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 with a status line for each podcast being refreshed; moved podcasts (new feed address) are followed automatically

• Red counter of unplayed episodes on each subscription; search within your subscriptions

• Podcast page with a foldable description and links to the website and to support the podcast

• Search with “Popular” (Apple charts) and “New” – by app language

• Home: a flame marks podcasts and topics you hardly ever skip

• 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 – hold a skip button to scan through the episode without playing; speed 1.0× to 2.0× and volume boost, each 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 chapter pictures, the progress of the current chapter and per-chapter skip; bookmarks with notes (long press the bookmark button for the list)

• 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

Player



• Seek bar, play row and the four action buttons stay pinned at the bottom, the rest scrolls

• Strongly blurred cover or chapter picture as background; text colors follow its brightness

• Own landscape layout: info on the left, controls on the right

• Choose the control panel background (Settings → Design): starry sky, aurora, waves, crystal, camouflage

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; "mark as played" follows the same setting

• New episodes of a podcast can go into a playlist without downloading (streamed)

• 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.