report”). I really want to like this app, but it has a serious flaw. It often stalls for no apparent reason. This often happens on “The John Kobylt Show.: I recently started listening to “The Wright Report” but find it stalls so much on this podcast that I may have to use a different app.
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Response from developer
In version 9.0.14 I introduced a nasty bug that caused freezes during playback, sorry. That should be fixed in 9.0.15. If you still experience hangs, please send a report from the app's preferences with verbose logging enabled if possible. Thanks.
Decent but I lose podcast progress a lot
This app has a generally good UI design and works okay. However far too often it lags like crazy when trying to open it. Additionally, there’s been countless times where the app has crashed or bugged out and the podcast I’m listening to is reset to the beginning. It just happened now when I started playing a show and I lost like an hour and a half of progress. Not great
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Mixed Message
Heard about the app, read the No Ads, No Tacking… decided to try the app. First thing you notice is banners. Can be removed…for a subscription. So much for the No Ads, at least I see a banner that can be removed as an ad. Not a terrible subscription at 9.99 a year, but I’m sticking with a cleaner interface app that doesn’t force a subscription to look clean. Worth a try though if you can get past the, well, ads, or perhaps call them reminders your not a subscriber. Just not for me.
I appreciate the Dev response here. I suppose it all come down to perception. I see a banner reminding you to subscribe to a product as an ad. The developer does not. I can see the their point of view as well. This app is a fantastic app, that banner just ruins it for me. I believe many will love it though and I wish the developer well. Who knows, one day I may try it out again.
I appreciate the Dev response here. I suppose it all come down to perception. I see a banner reminding you to subscribe to a product as an ad. The developer does not. I can see the their point of view as well. This app is a fantastic app, that banner just ruins it for me. I believe many will love it though and I wish the developer well. Who knows, one day I may try it out again.
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Response from developer
I confirm there are no ads in Castamatic. If the user is not subscribed there is a banner that remembers the user he can subscribe to Castamatic premium to support developement.
