Cosmicast

Cosmicast


Beautiful podcast player


$2.99

2.2.9for iPhone, iPad and more
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Nov 18, 2020
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About Cosmicast

Cosmicast is a beautiful podcast player built with iOS design guidelines in mind. There are no complicated user accounts or settings to configure. You can pick it up and get started immediately. This is made even faster with OPML podcast importing, so you can start using the gorgeous turntable right away.

Key features:
- Beautiful interface
- Browse top podcasts in any region
- View podcasts by a variety of topics and categories
- Adjustable sleep timer
- Adjust the playback speed for when you're in a hurry
- Change skip backwards and forwards durations (long-hold or deep-press to change the durations)
- Great gestures (scrub the turntable and swipe up/down to view/dismiss lists)
- Download episodes and add them to your playlist for offline listening
- Discover related podcasts
- Skip silences
- Chapter markers
- Video podcasts support
- Handoff support
- Change region for different podcast content
- Change app tint
- Change app icons
- Dark mode support
- Siri Shortcuts
- iMessage stickers
- CarPlay
- Universal app with iPad and Apple Watch support
- CarPlay support
- iCloud sync
- Import and export OPML files from within the app or from the iOS Share Sheet
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.2.9

Last updated on Nov 18, 2020
Old Versions
Bug fixes
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Version History
2.2.9
Nov 18, 2020
Bug fixes
2.2.8
Jul 6, 2020
- Added automatic sleep detection
- The recently updated timeline feed now only fetches the 2 latest episodes from each podcast in the library, and caps at 20 altogether, allowing for more diverse content to appear there
- You can now hide downloaded and played indicators in the recently updated timeline feed (via the ••• button in the recently updated timeline section)
- Added Czech localization
- Improved various other localizations
- Fixed issue where toggling the option to reduce motion in settings wouldn't always reduce motion
- Fixed issue where the segments in the full-screen sized list (settings option) would always default to the first one
- Fixed issue where selecting an item to play from the full-screen sized list (settings option) would display the default list view too
- Fixed issue where audio would overlap and play twice at times
- Fixed issue where attempting to remove items from the playlist wouldn't always remove them
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.2.7
Jun 22, 2020
- Added automatic sleep detection
- The recently updated timeline feed now only fetches the 2 latest episodes from each podcast in the library, and caps at 20 altogether, allowing for more diverse content to appear there
- You can now hide downloaded and played indicators in the recently updated timeline feed (via the ••• button in the recently updated timeline section)
- Added Czech localization
- Improved various other localizations
- Fixed issue where toggling the option to reduce motion in settings wouldn't always reduce motion
- Fixed issue where the segments in the full-screen sized list (settings option) would always default to the first one
- Fixed issue where selecting an item to play from the full-screen sized list (settings option) would display the default list view too
- Fixed issue where audio would overlap and play twice at times
- Fixed issue where attempting to remove items from the playlist wouldn't always remove them
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.2.6
Jun 14, 2020
- Added automatic sleep detection
- The recently updated timeline feed now only fetches the 2 latest episodes from each podcast in the library, and caps at 20 altogether, allowing for more diverse content to appear there
- You can now hide downloaded and played indicators in the recently updated timeline feed (via the ••• button in the recently updated timeline section)
- Added Czech localization
- Improved various other localizations
- Fixed issue where toggling the option to reduce motion in settings wouldn't always reduce motion
- Fixed issue where the segments in the full-screen sized list (settings option) would always default to the first one
- Fixed issue where selecting an item to play from the full-screen sized list (settings option) would display the default list view too
- Fixed issue where audio would overlap and play twice at times
- Fixed issue where attempting to remove items from the playlist wouldn't always remove them
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.2.5
May 12, 2020
- The recently updated timeline feed now only fetches the 2 latest episodes from each podcast in the library, and caps at 20 altogether, allowing for more diverse content to appear there
- You can now hide downloaded and played indicators in the recently updated timeline feed (via the ••• button in the recently updated timeline section)
- Added Czech localization
- Improved various other localizations
- Fixed issue where toggling the option to reduce motion in settings wouldn't always reduce motion
- Fixed issue where the segments in the full-screen sized list (settings option) would always default to the first one
- Fixed issue where selecting an item to play from the full-screen sized list (settings option) would display the default list view too
- Fixed issue where audio would overlap and play twice at times
- Fixed issue where attempting to remove items from the playlist wouldn't always remove them
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.2.2
May 6, 2020
- The recently updated timeline feed now only fetches the 2 latest episodes from each podcast in the library, and caps at 20 altogether, allowing for more diverse content to appear there
- Added subtle motion effects that adjust shadows and highlights based on device tilt (enabling 'Reduce Motion' via the top-right icon's 'Extras' section or via the Settings apps will disable this)
- Added a dedicated settings section
- Added a settings option to view lists full screen on iPhone (giving more space to browse)
- Searching for podcasts now keeps the search screen open when selecting podcasts (long-press in the search view to subscribe quickly)
- Fixed issue where removing podcasts from subscriptions wouldn't remove them from the recently updated timeline feed
- Fixed a crash that would occur when performing a long-press on the turntable vinyl when no episode was loaded
- Fixed issue where attempting to remove podcasts you'd subscribed to would sometimes fail to remove them
- Fixed issue where lock screen media playback controls would sometimes fail to change the playback state
- Fixed various layout issues on smaller sized devices
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.2.1
May 3, 2020
- Added subtle motion effects that adjust shadows and highlights based on device tilt (enabling 'Reduce Motion' via the top-right icon's 'Extras' section or via the Settings apps will disable this)
- Added a dedicated settings section
- Added a settings option to view lists full screen on iPhone (giving more space to browse)
- Searching for podcasts now keeps the search screen open when selecting podcasts (long-press in the search view to subscribe quickly)
- Fixed issue where removing podcasts from subscriptions wouldn't remove them from the recently updated timeline feed
- Fixed a crash that would occur when performing a long-press on the turntable vinyl when no episode was loaded
- Fixed issue where attempting to remove podcasts you'd subscribed to would sometimes fail to remove them
- Fixed issue where lock screen media playback controls would sometimes fail to change the playback state
- Fixed various layout issues on smaller sized devices
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.2.0
May 2, 2020
- Added subtle motion effects that adjust shadows and highlights based on device tilt (enabling 'Reduce Motion' via the top-right icon's 'Extras' section or via the Settings apps will disable this)
- Added a dedicated settings section
- Fixed issue where removing podcasts from subscriptions wouldn't remove them from the recently updated timeline feed
- Fixed a crash that would occur when performing a long-press on the turntable vinyl when no episode was loaded
- Fixed issue where attempting to remove podcasts you'd subscribed to would sometimes fail to remove them
- Fixed issue where lock screen media playback controls would sometimes fail to change the playback state
- Fixed various layout issues on smaller sized devices
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.1.0
Apr 27, 2020
- Added Handoff support so you can resume playing on any of your devices
- Added the ability to play videos for podcast that contain them (View the 'This Episode' option from the top-right button when playing an episode)
- Added the ability to long-press on the turntable vinyl to display details about the currently playing episode alongside the chapter artwork and chapter title (if the podcast supports it)
- Scrubbing the turntable now adjusts playback by the fixed amounts set in the skip buttons (for the sake of consistency and to make it more useful)
- Episodes can now be marked as played in the playlist (along with an indicator to display this)
- The episode duration has now been changed to display the amount of time remaining in the respective episode
- Added Portuguese (Brazil) localization
- Improved keyboard shortcuts across the app
- Improved accessibility labels for various elements across the app
- Added more alternative app icons
- Fixed issue where ••• buttons wouldn't be displayed in lists at times
- Fixed issue where some images would appear squashed at times
- Fixed various layout issues on the iPad
- Fixed various crashes
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.0.7
Apr 24, 2020
- Added push notifications to alert about new and recently updated episodes that you may not have listened to
- Added onboarding with the ability to import podcasts
- Added accessibility labels to various elements to help visually impaired users
- Added placeholder images
- Added the option to long-press episodes in the recently updated timeline feed to add them to the playlist queue
- The play/pause button is now prevented from being tappable whilst audio is buffering or loading in
- Added Turkish localization
- Added more alternative app icons
- Improved the contrast of various elements for improved accessibility
- Refined haptics across the app to be less prominent
- Fixed issue where subscribing to podcasts would sometimes fail to add it
- Fixed issue where the app would be slow to switch list segments at times
- Fixed issue where adding episodes to the playlist would sometimes fail to add it
- Fixed issue where audio would sometimes duplicate or overlap
- Fixed issue where importing podcasts would sometimes not work
- Fixed issue where rearranging the playlist would sometimes revert back
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.0.5
Apr 21, 2020
- Switched over to using CloudKit for improved speed and reliability when syncing your subscriptions and other data between devices
- The Apple Watch app library is now synced using iCloud for improved reliability
- Added a timeline displaying a feed of up to 20 recently updated episodes to the library section
- Added the option to scroll to the playlist or subscriptions sections
- Added the ability to search for locally subscribed podcasts (toggle between this and searching for all podcasts)
- Added the option to mark all episodes in a podcast as played or unplayed
- Added the option to flip podcast episodes order when viewing details and in the recently updated episodes timeline feed
- Added the option to toggle what pulling down within lists does (between dismissing the list and searching for content)
- Improved keyboard shortcuts
- Automatic downloads now downloads the same content as the recently updated episodes list rather than all available episodes in all subscribed podcasts
- Fixed issue where viewing a podcast's episodes wouldn't always display them in chronological order
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.0.3
Apr 18, 2020
- Added a companion tvOS app
- Added Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish localizations
- Added the option to share a video clip from the currently playing episode
- Added the option to share the currently playing episode link
- Added Drag and Drop playlist reordering
- Adding episodes to the playlist will now also download them
- Downloading episodes now adds it to the end of the playlist too
- Added an indicator to suggest that the episode has been downloaded
- Added more alternative app icons (some are themed around popular podcasts)
- Improved keyboard shortcuts
- Improved playback quality at different speeds
- Fixed various layout issues when in Slide Over or Split View on the iPad
- Fixed issue where enabling the skip silence option would default playback at regular speed regardless of the chosen speed
- Fixed issue where downloaded episodes couldn't be removed from downloads
- Fixed issue where the player arm would sometimes display when viewing lists
- Fixed issue where audio would duplicate and overlap at times if the skip silence feature was enabled
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.0.2
Apr 13, 2020
- Added iCloud support to keep the library in sync between devices
- Added the ability to skip silences in podcasts
- Added a subscription button to podcast detail sections (to make it easier to subscribe and see subscription statuses)
- Added an option to automatically download all episodes from podcasts in your library
- Added the option to clear all data and downloads
- The selected list will now retain its selected segment, preventing lists always defaulting to 'Popular'
- Files that have already been downloaded will now present the option to remove the downloaded file
- Fixed issue where the playback rate would be incorrect if the player was paused and the playback rate was changed
- Fixed issue where doing a long-press on the turntable vinyl when no episode was selected to play would cause the app to crash
- Fixed issue where current episode details wouldn't be accessible on launch
- Fixed issue where audio would overlap at times
- Fixed issue where downloading episodes wouldn't always download them
- Fixed issue where downloaded content wouldn't be treated as downloaded content at times
- Fixed issue where podcasts imported from within the app wouldn't persist at times
- Fixed issue where subscribing to podcasts you had already subscribed to would add it again
- Fixed issue where podcast that had already been subscribed to would still present the option to subscribe
- Fixed issue where importing podcasts would create duplicates if the podcast already existed in the library
- Fixed issue where importing podcasts would crash the app at times
- Fixed issue where the app tint would be set incorrectly at times
- Fixed issue where the Watch app would crash when attempting to view the 'now playing' section when nothing was playing
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.0.1
Apr 8, 2020
- Added CarPlay support to listen to popular podcasts as well as those in your library
- Added chapter markers support (tap the top-right icon when playing an episode to view the option for chapters if it's available)
- Added the ability to long hold on the turntable to bring up chapter markers for the currently playing episode (this can be disabled via the gesture settings section)
- Added more Siri Shortcuts (to control the currently playing media)
- Added 24 more alternative app icons (some are themed around popular podcasts)
- Added more iPad keyboard shortcuts to match available options
- You can now skip forwards and backwards regardless of whether the episode is currently playing or not
- You can now go up to 2.5x playback speed
- Improved iPad cursor/trackpad support
- Fixed table cell layout when searching for podcasts
- Fixed issue where the lock screen media playback controls wouldn't show the episode artwork at times
- Fixed issue where using context menus whilst searching would bring up and subscribe to the incorrect podcasts
- Fixed issue where carriage returns in episode details would sometimes be ignored
- Fixed issue where subscribing to a podcast wouldn't update the library at times
- Fixed issue where the AirPlay icon tint wouldn't update when changing the app tint
- Fixed issue where some app icons would change to the incorrect one
- Fixed issue where the player arm wouldn't display on an iPad if the orientation is in landscape mode
- Fixed issue where podcasts imported from within the app wouldn't persist at times
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
2.0
Apr 7, 2020
- Completely redesigned from the ground up
- Added iPad support, an Apple Watch app, and more

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Cosmicast was created by an incredibly small team of one and I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm available through Twitter @JPEGuin.
1.2
Apr 15, 2019
- Recreated the video player to use the stock iOS player instead, allowing you to view videos in full-screen as well as rotate them to landscape
- Fixed issue where the volume bar would be presented behind the notch on various devices that have a notch
- Minor UI adjustments
- Minor bug fixes

If you enjoy using Cosmicast and like this update, please consider leaving a review. It helps with delivering great continued support. Thank you! :)
1.1
Apr 2, 2019
- Added iPhone XR support
- Added a variety of new subcategories to the list of categories in the discover tab to further refine discovering new podcasts to listen to
- Added ability to flip episode list ordering by tapping the ••• more button and selecting "Flip Episodes Order"
- Fixed issue where you could bookmark the same podcast multiple times
- Fixed issue where you could download and add the same episode to the playlist multiple times
- Fixed various layout issues
- Minor UI adjustments
- Minor bug fixes

If you enjoy using Cosmicast and liked this update, please consider leaving a review. It helps with delivering great continued support. Thank you! :)
1.0
Sep 14, 2018

Cosmicast FAQ

Cosmicast is available in regions other than the following restricted countries:
China,Afghanistan
Cosmicast supports English, Czech, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
Click here to learn how to download Cosmicast in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Cosmicast.
iPhone
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
Mac
Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
Apple TV
Requires tvOS 13.0 or later.
Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 6.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.

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