Castria vs PodWash

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

Skip the interruptions. PodWash identifies likely ad breaks and moves you past them, so you can stay with the show. Filter the words you do not want to hear. Choose word categories, add your own words, and decide whether matching moments are muted or skipped. PodWash is a podcast player built for more control over how you listen. Build a library, line up what you want to hear next, and keep favorites ready for offline listening—without creating an account. FEATURES • Skip likely ad breaks. Optional cloud ad detection uses timed transcript text—not podcast audio—to identify likely ads. Turn it off in Settings at any time. • Filter profanity and unwanted words. Choose word categories, add custom words, and select whether matching moments are muted or skipped. • Keep your place. Use playback speed controls, a sleep timer, and a queue that keeps the next episode in view. • Download for later. Save episodes for offline listening and remove them when you are done. • Follow along. Read the on-device transcript as an episode plays and recenter it whenever you need to catch up. • See what is ahead. The playback timeline shows preparation and cleaned segments as they become available. Podcast content and recognition results can vary. PodWash’s analysis tools are designed to give you more control; they do not guarantee that every word or segment will be detected. Read the Privacy Policy and get help at podwash-support.web.app.