Clunky interface and lots of bugs – Stitcher for Podcasts Review

I used Overcast for the last year, but I decided to give Stitcher a chance to see if I liked it better. After about two months usage, I can definitely say I don’t. Let me preface my criticisms with how I usually listen to podcasts. I’m either driving in the car or laying in bed with my kids, so usage of the phone is difficult, as my hands are either on the steering wheel or under each kid’s head. Clicking on the podcast cover from the favorites screen to look at other episodes is annoying, because if you miss it by a nanometer, you’re reading the episode info. Then, once you get into the episodes, it’s more and more clicks. It works, but it takes a while to get used to and more clicks means more time clicking instead of listening. Automatic downloads are not reliable. Sometimes they show up and sometimes they don’t. If I don’t want an episode to download, often times, I have to cancel a download several times in a row to make it truly stop downloading. I also don’t like how it chooses your next podcast. If there’s some system to how it chooses what it plays next—I don’t know what it is and don’t want to spend the time to figure it out. What bugs me the most is the lack of headphone remote controls. Since I generally don’t want to use my hands to manipulate the phone, I used the headphone remote controls on Overcast heavily. Two short clicks is 30 seconds ahead (great for the in-podcast commercials I’ve heard a thousand times) and three short clicks is 15 seconds back, which I use a LOT to catch things I’ve missed due to a kid talking, etc. I’ve looked in FAQ’s, searches online and there’s no information on the remote controls being available. It does work for pausing and sometimes I get sent to some other episode of a podcast in my list, but the functionality is not what it should be. All in all, I’m going to be a ditcher of Stitcher.
Review by Cblwolf on Stitcher for Podcasts.