Pocket Casts: Podcast Player App Reviews

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Best podcast app

After trying many mediocre, good and great options Ive finally made Pocket Casts my go-to podcasts app. Well worth your money and time!

Best Podcast App

The new update is amazing, great job Shifty Jelly, this is the best podcast app by far!

Everything Ive been looking for...except

This is everything Ive been looking for in a podcast app: customizable playlists, auto-trim, ability to add by URL... However I am experience some frustrating bugs adding to Up Next when episodes are already marked as played. Even when I manually mark them as unplayed, they disappear from the playlist. Also episodes from some podcasts disappear randomly, both in podcast view and within a customized playlist. Once these frustrating bugs are fixed though I have high hopes for this app.

Best podcasts app. You will not regret the purchase

What I love about this app is it is stable. That alone makes it worth it. But its feature rich and the play/skip forwards and pack features are nicely designed.

The Best

Much better than standard podcast app, and update looks and feels great!

My love ❤️

I love this app omg The best of the best. Podcast app. Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Top of the heap

Was already very carefully considered and the new update levels-up that excellence.

Nice update!

Awesome improvement. I love the new voice boost and science skipping features, theyre really quite useful! List view is a nice idea, but it feels too large and cumbersome to be useful. The interface does feel A LOT faster on my iPod, although refreshing does seem a bit slower than it used to. Would it be possible to make an option so that the theme switches based on screen brightness? Also it used to be easier to choose whether to stream or download even if your setting differed. Would it be possible to make it a bit easier (instead of pressing ... And then stream, it takes forever)

Best Podcast app out there

After trying a few of the alternatives, Pocket Casts is nearly everything I was looking for. If youre thinking of upgrading from Apples own app, this brings some solid features that continue to impress.

Best podcast app

This is the best podcast app Ive used simply because it is simple to use! Its easy to navigate and use. Love that!

Why change a good thing?

Its getting harder to navigate and use lately. Now its especially hard to delete old episodes. You have to find them, then tap to open each episode, then tap a tiny menu icon, then tap delete, then tap delete when it pops up in an additional confirmation prompt. Unreal. Itd be easier to just open a terminal window and type it now. In the process of looking for the new delete command I swiped left to open the menu to delete like most apps do, which seemed to mark it as unplayed and send it back to whatever filter contexts it was a part of before. I wasnt reading it since I was trying to delete it though so its anyones guess where and what it was now.

Two Steps Forward, One Back

A nice feature update to a nice podcast client. A little disappointed with the direction the UI is going though. Version 5 really felt at home on iOS. Version 6 feels much more like a cross-platform app. The iPad app is also not quite as polished with this release as it was in the 5x builds. Hopefully it will receive a bit more attention in subsequent updates.

Lousy customer service / Chromecast support broken

I have notified the developers twice of a problem with their crawler, which has stopped checking my own podcast for updates. I never got a response. Chromecast support is broken.

Delete Your Apple Podcast App Now

I listen to way too many podcasts, but the Apple podcast app has become unusable for me. Luckily I was passed along to PocketCasts. It is lightweight and has many more features than the default app. Well worth the cost.

One of the best apps Ive ever used.

Love this App

Love the look, feel, and functionality. Keeps improving with updates and provides a lovely experience.

The best; even with crashes

Love this on iPhone/iPad, & Chromecast support. It crashes a lot, but is quick to launch it again.

I used to love it

Very frustrated with customer service regarding the fact that there are no responses as to why certain podcasts will download but are unable to be played (and are playable using other apps).

Dead product for iOS 10 compatibility

Look elsewhere. The product fails to add items to its play next list and wont consistently remember what podcasts have been played. Two attempts to get a support response failed.

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I have tried them all and none of them compare to the overall product. Keep up the incredible work.

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