Lysten: Podcast Player
Easy to use, Privacy focused
Free · In‑App Purchases
Start listening in seconds — search for any show, follow it, and get a clean list of episodes ready to play.
Share episodes and shows with anyone, whether or not they have the app. iPhone and iPad users get an App Clip that drops them straight into playback. Tap the share button to invite your friends and loved ones.
Lysten is a lightweight podcast player. Sign in with your email to keep your followed shows, episodes, and listening progress in sync across all your devices — iPhone, iPad, and CarPlay.
Features:
- Sync your library and listening progress across devices with a simple email sign-in
- Interactive widgets showing your feed and unfinished episodes — catch up where you left off with a tap
- Sidebar on iPad with cover art and grouped sections
- CarPlay support, including a Continue Listening carousel
- Download episodes to listen offline — long press an episode and select Download
- Sleep timer, set, enjoy & sleep
- Adjustable playback speed
- Podcasts and episodes indexed in Spotlight
- SharePlay support — listen to episodes with friends and family
- Extremely lightweight
If you run into any trouble or have any questions, please reach out:
- E-mail: support@ambi.se
- X (Twitter): @ambiApps
- Mastodon: @ambiApps@mastodon.social
Privacy policy: https://ambi.se/privacy
Terms of use: https://ambi.se/terms
- Sign in with your email — we've moved off CloudKit, so an account is now required to sync your library across devices.
- Redesigned welcome and sign-in screens with new artwork and a fresh neon look.
- New sidebar on iPad, with cover art and grouped sections.
- CarPlay: a "Continue listening" carousel and nicer placeholders when artwork hasn't loaded yet.
- Faster, more reliable artwork loading throughout the app.
- Episodes without a subtitle now fall back to the description, so cards never look empty.
- Smarter sync that only uploads what actually changed, plus better handling of follows, unfollows, and progress across devices.
- Mark as finished now sticks the way you'd expect.
- Fixes a bug where average duration could show 0 right after following a podcast.
- Lots of stability fixes, including CarPlay and sign-in crashes.
The developer, Ambi Studio AB, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Ambi Studio AB
- Size
- 45.9 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lysten+ $1.99
- Lysten+ Yearly $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ambi Studio



