pocket-casts-android vs spotube

pocket-casts-android

Pocket Casts Android 🎧 (by Automattic)

spotube

🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile! (by KRTirtho)

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pocket-casts-android		spotube
	Project
33	Mentions	67
2,483	Stars	24,351
1.7%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	9.7
3 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Kotlin	Language	Dart
Mozilla Public License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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pocket-casts-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of pocket-casts-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.

For the people haveing issues in 7.46
1 project | /r/pocketcasts | 12 Sep 2023

https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/releases/tag/7.47-rc-2 their was upnext bug that broke multiselect in 7.46 which is why the app is lagging, it should be fixed in 7.47 it is at least for me 🤔
What are some open source android projects that you can go to see Best practices or how they implemented stuff
5 projects | /r/androiddev | 18 Jun 2023
Is it possible to change the pride icon to the normal icon without creating a shortcut of the app?
1 project | /r/pocketcasts | 7 Jun 2023

Hmmmmm don't have a telegram, could you add a comment to this thread 🤔 😉 https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/pull/997
Forced Woke icon
2 projects | /r/pocketcasts | 4 Jun 2023
Stop changing the default icon against our wishes. I have my launcher set up a certain way and I don't need an app to force it to look another way.
1 project | /r/pocketcasts | 4 Jun 2023

Here's the PR: https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/pull/997
Cloud files
1 project | /r/pocketcasts | 22 Apr 2023

https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/pull/900 should be fixed in the next beta 😉
The release notes from latest update have got me excited that something is finally coming from the price increase.
1 project | /r/pocketcasts | 18 Apr 2023

You can get a slight sneak peak from github 😀
Feature Request: Lock Screen Progress Bar Removal
1 project | /r/pocketcasts | 14 Apr 2023

I am not very familiar with GitHub. Would this be the correct place to add the feature request? https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues
Does anyone know where I can join the Wear OS app beta?
1 project | /r/pocketcasts | 3 Apr 2023

If your on the latest Android alpha it might be their but theirs a chance it's only accessable via development tools currently 🤔🤔 https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/825
One of the best podcasting apps you know is built by a single person
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2023

Yep, been using PocketCasts and it is pretty good.
Recently they made their apps opensource as well.
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-ios

spotube

Posts with mentions or reviews of spotube. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.

Joe Rogan's new 'multiyear' Spotify deal worth as much as $250M: report
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024

https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube
Spotube might be the answer if you don’t have an iPhone.
Using it on Windows and the client is good enough.
FLaNK Stack Weekly 22 January 2024
37 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2024
Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2024
spotube legal?
1 project | /r/androidapps | 8 Dec 2023

Open Source Supremacy : https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube
tunedetective VS spotube - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 24 Oct 2023

Spotube allows following artists (and listening to music, creating playlists…) using Spotify's API, wuthout the need to have a Spotify account.
⟳ 4 apps added, 72 updated at f-droid.org
29 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 23 Oct 2023

Spotube (version 3.2.0): Lightweight & resource friendly spotify client without requiring Spotify Premium
Spotube – Free Alternative for Spotify
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
SpoTube: Ad-free cross-platform FOSS Spotify client
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023
Is there any app that can help me download my Spotify playlist for free ..
1 project | /r/fossdroid | 8 Jul 2023

Maybe spotube
Spotube v3.0.0 for Android | Open source Spotify client
1 project | /r/Android | 3 Jul 2023

Reading through some of the code, it seems that it uses Spotify as a means to grab additional data such as lyrics, playlist information, and more. It streams the audio from YouTube, but a lot of the rest looks like it's Spotify alright. For example, the code snippet linked there shows it matches YouTube URLs to Spotify IDs and merges data from both. Not quite sure it's misleading, but it's definitely an interesting approach.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pocket-casts-android and spotube you can also consider the following projects:

shadowsocks-android - A shadowsocks client for Android

spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀

tsacdop - Enjoy podcasts with Tsacdop! A podcast player built with flutter.

ViMusic - An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.

iosched - The Google I/O Android App

BlackHole - A Music Player App made with Flutter

pocket-casts-android - Pocket Casts Android 🎧

SpotiFlyer - Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader, Supports Spotify / Gaana / Youtube Music / Jio Saavn / SoundCloud.

Telegram - Telegram for Android source

Musify - Unlock the full potential of music: Stream effortlessly with one app!

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

SpotX - Blocking ads and updates for the desktop version of Spotify, disabling podcasts and something else. [Moved to: https://github.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Win]