It works seamlessly and makes for a user-friendly experience that looks great to boot. Users will be notified of such and will find the newest episode waiting for them as they open the app, ready to go. Most impressively, Pocket Casts takes advantage of iOS 7's new background refresh capability by downloading new episodes from subscribed channels without any need for a prompt. Other notable features include a sleep timer, speed controls, and playback bookmarking so users can pick up from where they left off. There are several features that help with the listening or viewing experience, including customizable start points to skip those annoying sponsored ads at the beginning of every podcast in a series. Whether they find them through the featured stations tab, the top charts, or by topic category, users will have no problem discovering new podcasts to subscribe to. The catalogue is equally as large as Apple's, and the discovery options are plentiful. Pocket Casts is an attractive, intuitive app for downloading and listening to podcasts. The official app still hasn't received an update to an iOS 7-friendly interface, leaving the podcast crown free for the taking. As podcasts broke away from the iTunes app (some would say needlessly) and became a separate entity, they did so with a bunch of problems and subsequent complaints.

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