Entertainment, music and news consumption
Podcast apps and AI tools
Podcast-centric tools spanning players, AI-generated episodes from topics or documents, episode summaries and actionable playbooks, transcription and search, and sponsor-segment removal, for listeners and podcast creators.
Built for: Podcast listeners and podcasters
Projects since May 04
76
Different builders
67
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -23%
AI is the core
47%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (50%), mobile app (30%), ai agent or bot (3.9%) · from r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding, r/SaaS
Latest
- CastKeeper Knowledge — Generates key facts, key terms, quotes, flashcards and review questions from podcast episodes using Apple Intelligence.“CastKeeper Knowledge Powered by Siri AI - Don't Just Listen, Learn [$0.99 for Students and Educators]”
- DayBrain — Generates personalized audio podcast episodes on niche topics a user is curious about, which can be played on the go and discussed with.“Does this video make you excited about personal podcasts??”
- Almost Human — Publishes an AI-hosted podcast covering human history, science and current events.“Almost Human”
- GlassCast — Plays podcasts on Android with colour theming from the episode, a pull-up panel for queue, speed and sleep timer, and show recommendations.“I switched from iPhone to Android and couldn't find an Android podcast app I liked, so I made one: GlassCast”
- Vocial — Lets users record short voice posts, follow creators, and share audio publicly through links anyone can open.“I first shared Vocial here last December. It’s finally becoming what I originally imagined.”
- scoop.fm — Tracks podcast transcripts for chosen people, companies or topics and delivers a daily page of quotes with show and episode.“Podcast apps still make you follow shows. I built one where you follow topics instead”
- YourTalks — Generates a two-host podcast episode on any user-entered topic, based on research, with sources provided afterward.“Would you listen to a podcast about a topic you chose yourself?”
- Generates on-demand audio history podcast episodes from any typed topic, with two hosts that answer listener questions mid-episode.“I built a history podcast you can interrupt: type any topic, and two hosts tell the story and answer your questions mid-episode”
- Repodify — Combines episodes from multiple podcasts into a single RSS feed that plays directly from the original sources.“Repodify: make podcasts out of podcasts”
- Transcript for Spotify & YouTube — Extracts podcast transcripts from Spotify and YouTube in a browser and lets users edit speaker names.“I built a chrome extension to give Spotify transcript so i can write articles from them”
- WikiJaunt — Turns random Wikipedia articles into AI-generated conversational podcast episodes.“I built WikiJaunt, a site that turns random, interesting Wikipedia articles into AI podcasts”
- Linnet — Lets users write, voice, score, edit and publish podcast episodes in one browser-based workspace, with AI generating assets.“We make 35 podcasts a week, got sick of using six tools to do it, and spent a year building our own”
- Spool — Plays podcasts on iOS and fills a listening queue automatically using rules set when subscribing to each show.“Looking for beta testers for Spool, a new Canadian indie podcast app. Free Supporter unlock if you join!”
- Korva — Extracts ideas and insights from podcasts and presents them in a saveable, explorable feed.“Korva - a feed of insights from podcasts”
- Second Stream — Summarizes podcast and YouTube episodes and saves bookmarked summaries into an Obsidian vault.“I built a free iOS app that summarizes podcast/YouTube episodes”
- Repodify — Turns a set of podcast episodes into one shorter, chronological synthetic episode by transcribing, summarizing, and re-voicing them locally or via API keys.“I wanted to learn ML history from old podcasts & I got tired of 40 hours of back-catalog podcasts, so I built Repodify (local / BYOK, open source)”
- Parasocial — Plays podcasts on Apple devices with a sleep timer, Smart Speed silence trimming, Voice Boost, a local library database, and OPML import of subscriptions and listening state.“I listen to podcasts all day, got frustrated enough to build my own player. Launching Parasocial today.”
- Audely — Plays podcasts and audiobooks from the user's own local and iCloud Drive files, syncing libraries across iPhone, iPad and Mac.“I built a privacy-first podcast and audiobook player for your local files – looking for feedback”
- CastKeeper — Plays podcasts on iOS with AI features like transcripts and chapter generation, and saves episodes to the user's own storage.“Just finished my first TestFlight build for iOS 27 - would love some feedback and testers.”
- PodSubs — Offers a new product for the podcasting industry, according to the post's linked write-up on challenging established practices.“We learned something important while building PodSubs”
Most discussed
- PodTyper — Turns a podcast URL into a full transcript and summaries.“First time getting a dispute, how do I handle it?”
- Generates on-demand audio history podcast episodes from any typed topic, with two hosts that answer listener questions mid-episode.“I built a history podcast you can interrupt: type any topic, and two hosts tell the story and answer your questions mid-episode”
- Podvertise.fm — Aggregates hundreds of thousands of podcast profiles that users can search and browse by category, language, and country, and connects podcasts with advertisers through a marketplace.“Built Podcasts Aggregator - browse freely through 600,000 podcasts”
- podcats — Generates podcasts on user-chosen topics in under a minute and lets users follow podcasts made by others.“AI podcast creation app in my spare time. Need feedback and testers”
- Podwise — Summarizes podcast episodes into short AI-generated summaries in a Chrome extension.“After 2 weeks live, my AI podcast summarizer has 5 users. Here's what I'm doing about it.”
- novusy podcast player — Plays podcasts in the browser with a synced queue, subscriptions, and playback progress across devices.“I built a web-based podcast player that syncs your queue and progress across devices - looking for feedback”
- Generates a daily AI-news podcast with two synthetic hosts by researching stories, scripting dialogue, synthesizing voice, and publishing an RSS feed.“I built a pipeline where two AI hosts research, script, voice, and publish a daily AI-news podcast — I only approve, I don’t write”
- cast0 — Turns AI agent output into audio episodes and publishes them to a podcast feed.“Built a tool so my AI agents can publish podcasts to my podcast app”
- Simple Podcast Manager — Subscribes to podcast RSS feeds, downloads episodes, and syncs them to USB MP3 players on a Mac.“I built a free Mac app for syncing podcasts to USB MP3 players”
- scoop.fm — Tracks podcast transcripts for chosen people, companies or topics and delivers a daily page of quotes with show and episode.“Podcast apps still make you follow shows. I built one where you follow topics instead”