- 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

- Transcripts now appear in podcast apps that show them, such as Pocket Casts, synced to the cleaned episode - Show notes and new episode notifications now say how many ads Feedcast removed and where - Feedcast now remembers the sponsor reads it removed from a show and cuts the same reads when they come back in new episodes - Ads inserted into an episode are now also found by comparing it with the publisher's own transcript, when the show provides one - Ad cuts in audio episodes now land in the nearest pause, so they no longer clip a word - When a topic continues after a removed ad, the chapters before and after it now show as one chapter - Add a show, check for new episodes or get a feed link from Spotlight, Siri and Shortcuts - When you browse the episodes of a video show, you can now pick audio, video or both before adding an episode - Chapters no longer pause after an hourly limit, so a large batch of new episodes all get their chapters right away - An episode now keeps its own artwork when the publisher gives it a distinct picture, in Feedcast, in notifications and in your podcast app, and the episode file carries it as its cover - The sidebar now shows show artwork without its frame, with rounder corners and more room between shows - A framed feed artwork now rounds its inner corners to match the rounded corners your podcast app draws around it - Chapter images keep their full resolution and no longer lose quality each time chapters are saved, and chapters without their own picture no longer get a copy of the cover - Switching between shows and episodes is much faster, and the player shows the right time and chapters right away - Adding chapters and artwork to many episodes at once now takes a fraction of the memory, because Feedcast no longer loads each whole episode - The Transcript tab now hides only ad reads and keeps the lines around shortened pauses - The sidebar and episode list now keep their widths when you close and reopen the window - Return now opens the feed or episode you clicked in the sidebar or episode list, without clicking an empty spot first - A short network hiccup while publishing a feed online no longer shows an error, because Feedcast now tries again on its own - The days left before an episode or its original download is deleted now count up to the next full day, so they never show 0 days - Episodes that are still loading now show their full title on two lines instead of cutting it off - A very long link in an episode's description no longer widens the episode pane or rearranges the player - Fixed a crash that could happen when a setting changed in the background

- With Premium, silences are tightened inside the episode file itself, so shows play shorter in every podcast app without clipping a word - With Premium, quiet and loud speakers are evened out, harsh s sounds are softened and every show plays at the same comfortable volume - A crossfade, a fade or one of five sounds you can preview in Settings now marks every removed ad, so a cut sounds intentional - A new Metrics page in Settings adds up the ad time removed, the pauses tightened and the hours you listened, even for episodes you already deleted - One field above your feeds now adds anything: search for a show or episode, or paste any link, and press Return to add it - New episode notifications now arrive once the cleaned episode is ready in your podcast app, not while Feedcast is still working on it - Episodes from BBC podcasts and other shows that still deliver audio over an unencrypted link now download instead of failing with a secure connection error - A show can now be moved into another feed from its right-click menu, and new episodes follow it there while earlier ones stay put - When an episode can't be downloaded, Feedcast now says why in plain words, like a missing episode, a server error or no internet connection - The list of removed ads now stays with an episode after its original download is cleaned up, so you can still see what was cut - A feed's artwork can get a colored frame in any color and width, so it stands apart from the original show in your podcast app - Feedcast no longer quits unexpectedly when an episode title contains a percent sign - Processing an hour-long episode now writes about a quarter as much to your Mac's disk, so macOS no longer warns about heavy disk use - Several new episodes at once now use a fraction of the memory, because Feedcast works on two at a time and handles chapter artwork far more efficiently - Feedcast no longer freezes for a moment while it adds chapters and artwork to an episode - Feedcast no longer holds up a restart, shutdown or logout with its quit question, and when you quit yourself the question now shows in front - An episode that is gone from its source now stays in Downloads with the reason instead of being downloaded again on every sync

Under-the-hood improvements that help find and fix problems faster

• Your first five episodes now get their ads cut and chapters added for free, no trial needed • You can back up your library in Settings and restore it on a new Mac, your episodes download again where they are still available and your podcast app keeps the same feed addresses • A restored episode keeps its edited title and description, the spot where you stopped, and whether you kept or hid it • An episode whose download fails during a sync is tried again on the next one, it used to be skipped for good • The podcast app picker in Settings shows its icon at the right size, it used to cover the Other section

- Transcripts on Apple silicon Macs now come from a faster on-device speech model that also understands ads read in another language, those used to come out as gibberish - The new speech model downloads once, about 600 MB, the first time an episode is transcribed - The monthly chapter allowance is twice as large, Settings now estimates it at about 175 hours of media, the old estimate was too high

- Each subscription can now override chapter generation, sponsor removal and original-file retention - Renaming an episode now keeps its transcript available - Episodes with titles ending in a period now play correctly - Sponsor removal now only matches the Sponsor label in generated chapters - Manual additions now stop at a feed's episode limit instead of being deleted later

- Pulling the audio out of a video episode is now a job you can watch, with its progress in the episode row and the processing window, it used to work away with nothing on screen to say it was running - An episode now drops out of your feed, online and local alike, while Feedcast is rewriting its file and comes back the moment that is done, cutting sponsors or writing chapters used to leave subscribers pulling a half finished file, and the episode tells you why it is being held back - Deleting one of an episode's two media files no longer takes the transcript with it, the transcript and its generated chapters move over to the track you kept - Download Video Version now only turns up on episodes whose show actually offers video, in a feed built from several sources it went by the first one and offered a download that was never going to arrive - Process Again now takes another run at the sponsors in an episode, one that had already been cut once was skipped entirely, so there was no way to pick up sponsors a first pass missed - A feed can now name words it does not want, episodes whose title contains one are left behind when a subscription syncs, and chapters whose title contains one are cut out of the file while the episode is processed

- Feedcast now connects to AI apps like Claude, Cursor, Codex and VS Code, so you can ask them to find an episode, rewrite titles and descriptions, subscribe to a show, generate chapters, read back a transcript, cut sponsors, export a file or start playback, all against the library on your own Mac - Connecting one takes a single paste, the new MCP tab in Settings hands you a setup prompt and the AI app reads it and connects itself, and nothing about the connection leaves your Mac - You decide what an AI app may reach, access stays off until you switch it on and starts out read only, with separate switches for library changes, processing, files, playback, settings, your subscription details and anything that deletes - Extracting the audio track from a video episode now actually produces the audio file, the menu item used to finish without leaving anything behind, and it now tells you why when it cannot work - Podcasts that offer a video version can now be downloaded as video after you already have the episode and the download follows the resolution you picked in Settings

- Online feed hosting is now included for everyone for free and on by default, so Overcast, Pocket Casts, and Castro can finally subscribe in every version - Only the episode listing goes online, at an address nobody can guess. Turn on Local Only for any feed you would rather keep off the web, and your audio keeps streaming from your Mac either way - Transcripts and generated chapters now survive the original file going away, deleting it yourself or letting Feedcast clear it out automatically used to take the transcript with it

- Video episodes now fill the width of the detail pane instead of sitting in a small box, so a video podcast is actually watchable on the Mac - Video now works on shows that only hand their video stream to Apple Podcasts instead of putting it in their feed, like byte, these used to arrive as audio only - Fixed Feedcast seizing up part way through importing a subscription file, where every part of the app that needs the internet would spin forever and only a restart brought it back - Feedcast no longer yanks you to another feed or episode while you're browsing, adding a subscription or finishing a download leaves your place alone - Importing subscriptions from an OPML file is roughly twice as fast and uses half the data, every feed is now fetched once instead of twice - Chapter generation is more dependable on long episodes, it no longer times out partway through or comes back with timestamps that don't line up

- Podcast and local episodes now get the same new and improved processing: thumbnails, chapters from the description or generated for you, and sponsor removal - Sponsors called out in an episode's own chapters are now cut from podcast and local episodes too, not just YouTube - Local files with a YouTube link are re-checked for SponsorBlock segments for a while after they publish, so ads flagged after download still get removed on a later pass - You can now hide any episode from your podcast feed, and bring it back whenever you like, from the editor, the toolbar, or the right-click menu - Processing that runs into a problem now shows a clear failure mark in Downloads & Processing instead of spinning forever - The player in the episode view no longer gets stuck after an episode finishes processing - The Downloads window is now Downloads & Processing: it also shows when episodes are being transcribed or getting chapters generated, with live transcription progress - An episode's Transcript tab now fills in live as it's transcribed, with a progress bar, instead of just showing a spinner - The badge on the Processing button counts active downloads and processing together, so you always see when Feedcast is still working - Generated chapters now line up correctly on sponsor-scrubbed episodes, timestamps shift to match the removed segments - The sidebar warns you when less than 10% of your monthly chapter allowance is left, with a glance at when it resets - Upgraded chapter generation with Gemini 3.5 flash lite

- New Transcript tab in the episode view: read along while you listen, with the transcript following playback - Transcripts stay in sync on sponsor-scrubbed episodes, removed segments are hidden and timestamps adjust automatically - Autochapter now opens the untouched original media for scrubbed episodes

- A redesigned episode player with a waveform view, chapter markers, and richer playback controls - Episodes now resume where you left off, including when you open them in the chapter editor or generator - Originals kept after sponsor scrubbing are now deleted automatically after a few days to reclaim storage, with the retention period configurable in Processing settings - Keep or delete a scrubbed episode's original right from its menus - The storage dashboard now shows how much space scrubbed originals take up - Fixed subscription sync suddenly downloading large numbers of old episodes when a podcast host changes its episode identifiers

- Automatic chapter generation is now included with Feedcast Premium, with no API key to set up - Track your monthly chapter generation allowance right in Processing settings

- Import video podcasts that offer HLS streams and save them as MP4 files for playback - Choose Audio, Video, or Both when importing episodes and for video RSS subscriptions

- New Processing tab in Settings puts everything about automatic episode processing in one place - Decide how sponsors are removed with separate toggles for SponsorBlock segments and sponsor chapters, or turn removal off entirely - Pick which SponsorBlock categories get cut, right from Settings - Chapter generation can now be switched off, and your Gemini API key and chapter prompt are editable in Settings with a live key check

- New SponsorScrub action opens a dedicated window to review and cut sponsor segments out of an episode - Episodes are scrubbed automatically after import using their chapters, and Premium additionally loads community-reported segments from SponsorBlock for YouTube episodes - Sponsor removal keeps your feed links stable and updates episode duration and chapters to match the cut audio and video - The untouched original file is kept next to the scrubbed one, and the editor always shows your previous segment selection when you reopen it - Local files with a pasted YouTube link now get the full SponsorBlock treatment, just like YouTube imports

- Chapters are now generated automatically after transcription when a Gemini API key is set, and episodes that already ship with chapters are skipped - Saving chapters in the Autochapter window now embeds them into the episode audio right away - The Autochapter button shows the current progress, from transcribing to generating

- New Autochapter action opens a dedicated window with an on-device transcript of an episode - Episodes now transcribe automatically in the background after import, so the transcript is ready the moment you open Autochapter - Fixed the welcome window not closing after you finish onboarding - Fixed macOS 27 beta builds by using a local SwiftLAME package without unsafe build flags - Downloaded episode media now uses the episode title as the file name, including RSS and YouTube imports - Renaming an episode also renames its saved audio and video files so Finder exports stay easy to recognize

- Automatically turns the timestamps in an episode description into chapter markers when the episode arrives - Embeds chapters directly into the audio file, so they stay with the episode wherever it is played - Attaches the episode artwork as the default chapter image automatically - Updates the stored file size after embedding, so the published feed stays accurate - Opens a dedicated chapter editor from any episode, with a built-in audio player - Shows every chapter as a marker on the player timeline - Adds a chapter at the exact playhead position with one keyboard shortcut - Edits each chapter's start time and title inline - Jumps the player to any chapter to check the timing - Gives each chapter its own image: pick a file, drag and drop onto the row, or reuse an image already in the episode - Keeps a per-episode image library in the inspector: add, Quick Look preview, set a default, and remove images - Pastes a list of chapters from a video description and parses the timestamps - Copies your chapters back out in the same YouTube-style format - Resets chapters to the original in one step

-Local files can now be linked to a YouTube video, copy the link, then choose “Paste YouTube Link” from an episode’s menu -Choose a language for episode and feed

- You can now use your Premium subscription on the direct download version of Feedcast - Get your license code under Settings, in the Subscription tab, to unlock Premium on one Mac -When Apple Podcasts is your preferred app, Settings now offers Shortcuts to import an OPML file into Apple Podcasts and to export your Apple Podcasts subscriptions back to OPML - Smaller fixes and improvements

Storage management - New Storage dashboard: see how much space Feedcast is using, with a visual bar broken down into audio, video, and other files. - Per-feed breakdown: expand any feed to see its episodes sorted by size and spot what's taking up the most room. - Delete from anywhere: remove individual episodes or whole feeds straight from the Storage screen. - Live disk totals that update as you delete. Library & subscriptions - OPML export is now free and exports every feed in the app, so you can always take your subscriptions with you. Settings - Episode keyboard shortcuts are now listed and grouped in Settings so they're easy to find. - More apps by the developer: discover other apps right from Settings, with their icons. Faster, safer deleting - Batched deletion makes removing multiple episodes at once quicker. - Deleting an episode that's currently playing now stops playback first instead of leaving a broken player.

Discover & stay current Cross-feed episode search — search across all your feeds at once, with matching text highlighted in the results. New-episode notifications — get notified when fresh episodes arrive. Sharing & listening Preferred podcast app for copy-link — choose which app links open in, with recognizable app icons. Managing your library Multi-select episodes — select multiple episodes with keyboard commands for faster bulk actions. Feed reordering — arrange your feeds the way you want. OPML import/export — bring your subscriptions in from another app, or take them with you. Drag-and-drop import — drop files right onto Feedcast with a clear drop overlay; plus a Paste button in the RSS import bar. Smarter local imports — embedded artwork is extracted automatically and square art is displayed correctly. Better YouTube thumbnails — thumbnails now respect their true aspect ratio. Auto-delete for RSS episodes — applies your default cleanup rule automatically after syncing. Cleaner feed removal — removing a feed now clears its entire download directory.