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Glad to have a FOSS podcast app. I switched to Antennapod after Google Podcasts shut down. I have about a dozen podcasts I listen to, half of them from Patreon RSS feeds. Works great!



I had to use an iPhone for a month when I lost my Android phone so I tried Spotify for podcasts. I can't describe how bad it is, impossible to control what you want to play, complete garbage. AntennaPod is an example of what software can be when you remove greed from the equation.


I miss AntennaPod from Android. It's on a list of about 5 things.

Having said that, Overcast for iOS is great. The main missing feature vs. AntennaPod is that I can't browse + select podcast episodes using the job wheel / touchscreen on my non-CarPlay car.

That feature barely works with Apple Music (and not at all for other first-party or third-party apps), so I suspect it's an iOS issue more than an Overcast issue.


If you're on an iPhone then Apple's own Podcasts app is what you want. It's basically identical to AntennaPod in normal usage, and that's a good thing.


I spotted Podcini <https://github.com/XilinJia/Podcini#readme> on f-droid <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ac.mdiq.podcini/> over the weekend and it is the first contender to remove Podcast Addict from my phone. I just need to fix a few UX bugs (for my workflow) but I'm stoked about it


Why is it your first contender, rather than AntennaPod? Podcini is a fork of AP and it seems that at this point they're still quite the same.


I stand corrected! I installed the latest AntennaPod build from f-droid in order to give specific examples but had no idea that AntennaPod had gotten so much better. The last contact I had with it was an indescribably miserable experience




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