Overcast vs CastBox

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.

Boosts and normalizes volume.

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.

Sometimes podcasts change their hosts/urls. Overcast will handle and remember this.

Simple UI for making playlists of podcasts.

Speed, voice boost, smart speed, notifications, download/stream new episodes.

Supports several Features for a great #UX to navigate Podcasts Episodes with chapter marks. Even shows a visual timeline for each chapter.

Links to episodes can be combined with timestamps for easy sharing (links the timestamp to the web app).

Pretty much the same as the other options, but nicer categories and list views.

RSS or whatever else will work.

Light, Dark (dark blue), Black.

Recommendations within the app are surfaced to your followers.

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.

Optimized to help you hear what you want to hear.

Slow down until 0.50x and speed up as fast as 3x.

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.

Skip the silence and listen more to words.

Create tags to organize your podcasts.

Remove ads, "customize home page" feature, and more for total productivity.