The podcast industry is booming in recent years. It is becoming more and more common to find podcasts on any subject, no matter how strange it may seem. When it comes to enjoying our favorite podcasts, in the iOS ecosystem we have a wide variety starting with the native Apple application called Apple Podcast, Overcast, Castro, Outcast, Pocket Casts ...
Google, Apple and Spotify are betting very hard in this regard and the competition does not want to be left behind. NPR, the umbrella association for radio stations in the United States, bought the Pocket Casts app last year in order to expand its reach and reach a wider audience. The first important change in this purchase is that it has become totally free.
Pocket Casts had a price in the App Store of 4,49 euros, a somewhat high price if we compare it with the rest of applications to listen to podcasts currently available in the Apple application store. Most likely you think that the application will stop receiving updates, will be abandoned by the developer or will have limited functions. Well no.
Pocket Casts will continue to offer the same features (dark mode, multiplatform synchronization, audio effects to cut silences ...) that until now and will include new options in the future, all of them completely free of charge.
In order to monetize the application, it is launched Pocket Casts Plus, a service that for 1,09 euros per month or 0 euros per year, it offers us 10 GB of cloud storage to be able to store files that we have previously recorded to listen to before publishing them, store audiobooks, voice notes or any other type of audio files to be able to play it on any device where the application is installed .
This subscription gives access to the web application in addition to Windows and macOS. If you previously purchased the desktop version, You will have 3 years of Pocket Casts Plus for free. If you have tired of your usual podcast client, it may be a good time to try Pocket Casts, although in my particular case, after having tried practically all the options that we can find in the App Store, I still stick with Overcast.
