Apple Podcasts
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Apple Podcasts is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple for playing podcasts. Apple began supporting podcasts with iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and launched its first standalone mobile app in 2012. The app was later pre-installed with iOS beginning October 2014. The Apple Podcasts directory features more than two million shows. Apple Podcasts is available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, CarPlay, visionOS, Microsoft Windows operating systems, web browsers, and on Amazon Alexa devices. Wikipedia
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Owned by: Apple
About Apple Podcasts
Apple Podcasts is the world’s premier destination for podcast discovery and listening. It provides the best experience for listeners to explore millions of shows on every imaginable topic and to directly support the creators behind them. For fans looking to deepen their connection with their favorite podcasts, Apple Podcasts also offers thousands of premium subscriptions with benefits like exclusive content and ad-free listening. The entire library is available for free, and is seamlessly integrated across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and CarPlay, and on the web at https://podcasts.apple.com.
Latest news
- Jul 24: Apple Podcasts didn't give us a comment. The company does have a history of listening to feedback, though, and the addition of video is probably a good example of that. We would hope they harmonise their play count, which is wildly different to the rest of the industry.
- Jul 20:
Drea is the latest iOS podcast app that promises to remove the ads. This one is free; it downloads episodes onto your phone, and uses both cloud LLMs and audio fingerprinting to work out where the ads are. It's the first ad-removal tool we've discovered that correctly removes the host-read ad in our own daily show, with no false positives: which is impressive. In our tests, the app is pretending that it's Apple Podcasts, using a user-agent of
Podcasts/4025.610.1, so it'll be almost impossible to block (unless we start considering some form of request signing by apps). "I wanted to eliminate the possibility of the podcast host/distributor being able to identify which download requests are coming from my app, so that they couldn’t block them," the developer told us. - Jul 17: Witch Path Next? launches today. Through folklore, magical history, rituals, everyday practice and honest reflection, the host Med Stroud invites listeners to explore their own path while discovering the stories, traditions and communities that continue to inspire modern witchcraft. The show reached #1 in one Apple Podcasts chart before launch.
- Jul 14: The iOS 27, tvOS 27 and macOS 27 public beta is now available to anyone. It brings Apple Podcasts video to the macOS desktop and to Apple TV devices, as well as a new AI service. (We've been running the developer beta for a while.)
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