Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to Safari
Join our community
DebonairCalleis's Experience
Top Pro
•••
Top Pro
•••Top Pro
•••Top Pro
•••
Top Con
•••
Top Con
•••
Top Pro
•••
Granular control over playback by podcast, easy search and add, terrific sound quality and time saving. See More
You can set a 'start from' position for a podcast to skip a set number of seconds from the beginning of an episode. Great for when you don't want to listen to an intro you've heard a couple of dozen times before. Additionally, you can also change the playback speed, to slow down fast talkers or speed up slow talkers. See More
Pocket Casts has one of the most colorful, pleasant to use interfaces. For example, the app takes the most prominent color from the album art and colorizes the rest of the playback interface based on that color. This allows the app to stay vibrant and slightly different for each podcast. Or the way it displays featured podcasts in a colorful mosaic made from album art, makes the whole experience of using the app pleasant. See More
Pocket Casts has a feature called Episode Filter, that allows automatically creating playlists based on setting such as playing states (unplayed, playing, played), status (downloaded, downloading, not downloaded), episode type (audio, video) and of course podcasts themselves. You can also customize the appearance of the playlist with a color and an icon to help it stand out easier. See More
Clicking the plus button in the top-right corner will bring you to featured podcasts. From there you can access multiple ways of finding new things to listen to such as: top charts (that can be separated in audio and video), search (that allows searching both by name and feed URL), a list of podcast networks and different podcast categories. They also have a great selection of podcasts to choose from. The team behind Pocket Casts work hard to maintain a reliable and high quality catalog so you can avoid out of date listings, problems with raw feeds, etc. See More
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. See More
Lacking in so many ways it's shocking. Spotify is one of the worst things to happen to Podcasts; a complete lack of basic and advanced features. Worse, they are abusing market dominance as a music player to get more people using their app, including uncompetitive practices [in relation to Podcasting, not general business] (such as buying big studios/networks and making many shows exclusive to their player, worse, also buying exclusive rights to existing shows. Disgusting). I can't help but worry about how this will go once they feel they've achieved a sufficient number of captive listeners. By all means, let them continue making money by owning shows and collecting the ad revenue like other successful networks; but let us select our own players. People sacrificing all the good aspects of a strong podcast player for convenience are potentially harming Podcasting in the long run. See More
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. See More