Cosmicast 12+

Updates have made the UI look better and playback has improved. Only issue is that when the app is closed and not running in the bg and podcasts ive subscribed to are wiped.

Hi there! Thank you for reaching out. The latest updates recreate the app and add a variety of features and new things, including improved episode downloading.

EDIT: The latest update now resolves these issues.

First, no landscape mode. I have my iPad in a frame. Very inconvenient to turn sideways.

Desperately needs subcategories. Way too many pods in every genre.

Not user friendly. Accidentally subscribed to something, took a while to figure out how to unsub.

Giving it an OK, but not keeing it.

Hi there! Thank you for reaching out. The latest updates adds this in, and improves upon a lot of these areas.

Update Apr 24 2019:

Great response and attention from Dev, app gets 5 Stars for that for sure, and for constant updates and Dev’s continued work on the app.

Also very nice to have full screen landscape video playback ability now. Nice! (Thanks Dev!)

Unfortunately, app is still very glitchy. Once go to landscape for video (working fine), when try to return to portrait mode screen is all wonky, kinda half page, with no access to controls and a tiny strip of video etc. Flip back to lanscape and now real wonky there too. (IPad Air 2, iOS 11.4.1)

Play button still not working correctly either (and the 2 finger swipe up doesn’t appear to be working in that regard as well on iPad at least). Tried with audio podcast and video cast.

Tried few times contact Dev directly thru the app and via appstore but just links to a wonky Twitter page which also isn’t working correctly and locks up with no access. (Hence leave note here for Dev.)

Hey, with the Dev’s continued attention I’m sure all of these issues will be addressed over time and app will soon be deserving of a full 5 Star rating.

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Update April 5 2019:

STILL no pause button. Really? Only way to stop episode playback is to quit the app. Gee THAT’S convenient. (Still no landscape video either, just the little midscreen letterbox.)

Still a work in progress it would appear. Hey, at least the Dev is still updating the app. :-)

Will check back in later.

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Original Review:

On the plus side app plays video podcasts! Great!

But no fullscreen video mode. Why not? Usually simple flip to landscape would engage such. Nope. Just tiny letterbox video. (Hey, better than none at all, but come on, the vids there, let it go full screen once engaged.)

Very clunky unintuitive interface. (For me at least. Sorry) Frustrating and confusing.

No pause button on screen. Huh? Really? (or at least it’s not working. tap onscreen play button presume will pause or stop playback. nope. no way out.)

Will adjust this review if figure out what’s going on.

EDIT: The app has now been updated to address these issues and improve upon the experience.

Hey there, thank you for your feedback. The play button on the player tab changes into a pause button when tapped, and can also be accessed by swiping up from anywhere with two fingers. Landscape video is also now available with the latest update. Hope this helps!