I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection.
So I moved my podcasts feeds to FreshRSS, which I was already using for RSS feeds. I like the simplicity of using something that I already had, but it doesn’t have any podcast-specific features like being able to resume where you left off.
Do you have any podcast listening apps that you like?
*edit: I should add that I originally meant “self-hostable applications for storing your podcast subscriptions,” but these phone app recommendations are great to have, too. I might just ditch the server-side of this entirely and just use a separate app on my devices for listening. It would be nice if I only had to subscribe in one place and be able to pick up where I left off across multiple devices, though.
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DoggCatcher
There seems to be a lot of fun checking out Podcast apps, but I couldn’t find a lot of these on iOS App Store sigh
I’m guessing that most iPhone users just use Apple Podcasts, and Apple themselves probably want it that way. (E.g. less promotion of third-party podcast apps on the app store.)
Podcast Addict.
My only gripe is that it only works on mobile, so I can’t have all my settings shared with my laptop. Otherwise, it’s nearly flawless and the premium is cheap as hell.
Yep, podcast addict premium user for several years now. Rock solid app, though I do wish it supported the full podcasting 2.0 feature set, all of the namespace, V4V, wallet integration, ect. But for now I just use fountain for my 2.0 shows and it works, it’s just annoying.
I use podcast addict as well, I use tailscale and scrcpy to listen when I’m on my laptop, I find it works pretty well.
I use Podcast Republic, nice interface, active developer, good library tracking. Search function is nice, can go by podcast name or description so you can search for guests. Subscription can auto download (I don’t) lots of options for playback and bookmarks etc. I think it’s very solid. *Just read the edit, but still a good app :)
I’m quite happy with audiobookshelf. Sometimes I’m in the mood to listen to a book, sometimes I fancy a podcast and audiobookshelf let’s me do both with little fuss. (and it has oidc support for authentication which means I now authenticate with my single sign on solution)
Honestly I just use Apple Podcasts, crucify me.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Pocket Casts on Android.
feedbin, I just use the web app on my phone/laptop
Rss feeds to download the mp3. VLC to play them. I like to relisten to some series so building a library makes it easy.
AntennaPod
Same for mobile.
Best podcast app I’ve ever used.
I would only switch to another app if that could remove the ads from downloaded podcasts :')
What I’d like to know: For anyone using some app other than AntennaPod: Why? How is it worth it?
I’ve never used Antenna Pod, but I’ve used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I’ve paid for the pro app, and I’ve been really impressed by what it can do.
I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.
The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.
I’ve found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn’t go as planned.
Never heard of antennapod before I’ve just stuck with pocketcast since day one, what makes antennapod special?
The ui is clean and intuitive and it actually handles podcasts with multiple feeds (patron/free) well (other apps I’ve used were quite annoying with that). Being able to tag all your podcasts is also really nice for organization, especially if you have a lot of podcasts that you aren’t listening to every episode of. My only complaint was that the default settings are to download a podcast when you click on it instead if stream, but that is easily changed with one setting switch
I can’t say I’ve thought about how paid versions of a podcast would work on pocketcast
Fucking love that app.
I’ve used so many podcast apps including paid and have never had anything anything anything that comes CLOSE to AntennaPod. I love that it’s foss, libre, all that good stuff.
I just wish I’d tried it sooner.
Same, I stuck with podcast addict for so long - once I tried antennapod I didn’t have to switch anymore. I do sync with a selfhosted gpodder though - just to not get hooked on a single app.
I download my podcasts from YouTube through pinchflat to strip out the ads then mount the RSS feed(s) into antennapod
I used to use Overcast but the UI refresh that happened last year caused me to switch to Pocket Casts, which I’ve been very happy with
I think what you’re looking for is PinePods. Open source, self hosted. https://www.pinepods.online/
I’ve just found out how to setup audiobookshelf for podcasts and I’m a bit annoyed that I won’t be using antennapod anymore.
I let audiobookshelf serve rss feeds for podcasts which I sub to in antennapod.
I’m using antennapod. It syncs to a selfhosted gpodder instance and some podcasts are hosted on my audiobookshelf. I like some exclusive podcasts from podimo but their player is shit. Selfhost a tool that creates rss feeds for those walled podimo podcasts and they get downloaded and served by audiobookshelf.
That’s a very slick setup, nice.
