Podwise: Podcasts, Notes, AI

Starting with the overwhelming positive, if you use podcasts for research and knowledge this can’t be beat. Core advantages over most: 1. Web view. Being able to use in browser is a godsend. 2. Export to obsidian. Couple clicks and it’s in your vault. 3. Class leading summary. I’ve used a few ai apps for podcasts and this does I think the best job or parsing information. The chat feature is also great. 4. It looks better than them all lol. The not so positive: 1. As an everyday podcast player it is only ok. Perhaps not even that. It’s obvious where the efforts have gone, into making this more of a reading app than listening. 2. Earphone integration. It just doesn’t work properly. You have to keep opening your phone to do what you need in terms of play pause, skip etc. 3. Customisation of granular play details is lacking, watch integration etc. and the way it handles episodes in the player just doesn’t not make sense. In short, it’s almost perfect, if they think of it as an audio app from here on out and streamline it it will decimate all. As a research tool it kills the alternatives, but you couldn’t recommend it to someone to just “listen” to podcasts