Pocket Casts Release Notes

You heard something worth keeping. You reached for the bookmark button. Pocket Casts saved 13:28.

A week later, 13:28 is a number. You know you saved it for a reason. Finding out what that reason was means listening to it again.

That’s the last thing a bookmark should ask of you.

Smart Bookmarks are available on iOS today.

Tap Add Bookmark and the sheet arrives already filled in. A title, written for you. The passage from the transcript, captured around the moment you tapped. One tap on Save and you’re back in the episode.

The title is the part you’ll actually live with. It’s what you’ll read in your bookmark list months from now, so it’s written from what was said, not from where you were.

The transcript behind it leans backward on purpose. By the time your thumb finds the button, the sentence you wanted has already gone past. So we go back and get it.

If the capture isn’t quite right, tap Edit. The transcript opens around your selection and you extend or trim until the bookmark says exactly what you meant. Same interaction when you come back to edit it later, so you learn it once.

You can start from the other end too. Open the transcript, highlight the line, save it.

Auto-titles and auto-captured passages need a Pocket Casts generated transcript, available for Plus and Patron. On iOS today, with Android to follow. Everywhere else, bookmarks work the way they always have.

If you’re like us, your podcasts run all day.

You press play first thing in the morning and keep it going. Through the commute, work, washing dishes and winding down at night. In the car, on a walk, one episode picking up wherever the last one left off.

Then you sit down in the living room, in front of the biggest screen and the best speakers in the house. And your podcasts don’t have a real home there. You could cast something over, fiddle with it, make it work. But it was never simply there, on the screen you’re already looking at.

Now it is.

Pocket Casts is on Apple TV, starting today. Free for everyone, like the rest of Pocket Casts. Android TV is coming soon.

Your podcasts, your Up Next, your place in every episode, right on the screen in front of you. Start something on your phone at the bus stop. Finish it on the couch that night, exactly where you left it. Nothing to re-find. Nothing to sync by hand.

Podcast episode list for 'How We Got Here' featuring Chris Kohler, with episode titles and durations displayed.

This is how we’ve always seen Pocket Casts: the same experience everywhere you are. Phone, watch, car, web, and now the television. Same Up Next. Same history. Same place in every episode, room to room.