App Detail » Castaway 2

What's New

New
- Added Siri shortcuts for showing Unplayed Episodes, showing Podcasts, and showing Discover
- Added support for grouped notifications
- Improved notifications on-boarding experience in iOS 12

Enhancements
- Added large titles visual style
- Discover section features larger podcast artwork

Fixes
- Fixed an issue where downloaded episodes sometimes failed to be deleted after they’ve been played. Any leftover episodes that should have been deleted will be deleted the first time you launch the app with this update.

App Description

Castaway is a minimalist podcast app for playing and managing audio podcasts.

Features:
- Browse podcasts by what's popular, by podcast networks, or search for podcasts by name or author.
- Subscribe to your favorite podcasts or listen to individual episodes from the directory without the need to subscribe to the entire podcast.
- Supports streaming new episodes, as well as downloading episodes locally to your device.
- Utilizes background refresh to ensure that your podcasts are always up to date.
- Receive notifications when new episodes are available for listening.
- New episodes download automatically in the background for you. If you prefer to stream new episodes, you can disable automatic downloads.
- Save your favorite episodes, so that you'll always have them available for repeat listens.
- Adjustable playback rate that can be configured globally as well as per podcast.

App Changes

• May 07, 2015 Initial release
• June 03, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> FREE!
• June 06, 2015 New version 1.0.1
• July 06, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $2.99
• August 04, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> FREE!
• September 06, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $2.99
• September 17, 2015 New version 1.1
• October 06, 2015 New version 1.1.1
• October 20, 2015 New version 1.1.2
• October 26, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
• November 09, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
• November 15, 2015 New version 1.2
• November 22, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> FREE!
• November 30, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $2.99
• January 25, 2016 New version 1.2.1
• March 23, 2016 New version 2.0
• July 05, 2016 New version 2.0.5
• July 05, 2016 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
• July 11, 2016 New version 2.0.6
• July 14, 2016 Price increase: $1.99 -> $3.99
• November 09, 2016 New version 2.1
• November 14, 2016 Price decrease: $3.99 -> $1.99
• December 20, 2016 New version 2.1.1
• December 29, 2016 Price decrease: $1.99 -> FREE!
• June 15, 2019 New version 2.7.2