Podcast Chapters 4+

I have a daily podcast with chapters which I simply could not do without this app.

The ease with which I can add not only chapters, but chapter art and chapter URLs is great.

Not only that, but Fredrik is a very responsive developer. I have had both feature requests and bug reports added or fixed in a day or two.

The recent addition of CSV support makes adding chapters even easier. A steady stream of automation-friendly features have been added, including keyboard shortcuts.

This is a professional application that, in the great tradition of great software, does what it does, and does it very well.

I cannot think of any other app that I have purchased recently that I think of more highly than Podcast Chapters.

The chapter-adding functionality is reliable and very helpful. Being able to play back in-app and see where your chapters begin and end is great. However, the app also offers the ability to add episode and chapter-specific images, and I've had zero success getting those to actually show up in supporting podcast players (Overcast and Castro, for example). I emailed the developer months ago asking about this, but never heard back. This app wasn't exactly cheap, either, so to have persistently broken functionality is inexcusable. I would recommend the free Forecast from Marco Arment instead. It's a little more fiddly when entering chapter starts, and you can't listen in-app to check your timing, but it has a lot of great built-ins to save time, and the pictures actually work.

it's not clear how to edit the rest of the ID3 tags, such as copyright information. For that, I have to go back to Fission. For $20, I expected a single-stop app that let me enter ALL podcast meta data. Instead, the chapters part is good but it's difficult to set the exact time on the scrubber. And the inability to set presets for ID3 tags (all the relevant ones) makes it kind of feel a little half finished.