Gregory's ServerIs it a law that Android cannot have a single decent podcast client? I have like six of the top podcast apps on my phone and none of them look nice or feel good to use.
The least bad is Pocket Casts because it's not absolutely horrendous.
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    Agreed. Antennapod just works for me. No extra demands... How is that least bad!
CC: @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io @nigel @CosmicTraveler haven't heard of it until just now: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/112980240788795821 Ah sweet. Yeah I don't use it for discovery, I just add feeds. I have more than enough to listen to currently 😆
CC: @CosmicTraveler@mastodon.social  @samhenrigold Yes! This is my favorite example of the difference in software quality between the platforms. PC was the third or fourth best iOS podcast app, but it was easily the best Android one. @matt i’ve been giving it the benefit of the doubt, maybe my taste is different. but it seems like it’s not even a matter of taste at this point, it’s just objective quality is lower across the board on android. it’s really disappointing since it feels like, if i ever switch to android full time, all of my apps will take a quality hit. podcasts will be worse, i don’t think i can find a good RSS reader, the spotify app is a bit worse… @samhenrigold @matt this is sadly true. I switched from iOS to Android last year and, even though I'm pretty happy overall with the switch, I did have to accept that I'd have to use some pretty bad apps. I have the feeling that since Material You this is slowly changing (or at least it feels like there's more nicely designed apps), but iOS is still in a whole different universe. Podcasts is just one of the many app categories where you feel it, my close second is ebook readers. @samhenrigold RSS Reader-wise: I use Read You: https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou If I need basic TTS: Feeder (https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder) @samhenrigold I find Pocketcasts to be a good balance of iOS like & feature full. About the only thing missing is a playlists function. It also has a really good/solid CarPlay function. Couldn’t say that about Overcast (sorry Marco but it was consistently too buggy to use). It’s my personal favorite on iOS so I think saying it’s not horrendous to use is a bit hyperbolic. I do get your point though. This is why I won’t move to Android. The bar is like Windows UI low. Functional but a pain to use. @samhenrigold I use Podcast Republic, paid version, and it's been perfectly fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @samhenrigold I use PocketCasts on iOS and it seems like it looks a bit nice there, not sure. Regardless, check out Castamatic if you haven’t? Pretty sure that’s available cross platform and it doesn’t look horrible. It’s a bit Podcast 2.0 oriented, but seems like it has decent features and appearance from the cursory look I gave it. @samhenrigold @samhenrigold I understand. Few many years ago, it was impossible to find a good third party client for twitter on Android. None of them could do what tweetbot or twitterific were doing. |
That first app screenshot, by the way, that's not its landing screen. The landing screen is this weird list of demands. Change my power management settings, add your Google account, restore from a backup. Buddy I just wanna browse. I don't know you like that