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Castro is more useful once you subscribe to enough feeds, and also looks and feels nice, but it costs twice as much per year.
by 1123581321 4y ago
Castro is more useful once you subscribe to enough feeds, and also looks and feels nice, but it costs twice as much per year.
- kranner 4y agoCastro is also sluggish and crashes constantly, at least once your queue of unplayed episodes grows very long.
- 1123581321 4y agoI believe you. Small queue/big inbox is a good experience for me and that's how I recommend people use it. The new 2023 release squashed a number of bugs but had some performance regressions as well; they're in the midst of successive patches right now.
- aheckler 4y ago+1 for Castro. I can't believe more podcast apps haven't caught on to how handy the email-like metaphor is for managing episodes. I want to listen to some, but not all episodes that come in via my various feeds, so having an "inbox" of sorts from which I can either download or discard shows seems like the only reasonable way to handle things IMHO. I don't understand apps that just download everything or, like Overcast, mess around with playlists.
- petercooper 4y agoI agree, although a lot of listeners do listen to every episode of every show they subscribe to. It's just a personal choice. I still use Overcast, though, but mimic the Castro behavior to a certain extent by having a "Latest" playlist and a "Starred" playlist. I look at "Latest" every day, star the ones I want to listen to, then eventually play from Starred. This works fine for me, but probably skews the shows' stats a bit since I download many more episodes than I ever listen to.