Rule of Google: if it works, kill it.

I know, I know, using Google apps isn’t the best, but this was a perfectly good Podcast app with all the features you might want.

Apparently they’re moving everything over to YouTube Music, where a lot of the features of Google Podcasts aren’t implemented yet.

I’ve moved over to an app from F-Droid.

  • skuzz
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    8 months ago

    I’ve been plugging it too, but apparently new users have to pay monthly fees to use it? Maybe there are now better alternatives.

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      8 months ago

      This is not true. The app is free and has no listening limits.

      What you can pay for is a web player (for pc), cross device syncing, cloud storage, extra themes, and some other perks.

      Been using pocket casts for like 7 years now with no complaints.

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        8 months ago

        I’ve been pretty happy with how Automattic has handled PocketCasts and the premium features feel like what you’d expect, while the main product is perfectly usable for 90% of people and use cases. I hope with their acquisition of Beeper, they continue this mindset and add premium features (extra themes, premium stickers, etc) without compromising the main app.