Pod Wrangler - Podcasts Made Easy. Reviews

Good Start. Runs hot on iPhone 4S

Danferno

Very good for a 1.0 release. For me personally, being able to sort from oldest to newest is 90% of the functionality I wanted (and a baffling omission from the Apple Podcasts app). The background updates work well, except for one case. As expected, if you are away from wifi and have disabled cell data usage, new podcasts will appear but not download unless you explicitly start streaming them. However, when you get home and back onto wifi, the un-downloaded podcasts will not automatically download. Instead, you have to start playing each one of them in order to trigger the download. Odd, and bit tedious. Probably a use-case that didn't make the 1.0 release. Lastly, I listen to podcasts for several hours per day; Podwrangler uses much more battery on my iPhone 4S. I do not stream or download until I'm home in the evening, so it's not excessive data usage.

Good simple podcast app

brenshaw833

Live it. Just a simple, easy to use podcast app. Haven't had any issues with it at all

Great, simple podcast app

mpfef98

This app cuts the podcast app to the bare bones, in a good way. I'm a Feed Wrangler subscriber also, and this is just as speedy and reliable.

Works, but needs work

ABR3434

No iPad interface, but have to start somewhere I guess. But handling of heard / unheard is just a mess. Maybe it's something about the specific podcast or something, but I don't see how this made it out the door.

Good but drains my battery

michaelsbrewer

I really like the app's look and simplicity. However, when compared to Apple's Podcast application, Pod Wrangler is a major drain on my battery. The differences are pretty dramatic even after turning off cellular data usage.

Very Well Done

Ibuys

Works as expected.

Garbage!!!

MichaelRussell

The app will not play my one daily podcast, which works fine with the native app. I would like a refund.

Video?

Carrespondent

Am I missing something, or does this app seriously not play video podcasts? Mine simply will not download any episodes.

PodWrangler. It wrangles podcasts!

doogietunes

PodWrangler is sweet. You subscribe to your podcasts, and then it queues up all the episodes as they come out so that you can listen to them. When you finish one podcast, before it starts the next one, it makes a quaint little noise that sounds like a bird tweeting to let you know you're switching episodes. The new on-the-go controls that activate when your iPhone 5s senses that you're driving are handy too, as is the new playtime scrubber. "Underscore" David Smith's mind is a factory for sweet iOS stuff. Get on this train today.

#bestpodcastapp

@LuisRivera_co

This is my favorite Podcast app, ever. Period. Also, I came by to review this app even though it never prompts for reviews. Thank you for that, _DS! I've used Instacast and Downcast and Apple's Podcast Cassette App. And I lived through the dark ages when Podcasts were built into Music.app. And at last, at last I have found the promised podcast land. Does it sync? Yes! If you pay the developer like 19 bucks a year, then you have Feed Wrangler and Pod Wrangler sync for iOS and the Web. Listen to a Podcast on your phone, and pick it up on the Web. This is awesome! And you also get the best RSS app this side of Google Reader. Do you listen to podcasts on your 1.5 hour long commute like I do? Well, fellow corporate stooge*, this app pauses your podcast while Waze talks about how it's gonna route you around the 37 car pileup ahead of you. No more voice competition between Siri and Saracuza! Just wanna download a one off mp3? Copy a link to it, and launch the app. It will ask you if you meant to download this mp3 because it's considerate and was raised right! I ran into one issue and I don't think it's the app at all. I think T-Mobile's LTE made me download a few podcasts incompletely and so they wouldn't actually play. I think, for best use, only download on WiFi or when you have absolutely good cell coverage. (I'm newly converted from Sprint, so not having actual working data is not new to me, so I don't mind.) *"corporate stooge" is copyright Dan Benjamin, 2012

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