![]() So it’s either everything sorted oldest to newest or newest to oldest. One niggle with Overcast though is that I can’t have some podcasts sorted a different way (unlike Pocket Casts). So many people recommend it (including the Packet Pushers podcast whose weekly episode from yesterday had Greg and Ethan mention Overcast as being great) I must try again in case the issue is one of me being stubborn. But I can do so with Overcast so thought I’d try again. There’s a few podcasts I am catching up on and I would like to have them in between my regular episodes, and there’s no way to do that with Pocket Casts. It’s either oldest to newest, or reverse. Thing with Pocket Casts is that even though I can make playlists I can’t sort them my way. as a replacement for the role previously filled by Castro basically). Update: Trying out Overcast in conjunction with Pocket Casts (i.e. Dunno if I will be able to continue listening to podcasts as quickly as I was with Castro (coz of the triage interface where I could pick and choose and discard easily) but let’s see. Added all the episodes and subscriptions back to Pocket Casts and created playlists etc again. :( Yes I don’t need it on a regular basis but that’s something I draw a line at in terms of not wanting to be tied down to a device. ![]() Castro, I love your interface and way of handling podcasts, but as long as you don’t have some way of keeping my subscriptions and progress in sync I am sorry I won’t be able to use you. I like to change phones around and use multiple devices, so keeping things in sync is a basic necessity in my books (or at least I realized so this weekend). This was a biggie for me as I like to be able to keep things in sync at least within iOS. That was a bummer! It can restore my subscriptions and episodes from the other phone but there’s no way to keep the two in sync. But on the weekend I took out one of my other iPhones and discovered that Castro doesn’t do any sort of sync between iPhones either. I knew that Castro was an iOS only app and considering I am an iOS and Android user that’s something I was willing to put up with coz I liked Castro. ![]() This past weekend however I came across a big niggle that totally put me off. I also didn’t like the fact that when I wrote to their support address regarding this issue no one replied. Maybe it was my home WiFi coz it seemed to be ok over 4G/ LTE (and it blew up my allowance in the process last month!) but Pocket Casts had no issue downloading over the same WiFi so I am not sure. I subscribed to the podcast of the creators too and overall it was a pleasant experience. Now I had the podcasts that I listen to in the background or which I wanted to listen all episodes to in Pocket Casts, and the ones I wanted to listen to actively but pick and choose episodes in Castro. That was a great find and I loved their triage interface. ![]() The UI isn’t that great, and I generally found it confusing & cumbersome (don’t ask me what I found confusing – I just did).įast forward to last month and I discovered Castro. In fact, most people seem to rave about Overcast, but I didn’t like it much. I tried using playlists in Pocket Casts for this but that didn’t work out well and I also tried other apps like Overcast (in combination with Pocket Casts so I have some podcasts on Overcast) but that didn’t work out well either. There are some podcasts that I would like to listen to every episode of, there are some podcasts I listen to in the background while working or doing other things, and there are some podcasts I listen to actively but I don’t necessarily want to listen to all episodes. I tend to subscribe to a lot of podcasts (well at least I used to, I cut down on a lot now) and it is difficult to make time to listen to podcasts, audio books, and music – so I also wanted some way of keeping a “handle” on the podcasts. However I also get bored of using the same thing again and again :) and I also wanted some way to manage my unlistened to podcasts. I’ve even paid for their web-app even though I don’t use it much, coz I liked their iOS and Android apps and wanted to support them. I am an avid podcast listener and have been a long term fan of Pocket Casts.
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