You can set where your podcasts should be stored (phone or microSD card).You can change its appearance (light/dark theme, using episode artworks etc).PC’s auto download feature is helpful if you forget to download your favourite podcast in time.You can import or export podcasts in P.C.Pocket Casts features sync which is brilliant if you have multiple devices and you will not want a scenario where you have to look for your favourite podcasts again on a new device.Pocket Casts has a material design influenced interface which is conspicuously missing from Google Podcasts.Pocket Cast has some neat extra features: They would offer features like automatic subtitling for people who are hearing impaired and also thanks to Google Translate, those subtitles could be made available in a wide variety of languages. They’ve also said that this app will be a ‘launchpad’ for building a better podcast listening experience using AI. Google uses AI to offer recommendations based on your habits, which is pretty cool. Unlike Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts has a neat trick: Smart recommendations. However under settings, you can change that where you can instruct the app to remove complete episodes after 7 days or not at all and unfinished episodes can be removed also after 90 days or even not at all. By default, episodes that you’ve downloaded and listened to will be removed after 24 hours and unfinished episodes after 30 days. When you tap the ‘i’ button, it shows you more information about the podcast you are listening to and gives you an option to download it later for offline use. Sadly, the playback screen does not go full screen, which is disappointing, but it has the classic options like the 10 second reverse and forward buttons, speeding up tool, progress bar and play button. You are shown various categories of podcasts like the top ones, trending and the various genres like comedy, society & culture, news & politics, sports and more. The app has a distinctive white background and you might think you’re in Google Now or something. They started with showing podcasts on Search and now we have a whole new app for Android. Enter Google where we have seen them taking podcasts seriously.

Pocket casts for podcasters