Always been annoyed by podcast ads. Searched and found a few apps that can detect and skip them, but they were all paid. So I made a free one. To my knowledge this is the first podcast app with free ad block.iOS (26+) only for now. If the app becomes popular I ll def think of doing an Android version as well.The app doesn t require a user account. I may open-source it at some point; still thinking about it. If anyone s suspicious about how it s able to be free, i.e. doesn t it cost money to run, are you selling my data (I m not) etc. I m happy to explain in the comments.From a technical perspective, the innovation here is ad detection despite dynamic/programmatic ads, which is the norm in most popular podcasts these days. There is ofc a naive way to do it, but it s expensive and high latency. There is also an even simpler way but it s illegal lol (re-host and serve just one version of the episode). I was able to figure out a way to do it that s cheap, low latency, and legal: Shazam-style audio fingerprinting.From today on, you never have to listen to a podcast ad again. tearsofjoy.jpegCheers.