Playapod

For those of us scouring the App Store for a free—and ad-free—podcast app to replace our phone’s default app, Playapod seems perfect. No ads, lots of customization, and pretty easy to navigate after using the app for a bit. But there are some serious bugs. The Play Next feature works spottily at best on the main playlist. Most of the time, an episode ends, and then silence. The next episode in the playlist doesn’t start. I listen to podcasts on lengthy commutes, so this is basically a dealbreaker. Also, the app marks episodes as “listened” even when there are several minutes left. This can preemptively remove those episodes from the playlist, resulting in the same problem above: an episode ends, and the next one doesn’t start until I manually open the app and select it from the playlist. I really thought Playapod was the holy grail podcatcher I’d been searching for, but probably not if basic playlist functionality is broken. Devs, fix these bugs!

The cleanest sound on the net! Simply the best!

I’m not sure how to articulate why this free podcast player is the best but the most relevant to me is to contrast this player with the HORRIBLY designed iOS player. This player’s approach to listening to podcasts is 100% opposite of iOS so if you like iOS you may not like this one. This player is elegant in its simplicity. It’s powerful in its design allowing you to fully customize EVERYTHING with your subscriptions, either individually or globally. While listening to a podcast you can customizable on the fly as you’re listening. It has easy to FIND and understand tools/settings. So far, I’m LOVING this free podcast player - it finds ALL available podcasts and allows maximum freedom to play now, play later, timer, download, assemble playlists, etc.

I love the fact that this app uses the free and open podcast index however it’s missing many features I’m used to coming from pocketcast. It needs the ability to double the volume of the audio on all the podcasts. Volume normalization needs to be added. Also it would be nice if I could mark some podcasts to be placed at the top of the queue. Speaking of queues the app at times looses its queue especially when I reorganize my playlist. I don’t care about playlists or clips or sharing I just want what’s playing next to be in a certain order and the episodes loud enough to hear them in a noisy room.

So much better than Apple Podcasts Uses the open podcasting index by default Works great with CarPlay. Can create playlists. Can listen to all new podcasts one after another. Can share podcast clips with friends. You friend does not need a podcasting app to listen to the clip. Playapod provides a unique web page with a media player for each clip you send. Many Many more great features.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and have for a long time. Apple’s app has been pretty terrible and is now worse than ever. Used it as long as I could … tried a few others … this one has all manner of great features and keeps me super ‘unfrustrated’ … download and dig into features … you’ll never look back!

Simple to use and fast.

Supporting free speech with the PodcastIndex!

I have logged into my account and saved my shows there. But now whenever my phone turns off, everything is lost. No longer interested in dealing with this anymore.

Playapod is the podcast app I keep coming back to, and the most recent upgrade makes it even better. New ways of organizing and viewing podcast stats, clear, sensible, etc. however, did you lose the ability to unsubscribe from a podcast in the recent update? Used to be a long press on the podcast icon got you there and it’s gone now. Otherwise it’s a great app.