AntennaPod

Audiobookshelf

I use Podcast Addict on Android.

Pocket Casts on Android.

AntennaPod. Can allegedly sync via gpodder.net or gpoddersync. Personally never got it to work quite right, but I didn't try very hard either.

I download my podcasts from YouTube through pinchflat to strip out the ads then mount the RSS feed(s) into antennapod

Rss feeds to download the mp3. VLC to play them. I like to relisten to some series so building a library makes it easy.

I use Podcast Republic, nice interface, active developer, good library tracking. Search function is nice, can go by podcast name or description so you can search for guests. Subscription can auto download (I don't) lots of options for playback and bookmarks etc. I think it's very solid. *Just read the edit, but still a good app :)

Pocket Cast, because it is the only option to have my queue synced along all my Android, iOS and even Alexa devices (I don't pay the subscription so I am missing out on the desktop and website ones), if there is an alternative for it, please enlighten me.

GPodder is the FreshRSS equivalent for podcasts.

Honestly I just use Apple Podcasts, crucify me.

DoggCatcher

Overcast

Hey! I'm the Developer of Pinepods. It really aims to be the ultimate podcast solution that's as self-hosted as possible. I'm trying to make it as fleshed out feature wise as any paid or android specific podcast application while allowing for server sync and access everywhere on any device. Its getting better and better all the time! https://pinepods.online/

I've actually been fighting with this since yesterday.

Pocket Casts is one of my last things that I'm not self-hosting, and I'm trying to change that.

My list of requirements was:

1. Multi-device sync
2. Be able to play seamlessly from either a web UI or my mobile device, picking up where I left off on either device.

For my Gpodder backend I chose to use the GpodderSync NextCloud app, since I'm already running NextCloud.

I tried PinePods and PodFetch for the web interface, both of which had various issues with sync.

Supposedly there's a big update to sync coming for PinePods in a couple days, but I wasn't able to get it working at all.

PodFetch has its own internal gpodder server implementation, but for the life of me, I could not get it to keep listen state in sync. Also, I initially set it up to use OIDC authentication since I'm also running Authentik - but don't try to do that if you want to use the Gpodder integration. The two are essentially mutually exclusive, at least in its current state.

What I've settled on for the moment:

1. AntennaPod for mobile playback. (Be aware that there are additional steps for Android Auto support if you install it from F-Droid as I did)
2. NextCloud GpodderSync to keep track of listen state and subscriptions.
3. NextCloud NextPod app for web UI playback. I'm not exactly happy with this, as it's a very ugly and basic UI, but it does work, and it does keep track of where I left off the way I want. Hopefully the PinePods update fixes my issues with it, as the web interface for that was much more slick.

UPDATE: I recently discovered RePod which is also a NextCloud app, but the interface is much better than NextPod.

My earballs!

Rss feeds on AIMP; I miss the time when AIMP could stream you tube videos; It was very convenient to have it all in one program.

I used to use Overcast but the UI refresh that happened last year caused me to switch to Pocket Casts, which I’ve been very happy with

I just download the mp3 and play it with mplayer. Don't need no apps.

I'm quite happy with audiobookshelf. Sometimes I'm in the mood to listen to a book, sometimes I fancy a podcast and audiobookshelf let's me do both with little fuss. (and it has oidc support for authentication which means I now authenticate with my single sign on solution)

I'm using antennapod. It syncs to a selfhosted gpodder instance and some podcasts are hosted on my audiobookshelf. I like some exclusive podcasts from podimo but their player is shit. Selfhost a tool that creates rss feeds for those walled podimo podcasts and they get downloaded and served by audiobookshelf.

I've just found out how to setup audiobookshelf for podcasts and I'm a bit annoyed that I won't be using antennapod anymore.

I have a slightly overcomplicated setup, but I use audiobookshelve to download all my podcasts for archival purposes and then antennapod on android to listen to them (the rss feeds generated by aufiobookshelve) which syncs everything to gpodder for nextcloud. I also occasionally listen to the pods via Kasts on my desktop, also synced with gpodder.

I specifically use audiobookshelve inbetween, since I have some paid podcast subscriptions and I don't want to loose that content if I ever stop paying or they go under.

I like PodAura. It doesn't have as many features as AntennaPod, including discovery, but it has the ones that are useful to me, and I like the layout.

with shame I will say Spoty is my only subscription...

I'm using AntennaPod but it's annoying me that I can't sort and autoplay oldest to newest. Unused to use podcast addict but I'm keeping google play services outta my main profile in grapheneOS which means I cant use my pro licence for PA...