Good, but...
I really like Pocket Casts ability to sync seamlessly across platforms. Ive been getting a lot of use out of the web player to find subscriptions and such and playing them immediately on my iPhone (iTunes has been having issues with that lately, plus the Podcasts app crashes every time it syncs, which is apparently an issue that has come up repeatedly ever since they split it off from the Music app; I wouldnt know, as Ive only been using it for about a month).
My only complaints here are a couple of things that seem like fairly obvious features:
1) As others have mentioned, certain settings like sort order and playback speed should be possible to set defaults for globally. I want ALL of my subscriptions to display oldest->newest without having to change them individually. Apples catcher suffers from the same oversight and I dont understand why.
2) The "Play all from here" function doesnt seem to work when sorting is oldest->newest. If I choose this in the middle of a playlist, it will "advance" to earlier episodes, so it seems that the sort order just doesnt affect this function. The "up next" queue works well, so at least there is a workaround for a listening session, but this isnt practical for binge listening to something with years worth of episodes, and still mildly annoying for smaller ones.
If it wasnt for the fact that they charge $4 for this app, it would be 4* even with these flaws. I fell that at least the second one is a bug that cant be excused in a paid app. I do feel that this is the best podcast app available for multiple platforms at the moment, and Im looking forward to seeing issues addressed in the near future.
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