Pocket Casts: Podcast Player Reviews – Page 8
4/5 rating based on 162 reviews. Read all reviews for Pocket Casts: Podcast Player for iPhone.
Pocket Casts: Podcast Player is free iOS app published by Automattic, Inc.
In urgent need of update!!!
JudgeJudy154
I ADVISE YOU TO SHOP FOR ANOTHER APP. Like many users of this app, I bought this app for its support for GoogleCast. This allowed me to wirelessly stream any video podcasts from this app to SmartTV. However, this app stopped that feature. Why??? GoogleCast has been adding new features, new security updates and bug fixes. That’s good news for SmartTV owners. But the developer of this app does not seem to care about updating it to continually make it work with GoogleCast on SmartTVs. Just take a look at many other similar iOS and Android apps that also support GoogleCast. Example: YouTube app. I have absolutely no issue streaming videos from YouTube app on my iPhone to SmartTV using the latest GoogleCast. Important point is the developer does not even have to make any code changes to support the latest GoogleCast which is usually backward compatible with previous versions anyways. Any breaking change is announced by Google months in advance to these app developers. Well, it seems like this app developer simply does not care!!
I love this
Swamy1984
Best Monday to Friday podcast player in this shiz, player. And I’ve been listening to podcasts since back when my boss handed me a CD full of this american life episodes and lit up my existence back in 05, player. PODCASTING WASNT EVEN REALLY A THING BACK THEN. IT WAS RECORDED RADIO. Nuff said.
What is playing next?
Antiduplicity
When I first open the app in the morning on that way to the gym, there is no way to tell what is in the queue to be played next. I have to start playing a random podcast in order to have access to that list. It takes many steps to build the playlist I want at the gym each morning. 1. Give me access to the playing queue apart from a playing podcast 2. Give me the option for manual sort on playlists. Make that a third option HANDOFF Handoff allows me to use the same app on my iPad, iMac and iPhone. When I am playing a podcast on my iPhone I like to switch to my iPad and keep playing once in the office. Instead of opening the pocketcast app that is on my iPad, it opens safari to the pocketcast website on my iPad. This is not the correct operation. Pocketcast on all my devices need to be able to accept handoff. Additionally, as I play a podcast on my iPhone, and I stop and want to hand off to my iPad, the iPad does not have an updated time. So I may have 15 minutes left on the podcast on my iPhone, but the iPad things I have 32 minutes left This is so close to the best. Just a little more. Hopefully the next chapter will give us that
Stopped working with Chromecast
NYC2009
Stopped working with chromecast all of the sudden. The app also doesn’t show all my devices / groups. This was the killer feature of this app. Very disappointing.
Can’t share!
cjones08
I use this app CONSTANTLY! Problem is....I keep trying to share a link to an episode with a friend, and the links never ever work. Super disappointing.
Best podcast app
12rmfoster
By far the best podcast app. I prefer it to overcast because you can pay once and not have to pay every single year or have to deal with ads. Highly recommend.
So close
meex_morter
I love this app, and for my personal use, it is superior to Apple Podcasts in all ways. Unfortunately, my friends and I share podcasts a great deal, and the share function in this app does not allow for effective sharing. I think it would be great if sharing could be customized to offer different types of shares. For example, one could share an Apple Podcasts link, a link to the podcast’s site, etc., their choice. I don’t know if all of that is available in the metadata, but if it is, why not use it?