Instacast Core Reviews

Great but has issues

Mac addict 42

Sometimes takes a very long time for podcasts to start playing, and you often have to hit play several times to get it to play again after pausing.

I was really happy to see a new version of Instacast in the App Store, as I use this app every day! I really want to love this app but it has several serious issues that are very frustrating. The worst problem is that it frequently loses the place that you were at in the Podcasts that you have started listening to, so I find myself wasting far too much time trying to find where I was in a podcast. Sometimes it remembers but often not. My other complaint is with the "queue". The old application could simply play the next item on your unplayed playlist. Now you have to add items to a queue which is more cumbersome to manage than it should be. I frequently use the app in my car to listen to podcasts, and the combination of these two issues makes for a lot more unnecessary fumbling around with the app!

Best podcast app!

Stiz_ITM

This is simply the best podcast app that is available. The combination of the intuitive UI and comprehensive, yet easy to use feature set is a cut above the rest- and I've tried them all over the years. I'm glad to see this back in the AppStore!

My favorite podcast app is back!

John Heintz

Instacast is awesome. The bookmarking/notes feature is fantastic.

Loses downloads.

Mendasa

I have used Instacast for years and since it has been redone some months back it's turned to junk. I used to be able to download multiple episodes and would have them there for days waiting in the que now I download episodes and it can't even keep them for more than 5 minutes. If anyone can tell me what the issue is and how to fix it I would change my rating. But I would say for a podcast app that's the most appealing thing. To have the ability to download episodes so when your driving in and out of service your Not relying on the streaming option. This app is super frustrating!

Still the best

FuzzyPuffin

Even when Instacast stopped being developed, I stuck with it because it has the best interface, especially its chapter UI. Wish it was still being fully developed (sync no longer works) but I'll take what I can get.

Love/hate relationship

Mcbk811

It's a good app in that it presents you with podcasts and you can change settings and subscriptions. Other than that, the little hold ups start to get annoying after a while. It takes a while for podcasts to load (if they load at all), the play/pause button is annoying, and I just think you can use a better app for the same thing.

Excellent

MalusDomestica

This is a great podcast app. My two wishes are: (1) that instead of giving it away for free, the developer would charge money for it so that ongoing updates would be sustainable; and (2) that he would bring back the dearly missed Mac companion application.

Great Features

DerSchatten

The features of this app feel like it is tailor-made for me. It fixes a lot of annoyances of other apps with the ability to tune exactly how system skip buttons work, or manage how much storage is used. I have encountered only two issues: the resume can be a little finicky from the home screen or headphone remote, and it seems to have trouble auto-playing a podcast. Overall works well. I came here looking for bookmarking capability and it delivered.

Great replacement for IOS 11 ruined podcast app

jbn17

This app reminds me of the Apple Podcast app before IOS 11 turned it into an unusable mess. It has the “list view” that includes the number of new episodes.

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