![]() I needed to be a loud champion for Android amongst a sea of iOS teammates. But honestly, that didn’t feel like the case when I first stepped foot into Stitcher. Feature parity between systems*:* As one of the biggest Android users on the team, heck yea, feature parity. Regarding downloaded content and needing to check in online to work - It better not! We've totally rebuilt how downloading works under the hood, so this should behave the way you'd expect. We hope you come back to us when it's added. We’re bummed that we won’t - and we will as soon as we can. ![]() Regarding RSS feeds, copying and pasting my answer from above: TL DR: We won’t have this out of the gate but we really, really want to. You now can access the latest episodes of your podcasts, pick up where you left off, manage your downloads, and browse through your favorites all within a couple of clicks. The user experience of the iOS and Android apps has been redesigned from the ground up to help you easily search for, manage and discover your favorite podcasts. This isn’t an ending, this is a beginning. We hear your frustration, we know where we’ve dropped the ball, and we know which mountain we are trying to climb. We believe in our mission and that we can meaningfully contribute something to the world of podcasts. What we came to realize is that to make the truly awesome podcast app of our dreams we would have to bite the bullet, pay off a ton of technical debt, modernize our development practices and office culture, and reimagine the entire experience! After a stiff drink, we rolled up our sleeves and got cranking! It’s been a big year but also tremendously exciting, and after endless prototypes, arguments about features, we are stoked at what we’re about to release! Stitcher has been running since 2006 and the podcasting ecosystem has changed dramatically in that time (Spotify?!) so we were overdue to take a step back and ask some big questions. Last year we came together as a team and took a long hard look at our app, the user experience, the state of our platform, and our overall mission here on planet earth. "Hi there! My name is Andrew and I’m part of the product team but I actually started at Earwolf/Midroll working on the Widow Howl App. I am excited to share that we’ve been working on an all-new version of the app! We’re looking to roll this out soon and wanted to share our progress with you and give you a sneak preview of our current beta build.Įditing to include Andrew's nice intro that he posted in the comments ![]() I know a lot of you have thought, what’s the Stitcher app team been up to, and is the app going to get better? Joining me here are Andrew and Rekha from the Stitcher Product team. Hey, Earwolf fans, my name is David and I joined Stitcher about 10 months ago as the new Chief Product Officer. (We’ll be back to answer questions later this week!)
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