Podcast App & Player - Castbox Reviews

Almost perfect

Luvfaerytales

After listening to a podcast, I don’t like how the previous episode plays next, because most likely I have already listened to it.

[FIXED] Bluetooth controls don't work, no pause!

xagronaut

[FIXED-Thanks!] I was pleased that the feed import was seamless from the Podcasts app. However, while listening to the podcast audio in CastBox, my Bluetooth headset controls do nothing! What? That's so basic! Am I missing something? I'm probably going to try another app. Sad. [Update: After the developer responded, I decided to give this app another try, so it seems to work now with the Bluetooth pause capability. I'm updating my rating from 2-4 stars.]

Unpolished, not well functioning

abqwildcat

Where to start? I want to like this app. It's got some good features but also fails to do many things a basic podcast app needs to do. Pros: -searchable transcripts -new podcasts area available first in this app before other apps (in general up to a few minutes to an hour) Cons: -missing a playback queue for things you want to listen to next -freezes totally and doesn't load episodes when a podcast series is selected -accelerated playback isn't smooth; it bounces, skips, and sounds very unnatural when compared to Apple podcast app or PocketCasts. Overall, I'll keep it installed but it won't replace my primary podcast apps yet.

Works well

TheAsh1

After downloading and deleting quite a few, I have done to like this player. Like the auto-download feature.

Won’t import from apple

Tevotevo

Import function doesn’t work

Better than apple but not quite perfect yet

Mg20173123

1. It doesn’t keep track of where you left off. 2. Is there a way to make your subscriptions your default screen? 3. I already have quite a variety of shows that i’m following and i don’t want to get all the noise about different shows (minimize shows similar to) 4. I liked the feature of the old apple podcast where it will load all the new episodes as opposed to me manually adding to my play list. Thank you

The search for a good Podcast app continues

MangoPineappleInkPen

Why is it so hard to find a simple, well design Podcast app? I hoped this was the one, but it's impossibly tough to delete podcasts you've listened to, which is important because they start to stack up on the ol' HD. You'd think you'd swipe one way or another on the list, but no. That just lets you mark it "played." Big headache which caused frustration as I tapped on different menus trying to figure out how to quickly delete podcasts that I no longer needed. Anyway, found out it was just quicker to delete the whole app. Oh well, now I'm onto the next app. Which will probably let me down as well. Right now, iPhone's native app, although far from perfect, is still the best.

Mostly fixed, but still better than anything else!

Industrialqueue

I've tried quite a few podcast options in the wake of Apple's "upgrades". My priorities are large volume queue management for about 40 podcasts that I am either caught up with or listening through their back-log. This app does that wonderfully. The tools are all there with common sense features to allow easy and safe handling of all your episodes. My queue is usually around the 200 episode mark and I have no issue organizing the episodes. I say mostly fixed as there's a few sequencing errors where returning to the app and hitting play won't actually start your queue, but these are easy to work around and don't get in the way too much. There's also one or two podcasts that I've found that turn up errors when trying to listen or load their pages, but I still have the Apple podcasts app and it had to be useful for something, right?

Amazing platform

M.J.R. Mom of 3

I have decided to remove my Apple podcast app and replace it with this one. It is certainly more intuitive and offers a better user experience.

Nice

FonziFace

Prefer over inherent apple podcast app.

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