Ask HN: What features do you want from a podcast app?

So remember to add what Spotify failed miserably

- Mark an entire Podcast as heard/listened

- Disable recommendations needs to be an option

- Start screen needs to be whatever the user want, so make it adjustable in settings

- Auto download and auto erase of played episodes

It may be a good idea to add pop-up games. How do I explain this. If I am recording a podcast and say the first 10 listeners to click the pod-up on their screen can claim a prize, that'll encourage people to open the app and click the pop-up. I'm not technical so its hard to explain but yeah.....just a way to make interactions between hosts and listeners etter

The apple podcast can put the newest episode first, so annoying. You look at recently updated of the podcasts you have it shows some episodes, but you have to click on available episodes to see by date order. Maybe I just haven't figured it out.

I also use Podcast Republic. I subscribe to podcasts but I can't arrange the order of which they show (the podcasts, not the episodes). I want to drag some to the top. I don't have it set to auto download because I want to check out the episode description before downloading.

It may be a good idea to add pop-up games. How do I explain this. If I am recording a podcast and say the first 10 listeners to click the pop-up on their screen can claim a prize, that'll encourage people to open the app and click the pop-up. I'm not technical so its hard to explain but yeah.....just a way to make interactions between hosts and listeners easier. Happy to explain this in detail (cultureclasspodcast@gmail.com) reply

Yes. One big button on the player that, when tapped, will take the last 30 seconds of audio and send it to me by email. When I'm out walking or driving and something comes up in a podcast that I want to remember or take note of, there is no easy way to do this currently. I use Podcast Addict now, but a feature like that would be enough for me to change players.

Search capability is key. I really like the ability to search for keywords in episode titles and show notes that is provided by the Castbox app. Something like this is super important to me. I fully support open source and would prefer an app that is free and open, however. Linux user here.

Hi, Check out https://Audioburst.com, we offer tools for both podcast creators and app publishers. You can freely use our SDK for your app to get sound-bites from podcasts.