We're really excited to introduce Castro for iMessage today as part of our 2.1 update. It makes sharing episodes even more convenient. - Easily share recently played episodes with your friends and family - When you receive a recommendation from someone else add it to your queue without leaving the Messages app In Castro, you don’t have to play an episode that you receive immediately, subscribe to the podcast, or wonder where the episode ended up. Instead, just add it to your queue and it’ll be there when you’re ready to listen. We spent a lot of time iterating through designs during the two year-long development of Castro 2. One of the key decisions we made was to centralize all playback around the queue. This is unique among podcast apps and forms the foundation that allowed us to make an iMessage App that can sensibly queue received episodes. I look forward to hearing what people think of it.

I don't understand why sharing a nicer looking link to a podcast is worth paying $4.

I really like this idea. Much more tangible then just verbally recommending episodes.

Whoa! Didn't see this coming. Will definitely check it out, congrats guys! 🎉