Briteside vs Fast Cast

What is Briteside? Briteside is the antidote to "doomscrolling" - a platform where users can discover and share all the good things happening in the world around them. Even in the darkest of times, we know there are still so many great things happening in the world, and our goal is for Briteside to let those great stories shine through! We just launched Briteside exclusively on iOS and are excited for you to come join us! Here are a few of the many great things you can do when you download the app: - Easily discover the latest, greatest, and most popular good news stories - Find heart-warming stories that are happening nearby - Create and share your own posts with only a few clicks - Earn points as other users like your posts - Keep track of your posts and posts you have saved - Explore the places where good things are happening - And so much more! Download the official Briteside app today!

Fast Cast™ is the podcast app built around how speech sounds. Its sound engine keeps voices clear at any speed, its transcripts are made to be read, and it never loses your place. SOUND FIRST • Full Auto listens to each episode and sets the sound for you. • Tight Edit trims the silences so episodes finish sooner without sounding rushed. • Voice Polish brings quiet voices forward so every word carries. • Downloaded or streamed, every episode plays through the same sound engine. • The Sound sheet puts every control in one place: Sound Styles, profiles, and settings for this show or all shows. • Analysis graphs show what you are hearing and what each stage is doing, right now, and a blind A/B test lets you hear the difference for yourself. TRANSCRIPTS YOU CAN READ — FREE • Fast Cast makes its own transcripts on your iPhone. • Live captions follow every word as it is spoken, over the artwork. • The transcript reader lights the current line, keeps chapters inline, searches the whole episode, and a Now pill brings you back to the playhead. AD MARKS, SUMMARIES AND CHAPTERS — FREE • Fast Cast reads its own transcript and marks the ads in English episodes on every iPhone. • With Apple Intelligence it also writes a summary and titled chapters. • All of it happens on your device. Nothing leaves your phone. AUTO AD SKIP (BETA) • Skips the sponsor messages Fast Cast finds in the English episodes it has transcribed, only when it is very sure. A skip mid-episode shows Go Back; an ad that runs to the end of a downloaded episode skips to the end. Off by default. THE PLAYER • Swipe left from the artwork for About, Chapters, Ads, Transcript, Bookmarks & Clips, Links, Sound, Your listening and Episode facts. Reorder or hide any of them. • Tap play on an episode and the full player opens. On a slow connection a ring shows it is buffering, never a frozen screen. • Bookmark a moment, clip it, and share it as a card. • A sleep timer that can stop at the end of the chapter. • Play a finished episode again and it starts from the beginning. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • New episodes land in the Inbox. Queue what you want to hear, archive the rest. • Playlists, and smart playlists that build themselves from your rules. • Binge Mode plays a show's back catalog in order, downloads ahead, and tracks your progress. • Downloads for offline listening, with a Library that sorts active shows first. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES • iCloud sync carries your shows, queue, playlists, Inbox and archive, and where you are in every episode. • A new install restores your library from iCloud. • Continue on this phone: the episode you were just playing on another device waits, paused, in the player. YOUR LISTENING • Stats, streaks and a yearly Wrapped, made from your own listening. • Achievements to earn along the way. • Home Screen widgets for Now Playing, the queue and your stats. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account to create. Fast Cast runs no servers of its own. • Sync and backups use your own iCloud, and only metadata, never audio. FAST CAST U • Lessons inside the app that explain every feature, with Help buttons that open the right one. FAST CAST PRO Full Auto, Tight Edit, Voice Polish, Sound Styles, profiles, live Analysis, Auto Ad Skip, iCloud sync, smart playlists, Binge Mode, themes and artwork looks, and deep stats with Wrapped are part of Fast Cast Pro, a monthly or yearly subscription. Playback, downloads, the Inbox and queue, playlists, transcripts, live captions, ad marks, summaries, chapters, stats and backups are free. Privacy Policy: https://sociallycs.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions or bugs: contact@sociallycs.com Requires iOS 26 or later.