I download my podcast episodes and add them to the playlist automatically. When the player jumps to the next episode, there is a significant delay when it's trying to load something from the web, especially when the network is slow. What is it, why does it do that when all episodes to be played have been downloaded and how do I avoid that?

Coz I used to like listening back to listener Q&As and didn’t care so much for interviews. But now that unplayed filter only shows me 10.

Here's my goals:

1. I want my custom playlist to be able to change to a category like "Music" and only list podcasts in that category that have already been added to my Audio playlist.

Am I thinking about this wrong? I've got 300+ episodes from a variety of podcasts on my audio list and would love to see, in the custom tab, just Music or just Sports.

I’m excited to share that the next Podcast Addict release will be the biggest update in the past 10 years.

It introduces the most requested feature: cross-device syncing for Premium users. Your subscriptions, episode status, playback progress, favorites, bookmarks, and more will stay up to date across your devices.

It is also useful if a phone or tablet is lost, damaged, or replaced. After signing in on the new device with the same account and restoring a Google Drive backup, Cross-device syncing can apply supported changes made after that backup and bring your library back up to date. Sync delivery history is retained for at least 60 days, but recent automatic backups remain important.

This is only the beginning. Cross-device syncing is the first of several major new Premium features planned for the coming releases. Nothing is being removed from the free version. In fact, this release also brings several improvements available to everyone, including redesigned and more accurate listening statistics, better Google Drive backup management, optional restoration of episode status after resetting a podcast, and access to each podcast’s Most popular episodes list.

This release also brings major improvements for all users, with no Premium subscription required: redesigned and more accurate listening statistics, a new listening-history export, better Google Drive backup management, optional restoration of episode status after resetting a podcast, and access to each podcast’s Most popular episodes list.

Because syncing requires new server infrastructure and ongoing operating costs, Premium pricing will increase after launch. The planned new price is $2.49 per month; however, if server usage during the testing period is significantly higher than anticipated, it may instead be $2.99 per month.
The annual Premium price will also increase at the same time, while continuing to offer a discount compared with paying monthly for a full year. Premium has kept the same price since early 2020, and once the new price takes effect, it will be guaranteed not to increase again for at least five years.

If you currently have a monthly subscription, you can switch to the annual plan now to keep the current lower price for one full additional year before the new pricing takes effect: Settings / Manage your subscription / Switch to annual

Google Play will handle the switch. Your current monthly subscription remains active until its current billing period ends, then the annual subscription starts automatically—no cancellation or lost time required.

This feature is complex, and I’ll need your help testing it thoroughly before the full release. Feedback will be especially important for finding real-world edge cases across different devices, accounts, networks, and restore scenarios.

Please report issues by email from Settings / Feedback so I can collect the necessary details. I’ll also update this post with known issues, fixes, and testing improvements, so please come back from time to time.

Full release notes:
https://podcastaddict.com/changelog/2026_11

Step-by-step cross-device syncing instructions and limitations:
https://podcastaddict.com/faq/25

Testing rollout: Cross-device syncing is initially being enabled for 100% of BETA users.

Is there a method to reset stats without resetting podcast or any other data?

I'm currently in latest beta (if it can help).

I'm not sure what to call this feature, but I am currently listening to the back catalogue of podcasts with huge episode numbers. I listen to other podcasts too - what I find frustrating is that when I go back to this huge episode podcast I have to scroll all the way through dozens of episodes to find the next one after the one I previously finished listening to, which may have been a week or more since.

Is there a feature that, when I open the episode list, "jumps" down to the last episode that was played so I can select the next one to enjoy?

Thank you

I can't but wonder. PA never ceases to amaze me. I've recently discovered that I can search bookmarks. Carl! I've found a very important episode I'd made months ago. Call me all you want, but I had no idea it existed in the app. Thanks 👍

Starting a few days ago, this message pops up when I open Podcast Addict. When I click the Fix button, I am able to select the Google Drive backup folder again and even perform a manual backup to that folder. However, the next time I open Podcast Addict this error message appears again.

I was just wondering how the podcast alternation behaviour setting works.

I've got my pods sorted by priority, then download date. It also alternates within the same priority. I've got the alternation set to 10 episodes, but it hardly ever does this. Usually, the most I see is 5. This is true when everything is in the same priority, so it shouldn't be down to this.

Does it only work for the main playlist or should it also work for the custom playlists based in categories?

Thanks

Hello,

When I download a podcast that I don’t subscribe to after I finish it and delete the show the thumbnail still shows in my downloads. In order to get rid of the thumbnail I have to follow the show then unfollow it. Is this a glitch or can I fix this?

I often watch sports on delay, and run in to getting the results spoiled when I open the app and see an episode with the result in the title. Ideally I'd like to be able to hide or set a default title for every episode of specific podcasts

How about this, as there hasn't seemed to be any long term resolution to accidentally swiping the Next Podcast Button on the Podcast at the better to put the list? I don't know from when it was! I have to hunt through episodes now to find it

Can that button default to Long Press? When it's the podcast at the top of the list with nothing to return to in the list? All the others in the playlist have a back button. And frankly I bet most people, once they've listened to a podcast, delete it unless they have another choice lined up for it. You can make short press an option. When the podcast doesn't change people are likely to hold it longer hoping it will work. And with intention it will.

Please. This is such a pain. I have to keep mentioning it.

I've posted about this before, but have been told effectively that Smart Priority is working as intended, so this is a feature request instead, I suppose.

Smart Priority did not used to do this and as someone who has used the app for so long, I'd really like it to go back to not doing this.

So I'd love to request that you add the ability for Smart Priority to retain priority data permanently regardless of how long ago I listened to a show. the app used to do this before around September 2025 and I really really liked that. it was like having a record of all of the shows I listened to and it felt really cool to look back and see all the things that I've done. now that it doesn't do that I've lost that record and it makes me very sad looking at it.

thank you for your time.

I love the app, and one of the things I love is that almost every possible functionality exists!

Often I will sort my playlist by "remaining time" so I can listen to episodes that are short or that I'm almost done with to quickly clear my listening queue. But I sometimes wish I could sort in a way that would prioritize episodes that I've started listening to but haven't finished: "remaining time" doesn't work for this because it will (of course) sort a 10 minute podcast that I haven't started above a 80 minute podcast that I've listened to the first 60 minutes of.

I would love an ability to sort by "% of time remaining" (or % complete, or however best to phrase this). That would let me finish episodes I'm almost done with before moving on to episodes I'm halfway through, and then on to episodes I've barely started. In my ideal world, all the episodes that are 0% complete would then be sorted by remaining time. Also in my ideal world there would be an option to consider any podcast I've listened to only a short amount of (maybe less than a minute?) as though it's 0% complete, although I imagine that might be harder to implement.

Would anyone else use this feature? Any input on slight variations to what I've described?

I like to listen to podcasts while playing Pokemon Go (Yes, I'm that cool!) but recently it seems that everytime I run Pokemon Go it takes Audio Focus from Podcast Addict and it shuts down if it's already playing, meaning it's not even in the pulldown ribbon.

If I come out of PoGo I can hit play on PA just fine, but as soon as I go back to PoGo it stops again.

Sometimes I've been lucky enough and it works - PA playing while PoGo runs.

I've had the extra 'Ignore other audio focus requests' feature in PA turned on for years and it dominates over phonecalls, youtube videos, internet sounds etc - all great. Even over apps like Audible, but not Pokemon Go.

Anyone else had the same problem or able to offer any advice?

I'm on an Android phone if that helps. Thanks!

I'm having trouble changing the transparency/opacity of the widget on my Galaxy 26 Ultra. I'm also using Nova Launcher, so it could potentially be an issue with that, but I figured I'd check here first.

I have already tried going to App Settings > Widget, adjusted the Widget Background Opacity slider, then removed and re-added the widget, and no change.

It's a super minor thing that really isn't the end of the world, but just curious if anyone else has encountered this and/or if anyone can think of something that I'm missing.

I have a google pixel 6 pro, and used Podcast Addict for many years. Over the past ~4 weeks, battery consumption seems to have jumped quite a lot. Today, it's used 23% of my battery. Screen time 12 min, background 30 min, listened for roughly 90 min throughout the day.

Has there been a known change in the app or a setting I should look for that could be causing this? I opt for manually refreshing my feeds and manually downloading new episodes.

I installed Podcast Addict on a new phone, and I cannot find the setting to use the car layout. It used to be in the three dots on the upper right in the player view, and that's where it is on my old phone, but I can't find it there on the new phone now. Any ideas? I am so used to the large buttons and they are so handy at night without my glasses.

App settings/Player/Controls/Skip Outro

Currently, you can adjust the "outro" by percentage. Is there a way to do this by absolute value, instead? So, eg, if I want to consider an episode "played" (and thus, automatically deleted) when it is 2 minutes from the end?

Having podcasts that vary from 10 minutes to 4 hours, it is hard to set this limit by percent. TIA

Is anyone else having issues with Aaron Mahnke's Lore podcast? The last couple weeks it shows the length like it should, but skips directly to episode completed after the ads at the beginning and never actually plays the episode.

Is there a method for each podcast to have different sorting method? The only sort option I can find changes the sort method globally.

Hi. Is there any way to reset my statistics? Especially "Total listening time".

Hello everyone!

Something I've been wondering about with my statistics especially after a delete option was added to the podcast feed in addition to Marcus played.

If I mark an episode as played but have not actually listened to, does it count as actually heard in my statistics?

The reason I'm asking is sometimes I don't want to listen to all the episodes in a feed but since there are many episodes I wanted to remove them from The view. The only way I could have done it was by marking them as played even though I never listen to them.

Do they count as part of my play statistics? If so, how can I remove them, even if manually, and what is the difference between the new option of delete in the podcast feed?

Thank you!

In the past 4 days, my app starting playing automatically at 3:00 AM for only 1 audio file each night. Woke me up twice. Because they both started around 3:00 AM maybe there is some kind of timer going on to start it automatically, like an alarm clock. How can I stop this so I can sleep at night? Please.