Tatori - Podcasts & Audiobooks 4+

Those who listen to podcasts for entertainment and other casual use can use any ‘ole player app, but if you are a heavy user of podcasts and audiobooks for serious studying, then an app needs additional functionality to be efficient and productive. I’ve been using podcast player apps for almost 20 years and am very picky about them. I must have tried 30-40 podcast apps to date searching for one that fits my needs, and Tatori was the clear winner here.

Many years ago podcast apps didn’t even have bookmarking. Although it’s the norm now, a lot of apps still fall short. Many “bookmark features” do nothing but collect time stamps upon a button press and so they can’t define both start and end points of an excerpt. Many don’t even let you label your bookmarks. And even if they did, many don’t have a way to export them so they’re held captive in the app so you can’t collect and organize them in your own documents. Tatori’s bookmarking functionality is the best of any podcast app that I have tried so far. It had all these features plus the ability to actually create separate files for each clip so you can save and play them later. Super useful during times I don’t have internet access and the old episode auto-deleted a long time ago.

It’s well worth the few bucks to purchase this app.

I really appreciate the thorough review, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.

The user experience with this app started out great and has only gotten better. The developer continues to incorporate intuitive changes based on feedback. Absolutely worth downloading and investing yourself in discovering how the app can make your listening experience better than you likely ever imagined possible. At least that was my experience, the layout and style is comfortable and familiar, but also unexpected based on my my time using many other top rated apps. The frustrations that I had with those other similar apps, though, just has not been present here. Really makes this app worth trying.

I greatly appreciate the review, thanks.

Definitely on the right path adding bookmarking to podcasts. Really helps with referencing valuable topics later.

Only challenges are these:
1) it’s difficult to change a “bookmark” (a single point on the time line) into a “bookmark clip” (a block of time with a start and end time). When editing a bookmark, it shows the option to change the start time and add an end time, but there’s no way to save the change currently it seems.
2) When looking at the bookmark view for a podcast, it doesn’t show the names of the bookmarks you’ve defined. Only “bookmark 1, bookmark 2, etc)
3) The search feature doesn’t seems to currently index (search against) your custom bookmark titles
4) Doesn’t currently look like there’s a way to export your bookmark clips into a general format for external use
5) I tend to listen to podcasts when running, would be amazing to have the bookmark / bookmark clip capture feature be enabled from a physical button on the phone when the app is active. There are some great photo apps that do this and it makes usage so much more fluid with what you’re already doing.

Overall a great concept with fantastic potential. Hopefully the dev continues to invest in the concept and attack some of these quick wins.

Thanks again for making the investment to build this app! Happy to test early feature releases if you’d like, just let me know.

Update 10/11/2018 - Greetings, I've made several updates based on the feedback you provided. The biggest change is the addition of OPML import/export functionality so you have access to your data. Hopefully you find these updates useful. Thanks again.

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Thanks for providing the helpful feedback. Hopefully I can clarify a couple of these issues and perhaps update the tutorials in app.

1) To change a bookmark into a bookmark clip, open the bookmark editor and find the 'End Time' button above the picker wheel. Tap it to set the end time to the player's current time, which must be after the bookmark's start time for it to save. The timeline will refresh to indicate the bookmark's new length.
2) The view may have required a refresh because it should display the available bookmark names. Names like 'Bookmark 1' and 'Bookmark 2' are the auto-generated bookmark names and can be changed from the bookmark editor.
3) To run a search for bookmark titles, make sure the 'Bookmarks' content selector is active in the episode list. The bookmark titles are ignored when the Downloads and Feed content lists are active.
4) Correct exporting isn't currently supported.
5) While I can try to add support for Apple's bookmark remote command it ultimately depends on the remote device's interface. Apple has a guideline (2.5.9) stating "Apps that alter or disable the functions of standard switches...will be rejected" so I'm a bit limited to using Apple's provided command support.

Thanks again, if anything is still unclear let me know.