Here’s a great little app falls under the category of “didn’t realize I needed it.”
I listen to a dozen or so podcasts on a regular basis but I rarely bother to sync my iPhone to iTunes — thus the concept of subscribing to a podcast and having it download the episodes onto my desktop isn’t very helpful for my purposes. So if you’re like me, how do you get new episodes of your favorite podcasts? Well, until recently you would sign into iTunes via your iPhone, check each podcast manually, and see if there was a new episode posted.
Now, as podcasting fans know, it doesn’t exactly work like network television. The very best podcasters try to update their shows on a regular basis, but many are more erratic in their scheduling. This means you can waste a good deal of time checking on your phone for something that’s just not there yet.
Podcast Push is the solution.
It’s a free app that simply notifies you when a new episode of a podcast you enjoy is available on iTunes. It gives you the title and date of the new episode and links you back to iTunes to download it.
When you first sign in to Podcast Push it looks for podcasts that are already on your phone. You simply check off whether you’d like Podcast Push to notify you when a new episode is available. You can set the notifications to pop up on your home page — or if you don’t want to be bothered at all hours of the day and night with, say, “hot breaking news” that a new Film Sack is available for download, you can just go directly to your Podcast Push app, go to the “push” screen, and see what’s new.
Simple. Easy. Semi-brilliant.
“A You Might Also Enjoy…” feature that suggests other podcasts would be a nice feature that I hope the Podcast Push developers will consider adding. And well, in a dream world, this app would just go ahead and download all my podcast episodes for me. But for the very reasonable cost of “free” I’m willing to push that extra button all by myself.
Podcast Push is available at the app store for FREE.
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Screencap of Podcast Push provided by Mobilewhack.com
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