You could also get episode searching for free by caching episodes on disk, something I’ll go into in more details next. This could be achieved on both operating systems by creating bookmark files containing the relevant metadata on the local device and deep linking into the relevant screens in the app. Searching on your device should bring up your favorite podcast shows and episodes.
POCKET CASTS APP WINDOWS
Disappointingly, the apps don’t integrate with Spotlight search on MacOS or with Windows Search or Windows Timeline. You’re not getting much in terms of desktop integration. Start menu entry on Windows (oddly labeled “Pocket Casts Desktop”) and Launchpad entry on MacOS.MacOS only: a small mini-player that floats on top of other windows.Windows only: app media controls on the lock screen.Multimedia keys work (play/pause, and back and forward).You do, however, get some small extra features that aren’t available on the webapp: Pocket Casts’ MacOS and Windows apps are for the most part identical to the webapp. My initial reaction to the first version of the Pocket Casts webapp when it was released back in 2015 was “ Shut up and take my money!” Three years later, I am, however, kind of disappointed to find that three years later the only feature that has been added since the initial release is a play queue. I’m not disrespecting on webapps or the web as an app platform. I promise that this little technical detail will become important quite a few places throughout the article! Electron also grants webapps extra permissions to interact with the file system. Electron is a framework based on the Chromium, the web browser engine, for packaging webapps as desktop programs across multiple operating systems. However, as The Verge recently put it: The desktop belongs to Electron. Pocket Casts have built their desktop app/webapp hybrids using the native toolkits provided by Apple for MacOS and Microsoft for Windows. However, it doesn’t look completely foreign either and everything is laid out so the design works on both platforms and the same design also serves the service well on the web. Pocket Casts have managed to pull off a design that doesn’t look completely native as either MacOS nor a Windows 10-style app. The MacOS and Windows apps are primarily repackaged Pocket Casts versions of the webapp. There’s only one app and it lives over at. I’ve taken a long hard look at what you’re getting, and why it might not be the most impressive podcast app available for desktop. Syncing subscriptions, play positions, and other data across multiple copies of the app in iOS and among different platforms is free.My favorite podcast app recently took the leap from mobile platforms and the web to the world of making desktop applications for MacOS and Windows. The web app costs $9, which seems like a steep price, despite its high-quality design and function. Shifty Jelly charges separately for iOS (universal version), Android, and web. However, I find Pocket Casts trimming is a little too snippy, sounding in my tests too much like abruptly clipped audio. It can also trim silences, useful for snipping out the blank spaces in slower conversations. The app offers the usual range of playback options: a scrubbing slider, variable playback speed, a snooze timer, and a volume boost. Per-podcast settings let you override how many episodes are stored, among other options.
But the placement of the filters is a little awkward, and you can’t assemble static lists of preferred episodes-that only works in the Up Next queue. The app includes a Filter feature that’s like a smart playlist, letting you pick which podcasts, how recently released, and whether they’re starred. You can also choose for each podcast whether you want new episodes to queue themselves automatically as released. Pocket Casts’ triage options lets you add episodes at a tap to the bottom of a global Up Next queue. The Up Next queue is a nifty way to manage an on-the-fly playlist. You can opt to keep more of every podcast or switch the setting on a per-subscription basis. To keep episode storage from ballooning out of control, Pocket Casts only keeps the most recently downloaded episodes and deletes episodes after playing.
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