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.

Available for free! ∞

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

Premium License ∞

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