Castamatic Podcast Player

If you’re on iOS and want to see what podcasting 2.0 is all about Castamatic is worth checking out.

Loving this app, but had to drop my rating after extensive use. There is no way to quickly select multiple episodes for download, and the swipe ability is too touchy to be reliably used consistently. Wish we could manually set actions for swipe L/R. Also need a badge that shows # of downloaded ep for podcasts - not # not listened avail. Finally, need to be able to display just downloaded episodes (like you can do with show/hide listened). Finally, the app has gotten sluggish and unresponsive since I've added my full list of podcasts I follow. Would love to work with the developers on testing and new features.

I downloaded this after hearing it recommended by Adam Curry of “The No Agenda Show” )”the best podcast in the universe, according to the Mueller report”). I really want to like this app, but it has a serious flaw. It often stalls for no apparent reason. This often happens on “The John Kobylt Show.: I recently started listening to “The Wright Report” but find it stalls so much on this podcast that I may have to use a different app.

This app has a generally good UI design and works okay. However far too often it lags like crazy when trying to open it. Additionally, there’s been countless times where the app has crashed or bugged out and the podcast I’m listening to is reset to the beginning. It just happened now when I started playing a show and I lost like an hour and a half of progress. Not great

Heard about the app, read the No Ads, No Tacking… decided to try the app. First thing you notice is banners. Can be removed…for a subscription. So much for the No Ads, at least I see a banner that can be removed as an ad. Not a terrible subscription at 9.99 a year, but I’m sticking with a cleaner interface app that doesn’t force a subscription to look clean. Worth a try though if you can get past the, well, ads, or perhaps call them reminders your not a subscriber. Just not for me. I appreciate the Dev response here. I suppose it all come down to perception. I see a banner reminding you to subscribe to a product as an ad. The developer does not. I can see the their point of view as well. This app is a fantastic app, that banner just ruins it for me. I believe many will love it though and I wish the developer well. Who knows, one day I may try it out again.

I installed this to check out some podcast 2.0 features. I do like some of the features but I find myself going back to other podcast apps. There are just lots of glitches with this one that I don't have in others. For example, if I'm listening to a podcast as I pull into the parking garage at work, the podcast immediately stops and I have to wait until I leave the garage then force quit the app in order to get it to reconnect. Other podcast apps don't even stop streaming in the garage let alone need to be force quit and reopened. It randomly stops play ng at other times too and I have to force quit to get it working. Maybe it works better if you download instead of stream but for how I use a podcast app, this just doesn't work as a main podcast app but I think I'll keep it installed and see how it develops.

Great app and I have no regrets about using this over other podcast apps, especially those with no podcast 2 support (ahem, Apple). What would make this perfect? LIT support. It’s the one thing that seems to be missing. Would really like to be able to hear the live feeds when they go live.

Best alternate podcast app out there. I absolutely love it. I also like the fact that it’s based on the value for value concept. I found out about this app from the “No Agenda” podcast. Shout out to Adam and John. It’s great!!! 👍

I began using Castamatic shortly before version 9. On the recommendation of a friend I gave it a try. Best features promised were (a) support for chapters within an episode to enable graceful jumping ahead or back, and (b) sourcing a list of podcasts beyond that produced by Apple now tha Apple has begun censoring their list by political correctness. At first Castamatic seemed adequate. But then version 9 arrived. Audio would stop for no reason. The user interface would lock up, ignoring touches/swiping, requiring me to crash and restart the app. No support for commands through Siri. The list of episodes for a podcast have no indication of how to actually start playing that episode; I just tap on the episode row randomly, and sometimes it will start, mostly not. Updates to 9.0.x have arrived, but problems persist. So anyway, I’m deleting the app now, looking for a replacement.

The search box doesn’t give the distracting error message anymore. And it works much better! Thanks!