Parasocial vs think

The free, feature-rich, blazing-fast podcast player. No ads from us, ever. No invasive tracking. The optional support subscription adds only a Supporter badge. Native for iPhone, iPad, macOS, and now iPhone Duo. Sync across devices and get new episodes nearly instantly, not hours or days after they are released. *NEW in 2.0* Watch. Stream full-resolution video for video-enabled podcasts. When an episode has video, a Watch button appears on the cover. Tap it and the cover becomes the video. Picture-in-Picture and Full Screen on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Video streams instead of downloading, so it won't fill up your device. Turn Trim Gaps on and remove nearly 15 minutes of dead air in a 2-hour podcast. Studio Sound makes even archival podcasts sound buttery smooth. *NEW* Level Ads turns down the volume on ads that are significantly louder than the shows they support. Dry your tears and save your ears. *NEW* Listen, Curate, Share Gather shows or episodes into a collection and share the set as one link; followers get the shows, not a snapshot, so it never goes out of date. The Curate tab holds everything you follow and share, with Discover underneath: public playlists and collections from Parasocial listeners from across the globe. *NEW* Native iPhone Duo support from v1.8 on! Wildly intuitive search. Find shows, episodes, or guests in your library or across any network. Sharing and superlatives. Forget Collections; you can share podcast clips right to Instagram stories or through the share sheet. Bookmarks. We've never understood the idea of favorites. Sometimes we just want to save an episode and tag it, so I know what it's about, and we can listen or share it again later. That's why we built bookmarks and tags. No more favorites. Bookmarks and tags are the future of podcast listening. PLUS: Everything else you'd expect from an expensive player, but for free. Smart playlists from rules: every show, only the ones you pick, or all but a few; unplayed, in progress, or both; newest or oldest first; grouped by show. Per-show priorities, ranked in your order. Force a single episode in or out without breaking the rule that built the list. Auto-download per playlist. New matches queue themselves. Manual "Dumb" playlists, a built-in queue, Play Next, and pinning. Chapters when the show publishes them, tap to jump. Transcripts one swipe from the artwork, cached so reading never interrupts playback. Sleep timer by minutes or at the end of the episode. AirPlay, Bluetooth, lock screen, Control Center, background audio. Share This Moment: the last 30 seconds as a story card or a short video, made for Instagram stories. Widgets for the home and lock screen. INSANE IMPORTING OPML import, including extended exports with playlists, priorities, bookmarks, played state, and progress. The only player with a Spotify importer. AND ONE MORE THING Weekly and monthly Wrapped and Superlatives. Share your unhealthy relationship with friends and enemies. Optional support: $2.99/month or $14.99/year; renews until canceled. Every feature above is free forever. Support: support@parasocial.fm Terms https://parasocial.fm/terms Privacy https://parasocial.fm/privacy

think renders news the way e-ink renders a page: soft greys, a serif headline, dithered photographs, nothing that blinks, auto-plays, or refreshes itself while you're looking at it. ONE STORY AT A TIME No infinite scroll, no feed to doomscroll through. Each story fills the screen — headline, photo, publisher, and a read-time estimate. Swipe up for the next one, swipe right (or tap) to open the full article in-app. When you've seen everything your topics have to offer, the feed says so and stops, instead of padding itself out with filler. PICK YOUR PUBLISHERS, SKIP THE ALGORITHM There's no engagement-driven ranking deciding what you see. Choose your topics, and think shows you a curated catalog of publishers behind them — 208 publishers across 32 topics at last count. Vote a story up or down to tune the mix, or mute a publisher outright. Want a source that isn't in the catalog? Paste any site's RSS or Atom feed URL and think adds it to your list. SAVE FOR LATER Bookmark anything you don't have time for now. Saved stories are grouped by topic and stay in your list until you clear them. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING There's no sign-in and no user id. think has no analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDK, and no server of its own — it only talks to your chosen publishers' RSS feeds and their image hosts. Your topics, your publishers, your votes, and your saved stories live on your device only, and are deleted when you delete the app. Available in English and Vietnamese. Requires iOS 15 or later.