Podcast Player App - Castro Reviews

Podcast Player App Reviews

Published by on 2025-02-07

🏷️ About: Castro is a podcast player that allows users to manage and track multiple podcasts at once. It offers a unique queue system that allows users to drag and drop episodes they want to listen to and skip the rest. The app also offers carplay compatibility, chapter s... Show more


       


Overall Customer Experience 😎


😎 Positive experience
51.8%

🤬 Negative experience
34.1%

🫥 Neutral
14.1%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 8,886 combined software reviews.



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Mental model of an inbox is simple to understand and keeps users from being overwhelmed

- UI is gorgeous and perfected down to the last detail

- Queue system is great for keeping track of podcasts

- Clean UI and flows between light and dark modes

- Siri features are amazing for hands-free interaction



Read 25 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.6 out of 5
It gets worse and worse with every update

It’s bad enough when yet another developer jumps on the absurd subscription bandwagon and decides to screw the users who had paid for PodcastPlayerApp by restricting all new features to ones who subscribe while also creating an equally restricted experience for the previous purchasers and the free... Show more

Used to be my favorite podcast player until...

This used to be my favorite podcast player, after using apple’s podcast app for the longest time. I even purchased PodcastPlayerApp back when it cost money to own and use, not sure if its free now or not. I loved the clean, hassle free functionality of PodcastPlayerApp and it was the only podcast... Show more

Does not work well on Apple Watch

I have been looking long and hard to find a podcast app that actually works on Apple Watch. I have tried Overcast without success and have also now struck out with Castro. Castro has a hard time syncing to the watch and it also will not stream episodes even though I have a cellular watch. If I choo... Show more

Excellent save for one issue

Excellent podcast player. There is one issue that bugs me personally though and that is if network conditions are spotty, the podcast dings out and then gives a red notification in PodcastPlayerApp stating as much. I work outside and have to wear gloves while driving machinery so although the netw... Show more

Buggy with CarPlay

A nice app overall. UI beats Overcast every time, especially the inbox and queue functionality. It’s a really pleasant app to use and the look at, compared to Overcast, which I used for a long time and to me always felt homemade, rather than professionally developed, at least on the front end. I fi... Show more

Still no trim silences?

UPDATE: Lowering my review to two stars. The fact that there's still not trim silences is kind of unbelievable. It feels at this point like the developers are just folding their arms and pouting and putting their feet down because they're tired of the requests, but I've listened to their podcasts a... Show more

Support

My favorite podcast app. This is my go to app for podcasts.....for now. PodcastPlayerApp gives you a logical new way to organize your podcasts which is a breath of fresh air when it seems like podcast apps just try to out feature their competition while all being similar in their interfaces. This... Show more

Love the Inbox; Queue can be slightly cumbersome

Very good podcast app overall, I especially appreciate the Inbox feature and the control it gives you over which episodes to actually download. However, a few changes would make the Queue (list of episodes you are ready to listen to) easier to manage (unless I’ve missed them): episodes not automati... Show more

SO Close

PodcastPlayerApp is ALMOST perfect. I was looking for a long time for a good podcast player after losing my patience with Apple’s. This is by far the best I’ve found (so much so that I subscribed to the paid version) but it’s missing a few things to make it perfect. For one, it would be super nice... Show more

Best-in-class podcast management

Castro has my favorite method of managing incoming podcasts: an inbox where new podcasts are shown, and a queue of podcasts I’ve decided to listen to. This leaves me feeling much more in control of which podcasts I listen to and in which order.

All other major features are there as you’d ex... Show more

Truly one of the best podcast apps, with a few caveats

This podcast app is great. Arguably probably one of the best, if not the best. The fact that it organizes podcasts into an inbox so that the user can decided yay or nay on specific episodes is great. I feel like I really have fine-tuned control over my podcasts between that and being able to org... Show more

I love it!

I used the default Apple Podcasts app for years and *hated* it, but I could never find an app I thought could suitably replace it, either. Castro does everything I always wanted an app to do: Downloads are easy, queuing up what I want to hear is a breeze (simply drag and drop in the order you want)... Show more

Clean, Simple, Fantastic, ONE complaint

I’m a picky guy, and to me this is the perfect podcast player. First of all, the mental model of an inbox is exactly what I was looking for. Simple to understand, and keeps you from being overwhelmed if you follow a lot of podcasts. Also, since you’re less likely to be overwhelmed, you end up follo... Show more

Used to be better

I really like PodcastPlayerApp. It was hands down my favorite pod catcher app. I have been a Castro plus member for the last 2 years. But now there are several problems that make me want to look elsewhere. First off, there are problems with CarPlay, in which paused podcasts don’t resume until I sk... Show more

Incredible attention to detail! This app is a pleasure to use.

One example of the kind of awesome attention to detail: if you’ve gone deep into the menus searching or browsing, you can tap the search button in the bottom menu bar and each tap will take you “back” one level, finally taking you to the default “search” page. One more tap and it put the cursor int... Show more

My favorite podcast app!

Castro is hands down my favorite podcast app. Easy to search, browse, play, and import podcast RSS and URL links. I use it daily!

I think the premium features are worth the purchase, but not worth a yearly subscription. The “enhance voice” feature works really well, but sounds just like som... Show more

Absolute love the app - feature suggestion

Best podcasting app I’ve ever used. Much better than Apple’s confusing app. I paid for the premium version so I could Sideload audio that I download externally. Works perfectly. One suggestion about side loads though: I wish I could edit the metadata of a side loaded audio file. At least just chang... Show more

A Pleasure

Why do podcast apps find it frequently difficult to treat podcast audio files like audio files. Apple podcasts scratched the itch well enough but started adding oddities like ignoring my playlist to download files I’d purposefully skipped or marking episodes as new because I stopped at the end cre... Show more

So Smooth

I moved from Overcast to Castro a while ago because of the queue system. I love that every podcast I want to listen to is in the queue waiting to go. Furthermore I love how clean the UI is, and how it flows between light and dark modes. The siri features they just added are also absolutely amazing ... Show more

Fave pod player

I’ve tried a LOT of podcast players. It’s a long story. Anyway, I have not found any that work as consistently or as easily as Castro. It’s not overly fancy, but it is easy to use! There’s one queue — just tap a button to add an item to it — and the queue is super-simple to reorder, and it’s easy t... Show more

Makes Podcasts Better

I love PodcastPlayerApp. The best thing about it is I can organize individual episodes in the queue by whether I want to watch them soon or later. Its great for long drives where I can fit in multiple episodes. I also love how episodes can easily be dragged into different places on the list or int... Show more

Excellent UI

Of the popular iOS podcast players, Castro has the best UI by far (I also tried Overcast and Pocket Casts). Castro is unique and innovative in its approach to podcast and episode management. I love the inbox and the queue concepts. They work very well, especially for people like me who don’t listen... Show more

Feature: Favorite (Star) Specific Episodes

For a long time I used the Apple Podcast app before realizing that there might be something better out there. Specifically, I wanted to “Favorite” certain podcast episodes that I believed stood out from the rest so that I could hear them again in the future. Nothing seemed to satisfy this need I ha... Show more

I miss Castro 1

The first iteration of PodcastPlayerApp I found to be quite simply the best podcast app I’ve ever used. It was simple, beautiful, and had almost no bugs. I particularly liked that the UI changed colors based on the cover art of the selected podcast. This version of Castro is nice looking too, but ... Show more

Simon Sinclair
2025-01-06

I've been a paid subscriber since another developer bought the app at the beginning of 2024. I have found both the app really great and the developer open to suggestions while communicating on a regular basis with updates to the app. Well worth the five ⭐️'s



Is Podcast Player App Safe? 🙏

Yes. Podcast Player App - Castro is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 8,886 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.6/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Podcast Player App Is 60.3/100.

Safety Analysis

79.2% of users say app is Safe 👍
79.2%

14.3% of users have Some Concerns ⚠️
14.3%

6.5% of users say app is Risky 🚨
6.5%


Is Podcast Player App Legit? 💯

Yes. Podcast Player App - Castro is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 8,886 Podcast Player App - Castro User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Podcast Player App Is 76.7/100..

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Payments 💸

**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..

Pricing Plans Amount (USD)
Castro Plus Annual $24.99
Castro Plus Monthly $3.99
Castro Plus Quarterly $9.99
Early Supporter Special $24.99
Castro Plus Family Plan $39.99
Early Supporter Family Plan $39.99


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Features

- Unique queue system for managing and tracking multiple podcasts

- Carplay compatibility for seamless listening while driving

- Chapter support for easy navigation within episodes

- Trim silence feature to accelerate silent parts and get through more episodes faster

- Enhance voices feature to improve the listening experience in loud environments

- Sideloading feature to import audio files directly from iCloud Drive

- Mono-mix feature to mix stereo podcasts to mono for easier listening

- Custom settings per-podcast, including episode limit, trim silence, enhance voices, mono mix, skip intros, and playback speed

- Dark mode and sleep timer for night time listening

- Apple Watch app for controlling playback and selecting episodes from the queue

- Episode notifications with a summary of the episode to help users decide if it interests them

- Castro Plus subscription for advanced features and customization options

- Privacy Policy & Terms of Use available on the Castro website.

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