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This feature is particularly useful for podcasts that don’t meet your expectations.\n\nPLAYBACK\n- Variable playback speed.\n- Remembered playback speed per podcast.\n- Support for podcasts with chapters and chapter images (MP3 and M4A formats).\n- Utilize your headset controls, including Bluetooth car controls (when paired), to play/pause, jump forward or backward 30 seconds.\n- Sleep timer.\n- Beautifully rendered show notes.\n- Onscreen controls for skipping ahead and skipping back.\n- Gesture support on the now playing screen (when the podcast logo is visible) to facilitate hands-free use.\n    - Double-tap to play/pause.\n    - Swipe up to adjust playback speed.\n    - Swipe left or right to rewind or fast-forward.\n    - Home to the L gesture for the 2-minute Leo jump.\n- Refer to Settings and Gestures for more information and customization options for rewind/fast-forward gestures.\n- AirPlay support allows you to watch or listen to podcasts on your large screen.\n- External display support for videos is available for devices that support an external display (use the Apple HDMI adapter).\n- Enjoy your favorite podcasts with a familiar layout.\n\nFIND NEW PODCASTS QUICKLY\n- Search for your podcasts by title, keyword, or author.\n- Browse the top podcasts categorized by different genres.\n• Manually add podcasts by entering their URLs.\n• Support for password-protected feeds.\n• Option to download a single episode.\n• Import podcast subscriptions for episodes already on your device from iTunes.\n• Import your OPML file from iTunes or other iOS podcast app.\n• Import media using the iTunes File Sharing feature.\n• Add your existing audiobooks (non-password-protected ones) using the iTunes File Sharing feature.\n• Add previously downloaded podcasts from your computer using the iTunes file sharing feature (see Settings and Import Media for details).\n\nSHORTCUT ACTIONS\n• Search your podcasts and episodes using shortcut actions.\n• Easily create an export from other apps into iCatcher using the subscribe action.\n• Control playback. \n• View podcast action including currently playing.\n• Import media directly into the app (like audiobooks).\n• Transfer your media to the watch via shortcut actions.\n• Pull chapter images.\n• Many more actions available.\n\nMORE\n• Completely customizable to suit your podcast preferences.\n• Swipe across a podcast or episode to access additional options.\n• Podcast settings allow you to set the days the podcast typically releases or the number of days between.\n• Specify the number of episodes to download when new ones are available.\n• Share podcast information via email with your friends.\n\nCONTACT\nEmail: Tap the settings tab and select Send Questions or Feedback.\nTwitter/X: @Joeisanerd.\n\nPLEASE NOTE: The app doesn’t sync with iTunes. Like other podcast apps, it’s a standalone app designed for subscribing and downloading on the device.\n\n* If a feed doesn’t work, please let me know so I can investigate it.\n\nRequires iOS 18.5","facts":{"developer_id":284973030,"developer_url":"https://www.joeisanerd.com/","first_released":"2011-03-15T01:28:15Z","support_url":"https://www.joeisanerd.com/","privacy_url":"https://www.joeisanerd.com/privacy","website_url":"https://www.joeisanerd.com/","app_version":"15.2","release_notes":"If you find iCatcher useful, please consider tipping in the help and settings tab, or share the app with your friends! Thanks!\n\nWhat’s New\n+Added a left-to-right swipe in the same area as swipe-to-dismiss on the new Now Playing view, so you can dismiss it like other pushed views.\n+When Appearance › Episode Images from Feed is enabled, the episode-specific image (if available) now downloads when an episode is made playable. Previously, this only happened once playback started.\n+Added the [Up Next queue](x-icatcher://settings/help/upnext).\n+Updated watch widgets to support watchOS 27 features, including new widget configurations.\n+Added a Download Episodes shortcut action that lets you choose from already queued episodes.\n+Improved VoiceOver for episodes within a podcast: each row now has a single callout, with more available actions.\n+The Now Playing view now appears as a pop-up by default to address issues with the tab bar flashing. 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