Instacast

Instacast: Popular Podcast Listening App

Instacast is a popular podcast listening app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It allows you to browse, subscribe, manage, and listen to podcasts with features like variable playback speeds, trim silence, Apple Watch support, and more.

What is Instacast?

Instacast is a feature-rich podcast listening app available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Originally launched in 2008, it is considered one of the pioneers in the podcast space.

With Instacast, users can browse through a directory of over 750,000 active shows to discover new podcasts to subscribe to. It has advanced subscription management tools that allow you to organize, edit, delete, reorder, and group podcast subscriptions. This makes it easy to manage large libraries of hundreds of different shows.

The playback interface includes useful features for podcast listening. This includes variable speed playback to speed up or slow down a podcast, trim silence to automatically remove empty gaps, and chapter support to jump between segments. There is also an Apple Watch app that allows playback control from your wrist.

Instacast integrates closely with iOS and macOS to sync playback history and subscriptions across iPhone, iPad, and Mac using iCloud. Subscriptions, uploads, and playlists can be shared to any device logged into your iCloud account.

Other notable features include automatic downloads with options for different networks, bandwidths or times of day, custom playlists, per-podcast notification settings, automatic deletion of played episodes, OPML import/export, and more.

For podcast fans who listen to multiple shows and desire advanced organization and playback features, Instacast is an excellent choice available across Apple devices.

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