Ask HN: Best way to search and collect platform-agnostic podcast links?

Pocketcast's search is pretty great. Check out this screenshot of searching for "Philosophize This". https://goo.gl/EM2wdj

In order to subscribe, you just click on the + button.

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Pocket Casts is by far superior in my experience. Will cost you $9, but worth it.

I'm the maker of Listen Notes. Thanks for sharing Listen Notes here :)

Early this year, I was hoping someone could build a very basic podacast search engine that allowed me to search the whole internet's podcast episodes -- searching meta data is good enough; no fancy AI needed. I didn't want to subscribe yet another podcast -- I've subscribed to way too many podcasts already... I wanted to find episodes, listen, then move on.

Of course, I couldn't find such podcast search engine, so I built Listen Notes. The first prototype of Listen Notes was indeed a "I can build this in a weekend" type side project :)

https://gpodder.net allows you to synchronise various (partially/non-overlapping) podcast lists to multiple devices and easily add new podcasts you don't find on the service's website. So you can actually just set up compatible podcast clients on the devices of your parents and let them enjoy new episodes without even bothering them with the actual links and the whole process of subscribing to new feeds (unless when they explicitly want to do it either through the client or manually on the website).

BeyondPod is good on Android.