uPod Alternatives

uPod

uPod is a full fea­tured pod­cast player for Android with a beau­ti­ful, cover art cen­tric Android 5 design and an inbox con­cept for eas­ily assort­ing new episodes. It pro­vides every­thing you might expect from a pod­cast player these days includ­ing cross device syn­chro­niza­tion, audio play­back speed con­trol and vol­ume boost, Chrome­cast and Google Cast for audio sup­port, auto­matic media han­dling (down­load and dele­tion) and a lot more.

uPod is avail­able for free and as a paid pre­mium version.

The free ver­sion comes with­out ads, spy­where or other nasty stuff. It’s fully fea­tured and brings — among other things — the following:

Beat­i­ful, cov­er­art cen­tric, pod­cast col­ored user interface
Effec­tive inbox work­flow for assort­ing new episodes
Audio play­back with speed con­trol (requires at least Android 4.1)
Audio vol­ume boost (requires at least Android 4.1)
Video play­back (includ­ing audio only option)
Sup­port for blue­tooth head­sets and head­set controls
Offline show notes
Drag-and-drop playlist
Auto­matic down­load list
Resum­able downloads
Auto­matic media file cleanup
Lock screen and noti­fi­ca­tion play­back controls
Sup­port for Android Wear (con­trol play­back from your watch)
Pod­cast sub­scrip­tion management
Discover/search new podcasts
OPML import and export
Respon­sive lay­out (look­ing great on phone and tablet support)
Mate­r­ial design (Lollipop/Android 5)
Eng­lish and Ger­man translations

The paid ver­sion adds the fol­low­ing features:

Cloud backup and cross device sync of play­back posi­tions, playlist and episode states tied to your Google account
Chrome­cast and Google Cast for audio support
Auto­matic down­load (e.g. when con­nected via Wi-FI)
Pod­cast spe­cific set­tings (e.g. auto add to playlist, only keep only the x lat­est episodes)
up to two spe­cific sync times per day