Made for iPhone Duo. Your mix and its player are right there on the cover screen. Open it out and the player carries on full size; turn it sideways and Music and Podcasts open side by side as one spread. In Editorial, half-fold it and Now Playing splits at the fold, and every page keeps its controls clear of the hinge. System's player is laid out for the Duo too. Two pages, one mix, on iPad. Turn iPad sideways in Editorial and Music and Podcasts sit side by side, so you can pick sources from both at once. Play it now, keep your mix. Tap an episode or a song and it plays straight away, slipped in ahead of Up Next: your mix carries on afterwards, and an interrupted episode picks up where it stopped. Long-press an episode or song for Play Next or Play Last, or long-press a source on Home and choose Play On Its Own to hear just that. Find and order your sources. Music and Podcasts share one search and filter row in both looks: show only what's queued, and set the playback order from the same menu. When Apple Music can't play. If Apple Music won't start a song, PodMelody now says why and what usually fixes it, and your podcasts keep playing. Plus minor fixes and optimizations.

Made for iOS 27. Ask Siri to play a show, station or playlist by name, follow a new podcast, add an episode to Up Next, skip back, change the speed or set a sleep timer. Your followed shows, stations and episodes appear in Spotlight search too. Two looks, one mix. Choose PodMelody's signature Editorial design or familiar iOS controls with System, in light, dark or automatic appearance, from Settings > Appearance. Both interfaces are included free, and nothing changes for anyone who already chose one. Your accent color. PodMelody Plus adds a choice of 28 accent colors that recolor the marks and plates of either interface, and follow you to every device through iCloud. The default is still free, and if Plus access ends your saved color waits for it to return. Using PodMelody on more than one device? Update each of them to 1.1.5, so an older version can't reset your accent color. Easier with VoiceOver. VoiceOver can now change page in the Editorial interface, with a three-finger swipe or from the rotor, so Settings is reachable from Home again. Source tiles say what their numbers count instead of reading bare digits, and Home's stats read as single items. Room to listen. Editorial Home gives your podcast and music sources more room, the Podcasts page keeps its search in view, and Home's controls and Settings rows adapt better to larger text sizes. Playback slower than 1x sounds cleaner, a pre-processed episode resumes at the right place after its render finishes, and a Plus renewal no longer trims your mix.

Much faster, everywhere. Pre-processing now gets through an episode up to four times faster, so downloads are ready at your speed sooner and your device spends far less time working. The app itself now does its heavy lifting away from the screen: launching, Home, Now Playing and downloads do a fraction of the foreground work they used to, routine upkeep waits until you stop tapping, and flicking back to Home no longer re-checks every feed. Know what's running. The status button on Home now shows every pre-processing pass as it happens, including the ones PodMelody starts on its own, which used to run with no sign on Home. A filling ring means PodMelody is working right now; the arrow ring means there's work waiting to be started or resumed. Tap the button during a pass and Device Activity tells you it is running while PodMelody is open, with Continue in background to ask iOS to keep it going after you leave. Ready for iOS 27. In CarPlay, the Now Playing clock keeps counting through Apple Music songs instead of freezing, handovers between songs and podcasts are more reliable, and there's now a skip button while a song plays. The Browse shelves also fill your car's display without a gap underneath. Clearer at speed, and still improving. Newly pre-processed episodes avoid a faint wobble that could make the odd word sound robotic, and keep pauses the length you set at higher speeds. Making faster listening sound natural is ongoing work, and we're always looking for ways to make it sound better still. Fixes. A paused episode no longer creeps back a couple of seconds each time you reopen the app, or starts playing on your phone when you disconnect CarPlay. Episode status badges stay readable at larger text sizes, the Queue makes better use of landscape, and long sleep timers stay on one line.

More room to listen. We liked the landscape view on iPad so much we brought it to iPhone. Turn the phone sideways and Now Playing spreads into two panes - the cover on one side, the timeline and Up Next on the other - and Home, the browse grids, episode lists and show notes all make proper use of the width. Portrait is exactly as it was. On iPad, the player and the queue now take the whole screen, and the iPad app on Mac reflows more gracefully as you resize its window. System, finished. The Apple-style System interface in PodMelody Plus has been gone over screen by screen, so if you prefer the familiar iOS feel you now get the whole app in it - including music source ordering and the unplayed-only filter it used to skip. Auf Deutsch. PodMelody's first translation. The app, CarPlay, Siri and the accessibility labels are all available in German. Sync and fixes. Resuming on another device never drags you backwards, and a paused device is no longer overridden by another device's echo. Opening PodMelody from the car after it has been closed brings your queue back rather than an empty screen, and the current item can be started straight from Queue. The iPad app on Mac no longer keeps the CPU busy with its window closed. Station episode lists no longer wait on a slow feed, landscape swipes arrive with the right margins, and the launch screen's corner marks no longer double up. Smaller things. Settings > About now has Share Logs, which drafts a support email with anonymised diagnostics attached - no account details, listening history or show names in readable form. The transcript's Snap and Find controls stay on screen however deep you scroll, and the current paragraph stands out more clearly. The music rail shows the artist under the track title.

Podcast stations, transformed. Large podcast stations now open dramatically faster and show their complete episode list straight away. Station stamps stand out more clearly beside cover artwork, with smarter automatic colours and more accurate colour controls. Editorial, refined. A warmer dark appearance, smoother launch transition, clearer buttons, and more balanced Now Playing and mini-player surfaces. Selected artwork now uses a dedicated ring that remains legible against any cover, while unselected tiles retain a subtle edge. Correct details, sooner. Apple Music station slots now show the real station name, provider, and artwork as soon as a mix is built. CarPlay refreshes Now Playing when podcast artwork arrives late. Reliability and performance. Large mixes rotate and save more efficiently. Fixed alerts being hidden by onboarding or appearing in the wrong iPad window, plus crashes when opening the player, queue, or bookmarks while running the iPad app on Mac.

CarPlay, rebuilt. The CarPlay app is redesigned around three destinations: Mix to choose your sources and start listening, Queue to see and jump around what is coming up, and Browse to dive straight into a show or playlist. Artwork, station and playlist covers, and the now-playing controls all render properly on the head unit, and source changes you make in the car appear on your phone straight away. Faster everywhere. Episode lists scroll smoothly through long shows instead of catching, artwork appears sooner, and your Apple Music playlists and stations are on screen the moment you open Home, the music shelves or CarPlay. Better sound. Podcast loudness is now leveled so episodes and music sit at a consistent volume instead of one jumping over the other, and the speed-up engine holds voice pitch more faithfully at higher speeds. Transcripts you can search. Episode transcripts gained navigation and search, so you can jump to the moment you remember instead of scrubbing for it. Reliability and sync. Resuming an episode on another device no longer risks marking it played or replaying stale progress. Seeking while paused holds its position. Subscription import and export are faster and safer on large libraries. A library that is still syncing now says so, rather than looking empty. Smaller things. The sleep timer now fades podcast audio out instead of cutting it. The mini-player has skip controls that match what is playing. Chapter waveforms fill out properly on episodes with sparse chapter data. Setting songs between podcasts to zero now gives you a podcast-only mix. Fixed library playlist artwork failing to render, tips appearing behind Now Playing, and music prefetch interfering with AirPlay.

CarPlay, rebuilt. The CarPlay app is redesigned around three destinations: Mix to choose your sources and start listening, Queue to see and jump around what is coming up, and Browse to dive straight into a show or playlist. Artwork, station and playlist covers, and the now-playing controls all render properly on the head unit, and source changes you make in the car appear on your phone straight away. Better sound. Podcast loudness is now levelled so episodes and music sit at a consistent volume instead of one jumping over the other, and the speed-up engine holds voice pitch more faithfully at higher speeds. Reliability and sync. Resuming an episode on another device no longer risks marking it played or replaying stale progress. Seeking while paused holds its position. Subscription import and export are faster and safer on large libraries.