Great app, great updates
Reliability has been 100% rock solid in my experience over the last few months 😎 I am listening to a podcasts constantly; Castro is a huge part of my iPhone experience. Thanks for making the great app!
Castro Podcast Player
The player for heavy listeners
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Description
Castro is a beautiful, full-featured podcast player that makes it easy to track and manage lots of podcasts at the same time. Only listen to the episodes you want and easily skip the rest, queue up hours of podcasts at a time and enjoy a seamless listening experience with carplay compatibility, chapter support, trim silence and much, much more!
HOW IT WORKS
1. New episodes land in the NEW tab. Read their descriptions, add episodes you like to your QUEUE, and clear the rest.
2. Press play to listen to episodes from your QUEUE in order. Queued episodes are downloaded automatically.
3. Re-order your QUEUE to plan your next few hours of listening at any time. Browse your LIBRARY to review the back catalogue, quickly access starred shows, and see your listening history.
Subscribing to a podcast is no longer a commitment to listen to every episode. You don’t have to manage a huge list of subscriptions or choose a few shows and miss the rest.
WHY OUR USERS LOVE CASTRO
• Drag and drop podcasts to plan your listening with Castro’s unique queue
• An elegant dark mode and thoughtfully designed sleep timer offer the best in night time podcast listening.
• CarPlay support makes it easy to pick up where you left off while driving.
• Apple Watch app to control playback and select another episode from your queue.
• Episode notifications include a summary of the episode to help you decide if it interests you. Play, queue or clear the episode directly from the notification without opening the app.
CASTRO PLUS
Castro Plus is an optional paid subscription available for $24.99/year (includes a one-week trial). Plus unlocks a range of advanced features:
• Trim Silence — With this option on, the app will analyze audio as it plays to detect silent parts and accelerate those parts. Get through more episodes faster.
• Enhance Voices improves the listening experience for many podcasts and makes it easier to hear in loud environments. Under the hood, Enhance Voices applies a dynamic compressor to increase volume just where it’s needed.
• Sideloading: Import audio files directly, just by dropping them in iCloud Drive
• Mono-Mix — Mixes a stereo podcast to mono, which makes it easier to hear podcasts that pan some guests on left/right channels.
• Chapter Support: Artwork, Skipping & Pre-selection.
• Custom settings per-podcast: Episode Limit, Trim Silence, Enhance Voices, Mono Mix, Skip Intros, Playback Speed.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Castro 3 is an incredible app.”
— The Sweet Setup
“Castro 3 is everything Castro already was, but better.”
— MacStories
Castro 3 Is a Great Modern Podcast App”
— Beautiful Pixels
“Unlike other podcatchers, Castro's primary virtue is its simplicity and ease of use. The app combines sleek visual design with crystal clear audio.”
— Tom’s Guide
CASTRO PLUS SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
Castro Plus costs $24.99 per year. Prices are in US dollars and may vary in countries other than the US.
Castro Plus is charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. It will renew on the day before the current subscription period ends. You can cancel auto-renewal any time from the Castro settings screen.
You can switch between the two subscription periods after you pick one, but your trial period will end immediately if you do, so it's best to wait till your free week is over before changing.
Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
Privacy Policy & Terms of Use: https://castro.fm/privacy-policy
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HOW IT WORKS
1. New episodes land in the NEW tab. Read their descriptions, add episodes you like to your QUEUE, and clear the rest.
2. Press play to listen to episodes from your QUEUE in order. Queued episodes are downloaded automatically.
3. Re-order your QUEUE to plan your next few hours of listening at any time. Browse your LIBRARY to review the back catalogue, quickly access starred shows, and see your listening history.
Subscribing to a podcast is no longer a commitment to listen to every episode. You don’t have to manage a huge list of subscriptions or choose a few shows and miss the rest.
WHY OUR USERS LOVE CASTRO
• Drag and drop podcasts to plan your listening with Castro’s unique queue
• An elegant dark mode and thoughtfully designed sleep timer offer the best in night time podcast listening.
• CarPlay support makes it easy to pick up where you left off while driving.
• Apple Watch app to control playback and select another episode from your queue.
• Episode notifications include a summary of the episode to help you decide if it interests you. Play, queue or clear the episode directly from the notification without opening the app.
CASTRO PLUS
Castro Plus is an optional paid subscription available for $24.99/year (includes a one-week trial). Plus unlocks a range of advanced features:
• Trim Silence — With this option on, the app will analyze audio as it plays to detect silent parts and accelerate those parts. Get through more episodes faster.
• Enhance Voices improves the listening experience for many podcasts and makes it easier to hear in loud environments. Under the hood, Enhance Voices applies a dynamic compressor to increase volume just where it’s needed.
• Sideloading: Import audio files directly, just by dropping them in iCloud Drive
• Mono-Mix — Mixes a stereo podcast to mono, which makes it easier to hear podcasts that pan some guests on left/right channels.
• Chapter Support: Artwork, Skipping & Pre-selection.
• Custom settings per-podcast: Episode Limit, Trim Silence, Enhance Voices, Mono Mix, Skip Intros, Playback Speed.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Castro 3 is an incredible app.”
— The Sweet Setup
“Castro 3 is everything Castro already was, but better.”
— MacStories
Castro 3 Is a Great Modern Podcast App”
— Beautiful Pixels
“Unlike other podcatchers, Castro's primary virtue is its simplicity and ease of use. The app combines sleek visual design with crystal clear audio.”
— Tom’s Guide
CASTRO PLUS SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
Castro Plus costs $24.99 per year. Prices are in US dollars and may vary in countries other than the US.
Castro Plus is charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. It will renew on the day before the current subscription period ends. You can cancel auto-renewal any time from the Castro settings screen.
You can switch between the two subscription periods after you pick one, but your trial period will end immediately if you do, so it's best to wait till your free week is over before changing.
Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
Privacy Policy & Terms of Use: https://castro.fm/privacy-policy
In-Apps
- Castro Plus Annual
- $24.99
- Castro Plus Monthly
- $3.99
- Castro Plus Quarterly
- $9.99
- Castro Plus Family Plan
- $39.99
- Early Supporter Special
- $24.99
- Early Supporter Family Plan
- $39.99
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User Rating
4.58 out of 5
8,713 ratings in United States
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Ratings History
Reviews
Hmmm
Nefarious
Looks lovely, video doesn’t appear to be supported
Despite initial indications that turned out to be TED sideloading that showed video within the App Store, video-based podcasts don’t appear to be supported.
Under new ownership!
I love this app and am so glad it is under new ownership! The inbox-to-queue approach works for me so well I cannot use other podcast apps now that I know it exists.
Best
Just best
i stay because i love the inbox, but it’s pretty buggy
there’re new bugs in recent updates where it just stops playing, and when you restart it’s at 1x even though the app reports it’s still playing at 2x also still no option to play a podcast at any speed between 2 and 3x. carplay is also really laggy and buggy and opens on a screen that makes you select between queue and inbox. i don’t want extra friction while driving.
Simply the best Podcast App
The Apple Watch app actually Works! Unlike ever other popular podcast player! I follow 300+ podcasts and this is the only app the can easily manage/triage them all. Also, has great features to remove gaps in audio and boost sounds. Love this app and I have tried them all.
Please make it a Universal app…
…or make a version for iPad that also works in Landscape mode. Seems like iPads have become the neglected stepchildren of the Apple family… and when devs do accommodate iPad, it’s so often in Portrait mode only. So while I really like Castro (it was the very first podcast player I used, many years ago), I need a player that fits iPad as well as iPhone. PS: Does Castro or ANY other player offer COMMERCIAL-FREE casts as a paid upgrade option? I would be willing to pay quite a premium to get rid of those blaring ads! Thanks for “listening”!
Will slow down podcasts to 0.8x unless you pay them
This is really not okay
Essential App
A unique and very well designed interface. Castro has ruined me for other podcast players. I don't know how I'd transition to a different app. I was worried for awhile because the app seemed abandoned but it has recently (as of May 1, 2024) come under new management and its future looks promising.
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Keywords
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App Info
- Category
- News
- Publisher
- Bluck Podcast LLC
- Languages
- English
- Recent version
- 2024.6 (1 week ago )
- Released on
- Aug 15, 2016 (7 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Spain, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, India, Norway, Russia, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Denmark, Japan, Poland, Hong Kong, Portugal, Czechia, Singapore, South Africa, Finland, South Korea, Israel, Ukraine, Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Hungary, Colombia, Belarus, Chile, Malaysia, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Indonesia, Vietnam, Peru, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Algeria
- Last updated
- 1 month ago