The Current State of Podcast Apps in 2024

Two big players and a long, long, tail.

A decade ago, before Spotify fully entered the ring, the podcast app landscape felt like the Wild West.

Apple was the default but hands off leader in the iOS space, which led many scrappy podcast startups to try their hand in carving out a niche with podcast listeners not happy with the offerings of iTunes/Apple Podcasts.

Now, flash forward to 2024 and Spotify has been doing everything they can to dethrone Apple Podcasts and become the…