I love Pocket Casts. Love it. Except... – Pocket Casts: Podcast Player Review

This is one of my favorite apps from a design perspective ever. It is quick, pretty, smooth, everything is just as it should be. It looks simple but has a zillion options under the hood if you need them. Except... There is one simple little feature that I (and take a search on Reddit and you'll find many of us) have been begging for for ages: folders. Folders. You know, those things that the very earliest computers did from the very earliest times. The things that are so basic you don't even think about them as a feature. All I want to do is be able to sort my subscribed podcasts in folders so I can find a history podcast when I want one. Or a comedy one when I want one of those. Or put all my recent discoveries in one place. Or put all the podcasts I've listened to and dislike in a Podcast Dungeon so I don't accidentally download them again and subject myself to their misery. And yes, the source of this problem is that I subscribe to a gazillion podcasts. But look: Pocket Casts is meant to be a podcast-nut's podcast app. And mostly it is. Except ... if you're actually a nut for podcasts. Then it's impossible to ever find anything. Not that I listen to all of these podcasts all the time. That would be insane. There are a few core ones, and then there are a lot that I like to check in on every once in a while. And then there are others that a friend has recommended but I haven't had a chance to check out yet. Etc. But there are a lot of them, and there are almost no organizational features in Pocket Casts – just one giant endless list of frustration ... I mean, podcasts. Now, you might say: why don't you just delete this app and find another one with folders? Or: why did you rate this app 4-stars and then moan about it for four paragraphs? Here's why: because it is a brilliant little app. It is so beautiful. It works so fantastically well. It just desperately needs the most basic organizational feature imaginable: folders. Please for the love of god. Can I give you money? Can I send you wine? Can I bring you a hot towel & a mint like I'm a 60s airline steward? What if I write you a love song?
Review by thfump on Pocket Casts: Podcast Player.