Airshow: Lightweight Podcasts

Just a truly delightful app. Worth the subscription price alone or even a better a great add on for Feedbin subscribers. I love the design and the organization of podcasts. I hope the developer continues to give this app the love it deserves.

It’s almost the killer feature of a feeding subscription. As is, huge features are missing, no option to listen to a feed oldest to newest, or to drop old, unlistened episodes (like a daily news show I’ve fallen behind on) or to find episodes I haven’t listened to yet in a given feed. There are also a fair number of bugs. I haven’t been able to add a new show for about a month. The dialog just hangs loading the list of episodes.

First the positive, love the player display, shows episode art very well, que works great, imports opml well generally. Search works well, can’t search by episodes, but finds podcasts well. Now I am rewriting my review, as k be cause my complaint about playlists, I have taken back because I figured out how to use them. One thing about this app, compared to many others, I haven’t met a bug, or freeze, crash etc. yet. Very impressive!

Please add smaller tiles in tile view for all my podcasts and app to default open to new episode view in Library. Then it will be 🧑‍🍳💋

I used Castro for a bunch of years, but it stopped working and I switched to Airshow. After using it a few weeks and figuring out how to use playlists, I like it even better than Castro. Thank you for making the podcast app I’ve been looking for!

As Castro increasingly becomes unreliable, I was looking for a good alternative. Airshow seems to fit the bill pretty well. I really like how easy it is to set up your queue and that you can sort them into playlist. It’s a fairly intuitive system that doesn’t feel overwhelming. That said, there are at least two features that I would love to see added. I would like to see the ability to add episodes to the bottom of the queue not just the top of the queue. it would be great to be able to adjust the skip speed so that instead of only being able to go backwards 15 seconds I could do 10 seconds instead. Down the road, it would also be great to be able to customize listening preferences for each podcast like setting the playback speed and being able to trim the silence.

The best way for me to keep on top of my podcasts and even set myself a sleep timer each night.

Castro used to be my go-to player for its queue system, but the recent server issues sent me looking for a replacement. Airshow’s been pretty easy to use - it doesn’t overcomplicate itself like every other app I tried! If I could leave some requests, I’d love to have the option to add episodes to the top of a queue, and more specific speed options (1.1x or 1.15x are usually my go-tos). But above all else, please keep the app simple and straightforward! It’s a breath of fresh air :)

I am another long time Castro user trying Airshow as a replacement. So far so good :) My one, humble feature request is to have episodes “jump” to the top of the queue when you play them. Stepping back, I hope the app is gradually improved over time, but truly the app is doing a great job as-is. Plays podcasts in a queue. Displays show notes. Exposes chapters. Love it. Every person is different, but I do **not** miss the fad/advanced features like SmartSpeed, share clip, “Discover” tab. Keep this app lean & reliable and it’ll be a standout. Good luck Feedbin!

I’ve been used Feedbin for years, really love it. If Airshow can sync my Feedbin subscriptions that’d be awesome, some of my RSS subscriptions are podcasts, I used to listen on Feedbin, so if Airshow can detect these subscriptions and sync them here.