Druthers
Private podcast autopilot
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
A lightweight podcast app. Priorities, in order: simplicity, correctness, speed.
There is one ordered list. Episodes you add and episodes the app suggests live
in it together, not a queue plus a separate recommendations shelf. When you tell
it to stop suggesting, it stops, and nothing else changes.
WHY ONE LIST
Two lists means two modes, and two modes means a switch, plus every bug that
lives in the seam between them. So there is no queue mode and no autopilot mode.
Turning suggestions off does not change how anything plays.
WHAT FILLS IT
An episode's place is decided by both how much you like the show and how new the
episode is. Neither signal on its own. That is what makes "new toward the top and
things you actually finish toward the top" a real blend rather than one rule
beating the other.
New is measured against each show's own rhythm. A monthly show's four-day-old
episode still reads as brand new. A daily show's yesterday is already old news.
One show cannot take over the top of the queue either: every episode already
taken from a show makes its next one score lower.
YOU CAN ALWAYS ASK WHY
Every suggestion carries the reason it is there. You favourited the show. It is
fresh for that show's cadence. You finish these. You usually listen around now.
Press one and you get the actual numbers behind it, not a slogan.
Anything the app learned, you can overrule. Pin an episode, reorder, delete, or
switch suggestions off entirely. What you did explicitly always beats what it
worked out about you.
IT KEEPS YOUR PLACE
Starting an episode does not consume it. Half-listened episodes stay in the queue
for later, and the app will not quietly drop one you had started. An episode
leaves the queue when it is finished, or when you say you are done with it. Those
are the only two ways.
THE REST OF IT
Subscribe by search or by pasting a feed URL, and bring a library across from
another app with an OPML file.
Downloads and offline playback, with one screen showing what is on the device,
what is still waiting, and what went wrong if anything did.
Lock-screen and Bluetooth controls, adjustable speed, and skip buttons that mean
the same thing on every device.
Trim silence, which shortens long pauses without speeding anyone up, and a
clarity boost for quiet recordings. Both are off until you turn them on.
A sleep timer that fades out rather than cutting.
A listening history you can actually read: what you played, when, for how long,
and which shows you keep coming back to.
Export everything to a single readable file, and restore it by merging or
replacing.
WHAT IT KNOWS ABOUT YOU
Nothing that leaves your phone. There is no account to make, no server of mine to
hold anything, no analytics, no tracking and no ads. Your listening history is
used to order your queue and shown back to you on a stats screen, and that is all
it is for.
Druthers is a personal project. iPhone only, iOS 26 or later.
Ratings & Reviews
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AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTS
Druthers will automatically transcribe your downloaded episodes on device. You can turn this off in settings. (And if you have low power mode enabled, Druthers will wait to transcribe your episodes until it’s turned off.)
POWERFUL SEARCH
You can now search across your podcasts and see results from podcast names, episode titles, show notes, and transcripts. Druthers saves the most recent 180 days of transcripts for search.
DROP A SHOW
Druthers notices when you haven’t listened to a show in a long time and suggests that you might like to drop it.
Some bug fixes as well, specifically relating to artwork.
The developer, Noah Banks, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Noah Banks
- Size
- 5.2 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Medical Treatment information
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © 2026 Noah Banks
