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Castamatic Podcast Player

4.34 • 66 Ratings

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Castamatic is the best app to listen to podcasts on any iOS device. Quickly assemble a custom sequence of shows to listen to or create a smart playlist, and listen to your favorite shows with enhanced audio quality, thanks to Castamatic's machine learning enhanced Auto-leveler DSP algorithm. Not completely happy with the current feature set? Castamatic wants offer a complete boutique experience: send us an email with your issues or suggestions, and we will do our best to fullfill your wishes. Highlights --------------- The "On the Go" playlist lets you pick the episodes you want to listen to in your next listening session and assemble them in a playlist just before leaving. The On the Go playlist will mantain the same order in which the episodes were added. You can then move and rearrange them manually. As soon as an episode has been completely listened to it will be automatically removed from the On the Go playlist. You will always find your On the Go playlist synced on all your devices. Key Features --------------- -Chapters: quickly jump to favorite topics (available for podcasts that support ID3 chapter marks). -Smart playlists with priority shows. -Manual "On the Go" Playlist quickly pick shows for the next listening session. -Automatic or manual playlist reordering: sort playlists by date, or arrange them in a custom sequence. -Support your favorite producers with Podcasting 2.0 and Value4Value features. -Full support for Siri shortcuts -Program dependent Automatic Leveler: increase audio level consistency between different parts/voices of each show, without altering original audio character. -Adaptive Gap-Zapper: increase play speed without losing intellegibility by shortening silent parts. Available in three levels for maximum customization. -Streaming support: spare network traffic downloading only the parts you want to play, when you want to play them. (Or automatically download the whole thing as soon as it is published). -Apple Watch support: control playing, volume, pick episodes, control audio effects directly from the watch app. -CarPlay support: take your favorite shows with you in your car. -3D-touch support: preview shownotes without interrupting currently playing show (on older devices the same feature is available by long press). -iCloud sync: sync subscriptions and playhead position. Pick subscribed shows on any of her iOS devices and resume playing from the point you left. -AudioUnit API based custom player for maximum performance and minimal battery drain. -Serverless design: our studio can go out of business but Castamatic will keep on working until there are podcasts to listen to on planet Earth. Subscription (in app purchase) ------------- Castamatic is supported by advertising. A subscription is available to remove all ads. Subscription title is "One Year Premium Subscription" The duration of subscription is one year. The price of subscription is 8.99 US dollars for one year of subscription, and can vary for different countries and currencies. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase Privacy policy: https://castamatic.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://castamatic.com/terms_of_use/ Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable -------------- We don't feel confortable interrupting your listening experience to ask for reviews, but if you are feeling generous with your time please take a minute to leave a nice review. Thank you very much for your support.
What’s New
Version 8.5.14 - Fixed bug preventing the reload of cloud chapters - Fixed another bug that preveted the player to resume playing audio Version 8.5 - Chapter artwork is now displayed in CarPlay - New option to pause playing and load next episode in the playlist at the end of the current episode - Improved iCloud sync - Improved background updates - Added titles of inclulded podcasts in playlist cell - Fix for finished episode not marked ad listened in iCloud sync - Fix for a crash when marking all episodes in a playlist as listened - Fix for not resuming playback after some audio interruptions (notifications, calls...) - Many minor bug fixes Version 8 - Renewed CarPlay user interface, with controls for chapters and audio effects. - New optional remaining episodes badges - Podcasting 2.0 support: search for new podcasts on Podcast Index and support your favorite shows with Value4Value Version 7 - Add or play single episodes from a podcast without subscribing - Removed all Google Analytics and Ads libraries to prevent abusive behaviours with user's data. - New "Whats New" panel - New widget Version 6.0 New features: - Automatically skip advertising chapters, intro and outro (configurable for generic and per-podcast keywords and time). - New high performance audio engine, Airplay 2 compatible. - Improved audio effects. - Completely new CarPlay integration. Fixes and improvements: - Finer control of priority podcasts in playlists. - Improved management of onboarding panel. - Many minor bug fixes.
Version 8.5.14
Version History

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4.34
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66 Ratings
  • scottjal, 30.12.2022
    Excellent Podcast app
    Supports a lot of the new podcasting 2.0 features to interact with and support podcasts. You should give this a try!
  • scottjal, 30.12.2022
    Excellent Podcast app
    Supports a lot of the new podcasting 2.0 features to interact with and support podcasts. You should give this a try!
  • Claud_Chereji, 14.12.2022
    Best Apple-esque Podcast app design
    Of all the modern apps that respect the Podcast Standards this one takes the cake in terms of design. Fountain has its own community that really drives it, but when you want an app that is built simply to enjoy your list of favorite shows with no distractions this is the one. I’ll continue to recommend Castamatic to anyone looking for a new podcast app on iOS. Show more
  • Claud_Chereji, 14.12.2022
    Best Apple-esque Podcast app design
    Of all the modern apps that respect the Podcast Standards this one takes the cake in terms of design. Fountain has its own community that really drives it, but when you want an app that is built simply to enjoy your list of favorite shows with no distractions this is the one. I’ll continue to recommend Castamatic to anyone looking for a new podcast app on iOS. Show more
  • brierrabbit3030, 26.09.2022
    Very nice, but has problems.
    First, the positive. This is one of the nicest looking of all podcast players. Love the way it finds and displayed podcast artwork. Really well done. Very complete feature set too. The way the ads are displayed is sane and well done. Now the problems. It froze up constantly. Often crashed too. It would freeze up when I tried to scroll thru the podcasts. It froze a lot. Hopefully new updates will fix this. The creator has a potentially great app. But at least on my iPhone SE running iOS 16, it doesn’t work well enough yet to use. Show more
  • brierrabbit3030, 26.09.2022
    Very nice, but has problems.
    First, the positive. This is one of the nicest looking of all podcast players. Love the way it finds and displayed podcast artwork. Really well done. Very complete feature set too. The way the ads are displayed is sane and well done. Now the problems. It froze up constantly. Often crashed too. It would freeze up when I tried to scroll thru the podcasts. It froze a lot. Hopefully new updates will fix this. The creator has a potentially great app. But at least on my iPhone SE running iOS 16, it doesn’t work well enough yet to use. Show more
  • BinaryKnight, 24.09.2022
    My New Go-To Podcasting App
    Playlists Speed, gap, and skip settings per podcast Podcasting 2.0 integration The app that finally made me switch.
  • BinaryKnight, 24.09.2022
    My New Go-To Podcasting App
    Playlists Speed, gap, and skip settings per podcast Podcasting 2.0 integration The app that finally made me switch.
  • 33MagicNumber, 08.06.2022
    Great App!
    Really enjoy using this app for my podcasts. I will bump it to 5 stars when downloading and/or streaming podcasts is added on the Apple Watch.

Information

  • Category
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Price
    Free
  • Size
    24.04 MB
  • Provider
    Gunp Media Productions
Languages
English, Italian
Copyright
© 2004-2024 Franco Solerio. All rights reserved.