I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection.
So I moved my podcasts feeds to FreshRSS, which I was already using for RSS feeds. I like the simplicity of using something that I already had, but it doesn’t have any podcast-specific features like being able to resume where you left off.
Do you have any podcast listening apps that you like?
*edit: I should add that I originally meant “self-hostable applications for storing your podcast subscriptions,” but these phone app recommendations are great to have, too. I might just ditch the server-side of this entirely and just use a separate app on my devices for listening. It would be nice if I only had to subscribe in one place and be able to pick up where I left off across multiple devices, though.
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I use Podfetch for gpodder sync with the previously mentioned AntennaPod. I had to wrestle it a bit with permissions, but I think it covers your use case of syncing listening history.
Audiobookshelf.
AntennaPod
What I’d like to know: For anyone using some app other than AntennaPod: Why? How is it worth it?
I’ve never used Antenna Pod, but I’ve used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I’ve paid for the pro app, and I’ve been really impressed by what it can do.
I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.
The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.
I’ve found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn’t go as planned.
The settings are way too complicated and defaults are not intuitive. Took me forever to figure out how to purge old downloads I hadn’t listened to. Constant errors when trying to download. Does not want to play video podcasts as audio-only.
Never heard of antennapod before I’ve just stuck with pocketcast since day one, what makes antennapod special?
The ui is clean and intuitive and it actually handles podcasts with multiple feeds (patron/free) well (other apps I’ve used were quite annoying with that). Being able to tag all your podcasts is also really nice for organization, especially if you have a lot of podcasts that you aren’t listening to every episode of. My only complaint was that the default settings are to download a podcast when you click on it instead if stream, but that is easily changed with one setting switch
I can’t say I’ve thought about how paid versions of a podcast would work on pocketcast
I’ve used so many podcast apps including paid and have never had anything anything anything that comes CLOSE to AntennaPod. I love that it’s foss, libre, all that good stuff.
I just wish I’d tried it sooner.
Fucking love that app.
Same for mobile.
I think what you’re looking for is PinePods. Open source, self hosted. https://www.pinepods.online/
Pocket Casts on Android.
AntennaPod. Can allegedly sync via gpodder.net or gpoddersync. Personally never got it to work quite right, but I didn’t try very hard either.
I got mine working with sync on my nextcloud self hosted instance
Thanks! Haven’t heard of Audiobookshelf before, and that’s the kind of thing I was looking for.
Also really love that app and they use it to automatically archive podcasts in a darker container.
+1
I use Podcast Republic, nice interface, active developer, good library tracking. Search function is nice, can go by podcast name or description so you can search for guests. Subscription can auto download (I don’t) lots of options for playback and bookmarks etc. I think it’s very solid. *Just read the edit, but still a good app :)
I use Podcast Addict on Android.
I use Podcast Addict too. Found it well over six years ago and never bothered to look for another.
This is what I used before work took away my nice phone and replaced it with a bullshit iPhone. Switched to Overcast since PA is not available for iOS.
Pocket Cast, because it is the only option to have my queue synced along all my Android, iOS and even Alexa devices (I don’t pay the subscription so I am missing out on the desktop and website ones), if there is an alternative for it, please enlighten me.
Does pine pods do syncing?
GPodder is the FreshRSS equivalent for podcasts.
Just checked it out. That UI really does not look like any other contempoary app though. :|
Doesn’t matter, you don’t need the UI. You just connect it to AntennaPod or other supported client(s).
I don’t think I understood what gPodder is. The website says gpodder.net is a sync service, but doesn’t seem to indicate that it can be self hosted. The list of clients has gPodder listed as a desktop PC client to gpodder.net. Does the desktop client also work as a server?
AntennaPod can sync to gpodder.net (only at that url?). When I tried it I got a load of timeouts. Instead I enabled the gpoddersync NextCloud app to my own server. That worked like a charm between AntennaPad and kasts on PC.
Does it sync play times and listened episodes?
Yep
Nice. I asked because gpodder.net does not sync that with antennapod. What client do you use?
I download my podcasts from YouTube through pinchflat to strip out the ads then mount the RSS feed(s) into antennapod
My earballs!
Rss feeds to download the mp3. VLC to play them. I like to relisten to some series so building a library makes it easy.
Honestly I just use Apple Podcasts, crucify me.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
