AA-AuralListen Podcatcher

AA-AuralListen Podcatcher is a private podcast app for Android. It plays audio podcasts only, needs no account, shows no ads and does no tracking. Everything you do in the app stays on your phone – there is no server of the developer.

Find and subscribe

• Search Apple Podcasts and fyyd.de, subscribe by RSS address, import and export OPML
• New podcasts start out provisional: listen in (streaming only), then subscribe
• Rate podcasts with 1 to 5 stars – your subscriptions are sorted by it
• Pull to refresh; moved podcasts (new feed address) are followed automatically
• Red counter of unplayed episodes on each subscription; search within your subscriptions
• Podcast page with description and links to the website and to support the podcast
• Seasons: "S2·5" on the cover and a season filter; serial podcasts in listening order

Listening

• Background playback with notification, lock screen and Bluetooth controls
• Skip −15 s / +30 s, speed 1.0× to 2.0×, volume boost (global or per podcast)
• Remaining time or total length at a tap; at higher speed also the real remaining time
• Show notes with tappable links, episode number and release date
• Chapters (Podlove, JSON, ID3) with the progress of the current chapter and per-chapter skip, bookmarks with notes
• Sleep timer with gentle fade-out, also "until the end of the episode"
• Remembers the position of every episode; an episode counts as played only at its end
• Playback history of the last 100 episodes played to the end
• Robust against network problems and MP3s with variable bitrate

Playlists

• Several playlists that continue automatically, with colors, sorting and "Resume"
• "Play next" and "Add to the end" for the playlist that is playing; ⏮ ⏭ in the player and via Bluetooth
• Finished episodes leave the playlist at once, after 5 minutes or never – your choice
• All new or unplayed episodes of a podcast, topic or season into a playlist
• A symbol on every episode that is in a playlist

Downloads

• Manual or automatic downloads per podcast, optionally into a playlist; "Wi-Fi only" with "Download now over mobile data"
• Network feeds: downloads only for chosen topics; new episodes of a topic can arrive as played
• Played downloads are deleted after 96 hours (not while they are in a playlist); adjustable storage limit

More

• German and English, light and dark mode, selectable app color or the color of your wallpaper (Android 12+)
• Episode numbers on the covers, backup and restore

The podcast search uses Apple's iTunes Search API and fyyd.de; your search term is sent to them. Everything else connects directly to the podcast providers.

• Player: controls pinned at the bottom, blurred picture as background, own landscape layout
• Chapter pictures from MP3s and feeds, chapter list follows playback
• New episodes go into a playlist without downloading (streamed)
• "Mark as played" follows the playlist setting (default: 5 min)
• Home: 🔥 for podcasts you rarely skip
• Refreshing shows a status line per podcast
• Podcast description unfolds, bookmark deletion asks first
• Many fixes