Have you noticed when it comes to podcasts everyone presumes you listen on your iPhone?
“Find it in iTunes !” they say. “Listen on the iTunes podcast app!”
But what if you don’t have an iPhone? What if your apples are confined to the Pink Lady variety in the fruit bowl on the kitchen table?
If you’re a that’s Samsung or Chrome or other type of android, HELLO. We’ve heard your podcast plea. And here are the best podcast apps for Android.
Pocket Casts
Cost: $3.99
Perks: It’s Australian made and, like all Aussie things it’s pretty awesome. It was the winner of the Google Play Editor’s Choice Awards. And it’s easy to use. It has a function called ‘Pocket Cast Sync’ which transfers all your files to multiple devices.
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Soundcloud
Cost: Free
Perks: It’s easy to use. You can listen to podcasts or music uploaded by bands – and the app updates you when your favourite podcasts have dropped a new track. So friendly.
Player FM; Podcast Offline.
Cost: Free
Perks: Can stream podcasts offline-yep, you don’t need an internet connection for this one. Hello inflight listening. It also gives you recommendations on topics and genres, so helpful. And has a Google Play rating of 4 stars.
Top Comments
Ah, you missed my favourite one, which is Podbean! I love it.
How can you stream podcasts offline? (Podcast Offline).
I had a quick look at their website but I couldn't find any details.
It says this at the Play Store:
"Subscriptions and Play Later lists proactively downloaded for offline use, with auto-cleanup. All highly configurable."
So it doesn't really stream podcasts offline. It will play podcasts offline, which isn't really all that special. Podbean will do the same thing, as do most of the other apps on this list.
That's what i figured, i was wondering if the author knew something i didn't.
Certainly i can do it with Podcast Addict as well.