Acast - Podcast Player app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Acast
First release : 14 Oct 2014
App size: 72.12 Mb
Acast - Podcasts & Audio
Acast is the mobile hub for your audio on demand experience. Listen to podcasts and audio shows you care about whenever and wherever you want.
Acast is home to the most engaging, fascinating stories told in audio on sports, news, comedy, business, culture, education and many more.
Follow and stream your favorite podcasts such as Serial, WTF with Marc Maron, Call Your Girlfriend, Another Round, Scroobius Pip, and The Naked Scientists or download episodes for on-the-go listening.
Acast features podcasts from media houses like The Financial Times, BuzzFeed, BBC, The Economist, The Guardian, NPR, WNYC, This American Life, and Fusion to name a few.
Acast’s curated Discovery page highlights new shows to love. Our content teams will feed you with fresh, exciting podcasts in rotating lists such as “Hack the Gibson!” our tech list, and “Girls to the Front” our women-hosted list.
Key features
- Discover new podcasts through curated lists
- Search directly for shows, hosts or episodes
- A feed that regularly updates with shows that you follow
- Browse podcasts & audio by category
- Continue listening where you left off
- Stream podcasts using your WiFi or data
- Save shows for later and listen when you don’t have reception
- Play, pause and skip episodes from the lock screen
- Login with Facebook and share with your friends and family
- Share your favorite moments on Twitter with an embeddable player or text it through your messenger app
- Experience images, links and videos embedded in the audio
How to get you started
Dive straight in with Discovery and start exploring. Try Trending to see what’s popular right now. Find podcasts by Category or try out some of the curated lists from our content teams. The Search page lets you find your favorite shows, hosts or episodes. Follow their channels and stream the new episodes they post from your Feed. Save episodes for offline listenings or continue where you left off last time.
Where Acast got mentioned
“Acast’s free-to-use platform and app lets users browse or recommend podcasts and, like on Spotify, introduces them to new relevant shows and lets them share shows across a social network.” - FastCompany
”100 hottest European Startups” - WIRED
“5 / 5” - The Sun
”Best in Test” (Podcast-App) - Macworld
”Super startup 2015” - Veckans Affärer
”Start up of the year 2014” - IDG
”Most innovative media service” - Mobilgalan
Community
Heard something that is worth sharing? Get in touch and share your favorite moments with us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/acast
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acaststories
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acaststories/
Problems or feedback
Help us make Acast better by reaching out to us:
Go into the app settings and click “contact us” to send us your suggestion or support query, or contact us on Twitter @acastsupport.
Permissions
We will only ask for permissions we need for the app to provide you with the best experience possible. Your privacy is important to us.
Subscriptions
Were now offering a “Show Pass” to certain shows that’ll give you exclusive access to premium content. These subscriptions will renew once a month until you cancel them. You will only access the premium content as long as youre subscribing. A Show Pass starts at $1.99 / month.
The purchase will be charged from your iTunes account if you choose to buy a subscription. You can manage your subscription by entering the user settings in iTunes after the purchase. You will also be able to cancel the auto-renewing subscription from there. The subscription will be auto-renewed 24 hours before the subscription period ends with the same kind of subscription you already bought to the same price. Its not possible to abort the subscription during the time its active.
Privacy Policy: http://www.acast.com/privacypolicy
Terms of Service: http://www.acast.com/terms
FAQ: http://www.acast.com/faq
Latest reviews of Acast - Podcast Player app for iPhone and iPad
Love the app, interface is great, premium content subscriptions are an added bonus. However, to really solidify it as my favorite podcast app, iPad integration is necessary and there is some content missing that is available elsewhere (e.g. POLITICO podcasts, etc.). Excited to see where the development team will take it.
Great interface and discovery
Whats up with the search I cant even find the podcast s. I have been typing in the same podcast name and episode and still nothing.
No, Acast is so buggy that it hurts to use. Most of the time ads start playing in the middle of a sentence. The interface is unintuitive and laggy. The "in progress" section is so badly broken. Aaand... no way to delete history? Its 2016, Acast. You can do so much better.
Plays a few minutes, makes that pop sound, and the app closes. About half the time, when I choose a podcast, it gives me a blank screen. Great Selection though. Pity I cant actually listen to any of them.