Procast Podcast App - Podcasts 12+

Procast is the only podcast app I could find that let me simply and easily manage my podcast episode playlist. I subscribe to lots of shows but don’t want to listen to every episode. With Procast I check each day to see what’s new and I can decide whether to add that episode to the playlist or not, but that’s not the killer feature! If I find a podcast and want to catch up by listening to old episodes I can easily add them to the playlist, but then more importantly I can see the playlist and edit it directly! So instead of listening to 20 episodes in a row of the same podcast I can drag and drop episodes, mixing them with other shows, to give me some variety. The only missing feature is a history or recently played list. Once you’ve listened to an episode it disappears from your playlist and it can be hard to find it to listen again or share with friends.

This is a solid and reliable podcast app that I find to be much better/less hassle than any other I’ve used, including Apple’s own. It respects data/privacy, doesn’t try and flog you subscriptions (indeed it is free and relies on donations as far as I can work out), no bloat, hardly ever glitches/crashes even under heavy use & the developer is supportive and responsive to feedback. You can ‘clip’/export segments of podcasts like notes which is fantastic, import/export OPML to backup/transfer your podcasts from/to other podcatchers + all the usual stuff you might hope for: playlists, downloads, search, charts and so on… Give it a try! My only criticism is that it sometimes doesn’t cache thumbnails of downloads when you’ve a lot of them which makes them harder to find offline/it misses new episodes occasionally (at least when you subscribe to lots of different pods!)

The ability to search within an individual podcast for a certain phrase or topic is top notch, just needs the ability to have a podcast episode end at the end instead of playing the next podcast when in playlist mode! Maybe the developer can look into this...