Good Podcast App: Syncing Android, Windows and iOS

[Canoe_Captain]

After month of searching and researching I would like to recommend a podcast software to FDR listeners who use their Android phones or tablets to listen on their way to work and missed the possibility to continue listening to the same podcast at their PC.

 

The software works like the podcast part of iTunes, but additionally offers an Android app and a browser based interface. The app is called Pocket Casts. URL: http://www.shiftyjelly.com/

 

I used the Android app for ca. 6 month and I tested the new web app for 3 days. Pocket Casts is the most reliable and effortless podcasting experience I have encountered.

 

Pocket Casts offers features like:

• offline listening on mobile device
• variable listening speeds
• automatic downloading of new episodes
• saving and syncing progress in the cloud (even for deleted episodes)
• cloud backup of podcast playback progress

Until now only iPhone users had the luxury of syncing PC and phone by using iTunes on both devices. Until now I used iTunes on Windows and had to remember and manually set my listening progress if I switched listening devices during a FDR podcast.

 

Fellow forum member Magenta recommends Pocket Casts as well:

My favorite podcast app is Pocket Casts. It allows you to timestamp a podcast, then send an e-mail containing that timestamp and a hyperlink to the timestamp.

 

source: https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/40167-android-device-unable-to-play-podcasts/

Example of a hyperlink with timestamp of an FDR podcast: http://pca.st/DsdI

 

 

The Android app is €2.99 one-time

The web based app for Pcs is ca. $9 one-time. There is a full feature 14-day free trial period for the web app.

The iOS app is $4.99 one-time.

 

If you know any software that can sync Android and Windows as effortlessly and reliably, please post a link, especially if your app is cheaper.

 

By the way if you are not happy with the YouTube automatic resume function to your last playback position I recommend the free Chrome Browser extension Video Resumer. I am using the extension for ca. 6 month and it works reliably.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-resumer/bongjkoajofkfpofginnhecihgaeldpe?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog