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CastBox
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Needs manual to help with some features
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Wide coverage
This is a must-have podcast app if you're living in another country apart from the US. CastBox supports and shows podcasts from more than 70 countries.
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Next episode on Playlist doesn't always play after current episode finishes and not all episodes of subscription show up
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Vast library of podcasts and audiobooks
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Very invasive ads in free mode
They really degrade the experience in the free mode.
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Award winning interface
Optimized to help you hear what you want to hear.
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Adjustable playback speed
Slow down until 0.50x and speed up as fast as 3x.
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Weekly updates & improvements
The developers try to keep the app updated from bugs and to make it a world-class app. With ever-growing features and improvements, it even competes with the best podcast apps out there.
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"Trim Silence" feature
Skip the silence and listen more to words.
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Tag podcasts
Create tags to organize your podcasts.
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Pro Subscription available
Remove ads, "customize home page" feature, and more for total productivity.
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Player FM
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Web player
Functional web app that shares settings with Android app.
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Next played episode is wrong sometimes
On some podcasts when an episode ends the player "jumps" to the last episode or even to an entirely different podcast.
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Seamless offline support
Latest episodes from Subscriptions and Play Later are automatically kept offline.
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Discovery
Can follow whole topics and search individual episodes.
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Cloud sync
Subscriptions and favorite topics sync across devices and the web.
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Best online support
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No ads
This shows a responsible attitude about in-app ads.
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Pod Paradise
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Download episodes
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UI is not completely polished
It looks like a patchwork of boxes and buttons
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Browse other podcasts without interrupting current podcast
Other online podcast players interrupt your current podcast when you try to find another one. PodParadise does not.
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No mobile app
There is no mobile app so it only works in your browser.
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Subscribe to podcasts
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Podcast Addict
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Free ad supported version available
For those that would like to try out the app or don't mind advertisements in their apps there is a free version available for download.
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Design is hum-drum and cluttered
The UI is a bit boring and cluttered when compared to PocketCasts.
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A lot of features
The app provides a lot of features, adjustments, and settings.
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Can not easily share a podcast
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Import OPML
For networks out there that offer an OPML for their entire list of shows, users can import that full list, making an easy way to get an entire networks listings.
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Automatically creates play queue
When you play an episode from the Downloaded list, it makes a queue of all episodes for continuous play.
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Built in playlist shuffle feature
While not on by default users can go into the players settings to allow for a shuffle feature of all podcasts in the users playlist.
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Chromecast support
Chromecast is supported for those that want to stream their podcasts to a Chromecast compliant device.
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Radio Streaming
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Platforms:
Chromecast
Free tier:
Ad-supported
Chapters:
Yes
Import/Export:
Import OPML
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Overcast
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13
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The ability to discover new or relevant podcasts ("Recommended for you") is practically useless
Similarly, the search feature seems to only look for podcast hosts or podcast names. You can't find all podcasts that has a specific guest.
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Smart Speed and Voice Boost
For listening to talk shows, Smart Speed allows you to skip silences and pauses. Voice Boost is very helpful when the speakers vary from really quiet to really loud - it balances the whole thing out. And you enable them during playback, so neither will mess up music podcasts.
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Very barebones webapp
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Voice Boost
Boosts and normalizes volume.
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Unplayed episodes
Does not have the ability to show unplayed episodes for individual podcasts.
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Very good audio quality
It has the best sounding audio when sped up. It also has neat features like the "Voice Boost" setting being tuned for being played when the phone is set flat on a table.
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Adds a subscription even after listening a single episode
It is not possible to pick a single Podcast Episode to download without having to subscribe to yet another Podcast feed (that shows up in your Subscriptions List).
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Feed redirection
Sometimes podcasts change their hosts/urls. Overcast will handle and remember this.
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Can't set a subscription to NOT download any episodes
By subscribing to a podcast you have to set it to download at least one (most recent) episode. There is the setting to set the podcast to stream only, but would prefer to set to zero downloads and choose which episodes to download individually.
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Easy playlists
Simple UI for making playlists of podcasts.
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Unable to sort by playtime
It would be nice to have the ability to sort tracks like podcasts from the shortest to the longest.
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Podcast specific settings
Speed, voice boost, smart speed, notifications, download/stream new episodes.
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No paged RSS feeds
this Podcatcher does not support reading longer RSS Feeds that are split into several pages (for faster access).
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Chapters navigation
Supports several Features for a great #UX to navigate Podcasts Episodes with chapter marks. Even shows a visual timeline for each chapter.
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Timestamp sharing
Links to episodes can be combined with timestamps for easy sharing (links the timestamp to the web app).
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Good catalogue
Pretty much the same as the other options, but nicer categories and list views.
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Ability to add podcast from URL
RSS or whatever else will work.
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Themes
Light, Dark (dark blue), Black.
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OPML import/export support
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Twitter integration
Recommendations within the app are surfaced to your followers.
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Platforms:
Web
Free tier:
ads, no file uploads AND no app icons
Push Notifications:
Yes
Playlist Sharing:
No
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Tasker
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Infinitely tweakable
Tasker has an impressive amount of triggers, actions, and parameters that can be used together in an incredible variety of ways. It can even accept scripts to follow instructions.
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Awful user interface
While it's incredibly powerful, Tasker's user interface is counter-intuitive, confusing, and just plain clunky at every turn.
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Create powerful custom applications
Tasker has the ability to create custom applications, effectively replacing multiple installed apps in your phone with tasks that are triggered automatically. What's even better is that they will be custom tailored to fit your specific needs.
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Steep learning curve
Tasker lacks good documentation or tutorials, which is important as the learning curve is very high if you want to use its advance features where this app actually shines.
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Can adjust system software
With Root access it can also dabble with system software which other apps are not likely to achieve at the moment.
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Export tasks as standalone apps
Tasker allows exporting workflows you've created as standalone applications that can then be shared or even put on the Google Play store.
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Awesome plugin support
Tasker has awesome plugin support to connect with hardware that usually requires installing specific apps. For example, it has a plugin for Pebble smartwatch so that you can automate tasks that require using Pebble.
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Purchase only once
The dev does not keep bringing out revised apps expecting you to pay each and every time; the same app has been developed consistently for nearly a decade.
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Zenkit
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Powerful and simple to use tool with a clean design
Easy to use and easily understandable for everyone.
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Many important data views
Data views include Mind-Map, Kanban-Board, Spreadsheet, List, and Calendar. Views can be switched easily.
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Native apps
Native apps for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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Platforms:
Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iPhone
Languages:
English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Chinese (traditional), Korean, Russian
API:
Yes
Collaborative:
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SwiftKey
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Highly acclaimed for its constantly improving prediction engine
The prediction engine of SwiftKey is continuously being improved by using data from social networks, text messages or even emails from the user's device. Predictions appear above the keyboard as soon as a letter is typed. By adjusting to the user's writing habits and style, it really helps to save time when writing.
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Swipe recognition not as smart as Swype
It requires much more precision, if you miss one letter you have little chance of having the desired word, which makes it difficult to use in some situations.
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Can be customized with plenty of themes available
Swiftkey offers a wide range of different themes to add personality to your keyboard (some are free.. others paid for via in app purchases).
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Privacy, automatically saves unknown words
E.g. passwords entered in plain text fields, place names, people names etc.
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Has a large number of languages available
Has 61+ languages available that can be downloaded. So chances are the languages you need will be available.
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High data bandwidth usage
This product consumes several MB per week, sometimes per day. The fact that SwiftKey doesn't fix the bug despite many similar reports is not really reassuring.
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Multiple simultaneous languages
Keyboard can integrate multiple languages into one seamless autocorrect engine.
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No language separation or weighing
If you load several languages, you can choose any keyboard for any of them, but it won't help the recognition algorithm, which insists on giving other language words in the most absurd situations. Again, no help from their support to arrange the situation.
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Can be resized to as large or as small as you want
You can choose between five different sizes to resize the keyboard.
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Cannot remove some options
You cannot remove the emojis or Info button from the keyboard.
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Can be undocked
The feature may seem odd but the ability to undock the keyboard is extremely useful in certain situations. For example when creating content or using difficult websites.
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Themes are in app purchases
Like most third party keyboards, Swiftkey offers tons of themes but of course they cost money and have to be purchased through the app.
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Ad-free
SwiftKey is competely ad-free.
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The smallest layout is too big
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Can be customized to have a numbers row in easy reach
Users can optionally display a number pad above the keyboard.
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High processor/memory usage makes it unusable on older devices
SwiftKey is extremely resource-intensive compared to many of its competitors, and will often lag even on high-end smartphones.
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Gestures typing or tap typing
Swiftkey supports both popular methods of typing. Either way the methods integrate perfectly with the predictions featured above the keyboard.
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Predicting and inserting word combinations faulty
Recent update enabled Swiftkey to predict short word combinations. In principle this should be quite convenient, but so far it turns out this new algorithm is defective and way too aggressive. Too often it inserts combinations that are completely meaningless, or inserts English combinations in Dutch sentences or the other way around. Has almost doubled the amount of corrections needed.
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Fast access to Emojis
When users type the name of the desired Emoji, a small list will come up where the right one can be selected.
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Bought by Microsoft
Will undoubtedly lead to less innovation.
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Free
Swiftkey is free to download and use, though there are in app purchases to unlock more features.
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Users can view in-depth usage statistics
SwiftKey will even provide you exciting data about how you type such as a heatmap. The more you use SwiftKey, the more your heat map will transform from perfect circles into blobs where you tend to press. From the Heatmap you'll know where you tend to make mistakes and how SwiftKey is improved. Other stats provided include: Distance flowed in meters Keystrokes saved Typos corrected Words completed
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Supports Google voice dictation
Even though SwiftKey is a third party keyboard, Swiftkey still uses the preferred Google voice dictation.
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All the typing information saved from SwiftKey is synced across devices
Any learned words, phrases (inc. email addresses) will be backed up to the cloud and available across multiple devices.
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Various convenient layouts available, also for tablets
Among the layout choices is a split keyboard which anchors each half to the lower corners of the screen, where one would naturally hold a tablet device while typing, with the option to place a dedicated 10-key number pad in the unused space between them.
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Cloud backup
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Social Account Integration for learning new languages
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Platforms:
Android
App Stores:
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SoundCloud
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Recommendations
Links to related music, based on what you're listening to, can be found in the sidebar.
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Can't do an advanced search
You can't search, for example, for Creative Commons music with the tag #trap. It could be useful to search for music you like that is under Creative Commons.
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Subscribe to artists
You can subscribe to artists to be notified the instant they upload a new song or give an update.
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Interface is full of bugs
The SoundCloud website has tons of problems, including issues with notifications, favorites, and uploading sounds.
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Explore tab has new music constantly
Explore tab on SoundCloud shows trending music that can be filtered based on genre/tag. There's a constant stream of new music.
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Audio ads in some uploaded content
Some content on SoundCloud includes audio ads, particularly sponsored podcasts. (Note that SoundCloud itself doesn't add these - all the audio you're hearing is exactly as it was uploaded.)
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Follow people
You can follow people with similar tastes or that often find new music. When they favorite a song, SoundCloud will notify you about it.
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Free to use
You don't even have to log in or sign up for an account if you don't want to. There are paid options for if you want to upload large quantities of audio (eg if you're a music label you'll need this), but it's free to download as much and as often as you like.
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Pre-releases
Some music labels, especially newer ones, release on SoundCloud before anywhere else.
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Creative Commons filter
SoundCloud allows for finding music that is licensed under Creative Commons.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, Desktop, Sonos, Windows Phone
Free tier:
Partial
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
256kbs AAC
Offline Download:
Premium (partial)
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FairEmail
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Open source
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No Microsoft exchange server support
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Multiple account support
Multiple identities per account, notifications per account or contact.
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UI might be a bit confusing for some
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Actively maintained
It is actively maintained. The used libraries are up to date and bugs are fixed quickly.
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Privacy-Focused
There are no trackers within the app and trackers sent with mails are disabled by default. This app lets you read and compose emails with your privacy in your very own hands.
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Fast and customizable
Privacy features are excellent.
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Lightweight
~ 20 MB.
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Identities support
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Two way synchronization
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Flat conversation threading
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Encryption support
Supports both OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption for total privacy.
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Support for safety and low-bandwidth
Allows to configure maximum size of email downloaded immediately.
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Can show plain text of html mails
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Show links before opening
Some HTML mails may show different links and link texts, this app however will show you the real link before opening, protecting against phishing and scams
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Recognize spoofing internationalized domain names
Some domain names may use non-ASCII characters looking similar to the latin alphabet (e.g. some cyrillic characters). This app will show you the punycode representation of the domain, if that is the case and thus protect you against phishing and scams.
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Reformat the HTML mail for increased privacy
Some HTML mails may include ressources that can track you. This app doesn't load them by default, but reformats the text, increasing both privacy and readability.
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Autoconfiguration with open standards
There are open standards for any email provider to show how an email client should connect to the server. This app supports both RFC 6186 as well as Thunderbird Autoconfiguration standards.
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OAuth support for most common mail providers
Supports authenticating with the mail server using OAuth, thus increasing security.
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Low RAM usage at the right setings
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Platforms:
Android
Price:
Free
Publisher:
Marcel Bokhorst
Search:
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Stitcher
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Inserts advertisments in between episodes
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Free
There are zero in app purchases meaning the app retains full functionality while also being free.
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Limited preferences
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Allows downloading episodes for offline listening on mobile devices
This is a useful feature for saving bandwidth and listening when you are not on a network.
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Cannot add RSS feeds
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Find similar podcasts through Smart Station
A feature called Smart Station will offer podcasts based on what you've previously listened to.
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Auto generated stations
Stitcher creates stations from a mix of podcasts, making for an easy way to listed to different things in one channel.
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Downcast
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Auto-downloads podcasts
Downcast can be set to automatically download new episodes of podcasts in the background.
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Extremely buggy
Around mid-2015 Downcast implemented some code that started to leave infinite loop processes that have the potential to cause the phone to heat up, lag, crash Downcast, or crash other apps. The bugs have only continued to get worse. Go with Overcast or Pocket Casts, or even Podcatcher for the Downcast feel.
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Adjustable playback speed
You can change the playback speed to fit your needs up to 3x the speed.
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Doesn't sync with iTunes
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Sync between iOS devices
Downcast can synchronize podcasts and settings across iOS devices through iCloud.
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Accesses iTunes podcast library
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Supports password-protected feeds
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Gesture shortcuts
Downcast supports multi-touch gestures for navigating around.
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Sleep timer
You can set Downcast to shut off podcasts after a set amount of time.
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Adjustable skip interval
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Set the end time to be x seconds / minutes from the end time.
The ability to set the end time to be x seconds / minutes from the end is so excellent.
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Set the start time to be x seconds / minutes from the start time.
The ability to set the start time to be x seconds / minutes from the start time is amazing.
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Straightforward discovery system with feed support
This app helps users subscribe to podcasts through browsing top lists and categories as well as entering a feed or OPML address.
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Simple to use UI
Downcast has a straightforward, intuitive user interface.
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Mac App available
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Can stream episodes without downloading
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Can prioritize playlists
You can have Downcast prioritize your playlists automatically, allowing you to listen to podcasts in the order your prefer without you having to manually reorganize them.
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Set how long you wish to keep your podcasts locally
Downcast can be set to automatically remove podcasts that have been on your device for a certain amount of time or take up a certain amount of space on your device. This can be done to groups of podcasts or on a per podcast basis.
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AirPlay support
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Prioritizes show notes
Selecting a podcast for playback will bring up shownotes, instead of the more common choice of album art.
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Playback Speed:
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Telegram
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Free and convenient large file sharing
Copy/paste videos, gifs, images, geolocation, documents, and even executable files. Drag over files for practically any time up to 2GB in size. Images can be compressed, too.
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Not fully open source
Telegram has an open API and protocol free for everyone, but the backend software is not open source. Therefore 100% privacy can not be evaluated.
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Free of cost
The application is available free of cost.
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Can only be used with a phone number
It is not possible to activate and use Telegram by mail etc. You need a phone number.
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Privacy focused
In addition to the end-to-end encryption [only in secret chats] that provides privacy to communications, the app also includes self destructing timers for chats, and the ability to permanently delete messages, yours and theirs, from your and their devices.
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Only "Secret Chat" messages are encrypted end to end
The only way to get end-to-end encryption (client-client) using Telegram is to use the Secret Chat function, anything through the service is server-client encrypted. Also secret chat is only implemented in the mobile apps, meaning there is no way to encrypt messages end-to-end when using the desktop client or the web browser client.
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Media messaging
Videos, gifs, images, geolocation, and documents.
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"Secret Chat" feature is not available for desktop client
Secret chats with end to end encryption are only available on mobile apps.
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Channels for one way broadcasting
Broadcasting channels suitable for announcing things.
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No source code sintax highlighting
Telegram does not have source code syntax highlighting, making it difficult to share code snippets.
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Beautiful UI
Very customizable with a lot of clean looking options.
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Does not work for visually impaired
Doesn't work for visually impaired.
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Possible to send photos and videos without compression
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Does not support spherical 360° photos
Spherical 360° photos becoming more popular these days, but Telegram does not support such format.
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Supergroups of up to 200,000 people
In Supergroups, anyone along with admins can delete their messages from all sides. A message can be pinned to the top. All of the user's messages can be deleted by an administrator, and they can be banned and reported as well. Supergroups can have a public link (outside of Asia, due to high spam volumes), which is also a username.
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Does not support text messaging
You can NOT make it your default text messaging App.
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Two-step verification
You can set up an additional password to your account, which can be reset by your email. You don't have to use an email if you do not want to. If you lose access to your email or forget your password, you will be able to reset it via text message if your account is over seven days old and will receive it within a week (in case you recover anything before then).
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Secure
Telegram uses an open source MTProto encryption protocol that provides complete end-to-end encryption for secret chats. To show off their confidence in the protocol the company behind Telegram has organized $200,000 and $300,000 challenges to break the encryption. So far there have been no winners.
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Saved messages
You can write messages to yourself. You can write some notes, add links, and see everything across all your devices.
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Cloud chat keys are kept in different jurisdiction
Even though encryption used for cloud-based storage (e.g. Gmail, Facebook, iCloud) may not be as secure as end-to-end encryption or zero-knowledge storage, Telegram does the most that it can by holding keys to chats in different jurisdictions, requiring intergovernmental cooperation to obtain the keys. This is aside from whatever other security measures have been taken, of course.
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Multiplatform native client apps
There are native desktop, mobile and web client apps, that are optimized for speed and are light on memory usage.
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Open source client apps
Client apps are open source, making whole service more trustworthy.
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Unlimited storage
Unlimited number of files can be stored forever on the cloud. You can upload files up to 1.5 GB each.
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Voice and video messages
You can post voice and video messages if you are too lazy to write text messages.
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Group Voice Chat
This Discord-like feature adds to the interactivity of the application.
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Pinned Messages
You can pin messages to the top of groups or supergroups so members will see them when opening the group.
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Self-destruct messages
Messages in individual chats can be set to self destruct on a timer. They will disappear after the timer expires. Messages in all new chats can be set to self-destruct with a global auto-delete timer in Settings > Privacy and Security > Auto-Delete Messages.
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Edit or delete messages after sending them
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Banned in China
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Save time with inline bots and link previews
Unfortunately, on the desktop videos don't play, but images are viewable without visiting popular websites like imgur and Instagram. You can play YouTube videos and others within the app, so you don't need to embed code or anything. With inline bots, such as @gif, @pic/bing, @vid/YouTube, etc, you can look things up without leaving the client or chat that you're in. Simply type the name and some keywords and wait for the results to load.
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@mentions
You can ping people to get their attention by @mentioning them.
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Desktop app handles HiDPI
The desktop app has a built in setting to scale the UI of the app up to 200% which allows for those with 4k monitors/screens to use the app without scaling issues.
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High quality calls
Uses the latest GPL audio codecs, such as Opus, an adaptative high-quality codec that supersedes AAC at any bitrate.
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Customer support is within the app
Although it's volunteer based, but still pretty top-notch if available, which it tends to be.
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Large groups can have channels called 'Topics'
Topics are now available in groups of 100+ members and have a sleek two-column layout and new buttons to quickly navigate. A default topic called General is now in every topic group, holding the group’s service messages and previous message history.
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Popular in the USA
On SimilarWeb you can see that Telegram is on the top 15 among all communication apps.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows phone, UWP
Publisher:
Various companies affiliated with Telegram
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2048 MB
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Secret chats
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Signal
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Provides security and privacy
Signal uses an advanced end to end encryption protocol that provides privacy for every message every time.
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Needs access to your phone number and contacts to work
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Free and open source
Signal is free and open source software, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code. It's the only private messenger that uses open source, peer-reviewed cryptographic protocols to keep your messages safe.
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Single device
Signal can only be registered to one mobile device at a time. But you can link Signal to Signal Desktop.
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Supports encrypted group chats
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Servers hosted in the US
A security risk due to National Security letters, which require giving up data to the US state, and making it illegal to disclose that.
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Has a desktop app
Signal Desktop can be used on multiple devices and has most features of the Android version, although it still requires you to register with your phone.
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Unreliable notifications
Sometimes messages won't be received if the Signal app has been closed for a long time or hasn't been opened after booting the device.
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Supports sharing of various different media types
Signal supports: emoji, pictures, videos, audio, contacts, any location and GIF.
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Poor support
Their E-mail adress for support are not working. They have a Community support on here. Sometimes if you need a support, you need to create an account on their forum and need to share a topic and wait for long time.
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Note to Self feature
Allows you to "send: messages to yourself and sync to desktop so you can use Signal as a kind of encrypted Pushbullet alternative
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You can easily view all media exchanged
You can easily view all media shared in the chat without scrolling back to when it was shared.
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Annonymous Sender (Encrypted)
The sender credentials can be encrypted with the rest of the message, leaving only the recipient address readable by the Signal server. Even if Signal wanted they couldn't see who is talking with who by this mean.
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Works everywhere in every country
Unlike most messenger apps, Signal works reliably in all countries by securely circumventing internet censorship.
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Recommended by Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden uses this messenger and recommends it to everyone who is concerned about his privacy.
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Publisher:
Open Whisper Systems
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Yes
Media:
images / audio / video / files / contacts / GIFs / location
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Spotify
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Huge collection of music and fast access to newly released songs
Spotify has over 20 million songs and arguably the largest collection out of its competitors and usually has the fastest access to new music. The Spotify desktop client allows local music files to be imported with the option of syncing with a mobile device which largely mitigates the issue of missing artists.
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Free account have lots of ads
If you hate commercials, you would buy Premium or go on using something else.
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Related artists
Helps to find new authors based on your previous picks
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Discovery is terrible
The discovery algorithm is poor and does not learn fast enough. Not obvious how to train it.
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Curated playlists
Public playlists on Spotify created by other people are great for finding new music.
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Poor audio quality
There's a high range of bitrates and most of vary from average to bad.
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Client's functionality can be extended via third-party apps
Spotify desktop client allows for third-party apps. They extend the functionality of Spotify and many of them offer new ways of discovering music. Noteworthy apps include Moodagent, Last.fm, Swarm.fm, ShareMyPlaylists, The Hype Machine, We Are Hunted, Shuffler.fm.
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Has a free version
A free, ad-supported account allows streaming from an extensive library of music.
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Weekly Discover playlist uses a great algorithm
A playlist generated by Spotify based on your listening habits and released every Monday. The algorithm used by this playlist is great and stands out from its competitors.
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Platforms:
Web; Android; iOS; Linux; Windows; MacOS
Playlist Sharing:
Yes
User-Created Playlists:
Yes
Offline download:
Yes
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MyProfiles
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Works with the vast majority of system settings
It can change lots of settings on your phone, for example you can use MyProfiles to put the phone on silent at the times in the week or locations you shouldn't be disturbed. You can set an exception group from your Android contacts so that important people can still reach you. You can use it to put your phone into airplane mode overnight to save batteries, or when you have a meeting scheduled in your calendar.
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Profiles are activated based on a variety of parameters
Profiles can be activated based on a specific location, calendar event, battery status, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, screen, etc.
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Comes with 6 default profiles
The default profiles available are normal, sleep, outdoor, online, offline and driving. Profiles control notifications, display settings, wireless settings, general settings, and launching/closing application settings (just to name a few).
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Very configurable & Flexible
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Podcasts
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9
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5
Cons
3
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Very slow searching through podcasts catalogs
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Comes pre-installed
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Makes my iPhone hot when using with associated battery drain (iPhone 11 Pro)
Still not fixed in iOS 17. Finally have to give up on this app.
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Sleep timer
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Random shutdowns
A few people have issues with the app randomly deciding to shut down or not starting.
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Free
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Can auto-download new episodes
You can set the app to automatically download new episodes. Additionally, you can set how many episodes should be stored locally.
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Saves podcasts to the iTunes directory
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Platforms:
iOS
Playback Speed:
Yes
Chapters:
Yes
Smart Speed:
No
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Audible
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3
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3
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Easily go back 30 seconds
You have the ability to go 30 seconds back in your listening with only the push of a button. Very convenient when listening to podcasts or audiobooks.
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Can set up family sharing
By linking Amazon and Audible accounts, the Amazon Family sharing can be used to sync an Audible library across Android devices, PCs, and computers. Everyone on the Amazon Family group can see audiobooks, and the owner of the Audible account can pick and choose which individual audiobooks are shared and which aren't, if desired.
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Simplified UI for in-car use
Users can tap the "car" option in Audible to get a simplified user interface which makes playing, pausing, and rewinding audiobooks easier while driving.
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CamScanner
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8
Cons
5
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Scan border recognition
Nearly perfect scan border recognition – and related adjustment possibilities
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Nagging badges even in paid version
Even in the paid version disturbing badges for gaining "gifts" one cannot switch off.
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Small Scan file size
The best small scan file size results so far (when adjusted correctly)
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Scan workflow not optimized
Scan (and saving results) workflow needs several more steps than it should.
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PDF conversion
CamScanner scans documents directly into multi page PDF format.
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Pro features requires subscription
Either monthly or yearly subscriptions are available at either $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
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Ad-less free version
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Free version has no OCR functionality
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Batch scanning
CamScanner allows users to scan multiple documents at the same time.
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Buttons are not labeled
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Scanned documents can be stored in cloud storage
Free CamScanner accounts have access to 200 MB of free storage space. 10 GB storage space is available for full version license (monthly subscription).
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Secure
This app offers password protection for scanned documents.
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Balance indicator
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AdAway
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4
Cons
2
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System wide blocking
Use the hosts files to block ads, so it works for everything.
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Needs root (by design)
Needs root to update the hosts file.
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Doesn't consume CPU time or memory
The app updates the hosts file periodically but doesn't need to run in the background in order to block ads, which is especially convenient for older phones.
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Won't block same domain ads
Because the host file can only redirect domains, if the ad and content are on the same domain the ad will be displayed.
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Can use systemless host
Can be used without modifying the system if rooted with magisk.
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Can use custom host files
Lots of people and keep their own updated host files used for blocking ads and ad away supports loading them in or even adding their source for autoloading.
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Platforms:
Android (Host-file)
Blocking:
System-wide
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