Breaker - The social podcast app 🎧

I've been using Breaker for a couple weeks. Love it! Breaker replaced Overcast on my home screen. I told Marco I was missing more social and sharing features. Breaker has filled all of these buckets for me. It's only going to get better with time. Comments, liking, discovery… It's goodreads for podcasts. Once they add a web interface it'll be even better.

I’ve used iTunes Podcasts, Overcast, Castro but fell in love with Breaker. Hope the team will release v1.0 soon 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Interesting! Waiting an Android version.

I tried but it didn't play any podcast. Nothing happens after I clicked the play button. I also tried VPN

Any plans for an AppleTV version? I use my AppleTV for some video podcasts as well, would be great if everything stays in sync :-)

As a precursor, I’d like to say that this is turned into a bit of an accidental rant and is by no means directly aimed at the Breaker Podcast app as product, so apologies if perhaps this is not the right platform. However I’d like to consider it feedback in the sense that I believe the app makers are the ones with the opportunity to change things up a bit. An at the high risk of sounding like an ass, I’d love to offer some more constructive feedback and suggestions to any podcast app makers out there that would like to chat! ---- So… unfortunately I feel like Breaker still doesn’t approach the fundamental issues with podcasting apps I’ve observed to date. *Discovery and value of Podcasts (imagine browsing Netflix as a spreadsheet)* Tiny little album covers? No Episode specific imagery? Aww man can’t we push things a little bit further? I don’t want to restrict the production of podcasts or any other media to only getting noticed if they have fancy cover art — but it’s just un-inspiring right now. I mean, I was almost tempted to watch iBoy the other day because the artwork and featured placement on Netflix was so strong. I’m yet to find a platform that puts discovery before tech, so right now word of mouth or blind chance is surely the main way that people discover new shows. That seems mad. I’ve heard ‘Freakanomics’ is a great show, right? But if I were to look for that on Breaker or any other app, what I see is an illegible 100px piece of artwork with the truncated caption ‘In their books ‘Freakanomics’ and ‘Think Like a…’ … that’s it. That’s not going to make me listen now is it… Now it’s not the fault of the creator, but there is literally nothing about that metadata that’s going to draw me in. Podcast discovery is 100% word of mouth right now for me, which just seems like a huge missed opportunity that no platform seems to have focused on. However, if you had presented me with some nice imagery, an elevator pitch on the show and maybe a 30 second edited preview, that changes everything… only at that point would I contemplate social aspects like followers, and schmancy recommendations. I’m sure that a ton of podcast creators would love to have to opportunity to boost their content by providing these kinds of assets.  *Different structures — is the show chronological? Reverse? Non-sequential?* Right now it looks like everything is being treated the same, so If I want to start listening to ‘Welcome to Nightvale’, I’m going to have to scroll through hundreds of episodes with varying naming conventions to get to the first episode… and I’ll get a notification when a new episode is out, despite the fact I’ve still got 100 or so episodes to get through before I’m going to listen. This isn’t specific to Breaker, but the lack of structure makes getting into a new podcast a bit of a cognitive thud. It’s pretty baffling also that seasons don’t yet exist? Yes, it requires work from both the platform and the creator… but oh my that would solve a lot.  I’ve definitely had situations where I’ve been on Episode 3 of 50, then episode 51 comes out and is jumped to the top of my queue… I’m guessing a lot of this may be down to old-school podcast metadata requirements, but this for me is a big reason why people outside of the tech space are going to struggle start really getting into podcasting as a medium. The contrast in that use case vs. something like ’99% Invisible’, where I just listen to random episodes, justifies a bit of work on the platform’s side to differentiate between the two. With the non-sequential podcasts, I have the issue of not knowing which episodes I’ve listened to, so marking something as played definitely is a step forward, but the ability to filter by listened or not and sort by recency would help. Or… seasons! The majority of these features do exist on various platforms, but honestly I don’t think I’ve seen a good example of a well structured and laid out podcast app that just makes it simple for users to keep up to date with their progress on various shows. This is why I’ve gone from podcast addiction to drop-off so many times, because the thought of the process is just… confusing. ahem… so, to conclude; I’d love to see more of a focus on discovery, whether it’s through previews, Kickstarter-esque pitches, imagery or even just description text that isn’t 8pt small print. Secondly to simplify the structure and presentation of different ordering types to allow people to listen to the right episode at the right time. I don’t believe the focus should be on commenting systems, ‘liking’, ‘call-ins’ and other social features like sync’d listening right now… it should be getting the basics in order. Would love to hear others input on the subject. Apologies for the long message.

please sync with Apple Watch, please sync with Apple Watch.

So I'm dyslexic and can read fine, but I have the most fun learning by listening too podcasts... The discovery on what other users are listening to is already really AWESOME! I dig it! Find me in the App... Username: garrison

Chromecast support pls! 😀

Would love to see a comparison of this new app vs the Podly app which was launched just two months ago. I've been a big Overcast fan and I'm so excited to finally see the Podcast social community and see what my friends are listening to. But I'm not one that likes to constantly switch between podcast apps. Should be a fun race for these apps to see which one comes out on top with the largest community in the long-term.