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Last updated August 2026

content podcasts has no accounts, no analytics and no servers of ours. Ad detection happens on your device, and what you listen to never leaves it.

Everything the app connects to

This list is complete. It is also in the app itself, under Settings, so you can check it against the app you are actually running rather than against a page we wrote.

Podcast feeds — fetched from the addresses of the shows you subscribe to, directly from your device to each publisher's server.

Artwork and audio — loaded from whatever URLs the feed names. Those hosts see a normal request from your IP address, as any podcast app produces. Artwork is cached permanently so it is fetched once rather than every time you open the app.

Chapters and transcripts — only when the feed names a file for them, and only for an episode you have opened or downloaded.

The podcast directory — when you search for a show, the search term goes to Apple's public podcast directory. No identifier is attached, and the term is never logged. Your region is included, which reveals nothing your IP address does not.

iCloud — your subscriptions, positions and ad marks sync through your own private CloudKit database, which is yours and which we cannot read. It can be switched off with one toggle.

That is the entire list. No analytics, no crash reporter that phones home, no remote configuration, no advertising SDKs.

Two things worth being straight about

Publishers can see that something downloaded an episode. Podcast feeds wrap audio addresses in measurement links, and those are how shows are paid. We keep them intact and send nothing extra, and we never fetch the same episode twice to avoid inflating anyone's numbers. Removing them would quietly take money from the shows you listen to.

Downloading an episode reveals your interest in that show to its host, in the same way visiting a website does. Any podcast app has this property. We reduce it where we can — cookies are disabled on every request, so hosts cannot correlate you across shows.

Ad detection

Finding the ad breaks in an episode means analysing the audio. That analysis runs entirely on your device: the audio, the transcript it produces, and the marks it finds all stay there. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no shared database of ad timings.

That is partly a privacy decision and partly the only correct design. Ads are now assembled per request, so two listeners downloading the same episode get different audio — timings from someone else's copy would be wrong for yours.

What is stored, and where

Your shows, episodes, positions, transcripts and ad marks live in a database on your device. Deleting the app removes all of it. If iCloud sync is on, a copy of the syncing parts lives in your own private iCloud container, which you can clear from Settings.

Private and paid feeds often carry an access token in their address. Those addresses are redacted from every log and diagnostics screen in the app.

Children

content podcasts is not directed at children under 13.

Contact

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