What do you use as your primary source for podcasts? I use Apple Podcasts.
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Overcast.
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I’m a YouTube Premium user but I’m surprised how many people use YT for podcasts. I watch a few that ofter video as well as audio versions, but I mainly just listen to these
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Because I use also the Upload feature to upload sermons and listen outdoor in my watch.
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I think the article is referring more towards the platform the podcast is on (eg Spotify, YouTube), not the app people use to listen.
But if we’re going down that road, Pocket Casts all the way.
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Google podcast was a reasonable podcast player especially for people who wanted to have iOS & Android compatibility. It had about the same features as Apple podcast has today. Google shut it down and forced users to move to YouTube Music.
Pocket Casts. The ability to queue up episodes from any show, upload your own audio files, sync across devices, trim silence. I love it. Not sure there are any apps that can do all that.
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Podcasts is really nice though.
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Whet @AppleGuy said, plus, this is more about YouTube growing total podcast listeners (I think.) That’s based on the complementary demographics in the report (YouTube podcast listeners skewing young, male, desktop.)
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I also use Apple Podcasts. I’ve tried alternatives, but always end up coming back.
My needs are simple, though: I just play and listen, so fancy features in a podcasting app are meaningless to me.
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I’m the same way. I don’t even know what features are that would make me want to switch to another podcast client.
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That is me exactly. I listen to podcasts while on my run. I hit play and that’s it.
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Pocket Casts
A podcast that I regularly listened to went Spotify exclusive a while back. It wasn’t a great experience. It may have gotten better since then, but I don’t go looking for podcasts there.
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I wouldn’t listen on a “platform” I want my podcasts direct from the source in the app I choose.
It’s a massive benefit of Podcasts that there is no middleperson or algorithms.
And if a podcast goes exclusive so I can’t get it on my choice of app, I just won’t listen to it. I’m not going to go and find these things, I love that they come to me.
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Agree 100%. If something is Spotify only, I won’t listen.
Just pointing out that the article seemed to talk more about platforms and not specific apps, but everyone was listing their app for some reason.
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I stopped using Apple podcasts back when it had that annoying skeuomorphic animated reel-to-reel tape deck.
This one…
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I’ve tried going back to Apple Podcasts multiple times in the last couple of years and it just never takes. I currently use Airshow which is a very well designed podcast player from the maker of Feedbin. It has some similarities to Castro. I love that the developer is still actively developing it and the design is really slick.
Apple is just too big to really focus on one app that’s tied into system updates. I wish they had a team that could iterate some apps like Mail, Podcasts, Music on a separate schedule than from the iOS updates. I feel like Apple could really innovate those apps but instead they must be tied to iOS updates and that schedule I think inhibits them.
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I agree.
I believe that Certain “core” apps should be decoupled from the OS with teams assigned to develop them on an ongoing basis.
Potentially changes should be rolled out after monthly sprints with quarterly PI planning (road mapping).
Apps I believe this should happen to include Photos, Reminders, Notes and Mail.
I wouldn’t put Pocasts in that list, but I understand people who would.
The biggest problem Apple may have is that Devs may not wish to work on these standalone products on an ongoing basis.
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Overcast won me over hard. I am looking at Audible for cross platform support since I have a Boox Palma on my Christmas wishlist.
More granular control over the speed-up/slow down (1x, 1.1x, etc.), and settings for that on a per-podcast basis. Automatic removal of periods of silence. Better audio quality when doing either of those things. Better ability to slice 'n dice large numbers of podcasts onto customer playlists.
For example, I have stuff I listen to in the morning while I’m doing my morning routine. Those are automatically sorted as my “first” items on my list. And within those podcasts, some I listen to at 1.2x, some I listen to at almost 2x. Depends on the speed of the narrator, and audio clarity. I listen to all of them with silence removal, so my “effective” listening speed on some of the “almost 2x” ones is almost 2.5x.
You may not need that stuff, and that’s totally cool. Just letting you know the sorts of things that some of us appreciate. 
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