On the other end of the spectrum from Castro is Downcast. While not a terrible looking app by any means, its clear that Downcast’s strength is its vast capabilities. If you like to tweak and fiddle with your podcast subscriptions, Downcast is up to the challenge. In fact, this app was our podcast app of choice for years before Pocket Casts and Overcast came along. Downcast is still a good pick and it goes on sale much more frequently than our other selections.

Downcast is just one of our favorite podcast apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

Here are a couple of our other picks of the best podcast apps for iPhone and iPad:

Overcast – The Best Free Podcast Player for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

There's a new podcast app on the block. Its called Overcast and its the brainchild of an App Store developer veteran Marco Arment. Marco is the co-founder of popular micro-blogging site Tumblr and the creator of read-it-later app Instapaper. Chances are you've heard of his work. with Overcast, Arment sets ...

Castro High Fidelity – The beautiful podcast player for iPhone

Castro - High Fidelity is a clever app with a clever name. Where Castro focuses its attention is not on cramming in as many features as possible, but rather on design. In fact, the developers were so concentrated on design that many of the functions are hidden away in gesture ...