uPod is a full fea­tured pod­cast player for Android with a beau­ti­ful, cover art cen­tric Android 5 design and an inbox con­cept for eas­ily assort­ing new episodes. It pro­vides every­thing you might expect from a pod­cast player these days includ­ing cross device syn­chro­niza­tion, audio play­back speed con­trol and vol­ume boost, Chrome­cast and Google Cast for audio sup­port, auto­matic media han­dling (down­load and dele­tion) and a lot more.

uPod is avail­able for free and as a paid pre­mium version. The free ver­sion comes with­out ads, spy­where or other nasty stuff. It’s fully fea­tured and brings — among other things — the following: Beat­i­ful, cov­er­art cen­tric, pod­cast col­ored user interface Effec­tive inbox work­flow for assort­ing new episodes Audio play­back with speed con­trol (requires at least Android 4.1) Audio vol­ume boost (requires at least Android 4.1) Video play­back (includ­ing audio only option) Sup­port for blue­tooth head­sets and head­set controls Offline show notes Drag-and-drop playlist Auto­matic down­load list Resum­able downloads Auto­matic media file cleanup Lock screen and noti­fi­ca­tion play­back controls Sup­port for Android Wear (con­trol play­back from your watch) Pod­cast sub­scrip­tion management Discover/search new podcasts OPML import and export Respon­sive lay­out (look­ing great on phone and tablet support) Mate­r­ial design (Lollipop/Android 5) Eng­lish and Ger­man translations

The paid ver­sion adds the fol­low­ing features: Cloud backup and cross device sync of play­back posi­tions, playlist and episode states tied to your Google account Chrome­cast and Google Cast for audio support Auto­matic down­load (e.g. when con­nected via Wi-FI) Pod­cast spe­cific set­tings (e.g. auto add to playlist, only keep only the x lat­est episodes) up to two spe­cific sync times per day