# Podstack — Podcasts with the ads cut out

> Podcasts with the ads cut out (iPhone/iPad app by GREGORY JOSEPH DALLI.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/podstack/id6816494095 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [GREGORY JOSEPH DALLI](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796480608)
- Category: News, Entertainment
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 16 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-03
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Podstack?

Podstack is a podcast player that takes the ads out.

It listens to each episode before you do and cuts the ad reads out of the audio, so an episode starts where the show starts. The sponsors are still named on the episode, in words, so the people who paid for it still get their mention.

ARTICLES, READ ALOUD
Point Podstack at a newsletter, a blog or a news site and each new piece becomes an episode, read in a natural voice. Forward a newsletter to your own Podstack address and it is in your episodes a few minutes later. If the voice says a word wrong, tap it and pick how it should sound.

DISCOVER
Shows picked from what you already listen to. Each one comes with a 20-second trailer: why it was picked for you, then what it is. Tap once to hear it, and the episode starts right after.

SNIP AND SHARE
Tap the scissors to keep the best minute of an episode. Send it, or a whole episode, as a link that plays in any browser, with nothing to install.

BUILT TO BE READ AT ANY SIZE
Podstack was made by somebody who reads at very large text, so it works at very large text: big buttons, words that never clip, and nothing told to you by colour alone.

AND THE REST
- Your place on every device: stop on your iPhone and carry on on your iPad.
- Silence trimming, Voice Boost, chapters and a sleep timer that fades out.
- Smart Intro Skip skips the same opening every episode.
- Playlists that fill themselves, a Queue, and Favorites.
- Recommend episodes to friends and see what they are listening to.
- Bring your shows over from another app in one step.

Podstack is free, with everything in it.

Questions or ideas: trypodstack.com/support

## Is Podstack safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Podstack.

## Is Podstack legit?

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


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-10-15

- Share an episode with a friend on Podstack, with a note. They get a notification, and a popup the next time they open the app.
- On a Mac: click the Podstack logo or press ⌘' to send feedback with a screenshot.
- Sending an episode to a friend now works.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-12

• Ads are now cut out right on your iPhone, so new episodes are ready sooner.
• A friendlier start: pick shows by topic, or bring your podcasts from another app.
• Invite friends: you get 3 invites, and you can send one along with any episode you share.
• Episodes friends share land in My Picks.
• iPad and Mac: a sidebar, a big player along the bottom, and keyboard controls. Space plays or pauses; the arrow keys skip.
• Follow YouTube channels like podcasts.
• Swipe left on a show to delete it.
• New episode alerts are off until you turn them on in Preferences.
• Smarter intro skipping, and lots of fixes.

### 1.1 — 2026-10-05

Share a snip and the clip itself goes into Messages or WhatsApp, with a link to the whole episode.
Rename your snips and see how many people listened.
Fewer ads left in: promos for other shows and TV promos come out too.
Intros skip on more shows, and a skipped outro fades out gently.
Say it yourself: fix how a word is read aloud just by saying it.
My Picks: your own uploads in one show, pinned to the top.
Sleep timer sounds, and lots of fixes.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-04

No release notes.

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