Podcasts vs Castria

Podcasts AM is a fast, clean podcast player — free, currently ad-free and no account required. Looking for a simple podcast app? Podcasts AM is a podcast player for your commute, the gym or bedtime: listen to podcasts offline, set a sleep timer, change the playback speed and pick up where you left off — no sign-up and currently no ads. Discover the most popular podcasts and episodes from 40+ countries and many languages, or search for your favorite shows. DISCOVER • Charts of the most popular podcasts — pick your country • Fast search across shows • Subscribe to shows and keep an eye on new episodes LISTEN • Background playback with lock-screen and notification controls • Full-screen player with a scrubber, 10s back / 30s forward • Playback speed from 0.8× to 3× • Chapters, bookmarks and a sleep timer • Remembers your position and resumes right where you left off • Skip the intro • New episodes download automatically OFFLINE • Download episodes and listen without a connection — perfect on the go YOUR PRIVACY • No account, no sign-up The interface is available in many languages and adapts automatically to your device. Happy listening! Privacy Policy: https://amapps.app/en/podcast/privacy/

Castria is the podcast app that skips the ads for you. Press play and the ads, sponsor reads, and commercial breaks skip themselves. No fast-forwarding, no guessing where the show comes back. Just the show. Premium subscriptions remove an app's own ads, but not the ones inside the episode. Castria skips those, and skipping ads on your phone is free. Around the skip is a full podcast player: playlists, offline downloads, AI summaries, searchable transcripts, and sync across your devices. TOP FEATURES • Ads skip themselves: on every episode, hands-free, from the moment you press play • You stay in control: see every ad Castria found and why, keep a sponsor you want to hear, or turn skipping off in one tap • AI episode summaries: see what an episode covers before you commit • Tap-to-jump topics: go straight to the part you came for • Searchable transcripts: read along, search any word, tap to jump to that moment • Offline downloads: ad-skipping still works with no signal, and each show can auto-download, keep the newest few, or delete after playing • Playlists: build your own, in any order you like • Bring your shows: import from another app with an OPML file, or preview a show before you follow it • Sleep timer, speed up to 5×, and trim silences • Resume on any device: iPhone, iPad, and the web on one account • See your time saved: the minutes and ads Castria has skipped for you, by day, week, and month For serious podcast listeners: the more you listen, the more time you get back. The core is free: ad-skipping, the full player, and the AI features. And Castria shows no ads of its own. CASTRIA PREMIUM (optional, with a free trial) • Faster ad-skip: ads are found on our servers before you download, so your phone does none of the work • CarPlay: a dedicated app with Listen Now, Up Next, Playlists, and Shows (iOS 26.4 or later) • Apple Watch: your queue and Now Playing on your wrist, with ads skipped • Smart playlists that fill themselves • 20 GB of cloud storage for your saved episodes FAIR TO CREATORS Castria plays the publisher's own episode file and skips the ad segments as you listen, the same as fast-forwarding by hand. We never modify or re-host the audio. Don't interrupt what you're doing just to fast-forward through an ad. Castria skips them for you. Castria Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly to your Apple Account. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://castria.app/privacy