The Spellcatcher vs. gPodder vs. RSSRadio vs. ziepod vs. rcFeedMe vs. QuickNews

General Features The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
Version
1.0.0.102
3.7.0
1.33
0.99 (Beta)
1.25
1.22
Last Release
2024-03-29 (today)
2014-05-16 (9 years ago)
19/02/2005
2006-02-12 (18 years ago)
1.43
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
Ace Frahm
Thomas Perl
Daniel Broad
ARogan
Stand alone, inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
License
All Rights Reserved
GPL
Closed Source, open API, plugin source available
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Free trial or $17.49
14,95$
Languages
0
0
0
1
English
0
0
Operating System The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
Windows 98
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Windows XP
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mac OS X
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Linux
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Windows Mobile
No
No
No
No
No
No
Palm OS
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Programming Language
C#
Python
.NET
c#
Common Features The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
Search
none
local & web
local & web
local & web
none
local
Notifications
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
MSN Style Popup + Chime
notifies you of updates, Notifier feed you news
no
OPML Import
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
OPML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Playlist Formats
Feed List Format (FLF), which lists one ATOM or RSS feed's URI per line, ues '#'' character for comment lines.
M3U
WMP, iTunes, jRiver, Direct Sync to Flashdrive, any by API
M3U, PLS
Organize The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
Expiring Channels
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Archive Old Feeds
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"
No
Feed Reading The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
Integrated Browser
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plain Text
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcatching The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
Schedule Downloads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Resume Partial Downloads
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Limit Download Size
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
ID3 Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Sync The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
Sync to iTunes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Sync to PSP
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Sync to Mediaplayer
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Sync to iPod
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Integrated burning to CD
No
No
No
No
No
No
Media The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
MP3
download
download & external playing
download & internal playing
download
download
download & external playing
MPEG-4
download
download & external playing
download & external playing
download
download
download & external playing
Real
download
download & external playing
download & external playing
download
download & external playing
Quicktime
download
download & external playing
download & external playing
download
Windows Media
download
download & external playing
download & internal playing
download
download
DivX
download
download & external playing
download & external playing
download
Xvid
download
download & external playing
download & external playing
download
Content Protocols The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
rss 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
atom
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Transport Protocols The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
http
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
https
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
http auth
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
bittorrent
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Proxy Server
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
feed://
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
podcast://
No
No
No
No
No
No
pcast://
No
No
No
No
No
No
itpc://
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
itms://
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Support The Spellcatcher gPodder RSSRadio ziepod rcFeedMe QuickNews
Support Forum
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Mailinglists
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
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