I migrated to antennapod after Google killed their podcast app.

Antenna pod has a few persistent and annoying bug/quirks.

• If you’re streaming it will often skip forward/backward in time by anywhere from 0.5 to 30-45 seconds when it downloads the next segment. I’ve seen this across a bunch of different podcasts. Conan needs a friend, stuff you should know, this American life, etc. There’s been quite a bit of activity on their forums about this, along with a few attempted fixes, but the problem persists for me
• I somehow wound up with 1+ GB of podcasts despite Auto delete turned on. This is potentially due to the prior bullet. I’ve had podcasts end early (on time) and also run 5 minutes past their end-timd
• The Android Auto interface is not great. The home screen pop-in, or whatever it’s called, will randomly show you 3 podcasts from something you’re subscribed to

I also find the interface somewhat odd.

You have an inbox, which is basically a running feed of new episodes from your subscriptions. You can play those directly, remove them from your feed, or add them to a queue. You can then do the exact same thing from the queue. I would either make the inbox dumber and keep the queue or flatten the queue and inbox.

The app is also massively customizable, which is cool, but some of the customizations interact with other things. Downloading from your inbox can add a podcast to your queue. Deleting from downloads, which is a fourth area of the app, can remove them from your queue.

I do generally like the app, and also like the idea of FOSS, but I suspect there are better commercial options out there.

Antennapod is really nice. But are there good apps on desktop to sync to? I used plex before, which made it very easy to listen on any device