Why Feedcast exists
You already have a podcast app you like. Your queue is in it, your history is in it, and your thumb knows where the buttons are. Every product that promises better episodes asks you to give that up and start again somewhere new, which is a strange price to pay for skipping a mattress advert.
Feedcast takes the other route. It changes the episode instead of the app. On your Mac it downloads each new episode, transcribes it, keeps or writes its chapters, cuts out the sponsor reads it finds, evens out the sound, and publishes the result as an ordinary RSS feed. Then you subscribe to that feed in the app you were already using, and nothing else about your listening changes.
A Mac app, not a service
Feedcast is written in Swift and SwiftUI, and the work happens on your machine: the downloading, the transcribing, the cutting, the encoding, and the small server that hands the finished feed to your podcast app. There is no Feedcast account to make and nothing to sign in to. Two things leave the Mac: the transcript text, which Feedcast’s server reads for chapters and sponsor reads, and the list of episodes in each feed, unless you keep it local. The audio never does.
That has a cost worth knowing about. Because your Mac is the one serving the episodes, your phone fetches a new one while it can reach the Mac: on the same network at home, or from anywhere once you give Feedcast your Mac’s Tailscale name. A laptop works fine, and a downloaded episode plays anywhere.
Independent software
Feedcast is made by one student developer, with no investors, no advertising deals and no growth team. The free app is a real app: three feeds, on-device transcripts, playback, chapter editing and every library tool, with no time limit, and the Mac App Store version cleans your first five episodes in full. Premium pays for the part that runs on its own, and for the servers behind it.
Questions, bug reports and ideas are welcome at contact@feedcast.org. You can also read the release history, work through the guides, or take verified facts and assets from the press kit.