![]() Pocket Casts, $3.99, Also offers web player.Also offers app for Apple Watch and web player. You can drag episodes into any order you like in your listening queue. From there you can either add an episode to your queue for future listening or archive it. 6 It provides an inbox where you can see the latest episode of each podcast you are subscribed to. If you use only iOS devices, you might prefer this app.Īnother excellent iOS app is Castro, which focuses on making it easy to set up a queue of individual episodes from different podcasts. 5 It has features that are similar to Pocket Casts and in addition offers “Smart Speed.” Smart Speed dynamically skips and shortens silences in talk shows. Several reviewers promote Overcast (free, for iOS only) as the best player available. If you use both Android and iOS, you will like this app since you can sync your podcasts between Android and iOS devices. 4 Features such as free syncing across all your devices, web playback (for a one-time fee of $9), variable speed playback, skip ahead by 45 seconds or back by 10 seconds (the number of seconds is adjustable in Settings), volume boost (for noisy situations, like in the car), and a sleep timer. My current favorite app is Pocket Casts ($3.99) because it’s available for both iOS and Android, has many useful features, and has a very user-friendly design. One of the reasons to use a dedicated mobile app for podcasts is that these apps have very useful features, such as skipping ahead or back by a few seconds (to skip introductions), a sleep timer, volume boost for noisy situations, and so on. In this section, I’ll list some of the highest-rated apps for iOS and Android. There are many options for listening to podcasts on mobile devices. We’ll look at both desktop and mobile apps in the upcoming sections of this report. You can also choose from several other choices to customize your listening. Once you subscribe to a podcast, you can choose whether to automatically download the latest episode and whether to delete episodes you’ve finished. Most have a directory and search function within the app for finding podcasts to subscribe to. There are quite a few useful mobile apps for podcast listening, and they are available for multiple platforms. I’ll discuss these in the section of this report on podcast discovery later in this chapter. 3 Because of that, it’s a good idea to use more than one directory. Also, Apple has different iTunes stores for each country, so many international podcasts are not found in the US store. Some podcasters don’t configure their shows for it. One thing to keep in mind is that iTunes does not contain all of the world’s podcasts. If you visit the Podcasts section of the iTunes store, you can browse by topic and other categories, such as Editor’s Choice, New & Noteworthy, Modern Audio Drama, and so on. To do a quick search, enter a podcast name in the iTunes search box, and then filter your results by podcasts. 2 It also has one of the largest directories of podcasts available, so it’s a good place to search for and browse podcasts by topic. Apple’s iTunes is the most popular desktop app (for Mac or Windows). Once you start subscribing to several podcasts, you’ll probably want to use a desktop or mobile app to organize your subscriptions. Most podcasts offer ways to listen to individual episodes in your web browser without subscribing. If you’re looking for a particular episode, you don’t actually need to subscribe. You can usually find the website of the podcast and from there find a link to subscribe. If someone tells you about an interesting podcast, you might start by searching Google for the title, with the word podcast after it. Recommended Tools for Podcast Listening How to Find and Subscribe to a Podcast
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