Castamatic Podcast Player

Castamatic is a podcast player for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and CarPlay. Build a custom sequence of episodes or a smart playlist, follow along with on-device transcripts, and hear every show at an even level thanks to the machine learning Auto-leveler.

New in Castamatic 14
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-Share as video: share a moment of an episode as a video with the artwork, the waveform and captions. Choose a vertical, square or landscape format. The vertical format goes straight to Instagram Stories.

-Chapter selection (Premium): turn off the chapters you don't care about, and playback skips them for you.

-Undo (Premium): for 10 seconds, take back a skip, a chapter change or an accidental "Listened".

-Chapters from show notes: episodes that list their chapters only in the notes now get real chapters.

Highlights
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Magic Transcript: generate full episode transcripts directly on your device. Tap any line to jump to that exact moment.

Magic Chapters: split episodes into chapters with on-device Apple Intelligence, even when the podcast doesn't include them.

Transcript Panel: follow along with a live-scrolling transcript right in the player, with full transport controls.

Key Features
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-Chapters: quickly jump to favorite topics. Works with published chapter marks, chapters in the show notes and Magic Chapters.

-Smart playlists with priority shows.

-"On the Go" Playlist: quickly pick shows for the next listening session.

-Support your favorite producers with Podcasting 2.0 and Value4Value.

-Live podcasts: listen to live shows and get notified the moment they go live.

-Podping: receive new episodes immediately after they are published.

-Full support for Siri and Shortcuts.

-Automatic Leveler: increase audio level consistency between different parts/voices of each show, without altering the original audio character.

-Adaptive Gap-Zapper: increase play speed without losing intelligibility by shortening silent parts.

-Streaming: save network traffic by downloading only the parts you play. Or download new episodes automatically, and skip the titles you don't want.

-Apple Watch: control playback, volume, pick episodes, and adjust audio effects from the watch.

-CarPlay: take your favorite shows with you in your car.

-iCloud sync: sync subscriptions and playhead position across all your devices.

-Backup and restore: manual and automatic backups keep your data safe.

-Custom AudioUnit player: maximum performance and minimal battery drain.

-Serverless design: Castamatic will keep on working as long as there are podcasts to listen to on planet Earth.

Castamatic Premium (in-app purchase)
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Castamatic is free to use. An optional yearly subscription, "One Year Premium Subscription", supports indie development and gives you:
-No Premium banner
-Chapter selection
-Undo of your last action
-Unlimited imports of external audio files

The app shows the price before you buy. The price may vary by country. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage the subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, is forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

Privacy Policy: https://castamatic.com/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://castamatic.com/terms_of_use/

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Version 14.0.4 release notes

Version 14.0.4 - On CarPlay, when you resumed playback after a pause, the player sometimes lost the artwork and showed a placeholder. The artwork now stays. - With the iPhone locked, resuming playback, for example from your AirPods, could still leave the Lock Screen without artwork. The artwork now appears a few seconds after playback resumes. - On CarPlay, tapping Now Playing or the player on the Dashboard sometimes opened the app's main list instead of the player. It now opens the player with the episode you were listening to. Version 14.0.3 - On CarPlay, with an episode paused, the Now Playing screen stayed empty when the car connected until you pressed Play. It now shows the episode right away. - In Playlist Settings, dragging a podcast out of "Priority order" closed the app. The row now stays in its section. - When you played some episodes, the app sometimes closed unexpectedly. This no longer happens. Version 14 - Share a moment of an episode as a video: pick the start and the end on the waveform, preview it, and choose a vertical, square or landscape format. The video shows the artwork and the waveform, plus captions when the episode has a transcript. The vertical format goes straight to Instagram Stories. Find it in the player menu for downloaded episodes. - Premium: choose which chapters to hear. Turn off the chapters you don't care about in the chapter list, and playback skips them for you. - Premium: undo your last action. For 10 seconds you can take back a skip, a chapter change or an accidental "Listened". - Chapters for episodes that list them only in the show notes, as lines with a time and a title. - Smarter auto-download: "Skip Titles Containing" in Podcast Settings keeps episodes with the words you choose from downloading. - The player opens and closes as a card that grows from the mini player or from the episode row. Show notes, chapters and transcript open full screen, with the artwork colors of the player. - A podcast's episode list and the search details panel take the color of the artwork. Search genres are now a compact list with tinted icons. - The loaded episode shows its progress as a fill behind the whole row, and rows show the time left or the duration. On CarPlay, rows show the duration, and Now Playing opens at the first playback. - Podcast lists ignore leading articles such as "The" when sorting by name. - Native iOS swipe actions on episode rows, and the close button of panels is now on the left. - With Reduce Motion on, animations become dissolves. - Restoring a backup now asks what to do with your iCloud data: replace it with the backup, or keep it. Your other devices pause and ask before they take the new data. - A new activity indicator shows the real progress of OPML import, restore, export and sync. - OPML import no longer freezes the app with large libraries and no longer creates duplicate podcasts. - A backup, an OPML file, an audio file or a feed link opened while the app is closed now actually opens. Before, the app only launched. - Updating many podcasts at once sends at most one notification per podcast, and none for podcasts you don't follow. - A podcast opened from search without subscribing no longer marks its old episodes as played. - iCloud sync resumes where it stopped with very large libraries, and tells you when iCloud stays unavailable for more than a day. - When an action you started fails, the app now tells you instead of doing nothing. - Many bug fixes and performance improvements.