Feedcast guides

Guides to a better personal podcast setup.

Four things Feedcast does to a podcast episode on your Mac, each one explained in full: what it changes, what it leaves alone, and where it has limits.

Start with what you want to fix.

Sponsor removal

Podcast ad blocker for Mac

Where Feedcast looks for the sponsor read, what it cuts out of the file, what happens to the chapters, and what detection cannot promise.

Read the podcast ad blocker guide
Personal RSS

Create a private podcast feed

Put several shows and your own files into one feed, keep the media on your Mac, and subscribe in Apple Podcasts or anything else.

Read the private feed guide
YouTube

Turn YouTube into a podcast

Channels, playlists and single videos become audio or video episodes, using the direct download of Feedcast.

Read the YouTube to podcast guide
Navigation

Podcast transcripts and chapters

On-device transcripts you can search line by line, the chapters a show already ships, and chapters written for the episodes without any.

Read the transcript and chapter guide

What Feedcast is, in one paragraph

Feedcast is a Mac app that sits between a podcast source and the player you already use. It keeps a personal copy of each episode, transcribes it, keeps or writes its chapters, cuts out the sponsor reads it finds, and publishes the result as an ordinary RSS feed.

It is not a podcast host, a replacement player, or somewhere to store your library in the cloud. Your Mac holds the media and serves it. Online hosting publishes the feed file on its own, for the apps that need a web address to subscribe.

If you are new to it, start with the overview. For what changed recently, read the changelog.