Castamatic is the best app to listen to podcasts on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Quickly assemble a custom sequence of episodes or create a smart playlist, and enjoy your favorite shows with enhanced audio quality thanks to Castamatic's machine learning Auto-leveler. New in Castamatic 13: on-device intelligence powered by Apple Intelligence. Generate full episode transcripts, automatically create chapters, and follow along with a live-scrolling transcript panel — all processed privately on your device. Highlights --------------- Magic Transcript: generate full episode transcripts directly on your device. Tap any line to jump to that exact moment. Magic Chapters: automatically split episodes into chapters using on-device AI, even when the podcast doesn't include them. Transcript Panel: follow along with a live-scrolling transcript right in the player, with full transport controls. Key Features --------------- -Chapters: quickly jump to favorite topics. Works with published chapter marks and AI-generated Magic Chapters. -Smart playlists with priority shows. -"On the Go" Playlist: quickly pick shows for the next listening session. -Support your favorite producers with Podcasting 2.0 and Value4Value. -Live podcasts: listen to live shows and get notified the moment they go live. -Podping: receive new episodes immediately after they are published. -Full support for Siri shortcuts. -Automatic Leveler: increase audio level consistency between different parts/voices of each show, without altering original audio character. -Adaptive Gap-Zapper: increase play speed without losing intelligibility by shortening silent parts. -Streaming: spare network traffic downloading only the parts you want to play. Or automatically download episodes as soon as they are published. -Apple Watch: control playback, volume, pick episodes, and adjust audio effects from the watch. -CarPlay: take your favorite shows with you in your car. -iCloud sync: sync subscriptions and playhead position across all your devices. -Backup and restore: manual and automatic backups keep your data safe. -Custom AudioUnit player: maximum performance and minimal battery drain. -Serverless design: Castamatic will keep on working until there are podcasts to listen to on planet Earth. Subscription (in app purchase) ------------- Castamatic is supported by advertising. A subscription is available to remove all ads. Subscription: "One Year Premium Subscription". Price: $14.99/year (may vary by country). Payment 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. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://castamatic.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://castamatic.com/terms_of_use/ Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. -------------- We don't feel comfortable interrupting your listening experience to ask for reviews, but if you are feeling generous please take a minute to leave a nice review. Thank you for your support.
| Size | 137.5 MB |
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| Platforms | Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad |
| Languages | English and Italian |
| Category | Music |
| Website | castamatic.com |
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| iPhone | Requires iOS 18.6 or later. |
| iPad | Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later. |
| Mac | Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. |
| Apple Vision | Requires visionOS 2.6 or later. |
| Apple Watch | Requires watchOS 8.0 or later. |
App's data is regularly updated.
Last update:
Version 13.2.3 - Manage Storage has a new "Orphan Audio Files" row: it shows the space taken by audio files that no longer belong to any episode, and a swipe deletes them. - The Manage Storage total in Preferences could stop counting at the first file it couldn't read and show a few megabytes instead of gigabytes; it now measures everything. - Corrections a publisher makes to an episode in the week after release, such as chapters, transcripts and titles, now reach the app on the next refresh. Before, only new episodes were read. - Refreshing a podcast with a very long back catalogue is much faster. - Playback that stopped because the system's audio service restarted now resumes on its own, also with the app in the background and when the service takes a while to come back. Before, it could give up after a few seconds and show an error. - iCloud sync of listening positions is faster on large libraries, and episodes with a very long identifier are no longer skipped in silence. - After the connection came back, each listening-position update was sent to iCloud twice; it is now sent once. - Applying a playlist order received from iCloud, and scanning files added through iCloud Drive, take less time.