DoggCatcher Podcast Player

- June 10, 2016

Everyone

News & Magazines

( 10,137)

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Description

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

Reviews

4.5

10,137 total

5 6,773

4 2,176

3 558

2 281

1 349

Richard Klein

I think the UI could be better, but I'm used to it and it works well for me. There is a problem with one podcast feed, though. It keeps downloading old episodes again and again. I think this is a problem with how the feed is set up, not a problem with Doggcatcher. 2017 update: My Motorola Droid Turbo has been mysteriously rebooting itself for months. I finally narrowed it down to doggcatcher; it reboots when I play podcasts on doggcatcher, just not every time. I switched to a different podcast client a week ago and my phone has been stable since then, so I'm uninstalling doggcatcher. I liked doggcatcher a lot, and paid for it, but this is a fatal flaw. I sent the developers feedback, but they couldn't find anything useful in my logs.

A Google User

Best money I've spent on an app. Absolutely worth every cent. Very regularly updated by a developer who listens to their customers. I have used it nearly every day since I got my first Android phone (myTouch 3G Fender Edition.) Highly recommended.

Kelli Blount

I love everything about this app except how it behaves when I open other apps like Pokemon Go. I wish it would keep the play/pause dialog in the notification dropdown, instead of reverting to "keep paused" or "Doggcatcher is busy," when updating. Just let me play the paused show without reopening! Please fix and I will love you forever.

A Google User

Giving up on Doggcatcher I've been a happy user for years, but recently it refuses to save podcasts to my SD card, and fills up internal flash until my phone is non-functional. Uninstalling.

Brian Burton

Great before the Marshmallow update. .. Marshmallow update killed this app for me. Ive been using the paid version for about two years now and it was one of my favorite apps, but with the update it has lost the ability (@ least on my Samsung Galaxy s5) to download to the sd card. That has made the app pretty much useless for me for any serious usage. Regrettably if the issue isn't resolved soon I'll be uninstalling in the next few days...

bill pemberton

not as flexible as it could be why does it need phone support on a device with no sim card? why does it aggressively grab audio control on bluetooth and force itself on the user when they are trying to do something else with audio? would be nice to have greater sort capability in feeds. no idea why it never played an entire feed but only one episode from a feed before moving to another feed. seems a bit touchy on rescanning for new podcasts for feeds.

User reviews

Richard Klein June 20, 2017

A Google User May 9, 2017

Kelli Blount April 11, 2017

A Google User July 30, 2016

Giving up on Doggcatcher I've been a happy user for years, but recently it refuses to save podcasts to my SD card, and fills up internal flash until my phone is non-functional. Uninstalling.

Brian Burton July 11, 2016

bill pemberton September 25, 2016

Fisty Fisterson September 19, 2016

Best podcast app for android I have tried 90% of the ones out there. I love it. Import, export, keep it on your dropbox, have it on all devices. The search pulls up what I look for. The suggestions are crap, but the rest of the features are exactly what you need.

John W. Pine October 9, 2016

Not right hand friendly. But good Great app but when you are in the list of episodes to listen to, you cannot easily use your right thumb to select one to play. When you select one you actually hit a menu button instead of play. You have to reach far too the center of the screen.

Alastair Townsend April 16, 2017

Lately, the app has lost functionality. Downloads only occur when the app is opened. Episodes disappear or seem to be out of correct order. Finished episodes are downloaded again. This used to be a great app, which I have used daily for over seven years. If the developer can fix these bugs, I will revise my rating. One thing that has always been missing though is playlists!

J. Andres Hannah-Suarez February 5, 2017

My main complaint is that the player skips and eventually crashes my phone. Not exaggerating, if I use the internal player my phone will crash about 50% of the time. And when it's not crashing the player is skipping. This is a clear problem.

Aaron Ramos May 1, 2017

Sad. I'm picky about what apps I pay for. Used to be one of my favorites but they have gone down hill! Nothing works anymore, and there is no customer service. Feels like they have abandoned this app. Please DO NOT BUY THIS APP

Justinn Diebold August 5, 2016

Too many problems. Not functional app anymore I have used this app for 4 years. I loved it. Lately episodes will not download automatically. They show up as new episodes but when I press they are not downloaded yet. I have to manually download each one. This is annoying and if I am on data I cannot download many large files at once. It will use up too much of my monthly data. So I cannot even listen to podcasts if I am away from wifi. I did not receive any help when I emailed. I have no choice but to ditch this app and buy different one.

David Back May 16, 2017

Been using Doggcatcher for years,because in the early days it was the ONLY podcast app which was configurable, would download on a schedule. But today it represents the the UX problem of geekdom:it's unintuitive and insanely convoluted.After nearly 10 years, I'm still not sure how to create, manage, and use playlists. Seriously, hire some 12 year olds.

A Google User June 6, 2017

This is indeed the most full featured all around podcatcher, and its very versatile, though because it has many customizable features, there is a small learning curve. Most of the complaints I see in these reviews, are actually adjustable in the settings. Developers, please consider these future improvements: 1. Using the web to sync across all devices, 2. Which would also provide a web based backup of the custom config, subscription list, current play states, etc., instead of the local backup. 3. A chrome version or similiar for listening from a PC. To fund the fact that you would have ongoing costs with web based sync/backup, I would be willing to pay another couple of bucks for periodic major upgrades.

Matthew Royal July 28, 2016

Updates broke it Lots of stuff stopped working, including speed of playback, and no material features were added. It's unusable now, so I'm uninstalling and trying other apps.

A Google User December 18, 2016

Back once again Lived and died by this app until the interface became dated and I used Pocketcast. Despite Pocketcast looking prettier the functionality doesn't compare. I downloaded Doggcatcher to give it another try and am amazed at the improvements. Glad to be back again!

J Simoda November 4, 2016

Lockscreen button skips to next despite being configured to fast forward. Needs better playlist controls. BeyondPod's smart playlist rules are vastly superior to the minimal options offered by Doggcatcher. Otherwise great podcast player.

Stephen Ford September 27, 2016

A good podcast player Does all you want. Good search and recommendation functions. Plays at increased speed. Exports your feeds though that is a little clunky. Only gripe is you can only limit downloads by how much spare space on SD which means you need to keep adjusting the limit. Just setting a max size for downloaded podcasts would work better.

Don Garrett May 28, 2017

What a great app, except for the latest update. It now crashes several times per day. Hope they fix it soon. It is now 5/30/2015. Fix the problem and I will upgrade my review to 5 stars. Update 7/12/2015: Had to uninstall and reinstall. It was a hassle but now it works as before.

DoggCatcher May 30, 2015

Please send use the 'report problem' in the navigation drawer and we'll check it out. Thanks for the feedback.

October 22, 2016

Something is changing about this app.. Multiple feed connection errors, sub-par feed search, discovery and recommendation system. I'll ask again. Can't you connect your search to iTunes system? Check out podcastaddict & figure out how they've implemented their search system. In finishing, kindly try to focus less on cosmetic designs, & Make the user interface simpler and more intuitive. In addition, find out how you could sell services through the app instead of focusing on payments. Guys, u need fresh ideas. Send me a private

Brady Aldrich February 21, 2017

Great app! I've found all the podcasts available with other apps. I only have one suggestion: the ability to register or save podcast subscriptions across devices. I purchased a new phone and had to manually add all the podcasts I listen to. Perhaps make that a paid feature?

A Google User April 7, 2017

Episodes aren't downloading, that makes a podcast app useless. I'm moving on. After over 4 years of flawless operation the app seems to have reached its end. When it was great it was great but everything fades.

R Armacost October 10, 2016

Great app I've used this app for years, it can act as a simple podcast app or an app with very nice extra features if wanted. I've tried many other podcast apps. This is the best.

A Google User September 26, 2016

Really gone downhill I've been using this app daily for years and I used to love it but for the last several months I've just been having more and more problems. May podcasts skip randomly to the next without finishing the previous one. The resume function is almost completely broken now. Just today (and this happens way to often) I resumed a 1hr 30 min podcast at the 1 hr mark but the podcast started over fresh. The timeline was reading 52 Mins but was wrong. So I manually moved the timeline but it was still wrong

Mikey D September 12, 2016

Great application. Works pretty well and has some good features that others don't have. Organization is good. The ONE thing that makes me irritated, is when I had a Video that was playing via external app, I paused, it disappeared from from push notification tray, and when I opened up Doggcatcher, it just started playing the video without headphones (which is embarassing at work). I don't get why this app does that.

Paul Simpson November 30, 2016

Casting What's happened to the casting bug fixes. I still can't cast to my sonos system. A fix had been expected months ago, what's the problem?

Mary Lohnes June 19, 2017

Sound level on the recordings is ridiculously low. Maybe it is my new phone One3+ but I don't have to turn the volume all the way up on my other apps with sound, music etc. Otherwise still like DC

Neil Lamont April 27, 2017

Love the interface and options for the program. The suggesting podcast from the podcasts in my list has helped me find some new ones that I would of never found anyways. Thanks keep it up guys.

Ron Momtahan October 27, 2016

Obnoxious & Stupid in more Than One Level I think some years ago I bought this app because some reviewer had praised it. Despite not liking an app with a name like this on my phone, I bought it. Since then I've used it only when I had to, but overall very little. Incredibly frustrating due to bad interface. Uninstalling now, even if I had paid $100 for it!

Matthew Davidson June 11, 2016

Excellent Could not use my phone with out this app. Best podcast app on market, well worth the money. Love the sleep timer function!

Scott Moore August 24, 2016

Highly Unintuitive This is the 5th time I have tried this app, having purchased it for.my original Moto Droid 6 (?) years ago. And it still seems to be hard to operate when compared to BeyondPod. Where the heck is my playlist?

Ajay Koranne July 9, 2016

Cannot download (IllegalArgumentionException) Few days ago, i upgraded Android OS to 6.0.3. Now when I try to download podcast I get java.lang.IllegalArgumentException. Doggcatcher is pretty useless for me now.

A Google User October 1, 2016

Using for years but some serious annoyances. 1)This pull down to refresh is absurd. Im constantly refreshing my feeds when just trying to scroll through them. Get rid of it, it's unnecessary. 2)search feature is pretty much useless, getting rid of the google search option was a big mistake. 3)the interface has gotten annoying af. Tapping a feed no longer does what it used to do, so you no longer know whether it will dl, play or what. Really if something aint broke dont fix it. Leave the interface alone it's complicated enough wo random changes.

Tim Shank July 30, 2016

Broken in recent android versions DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY. Since kit-kat, saving to external sd is impossible. A quick Google search reveals many reports-- and the scapegoating that Doggcatcher support clearly defaults to.

A Google User March 24, 2017

#1 feature might be ability to listen at speeds faster than 1X. Really needs a more automated way of keeping settings/subscriptions between phones/phone resets to keep ahead of apps like Google Music.

Mauricio Paredes April 19, 2017

This app used to be good, but with a new update, it looks just like Google Play but works horrendously. Often crashes and features are lacking. It also used to be free, but I paid for it; $4. Don't waste your time and money.

Shawn Afzal March 3, 2017

Used to be a great app but it has been in desperate need of an update for a while now. Lots of bugs and performance issues. Look elsewhere!

Alexander Kozhekin June 3, 2017

Has very annoying issue when feed got substituted once in a month approximately by a wrong/different feed and downloads some completely different podcasts. After few days it reverts back to a correct one and downloads all episodes from the beginning. By suggestion of the developer database got corrupted, so reinstalled app - but got same behaviour again.

Chris Garrett May 11, 2017

Works great for downloading podcast if you know what your looking for. No way to browse for things like Audio Dramas, but my biggest issue is that I can't rate the podcast to help others fine them!

Brandon High September 2, 2016

At some point recently the app stopped working with Bluetooth media controls. This makes it impossible to skip forward or backwards in podcasts without using the buttons on the phone. I have a Nexus 6P with Android N. The problem is present in both my cars and with 3 different bluetooth headsets.