I come from Android, i used Antennapod which was a really solid and intuitive open source podcast app. Ideally id like to find something similar.
I find Apple Podcasts app to have pretty poor ui/ux, too cluttered, too many taps to get to where I want to be.
My biggest problem with Apple’s offering is voice control doesn’t work very well and I want to listen on long drives. Specifically, I want to be able to skip past whatever is currently playing and load the next one, but Siri doesn’t like to oblige. Occasionally, I even get it saying there are no unplayed podcasts remaining when I am certain there are.
If a 3rd party app works better in this regard, I’m interested!