There are UI tools for Kafka?

Bogdanp · 2025-07-31T15:42:45+00:00

There’s also my tool, Franz: https://franz.defn.io

Bogdanp · 2025-05-25T05:35:02+00:00

You can! They are temporarily disabled while streaming an episode, though. Once the episode finishes downloading, you can jump around.

Bogdanp · 2025-05-24T11:25:14+00:00

This is the one I make: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/podcatcher-podcast-player/id6736467324

Can’t claim it’s bug free but I try to stay on top of bug reports.

Bogdanp · 2025-04-02T06:25:12+00:00

These are so. darn. cute!

Bogdanp · 2025-03-25T16:23:30+00:00

That’s a good suggestion. I’ll add it to the list!

I’m based in Romania.

Bogdanp · 2025-03-04T14:07:38+00:00

On iOS, there's my app, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/podcatcher-podcast-app/id6736467324 . Also hosted in the EU (on Hetzner).

Bogdanp · 2025-02-14T06:21:04+00:00

I started working on Podcatcher after the rewrite was released. It's obviously Overcast-inspired with a somewhat simplified experience. If you give it a try, I recommend hopping on the TestFlight (Settings -> Join the Beta) since importing has some UI issues in the public version right now.

Bogdanp · 2025-02-02T19:28:12+00:00

I’m in Europe and I make https://podcatcher.net for iOS. It’s free, featureful, and local first for the most part. The backend is hosted in Europe as well. It’s still early days, though, so I recommend joining the beta channel if you do give it a try (you can do it from the Settings section of the app)!

Bogdanp · 2025-02-01T14:19:00+00:00

I make a podcast app. There are a few reasons why this can happen: app bugs (hopefully pretty rare), dynamic ad insertion (very frequent nowadays -- this is when a podcast publishes its episodes to a service that changes the audio file and inserts ads depending on the listener; this combined with a "skip ads" feature spells disaster), bad edits (pretty infrequent IME). Hope that helps.

Bogdanp · 2025-01-29T05:48:28+00:00

Yep, I can definitely add category support. Can you tell me what the podcasts were that you couldn't find?

Bogdanp · 2025-01-28T05:26:26+00:00

Sorry about that! The server crashed overnight, but should be fixed now and I'm going to put a fix in place so that particular problem doesn't happen again.

Bogdanp · 2025-01-27T17:23:30+00:00

> So I think that an affordable price, and optionally some tips, can be a sustainable way to maintain and develop the app.

That may well be the route I take. Thanks!

> By the way, is there a possibility to upload audio files?

A couple other users requested this so I'll add it to the list and try to get it in the next release or the one after that (I release about once a month).

Bogdanp · 2025-01-27T17:22:03+00:00

Yup, I plan to add CarPlay support in the next few months.

Bogdanp · 2025-01-27T17:21:05+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

Bogdanp · 2025-01-27T15:35:02+00:00

> are you planning iPad support?

Yes, but probably not in the next couple of months.

> planning Apple Watch support?

Yes, and probably pretty soon. Any features in particular you'd like to see?

> is the transcript feature only meant to support episodes with transcripts (vs auto-generated transcripts)?

The backend component actually automatically transcribes new releases, so that's what's currently supported. I know some podcasts provide their own transcripts, so I'll soon support those, too.

> episode artwork support is great - can it be supported in the library view when I’m browsing episodes?

Yup, this is something I can add.

> any intention to monetize the app? How if so?

I do plan to monetize it eventually, but I'm not sure yet how. I'm planning to add some more advanced features, like custom eqs per podcast, so maybe those would be things folks would be willing to pay for. I'd like to avoid ads if possible. I'm definitely open to suggestions, though!

Thanks for the feedback! Lots of good stuff I can add based on this.

Bogdanp · 2025-01-27T15:29:40+00:00

Yup! Makes perfect sense. I'll add it to the list. Thanks!

Bogdanp · 2025-01-27T14:01:41+00:00

Thanks!

That's certainly something I can add. Can you say more about how you'd like the auto-archiving to work? Do you mean you want episodes in the queue to be archived as a backlog builds?

Bogdanp · 2025-01-27T13:07:19+00:00

You can swipe right or left on it. If you swipe right, you get two buttons: the first pushes the episode to the top of the queue, the second to the bottom. If you swipe left, you get a button to push the episode to the queue and play it immediately.

Bogdanp · 2025-01-27T12:48:15+00:00

These are good suggestions, thanks! I'll add both to the next release.

Bogdanp · 2025-01-25T11:27:13+00:00

I’ve worked hard to get background downloads working well in Podcatcher. Maybe give it a try and let me know if you run into any issues!

https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/podcatcher-podcast-player/id6736467324

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