Kikkoman

Winner : Podcaster.

These days the “reason” I have jailbroke my phone has been the “illegal” Podcaster application.

Especially during the election season as it allowed me to keep on top of all the news. It was however buggy and crashy (version 1.2).

When Apple released the 2.2 firmware the primary feature I was looking forward too was the ability to download podcasts “out of the box” as it were, mainly because of how buggy and crashy Podcaster was.

Well, the 2.2 download feature while nice is still pretty useless, in that

1. You can’t setup a subscription on the phone and have it check for new podcasts. Instead you have to manually check each podcast.
2. You can’t delete a downloaded podcast once you are done with it.

Thankfully, Podcaster released a new version (1.4) that is much more stable. That and with Backgrounder, podcasts can be played and downloaded in the background.