Shadowcast vs MuteCast

Lovingly made by a two-man team in the UK. Discover, subscribe, and listen to your favourite podcasts all in one beautifully designed app. Shadowcast Podcast Player offers a sleek, dark-themed interface with powerful search and smart playlists that bring your audio content to life. Whether you're at home, commuting, or on a run, enjoy a seamless listening experience tailored to you. Key Features: Intuitive Interface: Enjoy a modern, dark mode design with clear typography and smooth animations that make browsing and listening effortless. Advanced Search: Quickly find podcasts with our robust search functionality that displays results in real time. Featured & Saved Shows: Explore hand-picked featured podcasts and easily access your saved shows with a stylish, full-width card layout. Smart Playlists & Recently Played: Create custom playlists, manage your library, and quickly revisit your recently played episodes. Seamless Playback: Fine-tune your listening experience with adjustable playback speed and seek settings. Personalized Profile: Customize your profile with a photo, manage account settings, and view your listening stats. Reliable & Lightweight: Enjoy a smooth, ad-free experience powered by our lightweight design and efficient performance. Download Shadowcast Podcast Player now and join our growing community of podcast lovers. Experience a beautifully crafted podcast app, built with passion and precision by a dedicated UK team. Enjoy every moment, every episode—because your listening experience matters. Shadowcast Podcast Player – Your gateway to the world of podcasts. Shadowcast plans: Payments and Renewal: * Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. * Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period * You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mattcowlin.com/shadowcast/#privacy-modal

ADS OUT. PODCASTS ON. Listen for the conversations, stories and ideas. MuteCast combines a podcast player with transparent on-device segment detection and Auto-Skip. Podcast lists and players adapt to landscape on iPhone and iPad. Search and queue actions stay within reach, and your search text and reading position are preserved when you rotate. AUTO-SKIP—YOU DECIDE Detect likely ads, self-promos, donation appeals, intros and outros on your device. Choose which types may be skipped for each podcast; other types play normally. Detection draws on available transcripts, chapters, show notes, known patterns and audio cues. SEE WHAT WAS SKIPPED The timeline shows detected segments and confidence. Skip History records automatic skips with reasons and lets you return to the original position later. Review the transcript and correct a label; corrections inform future analysis for that podcast. OPTIONALLY SHORTEN PAUSES Silence Reduction shortens longer speech pauses in podcasts. It is off by default, with global and per-podcast controls. Time Saved reports the shortened seconds separately. Music is not affected. LISTEN, ORGANIZE AND FIND • Subscribe to and refresh RSS podcasts; stream or listen offline • View downloaded episodes with artwork in My Lists and drag them into a saved order • Control your queue, chapters, speed and sleep timer • Search available transcripts across your library, jump to a match and share text quotes • Follow download, transcription and analysis progress NEW EPISODES, YOUR RULES After a feed refresh, eligible episodes from the last seven days are automatically queued when your download and network settings allow. New downloads can be prepared for transcription and analysis. Choose local notifications for new episodes, finished downloads and completed analyses per podcast. Delivery depends on permissions and background activity. ACROSS YOUR APPLE DEVICES Use MuteCast on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Control playback, volume, chapters and queue from Apple Watch. CarPlay offers podcast and music browsing plus playback controls. Subscriptions, playback positions, queue and analysis data sync through your private iCloud database. YOUR MUSIC LIBRARY, TOO Browse playlists, artists, albums and songs in your Apple Music library. Use a full-screen player with artwork, position control, previous/next, visible queue, shuffle and repeat. Search and choose list sorting; pin playlists for Watch and CarPlay. Music and podcasts have separate playback positions. Music access depends on your library and Apple permissions; some content requires an Apple Music subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Analysis happens on your device. No MuteCast account, analytics, tracking SDKs, server-side analysis or in-app ads. PAY ONCE. NO MUTECAST SUBSCRIPTION. A podcast player with Auto-Skip, without a recurring MuteCast fee.