Downcast

Downcast lets you download, play, and sync** your favorite podcasts with an intuitive interface built specifically for podcasts.

Subscription Features:

• Search, subscribe to, and download audio and video podcasts
• Manually subscribe to podcasts via URL
• Download podcasts automatically (including resuming downloads)
• Browse and download older podcast episodes
• Auto-update podcast feeds based on schedule
• Settings for auto-download and episode retention (globally and per-podcast)
• Import and export podcast feeds via OPML
• Import supported audio/video media files
• Support for password-protected feeds
• Create and edit "smart" playlists
• View podcast details and episode show notes
• Rename podcast subscription names

iCloud Syncing:

• Sync podcast subscriptions, playlists, settings and episode information with other Macs and iOS devices** via iCloud

Playback Features:

• .5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x and 3x speed playback*
• Chapters support for enhanced podcasts
• Stream episodes without downloading

*See this Help article for an explanation of play speeds.

** Downcast for iOS is required for syncing to iOS devices.

Note: Now requires OS X 10.9 or later.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes issue causing network speed reduction
• Fixes com.opml.opml file association.
• Fixes encoding issue causing some special characters to be stripped from episode titles and/or descriptions.
• Potential fix for issue causing video episodes to be marked as played too early.