# Castor: Podcast Player — Transcripts and AI summaries

> Transcripts and AI summaries (iPhone/iPad app by DANIEL MANUEL VARGAS PESET.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/castor-podcast-player/id6817655096 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [DANIEL MANUEL VARGAS PESET](https://appshunter.io/developer/6817655098)
- Category: Entertainment, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-10-11
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Castor?

Castor is a simple, beautiful podcast app that respects your privacy. Subscribe to your favorite shows, download episodes and listen at your own pace on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or in the car.

FREE, FOREVER
• Search for any podcast or add it by its feed URL, including paid ones. Import your subscriptions with OPML.
• Automatic downloads of the latest episode, so you can listen without a signal.
• Up Next: your episode queue, arranged the way you like with a simple swipe.
• Per-podcast speed, chapters, 15- and 30-second skips and a sleep timer.
• Alerts for new episodes from your favorite podcasts.
• Everything synced with iCloud across your devices.
• Widgets, Control Center, Siri and Shortcuts.
• "Your Year in Castor": how much you've listened, your favorite podcasts and what kind of beaver you are.

CASTOR PRO (one-time purchase, no subscription, with a 14-day free trial)
• Transcripts: read what's being said in any episode. Castor uses the podcast's own transcripts or creates them on your device, without sending the audio to any server. (Requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence.)
• Search for a phrase across all your podcasts and jump to that exact moment.
• Ask your podcasts questions and summarize episodes with Apple Intelligence.
• Recommendations for new podcasts, worked out on your device from what you listen to.
• Bookmarks with notes, exportable to Markdown.
• Smart Queue: new episodes from your favorites go straight into Up Next.
• CarPlay: your queue, your downloads and your podcasts on your car's screen.
• Apple Watch: download episodes to your watch and listen with headphones, without your iPhone.

YOUR PRIVACY COMES FIRST
Castor has no accounts, no ads and no trackers. Your subscriptions and history stay on your devices and in your iCloud.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Castor Pro | $12.99 | one-time |
| 14-Day Free Trial | Free | one-time |


## Is Castor safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Castor.

## Is Castor legit?

Castor: Podcast Player has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Castor is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-10-22

What's new
• Ready for iPhone Duo: uses the whole screen, whether it's closed or open.
• Arrange your podcasts your way: touch and hold an artwork and drag it somewhere else. The order syncs with your other devices and is also used in CarPlay.
• Apple Watch shows what's playing on your iPhone: the episode, how far along you are, and a remote to skip back, pause, skip forward or change the speed. Keep listening on the watch and it picks up right where you left off.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-15

What's new
• Touch and hold a podcast's artwork to see how many episodes you have left, play the latest one, mark everything as played, change its settings (automatic downloads, notifications, speed…) or remove it.
• "Mark All as Played" is also in each podcast's "…" menu.
• Settings now shows the build number next to the version.

Fixes
• Recommendation explanations now appear in the app's language.
• Transcripts from podcasts hosted on Podigee now load.

### 1.1 — 2026-10-13

• Castor ya funciona en iPad: a pantalla completa, en cualquier orientación y tamaño de ventana, con las listas centradas y el reproductor en grande. Gratis, como en el iPhone.
• Nuevo apartado «¿Te gusta Castor?» al final de Ajustes para valorar la app, recomendarla o escribirnos.
• Los episodios borrados, terminados o de podcasts que ya no sigues dejan de quedarse en la cola de transcripción.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-11

No release notes.

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