MuteCast
Skip podcast ads
$3.99
Mark intros, outros and ads. Read a clearer transcript with colored labels and a steady reading position while paused or marking.
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.
Mark intros, outros, ads and self-promos directly. Colored transcript labels help you review them, with a steady reading position while paused or marking.
Podcast lists and players adapt to landscape on iPhone and iPad. Search and queue actions stay within reach, and your search text and reading position are preserved when you rotate.
AUTO-SKIP—YOU DECIDE
Detect likely ads, self-promos, donation appeals, intros and outros on your device. Choose which types may be skipped for each podcast; other types play normally. Detection draws on available transcripts, chapters, show notes, known patterns and audio cues.
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 playlists, artists, albums and songs in your Apple Music library. Use a full-screen player with artwork, position control, previous/next, visible queue, shuffle and repeat. Search and choose list sorting; pin playlists for Watch and CarPlay. Music and podcasts have separate playback positions. Music access depends on your library and 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.
Ratings & Reviews
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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. On iPhone and iPad, switching players also returns to the last paused music player. Watch updates titles and artwork more reliably and offers Previous/Next Track for music. CarPlay uses the same current music state and four enabled marking actions. Watch playback and volume controls appear before pattern actions. Landscape navigation and Light/Dark/Automatic selection are improved.
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, with your search text and reading position 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, along with navigation when permission to access your music library is missing.
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. When enabled, Silence Reduction shortens pauses without altering voices, with global and per-podcast controls; Time Saved reports the result separately.
1.8: Major reliability and detection-precision update.
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.
The developer, Thomas Erwin Stange, 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
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Information
- Seller
- Thomas Erwin Stange
- Size
- 49.8 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.
- iPhone
- 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


