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I've seen both AntennaPod and PocketCasts mentioned; I've used both over the years. I liked AntennaPod; the only reason that I stopped using it was because I switched to Spotify since that let me pick up listening from where I left off on my desktop. I moved to PocketCasts afterwards because I've been slowly trying to get off of Spotify (and because they open-sourced their mobile apps). I don't like that they require premium to have it sync with the webplayer, but it works.

Podcast Republic. It's great.

I've been using podverse for a while now and it's been great except for a few quirks with the queue

I switched to Podcast Republic awhile ago because I like the playlist feature and being able to have different "channels" for similar types of podcasts. Very customizable too! They have the android app and a website, though I've never used the website

BeyondPod

I've been using it for years. I have the paid version of it.

I'm sure I barely use any of the features. At the end of the day it lets me download my podcasts and prunes them as I listen (as I've configure it).

I feel like I need to buy it again to give the dev some money.

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If synchronising your episode progress and subscriptions is important, I'd use google podcasts for a commercial solution. I used it for a while and it worked great.

I've since moved on to audiobookshelf, for a self hosted option that achieves the same sync across devices.

Didn't Tidal end that program a few months ago? Or is it different than what this article is talking about: https://musically.com/2023/03/01/tidal-shuts-direct-artist-payouts-scheme-after-paying-500k/

Old post, but if you connect your phone to your PC using bluetooth, you can play audio to your PC from your phone, at least this works for me on KDE plasma. I use this to continue listening to music/podcasts from my phone without having to set up any sort of sync solution.

Previously, I was usin scrcpy, an adb based solution to route audio from my phone to my computer.

On Android I use Podcast Addict and on PC I use Podgrab running from Docker. I haven't found a.way to sync them

I’ve been very happy with Podurama for the last few months.

I use Stitcher

I’ve had good experiences with Castbox.

On desktop I use Tildes. It's fairly minimalistic in terms of features, but very smooth and attractive UI. It does what I need with no headaches and looks great doing it. Like many others here I use AntennaPod on mobile.

I didn't see it in the comments but I am very happy with Podcast Guru om android.

Guess not what you're after, but I switched from Spotify to Deezer which has podcasts built in. So I only need one app.

Still love Pocketcasts and would use nothing less (though I have a lifetime membership since I beta'd the web player when it first launched, so YMMV)

If you like taking notes, I and found Snipd recently. To take a note you hit back twice on your headphones and it uses AI to create a transcript and summary of what they just said. So far seems pretty good but I've only tried it on thr Huberman podcast. It's free right now but they will try to monetize in future.