YourPods: Podcast Player

About this app

YourPods delivers a smooth and secure podcast experience across all your devices—even your vehicle. Native playback on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple CarPlay. No ads. No tracking. Ever. We believe your listening habits belong to you, which is why we give you total control over your data. Listen using a secure, local-only account to keep your library lightning-fast and 100% private right on your device. For self-hosters and privacy purists, YourPods offers seamless, native integration with gPodder-compatible servers (like Nextcloud gPodder Sync, NextPod, and RePod). Sync your entire library across devices on your own terms—without ever relying on Big Tech corporate clouds. Now in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch. PRIVACY YOU CAN SEE P3 — Privacy Preserving Playback strips tracking redirects from episode URLs before your device ever connects. SYNC YOUR WAY Choose how your data travels — or keep it local: - Vault Mode: Everything stays on your device. No account or server required. - Nextcloud / Self-Hosted: Bring your own gPodder-compatible server for full control. - gpodder.net: Free public sync with no server setup required. - YourPods Cloud: a free account syncs subscriptions and listening positions across your devices. YourPods Pro adds the web player, queue sync, stats, and notes sync — optional, never needed to use the app you bought. POWERFUL PLAYBACK - Per-podcast Listening Profiles: playback speed, skip intro, skip outro, auto-download, and AutoPilot queue management - Chapters read straight from the audio file, with chapter artwork — plus auto-extraction from show notes - Transcripts (SRT, VTT, JSON, Markdown, RTF, plain text), with search - Notes: annotate an episode while you listen, then export to Markdown, Obsidian, or Nextcloud - Trim silence, and a sleep timer with DriftOff Mode - Download episodes for offline listening - Smart episode notifications with per-podcast controls - Hide episodes to declutter without marking them played NATIVE APPLE ECOSYSTEM • One purchase: buy it once, use it on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. • Apple Watch Freedom: a full player on your wrist — download episodes for fast, offline, phone-free workouts. • Siri & Shortcuts: a complete actions catalog for hands-free listening and your own automations. • CarPlay: a beautifully integrated CarPlay UI. • Home Screen widget, Dynamic Island, and Lock Screen: feels like an app Apple designed themselves. TECHNICAL YourPods is open source. No advertising identifiers. No third-party analytics. The Privacy Manifest declares exactly what data is collected — and in Vault Mode, the answer is nothing. View the full data transparency screen in Settings. • Private Feeds: securely add password-protected premium RSS feeds (like Patreon). Stored locally with their credentials, never sync'd to any server. • Sync Backend: optimized for the gPodder Sync Nextcloud app (apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpoddersync). Standard gPodder services may work, but are untested. • Protocol: implements the Open Podcast Sync protocol for subscriptions (SubscriptionDelta) and actions (EpisodeAction). • Architecture: written natively in Swift and SwiftUI. Playback runs on AVQueuePlayer with gapless auto-advance and automatic stream recovery. • Podcast 2.0: many features supported today, and we keep expanding. HUGE thank you to our TestFlight testers!! Get help or request features: https://asc.is/support/ Privacy Policy: https://yourpods.app/privacy

YourPods now speaks your language. German, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch. The app follows whatever language your device is set to, and you can change it any time in Settings. Every screen is translated — including everything VoiceOver reads aloud and everything Siri says back to you. Dates, durations, speeds and percentages follow your own locale's formatting. The translations are AI-made, and the app says so. The first time YourPods appears in a language new to you, a sheet explains that we use AI to translate from English, that some wording might be a bit off, and how to report anything that reads wrong. The same explanation lives permanently in Settings. NEW - Chapter artwork, and chapters read straight out of the audio file — including files other players show no chapters for - Notes: annotate episodes while you listen, and export to Markdown, Obsidian or Nextcloud - A full Shortcuts catalogue for automations and Siri - Apple Watch: a real player, with the system Now Playing page, speed control, sleep timer and custom skip intervals - Library episode lens: browse every subscription as one flat, filterable episode list - Home Screen playback widget, and AirPlay and Bluetooth output picking from the mini player - When two devices disagree about where you are in an episode, YourPods asks — and you can make your answer the default from the sheet itself - Hide and unhide episodes from anywhere, hide by duration, and hide old episodes when you subscribe - Group your podcasts, and give a group priority in Up Next - Export My Data - Liquid Glass design on iOS 26, with four styles to choose from - Transcript search, episode search, and Nextcloud Login Flow v2 sign-in with 2FA and SSO - YourPods Pro is now available as an in-app subscription. It stays optional — every player feature is included in the app you already bought FIXED - Played state, position and Up Next now agree across your devices: an episode you started on the web picks up on your phone, un-marking one as played sticks, and one you finished on the web stops lingering in the mini player - An episode you paused part-way through is no longer marked played by a background sync, and skipping no longer marks the episode you skipped - Tapping a different episode no longer deletes the one you were listening to from Up Next - "Sync Now" now syncs everything — it was only ever syncing two of the seven things - Feeds update reliably on sync, pull-to-refresh and background refresh - The Apple Watch app's core loops work: library browsing, background refresh, mark as played, and the complication - Home Screen widget buttons control playback instead of opening the app, and the widget shows artwork again - Playback no longer stops silently on auto-advance, and the lock screen, Dynamic Island and CarPlay artwork change with it - Notes reach the web, and deleting one propagates - Fixed the crashes and background kills behind lost sync — corrupt database recovery, suspension kills and watchdog timeouts - Fixed the app quitting when you tapped Restore Purchases or Subscribe FASTER - Much less radio and battery use on Apple Watch during playback - RSS refresh skips unchanged feeds, and independent sync steps run in parallel YourPods now requires iOS 18. Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Get help or request features: https://asc.is/support/

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1. First observed Aug 23, 2026 · 1:06 PM $4.99