At the beginning of last summer we proudly witnessed the birth of UCast, one of the best podcast managers for iOS that exist today, if not the best. And I say "proud" because it is an application with a XNUMX% Spanish flavor and its success has been resounding.
After months of intense work that many of us were able to verify through the beta versions prior to its launch, Juanjo Guevara, its creator, launched UCast, an application where the user has almost absolute control as it has an immense amount of functions and features that make it truly personal However, something was missing, highly demanded by users and which has finally arrived with version 1.3: personalized playlists.
UCast 1.3, the most anticipated update
UCast version 1.3 for iOS is one of the most important updates the application has received since it was launched last June.
The new update has received a nearly complete overhaul with some minor UI changes, new controls for scrolling through an episode, rich notifications, increased 3D Touch support, and more. But what we like the most is that custom playlists have finally arrived at UCast, something that was being worked on from the beginning, as Juanjo Guevara himself confirmed to us in this interview that I had the opportunity to do with him.
Custom Playlists
Now in UCast it is much easier to manage the podcasts you listen to because you can create custom playlists to your liking. All you have to do is press the icon that you will see at the top right of the main screen, press the "+" symbol and start creating your custom playlist. You can give it the name you want and, by deactivating the "Include all podcasts" button, you will be able to select only those programs that are part of the list. Thus, you can create playlists by categories or topics, and have all the podcasts you listen to better organized.
UCast became without a doubt my favorite app for listening to podcasts, and now with custom playlists, even more so.
All the news in UCast 1.3 for iOS
But, as I told you before, version 1.3 of UCast for iOS includes many more news, all of them very interesting
We return to the load to present you a lot of new features that you are going to love:
- We present the personalized lists from which you can manage your podcast however you want. You can order the episodes automatically, by duration, by date or decide their order manually.
- New view in the player from where you can control the playlists quickly.
- Gestures have been improved to make closing views even smoother and easier.
- We've redesigned some screens and icons to make UCast look better than ever.
- Complete control from the Control Center. Now you can move back and forth the podcast you are listening to to any point.
- New slider from the mini player. Press and drag your finger on it to move forward or backward to the point you want.
- Rich notifications. You will be able to see the information of the new podcasts and you will be able to see the episode or start its playback from the same notification.
- We have improved and optimized the download manager.
- New configuration options so that you can further control the behavior of the application.
- Greater support for m4a audios.
- Improvements in accessibility.
- New more compact preview mode.
- New actions from the application icon with 3D Touch.
- Correction of errors in the interruption of audios.
- Correction of a bug that made the interface not be seen correctly when you have the localization activated.
- Minor bug fixes.
UCast is a podcast manager compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices with iOS 8.2 or later. Its price is € 1,99, and I assure you that you are going to love it. Go ahead and try it if you haven't already.