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Pocket Casts by Shifty Jelly

Finally, a very usable podcast manager for Android. It isn't perfect but it has all the basics covered.

My favorites:
  • Phone and tablet support natively
  • Podcast sync
  • Playback speed from .5x - 3.0x
  • Homescreen widget, lockscreen controls, and headset controls
  • Android 4.0+ expandable, rich notifications
  • 10 second reverse, 30 second skip
  • Screen orientation lock for video podcasts
  • Logical smart playlists
  • Reliable downloads (but I can't find the auto-download settings?)
    • To enable auto-download, create a new smart playlist and toggle the automatic download setting
I just wish I could get rid of ShiftyJelly's red interface branding, but I guess I can live with that. It would also be nicer to have more gesture support within a podcast feed but I'm very impressed with the amount of functionality included with this first release. I'm sure more is forthcoming.

I highly recommend this app. I'm still interested in programming my own. :-)


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