Arvocast 9+
Menu Bar Podcast Player
Armchair Engineering
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
An elegant podcast player that lives in your Mac’s menu bar.
Designed for convenience, Arvocast is a modern, highly configurable audio podcast player with many useful features in a simple, intuitive interface:
- Menu bar controls to easily play/pause, skip forward and skip backward.
- Queue episodes and rearrange the list whenever you want.
- Download podcasts for playing anytime, even when offline, and set up automatic actions to download and add episodes to the queue.
- Search for and discover new podcasts.
You may choose to subscribe to Arvocast Plus to access additional features. All subscriptions will be charged through your. Subscriptions are charged for renewal 24 hours prior to the end of the current period and will renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. The current price for Arvocast Plus is $0.99 USD per month or $9.99 USD per year. Prices may vary from country to country.
Find the full terms and conditions, and our privacy policy, at https://armchairengineering.com/privacy.
What’s New
Version 1.1.5
+ Bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Found bug in first 30 seconds
App has bug. After subscribing to a new podcast, the podcast tab has an entry with no information contained inside of it. If I restart the app then there is information inside of it. This happened on the very first podcast subscribed to after the app was downloaded and opened.
A good start, but not a keeper
Being menu-bar based is a great idea, because it means you can get to the Back button quickly. (This is also better than floating UI, because it doesn't obscure other things you are doing.)
But there are problems:
- the "notch" that's common on Macs interferes with the menubar UI, making the Back button magically disappear
- there's no way to list episodes in chronological order, which makes it hard to listen to them in the order they were released; there are two sorting choices, "Alphabetical" and "Episode Release," but neither of those results in actual release order (the devs obviously assume that Alphabetical will produce that order, but that fails for many reasons)
- there's no convenient way to clear the "Up Next" playlist -- you have to right-click and then remove each item individually
It's also silly to be expected to pay a subscription for an app like this. It's not like Arvocast is a platform that hosts and streams podcasts. This should be a one-time purchase.
10 stars
Amazing app, everything I wanted. Nothing is missing. Big thank you to developer of this app.
App Privacy
The developer, Armchair Engineering, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Armchair Engineering
- Size
- 1.6 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Copyright
- © 2020-2022 David Caddy
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Arvocast Plus $9.99
- Arvocast Plus $1.49
- Lifetime Subscription $49.99