Sticher Radio for Podcasts Android App

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This post originally appeared on the blog Mustafa Neguib and has been reprinted here with permission.

Introduction to Podcasting

Podcasting is where people record their voices and then launch them into the internet hoping for someone to listen, and follow intently.
Think of podcasting as the audio version of blogging. There are many benefits of being a podcast creator and a podcast listener. One of the biggest benefits that a podcast contains is feelings and emotions which just plain blogs do not contain and can not contain. A podcast is personal to the listener. The listener can load up his podcast and continue to what ever he does while listening to the podcast. I think these benefits have further encouraged people to start to listen to audio books.
Being a podcast listener, i use an app which i dearly love.  Sticher is a podcast reader of sorts, where you can find a number of different podcasts available ranging from a number of different genres/categories.
Via Sticher i found my all time favorite podcasts, Entrepreneur on Fire hosted by John Lee Dumas and Security Now by Steve Gibson. There are many other podcasts available as well as mentioned above.
Following genres are from which the listener can follow:
  • Popular & Trending
  • New & Noteworthy
  • Comedy
  • Business & Industry
  • News & Politics
  • Education
  • Society & Culture
  • Entertainment
  • Games & Hobbies
  • Lifestyle & Health
  • Local
  • Music Commentary
  • Parenting, Kids & Family
  • Science & Medicine
  • Spirituality & Religion
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • International

UX, Design and Ease of Use

Sticher has been designed well, but it might be a bit too much for a beginner user of Android devices. The app does need a little bit of exploration to be done in order to find out what the features of the app are.

Usefulness

Sticher is essentially an on demand podcast service, where you can download the podcast that you want to when ever you want to. You can also add podcasts to listen later list after which the selected podcast will be downloaded to your device.

This functionality is quite useful for those listeners who are in a hurry to reach their destination, but want to listen to podcasts on the way. Users can also add stations (a station is the source of podcasts where the podcast author publishes his podcasts) to the read later list, which will download podcasts from those stations as well.

You can call Sticher is to podcasts as RSS readers are to websites and blogs. Sticher also provides with searching functionality where you can search for your favorite topics, stations, or podcast authors, etc…

Sticher provides a number of different settings which allows you to personalize your experience. You can even set what to show on the start screen.

You can also create multiple play lists into which you can add your favorite stations. Maybe you want to create playlist which will just contains technology related stations, while another playlist contains business related stations.

Conclusion

I highly recommend Sticher for podcast enthusiasts, as this app truly brings a great collection of stations and podcasts. I surely continue to use it in the future to listen to podcasts.

  • Sticher Podcast Reader Android App
    Sticher Podcast Reader Android App

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Published on: November 10, 2014

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