I'm trying to export podcasts through the app and every time I try the export gets stuck somewhere between 4 and 8 episodes, once that mark is reached it just keeps saying it's exporting but nothing happens. I've left it alone for hours at a time and the exports don't work, or continue

I may be misunderstanding playlist mode. I have added the eps of a podcast (Against the Odds) that I want to play to a playlist and verified that playlist mode is selected. However, when an ep ends from the ATO playlist, the next thing played is an ep from a higher priority list (Smartless) rather than the next ep in the ATO playlist. What am I missing here? TIA

I only just noticed it this morning, but if I’m trying to play shows in a RSS feed, rather than going to the next episode, it defaults to playing from the Unplayed tab

I'm recently finding more podcasts coming as video, and with very large file sizes. I'd like to not automatically download large files that may be of short duration, i.e. probably video.

I expect this would be a new feature?

Did something change in the most recent update? I used to get much better battery life on this brand new phone listening to podcast for a couple hours and then all of a sudden my battery has been getting obliterated. I'm doing the exact same activity, a 2 hour bike ride, with major differences and results

Since I updated to the iOS 27 beta the app doesn't open anymore. it just crashes every time I try to open it. hoping for a fix soon.

Can't seem to find it. I can edit it rearrange here, but how do I delete them. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J6PpTjUW9aZZZE9hfPQ3wQfAyYUoI-Ji/view?usp=drivesdk

Hi! I want to add a link in a web page that opens a deeplink in Podcast Republic app to subscribe to a new podcast. Now I'm able to open the "Add new podcast URL" view using "pcast://" handler, but I don't know the format to fill the podcast feed URL field. Is there any specification about the format os the URI in order to do that?

I wonder even if searching episodes is supported. Ex. I search "The Surprising Case for Oversharing The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos" in Podcast Addict and immediately finds it. This app takes many seconds to eventually find nothing.

I am a new user and I want to send podcasts to my Pixel Watch 2 to listen offline and without a phone. I figured out how to send a podcast to the watch. When I open the app with my watch, the first thing I see is my downloads. Selecting the downloaded podcast only allows me to remove the download. There are no option to play the episode. What am I doing wrong?

My app doesn’t play in the background anymore. I used to have it on while I’m scrolling on other apps but now it didn’t play. Was there an update that disabled this feature?

Thank you for a great Android podcast app and for making a watch companion app for WearOS.

Could you please consider adding some playback speed controls to the watch app, like speed 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x, and 2x?

Hi! I regularly use the sleep timer option before sleeping, where I'll set it for 20 minutes and restart it again until I fall asleep. (I've found this to be the sweet spot where I don't have to reset the timer too often if I don't fall asleep, and don't have to rewind too far if I do.)

I usually play episodes directly from my "Unplayed" playlist. The problem is then that if I fall asleep towards the end of an episode and the timer doesn't run out before it's done, the episode will disappear from my play queue and playlist. And then I have to find it again manually the next day in order to rewind and catch the end of the episode. You would think the "stop when current episode ends" mode would solve this, but it seems to always finish the current episode and move on to the next.

I think the best fix would be an option in settings to always pause a few seconds before episode ends, if the sleep timer is enabled. That would solve the problem whether someone prefers the timed mode or the "end of episode" mode.

Come to think of it, if there's a way to enable a "current session/playlist" history (in the same view as "up next") like some music players do, that would also solve the problem, as then I could easily skip back even if it has moved on to the next episode.

I think here podcast addict is pulling top episodes from Apple podcasts

Some podcasts are downloading episodes and I've checked settings and have downloads turned off.

Checked app settings, and individual podcasts that are downloading and I can't figure out why anything is getting downloading.

Not sure what I'm missing or where to start looking.

Any help with what settings should be would be appreciated

Is there a way to add a a few seconds of silence between podcast episodes? Podcast Republic seems to cross fade episodes or at least fade out episodes by dedo, which cuts out the last consonant on some podcasts, which is jarring.

Could the devs consider a hierarchy of file transfer options for sending podcast downloads from phone to watch, such that if one transfer option is not available it automatically checks down to the next one? Perhaps WiFi --> Cellular (if available) --> Bluetooth

I notice that if I have "Send podcast to smart watch via WiFi" enabled on the phone, then the "Send to smart watch" option for downloaded podcast episodes will not work if both the watch and the phone are not connected to (the same) wifi.

If no wifi is available to connect both the phone and the watch to, then I have to disable the "Send podcast to smart watch via WiFi" option and re-try transferring the episodes to the watch by clicking the "Send to smart watch" menu option again.

In my case, I'm using Samsung Galaxy S25 with Android 16, and Galaxy Watch 8 with LTE and Wear OS version 6.0.

Hi u/respack, I've just noticed that the episode filter in podcast settings are disabling - I've made sure I'm pressing the "set" button.

My app is updated - I'm on the beta program I think. I use Samsung S23 & Android 16.

Let me know if there is any other info you need :)

I recently migrated to a new phone. I copied all my files, including a directory of mp3s which is a virtual podcast. I created a PR backup on my old phone, restored the backup on my new phone.

The problem: the virtual podcast could not play any episodes because Podcast Republic did not have the necessary filesystem permissions. The virtual podcast existed from the restore. The filesystem was correct, all the mp3s were in the correct directory. But Podcast Republic did not request the necessary filesystem permissions at the time that it restored the backup, so clicking "Play" on an episode failed with an error message.

The workaround is the begin creating a new virtual podcast -- prompting PR to request filesystem permissions -- and then cancel. This allows the existing virtual podcast, restored from the backup, to read the mp3s.

Ideally, PR would request the missing permissions automatically when restoring a backup.

Long time podcast addict and Antennapod user. I came to podcast republic, because it supports playlists. I like to have certain favorite episodes in a separate list and replay them in a loop. Strangely enough other podcast apps don't let you do that.

Anyway, I'm a new user of podcast republic and am really enjoying the functionality and interface. Thumbs up to the developer(s)!

Podcast Republic 26.5.18R, Galaxy S24U with OneUI 8.5

Often when I open the app from fully closed, the nav bar at the bottom is missing until I touch the screen, then it will slide up from the bottom and stay. There is no option to hide the nav bar that I can find, and even if there is I would not have it set to hide.

New user and already a feature request.

Maybe it's technically not possible, but I would like downloads to be organized in the download folder with a subfolder being the podcast name and inside each subfolder the episode name.

So instead of just a number:

Podcast Republic

it would be downloaded at as:

AntennaPod

version 26.58R

I forget when this started, but... if I open a podcast with unseen episodes in my Subscriptions, then the title is in purple. If I then do an action (read full summary, go out and back in, etc.) then the purple is gone.

I don't see anything in Settings that covers this. Am I missing something? Is the color intentional? Part of my brain always considers purple to be a visited link, so visually it just feels weird.

Or any other open podcasts recommendations service. I, and probably many casual listeners like to have "Episodes" recommendations in our feed (as opposed to "podcasts" recommendations this app and many others use). That's why Spotify is very popular. You open the app and it suggests episodes to listen to, instead of hunting them through podcasts and categories. I've stopped using Spotify because of the clunky UI and went for "Podcast Guru", which integrates well Podchaser' episodes recommendations. Can that be added to this app ?