Version 2.0.1 - May 17th 2012

• Improved refresh performance
• Smart Playlists are now available for free
• 'Archiving' has been renamed to 'Deleting'
• Added setting to remove downloaded file after playback ended
• Fixed pause/resume problem in Download Manager
• Fixed refreshing too often
• 'Favorites' Smart Playlist now also shows deleted episodes
• 'Partially Played' Smart Playlist does not contain played episodes anymore
• Fixed closing player action bar when tapping on a link
• Fixed updating time stamps during skipping
• Fixed not updating feeds sometimes
• Fixed a few crashes
• Fixed startup problems
• Improved performance for heavy use

Version 2.0 - May 7th 2012

New Features

• Revamped and improved user interface
• Episode archiving
• Improved Podcast Player with:
• Sleep Timer
• Continuous Playback backward and forward
• List of episode links
• Sharing of playback position via email and Twitter
• Chapter Navigation
• Improved podcast Auto-Download management
• Download Manager with:
• Pause and cancel downloads
• Reorder downloads to set priority
• Improved podcast feed parser with:
• Support for Atom feeds
• Support for MP3 chapter markers
• Support for Multi-Format Podcasts
• Support for Episode Deep Linking
• VoiceOver support
• Data Export

With Instacast Pro as In-app Purchase:

• Playlists and Smart Playlists
• Bookmarks with Import/Export
• Settings for individual Podcasts
• Push Notification for new episodes

Version 1.5.3 - Apr 13th 2012

Fixed crashes

Version 1.5.2 - Apr 5th 2012

• Improved Sync
• Added option to sync Downloads

Version 1.5.1 - Mar 16th 2012

• Improved Flattr support
• Improved iCloud support
• Added 'Open file in...' option
• Fixed some bugs and crashes

Version 1.5 - Feb 7th 2012

• Added support for Flattr
• Improved settings
• Improved display of current download in episode info
• Improved show notes
• Improved iCloud Sync
• Fixed a crash

Version 1.4.7 - Jan 11th 2012

Fixed some crashes

Version 1.4.6 - Jan 6th 2012

• Exchanged 'Just Added' with 'Video' directory category
• Improved playback
• Improved support for audio AirPlay
• Added inline settings
• Improved iCloud settings
• Added inline user guide
• Added automatically removing local notifications from Notification Center
• Improved detection of internet connectivity
• Added Readability settings
• Improved download behavior
• Improved feed parsing
• Changed default of continues playback to disabled
• Removed option to show all episodes
• Removed option for rotating player
• Fixed some crashes

Version 1.4.5 - Dec 17th 2011

Fixed crash when starting playback of podcasts having no image

Version 1.4.4 - Dec 14th 2011

Improvements:

• Added introduction dialog
• Added support for episode images
• Added support for Readability
• Improved filtering of mixed content feeds
• Added preview when importing from a URL
• Added support for xhtml:body style show note tags
• Added concurrent downloads
• Replaced subscription actions with options dialog
• Improved 'Read Later' sharing service integration

Fixes:

• Fixed video playback crashes on iOS 4
• Fixed Continuous Playback
• Fixed displaying chapter images on lock screen
• Improved Settings

Version 1.4.3 - Dec 1st 2011

• Fixed crashes on iOS 4
• Other minor bug fixes

Version 1.4.2 - Nov 18th 2011

• Fixes a crash when adding new podcasts
• Fixed refreshing podcasts when on 3G and having 'Refresh on Start' disabled for 3G

Version 1.4.1 - Nov 1st 2011

• Fixed incompatibility with some podcasts
• Fixed system sleep timer not working
• Fixed some iCloud syncing issues
• Fixed protected podcasts not working
• Fixed potential crash when importing OPML

Version 1.4 - Oct 13th 2011

• Adds compatibility to iOS 5
• Synchronizes via iCloud:
  • Podcast subscriptions
  • Subscription priorities
  • Played markers
  • Starred markers
  • Currently playing episode
  • Current playback position
• Improves multiple selection for to be cached episodes
• Improves video playback
• Adds Now Playing info to lock screen
• Does not auto-clear starred episodes anymore

Please read our blog post to learn about iCloud support in-depth.

Version 1.3.6 - Sep 28th 2011

• Fixes video playback
• Improves AirPlay integration
• Improves support for enhanced podcasts
• Improves caching
• Fixes some crashes

Version 1.3.4 - Sep 1st 2011

New Features:

• Adds episode list to the directory podcast preview
• Adds preview when opening a pcast:// or itpc:// url with Instacast
• Adds 1.5x playback speed option
• Adds settings for Cellular Data (3G) usage
• Adds option to warn before streaming over 3G
• Adds skipping to next or previous episode when scrubbing over the track boundary in the player

Bug Fixes:

• Does not auto-cache episodes anymore that are older than 7 days
• Fixed a crash when refreshing a podcast that needs user authentication
• Fixed problem with the 'Show Episodes -> All' setting
• Adds workaround to pubdate date parsing problem on iOS 5
• Fixed not removing black player button when streaming got canceled

Version 1.3.3 - Aug 7th 2011

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes podcast search

Version 1.3.2 - Aug 2nd 2011

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed crash when coming back to WiFi and having pending downloads
• Fixed crash on having memory pressure
• Fixed continuous playback
• Fixed problems preloading podcast images
• Fixed problems not updating some podcasts
• Improved Pull-To-Refresh slightly

New Features:

• Added notification when about to continue playing next episode but app is in background mode
• Black play button is now persistent over app restarts

Version 1.3.1 - Jul 6th 2011

Fixed a crash when closing the player on iOS 4.1/4.2

Version 1.3 - Jun 30th 2011

New Features:

• Dropped support for iOS 3
• Added Download Waiting List
• Added resuming downloads after connection loss
• Added putting downloads on waiting list when switching from WiFi to 3G and 3G not enabled
• Added chapter lists if available
• Improved scrubbing and seeking
• Added cloud based image scaling service
• Added continuous playback
• Optimized some user interface elements
• Added Video AirPlay support to enhanced podcast player
• Removed option for System Player
• Added new sort options to episode lists
• Made Replay after Pause optional
• Added sending websites to Instapaper and ReadItLater
• Made Auto-Cache optional for audio and video separately
• Added Auto-Clear option when a new episode is loaded (now default)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed some minor UI bugs
• Fixed not resuming playback when unplugging headphones during a call
• Fixed not starting a new episode in background
• Fixed not sorting Starred and Cached after custom sort order
• Fixed some issues with feed parsing

Version 1.2.2 - May 27th 2011

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed error reading podcast when searching in the directory
• Fixed accidentally deleting cache when swiping left to star an episode
• Fixed downloading certain episodes
• Turned auto caching on WiFi per default

Version 1.2.1 - May 5th 2011

New Features:

• Added pausing downloads after internet connection dropped
• Added option for clearing the cache of all cached unplayed episodes
• Added separate settings for backward and forward skipping periods
• Added setting to change base path on Dropbox
• Added settings to disable local notifications
• Added settings to change 'Refresh on Start' behavior (default is: Once a day)
• Added long press gesture in episode list to start immediate playback of an episode
• Added "iTunes" button to show notes to show the podcast in iTunes
• Added support for Tweetbot

Bug Fixes:

• Improved episode list gestures
• Fixed not displaying reverse order in 'All Cached'
• Fixed showing some shows as video even if only audio
• Fixed other minor issues

Version 1.2 - Apr 14th 2011

New Features:

• Added option to continuously play all episodes in "All Episodes" (iOS 4 only)
• Added support for OPML file format
• Added sending Subscriptions OPML file via email
• Added Import/Export Subscriptions OPML file to/from Dropbox (iOS 4 only)
• Added sending show notes as email/ to Instapaper / to ReadItLater
• Added copying podcast URL to clipboard
• Added sharing podcast URL via email and twitter
• Added Auto-Refreshing subscriptions
• Added continue refreshing subscriptions in background
• Added resuming downloads after background time expired
• Added option to pause download queue (swipe left/right on a download)
• Subscribe doesn't close the Directory automatically anymore
• Added "Subscribe All" button to iPod panel
• Added setting for playback speed
• Added setting to change skipping period of << / >> buttons
• Added setting to change sort order for "All Episodes" list
• Reorganised cache settings
• Improved audio feedback of background tasks

Bug Fixes:

• Importing URL now only prefills URLs from the clipboard
• Fixed problems refreshing subscriptions
• Improved parsing of noncompliant podcast feeds
• Fixed HTTP authentication problems with email addresses in usernames
• Improved swipe gestures on episode list

Version 1.1.2 - Mar 31st 2011

Bug Fixes:

• Added continue playing video episode in background
• Added auto-pasting URL into URL import panel from the clipboard
• Fixed crashes on iOS 3
• Fixed crash when importing from iPod
• Fixed problems with pause/play and headphone remote

Version 1.1.1 - Mar 26th 2011

New Features:

• Added option to turn off Interface Sounds
• Added option to turn off Shake-to-Rewind
• Added option to disable Auto-Lock

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed crash on iOS 3.1.3
• Fixed problem with accidentally starting playback after phone call finished
• Fixed sorting order of cached episodes
• Fixed tap area of 2x button being to small
• Fixed disabling cache button when on cached episodes view
• Fixed problems loading the directory with certain languages
• Fixed problems parsing some feeds

Version 1.1 - Mar 24th 2011

New Features:

• Added interface sounds
• Added volume/speed/airplay control to the player (double-tap the image or video)
• Added support for HTTP Authentication
• Added Shake-to-Rewind 30 seconds
• Improved play button labeling
• Improved user interface when marking all episodes as played
• Saves search results of directory search after subscribing
• Added option to change number of unplayed episodes after subscribing
• Caching an episodes marks it as unplayed
• Improved feed parsing performance

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed caching of same episode in different feeds
• Fixed reordering items on main screen
• Fixed parsing problems with some feeds

Version 1.0.2 - Mar 11th 2011

New Features:

• Added support for chapters (iOS 4.2 or higher)
• Added Auto Cache mechanism (enable in settings)

• Added settings for enabling caching over 3G

• Added subscribing with URL

• Added control to sort subscriptions alphabetically
• Improved refreshing time
• Added Dutch localization

Bug fixes:

• Fixed directory search

Version 1.0.1 - Mar 1st 2011

Initial Release

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