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yeah hey guys welcome to tap that app I'm Brian Tanya and this is the place to find the hottest piece of app in the mobile space now this one's for iOS users and podcast listeners and it's called downcast on iOS devices you can download a podcast through the iTunes Store by each individual episode but you can't subscribe to the podcast and have it automatically download on your mobile device the only way to do that is if you use iTunes on your computer subscribe through the iTunes app and then sync your phone with your computer what genius thought of that well they might fix it in iOS 6 but downcast for a dollar and 99 cents allows you to automatically download and listen to all of your podcasts without the need to sync with iTunes at all now you can add any of your favorite video or audio shows check out the top podcasts that people listen or watch there's a really good one I recommend called the Apple buy it now you can also search for specific ones or manually add the feed link for the podcast now I like the ability to create specific playlists for your different podcasts so I'll break mine out into topics like sports news and comedy and there's a variety of settings for each playlist that you make now during playback you'll be able to listen at different speeds and scrub through the episode like you can with iOS is media player but one of my favorites is the quick skip buttons that allow you to jump forward or backwards through the podcast easily plus you can even set a sleep timer on the podcast now you also get iCloud syncing so all of your podcasts subscriptions and playlists will be synced up across multiple iOS devices Booya so see there's really no competition and downcast is the best podcast player app on iOS that you never heard of until now now if you guys have any other apps you'd like us to tap send them to tap that app at cnet.com I'm Brian Collins for watching I'll see you guys next time oh oh Oh