# Podarium — Self-hosted podcast player

> Self-hosted podcast player (iPhone/iPad app by John Worthington.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podarium/id6812036767 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [John Worthington](https://appshunter.io/developer/6774717064)
- Category: Entertainment, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-25
- Data updated: 2026-10-05
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podarium/id6812036767/reviews.md

## What is Podarium?

Podarium is the native iOS client for your self-hosted Podarium podcast server. Point the app at your server and every show you follow is on your phone, with your place in each episode kept in step wherever you last listened.

Because you run the server, your listening stays entirely under your control. The server fetches feeds, audio and artwork on your behalf, so no podcast publisher ever sees a request from your phone - only from your server. There is no account to create with anyone but yourself, and nothing about what you listen to leaves your own hardware.

FEATURES

• Inbox - everything new across every show, with filters for unplayed, in progress and starred, and search across your subscriptions.

• A proper player - background audio, lock-screen and CarPlay controls, headset buttons, chapter markers, per-show playback speed, intro and outro skipping, and a sleep timer that can stop at the end of the episode.

• Picks up where you left off - start an episode on the desktop, finish it on the phone. Positions, played state and stars sync both ways.

• Queue - line up episodes, reorder by drag, and the next one starts when the current one ends. Queued episodes download to the phone automatically so they play without signal, and clean themselves up once heard.

• Offline downloads - keep any episode on the device; a switch decides whether that may happen over mobile data.

• Transcripts and chapters - read what was said, jump between chapters, and skip sponsor breaks the publisher marked.

• Bookmarks - mark the moment worth coming back to, with a note, and find it again from any device.

• Discover - search and browse trending shows, subscribe in one tap, and preview a show before adding it.

• Per-show settings - speed, silence trimming, loudness levelling, sponsor skipping, retention and auto-download, each per show or inherited from your defaults.

• Statistics - time actually listened, not time marked played, plus what faster playback and trimmed silence have saved you.

• Share - send an episode as a link that opens in whichever podcast app the recipient uses.

• New-episode notifications and an icon badge, so the inbox count is right before you open the app.

• OPML import and export, so your subscriptions are never locked in.

Podarium requires a Podarium server. It is a client for that server, not a standalone product. The server is open source and self-hostable: github.com/jwapps-app/podarium

Try it first: the sign-in screen offers a built-in sample library that needs no server at all.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-25

• Swiping to mark an episode played or to queue it no longer stalls while something is playing.
• Positions, bookmarks and chapters stay exact when the server trims silence, whichever copy of the episode you are listening to.
• Push notifications work again on TestFlight and App Store builds.
• Changes made offline now all reach the server, in order, when you are back in range.
• Sharing is offered only for feeds that are not private.
• Requires Podarium server 0.1.0 from September 25, 2026 or later.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-24

No release notes.

## More apps by John Worthington

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All apps by John Worthington: https://appshunter.io/developer/6774717064

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