PodHaven vs FeedCastX

Make room for a better listen. PodHaven brings your podcasts together with personal recommendations, flexible library organization, and settings that put you in control. DISCOVER WHAT YOU ENJOY Find podcasts through search and charts, add an RSS feed, or import your subscriptions with OPML. Rate episodes and let PodHaven learn from your listening. Its recommendation model and scoring run entirely on your device, with reasons you can inspect for each recommendation. BUILD A LIBRARY THAT SORTS ITSELF Create Smart Lists that update as your library changes. Combine filters for listening state, duration, date, ratings, tags, and text. Organize whole shows or individual episodes with custom tags, then choose how your lists are sorted. LISTEN AT YOUR PACE Adjust playback speed and skip intervals. Shorten pauses with configurable silence skipping. Navigate chapters when available, use Undo Seek, and arrange your Up Next queue. Give each podcast its own playback speed, automatic queueing, episode limits, download policy, and notifications. TAKE YOUR PODCASTS WITH YOU Download episodes for offline listening. Protect favorites with Save in Cache and set a budget for temporary downloads. Keep playback close with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets and Control Center controls. Listen on the road with CarPlay. FOLLOW THE WORDS Read transcripts supplied by podcasts or generate them on your device. Follow synchronized text in the player, read at your own pace, and find transcript phrases with Smart Lists. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Customize appearance, artwork, swipe actions, remote controls, and recommendation settings. Import and export OPML subscriptions and share episodes, including links to a specific playback time. No account is required. Explore the complete guide at https://artisanalsoftware.com/podhaven/guides.

Ever lose a private or custom RSS feed after an app update? FeedCastX fixes that. Subscribe once — by RSS or Atom URL, including feeds no directory lists — and it's saved on your device permanently. No account, no re-entering feeds, ever. NEVER LOSE A FEED Add any podcast by its RSS/Atom URL. FeedCastX stores it locally and keeps it through every app update — the whole reason this app exists. PLAYBACK BUILT FOR LISTENING Adjustable speed from 0.5x to 3x, skip forward/back, and a full Now Playing screen with real-time progress. Video episodes get an immersive full-screen landscape player. QUEUE ACROSS EVERY PODCAST Build one queue that spans every show you subscribe to, with auto-advance to the next episode — no need to jump between feeds to keep listening. OPML IMPORT & EXPORT Migrating from another podcast app? Import your whole subscription list from an OPML file in one shot, or export FeedCastX's list to move elsewhere. Standard, portable, no lock-in. HANDLES UNUSUAL FEEDS Some aggregator feeds nest categories inside categories instead of using flat episode lists — FeedCastX recurses through them automatically, whether the leaf is audio, video, or an external link. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking of any kind. FeedCastX only talks to the feed and media URLs you choose to add — there's no server of ours in between. Works with any standard podcast host. Opens instantly. Never lose a feed again.