Pocket Casts is a popular app to listen to podcasts – to keep up to date with news from their industry or profession. Here you will find some basic guidance and links to resources on how to use Pocket Casts for teaching, training, learning and development. There is enough variety that I can find content which I can use in work and it’s all available for nil/neutral cost.” Andrew Jacobs, L&D Manager, UK, 2016 Quick Guide to Pocket Casts These include the TED radio hour, Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, the Tim Ferriss Show, RadioLab and This American Life. Their product is consistently top shelf, one of the few apps I have ever liked enough to pay for, and they listen to and take care of their fanbase. I discovered a great podcast app (Pocket Casts) and have a menu of 20+ podcasts which I listen to regularly. I don’t like running to music too often as I find it makes me speed up so looked around at audiobooks and spoken word content. “Since I started running I found that I sometimes needed to hear something other than the sound of my feet on the pavement. I prefer this app’s organization to Apple Podcasts, free!” Instructor, USA, 2019 While initially it caught my eye because it was Australian made, I have been won over by the clean and easy-to-use interface and being able to create playlists of episodes that I want to listen to.” Head of Risk Skills, Australia, 2019 “I regularly listen to podcasts, and I have found this to be my preferred app. Easy to add sources and synchronisation across devices makes it my preferred choice.” Andrew Jacobs, UK, 2019 ![]() “one of the few paid apps I use, PocketCast is my preferred podcast app. I also work on my English listening skills with them.” Mercè Gamell, Freelancer teacher and project manager, Spain, 2021 “I’ve discovered many interesting pieces of content in podcasts. “my favourite podcast player” Andrew Jacobs, L&D, UK, 2021 I’d mention YouTube in this context, though I find that unless there’s a specifically visual element (like working with a tool or equipment) I really have no patience to watch a video for learning.” Stephen Downes, Canada, 2022 Mostly I lean toward This Week in Technology – the main TWIT show as well as This Week in Google and Windows Weekly. “this app sits on my phone and is my primary tool for listening to podcasts, and I’ll often listen to podcasts while cycling. ![]() Ranking in the previous surveys: 2021: 106 You can also tap the overflow button then the pencil to rearrange options and make sure your most-used ones are on top.Pocket Casts is a powerful podcast player for iOS and Android devices. In the screenshots below, the four episodes I selected are saved for offline listening, so the first action (an x on top of a horizontal line) is for removing the downloads. ![]() You can now un-star, un-archive, remove the download, and mark as unplayed so actions are now a two-way street, not a positive action only. There's better integration with Android 11's media notifications, but more important are the new episode multi-select options. In v7.12 beta (which you can sign up for here), the app is also getting a lot of additional improvements. In any Episode Filter, tap the “Duration” chip to start limiting by length. Goldilocks was complaining to us about her commute, that her New Releases filter was filled with episodes that were always either too long, or too short! We couldn’t bear to listen to this story any longer, so we added the ability to filter by duration.
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