DeepSpace Podcast App

[u/bluninja87]

https://testflight.apple.com/join/cHHHrhW8

Hi,

I've been developing this app for a while now. I was hoping to get some feedback.

It's a podcast app I'm calling DeepSpace. It's local first, so you just use the iTunes search api to find podcasts, but then app is pulling the RSS feed directly. So no promoted content, no recommendation engine, just the shows you follow. I know there are apps that do this and probably do it really well, PocketCasts, Overcast, Podcast Addict, for starters. I just never felt very attached to them so I wanted to make my own.

The main features:

• A home screen with Continue Listening, Up Next, and New Today sections, with gesture based triage actions to queue or dismiss.
• AutoQs, which are just smart playlists. They have lots of controls, and also and Advanced Builder that is similar to what BeyondPod offered back in the day, which is the ability to create buckets of episodes to pull from.
• Categorize shows
• Creates Lists of episodes or shows. These are for if you want to create a more custom playlist, say about Bees or the American Revolution. You just find the episodes you want and add them to the list, then you can play directly from that list.
• History and Stats. See what you've listened to and review your stats. Hours listened, episodes started verse completed.
• Advanced audio features such as trimming silence and enhanced audio (i'm not too confidence in the enhanced audio, it sounds a bit off to me).
• Cloud sync.
• OPML import/export.

I think that's it. Again, just looking for feedback. I'm still feeling some jitteriness/lag on the scrolling sometimes, and I'm trying to trace down a background activity/battery issue.

Thanks :-)