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I'm currently installing Windows 11 for my computer, and the ability to download Android apps for the computer is quite a game-changer. I know it won't be available today, but I wonder what Pocketcasts will do now that it seems that the desktop app would be obsolete with the eventual ability to install Android apps on Windows computers.

One thing the new version of Pocketcasts does is sync the Up Next to Echo devices, so I can listen at home on smart speaker, then pick it up in the car where I left off.

I'm not aware of any other app except maybe Stitcher Premium that does that so far.

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It is unfortunate there is no standards based way of putting podcast state somewhere in the cloud and then have the option to use the best podcast client for each platform.

Or perhaps there is work here that I am unaware of?

I would love to use Overcast on iOS, and something else on my mac, and yet other choices on my windows and android devices, and not have to limit myself to one vendor that provides a "good enough" solution across all my devices.

I'm still genuinely confused by the complaint about having difficulty telling played and unplayed podcasts apart in the new PocketCasts interface. It is visually obvious to me, with unplayed items showing in a much bolder font. I wonder if this is a phone-specific issue or something. I'm using it on a Pixel 3XL.

Otherwise, part of the reason why the new interface doesn't make much of a difference to me is that I almost exclusively listen to podcasts in my car using Android Auto. That interface is largely unchanged.

In reply to jgraebner:I'm wondering if he's talking about the unplayed episode badges issue. On most of my podcasts I had to go through and at the last played episode, long press and say archive from here, to get the unplayed badge number to match up. It was a minor hassle. Some glitch with the update I think, but once done it's been fine. I honestly don't know what the strong reactions are all about, but everyone's entitled to their opinion.

I knew the writing was on the wall when NPR bought them out. It started going down hill since then. I had used Pocketcast for years. I have abandoned them too a couple months ago. Podcast apps in general have become bloated and complex to use. I dusted off my Ipad and tried some podcast apps out when my phone started having charging issues and i was amazed to find out how unintuitive and complex the main podcast apps are. Add to that that developers like Marco are now openly bragging and virtue signalling about censoring feeds that they feeeeeeeeeel are (insert subjective weaponized label here).

The whole podcast scene in general has been hijacked by NPR mainstream PC drivel and advertising $$$ that don't even know the audience of the podcasts. FOX Sports (Ben Maller Show) now has advertising for a Women's fashion podcast on an overnight radio show that barely has any women callers. Also, the Database of podcasts are now basically NPR shows at the top, with Serial being in the top 5 for years now even though they only release content for 2 months a year. I'm calling bull on that.

Ok, so it wasn't just me. I knew it was in beta I guess but it just seemed like the redesign was too overly complicated. Also quite buggy. So I just tried out a couple others, preferring something that is cross platform if possible. Thanks for the recommendation of Castbox, I'll try that but when on Android I'm happy enough with google podcasts I guess, although not cross platform.

I placed a negative review and dropped my rating to one star on principle. They had a perfectly good ui and messed it up. However I'll stick with pocketcasts. I still get the podcasts I want to hear. I just sigh now when I see the app. Their widget started working again, so between Android auto and widget I rarely see the app.

What do you get for your $.99 per month FOREVER subscription? Is it syncing across all your devices or something like that? The ability to use your podcast library as the screen that appears when you launch the app seems to be a totally ridiculous thing to charge for, not to mention something I would pay for, which I would not. Like you, Paul, I do NOT like at all some of the recent changes to Pocketcasts. I have really enjoyed using Pocketcasts for years, but the new version completely grunked up the Archiving function to where I just hate the app now, and am quite interested in what you have found as an alternative. I have declared that I will no longer be paying any more monthly fees for ANY software, as this trend has gotten completely out of hand, and it stops now. I will be watching your research with great interest, thanks very much for these articles.

I'm starting to like Pocket Casts, a little. Now that it is automatically downloading and lining up my podcasts for me on the playlist.It is odd, I set the defaults to download and add to playlist, but it didn't work. On Friday I went into the settings for each podcast and changed them from defaults to individually set them to auto download and automatically be placed in the playlist, it now seems to be working.Maybe the default settings are somehow borked.

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I discovered the appeal of podcasts, enjoying the often soft-spoken voices feeding me stories and tidbits of knowledge that somehow sat comfortably in the back of my head despite being, more often than not, a background activity.

The web app worked as expected - it kept the same list of podcasts I'd subscribed to on my phone, kept tabs on the ones I'd already listened to and had the same sections for 'starred' and 'in progress' podcasts among others. Its UI was a little different, straightforward nonetheless. Work then began on a revamp of the web player in the form of an open beta, giving the interface a greater degree of familiarity to anyone used to the interface in the mobile apps.

Pocket Casts for Windows is no Twitter PWA. It ticks nearly every box for me in terms of functionality, and from a visual standpoint, the typefaces and UI elements look fantastic. While I can live with not being able to download podcasts for later use, the lack of appealing transitions and animations are sorely missed, and make its existence as a web app a bit too obvious. It just feels a bit too static, especially compared to its exceptional sister apps on mobile.

I think our desktop app might be a little different than most. Since launching our web app we have had non-stop customer requests for a friendlier desktop experience. Now, that means a lot of things to a lot of people, but the common thread seemed to be that a lot of people don't want to just open another tab in their browser to listen to podcasts. So when we redesigned the web app as part of our work on v2 of it - currently in beta - we made sure we made it as flexible as possible, so we could do more interesting things with it on the desktop.

I honestly don't think I'm qualified to answer that. I think in cases like ours, it was the right approach. We have a fully featured mobile app built around the idea of being in your pocket and traveling with you everywhere, and that doesn't make a huge amount of sense to run on a desktop, given you'd spend most of your time not fiddling with its UI. You'd have your headphones on you, or a car stereo, with your phone tucked away elsewhere.

There's compromises inherent to all development, and with any approach. On mobile, we trade much higher development effort for getting the exact results we want with pixel precision. On the desktop side, we compromise some native features, like downloading podcasts, for much faster development times, and a more agile approach to testing and adding new features.

I think Twitter is extremely lucky to still be as popular as it is. It rose to prominence with third-party apps and then killed them all, and didn't have the budget to pay a single Mac or windows developer? Makes no sense when the iOS team is 40+ people. Also - this is just my opinion - but their website is an abomination, which when wrapped in a PWA doesn't change that one bit. The way that company is run absolutely baffles me on so many levels.

These are screenshots of player windows for both Pocket Casts and Downcast. The same exact info & features are present in both apps, just presented differently. Pocket Casts hides almost everything behind icons. Downcasts lays it all out there.

I think my Moto g6 updated automatically to 7.46.1 (9137) and exhibited the same problems I described earlier. I followed the link posted by staff on September 19th to the beta, 7.47-rc-4 (the .apk) at -casts-android/releases downloaded and installed it. It seems to be working fine for the past eight hours. I hope it stays at this version since it is newer that the older ones that appear to still cause problems.

I've used both over the last few months to get a sense of how they work, but finally made the switch to Pocket Casts full-time. First and foremost, Overcast's Playback window is really laggy with VoiceOver, and it hasn't been fixed in the app's few final releases. It's definitely usable but the lag is really noticeable upon attempting to navigate around or interact with its playback/playing controls. Second, Pocket Casts is much more customizable if it's your cup of tea. Third - and quite interestingly, it shows Trending podcasts in the search window and it really helps with podcast discovery. The other day, for instance, I managed to find some interesting BBC Radio 4 podcasts there - stuff that I might have easily missed. Fourth, Pocket Casts handles non-English searches much more leniently. For instance, few weeks ago I was trying to find a Persian (Farsi) podcast in Overcast, but it displayed 0 results when I typed the string in Persian. It found the podcast when I typed it in English. However, Pocket Casts had no difficulty locating the podcast regardless of the language used. Last but not least, it receives updates quite frequently - much more than Overcast. ff782bc1db