RadioPublic Overview
What is RadioPublic? RadioPublic is a free podcast player app for iOS that makes listening to podcasts simple, enjoyable, and fun. The app offers a catalog of 500,000 podcasts, including popular podcasts, podcast audiobooks, music podcasts, and podcasts from networks like Gimlet, Radiotopia, BBC, Earwolf, Maximum Fun, HowStuffWorks, Stitcher, and the CBC. The app also features podcast stations organized by topic, theme, or time of day, podcast playlists curated by podcast experts and listeners, and hand-curated podcast recommendations by real humans. RadioPublic is a Public Benefit Corporation that benefits everyone, podcast listeners, and podcasters alike.
Features
- Download episodes while on WiFi and listen without using mobile data
- Tap play and stream podcast episodes without waiting for a download
- Create a continuous playlist by adding episodes to your queue
- Share podcasts and episodes with friends
- Follow your favorite shows and get notified when new episodes are published
- Add a HearMark™ to any podcast episode to bookmark a moment you want to return to
- Hop to a specific moment in a show selected by a podcaster with chapter support
- Smart Folders help organize and filter your shows/episodes
- Auto-downloads for offline listening
- Add any podcast, including private Patreon RSS feeds
- Import/export your shows using OPML import
- Podcasters can be paid when their show is heard in RadioPublic
- Your brand-new listeners arrive at your show first
- Stats appear in your hosting dashboard
- Message your most loyal listeners with Affinity Promotions.
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Product Details and Description of
this app - The Podcast App TL;DR You’re ready to find something good to listen to. Whether you Google “podcasts” as a first-time podcast listener or you’re a long-time podcast addict, this app’s free, easy to use podcast player for iOS makes listening to podcasts simple, enjoyable, & fun. (Also: free. We like that podcasts are free & we don’t provide our app for free at the expense of your privacy or personal data; we don’t require an account or social login to browse or listen. And unlike other free apps, we have no banner ads AND offer features that only paid apps have.) What people using this app have to say “I have yet to search for content that I can't access & the streaming experience is seamless.” “The queue & downloads are easy to manage & preferences like per-show playback speed are easy to set.” “Excellent variety & comfortable layout of podcasts you're following.” Our podcast catalog When you download the app through a podcast’s this app link, we magically return you to the show to listen^ subscribe If you’re not sure what else to add to your queue after that, you can search through our catalog of 500,000 podcasts (!!) for popular podcasts, podcast audio books, music podcasts (Spotify & Pandora aren’t the only places for listening to music!), & podcasts from networks like Gimlet, Radiotopia, BBC, Earwolf, Maximum Fun, HowStuffWorks, Stitcher, & the CBC or from news publications like The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, & USA Today. The human touch Our Podcast Librarians regularly highlight award-winning podcasts, picking shows at the top of podcast charts like Apple Podcasts from NPR, WNYC, & PRX like This American Life, Criminal, & Serial while digging deep to surface small indie podcasts. Overwhelmed by all the choices? Tune in to one of our podcast stations organized by topic, theme, or time of day (podcasts are perfect for folding laundry!). Browse our podcast playlists curated by podcast experts & listeners like you, or explore some of our popular categories like Trending on this app, Indies to Watch, News & Current Events, Portraits of People, Interviews with Musicians, & Shows that Talk about Pop Culture. All our podcast recommendations are hand-curated by real humans & as one happy listener said, “I love all of the recommendations from their librarians. Total game changer.” (We couldn’t agree more.) Key benefits & features for new listeners this app is a Public Benefit Corporation, which means that everything we do benefits everyone, podcast listeners & podcasters alike. • Download episodes while on WiFi & listen without using mobile data • Tap play & stream podcast episodes without waiting for a download • Create a continuous playlist by adding episodes to your queue • Share podcasts & episodes with friends • Follow your favorite shows & get notified when new episodes are published • Add a HearMark™ to any podcast episode to bookmark a moment you want to return to • Hop to a specific moment in a show selected by a podcaster with chapter support • Frequent app updates from nice people who love podcasts & podcasters. (Our release notes are a thing of beauty. We like Canadian references a lot.) Features power users will love • Smart Folders help organize & filter your shows/episodes • Auto-downloads for offline listening • Add any podcast, including private Patreon RSS feeds • Import/export your shows using OPML import How podcasters benefit from listening on this app • Podcasters can be paid when their show is heard in this app • Your brand-new listeners arrive at your show first • Stats appear in your hosting dashboard • Message your most loyal listeners with Affinity Promotions As one happy podcaster said, "this app’s development of Paid Listens is created with producers in mind. You all are going to revolutionize the industry.” That revolution is to help us create the podcast republic we want. Happy listening!
Top Reviews
By Elmorri
Clearly the best podcast app, by far
I cannot believe I suffered through the apple podcast app for so long. Even stitcher has a horribly clunky and hideous UI. this app works, is beautiful and easy to use, and doesn’t have the annoying qualities of other podcast apps. It used to drive me crazy that stitcher and apple both prioritized IMMEDIATELY PLAYING AT MAX VOLUME when you were just trying to set up a queue of episodes to listen to later. Or trying to read an episode description, not IMMEDIATELY PLAY. this app just works. The only cons: 1, not every podcast is in their library, so two smaller I listened to previously I just gave up on, bc I have not been successful with the RSS import feature; and 2, I wish I could manually chose my “favorites” on the home page instead of the auto generated “Shows you listen to often” list, which isn’t always accurate. But all in all, of several podcast apps I tried, this one is in a league of its own for its easy interface and intuitive playback and download defaults. It works how you wish the others would work.
By Newyorksportsandrhymes
RadioPublic Pumpin Heat
this app seemed pretty generic at first, still, I decided to import my podcast, New York Sports and Rhymes, online and the app. I've received some of the best advice on how to advance my Podcast and RP goes out of their way to offer you gems. It's not overkill and you're set up for success. They also put you in a position to potentially make money without paying. As long as your content is correct, Radio Public will guide you to wherever you want to go, ensuring your Podcast reaches new heights. Extremely simple to use. I have my Podcast on a variety of listening apps and this app has provided me with the best Intel. I'm just getting familiar with the tools they offer. It makes no sense not to have your Podcast on this app. As long as your content comes correct RP will help you level up. Strongly recommend, 10 stars.
By fakename111
The best podcast app
This is by far the best podcast app that I’ve found because of some key features like, allowing you to import your own RSS feeds and having a mark all as head button. I saw the dev responding to other reviews so here is some constructive criticism: - The mark all as heard button is great but it’s labeled the same as the mark all as unheard and it took me a while to realize that - I know you advertise that you don’t need an account but I would like the option so I can transfer my heard podcasts between phones - There’s no feedback button that I’ve seen so I have to do it here - Notifications don’t seem to be working and the settings just redirect to the settings page - The import from Apple podcasts just hung for me so I had to do it manually (this might be my fault for having over 1k podcasts downloaded) - Why is there an edit button on the customize home page? - The smart folders tab links to the customize home page, it should just be labeled customize home and should probably be in settings - I have no idea what the promotions tab is I know most of those are pretty minor but I just want help make the app better :)
