# Kiln: Podcast Player — Transcripts for every show

> Transcripts for every show (iPhone/iPad app by Harigovind Valsakumar.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kiln-podcast-player/id6796658464 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Harigovind Valsakumar](https://appshunter.io/developer/1823592618)
- Category: Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 16 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-04
- Data updated: 2026-11-13

## What is Kiln?

Most podcasts don't publish a transcript. Kiln writes one on your iPhone.

It runs on the device using Apple's own speech recognition. No account, no API key, no subscription, and it works on every iPhone the app runs on — including the ones that can't run Apple Intelligence.

Once an episode has words, everything else follows. Search what was actually said. Read along while it plays, with the current line following the audio. Tap any line to jump there. Pull a passage out and send it to someone.


TRANSCRIPTS

• Made on your device, for any episode, free
• Read along in time with the audio, or read without playing
• Tap a line to start listening from that moment
• Speakers named automatically when a model is available
• A publisher's own transcript is used when they provide one


SUMMARIES AND CHAPTERS

Kiln can write a summary of an episode and mark its chapters. Three ways to run it, and you choose:

• Apple Intelligence, on supported devices — free, and nothing leaves the phone
• Your own API key — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including a model running on your own machine. Your key, your account, your bill. Kiln is not in the middle.
• Kiln Plus — a subscription, for people who have no key and don't want to manage one

Transcripts never need any of these.


PLAYING

• Queue, with drag to reorder
• Continuous play, per-show speed, silence trimming
• Sleep timer, skip lengths you set, chapter-aware scrubbing
• Video podcasts play video, or audio only if you'd rather
• Downloads, with a storage limit and automatic tidying
• Carplay-free by design — this is an app you look at when you want to


YOUR LIBRARY

• Import from Apple Podcasts with a share, or a Shortcut for a whole library at once
• OPML in and out, so you can leave whenever you like
• Archive a show to keep everything without hearing from it again
• iCloud sync across your devices, optional and off until you sign in
• Swipe actions you configure yourself


PRIVACY

Your subscriptions, positions, downloads and history stay on your device, or in your own iCloud if you turn sync on. No trackers, no advertising, no analytics.

Transcripts are made on the phone and never sent anywhere. If you use your own API key, episode text goes straight to the provider you chose — never through us. Kiln Plus is the one case where episode text passes through Kiln's server, and it isn't stored.

The full policy is at kilnpodcastplayer.app/privacy


KILN PLUS

An optional subscription that runs summaries and chapters on Kiln's own key, for people who don't have an API key of their own. Everything else in the app — including transcripts — works without it, permanently and free.

• Monthly or yearly, with a monthly generation allowance
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase
• Renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends
• Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings after purchase

Terms of use: kilnpodcastplayer.app/terms
Privacy policy: kilnpodcastplayer.app/privacy


Summaries, chapters and speaker names are produced by a language model and can be wrong. Kiln labels everything it generates and says which model wrote it. Check anything that matters.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kiln Plus Monthly | $4.99 | per month |
| Kiln Plus Yearly | $39.99 | per year |


## Is Kiln safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Kiln.

## Is Kiln legit?

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


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-04

No release notes.

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