[pilif]

After years of running with iTunes, I settled with Instacast when iOS 6 came out and Apple removed podcast support from the music app.

Instacast for me has three killer-features:

* you can double-tap the headphones/microphone button to skip 30 seconds which allows me to skip ads without having to take the phone out of my pocket.

* you can sort the unlistened playlist by time ascending (so many clients only allow newest first) and you can change it to sort by podcast order first, so new releases of podcasts you like more can preempt the general older->newer order.

* instacast also has a mac app that's synchronized with the mobile apps. One of my most favourite past-times is playing Minecraft and listening to podcasts at the same time (wanting to get both the game audio and the podcast over my headphones). Being able to sync play position between my phone and my mac is very handy.

It's crazy one person's killer-features are likely not that interesting for the vast majority of other people.

[ihuman]

It also uses some of the iOS APIs to download podcasts when you are not using your phone for extended periods of time. I listen to podcasts on my way to classes, and new episodes are already downloaded when I wake up.

[andrewconlan]

The app can do the first, the second two are coming in some form in the future, both things I want myself for the app.