Pocket Casts: Podcast Player

If you are looking to maintain a self-curated list of podcasts and want to listen on multiple platforms… iPhone, Android, Windows desktop and even the sometimes cursed Alexa device… PocketCasts is the one for you. The multiple platform capabilities are PocketCasts strong point. It is also the source of its shortcomings. The play point synchronization can fail between the mobile and desktop apps… don’t start me on the Alexa app… it’s like it refuses to talk to the synchronization system… play an episode on Alexa and the other versions think that you haven’t play it at all!

This is the most feature complete, easy to use podcast app by a long way! Tons of ways to customize and organize Podcast making it easy to stay on top of the shows you want to listen to regularly and keep tabs on shows you may not listen to every episode of! Great development team and very rarely is there a bug that’s not addressed and fixed immediately

Playback goes in and out; 1 second sound, 1 second silence.

Everytime I try this app out I get soooo frustrated. I need user configurable playlists. The filter could maybe do that if they could play sequentially and have manual sorting. Having a single unmanageable queue is for light users and newbies, not for serious podcast listeners.

Way better than any of the other podcast apps

Does everyone I’d want, from organizing podcasts into self-updating channels, customization around how many episodes to “keep,” what order to play them in, skipping forward and ahead, adding things to the “next” or “end” of the queue, etc. Long live Pocket Casts!

I’ve tried several podcast apps, but have always found I liked this one best. The UI makes sense, the queue is great, and I love having a desktop app. I like being able to cast to a Google Home and listen off an Apple Watch. The pricing seems more than fair for all the features. It has nearly everything I could ask for. My only wishes are that i wish the desktop app had feature parity with the phone app (playback speed by podcast, silence skipping, etc.) and I wish there were some way to swap my queue out for a different one (e.g. a professional development one for when I’m commuting, but a fun one for walking the dog). But these are nitpicks; I’m very happy being a long time subscriber. Highly recommended!

I have been using it for years now, app and web, very straightforward, no hassle, no fuzz, it just works. I have 312 days listened to close to 100 different feeds, and no one time has failed.

I’ve been a podcast fan for well over twenty years. In that I’ve tried all sorts of apps, paid and free. I’ve yet to find a better combination of features all wrapped up in one app. Would I like things to be different or better about pocketcasts? Yes. But compared to the competition, there’s nothing that drives me away from Pocket Casts or towards anything else.

Pocket Casts is more than just an app, it's a community. The team behind the app is always making improvements and cares deeply about their customers. The app UI / UX is also far better than any competitor app IMO.