I’d love to have it on F-Droid. Pinepods 100% checks all the boxes needed to be on F-Droid. They’ve stopped responding to me though: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24866 It’s been rather frustrating. It will be on the IzzyOnDroid alternate F-Droid repo though as soon as 0.8.0 is out. And I’ll continue to make an effort to get it on F-Droid ASAP. Nothing I can do if they aren’t responding though.

And yep, the android/ios clients support local downloads in addition to the server downloads. So do the desktop clients. You are correct that currently local downloads only support one episode at a time though. That is on the list to change. All in due time, it’s a brand new app. :)

Much appreciated! If you have thoughts on improvements or experience bugs I’d love to hear about it!

Because of the Google play variant. Which requires I add an email. I don’t collect the email at all unless you check the box for news, and for the Apple one the form just sends you an email with the link in it. You can totally skip the form and just use the link. Here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/8Aax2BcX

Syncing from device to device. If you’d like to archive podcast episodes, say on like a NAS. Syncing of podcasts and episodes between apps and devices.

If you prefer to use one device for podcasts then Antennapods might be a good fit for you.

For me personally, not having to wait for podcast feeds to update on my local device alone is enough to sell Pinepods… Let alone the other benefits. Granted I’m biased.

Exclusion filtering! What a great idea! You can quickly filter by keyword for episodes currently but you can’t exclude certain words. I will get exclusion filtering added. The code is already in place for it!

Excellent point, I will include communication around Podcast 2.0 and all it’s features in the future.

There’s an offline mode on the clients to listen to downloaded episodes locally. That does not work on android just yet. That’s part of what makes the android client beta. All the clients (including android) are built with Tauri, so they all build from the same code. It does however introduce some challenges when finding libraries that will compile to both desktop and mobile.