Waves Podcast Player vs BondCasts

Waves is a podcast player built for people who actually listen. Browse top charts, search millions of shows, and follow the ones you care about — in a clean, dark interface that stays out of your way. LISTENING Stream anything instantly or save episodes for offline. Waves supports chapter markers so you can jump to any part of a long episode with one tap. Set a sleep timer, dial playback speed from 0.8x to 3x, and drop bookmarks with notes whenever something's worth keeping. WALKING MODE Start a walk, keep listening. Waves tracks your route on a live map, counts steps and distance using your phone's sensors, and saves a workout to Apple Health when you're done. Simple idea, genuinely useful. DISCOVERY The home screen shows top charts, category picks, and mood-based suggestions for Commute, Focus, Walking, and more. The more you listen, the better it gets. LOCK SCREEN & DYNAMIC ISLAND See what's playing without unlocking your phone. Control playback from your lock screen, headphones, or the Dynamic Island. PRIVACY No account required. No ads. No tracking. Waves runs entirely on Apple's public podcast feeds and RSS — your listening history lives on your device and nowhere else. Sign in with Apple is there if you want it, not because we need it. WHAT'S INCLUDED • Stream any podcast via RSS • Download for offline listening • Top charts by country and genre • Mood-based episode filtering • Chapter support • Bookmarks with notes • Sleep timer • Playback speed 0.8x–3x • Walking Mode with live map • Apple Health workout logging • Live Activity + Dynamic Island • Lock screen controls • Follow & organize shows • Queue management • Alternate app icons • Sign in with Apple (optional)

BondCasts is the podcast app I always wanted, so I built it. Podcasts are one of the last truly open corners of the internet: an open feed, a file, and you. BondCasts is built to keep it that way. It is a player that is simple enough to hand to anyone, deep enough to reward people who love tuning every detail, and honest about the fact that your listening is yours. SIMPLE BY DEFAULT Open the app and press play. The things you do every day are one tap away, and the complexity stays out of your way until you go looking for it. CUSTOMIZABLE TO THE CORE Rearrange your library, build smart playlists that fill themselves, fine-tune playback, and shape the app around how you listen. MADE FOR POWER USERS - On-device transcripts you can read and follow along with, generated privately on your device - Automatic chapters, plus chapters provided by the show - Playback speed, per-show settings, and audio effects like voice boost - Up-next queue and smart playlists driven by your own rules - Download for offline listening - Sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your own private iCloud - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets - Siri and Shortcuts support - Handoff to pick up right where you left off on another device - Import and export your subscriptions as standard OPML, any time WHAT WE PROMISE - We do not track you. No accounts, no analytics, no profiles. Your subscriptions, history, and habits live on your devices and in your own private iCloud. The only thing our notification service ever sees is which public feeds want new-episode alerts, tied to a random ID, never to you. - We do not hold your data hostage. Export your subscriptions as OPML whenever you want. Your library is yours to take with you. - We do not show you ads. No banners, no tracking pixels, no feed full of "recommended" noise. Just the shows you chose to follow. BONDCASTS PRO An optional upgrade unlocks the extra-mile features for enthusiasts. Everything core to listening stays free. BondCasts is a podcast app made by someone who loves podcasts, for people who love podcasts. That is the whole idea. TERMS & PRIVACY Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bondcasts.com/privacy