Windows Podcatching Software
| @Podder | A free client designed for the visually impaired. Download files into your MP3 Player or Ipod. |
| Doppler | Doppler is a aggregator. It’s a tool to subscribe to RSS feeds which supply downloadable files. Download files into your MP3 Player or Ipod. |
| iTunes | Apple's heavily commercialized tuner. Works well with ipod shuffle, ipod nano, and regular ipod or ipod video. |
| Happy Fish | Requires Itunes. HappyFish is an RSS reader that can also download RSS enclosures (podcasts, mp3's, videos, pics, apps, whatever) to your computer |
| Juice | (formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome] |
| MadCat | MadCat is a multipurpose application that allows you to browse the web, while enjoying quality video content from around the world. MadCat can download you're favorite Rss feeds, Democracy channels, or sniff media links out the webpages you browse. This is mainly for video podcasts, but audio works fine. |
| NewzCrawler | NewzCrawler is a rss/atom reader, news aggregator, browser and blog client for Windows which provides access to news content from various sources |
| Podcast Amp | A simple, free tool that lets you listen to podcasts directly on your website / page. |
| Podspider | Podspider is the only solution that offers podcast listeners a directory containing more than 13,000 podcasts organized into 25 subjects and sorted into over 300 categories, supplemented by software that makes the podcast experience effortless and fun. |
| Replay AV | Replay AV makes it easy to automatically record your favorite radio shows, so you can listen wherever and whenever you like. Recordings can be automatically transferred to your iPod or other MP3 Player, burned to a CD, or you can just listen on your PC. It's incredibly convenient. |
| RSSRadio | RSSRadio is an easy to use
tool to download and listen to your favourite Podcasts No updates in a long time. Pending removal |
| Synclosure | Synclosure is a RSS
aggregator to flexibly download files in enclosures. It
supports filter keywords, custom actions and a caching
mechanism. Kinda geeky, but powerful. No updates in a long time. Pending removal |
| Yamipod | Freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Has an RSS/Podcast to iPod feature. |
| Ziepod | Ziepod+ is your next-generation media player. It is designed to keep you alive with audio and video content automatically retrieved from all over the Internet. |
iPod is a brand of portable digital media player designed and marketed by Apple Computer with simple user interface designed around a central scroll wheel. Most iPod models store media on a hard drive, while the smaller iPods use flash memory.
Macintosh Potcatching Software
| iTunes | Apple's heavily commercialized tuner. Works well with ipod Nano, Ipod, and Shuffle |
| Juice | (formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome] |
| Playpod | designed exclusively for Mac OS X. |
| Yamipod | freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. |
| More needed... know of one? Let me know!!!! |
Linux podcatching Software
| BPConf | BPConf is a simple KDE configuration frontend for BashPodder by Linc Fessenden. BPConf contains BashPodder so you don't require anything else. |
| CastPodder | Now morphed into Icepodder below |
| gPodder | gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python, using GTK. It manages podcast feeds for you and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like. |
| Juice | (formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome] |
| Icepodder | IcePodder is a podcatcher (RSS client) for Linux conceived as a replacement for CastPodder. IcePodder is written in python, and requires python 2.4 or later, and pyGTK. The goal of this project is to provide Linux users with a dedicated client to download podcasts, with an emphasis on reliability and stability. |
| Liferea | Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME. |
| Peapod | Peapod is a powerful and easy to use command-line tool for downloading podcasts. It’s written in Python and uses Mark Pilgrim’s excellent feedparser library to understand atom and RSS feeds. While Peapod has primarily been developed on linux it should work on any unix-like operating system. |
| PenguinTV | PenguinTV is not just another RSS feed reader. It is designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with podcasts and video blogs, allowing you to easily enjoy the audio, music, and video published around the web in RSS format. |
| PodGrid | personal internet radio news receiver, receiver. |
| Podracer | Podracer is a podcast downloader. It takes a file with the URLs to all your podcast rss feeds and goes and gets the mp3s and stores them in a specified location. It is a BASH script with an internal BitTorrent downloader written in Python. |
| Rhythmbox | Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework. |
| StreamTuned | StreamTuned plays and records audio and video streams using mplayer as backend. It also reads stream url's and related information from playlists, webpages or XML/RSS feeds. Streamtuned can act as Podcast client and allows for local and remote (webservice) access to the repositories containing your stream url's. |
| Straw | Straw is a feed reader aimed for users using the GNOME desktop. You subscribe to news, blogs, and podcast feeds and read the feeds in the comfort of your desktop, with or without online access. |
| Yamipod | YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing. |
