... it was definitely gPodder. THP (Thomas H. Perl, the author) welcomed suggestions, made constant bug fixes, added and removed features all depending on what the members of the community provided to him via bugtracking as well as forum comments. He gets my vote for an excellent five stars all-around: excellent application, excellent example of open development, excellent example of open source, excellent example of customer service (for a FREE app!! PLEASE donate to him, I did and you should if you like and use his app.)...
And this post reminded me of two projects where the authors
also need recognition for their excellent work,
and rather than poorly plagiarize your description
simply say 'them too' for the much the same reasons :
OM Weather
Cutetube
FM transmitter
FM radio
all emulators (especially SNES and CPS2 and N64)
SuperTux
BatteryGraph
QCPUFreq
Bless900
HDR Capture
Faster App Manager
Instinctiv
modRana
GiveMeFive
FrozenBubble2
Hangman
Mad Bomber
OpenArena
ScummVM
AngryBirds
Pidgin
All the mods (Conversations, espeakcaller, pyCallBlocker)