smarterPod: Simple and Smart Podcast Player

Name: smarterPod: Simple and Smart Podcast Player
Rating: 3.0714285714285716 (28 reviews)
Author: Steve M. Romain

Listen to podcasts in the background of Chrome! Sync content across computers, manage your feeds, save progress, get new episodes!

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smarterPod is a sleek and smart podcast player Chrome extension designed to let you listen to podcasts seamlessly in your browser's background. Built on Angular.js, smarterPod supports feed management, Chrome notifications, and automatic syncing using Google Storage. It updates podcast feeds every 15 minutes, ensuring the latest episodes are always available across all your devices.

Currently in beta, smarterPod introduces powerful features like searching Apple's iTunes Podcast database, saving playback progress, and managing current playlists without launching heavyweight apps or extra tabs. The extension is easy to set up and requires minimal permissions, focusing solely on retrieving podcast feed data. Whether you're on your laptop or desktop, smarterPod keeps your podcasts ready to enjoy with smooth chrome integration and synchronization.

Entertainment Productivity Music & Audio

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Version:

0.3.0.2 Last updated: 2017-11-28

Creation date:

2017-11-27

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Permissions:

storage
notifications
background
http://*/
https://*/

Size:

11.56M

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Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 17,293 ▼ 45

Other rankings

#949 in News & Weather ▲ 1

#6 in custom feed keyword 18

#9 in steve keyword 6 ▼ 1

#29 in flash player keyword 54

#65 in player keyword 40 ▼ 3

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User reviews

Users appreciate smarterPod's simple interface, syncing capabilities across devices, and responsive support. However, multiple users report difficulty adding or managing podcasts and frustration navigating to older episodes. Some experience crashes or unresponsiveness. Features such as a pop-out player, hotkeys, and clear instructions are desired to improve usability. Overall, it works well for basic podcast listening but needs UI improvements and better episode access.

Pros

Simple and easy-to-use interface
Allows syncing podcast playback progress across computers
Effective podcast listening experience
Responsive developer support
Quick setup and installation

Cons

Difficult and confusing to add or manage podcasts
Poor navigation to access past or older episodes
Occasional unresponsiveness or crashes
Lack of features like pop-out player, hotkeys, and clear instructions

Recent reviews

So far so good. Been using it for 1 day. I would love a little pop-out player like Google Music has. I like to stick it in the corner of my screen while I'm working so I can always hit the play/pause button easily. Also hotkeys would be nice.

Charles Catura, 2020-07-09

it is complicated to use, no clear setting to use. something this complex needs directions and im not even sure how it was downloaded

Cecile Smith, 2019-11-17

Extremely inconvenient to play old episodes. The front-end is very mediocre and needs a complete revamp.

Islam Tawfik, 2019-09-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

smarterPod: Simple and Smart Podcast Player requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

smarterPod: Simple and Smart Podcast Player has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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