When comparing Castro vs Pod Paradise, the Slant community recommends Castro for most people. In the question“What are the best online podcast players?” Castro is ranked 8th while Pod Paradise is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Castro is:
If a Podcast Show has chapters, then you can pre-select the ones that you want to listen to and it skips all other chapters on auto pilot.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Chapter Support (Premium Feature)
If a Podcast Show has chapters, then you can pre-select the ones that you want to listen to and it skips all other chapters on auto pilot.
Pro Beautiful, easy to use interface
Castro has an intuitive, minimalistic interface.
Pro Auto downloads podcasts
Pro Adjust playback speed
There are seven different playback speeds ranging from 0.5x (slow) to 2x (fast). It also uses a voice-optimized playback algorithm so the sound quality is great no matter which speed you prefer.
Pro Sleep timer
Pro Download episodes
Pro 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.
Pro Subscribe to podcasts
Cons
Con very expensive Premium Features
If you want any of those Premium Features then you need to pay for a Subscription that costs $ 3.- each month or 20.- every year.
Con auto deletes Downloads
downloaded media is removed immediately after the episode has ended.
Therefore you are not able to read show notes of said episode or lookup links in chapters.
And if your are offline and need to listen again to any part (for whatever reason) of that show, then you are out of luck. The whole show has to be downloaded again.
Con Lacks categorization and charts
Con UI is not completely polished
It looks like a patchwork of boxes and buttons
Con No mobile app
There is no mobile app so it only works in your browser.