# Car Curious — Car podcasts, explained > Car podcasts, explained (iPhone/iPad app by Ryan Williams.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/car-curious/id6785778025 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Ryan Williams](https://appshunter.io/developer/6775357315) - Category: Education, News - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 17 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-25 - Data updated: 2026-10-04 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/car-curious/id6785778025/reviews.md ## What is Car Curious? Car Curious plays automotive podcasts and explains what the hosts are talking about as they talk. A host mentions an Audi RS3 or a limited-slip diff, and a card slides up with the car's specs or what the part does. Tap it to read more, or dismiss it and keep listening. Coming Up lists the next explained moments in the episode before you reach them. Tap one to jump to it. The Transcript tab follows along with the audio. Tap a line to jump to that moment. Afraid to Ask mode explains things in plain language, without assuming you grew up in a shop. Download episodes and follow the shows you like. You can control playback from the Lock Screen or Control Center without taking out your phone. In the car, you get your shows, your queue and new episodes on the CarPlay screen. On Apple Watch, you can control playback from your wrist. Follow a show to get a notification when a new episode comes out, and turn that off per show or for all of them. Shows include Remarkable Results Radio and Everyday Driver Car Debate, among more than 300 car podcasts. Images are independently selected and posted by the Car Curious platform and are not provided by Driven Radio Show; photo credits belong to the respective owners. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-24 Bookmarks Save a moment and it now syncs to your other devices, along with the car that was on screen when you saved it. You can bookmark from your Apple Watch, and everything shows up under Saved. CarPlay Now Playing has an Up Next button, and opening a show lists its episodes. Also fixed Tapping a notification opens the right screen. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-19 BOOKMARK A CAR FROM CARPLAY When a host mentions a car you want to remember, tap the bookmark button on CarPlay's Now Playing screen. A checkmark confirms it. Your bookmarks are in the player's ⋯ menu and in Library. Tap one to jump back to where the car came up. CARPLAY - CarPlay shows the car's photo when a car comes up, including after you skip back and when you're offline. - When a car and a term came up together, CarPlay showed the show's cover instead of the car. It shows the car now. ANNOTATIONS - Cards for terms, brands and places no longer borrow the chapter's photo, which could show a different car. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-16 APPEARANCE - Car Curious follows your phone's Light and Dark Mode. - The player draws its color from the episode artwork instead of flat black. PLAYBACK Press play on an episode you just finished and you get the next one. That works from the Lock Screen, your car, an AirPod or the watch. Before, it restarted the hour you had only just heard. ANNOTATIONS - Edit a car's photo or explanation and anyone listening right then sees it. Before, the change waited until they opened the episode again. - The marks along the scrubber show up while you drag it. The setup screen no longer draws fifty of them under the card you are reading. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-12 ASK WITHOUT LOOKING Say "What car is that in Car Curious" and Siri tells you the car they mentioned, out loud. Say "Bookmark this in Car Curious" to mark the moment. Both work while you drive, and you can put either on your Action Button. CARPLAY CarPlay has four tabs: Listen Now, Queue, Shows and Cars. The Cars tab shows cars from this week's episodes. If your queue runs out in the car, the next episode you haven't heard starts playing. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Open the app and you'll find the episode you were listening to in the player bar. A NEW LOOK Browsing is lighter and easier to read. The player stays dark. SIGNING IN - You can switch to a different Google account. - Signing out and back in no longer sends you Google's "you shared data" email each time. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-31 CARPLAY Car Curious now works in CarPlay. Your shows, your queue and what's new, on the screen in the car. NEW EPISODE NOTIFICATIONS Follow a show and your phone will tell you when it publishes. You can turn this off per show, or all at once in Profile. PLAYBACK - Pausing from the Lock Screen, Control Center, an AirPod or your car now actually pauses, and the elapsed time stays honest instead of drifting further ahead the longer you listen. - A paused episode no longer holds your screen awake. - The player no longer crashes on iPad, or on a Pro Max held sideways. ANNOTATIONS AND TRANSCRIPT - When two cars were named in the same breath, the second one never appeared. It does now. - Tapping an annotation jumps to the moment the car is actually named, not to the start of the paragraph. - Four kinds of annotation never rendered at all. They do now. - The transcript follows along with the audio again, and no longer drifts when you change playback speed. - Chapters that start after the last line of the transcript no longer vanish. YOUR SHOWS AND YOUR FEED - Following a show now registers every time. Choosing five during setup could leave you with three. - A show publishing several series a day no longer takes over your feed. Episodes published together share one row you can expand. - A minute of listening no longer removes an episode from New Episodes. - Episodes published in the same hour hold a steady order instead of swapping places between refreshes. SETTING UP New here? 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