Anytime Podcast Player

Ben Hills

About this app

Anytime Podcast Player is a free and open-source podcast player that's designed to be simple and easy to use. Anytime is Podcasting 2.0 ready and will support more features as the app is developed.

Discover podcasts:
- Search from over 4 million free podcasts.
- Discover something new in the podcast charts.
- Follow your favourite podcasts so you never miss an episode.
- Stream episodes or download for offline playback later.

Features:
- View episode chapters and skip to the part of an episode you're interested in*
- Directly support the show via funding links*
- Read, search or follow along with transcripts (where available)*
- Listen at faster or slower speeds.
- Pause a streamed or downloaded episode and pickup where you left off later on.
- Playback controllable from notification shade.
- Playback controllable from WearOS device.
- OPML import & export.

* Chapters, funding links and transcripts appear for podcasts that support Podcasting 2.0.

Ratings and reviews

Very nice player, and extremely responsive developer. My Samsung device was stopping this app in the middle of podcasts. I had to set its battery use to unrestricted, and that stopped most of the trouble. The developer took time to figure this out and let me know. Still loses its place once in a while, or "remembers" where it was when you last started a segment, meaning you'll occasionally repeat some minutes of a podcast. These are small issues. Overall, I'm very happy!

Good app that could be outstanding with a few improvements. 1) app isn't Android Auto compatible, so it doesn't cast to the stereo headset in my car. If I start a podcast using my phone, it will still broadcast through my stereo, but I cannot interact with the app through the car's headset. 2) when listening in my car, and I shut off my vehicle, the app forgets where I stopped listening to the podcast. So 3*'s. But no ads and no special permissions gives it an extra *, so I'm rating it 4*'s.

This is a fantastic podcast player. Better than the popular ones. The UI is snappy and you can add any podcasts rss feed that you want. Minimal and everything feels like it is in the right place. Beautifully designed. It also has a great and fast podcast search tool. The whole app is lag free. The discovery tab has some great suggestions, though they are not extensive nor categorized. I've downloaded a lot of podcast players. After years, I think I've found the best.

What's new

New episode search option.