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

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.

It's a great app for playing podcasts. However, there a few too many bugs that need to be fixed. 1) Podcasts will randomly pause playback. Hitting play will start it again, but it rewinds back and replays some of what you've already heard. This can fix playback for a little awhile, but it will pause again after a random number of minutes. 2) Downloads/Updating never stops. Once you open the app, it will begin to check for updates and download new episodes. Once complete, the notification will remain and never finish. 3) The Pause/Play button on the notification drop down and on the lock screen will only display a pause button after the app has been running for awhile. It will still do both pause and play actions, but it will always appear as a pause button. Annoying bugs when you're using an app you paid for.

I like this as a podcasting app, but it won't cast to Google home so that makes it really difficult to use all the time. I wish they would add this feature in an intuitive way to implement. I don't like maintaining two completely separate podcast apps, especially since I like to listen to many of them both in the car and at home. If this would broadcast through Google home devices, it would be a five-star hands down. It is easy to manage podcasts and playlists once you get the hang of it.

What's new

Bug fixes