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I hate all of those too, which is why a good podcast app is a must. I use Overcast and its ability to quickly skip forward and speed up is awesome.

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I concur. Overcast took me from unable to listen to any podcasts on a relatively short commute to listening to several a week, now.

Marco Arment really does a great job with designing the player from the perspective of someone who consumes a ton of podcasts.

Overcast for Android is rubbish, though, anyone have any alternative recommendations?

There is no official Overcast for Android, you've found yourself a clone. (I don't use android that much so I don't have any recommendations, sorry).

Pocket Casts is the Android app I use and it's pretty good. It supports streaming or downloading podcasts and you can adjust playback speed, auto-skip silence, customize forward/backward skip button durations, etc.

I second Pocket Casts. It is good enough that I will probably keep using it instead of switching back to Overcast if/when I go back to iOS. (It has an account sync feature.) I paid $5 for it, similarly to the $5 I paid for Overcast.

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