Castro, Price hike dilemma.
August 04, 2025 at 4:00PM
Recently got an alert about my subscription price going up for Castro. It really has me thinking about renewal in a way I havent in the past 8 years or more.
So now I find myself in a similar place to where I was in November of 2003 when I wrote my sad times post. Although most basic functionality is not broken the app is not functioning at its peak. Amung the issues I notice are.
- Episode dont load at times despite the using pull-to-refresh
- Restoring from iCloud backup does disable screen lock.
- Updating app ocasionally causes crashes.
- Sideloaded episodes show partial summary in list view and no notes at all in episode detail view.
In aggregate those issues are not necessarily deal breakers for me.
Wish List
If I had to create a wish list for my ideal podcast app it would be the following.
- Inbox style episode management
- OPML import/export (sans backend)
- iCloud backup/restore support
- Sideloading via iCloud folder
- Sideloaded detials
- YouTube audio conversions
- Video/Audio snippet exports
- macOS compatible app
Turns out that list is pretty feature rich and Castro mostly covers it. Just dont know if I wanna pay nearly 3x for almost.
Happy Coding ;-)
Check out my previous still sad and sad times posts about the state of my favorite podcast app.