I've been using Pocket Casts for awhile, it's indeed a very nice app, and other than the UI tumult from a few years back has been pretty reliable.
I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts). Hopefully it being OSS means that's something someone can add (heck I'd look into it myself as I was dreading having to manually extract the data myself or MITM the sync service to do it).
With the help of the web-player and the developer console I could copy the necessary auth-headers.
I built a little deno project recently which scrapes my Spotify and PocketCasts history regularly and stores the history to a Supabase PostgreSQL database.
So I have access to my own listening history: https://github.com/DanEEStar/listening-history-deno
Maybe overlooked? Settings -> Import & Export OPML. Can't recall if it includes listening history and starred episodes but subscriptions for sure. This is the case for Android -- can't speak for iOS.
Very glad to see it going open source.
In any event I was overjoyed when they grandfathered me to a lifetime subscription after switching to a paid model. I truly, deeply appreciate this app and all the work they put into this.
Props to Automattic for being an incredible force for good!
Edit: Wow 12$/year is a nice price for the Plus plan (vs. Podverse's 3/month, though that's not terrible either). They just got themselves a new subscriber. I'd skip the trial if I could. Take my money!
I have to say, Podverse was rough some months ago but it’s improving very fast. I have the feeling they are more friendly towards the decentralized nature of podcasting whereas NPR may have mixed motivation.
It’s important to choose wisely imho, the once quite open podcast ecosystem is being gobbled up by YT and Spotify at an alarming rate.
I switched to Pocket Casts from Overcast because of playback issues and lack of Chromecast support, and stayed for the very polished experience and cross platform support (there's even a desktop app now!).
Your podcast player of choice is like your gang colors, people get pretty passionate about it. In my case Pocket Casts is the one that works exactly the way I expect and gets out of the way.
Glad they are making it open source now though.
- I’ve had slow sync issues with AntennaPod that I think are related to gpodder.
It’s been awhile since I’ve used both. I’d bet that AntennaPod has features that Pocket Casts don’t. A huge reason I started to use AntennaPod in the first place was the license and source availability.
I can't remember which app I used before moving to the free software antennapod, though I remember that being the one feature I missed. Various free software apps now have a version of the feature, but they seem to remove all silence killing any kind of comedic timing.
Thanks.
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-ios/tree/trunk/po...
If you downloaded and opened it in Xcode it may look well laid out.
(I’d like the ability to turn that off or ‘sync’ the two personally for my projects)
I used it in the past, not sure if it still works with the latest project files.