Tag Archives: Pocket Casts

It’s a little over 24 hours after the team at Pocket Casts took the wraps of their completely free offering of Pocket Casts and new subscription based Plus plan. The combo brings some new enhanced, but non-essential, features to the platform, but the Shifty Jelly team are back out again …

Yep, just like the naysayers said Pocket Casts has changed their funding model following their acquisition earlier this year. They did get one little thing wrong however, the app you all know and love is now completely free; you pay zilch, nada, bupkiss. What, free you to say, they must …

For many of us podcasts have become an essential part of our weekly entertainment / education routines, and as such our podcast players are almost sacrosanct. As a result when there’s a major change to our apps some of us don’t handle the change all that well. Some of that …

Pocket Casts has to be both one of the best and one of the most used podcast players around, even Google’s Podcasts app can’t hold a candle to its design, features and usability. Not being one to rest on their laurels ShiftyJelly, the Australian team behind Pocket Casts has hard …

The team at Shifty Jelly have been hard at work (well at least they tell us they have) working on a number of projects including an update to the Pocket Casts web interface which is currently in beta and we’ve been lucky enough to have had access for about a …

Pocket Casts is a favourite app of the Ausdroid team for a variety of reasons but in short – it’s pretty awesome, has cool features, doesn’t cost the earth and the developers are really cool guys. One of the other big drivers is that its not a static app, they’ve …

Welcome to episode 142 of the Ausdroid podcast! The next evolution of Android is almost upon us, with the revelation that Android 6.0 will adopt the “Marshmallow” moniker, and new Australian phone launches from Samsung and Motorola. A big thank-you to Shifty Jelly’s Philip Simpson for joining us this episode. …

In the latest update, our favourite podcast app, Pocket Casts, has added Android Wear browsing to their feature list. The Android Wear 5.1.1 update gave us the ability to launch the Android Wear mini-app from the apps list, the previous update to Pocket Casts gave us an option to look …

At Google I/O last month, Adelaide based developers Shifty Jelly won the inaugural Material Design award for Seamless Browsing for their awesome app: Pocket Casts. The Android Developers team has produced a pretty high quality video of the team, which consists of Russell and Philip on the development side, Chris …

When Google launched the Material Design language for Android last year, they had a number of examples of what they thought it should look like in real world examples. In 2015, we have a slew of Material Design apps to choose from, and they look brilliant. On the second day …

Shifty Jelly has today updated Pocket Casts to version 5.0, bringing with it a Material Design overhaul and a few new tweaks and features. The headline feature which a lot of people have been waiting for is the Material Design update and it’s been worth waiting for. The update has …

Earlier this year at Google IO, Google not only announced, but showed a preview of Android Auto. Since then we’ve seen very little on what it is and how it will work. Today Google have introduced the first APIs for building “Auto-enabled” apps for audio and messaging. It seems, from …

If you’re a Podcast fan and you’re using Pocket Casts (and why wouldn’t you?) then you’ll be just as excited as we are about the potential for this latest announcement. Shifty Jelly has begun taking sign-ups for something that looks absolutely awesome. In a tweet this morning Shifty Jelly has …

Our buddies over at Shifty Jelly haven’t been just lounging around in their mansions living off of their millions of dollars in revenue from Pocket casts and Pocket Weather, they’re working hard at upgrading the hugely popular Podcast app and have released version 4.7 to the Play Store. Version 4.7 …

Our very favourite podcasting app, Pocket Casts is being updated to version 4.5 in Google Play as we speak. The new version brings about a number of improvements but it’s the Chromecast feature that we’ve all been anticipating ever since they first announced it. Chromecasting from Pocket Casts is delightfully …