What podcast app is everyone using on iOS? I’ve used Overcast for years, but last year’s redesign has brought a fair amount of frustration for me.. I’ve always loved Castro’s design, but it hasn’t been updated in a year.

What else should I be looking at?

@craigmcclellan You might like Airshow from Feedbin. Nice design. I used it for a while but went back to Overcast. ¯_(ツ)_/¯? apps.apple.com/us/app/ai…

@craigmcclellan been hooked on Castro for a long time and still works well for me. The queue feature has always worked so well for me. But I’ll be watching this thread to see if I should be open to trying others.

@craigmcclellan I’m using Pocket Casts on Android (available on ios as well) and I like this app. The autodownload new espisode features work well. If I did have ios I might look at Airr because it has a feature to save “notes” while listening and sync these with Readwise. Snipd might be another with this feature but I don’t know which is better.

@craigmcclellan I've recently been using Pocket Casts, mostly because it's crossplatform. The app has improved quite a bit in recent months and is open source. Folders and playlists give quite a few options for sorting.

@craigmcclellan Update: It looks like Overcast may have fixed one of my complaints, and I didn’t even realize. Going to see how that goes for the next few days.

@craigmcclellan I still use overcast but I also use Snipd to save parts of a podcast for later. It’s a pretty good player with nice features. There’s a feed for podcast Snips like tiktok to swipe through

@craigmcclellan which complaint?

@adrianizq For a long time after the redesign, you couldn’t set specific podcasts to always end up in your queue playlist. You could do it with other playlists, but not queue. I made my own Craig’s Queue playlist, but it always felt second class. Queue settings now have this.

@craigmcclellan interesting… I’ve never used the Queue feature/functionality in Overcast (or ever even registered it was a thing). I’ve always just had my “New” playlist that has all podcasts ordered in the Priority Podcast section so everything ends up where I want it in that “queue”.

@humdrum the queue functionality is the primary feature of Castro that I love, but I thought podcasts sounded so much better in Overcast, that I just tried to re-create the queue with my own playlist for a long time. Then overcast added a queue, but I had issues. 

@craigmcclellan neat, going to give the queue a go and see how it fits into my workflow. Appreciate you sharing the detail.

@craigmcclellan I’ve used Overcast for years and a few months back I switched to Apple Podcasts, basically since I’m a podcaster and wanted to see how most of my listeners experience the podcast. To my surprise, it’s fine.

@craigmcclellan I’ve been using Castro for a long time and liked it a lot. Unfortunately it has started to crash on me … so I’ve been looking for a new app. Currently I’m down to Podcaster and DownCast, Podcaster is pretty basic and I miss the possibility to set the playback speed on individual podcasts (I haven’t found a way to change the playback speed at all).

@jeroensangers Interesting. Maybe I should give it a go.

@jemostrom So sad Castro seems to have gone dormant. Their Queue system and overall design were best in class.

@craigmcclellan I had some carefully curated queue’s in Overcast, and it took a while to accept that there are other ways of listening. I’ve come to really like the ‘Last In, First Out’ system in Apple Podcasts, since it obliges me to go with the flow and stop being anxious about keeping up with the queue.