juice vs. ziepod vs. RSSRadio vs. Armangil vs. The Spellcatcher vs. gPodder

General Features juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
Version
2.1
0.99 (Beta)
1.33
4.0
1.0.0.102
3.7.0
Last Release
2.2
2006-02-12 (18 years ago)
19/02/2005
2016.03.07
2024-03-28 (today)
2014-05-16 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/team/index.php
Daniel Broad
Doga Armangil
Ace Frahm
Thomas Perl
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL
Closed Source, open API, plugin source available
MIT
All Rights Reserved
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free trial or $17.49
Freeware
0
Free
Languages
0
1
English
0
0
0
0
Operating System juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
Windows 98
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Windows XP
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mac OS X
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Linux
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Mobile
No
No
No
No
No
No
Palm OS
No
No
No
No
No
No
Programming Language
Python and wxPython
.NET
Ruby
C#
Python
Common Features juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
Search
local
local & web
local & web
local & web
none
local & web
Notifications
yes, customizable
notifies you of updates, Notifier feed you news
MSN Style Popup + Chime
no
no "you've got podcasts" messages are sent, but you can see the feed scanning & download activity as it happens in The Spellcatcher's console window.
Popup, Tray Icon, Cron
OPML Import
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
OPML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Playlist Formats
M3U, PLS
WMP, iTunes, jRiver, Direct Sync to Flashdrive, any by API
m3u, pls, smil, asx, tox, xspf
Feed List Format (FLF), which lists one ATOM or RSS feed's URI per line, ues '#'' character for comment lines.
M3U
Organize juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
Expiring Channels
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Archive Old Feeds
configurable
No
yes
The definition of "Expiring Channels" on podcatcher matrix is unclear, it is not possibli to understand what that means. The Spellcatcher never erases downloaded podcast episodes from your computer. You must delete them yourself when you are done with th
Lock or archive to folder, iPod, archive using "gpodder-backup"
Feed Reading juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
Integrated Browser
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plain Text
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Podcatching juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
Schedule Downloads
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Resume Partial Downloads
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Limit Download Size
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ID3 Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Sync juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
Sync to iTunes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Sync to PSP
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Sync to Mediaplayer
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Sync to iPod
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Integrated burning to CD
No
No
No
No
No
No
Media juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
MP3
download & external playing
download
download & internal playing
download
download
download & external playing
MPEG-4
download
download
download & external playing
download
download
download & external playing
Real
download
download & external playing
download
download
download & external playing
Quicktime
download
download & external playing
download
download
download & external playing
Windows Media
download
download
download & internal playing
download
download
download & external playing
DivX
download
download & external playing
download
download
download & external playing
Xvid
download
download & external playing
download
download
download & external playing
Content Protocols juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
rss 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
atom
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Transport Protocols juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
http
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
https
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
http auth
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
bittorrent
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Proxy Server
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
feed://
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
podcast://
No
No
No
No
No
No
pcast://
No
No
No
No
No
No
itpc://
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
itms://
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Support juice ziepod RSSRadio Armangil The Spellcatcher gPodder
Support Forum
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mailinglists
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
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