Stay up to date with all the latest podcasts with one easy to use app. Simply add your favourite podcasts, and you'll be able to stream or download new episodes as they become available. Come for the instant refresh, stay for the push notifications when new episodes become available. Airplay it to your TV, bluetooth it in your car, play it through your headphones. Any way you mix it, Pocket Casts is ready.
At Shifty Jelly we're die hard podcast fans, and this is the app we use every day, so why not join us?
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You are not alonePocket Casts delegates intensive tasks to the cloud. This results in faster refresh times with a smaller data footprint when polling for new episodes. |
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Aye aye, SkipperOne tap of the screen and you can jump forward or back through your podcast episodes. |
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PushyAdd all your favourite podcasts, then watch new episodes appear as they become available. |
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Sharing is CaringShare your podcasts, episodes or even your position in an episode with friends on both iPhone and Android. |
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Dual downloadsBackground downloading and up to two simultaneous streams on supported devices. |
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Chapter supportSimply swipe from the left on the play screen to see chapters in the current playing episode. |
Warp Speed
Pocket Casts is the only podcast application for iOS that does all its podcast processing on a server. What this means is that when your phone needs to see what's new, instead of downloading many podcast feeds (which can be very
large) from individual servers, it calls our server once to ask hey what's new?
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But talk is cheap: We added the same 27 podcasts to Pocket Casts and to our highest ranked competitor. With a stopwatch and data monitoring on hand, we did a refresh. Here are the results.
Ultra Speed
Pocket Casts took 1 second to refresh all 27 podcasts. Our competitor took almost 2 minutes (105 seconds). If the number was closer to 100 podcasts, Pocket Casts would still do those in 1 second, while the competing app (without
a server) could take up to 10 minutes. Without a server, other apps have to look at every single RSS feed for every single podcast to see what's new. Our server refreshes podcast feeds at a rate of about one million per day! -
So your phone doesn't have to.
Minimum Data
To refresh 27 podcasts Pocket Casts sends 5kb to our server, and receives 3kb, for a total of 8kb. That’s tiny. The competing app sent 69kb and received 2252kb for a total of 2321kb (2.3 megabytes). In this case the competing
app uses 290x more data than Pocket Casts. Note that we’re not deriding our competitor in any way, you can’t do any better than that, since you have to parse the feeds from the phone. That’s why we designed our app to have a
server, because we wanted fast refreshes with minimal data use. And not just any old server, we currently run 11 high-end servers, that plow through many, many gigabytes worth of data each and every day.