Rule of Google: if it works, kill it.
I know, I know, using Google apps isn’t the best, but this was a perfectly good Podcast app with all the features you might want.
Apparently they’re moving everything over to YouTube Music, where a lot of the features of Google Podcasts aren’t implemented yet.
I’ve moved over to an app from F-Droid.
PocketCasts is good.
I’m glad they open sourced it, but I’m waiting for an F-Droid release. It seems like they’re struggling with this, it took them months and still nothing happened
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/424
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/2236
Good app but they got bought and immediately upped their price by a lot from what I recall. It’s why I moved on. I think it was a more than 3x price hike in the US and as much as 5x elsewhere.
Shame because their desktop option is tied to that subscription. I couldn’t justify paying that much just to swap phone/desktop.
I still use them since i got grandfathered into the pro plan (or whatever its called) without having to pay for a subscription. Not sure if i would pay for it now if i had to.
However, still a really good service for the cost to sync podcasts across lots of devices for anyone who listens to a lot.
Ah, the free plan meets my needs so I didn’t notice the price increase.