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Podcast Addict is not quite as streamlined, but has many more features.

My favorite feature is the "Automatic Rewind" combined with "Incremental rewind". It adds a rewind everytime you pause and resume an episode that increases the longer the podcast has been paused. It means that if I briefly pause, for example to respond to. Some one in real life talking to me, then it will automatically rewind 5 seconds when I start the podcast again, so I can hear the sentence I was in the middle of in full. But if I leave a podcast alone for a week, then it will rewind 1 minute so I can get fully back into the context of what I was listening to.

I’ve always been a fan of Pocket Casts personally.

I love Pocket Casts. Sadly I have a hard time recommending it to new people since they switched to subscription model payment. The reason I love it is because of what it was, not what it is. I'm grandfathered into the "pay once, own forever"and if I wasn't I would probably be using something else these days. I'm still gonna throw it in as a recommendation though, because it's damn good and people should make up their own minds in whether it is worth the payment.

Also a big fan of AntennaPod, I switched to it back when Google first announced they were axing Podcasts and thought I'd have a lot less time to abandon ship than I ended up with.

Gmail is too valuable a source of advertising data

Proton mail!

Google: Wanna see me create another great app and space then do no advertising and deep 6 it like, well whenever. wanna see it again?

they are like the bad version of valve with their IPs.

Pocket Casts has been reliable for me for years. I don't even use their pro features, but I pay anyway because it's so cheap. Highly recommended.

YouTube Podcasts coming to the YouTube Music app delivered to you by the Google Play game delivery app!

Never rely on Google apps.

The end.

I actually really enjoy it. It's my go to no frills podcast app that isn't paired with music or other extra stuff

I don't think they have any qualms about shutting down YouTube but I think they're afraid of the backlash. It's such a unique treasure trove of cultural significance that is not out of the question for the US government to step in and tell them to put at least some of it in the Library of Congress or to work with other organizations to preserve it. And they'd rather let it run than be bothered.

I've heard a theory that says that Google isn't interested in any of their products for the product's sake. They're all data-gathering experiments. Once they're done mining that particular kind of data they shutter the project. If they ever need to revisit that category later, they make another similar product.

It would certainly explain why they shut down certain projects in the face of commercial success, or why they keep revisiting the messenger app over and over in different ways.

It would also explain their inept attempts at monetizing YouTube. Keeping an experiment alive past it's expiration date is unfamiliar to them so they have no idea what to do with it.

AntennaPod is another great option. I've already switched after the initial announcement.

Pocket casts. Also, you might be able to export your podcast subscriptions from Google Podcasts in opml format.

Antenna pod is great. I switched to it from google podcasts a couple months ago figuring this would happen.