Pocket Casts vs TickTick

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.

The most pleasing User Experience (UX) to set a Sleep Timer.
Activating the sleep timer will stop the podcast after a set period of time or at the End of the Episode.

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.

You can set Pocket Casts to automatically download the latest episode of a podcast, whenever a new episode is released.

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 The team behind Pocket Casts work hard to maintain a reliable and high quality catalog so you can avoid out of date listings, problems with raw feeds, etc.

If you use Pocket Casts on more than one device, you can synchronize settings, playback positions, etc., across all your devices.

It is possible to connect Pocket Casts with Sonos, and play podcasts.

Enables you to set a "global" playback speed to use for all podcasts which can be over-ridden by a podcast specific playback speed.

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.

You can set custom "skip forward" and "skip backward" timings for easily skipping past parts of podcasts you don't like.

On each task you can choose between a text description or a checklist.

It’s accessible on the web, via a Chrome extension, on Android (phone/tablet, with widgets), and on iOS.

Recurring tasks are simple to set, and can be created according to custom rules.

You can change the opacity, themes, lists, and cosmetic features of the widget.

You can type "buy milk tomorrow 5pm" it will turn into a task as "buy milk" and reminder set as tomorrow 5pm automatically.

You can add up to five reminders for different time to a single task.

Allows you to set custom filters, making it easier to find tasks.

Supports up to 5 reminders per task.

Tasks can be sorted by dragging and dropping them in the list.

You can integrate TickTick with Google Calendar.

TickTick is resource-light, which is great if you run multiple programs or are using an older device.

TickTick takes a minimalistic approach in order to keep things simple.

Just start typing to add a task.

Pro version of the software allows tasks to be laid out in an easy to overview calendar view.

Just click a hashtag to filter your labeled tasks.

Paid users can add description and checklist into a single task all together.

You can set a different color for each list.

Tags are a native feature; up to five tags can be applied to each task.

Easy to set recurring tasks and a lot of possibilities to do that.

You can share a list through an email or a shareable link.

Remind you of a task when you reach specific location.

You can set starting and ending date and time for tasks.

The mobile Android app of TickTick follows the Android design guidelines for a familiar interface.

TickTick supports keyboard shortcuts that makes it easier to work with.

Paid users can enjoy pro themes.

Easy to see and recover tasks from trash if you deleted them by accident.

Easy to print any task you want to.

You can add tasks via Siri.

Easy to see all concluded tasks by date of conclusion.

Support team responds quickly.

Shows your events on other calendars (like Outlook) in your task list.