Apple recently acquired Swell, a Pandora-like service for talk radio the company won’t comment on how it plans to fold the Swell team into the company, but one can hope its efforts will be put toward improving the Podcasts app. Other users have had problems, too, and Podcasts currently has a measly one-and-a-half star rating (out of five) from iTunes users. There were also download errors, and syncing between my iTunes desktop client and iPhone 5 didn’t always work. For example, I found it confusing that while I could adjust some settings within the app, I then had to go to the iPhone’s general settings to adjust other preferences, like whether or not to allow cellular downloads. For one, the interface is a bit clunky and counterintuitive. The player is pretty basic, but offers features like a sleep timer, various playback speeds and 15-second forward and rewind.īut compared to the other apps I tested, Podcasts falls short in numerous areas. And all your stations and subscriptions can be synced across multiple iOS devices via iCloud. For example, I created one for sports and entertainment. Under the My Stations tab, you can organize podcasts around custom themes. Using the toolbar at the bottom, you can peruse iTunes’s Featured list and Top Charts, or you can manually search for a program by name. Podcasts makes finding and adding podcasts easy enough. It’s available for download in the iTunes store, but the app will come preloaded on iOS devices starting this fall, with the release of iOS 8. Price and compatibility: Free iOS 7.0 or laterĪpple has its own Podcasts app, so I figured it would be a good place to start.
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