Podcast App & Player - Castbox Reviews – Page 13
5/5 rating based on 242 reviews. Read all reviews for Podcast App & Player - Castbox for iPhone.
Podcast App & Player - Castbox is free iOS app published by Guru Network Limited
The best
BT985
I used a couple of others and I didn’t like them at all. The search is way better then others and this is jus a fantastic podcast thingy.
Great until it stopped
Sininlinens
I really enjoyed the app, and the fact it had more episodes of certain podcasts than the Apple Podcasts app. Now I can’t get episodes to download, regardless of if I’m on WiFi or cellular data. Once I’ve listened to the few things I was able to download, I’ll have to switch apps which is a bummer. Defeats the purpose of switching to CastBox in the first place.
Doesn’t work
ShaunMc630
Downloaded and nothing works on it. I have the most recent version of IOS. Just keeps telling me there is an error.
Pretty awesome, just buggy
MrvlComicG33k19
Great alternative to the podcast app from Apple. But I switch from that one to get away from the bugs associated with it. Now it seems that every update from this developer seems to have some major problem. The last one crashed the app when loading new releases and with this update I can’t even view all my podcast subscriptions. Please triple check before releasing the updates!
Great app
kirstenalmighty
One suggestion: I would love to have the downloads, when ordered by channel, to be in a chronological order and not in the order in which I downloaded it. Or to be able to switch between chronological and order of download. I hope this makes sense, sometimes I download out of order by accident but I want them to be sorted chronologically like they are on the podcast’s page so I don’t accidentally skip one. Keep up the good work!
Wanted to replace Apple Podcasts but Nope
hazelsydney
Really wanted to like this app. Mostly because some podcasts I listen to are partnered with Castbox, so it would benefit them to listen through Castbox instead of Apple Podcasts. Anyway, here is why I am going back to Apple podcast and deleting Castbox: 1.) If you’re in the car and listening to a podcast on Castbox, the podcast will not pause during the Maps instructions. So you can count on every 1-3 mins missing about 5 words of what your podcast is saying if you’re not on the highway. I looked through the settings and couldn’t find a way to pause the podcast during Map instructions. 2.) First two pages are “discover pages”. I like the “Subscribed” but it would be nice if the “Listen” page showed your recently updated podcasts. Also, “Subscribed” is not in order from most recent uploads, so it’s easy to miss a new podcast if you don’t scroll down and look for the tiny orange “1”. Also, if you want to change the discover page or anything you have to pay. Overall, good app but is not a replacement for Apple podcasts. You don’t have to pay for Apple Podcasts, and you don’t have to discover new podcasts unless you want to. In app purchases is a no-go considering podcasts are free
nightmarish lack of organization
feathered
I am a serious podcast listener and when I imported in just a fraction of the shows I subscribe to, I knew immediately that this app was not built for me. The podcasts display with no discernible organizational scheme, and after having to google organization (because it’s not intuitive) it seems that podcasts can only be sorted by last update—even alphabetical is not available. There is also not way to organize playlists by category, which is a vital option when you have well over a hundred podcasts that you listen to. At the very least, having the option to sort podcasts alphabetically is essential when you like to listen to backlogs, or prefer to save podcasts for a certain mood or task. This seems like it was built for algorithms, not practical human use. Maybe its suggestion algorithm and search are great, but the UI is unusable for me.
SO much better than the podcast app
anayar2
Tl;dr- 100x better than iTunes podcast app I’m in love. So much better than the Apple podcast app. Multiple speed options that Apple doesn’t have. I don’t know- there’s a lot of features I don’t really use/care about- I just want to listen to podcasts and find cool new ones from time to time. As far as that core functionality goes these guys have crushed it. Heard about the app from when they got more funding but I totally see why it’s funded and hopefully y’all can figure out a business model that works because the app is dope.
Add an audio compressor/limiter option
Freshprince6
The only reason I use Overcast over this app is because of the Voice Boost option which evens out levels between loud and soft voices. With that option, it would be the end-all podcast app!