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I'm so glad to see the team behind Pocket Casts find success. It's one app I've never been disappointed with and supported right from the beginning. The paramo

I'm so glad to see the team behind Pocket Casts find success. It's one app I've never been disappointed with and supported right from the beginning. The paramount quality of a good app is how easily it gets out of the way and lets you enjoy the content. Pocket Casts has done a spectacular job at that.

simcop2387 8y ago
Yea it's been my favorite podcasting app since i found it. So glad it's NPR and such that acquired it and not a company that's going to fill it with ads (the main reason i stopped using any other apps).
- vanattab 8y ago
  No ads. Just "messages from underwriters"..
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- as-j 8y ago
  It’ll be interesting to see how it does. I wonder if you’ll still be able to auto skips the first 30s or 1min of an episode...
- brownbat 8y ago
  I just hope they break out from the NPR One model, which is like a podcast app from a universe where NPR is the only group allowed to make podcasts.
  - boomboomsubban 8y ago
    That app is more about listening to your local station or catching up on the news of the day than listening to podcasts. NPR and their affiliate stations only makes sense for that, I wouldn't worry that their goal is an NPR only podcast app.
cgag 8y ago
When I recommend it to people I always describe it as "the only good app".
- daveFNbuck 8y ago
  What does pocket casts do that makes it better than any other app?
m_fayer 8y ago
It's that vanishing breed: designed well but not overdesigned, technically solid, no hidden agenda or ecosystem to push, all for a fair upfront price. Hope they don't mess it up.
- synchronise 8y ago
  I've never seen the appeal of Pocket Casts or these almost-a-service podcast apps. I've been using Antennapod for over a year now and it a great podcast app and does a lot of stuff the paid ones won't even do, including syncing what episodes I've listened to to gpodder.net, searching iTunes and other websites and just having an easy to use, simple UI. It's just a shame that these FOSS apps which have much lower overheads as well, just can't market themselves as a commercial proprietary application like Pocket Casts can.
  - dvtrn 8y ago
    "It does everything I want" For other people there it is; there's the appeal. It does everything they want.
  - crispinb 8y ago
    Find me an open source app that I can use on iOS, Android & the web, and sync my subscriptions and play state between them, and I’ll be glad to have a look. Until then I am very happy to pay fine developers such as these a tiny sum for their craft.
    - synchronise 8y ago
      Antennapod and gpodder will work for the web and Android, I don't own an iOS device so I don't know of any solutions for that platform unfortunately. To add to that, there are issues between the GPL and the Apple App Store ToS so open source apps on that platform are at a disadvantage as a result.
      - simonh 8y ago
        If the owner of the code is publishing my the app, there is no problem as they just own the code and aren’t using it under any license and aren’t bound by the GPL. Similarly an owner of GPL code can relicense it for use on the App Store. Not ideal, but it can be workable.
baldfat 8y ago
I got the app for free from Amazon and then I heard how that hurt the company and went and bought the app on Google Play. I have never looked for another podcast player since this is next to perfect.
gadders 8y ago
Good on them for the acquisition. I've always got on better with Podcast Addict which seems better optimised for my primary use-case of falling asleep listening to podcasts.

simcop2387 8y ago

Yea it's been my favorite podcasting app since i found it. So glad it's NPR and such that acquired it and not a company that's going to fill it with ads (the main reason i stopped using any other apps).

vanattab 8y ago
No ads. Just "messages from underwriters"..
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
as-j 8y ago
It’ll be interesting to see how it does. I wonder if you’ll still be able to auto skips the first 30s or 1min of an episode...
brownbat 8y ago
I just hope they break out from the NPR One model, which is like a podcast app from a universe where NPR is the only group allowed to make podcasts.
- boomboomsubban 8y ago
  That app is more about listening to your local station or catching up on the news of the day than listening to podcasts. NPR and their affiliate stations only makes sense for that, I wouldn't worry that their goal is an NPR only podcast app.

cgag 8y ago

When I recommend it to people I always describe it as "the only good app".

daveFNbuck 8y ago
What does pocket casts do that makes it better than any other app?

m_fayer 8y ago

It's that vanishing breed: designed well but not overdesigned, technically solid, no hidden agenda or ecosystem to push, all for a fair upfront price. Hope they don't mess it up.

synchronise 8y ago
I've never seen the appeal of Pocket Casts or these almost-a-service podcast apps. I've been using Antennapod for over a year now and it a great podcast app and does a lot of stuff the paid ones won't even do, including syncing what episodes I've listened to to gpodder.net, searching iTunes and other websites and just having an easy to use, simple UI. It's just a shame that these FOSS apps which have much lower overheads as well, just can't market themselves as a commercial proprietary application like Pocket Casts can.
- dvtrn 8y ago
  "It does everything I want" For other people there it is; there's the appeal. It does everything they want.
- crispinb 8y ago
  Find me an open source app that I can use on iOS, Android & the web, and sync my subscriptions and play state between them, and I’ll be glad to have a look. Until then I am very happy to pay fine developers such as these a tiny sum for their craft.
  - synchronise 8y ago
    Antennapod and gpodder will work for the web and Android, I don't own an iOS device so I don't know of any solutions for that platform unfortunately. To add to that, there are issues between the GPL and the Apple App Store ToS so open source apps on that platform are at a disadvantage as a result.
    - simonh 8y ago
      If the owner of the code is publishing my the app, there is no problem as they just own the code and aren’t using it under any license and aren’t bound by the GPL. Similarly an owner of GPL code can relicense it for use on the App Store. Not ideal, but it can be workable.

baldfat 8y ago

I got the app for free from Amazon and then I heard how that hurt the company and went and bought the app on Google Play. I have never looked for another podcast player since this is next to perfect.

gadders 8y ago

Good on them for the acquisition. I've always got on better with Podcast Addict which seems better optimised for my primary use-case of falling asleep listening to podcasts.