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PocketCasts has those weird popup windows that feel very cross-platform.



It also uses a lot of private apis from ios6. (I found out running the ios8 beta and looking at stack traces)

So I've had to revert to Downcast. I have bought every podcast app on ios anyway to get away from the godawful native podcast app. Whats one more app amongst friends.


>> It also uses a lot of private apis from ios6. (I found out running the ios8 beta and looking at stack traces)

Good to know. It completely stopped launching for me on iOS 8 beta 3. Shows the default.png and the freezes and crashes after a few seconds. I'd downgraded to the Apple Podcasts app (which I hate). Tried Overcast this afternoon and I like it. The only probably for me is there is unlikely to ever be an Android app and I occasionally use an Android device so PocketCasts syncing between devices was great.


I can't find an app the works on beta 3. I switch away from pocket cast to Apple podcasts. That worked for a day and then wouldn't play. Tried castro and it also worked for a while and now I can go to the episode view. Trying overcast now but the auto downloading is annoying and there no all downloaded view.


Downcasts runs on beta3, as does overcast but pocket casts is a crash happy maniac on it.


Yeah, given how much time I listen to podcasts, I don't mind spending a few bucks twice a year to try new clients.




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