ok, peeps, I'm looking for advice on Android podcasting apps. Since they all cost money, I'm loath to try them out (I don't mind paying, but paying and refunding a bunch of them is annoying). The main things I'm looking for are: downloading new episodes without having to be told; some way to cap the amount of stored files to a filesize limit (so if we're up to say 400MB of downloads, remove the oldest one, or similar); ideally some way to add subscriptions from my desktop machine. Suggestions?
@arnaudj I'll give it a try; thank you!
@sil You're welcome! I hope you will like AntennaPod. I've used it for years and really enjoyed how easy it is.
@sil i'm using Podcast Addict. So far i love it.
@sil Not sure about those specific features, but I like Podcast Addict, and the free version is fine, it's just ad-supported.

@sil Might I suggest an alternative approach.

I have a https://github.com/dvehrs/podget running as a cron job on a server at home that pulls down new podcasts and also deletes old ones. Then that directory is synced to my android phone and my laptop every night with syncthing. A benefit to this is you can sync to however many devices you want and you can use whichever app you want to listen to them.

@kelbot I'm happy to use an existing thing; there's little to no benefit for me personally in gluing together my own solution out of bits here, I think :)
@sil To each their own. I've tried just about every android podcast app and one thing of another annoyed me about each one. I've been much happier with the solution I came up with.
@kelbot fair play! I'm glad you found something you're happy with :)