Castro: High Fidelity Podcasts at Mac App Store analyse

Castro is a revolutionary podcast client thats smart, focused, and exclusive to iOS. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “New podcast listening app for iPhone, with an elegant, simple interface. I don’t recall ever seeing a playback/scrubbing interface quite like Castro’s, and it’s really good.” — John Gruber, Daring Fireball “Personally speaking, Ive found my new podcast app of choice.” — Richard Devine, iMore The Financial Times crowned Castro the "Best Designed App for Listening to Serial". “This app is great. It’s a new entrant into the iOS podcasting space, but it shouldn’t be seen that way. It’s a very functional app in a visually impressive package.” — Benjamin Mayo, 9to5mac “Castros a fantastic podcast app” — Lifehacker “Podcast clients continue to be a modern UI design playground for an evolving medium, and Castro 1.1 is a solid exponent in this field.” — Federico Viticci, Mac Stories “Nice app.” — Jim Dalrymple - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HIGHLIGHTS * Gesture-based interface that puts content front and center. * Episodes timeline makes it easy to find the latest episodes of all your podcasts. * Continuous play option to automatically play the next episode. * Voice-optimized playback speed algorithm makes podcasts sound incredibly good when played at fast or slow speeds. No other podcast app sounds this good. * Full screen themes make podcasts look as good as they sound. * Innovative player controls, optimized for podcast listening. * Takes advantage of iOSs background features to keep your podcasts fully updated, even when youre not in the app. * Automatically downloads new episodes as they are published. * Instant, clear, notifications when new episodes come out. * Turn on News Mode to keep only the most recent episode of frequently updated podcasts. * Exceptionally fast search. * Simple, well thought out settings. * Easy to manage cellular data usage. * Sleep timer for listening in bed. Still awake when the episode pauses? Just tap play again on the lock screen or headphone remote to extend the sleep timer. * Intelligent storage management — you set the size limit and Castro will delete old episodes as necessary to keep within it. * Supports streaming and offline playback. * Ability to play episodes without subscribing to the podcast. * We keep Castro updated regularly, fixing any bugs you report and adding new features.