If you haven’t tried Pocket Casts yet, install for iOS or Android, and here’s how to import your subscriptions using a format called OPML.

Pocket Casts edges out Overcast in terms of looks, app experience, and features. I love Spotify and Apple, and I hope that Pocket Casts can do for podcast clients what Firefox in the early days and Chromium now does for browsers - push the state of the art, be manically focused on user control, and grow a more decentralized and open web. Pocket Casts and Overcast provide a tone of features for every podcast listener beginner or expert. It’s also unusual to be able to peek under the hood of a consumer mobile app that is this widely used and see how it works.Īudio publishing and consumption is a beautiful complement to the web publishing that WordPress is already so good at, and that Automattic tries to nurture an ecosystem around. If your code gets merged into core, it’ll go out to users listening to literally millions of hours of podcasts a week. You can see all the code behind the iOS app and the Android app, and modify it, make it your own, suggest a change, fix a bug, add a feature, fork it and make your own client, anything! What We Don't Like The app costs 4, and there's no free trial. A sleep timer lets you listen to podcasts as you drift off. Can filter episodes by download status, release date, favorites, and more.

The team has been working really hard to make those clients totally open source and available to the world, and it’s now happened. Pocket Casts What We Like Lots of controls for audio and video settings. Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, and since we’ve been tapping away trying to make the best podcast client for people who love listening to podcasts.

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