MuteCast

Skip podcast ads

$4.99

Podcasts and music in one player: mark ads, view chapter images and share your listening position with iCloud. You choose when to press Play. ADS OUT. PODCASTS ON. Listen for the conversations, stories and ideas. MuteCast combines a podcast player with transparent on-device segment detection and Auto-Skip. AUTO-SKIP—YOU DECIDE MuteCast detects likely ads, self-promotion, introductions and endings on your device. Choose which types may be skipped for each podcast. Donation appeals count as self-promotion. Detection uses available transcripts, chapters, show notes, known patterns and audio cues. The four marking buttons follow your settings and require a readable timed transcript. SEE WHAT WAS SKIPPED The timeline shows detected segments and confidence. Skip History records automatic skips with reasons and lets you return to the original position later. Review the transcript and correct a label; corrections inform future analysis for that podcast. OPTIONALLY SHORTEN PAUSES Silence Reduction shortens longer speech pauses in podcasts. It is off by default, with global and per-podcast controls. Time Saved reports the shortened seconds separately. Music is not affected. LISTEN, ORGANIZE AND FIND • Subscribe to and refresh RSS podcasts; stream or listen offline • View downloaded episodes with artwork in My Lists and drag them into a saved order • Control your queue, chapters, speed and sleep timer • Search available transcripts across your library, jump to a match and share text quotes • Follow download, transcription and analysis progress NEW EPISODES, YOUR RULES After a feed refresh, eligible episodes from the last seven days are automatically queued when your download and network settings allow. New downloads can be prepared for transcription and analysis. Choose local notifications for new episodes, finished downloads and completed analyses per podcast. Delivery depends on permissions and background activity. ACROSS YOUR APPLE DEVICES Use MuteCast on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Control playback, volume, chapters and queue from Apple Watch. CarPlay offers podcast and music browsing plus playback controls. Subscriptions, playback positions, queue and analysis data sync through your private iCloud database, when iCloud sync is enabled. YOUR MUSIC LIBRARY, TOO Browse your Apple Music library with artwork, an album queue, shuffle and repeat. Music and podcasts retain separate listening positions. Title and timeline are updated together, including when returning to the app. iCloud shows the last shared title and listening position on iPhone, iPad and Mac; another device takes over audio only after you press Play. Music must be available in both libraries. Access depends on Apple permissions; some content requires an Apple Music subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Analysis happens on your device. No MuteCast account, analytics, tracking SDKs, server-side analysis or in-app ads. PAY ONCE. NO MUTECAST SUBSCRIPTION. A podcast player with Auto-Skip, without a recurring MuteCast fee.

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1.9.4: Improved music title and timeline updates after background playback, and restoration of the listening position. Faster handoff of available local tracks, better music artwork handling and more robust playback start and timeout handling. iCloud displays the last shared listening position; another device takes over audio only after Play. Fixed a crash when applying podcast analysis results. 1.9.3: Music player: the current title, artwork and timeline update together when tracks change; saved playback positions belong to the correct track. Albums follow disc and track order unless shuffle or repeat is set differently. Podcast chapters can show their own pictures and diagrams in the player without cropping. The four marking buttons for ads, self-promotion, intros and outros respect the podcast's Auto-Skip types and are disabled without a readable timed transcript. Playback pauses for surrounding-context analysis, shows progress and continues after marking and a confirmed skip. If analysis finds no boundaries, the current transcript bubble and bubbles starting in the next 30 seconds are marked and skipped. Donation appeals count as self-promotion; the Uncertain switch is removed. Feed refresh and duplicate-episode protection are improved; normal cancellations no longer show a false error. Widgets follow Light, Dark or Automatic from their local app. New time savings are shared through iCloud; earlier local totals are excluded. Local audio learning can recognise recurring outro music with a downloaded episode and a marked section of at least 10 seconds. Coloured transcript labels are easier to read; pausing and marking keep the reading position. 1.9.2: Podcast lists and podcast and music players are more comfortable in landscape on iPhone and iPad. Search and queue actions are easier to reach, and your search text and reading position are preserved when you rotate. Auto-Skip responds sooner to newly detected ads and self-promotion and more precisely handles measured lead-ins to known promotional patterns. Your settings still apply. We’ve improved responsiveness when refreshing podcasts during music playback and navigation when access to your music library hasn’t been authorized. 1.9.1: Auto-Skip confirms a successful jump before reporting it, with retry and recovery when needed. Short ads and self-promotions detected with very high confidence can be skipped sooner while analysis continues; your settings still apply. Add multiple episodes to the queue with the new visible plus button. New Cut Wave app icon. 1.9: Stability and performance improvements. Music playback is initialized only when needed, reducing unnecessary system requests at app startup and during podcast playback. Long audio-analysis sections are processed in smaller steps. Large music libraries are sorted more efficiently, and background audio analysis controls CPU usage to reduce load. Compatibility adjustments for the latest Apple SDKs. 1.8.7: More precise ad detection: improved comparison of local and publisher transcripts, including mixed passages, and better timing of automatic skips. 1.8.6: Downloaded is now part of My Lists: episodes show artwork and their order can be changed and saved. 1.8: Major reliability and detection-precision update. Ads, self-promotion, donation appeals, intros, and outros are detected more accurately with stricter confirmation and better segment boundaries. 1.7: More reliable refreshing, downloading, and preparation. 1.6: Analysis is easier to understand and the queue is easier to control. 1.5: Improved detection of ads and self-promotion. 1.4: Larger platform update with music library support, better Watch and CarPlay support, revised screenshots, and broader localization. 1.3: Better analysis and sharing features. 1.2: Stability and platform update for iOS and macOS. 1.1: Improved local transcription, more stable downloads, and smoother playback. 1.0: Initial version.

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    Seller
    Thomas Erwin Stange
    Size
    50.1 MB
    Category
    News
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    • Apple Watch
      Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 43 more
    • English, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
    Age Rating
    13+
    • 13+
    • Infrequent
      Profanity or Crude Humor
      Horror/ Fear Themes
      Medical/Treatment Information

      Contains
      Advertising
    Copyright
    © Thomas Stange, 2026