Version 8.2.618 March 2024If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
Bug Fixes
-Additional bug fixes for crashes in certain areas
-Fix for importing feeds not saving
-Fix for crash when accessing the stats area
8.2.1
Bug Fixes
-Fix for changing podcast sort within a podcasts settings
-Fix for some podcast feeds not recognizing new episodes media files.
8.2
New Stuff
+Updates to the Watch Now Playing view
+Shortcuts app, new iCatcher shortcuts available: Add to Playlist; Settings search; Navigate To (opens iCatcher to a particular area like the now playing screen).
Bug Fixes
-Fix for the user agent setting.
-Fix for issue where streaming episode gets marked as played due to playback error
-Feed processing bug fixes
-Possible fixes for certain crashes
-Fix for video playback issue where it could show a flash of a white screen when starting playback
-Shortcuts fix for View Podcast action to allow for variables. Example, now you can link the Currently Playing with the View Podcast to navigate to the currently playing podcast via shortcut.
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Version 8.1.518 January 2024If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New Stuff
+Selecting multiple episodes within a podcast now has a similar playlist actions available instead of just Add to Playlist. If those episodes are all in a playlist, then it would show the option to remove instead of add. This behavior was already done for single episode actions
Bug fixes
-Fix for the skip back previous action via headphones
8.1.4
New Stuff
+Updated sleep timer actions available in the shortcuts app
+Add next/previous episode Siri shortcut option in settings, Siri shortcuts
+New actions available in the shortcuts app. Including:
++View Podcast. Navigate to a podcast within the app
++Playlist Details. Returns details like episode count & episode details. Can be used with other actions
++Chapter Skipping updated with option to go to current chapter (restarting it).
++Updated Podcast Episode filters allowing you to find episodes that are in/not in a playlist as well as apply the pub date filters like latest unplayed, oldest unplayed, etc.
Bug Fixes
-Fix for the latest unplayed pub date for each podcast. You will need to refresh your podcasts for the dates to get fixed. This affected playlists created that used the latest unplayed pub date option
-Bug fix for interrupt and resume playback. This might also have caused playback to start while in the background after a period of time
-Fix for animation when tapping the skip ahead and skip back
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Version 8.1.109 November 2023If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
Bug fixes for 8.1.1
+Performance improvements to address CPU spikes leading to crashes
+Fix for sluggish scrolling due to issue with where the app was looking for store files.
Bug fixes for 8.1
+Fix for sort order on podcasts tab ready to play (most, then recent)
+Fix for episodes to ignore missing add button
+Fix for oldest unplayed playlist setting (after refresh)
+Fix for missing chapter/bookmark button after creating a bookmark
New Stuff in 8.0
+Interactive Widgets on supported devices
+Updated Now Playing view to closer match what the experimental now playing view has had for a long time now.
+Support for episode images. Some podcasts add downloadable images for each episode. If the setting is enabled, then those images will be downloaded when starting playback for the selected episode. Settings tab, Appearance, Episode Images from Feed.
+Ability to export a playlist (settings) to send to someone else or to send to another device. This doesn't send the contents, just the settings/rules for that playlist.
+Export settings to transfer to another app or just to save and restore later.
+New option in Settings, playback, general, Max Audio Volume. This is separate from the devices volume. Useful for those that have asked for lower volume
+Help tab removed and merged with the settings tab. Settings tab search now includes searching help topics. At least the help topic titles.
+Subscribe is now Follow. A change other apps have made some time ago.
+Additional app intents available through the shortcuts app for iOS 16.
+Added Command+Option+Left and Command+Option+Right shortcuts for skip back and skip forward to work better on the Mac
+New playlist published date filter added, Oldest Ready to Play. Podcasts would need to be refreshed for the property to be updated.
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Version 7.6.310 December 2022If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
7.6.3
Bug Fixes
+Fix for the more playback speeds option for the classic now playing view.
7.6.2
Bug Fixes
+ Fix for playback speed button in the older now playing
+ Fix for stats in settings tab.
+ Voice over label correction for the jump back and jump forward amounts
+ Fix for text missing on confirm delete episode on the watch
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Version 7.615 October 2022If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New
+Support for lock screen widgets
+More Podcasting 2.0 support. See settings tab, Playback, Podcasting 2.0. Added support for the auto downloading of the support chapters file and transcript when the episodes support them.
+New playlist option, In Download Queue
+New playlist option, Exclude in a playlist (don't show episodes that are explicitly in a playlist)
+Use the two new options together to create a playlist that shows queued episodes that you haven't beed added into any playlists.
+New experimental options (settings, experimental) for updated podcast search. This will be enabled for all in future update.
Bug Fixes
+Fix for sleep timer restart when it is set to fade and you change the volume (it should restart the timer)
+Fix for Recently Played playlist defaults. If you create new Recently Played playlist it will now have the Recently Played setting set to No more than 7 days ago. Previous versions were setting the newer than to 7 days.
+Fix for feeds that have media urls with no extension
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Version 7.5.119 August 2022If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
Bug Fixes
+Fix for version number in the app
+Fix for missing undelete button in deleted episodes area
+Fix for search text not visible when night mode enabled, but disabled in the app
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Version 7.0.330 June 2022Version 7.0.3
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Bug Fixes
+Fix for some app hangs
+Fix for iPad downloaded icon in dark mode
+Fix for crashes happening in certain areas
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Version 6.8.605 April 2022If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
Bug Fixes
+Mark as played correction with the new after playing setting
+Fix for sharing episode to email. It was missing the formatted show notes
+Fix for importing feeds causing a crash when there is an error with one of the podcast feeds
+Fix for deleting episode after playing on the watch when podcast is set to delete episode after playing
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Version 6.8.214 February 2022If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New Stuff
+Option to hide the categories on the podcasts tab
+Tapping notification for downloaded episode will open app and show show notes view
Bug fixes
+Sleep timer bug fix
+Fix for embedded artwork setting (moved to appearance settings)
+Fix for shortcut action to help import from podcasts app
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Version 6.829 December 2021If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New Stuff
+Basic stats added to settings tab for iOS 15+ users only
+Podcasts tab, select multiple podcasts, select delete downloads. Added option to Skip Protected.
+Added podcast default for playback speed. Playback Rate also added to each podcasts settings. For existing podcasts it won't use the system default.
+Added Edge as another browser option when tapping links if you have it installed
Bug fixes
+Potential fix for episodes starting over when selecting them
+Fix for start downloads on cellular and you choose to download. Previously it would ask you to tap start again.
+Night mode fix for show notes when night mode theme 'Gray' is used with brightness threshold
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Version 6.7.1206 October 2021if you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New Stuff
+Car Play updated to support latest iOS
Bug fixes
+Fix for changing sort from a podcasts settings
+Fix for night mode colors
+Fix for badge count on downloads tab
+Fix for podcast feed parsing
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Version 6.7.909 July 2021if you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New Stuff
+Added a partially played filter option within a podcast
+Added additional playback speeds
Bug fixes
+Bug fix for refresh issues related to adding missing episodes
+Bug fix for urls coming into iCatcher
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Version 6.7.816 June 2021if you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
6.7.8
+Bug fix for the Download and send to apple watch setting
6.7.7
+Bug fix for apple watch and paging the list of episodes in a playlist that has more than 20 episodes.
+Bug fix for playlists that filter by bookmark keywords
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Version 6.7.424 March 2021if you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
6.7.4 Updates
Bug fixes
+Fix for AirPlay to non-apple devices. Had to remove the airplay that would just show video on the external screen. That was preventing the regular audio airplay from working correctly. Will look at adding that back later.
6.7.3 Updates
Bug fixes
+Fix for custom artwork not sticking
+Fix for download options, user-agent domain keywords not working as expected
New Stuff
+Alert when attempting to refresh and there is no internet connection.
+Added force close button to the settings panel on the Apple Watch companion app.
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6.7.2
New Stuff
+Added option to disable the playlist episode count (playlist list view)
+Media toolbar (experimental) has quick actions (iOS 14+ only)
Bug fixes
+Fix for siri shortcuts
+Fix for night mode when coming back to the app
6.7.1
+Bug fix for tapping play on headset no episode is loaded, it should start playing the first episode in a playlist if iCatcher was the last playing audio app.
+Fix for frozen podcast episode list when show notes is empty
+Potential fix for podcast playing during phone call for some users.
6.7
New Stuff
+On the new now playing ui (settings tab, experimental) you can tap the time remaining for a chaptered podcast to have the slider and time elapsed/remaining reflect the current chapter.
+Updated the Select Podcasts view within a playlist. There is now a filter button in the upper right. Tapping that will show you the podcasts you have selected.
+Within a podcasts settings there is now the option to view the playlists it has been explicitly included or excluded.
+Playlists tab, create new playlist has a recently played playlist option. That will create a playlist that consists of recently played (last 7 days) episodes. This includes partially played and played episodes.
+Updated watch complications that show text to show episode title (local or phone).
+iCloud sync improvements for speed and efficiency
Bug fixes
+Refreshing a playlist that uses category keywords will now refresh those podcasts with those categories set
+Recovery mode and Restoring backup view were not working on iOS 13+ devices, that has been fixed
+Fix for crash when tapping to toggle controls on the now playing view
+Fix for continuous playback button appear enabled if it was disabled, and you go to the Home Screen and then back into the app.
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Version 6.6.523 December 2020If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New Stuff
+Settings tab, Appearance, Font size. Boost options to increase the font for show notes.
Bug fixes
+Adjusted the default show notes font
+Fix for crash on iOS 12 devices when rearranging playlists in the playlists tab.
+Fix for show notes view on M1 Macs running iCatcher.
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Version 6.6.405 December 2020If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New Stuff
+Added setting under Default Actions for Auto Stream. This allows you to turn off the feature that was in the last release. This is where you can tap an episode within a podcast and it would stream if the podcast was set to stream new episodes. This is instead of tapping and then selecting stream.
Bug fixes
+Fix for podcasts coming back that were previously deleted
+Fix for missing New Import Media podcast on the podcasts tab in edit mode
+Fix for font size in show notes
+Fix for show notes parsing
+Fix season filter within a podcast
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Version 6.6.318 November 2020If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
New Stuff
+Category filter on podcasts tab (iOS 13+)
+Tapping an episode in a podcast that isn't ready to play will set to stream and start streaming if the podcast is set to stream new episodes. Reducing the additional step.
+Additional gesture option added to decrease playback speed. When enabled you can swipe down on the artwork to decrease playback speed instead of it resetting to 1x.
+If you use the new ui (settings tab, experimental) you will now see that the volume control has been brought back.
+Podcasts that issue an http 301 permanent redirect will now update the podcast with the new url if it also found new episodes.
+When you have the Allow cellular downloads option off and select Download Now on an episode while on cellular it will now prompt and allow you to download that episode easier (less steps).
Bug fixes
+Fix for UI on smaller devices.
+Fix for crash on iPad devices when viewing an existing subscription details.
+UI fix for podcasts tab when title is more than 2 lines it pushed the other information off-view.
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Version 6.6.204 November 2020If you get ongoing value from iCatcher, then please consider the Tip Jar in the help and settings tab or tell your friends about the app. Thank you
Bug fixes
+Bug fix for playback skipping. This was due to an issue with the end playback offset. The previous playing episode if it had an end playback offset when carry over to the next episode at the same "time". This should be fixed now.
+Bug fix for video background when not using the new now playing view (take 2).
+Bug fix for setting a custom image and zoomed in
+Bug fix for playlist mark as played when episode(s) have protect download set
New Stuff
+Settings tab is now searchable to find the setting you are looking for. This means I can add so many more settings. You can even tap the search tab a second time to active search.
+New process to transfer files to the apple watch without having to add to a "podcast" first. Settings tab, Apple Watch, tap the + icon.
+Within apple watch settings you can now delete items from the watch from the iPhone
+Ability to add category to a podcast or select multiple and set the category. Set multiple (comma separated). Initially they will be set from the podcast feed if it has one set.
+Playlists keyword filters can now filter for Podcast Categories
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Version 6.6.114 October 2020* Bug fix for video background when not using the new now playing view.
* Bug fix to allow for quickly changing playback speed again (tapping the playback speed button).
* Bug fix related to apple watch and episodes getting updated
* Added a tap and hold gesture on the playback speed area to show Audio Quality options including a slow motion no pitch correction
* Added back button titles for iOS 14 (tap and hold back button when multiple levels deep)
* Updated the settings tab so it pushes instead of presenting sheets
* Possible bug fix for duplicating episodes in a playlist.
* Removed unnecessary icon from the Widgets (iOS 14+)
* Added option in settings, appearance to pin search bar. This may help with users that are reporting they can't pull to refresh in the different areas that you should be able to do that.
* Added additional chapter support where the chapters are embedded in an ID3/TXXX tag.
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Version 6.602 October 2020iOS 14 updates
* Support for picture in picture on iPhone (iOS 14+)
* Support for Widgets to show currently playing episode
Updates
* Added playlist swipe action to queue all of the episodes for a playlist to transfer to an apple watch (downloaded items)
* Added new now playing UI for iOS 13+ devices. See settings tab, Experimental, New Now Playing View
* Podcasts tab in manual sort mode you can now drag multiple podcasts at once to move them. Something that was already possible with episodes within a playlist.
* Within a podcast moved the sort button so it's always visible while scrolling
* Updated podcast playback offset to allow up to 20 minutes
Bug fixes
* Bug fix for email sheet not dismissing after sending.
* Bug fix for chapter markers from show notes adding chapters that are after the episode duration
* Bug fix for chapter parsing from show notes
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