# PodLume — Smarter Podcast Listening

> Smarter Podcast Listening (iPhone/iPad app by PodMAX AI Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podlume/id6761633511 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [PodMAX AI Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1883550283)
- Category: Productivity, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Released: 2026-04-20
- Data updated: 2026-06-26
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podlume/id6761633511/reviews.md

## What is PodLume?

PodLume is the intelligence layer for podcast listening. Listen to podcasts with synced transcripts, save highlights as you go, revisit key moments later, and ask questions across your podcast library with grounded, timestamped answers. PodLume is built for people who listen to learn.

What you can do with PodLume

* Follow along with a time-synced transcript while you listen
* Save highlights with timestamps, transcript excerpts, and optional notes
* Jump back to the exact moment from any saved highlight
* See speakers, mentions, and extracted entities from the conversation
* Get AI-generated summaries and takeaways from processed episodes
* Ask PodLume’s Agent questions across your library and get answers with citations
* Discover podcasts, subscribe to shows, and keep your listening organized
* Get newly released episodes from your subscribed shows processed automatically
* Process older episodes on demand and turn them into searchable knowledge
* Export your learning and revisit key ideas later

Designed for continuous listeners PodLume is made for long-form listening on the go. Whether you’re walking, commuting, working out, or taking notes after the fact, PodLume helps you capture what matters and return to it later.

PodLume applies subscription-based limits to podcast subscriptions and some processing features, while keeping the listening experience itself unrestricted.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PodLume Plus | $9.99 | per month |
| PodLume Pro | $24.99 | per month |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-06-15

Meet Explore — browse and preview podcasts before you even sign up.
- Explore, free to browse: discover and preview episodes without an account.
- For You: a personalized home feed that learns what you're into.
 - Not Interested: hide episodes you'll skip and manage them in Settings.
 - Chapters: jump between chapters from the player and your lock screen. 
 - Sharper highlights & transcripts: tighter sync that stays accurate even through dynamic ads.
 - Smarter recaps: episode summaries grounded in chapters and the people, places, and topics that came up.
 - Better notifications: know the moment a show you follow drops a new episode.

Plus a faster, more reliable player and the usual round of fixes.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-05-14

What's New in v1.2.0

  Share Your Favorite Moments
  - Beautiful AI-generated highlight cards for every clip you save
  - Share a card and the link opens the moment right inside PodLume — friends are auto-subscribed to the show and dropped at the exact second
  - Universal Links so taps from Messages, Mail, and the web land in the app
  - Get a notification (and an in-app indicator) the instant your share card is ready

  Episode Recaps & Notes
  - Personalized AI recap delivered when you finish an episode, formatted with clean headings and bullets
  - Add private notes to any episode — visible in the Notebook tab and the player
  - Highlight summaries plus tidier entity links throughout the workspace

  Redesigned Library & Mentions
  - New Highlights tab in Library, grouped by episode, with one-tap jump to the workspace
  - Mentions are now an inline tab with a recent-mentions preview, replacing the old pop-up sheet

  Playback That Just Works
  - Smarter audio engine: automatically switches between streaming and downloaded playback if one stalls, with seamless fallback on bad caches
  - Fixed: tapping play on an already-loaded episode now resumes instantly
  - Full transcript view tidies itself away when the app goes to the background

  Plus & Pro
  - Premium AI share cards for Plus and Pro members
  - "View Plans" now jumps straight to your subscription settings

  Plus dozens of smaller polish fixes and reliability improvements.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-04-20

No release notes.

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