Castro vs Podurama

Castro is a podcast player for Apple devices, centered on a queue for adding, reordering, and automatically playing episodes. Queued episodes download over Wi-Fi, and users can listen offline, read episode transcripts, and sync across devices. Playback speeds are adjustable from 0.8x to 3x; Trim Silence can shorten total listening time by 10–20% without changing audio quality. Other listening tools include private feeds, podcast chapters, episode sharing, and per-podcast settings for auto-queue, audio filters, playback speed, and intro skipping. Users can import their own audio by adding files to iCloud Drive. Castro has a CarPlay app, while Apple Watch users can control playback and browse the queue. The listed platforms are iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Apple Watch. The free plan is available, and Castro Plus adds advanced playback, sideloading, Night Mode, custom icons, and more. Listed subscriptions include $3.99 per month, $9.99 per month billed quarterly, $24.99 per year, and family subscriptions at $39.99 per year. Castro directs questions to [email protected].

Podurama is a podcast app for discovering, organizing and listening to audio and video podcasts. It offers apps for iOS, iPadOS, Android, web, Windows and macOS, with cross-device sync. Its search covers over 700K podcasts and millions of episodes, while the platform describes its catalog as containing 30 million free podcasts. Users can download episodes for offline listening on mobile devices, make unlimited playlists and upload private audio files, including audio and video. It supports private feeds, custom RSS feeds and authenticated RSS feeds; transcripts are not available. Episode summaries can help users decide what to play, and the service advertises AI Chapters, including additional automatic chapters for popular long-form podcasts. Public playlists can be shared with followers, episodes can be auto-shared to Twitter, and friends can contribute to a collaborative playlist. Podurama has a free plan at free, with in-app purchases. The maker is based in London, United Kingdom.