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Here are some promo codes for the app:

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Update: looks like they are all gone now, here are a few more

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Looks like they are all gone now, hope everyone enjoys the app, if you missed out follow on twitter http://twitter.com/Network_App I'll be giving away a few more

I used the last one - http://tokn.co/6szkpy57

I wasn't very satisfied with purchasing a popular 3rd party podcast app in the past, but this one looks promising.Is there a syncing desktop app in the horizon. I imagine that would make this app more enticing :)

That is definitely the long term plan for the app

Cool. I definitely dig the minimalism. Do you have a website/email or something where I can leave some constructive feedback in return. The app store review might not be the right place to leave it.

thanks, feedback is always much appreciated, support@networkapp.net

Man, those were gone fast! Good luck with the application, interface looks beautiful from the screen shots

After years of running with iTunes, I settled with Instacast when iOS 6 came out and Apple removed podcast support from the music app.

Instacast for me has three killer-features:

* you can double-tap the headphones/microphone button to skip 30 seconds which allows me to skip ads without having to take the phone out of my pocket.

* you can sort the unlistened playlist by time ascending (so many clients only allow newest first) and you can change it to sort by podcast order first, so new releases of podcasts you like more can preempt the general older->newer order.

* instacast also has a mac app that's synchronized with the mobile apps. One of my most favourite past-times is playing Minecraft and listening to podcasts at the same time (wanting to get both the game audio and the podcast over my headphones). Being able to sync play position between my phone and my mac is very handy.

It's crazy one person's killer-features are likely not that interesting for the vast majority of other people.

The app can do the first, the second two are coming in some form in the future, both things I want myself for the app.

It also uses some of the iOS APIs to download podcasts when you are not using your phone for extended periods of time. I listen to podcasts on my way to classes, and new episodes are already downloaded when I wake up.

Wow, iOS podcast apps really are the new to-do list or Twitter client. Seems like a new one every week. And this is in a market with two entrenched players and a free first-party app.

I wonder if they were all thinking, "I can make it iOS 7 and make a shiny new UI and use background fetch and all the other new features and take over the market!"

I'm building one because none of the existing ones (including this one) do exactly what I want.

Might aswel release it..good practice.

Sounds like you're planning on making it free. Any chance of an open-source license?

pretty much the same reason I made Network, good luck with your app

I'm sure everyone hits you for feature requests, but if someone would make a podcast app that made it very easy to start at the least recent episode and continually download more recent ones so I could 'catch up' on a older podcast, I would be very happy.

Interesting idea, I'll have to think about that one

At first I thought that this was about a iOS dev oriented Podcast (due to finding it on HN + tunnelvision). But that it is not. Does raise the question whether there are any (free or reasonably affordable) (iOS or other) development related podcast.

Check out Core Intuition or NSBrief both great iOS Devel. Podcasts

Mostly iOS related podcasts from my subscriptions -

Build Phase, NSBrief, Core Intuition, Debug, Iterate, Accidental Tech Podcast, Edge Cases.

Can you compare/contrast this with the Apple Podcasts app? Why is it worth manually reimporting my entire list of subscriptions? :)

You can use OPML to import, you can export the list from iTunes or most other major podcast clients. The aim of the app is make things simple, so you don't have to worry about refreshing or changing settings, the app just gets new episodes, downloads them and has them ready the next time you want to listen and hopefully I made things look and feel good to use as well :)

Sadly, that isn't enough to convince me to switch from the Podcasts app. (I also don't have a Windows or Mac box to run iTunes.)

The app doesn't download/fetch podcast episodes, does it? It's only a player/streaming app?

No it will automatically download new episodes, using iOS7's new backgrounding features

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