(Note: The app does offer a couple other ways to “build a queue,” but none of them are ideal solutions.) It would be better if filters and playlists were the same thing. To get that, you have to manually add episodes to a separate playlist. when one podcast ends, the next one on the list automatically begins).
The app’s filters are a great way to view your preferred podcasts, but they lack “continuous play” (i.e. Pocket Casts does have one annoying quirk, though. For example, I like having a listview of only podcast episodes that have been both downloaded (i.e. ( You can read my original review here.) The main advantage Pocket Casts has over Apple’s own podcast app? Greater ability to organize podcasts. The app is available for $1.99 in the App Store.I’ve been using Pocket Casts as my main podcast-listening app since the beginning of the year. I highly recommend Instacast for any podcast lover. I’ve subscribed to most of my podcasts in Instacast now, and using the app is a much more hassle-free way of managing and listening to my different shows. If Instacast was on my desktop with cloud-based progress syncing, I would totally abandon the classic method of downloading podcast files in iTunes.Ĭaching shows, reading show notes, and using the actual player made me fall in love with Instacast. My only complaint about Instacast is that it’s not available on my Mac. There are plenty of video podcasts available for streaming/downloading within Instacast. You can browse for shows like you would in iTunes with genres, search, popular, etc.
The Instacast online directory offers over 9,000 of the most popular podcasts in iTunes, and more are added daily. And if you do plan on listening to a whole show in one sitting, you can of course stream the episode all the way through.
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If that’s the way you listen, Instacast can use its multitasking abilities to cache your progress mid-stream, or you can download any episode for playback like a normal file in the iPod app. I stagger my listening between various commutes in the car, parts of the day, etc.
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That particular feature of Instacast is very important to me because I’m not the kind of person that typically listens to a full podcast episode in one sitting.
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Instacast is the perfect replacement for syncing podcasts through iTunes because the app also allows you to download content in-app for offline listening/watching. The app is brilliant because it takes the queueing concept of other on-demand streaming services (like Netflix), and applies that philosophy to podcasts. By reinventing the way you normally consume your media, Instacast serves as a much more efficient and on-demand method for listening to your favorite shows. Instacast allows you to stream and download your favorite shows in one totally podcast-focused app. As a cloud-based podcast streaming solution, Instacast is a fantastic stand-alone app for any podcast enthusiast… Instacast can best be described as Netflix for podcasts. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a robust streaming solution for podcasts? Podcasts can take a considerable amount of memory on a device with limited storage, not to mention the time and hardrive space it takes to download each episode in iTunes. Perhaps you don’t even sync podcasts to your iPhone to conserve disk space. Do you like to listen to podcasts? Do you subscribe to multiple podcasts in iTunes? If so, you realize how much of a pain it can be to manually transfer your podcasts from iTunes to your iPhone.
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