opencast

What opencast is

Opencast is a podcast app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision that identifies ad breaks in podcast transcripts and skips matches it considers confident. Listeners can subscribe to any RSS feed, including private feeds, download episodes for offline listening, and use on-device transcripts with tap-to-seek, follow-along highlighting, and library search. The player includes Voice Boost, Up Next, playback speed, a sleep timer, AirPlay, per-show intro and outro skipping, Siri, and CarPlay. Its Free plan is free and includes ad skipping, on-device transcription, and the podcast app. Chapters and summaries are optional paid features available on request; listed transcription-hour plans do not show prices. The maker says the app has no account, ads, analytics, or tracking SDKs, and listening data stays on the device by default. Optional iCloud sync stores subscriptions, progress, and playlists in the user's private iCloud database. Optional cloud transcription uses Whisper on Cloudflare Workers AI, with audio kept only while a job runs, according to the maker. Ad analysis and optional Chapters and summaries send transcript text, not audio, to services using Google's Gemini models. The source code is available under the MIT license. The app requires iOS, iPadOS, macOS, or visionOS 26 or later; Mac support requires Apple M1 or later.