DoggCatcher Podcast Player

DoggCatcher

About this app

Manage your podcasts and news feeds with the first Android Podcatcher.

Testimonials
-Lifehacker finds DoggCatcher to be "The Best Podcast Manager for Android"
-Android Central's Editors' Choice podcatcher of the year
-Android Central's Readers' Choice runner up podcatcher of the year

Highlights
-New material redesign
-ChromeCast and Android Auto support
-Easy to subscribe new podcasts
-Light/Dark theme
-Auto download and cleanup of media files
-Offline playback of audio and video podcasts
-Customizable audio playlists
-Supports devices of all sizes
-Highly configurable
-Build in variable speed playback
-Home screen widget for easy access to playback controls
-Podcast categorization

Automation
-Automatically updates podcasts on your schedule
-Automatically download new media
-Automatically deletes media

Add podcasts by
-Browsing Top 100 DoggCatcher podcasts
-Personalized recommendations
-Searching podcast and news directories
-Importing from OPML

Integrated Audio/Video Player
-Plays downloaded audio/video
-Streams audio over network (wifi/cell)
-Remembers play position of media file
-Plays video formats supported by Android - http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

Playlists
-Audio playlist for continuous playback of new media
-Video/News playlists for easy navigation of new media

Community and support
-Frequently updated - http://mantis.doggcatcher.com/changelog_page.php
-Very active user community in forums - http://www.doggcatcher.com/forum
-Support via forums and email

Other
-Battery/data plan friendly - can limit downloads based on network/power connections
-Media download queue can be viewed and managed
-Bluetooth support (A2DP/AVRCP)
-Supports authenticated feeds (username/password)

For any questions about application permissions, please see http://www.doggcatcher.com/permissions

Community and support at doggcatcher.com

Ratings and reviews

I have used DoggCatcher for over a decade. It has served me well through several Android versions. It has its quirks, but nothing you can't work around. Admittedly, it hasn't been updated in a while, but it is still chugging along - keeping up with and playing all of my favorite podcasts. Whenever I have had actual problems with the app, the developer was quick to respond.

Really would love an update for this... This has been my preferred podcasting app for almost a decade, but now it's constantly crashing on me to the point that it's almost unusable. Sometimes it's random, but it's typically when another app takes the audio focus (when I get a text or message, any kind of notification). It's incredibly frustrating and I'd love it if this was fixed in some kind of update.

I tried reinstalling and basic other things. I've been using it since 2014 at least. And I've enjoyed it. Until the last few months it has gotten completely useless. It's just really buggy and unsupported. It crashed 17 times during one episode of hidden brain today. 17 times, I counted. It's crashing a ton, tells me my playlist is empty when it's not, tells me there's no downloaded episodes when there are. It's just the point where it's no longer useful at all. Back to the drawing board.

What's new

Bug fixes