

Now you can pick a podcast to drift off to sleep to without going blind in the process. Well, technically it’s called the “dark theme,” but it achieves the same purpose. In addition, a recent update added a new feature that has become a must in top-tier apps: night mode. This is sure to be appreciated by anyone who listens to podcasts that originally air as radio programs and often have a few seconds of silence where advertisements would have been. They’ve also included a nifty feature that shortens episode lengths by trimming silence. It often indicates a user profile.Ī side-by-side comparison of Pocket Casts' light and dark themesĭo you ever listen to podcasts that sound like they were recorded with the microphone from a 2006 Motorola Razr by someone standing on a crowded train platform? You know, the ones where you need to raise the volume on your earbuds to full-blast and still find yourself rewinding every 45 seconds to catch a word that as lost to the garble? It seems like the good folks over at Pocket Casts listen to those, too, because they’ve included a volume-boost feature, which increases the volume on voices, whilst simultaneously reducing background noise. Automattic, which runs and recently purchased Tumblr, announced today that it’s acquired Pocket Casts, the. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
