I used to love Pocketcasts; now I hate it. It used to be as simple as downloading podcasts, listening offline (while out walking, on a plane or train, etc.), and deleting downloaded podcasts when done with them. The developers have messed up that simple system with the latest update (no clear downloading and deleting anymore, the murky world of autoarchiving, ... grrr), and I'm one of many users who are fed up with it.

I don't want to argue about Pocketcasts. If you like it, I'm glad for you. I need to find an alternative that allows (a) cross-platform syncing between mobile devices and website (I want to listen to podcasts at home via online streaming on website and away from home via podcasts downloaded to SD card using phone app) and (b) downloading to an SD card (my phone's already short on internal storage).

From what I can tell, some of the better Android app alternatives might be Castbox, Podcast Addict, Podcast Republic, and Radio Public. Other options I've seen mentioned are Spotify, TuneIn, RSS Radio 7 Lite, Podbean, and Stitcher. I don't know yet which of these satisfy my two criteria. I guess I can spend a few weeks methodically testing my way through the options, but I wonder if anyone else here has already dealt with this and has a recommendation.