Listen Up Free

codepimps

- December 21, 2013

Everyone

Music & Audio

( 243)

Description

Podcast player inspired by Google Listen. Maintained and follows most recent Android user interface guidelines.

Support Group: http://goo.gl/SSnbM

Highlights:
- gpodder.net integration
- Automatic background downloads
- Drag & Drop support in queue user interface for easy re-ordering of episodes
- Application widget for easy control of the audio queue
- Remember position in audio on any number of episodes
- Streaming playback if file hasn't yet been downloaded
- Restrict downloads to only on WI-FI, plugged in, or both
- Support headset controls
- Very battery conscious, strives to use the least amount of battery power
- Quick controls for 30 second skip forward and back
- Tablet Support

An existing gpodder (https://gpodder.net/) account can be used to synchronize your account.

The following permissions are used:
- ACCESS_WIFI_STATE: To enable optional WI-FI only downloads
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: To write audio files to the SD card
- INTERNET: To download audio files and feeds. Nothing is ever uploaded except for actually making requests for your feeds.
- WAKE_LOCK: So the device doesn't start go to sleep in the middle of playback or download.
- RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: So the application can start the timer to periodically check for new episodes

Reviews

3.7

243 total

5 113

4 44

3 25

2 14

1 47

Rod Roller

Keeps getting better I found this when google killed reader, which killed listen. Listen Up was rough at first but gets better with each update. Most of remaining problems seem to be with gpodder, not Listen Up. Still a few kinks but works well enough to make me happy.

Altay Hunter

Decent Podcast App This app was the perfect replacement for Google Listen, and is a good spiritual successor to it. However, after the death of Google Reader it has been much less reliable; gpodder does a poor job synchronizing podcasts and has been generally confusing. Coupled with the unfortunate recent interface changes, I switched to the Podcast Addict app and haven't looked back.

Mike Hill

Looks great but clunky functionality Interface is solid, app is not persistent when you lock screen, requiring me to open it to pause/play. Frustrating.

Marco Vaz

Great but Freezes when push play in Android 4.4.2 and only works again after rebooting

Vincentious That Stock Market Guy

Widget works poorly & but it's ok. If you micro manage the app it will do its job well but who wants to do that?

Nina Taylor

NO GOOD Every time I put a song title in ot jusy kept circling

User reviews

Rod Roller March 30, 2015

Altay Hunter January 12, 2014

Mike Hill July 4, 2016

Looks great but clunky functionality Interface is solid, app is not persistent when you lock screen, requiring me to open it to pause/play. Frustrating.

Marco Vaz February 12, 2014

Great but Freezes when push play in Android 4.4.2 and only works again after rebooting

Vincentious That Stock Market Guy December 15, 2015

Widget works poorly & but it's ok. If you micro manage the app it will do its job well but who wants to do that?

Nina Taylor September 27, 2014

NO GOOD Every time I put a song title in ot jusy kept circling

Steve Clymer October 24, 2015

Annoying Why don't any of these Podcast apps let you play mp3 files!

Abdelrahman Aly August 21, 2014

Good alternative to Google Listen Works great but first "This American Life" will not download and now "Car Talk" will not download. Which will stop coming next? Please fix

Ian Cook November 4, 2014

Constantly stutters even with downloaded podcasts

David Sainty July 15, 2015

Not for me Downloading to external card is an essential feature that ListenUp doesn't have.

maria makulova March 24, 2014

I can't even find little mix! Poor.

Ben Mansheim December 22, 2013

Thanks! Great app, does exactly what it should, efficiently and intuitively.

Dr. Emme Ci April 27, 2014

The best listen replacement

Sarah Whitney August 16, 2015

Sara Love the music.

Melody Ruch October 7, 2014

Madonna

Loto Tinilau September 4, 2014

Cool Lovin it

Paul McDougall December 16, 2013

The best of the lot I tried lots of different podcast managers when google reader and listen died. I reckon this is the best of the lot for what i wanted. I had a few problems with my new Nexus 5 (kitkat) and syncing with gpodder but the developer was responsive and its working like a charm now. Thanks codepimps.

Clarkson Fisher III December 4, 2013

Mostly great I encourage Codepimps to continue developing this. I love it. I do also understand though that it's frustrating for most people to use. My suggestion for what one change would most improve this app: Better search results.

Mark J. Lehman October 7, 2013

Best replacement for Google Listen yet Simplest and best-featured podcast app I've used. I was very disappointed when Google Listen went away, but Listen Up has jumped in to pick up the slack.

Bradon November 10, 2013

Some big holes but had potential Largest being no ability to add any podcast form URL, strange limited list?

Justin Fontana September 17, 2013

Works well, if you can find what you want I like the program. It isn't perfect but it gets the job done most of the time. The biggest problem for me is that I can't add RSS feeds for podcasts the program can't find via search. I checked the support forum and there was nothing there. Seems like an obvious thing to include! I'm not a programmer so maybe it isn't easy, though.

Jeff Strong September 12, 2013

Stopped reading rss This stopped reading the RSS feed of the Steve Czaban show. Other players can read it so I don't think it's a feed issue. Would be 5 stars otherwise - loved it when it worked.

Michael J. Ryan September 8, 2013

Won't close It keeps starting up and playing without user interaction... Will not exit... Can't clear from notification bar. Killed it twice today from app settings... Uninstalling.

Adam Mackler September 6, 2013

No way to add subscriptions by RSS feed . If search doesn't find it, you can't listen to it.

Nancy Benovich Gilby September 1, 2013

Not working on Samsung Galaxy Nexus Excited to try it out, download, when I search, it doesn't find any podcasts, marketplace, science friday...wassup with that?, tried taking battery out, restarting, same thing, can't find a single podcast.

Damon Lauder September 6, 2013

Excellent app Excellent asp with a few quirks.

Magnus Lööv August 30, 2013

Best uncluttered podcast app out there! A very good replacement for the long ago abandoned Google listen app. And Even better since it isn't as buggy as the original. A bit of a mess when google decided to also abandon Reader (which the podcasts where pulled from), but now It's working great!

Frank Gregory August 9, 2013

Great I'd like a little more from ESPN. Those are basically the only podcasts I listen too. Man this app is slick.

Kent Anderson July 26, 2013

Great podcast app This is the best free podcast app out there. No limitations, fast forward and rewind buttons are an excellent feature too.

Aletia Morgan July 15, 2013

Great interface, but memory hog! Looking for a simple podcast player to replace google listen. Is a great app, but just takes too much precious RAM on my Evo 4G. (11mb +) Trying Beyond Pod...less than 1/3 the RAM, can load in SD card. If mem weren't an issue, though, I'd stay with Listen Up!

Troy Wands July 18, 2013

Needs one thing... Needs "top of the list" option when sorting podcasts

Matt Briggs July 21, 2013

Nice and simple Works better then google listen ever did. Just wish there was a web app so i could listen on a computer and sync across devices.

Mikael Blomkvist July 15, 2013

Good No longer losing subscriptions on restart

Matthew Holley July 11, 2013

Great simple app Does all that it needs to. A nice simple, clean app!

John Garnham July 10, 2013

Doesn't work Installed, searched, found, subscribed, refreshed... Oops! Won't refresh! Exited, reopened app, subscription disappeared! Repeat, same result.

Larry Dunn July 4, 2013

Doe not work at all. There is no way to add any podcasts. The search button is very hard to find. Then no matter what you type in whether it is the feed address or just key words all you get is the circle arrow and then a blank screen. Total waste of time. Don't waste yours. Keep looking for a replacement for Google Listen.

Devon Austen June 24, 2013

Thank you, this app is great.

Ed Sanders June 18, 2013

Good Good replacement for listen up

Raph Ledgerd June 18, 2013

Disappointing update The most recent update has wiped my queue and subscriptions. Some of those casts can't be downloaded now so I've lost them. Looks like I'm going to have to use podcast addict instead.

Richard Eid June 16, 2013

Nothing really close to this on the market. Hey, I've used your app ever since Listen was discontinued. Now that Reader is going away I see you switched over to gpodder. I'm having trouble adding some feeds. I just get a blank screen when searching for them by name and using the URL directly produces the same blank screen. Going to the gpodder site and using search also doesn't show me any results for some of these feeds I subscribe to. I'm afraid I may have to switch to something else. :( Is there any way you can add support for Google Takeout's subscriptions.xml from our Reader feeds lists so that we could import the feeds directly? I'm not a developer so I'm guessing even something "small" like that would probably require a good amount of work and I've followed the blog and seen that you've already put in tons of work on the project lately. So if this isn't feasible I understand but thanks for an awesome app.

codepimps June 17, 2013

Hi Richard, can you contact me directly and we'll figure out what the problem is?