Very nice, but has problems.
First, the positive. This is one of the nicest looking of all podcast players. Love the way it finds and displayed podcast artwork. Really well done. Very complete feature set too. The way the ads are displayed is sane and well done. Now the problems. It froze up constantly. Often crashed too. It would freeze up when I tried to scroll thru the podcasts. It froze a lot. Hopefully new updates will fix this. The creator has a potentially great app. But at least on my iPhone SE running iOS 16, it doesn’t work well enough yet to use.
Show less
My New Go-To Podcasting App
Playlists
Speed, gap, and skip settings per podcast
Podcasting 2.0 integration
The app that finally made me switch.
Speed, gap, and skip settings per podcast
Podcasting 2.0 integration
The app that finally made me switch.
Great App!
Really enjoy using this app for my podcasts. I will bump it to 5 stars when downloading and/or streaming podcasts is added on the Apple Watch.
Very nice!
After a couple of days with Castamatic 8, I find it a worthy replacement for the pod catcher I have been using for the last few years, Overcast. I love the Value 4 Value feature, especially now that it shows a $/hour conversion right on the playback screen.
My daily driver podcast app
This app is great and has become my daily driver for all podcasts.
Only complaint is that it seems to have issues switching between Bluetooth devices. Switching from earbuds to car or vice versa causes the apps to stop playing and often requires the app to be force closed and re-opened to resume playing.
Only complaint is that it seems to have issues switching between Bluetooth devices. Switching from earbuds to car or vice versa causes the apps to stop playing and often requires the app to be force closed and re-opened to resume playing.
Show less
Response from developer
Hello Studerje. A new release is coming in a few days with a fix for the issue you are experiencing.
Only one glaring flaw
I like this app a lot. Makes switching from Overcast to a similar podcast 2.0 app a breeze. The one problem I have is the premium subscription doesn’t remove boost/stream fees. Kind of feels like the app is double dipping. Will most likely cancel the sub and go back to Fountain.
Response from developer
Hello Mark. You are 100% right. The next version will disable paying fees for subscribed members. Thank you.
Totally replaced Apple Podcasts
Perfectly simple application that just works. Shows me my podcasts chronologically, and makes them easy to be downloaded. Can use the podcast index and value 4 value system to give back to my fav podcasts.
Overall brilliant work!
Overall brilliant work!
Great app, missing one key feature
I absolutely love this app. It does not have one feature that I need. I want to listen to a podcast but the only way to sort is the podcast is by episode number, which Castamatic does not support. The episode number is not in the title and all the episodes were released at the same time.
Great podcasting 2.0 features
Between the index, the chapters, and value streaming - this app has the most important podcasting 2.0 features. I just wish more podcasters would get with the program. Also, the app freezes every time my audio output changes, which is multiple times per day with airpods switching to laptop, etc.
Response from developer
Hello. Happy to read you like Castamatic. When the audio output changes the audio should have a small interruption (a fraction of a second) and resume immediately, but the app should not freeze. If you can write some more info to info@castamatic.com we can try to debug the issue.
Better than Apple iOS podcast app
It works great, you should try it!
