Besides, even if it doesn’t, you’ve only lost $3.99. But the point is to encourage you to try it yourself, because you never know, you might just discover that Pocket Casts suits the way you listen to podcasts better than the other options. Not all of them are new to Pocket Casts 6, and some will also exist in other podcast apps.

Rather than a traditional review, I thought I’d dive in and highlight a few features of Pocket Casts that I really like. The iPad version now supports multitasking (Split View and Picture in Picture), and whilst it isn’t noticeable to users, almost the entire app has been re-written in Swift. There are new audio effects to trim silences and volume boost for those podcasts which sound too quiet. So, what’s new in Pocket Casts 6? The tl dr version is that the user interface has been redesigned in various ways, most notably with the addition of a dark theme and “up next” queue improvements. It’s also the one with the most cross-platform support, running on iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and on the web. Now on version 6 for iOS, Pocket Casts is the podcast app that has been around the longest (out of those four listed above), first launching in January 2011. Keeping that in mind, just over a week ago was the release of a major new version of Pocket Casts. Instead, which one is best will depend entirely on which app’s design and feature set most closely aligns with how you want to manage and listen to podcasts. Narrowing that field of four to determine which is objectively the best is an almost impossible task from where I stand.

There are many options, but I would say that there are four podcast apps in particular that rise above the rest Apple’s own Podcasts app, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and Castro. When it comes to podcast apps on iOS, we are really spoiled for choice.

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