


A nice way to shave a little time off your entire queue.

While some apps (like Apple Podcasts), offer a limited range of listening speeds, most apps provide a more granular level of control, allowing for increments of. Going straight from 1x speed to 1.5x speed can be overwhelming. One of the advantages of listening to a podcast (versus listening to music), however, is that you can slightly turn up the speed it plays without any noticeable difference. If you’ve never listened to a podcast at anything other than at 1x speed, 1.5x can feel downright silly. Maximizing the Most Common Settings Listening Speed I know there are dozens of apps out there, but this collection provides a good cross-section of what a majority of listeners are likely to use. The apps I chose to thoroughly dig into were Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, Stitcher, Podcast Addict, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Consider this your guide on how to maximize the obvious and not-so-obvious features sprinkled throughout the podcast app landscape. Most podcast apps now come with powerful features that are easy to overlook, and all it takes is around ten minutes playing around with a new app to get yourself up to speed.
