• glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 months ago

      I only have an iPhone but PocketCasts replaced the pay-once with a subscription and that’s why I can’t recommend it.

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        11 months ago

        I use pocketcasts but the subscription doesn’t have anything necessary so have no issues not paying

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          11 months ago

          Well the sync across devices would be the main thing that people would deem worth having, just not at that price.

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      11 months ago

      It’s a good replacement tbh. Pocketcasts kept crashing on me so I uninstalled it in a rage. The only thing that’s annoying me about Antennapod is that I only want one episode of the BBC news podcast but when I open it up there’s 3 there waiting for me, not a massive issue and I’m sure there’s a way around it somewhere in the settings, way better than a crashed app.

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      11 months ago

      It’s very good. I wish there was a way to sync podcasts without hosting a gpodder server. There is supposed ot be a free site, but it doesn’t seem to work anymore.

      Still not worth paying the insanely expensive subscription to sync on pocket casts though. I might try to selfhost gpodder soon, I just need to fix my internet so I can port forward.

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        11 months ago

        Yup that’s my one issue, otherwise I’d swap in a heartbeat. You can do it through nextcloud servers but not any free one so far as I can see. Wouldn’t know where to start with a paid alternative.

        Edit: Podverse, also FOSS, has a sync feature as part of their subscription. It’s $18/year. Haven’t used it to know how well it works, but much cheaper than Pocket Casts anyway (and a 3 month free trial it seems). It’s on F-Droid.