![]() ![]() Feel free to click on ‘Refresh now’ if you want the updated data. Below is a menu to access Stats, Downloads, Files, Starred, and Listening History. Information that may be shown on the screen include number of Podcasts, Seconds listened, and Seconds saved. Go to Profile to set up an account or sign in. I n Progress episodes are also noted if you’ve been listening to several shows. ![]() Choose Filter and you are shown New Releases, if there are any. We tried searching for podcasts that discuss the Samsung Galaxy Fold and we received a few results. Select an episode and you’re taken to the podcast page where a large Subscribe button greets you. If you’ve been previously listening to a podcast, a small podcast player will show up underneath. Select ‘Discover’ and you will be shown the Trending and Featured shows. You may also choose to Share podcast, Share episode, and Current position. Going to the podcast will show the podcast player interface with three major buttons: back 10 seconds, pause or play button, and skip forward 30 seconds. When you click on an episode, you will be taken to a separate page containing the image or show cover, title, date, and several options like Skip Episode, Mark as played, Read show notes, and Go to podcast. Search results are informative with the date of upload, title, plus the duration of the podcast or how much time remaining you need to listen if you’ve started one. The ‘search episodes’ bar is where you’ll have to enter keywords or topics you’re interested in. Episode released fortnightly or next episodes of your favorite show will be shown above. We frequently use Google Podcasts and the two are similar in many ways.Īt launch, if you haven’t tried Pocket Casts ever, you will be asked to add some podcasts with a suggestion to search. As promised too, podcast recommendations are human-curated so you are presented relevant results all the time.Īt first glance, you will notice it’s just like any other podcast player you’ve tried. This list can be saved and synced to all devices. Pocket Casts has also added ‘Up Next’ so listeners can build playback queue automatically from your favorite shows. Easily search for new podcasters and episodes with filters so you’ll see what you’re really looking for. Like most media players today, you can listen again where you left off. It’s still the same podcasting app but only made better. The last listed changelog was yesterday but it was only a minor update. Pocket Casts is now offered free but the Podcast Media team retained the premium features for everyone. You can play it on the web, with Alexa or Siri, on an Apple Watch, Car Play, Android Auto, via Chromecast, Sonos, Windows, or macOS. Pocket Casts work on numerous platforms and devices apart from Android and iOS. If that’s not enough, there’s also the lifetime subscription provided to previous web purchases. A subscription service is available for more advanced features. Probably the most recent and the best news ever was the Pocket Casts app now being offered for free. The podcast app also became an Alexa skill. And that feature that lets you discover other users nearby? Quite interesting. There are still a couple of small things missing, like Overcast's awesome ability to download a single episode without subscribing to an entire show, but Pocket Casts has just about everything you could want.The app receiving Chromecast support before was also monumental. For everyone else, it's just a super-simple grid of show icons. It has all the fiddly bits podcastheads will love, like chapter markers, show notes, a running queue for uninterrupted listening, and support for 3D Touch. Version 6.0 borrows a few great features from other podcast apps, like automatic silence-trimming and voice-boosting. Pocket Casts keeps lists of episodes you've already started, ones you've downloaded but not listened to (which is handy for clearing space on your phone), and more. It's now really easy to find new podcasts to listen to, sort through the ones you already have, and more. The new version for iOS, Pocket Casts 6.0, brings the app-which was great for a long time, and has kind of languished the last couple of years-into full-fledged modernity. But a brand-new update to Pocket Casts makes it hands-down the best iPhone podcasts app, not to mention the best overall service for people who want to podcast from all manner of different devices. There are lots of better somethings, no matter what platform you use. If you're exploring the weird, wide, wonderful world of Internet audio, you need something better. Yeah, it's nice that it comes pre-loaded on your iPhone-but so does Apple Maps, and if you use that you'll probably end up driving into a river. It's time to stop using Apple's Podcasts app. ![]()
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