Castamatic is the best app to listen to podcasts on any iOS device. Quickly assemble a custom sequence of shows to listen to or create a smart playlist, and listen to your favorite shows with enhanced audio quality, thanks to Castamatic's machine learning enhanced Auto-leveler DSP algorithm. Not completely happy with the current feature set? Castamatic wants offer a complete boutique experience: send us an email with your issues or suggestions, and we will do our best to fullfill your wishes. Highlights --------------- The "On the Go" playlist lets you pick the episodes you want to listen to in your next listening session and assemble them in a playlist just before leaving. The On the Go playlist will mantain the same order in which the episodes were added. You can then move and rearrange them manually. As soon as an episode has been completely listened to it will be automatically removed from the On the Go playlist. You will always find your On the Go playlist synced on all your devices. Key Features --------------- -Chapters: quickly jump to favorite topics (available for podcasts that support ID3 chapter marks). -Smart playlists with priority shows. -Manual "On the Go" Playlist quickly pick shows for the next listening session. -Automatic or manual playlist reordering: sort playlists by date, or arrange them in a custom sequence. -Support your favorite producers with Podcasting 2.0 and Value4Value features. -Full support for Siri shortcuts -Program dependent Automatic Leveler: increase audio level consistency between different parts/voices of each show, without altering original audio character. -Adaptive Gap-Zapper: increase play speed without losing intellegibility by shortening silent parts. Available in three levels for maximum customization. -Streaming support: spare network traffic downloading only the parts you want to play, when you want to play them. (Or automatically download the whole thing as soon as it is published). -Apple Watch support: control playing, volume, pick episodes, control audio effects directly from the watch app. -CarPlay support: take your favorite shows with you in your car. -3D-touch support: preview shownotes without interrupting currently playing show (on older devices the same feature is available by long press). -iCloud sync: sync subscriptions and playhead position. Pick subscribed shows on any of her iOS devices and resume playing from the point you left. -AudioUnit API based custom player for maximum performance and minimal battery drain. -Serverless design: our studio can go out of business but Castamatic will keep on working until there are podcasts to listen to on planet Earth. Subscription (in app purchase) ------------- Castamatic is supported by advertising. A subscription is available to remove all ads. Subscription title is "One Year Premium Subscription" The duration of subscription is one year. The price of subscription is 8.99 US dollars for one year of subscription, and can vary for different countries and currencies. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase Privacy policy: https://castamatic.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://castamatic.com/terms_of_use/ Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable -------------- We don't feel confortable interrupting your listening experience to ask for reviews, but if you are feeling generous with your time please take a minute to leave a nice review. Thank you very much for your support.
Often stalls on certain podcasts
I downloaded this after hearing it recommended by Adam Curry of “The No Agenda Show” )”the best podcast in the universe, according to the Mueller report”). I really want to like this app, but it has a serious flaw. It often stalls for no apparent reason. This often happens on “The John Kobylt Show.: I recently started listening to “The Wright Report” but find it stalls so much on this podcast that I may have to use a different app.
Decent but I lose podcast progress a lot
This app has a generally good UI design and works okay. However far too often it lags like crazy when trying to open it. Additionally, there’s been countless times where the app has crashed or bugged out and the podcast I’m listening to is reset to the beginning. It just happened now when I started playing a show and I lost like an hour and a half of progress. Not great
Mixed Message
Heard about the app, read the No Ads, No Tacking… decided to try the app. First thing you notice is banners. Can be removed…for a subscription. So much for the No Ads, at least I see a banner that can be removed as an ad. Not a terrible subscription at 9.99 a year, but I’m sticking with a cleaner interface app that doesn’t force a subscription to look clean. Worth a try though if you can get past the, well, ads, or perhaps call them reminders your not a subscriber. Just not for me. I appreciate the Dev response here. I suppose it all come down to perception. I see a banner reminding you to subscribe to a product as an ad. The developer does not. I can see the their point of view as well. This app is a fantastic app, that banner just ruins it for me. I believe many will love it though and I wish the developer well. Who knows, one day I may try it out again.
Mixed Message
Heard about the app, read the No Ads, No Tacking… decided to try the app. First thing you notice is banners. Can be removed…for a subscription. So much for the No Ads, at least I see a banner that can be removed as an ad. Not a terrible subscription at 9.99 a year, but I’m sticking with a cleaner interface app that doesn’t force a subscription to look clean. Worth a try though if you can get past the, well, ads, or perhaps call them reminders your not a subscriber. Just not for me.
Not bad but feels like beta software
I installed this to check out some podcast 2.0 features. I do like some of the features but I find myself going back to other podcast apps. There are just lots of glitches with this one that I don't have in others. For example, if I'm listening to a podcast as I pull into the parking garage at work, the podcast immediately stops and I have to wait until I leave the garage then force quit the app in order to get it to reconnect. Other podcast apps don't even stop streaming in the garage let alone need to be force quit and reopened. It randomly stops play ng at other times too and I have to force quit to get it working. Maybe it works better if you download instead of stream but for how I use a podcast app, this just doesn't work as a main podcast app but I think I'll keep it installed and see how it develops.
Almost perfect
Great app and I have no regrets about using this over other podcast apps, especially those with no podcast 2 support (ahem, Apple). What would make this perfect? LIT support. It’s the one thing that seems to be missing. Would really like to be able to hear the live feeds when they go live.
Awesome
Best alternate podcast app out there. I absolutely love it. I also like the fact that it’s based on the value for value concept. I found out about this app from the “No Agenda” podcast. Shout out to Adam and John. It’s great!!! 👍
Respect user indication not to download new episodes when activating iCloud sync - Added option to mark episode listened in player - Small bug fixes Version 8.5 - Chapter artwork is now displayed in CarPlay - New option to pause playing and load next episode in the playlist at the end of the current episode - Improved iCloud sync - Improved background updates - Added titles of inclulded podcasts in playlist cell - Fix for finished episode not marked ad listened in iCloud sync - Fix for a crash when marking all episodes in a playlist as listened - Fix for not resuming playback after some audio interruptions (notifications, calls...) - Many minor bug fixes Version 8 - Renewed CarPlay user interface, with controls for chapters and audio effects. - New optional remaining episodes badges - Podcasting 2.0 support
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