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Best part of PocketCast is the stats. It can tell me that since 2016 I've listened to 135 days worth of podcasts and apparently I've "saved" 46 days by increasing the playback speed and 3 days from trimming silence. (I also have 350 hours in my "up next" queue ...)
Imagine how much time we can save by skipping ads and sponsors.
Best part of PocketCast is the stats. It can tell me that since 2016 I've listened to 135 days worth of podcasts and apparently I've "saved" 46 days by increasing the playback speed and 3 days from trimming silence. (I also have 350 hours in my "up next" queue ...)
I like Pocket Casts and I’m not knocking the fact that they have them or that other people like them, but stats like these make me feel existential dread.
After being a user for many many years, I just recently tested out to Snipd [1] and have not looked back since. Pocket Cast were great but I don't see them innovating. With Snipd there is almost always a full text transcript available including a surprisingly accurate AI generated Table of Contents to cue through. Then I can easily save a transcribed clip of some section I am listening to for export to a TfT program…
After being a user for many many years, I just recently tested out to Snipd [1] and have not looked back since. Pocket Cast were great but I don't see them innovating. With Snipd there is almost always a full text transcript available including a surprisingly accurate AI generated Table of Contents to cue through. Then I can easily save a transcribed clip of some section I am listening to for export to a TfT program…
> I don't see them innovating For a podcast app that's a feature, not a bug.
Plenty of good and useful features have been added to podcast apps since the first one shipped.
Is it just a popularity contest or are those other apps better?
Podcast App (4.8, 228k votes)
Google Podcasts (4.7, 10k votes)
Overcast (4.7, 33k votes)
Podcast Player - Castbox (4.8, 98k votes)
Pocket Casts (3.9, 2.8k votes)
Stitcher (4.8, 4.7k votes)
Discounting the apple podcast app (4.9, 973k votes) since it's built in and therefore has an unfair advantage.
Might explain why it was sold if it was clear it wasn't winning. I certainly like the idea of a player that doesn't report to someone my interests.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless Spotify adds support for adding podcasts via RSS Feed URL, I don't think there will be major risk of a large scale move.
I imagine very few people care about that. I can’t remember the last time I had to paste in a podcast url anywhere. I just search for a podcast in-app and click “Subscribe”.
Best part of PocketCast is the stats. It can tell me that since 2016 I've listened to 135 days worth of podcasts and apparently I've "saved" 46 days by increasing the playback speed and 3 days from trimming silence. (I also have 350 hours in my "up next" queue ...)
Imagine how much time we can save by skipping ads and sponsors.
Reading this made me grin. Pocket Casts is one of the only applications that's survived me bouncing between iOS and Android and back again over the last who-knows-how-many years and I paid for their web player a long time ago, too. I've tried other players and none of them stick; the differences in affordances in something like Castro or Overcast send me back to Pocket Casts every time. They seem to have had a rough…
Spot on: “the land of the misfit web toys” or “this would have been killed at Google”.
I just went to check it on the iPhone App store. I know that ratings might not mean anything? but, I noticed it was rated 3.9 of 5 stars vs several other podcasts with up to 6x to 90x more votes and 4.5 to 5 stars. Is it just a popularity contest or are those other apps better? Podcast App (4.8, 228k votes) Google Podcasts (4.7, 10k votes) Overcast (4.7, 33k votes) Podcast Player - Castbox (4.8, 98k votes) Pocket Cas…
The main two being:
- The 7.0 UI update in which certain features such as playlists were removed & the UX streamlined.
- The move from a paid app to free with subscription.
It’s an excellent app for the most part, certainly on par with others in that list.
After being a user for many many years, I just recently tested out to Snipd [1] and have not looked back since. Pocket Cast were great but I don't see them innovating. With Snipd there is almost always a full text transcript available including a surprisingly accurate AI generated Table of Contents to cue through. Then I can easily save a transcribed clip of some section I am listening to for export to a TfT program…