Overcast vs Podcast Addict

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.

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.

The app provides a lot of features, adjustments, and settings.

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.

When you play an episode from the Downloaded list, it makes a queue of all episodes for continuous play.

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.

Chromecast is supported for those that want to stream their podcasts to a Chromecast compliant device.