hello I'm Wanderer001 and my go-to podcast app pocket cast is now
free so aside from the design change can review over there this is one of the
largest changes that has happened to pocket cast since its inception now the
question is now that's a free app is there anything else that has changed
well there are technically three large changes one the app itself overall is
free however there now is a subscription service this subscription service is 99
cents a month and allows you to have access to three key things first being
on our profile page here is this files you can now upload your own recordings
into pocket cast to use as a cloud host for your audio and video files this will
also give you access to all of pocket casts tools for audio and video files so
speeding up removing silence this is really good if you have recordings that
you want to one keeping the cloud but two use the powerful engine that drives
pocket cast to manipulate those files now you can see right now I have Z I
have 0 files and they do give you 10 gigabytes for that subscription so how
do you add files here well if you come into pocket cast and come down to
profiles and then go to files like I did you can press this plus sign here and
then you can select where you would like to look so if you have files on the
phone or if you have files in one of these attached services so I've got
Dropbox box and Google Drive so I'm gonna say look for audio files and right
now what it's doing is it's looking for audio files that I have on my phone now
a lot of these are ringtones and things that have come with my phone only
because I don't really keep files on here but let's say
we're going to take this file which is a ringtone that I have for my brother we
can select the icon color and then it'll show you how much it's going to use we
had saved that has now been added to our file section but you'll notice it still
says zero files in the cloud that's because we have to select and then from
here we can add two up next we can play it we can mark as play we can edit or we
can upload it so what we're gonna do is we're going to upload it now you can see
one file used the cloud icon is by it and now it says 140 kilobytes of my 10
gigs now if we long if we bring up that menu again we can remove from cloud
which will then just keep it in pocket cast local or if I select delete it
gives us the option of removing from the device or deleting everywhere so we are
going to select delete everywhere now do keep in mind that deleting everywhere
does not delete the original file on your device so if that is a recording
that you used in another app you can remove it that way if you have a app
that will allow you to look at your file structure on your phone you can go
digging and from here select anywhere you have this share button for those
types of files you will now notice pocket cast is an option for you to
share so aside from the file what else do you get well under settings you also
have access to appearance so you can change the pocket cast icon now now to
me this isn't as important and noting if you select changing it you have to pull
up your app drawer but there you go you have the icon so I mean it's not
necessary but for those that like to have a different look they also give you
access to themes now perhaps the most controversial change that was made was
to the desktop client if you want to have access to play or podcast via the
desktop app which is really just a web app you will need to have this
subscription service however you purchased because that's
what it was you bought this app and then you bought access to that desktop
service if you bought it prior to this change you will get to actually keep the
desktop service so this service is called pocket cast plus so having those
services purchased beforehand grandfather's you in to having a
lifetime originally was three years but a lot of people complain a lifetime
subscription to pocket cast Plus which I do appreciate even though I have found
myself not using the desktop player as much as I used to I appreciate that
after a while they did the right thing because when you purchased it it was for
the life of you you know you got a lifetime license to listen to it even if
I'm not using it right now perhaps in the future that will change again so a
few changes that pocket cast has made is it still worth it well it's a free app
now so the big thing is one do you want to have the ability to do file syncing
in the cloud and use pocket casts engine to drive your audio files do you care
about graphics and new themes do you need access to that desktop app if you
need any of those you're probably going to be looking at the $0.99 a month
subscription if not pocket cast is a great podcast player and catcher so if
nothing else check out pocket casts other reviews
over there okay because I love it do you need those subscription services that's
up to you to decide I have been Wanderer001 if you have any
questions or comments please leave them in the area below and as always thanks
for watching