It's open and can be used by many. It has all the podcast I need. It also powers a lot of open source podcast apps like https://antennapod.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Open source alternative on Android: Antennapod: https://antennapod.org/ https://antennapod.org/download/ Available on Google Play and FDroid. I switched to it many years ago anticipating this exact Google product shutdown, and I've been very happy with it :). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

AntennaPod (version 3.2.0): Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player. Source: 6 months ago

It's amazing how incompetent they seem in this area. They even shut down another podcast app before your journey began, called Google listen. Luckily, although you might want Google's proprietary music player to access their subscription content, there's absolutely no reason to use a Google podcast app. I am a fan of Antennapod[0], which is available on F-Droid. [0] https://antennapod.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Why anyone would use a proprietary podcasting app is beyond me! (Particularly one from Google with basically had a 100% chance of getting canceled....) https://antennapod.org/ is incredible! 10/10, highly recommend! - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

I used https://shoutengine.com/ to upload episodes from my podcast, but I missed the memo that they have shut down their service as of last November. Unfortunately I don't have any backups of the recordings I did, so I wanted to see if there was any possible way I could recover the recordings from their site. Source: about 2 years ago