I suppose yeah. It’s better practice to use an env file for sure. No doubt there. I’ll get it on the list to update.

Appreciate you trying it out though!

I’d love to have it on F-Droid. Pinepods 100% checks all the boxes needed to be on F-Droid. They’ve stopped responding to me though: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24866 It’s been rather frustrating. It will be on the IzzyOnDroid alternate F-Droid repo though as soon as 0.8.0 is out. And I’ll continue to make an effort to get it on F-Droid ASAP. Nothing I can do if they aren’t responding though.

And yep, the android/ios clients support local downloads in addition to the server downloads. So do the desktop clients. You are correct that currently local downloads only support one episode at a time though. That is on the list to change. All in due time, it’s a brand new app. :)

Yep for sure. Download progress is a top priority feature coming. It is still somewhat beta since its so new so expect some bugs here and there for sure. As well as some missing features still. For the record it doesn’t technically sync via the gpodderapi. Because this is an official pinepods client this syncs directly via the pinepods api that the web version also uses. This is far faster than doing incremental gpodder api syncs. It still works with gpodder api to other apps because the server side handles that but this app itself uses the pinepods api.

There’s also theoretical progress syncing with offline going back to online currently but I haven’t dug into the intricacies of validating that works yet. Expect more on fleshing that out in the very short-term.

I really appreciate the thoughts on it though! It’s really helpful to have direction in other’s podcast workflows. I genuinely don’t utilize many of the features that have been implemented into Pinepods because I’m a pretty simple listener, so without feedback I wouldn’t know what else people want.

Much appreciated! If you have thoughts on improvements or experience bugs I’d love to hear about it!

Thanks! And let me tell you on that front. What a frustrating experience F-Droid has been: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24866 They’ve completely ghosted me. So far its looking more like it’ll be available in the F-Droid compatible IzzOnDroid repo. He’s been quite responsive and really helpful.

Correct, just use nightly for the moment and as soon as 0.8.0 is out either switch to that tag or use latest.

Aaannnd literally nothing. You mentioning that made me realize I forgot to remove the name field from the form template I used. Just put garbage in there, and I’ll change it. I only need an email. And even then it’s primarily for the Google variant that I need an email. If you are ios you can skip it completely and just use the test flight link if you want. https://testflight.apple.com/join/8Aax2BcX

Because of the Google play variant. Which requires I add an email. I don’t collect the email at all unless you check the box for news, and for the Apple one the form just sends you an email with the link in it. You can totally skip the form and just use the link. Here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/8Aax2BcX

Syncing from device to device. If you’d like to archive podcast episodes, say on like a NAS. Syncing of podcasts and episodes between apps and devices.

If you prefer to use one device for podcasts then Antennapods might be a good fit for you.

For me personally, not having to wait for podcast feeds to update on my local device alone is enough to sell Pinepods… Let alone the other benefits. Granted I’m biased.