Contact Castamatic Podcast Player Support

by Un_homme__

I began using Castamatic shortly before version 9. On the recommendation of a friend I gave it a try. Best features promised were (a) support for chapters within an episode to enable graceful jumping ahead or back, and (b) sourcing a list of podcasts beyond that produced by Apple now tha Apple has begun censoring their list by political correctness.

At first Castamatic seemed adequate. But then version 9 arrived. Audio would stop for no reason. The user interface would lock up, ignoring touches/swiping, requiring me to crash and restart the app. No support for commands through Siri. The list of episodes for a podcast have no indication of how to actually start playing that episode; I just tap on the episode row randomly, and sometimes it will start, mostly not.

Updates to 9.0.x have arrived, but problems persist.

So anyway, I’m deleting the app now, looking for a replacement.

by Pratt76

Heard about the app, read the No Ads, No Tacking… decided to try the app. First thing you notice is banners. Can be removed…for a subscription. So much for the No Ads, at least I see a banner that can be removed as an ad. Not a terrible subscription at 9.99 a year, but I’m sticking with a cleaner interface app that doesn’t force a subscription to look clean. Worth a try though if you can get past the, well, ads, or perhaps call them reminders your not a subscriber. Just not for me.

I appreciate the Dev response here. I suppose it all come down to perception. I see a banner reminding you to subscribe to a product as an ad. The developer does not. I can see the their point of view as well. This app is a fantastic app, that banner just ruins it for me. I believe many will love it though and I wish the developer well. Who knows, one day I may try it out again.

by Maccabbi

I installed this to check out some podcast 2.0 features. I do like some of the features but I find myself going back to other podcast apps. There are just lots of glitches with this one that I don't have in others. For example, if I'm listening to a podcast as I pull into the parking garage at work, the podcast immediately stops and I have to wait until I leave the garage then force quit the app in order to get it to reconnect. Other podcast apps don't even stop streaming in the garage let alone need to be force quit and reopened. It randomly stops play ng at other times too and I have to force quit to get it working. Maybe it works better if you download instead of stream but for how I use a podcast app, this just doesn't work as a main podcast app but I think I'll keep it installed and see how it develops.