About
Feedcast for Mac is a podcast ad blocker that finds each sponsor read in an episode, cuts it out of the audio, and joins the rest back together. Chapter marks are repaired around the gap, and every cut is listed so you can keep or undo it. The untouched original stays on your Mac. Clean episodes are published as a feed you can play in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, or whichever player you already use.
Feedcast can also gather sources into one feed. You can add podcasts from RSS or Apple's catalog, your own audio and video files, and, in the direct download version, YouTube channels, playlists, and videos. Every episode is transcribed on your Mac, which enables chapters, timed transcripts, and search inside an episode, and chapters a show already ships are kept with their artwork.
Feedcast is free to start with no account required, and the Mac App Store version includes your first five episodes ad-free. Premium, at $4.99 a month or $44.99 a year after a free week, keeps sponsor removal running on every new episode and adds generated chapters and unlimited feeds.
What's new
All release notes- A new player shows the artwork of the chapter that is playing and sits at the top of the episode detail, where it stays put when you switch between Details and Transcript - The waveform is now the scrubber: hover to see the time and chapter, drag to jump, and feel a tap on the trackpad at every chapter boundary - Click the chapter title to see every chapter and jump to one - Playback speed now goes from 0.5x to 3x in steps of 0.1x - Click the time on the right to switch between time left and total length - The Chaptercast, Autochapter and SponsorScrub windows use the same player, show the episode title and artwork, and each takes the color of its button - The episode buttons now read Edit Chapters, Transcript & AI Chapters and Review Ads, and shrink to icons when space is tight - Show notes now appear with their full formatting: headings, lists, bold, italic, quotes and links, and the episode editor lets you edit them in place - Feedcast now keeps every original episode for good while storing only what was cut out, so the original retention setting is gone - Processing runs at full speed, reprocessing an episode takes about a second, and each step shows as Preparing, Enhancing audio or Cutting ads - Artwork that is not square now sits on a blurred copy of itself instead of black bars, in the player, in chapter images, in covers Feedcast saves, in episode pictures your podcast app shows and in custom show art - Feedcast now recognizes the same sponsor read across all your shows, and a read you switch off in one show stays off everywhere - The first chapter of a cleaned episode now says "(Generated by Feedcast)" when Feedcast wrote the chapters - The custom chapter prompt setting is gone, every episode now uses Feedcast's own prompt - The transcript scrolls more smoothly - Deleting an episode or a feed now stops its processing right away - Trailers marked as a single sponsor chapter no longer fail to process - Transcripts that finish after the feed was last written now reach your podcast app