Wear Casts: Podcasts and MP3

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About this app

Listen to podcasts on your watch without your phone on you. Download podcasts to listen offline. Also supports mp3 files and audiobooks.

⌚ Works on both the Google Pixel Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watch.

Features:

* Custom playlists

* Transfer mp3 files to watch

* Sync position between watch and phone app

* Activity Recognition. Start playback automatically when your watch detects you start a workout

* Android Auto

* Pure RSS-based. No servers between you and the podcast creator

* No login or account creation required

* Keyword monitoring

* Sleep timer

* Import podcasts using using RSS feeds or an OPML file

* Auto-download episodes

* Tiles

* Radio stations

Ratings and reviews

A very promising app, but doesn't scale. After ~40 podcastsI could no longer manually sort them. The bottom ones could sort, but the top ones wouldn't. I also had problems with the "Podcasts" tab sometimes not showing after I added a lot of podcasts. I moved some over to the "Watchlist". Now the "Watchlist" won't load. It is also killing my phone battery. It's used 30% of my battery with 8 minutes of screen time and 26 background time. I really want to use this but it doesn't work.

The developer is picking up Google's slack and producing one of two podcasts apps that let you download podcasts to the watch. My only two annoyances: 1) It is impossible to load episodes of some podcasts that are too old. You'd think this would be a deal breaker, but I have no other options. 2) The dev certainly deserves compensation, I'd pay $5-$10 once, but I'm not paying per year to unlock arguably basic features. Even with the dev's substancial and appreciated efforts to update the app.

I bought a Galaxy Watch primarily to listen to podcasts while running without my phone. This app does the trick. Easy to import my podcast library via OPML, easy to download podcasts for offline seamless listening, I can stream podcasts that aren't downloaded, and I can import audiobook mp3 files and listen to them through my watch. The streaming is a bit buggy and streams will stop frequently but I found it works better if I disconnect from my phone and stream over data or WiFi. Love this app.

What’s new

● Updated UI for media player screens in phone and watch apps
● Bug fixes