Its also what i'm using. Its the best podcast app I've used.

Agreed, grab AntennaPod from the f-droid store.

Have you heard of Escape Pod? It is really simple. And I enjoy it because of its simplicity. Its on fdroid.

It is paid?

Just recently switched from spotify to antenna pod and can recommend it so far, especially as a lover of any app that will give you stats/graphs.

Only small issue is when playing there are two options: stream, and download. It seems that unlike spotify, stream does not buffer at all, so if you lose connection the player immediately stops. For me I can resolve this by downloading the episodes before I leave for my commute, but something to be aware of.

AntennaPod has been working really well for me.

I was a pocketcast user for years, switched to antennapod a few months ago. Here's what's bothering me:

• Antennapod has a weird separation between new episodes (inbox) and what you're listening to now (queue). PC has that abstracted away where you only have to check one place for your podcasts.
• There is no simple service to sync your subscriptions and listen progress. Gpoddersync is basically abandoned and the protocol lacks features. Hopefully this will change with openpodcastAPI, but they haven't managed to secure funding yet.
• I've been spoilt by having a server doing the heavy lifting of refreshing my podcasts. It's a minor annoyance that I need to wait approx. 1.5 second per feed to refresh. It's just the way it is.

There are also things that antennapod does better:

• chapters actually works in AP.
• episode pictures also works in AP, PC only showed the static image of the feed.
• search is just as good as PC.
• its FOSS and hopefully resistant to enshittification (unless all producers go into a closed ecosystem like Spotify tried with their recent purchases of pod-studios).

Best of luck from another pod-nerd.

I use pocket casts and I tried switching to antenna pod because of a thread like this one and came right back to pocket casts. The deal breaker for me was no skip forward 30 seconds (e.g. ads) from the lock screen.

I also have been using podcast addict, probably for over 10 years now. You can autodownload new episodes (mine checks daily at 7a and 7p), create custom playlists for juggling multiple podcasts at once, has android auto support, and you don't have to deal with the bs of Spotify.

I'm sure there are a 100 other features I don't know about, but that's what I use.

PodcastAddict is the way, but only if you're tolerant/patient with nerd knobs. I know a lot of people get turned off by those.

Shit I've been using PA forever too but I feel like I should try that other one everyone keeps posting about

I've been trying podverse, but for some reason it uses Google Admob. So if he's trying to degoogle it's not a viable alternative

Yes! I thought it was just me. Any idea how to resolve?

I have this too on occasion! Although, I think I had this problem on another podcast player before I switched.