What’s new

New

• Share your stations by link: all of My stations, one folder or one station. The link opens in PodPoder, or on podpoder.com for someone without it.
• My stations is folders inside folders: hold a row to move it, copy it or take it out, drag it to sort, and add stations to any folder.
• Identify song on Android.
• A cover opens full size from the ⤢ on its corner.

Improved

• Countries and languages are named in your language, and a station's page names its town.
• A station's page says when it was last played and when its listing changed.
• Settings is shorter, and My episodes is in sections: In progress, Unplayed, Played.

Fixed

• A station that announces its own name or programme no longer shows it as the song.
• Some stations on iPhone and Mac named no song until the next one began.
• Identify song no longer fails on samples that start mid-frame.
• Episodes dated with the month in full, as Apple's own feeds do, have their dates.

Improved

• The lock screen, Control Center and the car show a playing station as the mini player does: its flag and name, then the song on air, or its language and genres.

Fixed

• Live HLS stations, like RNE Radio 3, play as live on iPhone and Mac instead of showing −0:00.
• Two quick taps on a station in CarPlay no longer leave an empty playing screen: only one tap answers.
• Android Auto no longer draws a progress bar under a live station.

New

• Collections in the car: CarPlay and Android Auto list your collections as folders above Radio’s stations. A folder opens three levels deep; the last one shows every station below it, under the name of the collection each sits in.
• Next and previous by collection: a station started from a collection steps through it, round both ends – on the lock screen, in the car, on headphones and on the station’s card. Started elsewhere, it steps through My stations. Play in a collection’s title row starts its first station.

Improved

• A station’s page follows when you step to the next or previous station, and Back still goes where you came from.
• The mini player names a station under its flag, over its language and genres.
• My stations’ cards are leaner: no language and genres line, and a bigger play button.
• All’s groups open and close, start closed, and stay as you left them.
• The All · Collections switch stands centred, like My shows, and cards line up 16 pt in with the bars and the mini player.

New

• Collections: your own folders of stations, one inside another as deep as you like. My stations ▸ Collections makes them; Add to collection on a station’s card, or a touch and hold on its row, puts a station in.
• All groups itself by country, language or genre, from Group ▾ at the right of All · Collections.

Improved

• A collection is renamed, moved, filled with Add stations… and put in your own order by dragging, all from its ⋯; Take out, by a left-swipe, empties it station by station.
• My stations reopens where you left it: All or Collections, and inside the collection you had open.
• A station’s picture is the same on the lock screen, in the car and in the mini player.
• A station is added to My stations from its card’s back, by name.
• A tap on an earlier song in a station’s Songs opens it, as in My songs.
• Under a Shazam match the station’s name takes one line, and a tap turns the card onto Songs.

Fixed

• Choosing another episode while one was starting could still play the first; now only the last one you chose plays.

New

• My songs: a song you like is kept with one tap — Add to my songs, under the song on air, on each earlier song in a station’s Songs, and under a Shazam match. Radio’s third section, My songs, lists them all; a tap opens the song in Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.
• A station’s page is one fixed screen, the podcast player’s twin: its cover is a card that turns over onto About, Songs and Stream, and the play button never moves.

Improved

• A sideways swipe turns the cover over, on Now playing and on a station’s page.
• With Flip the cover on opening on, a station’s card turns over by itself when its page opens, as the podcast player’s cover does.
• A station that sends a picture with its song, like Radio Paradise, shows it as the cover while that song is on air.

Fixed

• An episode whose audio is gone says so — the publisher no longer offers it — instead of offering a Retry that could never work.
• When something cannot be saved, the app says so; before, it said nothing.

New

• Settings ▸ Version opens What’s new on podpoder.com, in the app’s language.

Improved

• A station that loses the network while playing — in the car, or on a locked phone — waits for it and plays again by itself within seconds of coverage coming back, for up to 15 minutes.
• Far less battery and heat with the app open: the playing bars move 8 times a second instead of on every frame, and a long title scrolls once, then rests.

Fixed

• After a connection error, play in the car, on the lock screen or in Control Center tries again, where it did nothing before.
• A station that failed stays on the lock screen and the car’s Now Playing, with its logo, ready to play again.

New

• Identify song with Shazam on every playing station, even one that names its song.

Improved

• My shows in the car lists your shows in the phone’s order.
• What was playing — even a station picked in the car — comes back after the app is closed in the background.
• An empty folder in Android Auto says why it is empty.

Fixed

• Live streams sent without a length, like Alpha Boys School Radio, show Live on iPhone and Mac, not an 18-hour recording.
• Stations that report a length of zero, like Radio Swiss Classic, show Live instead of a 0:00 scrubber.
• The car’s offline message clears by itself within seconds of the network coming back.
• On Now playing, a show that cannot be opened says why, and can be tried again.
• The Mac’s menu bar reads PodPoder.

New

• Settings ▸ Text size: System default, Normal or Large. Large is a floor, never stacked on a device already past it.

New

• My shows in the car: on CarPlay and Android Auto, a tap on a show you keep opens its episodes, and a tap plays.
• My shows sorts by newest episode, A–Z or recently added, and remembers your pick.

Improved

• A play that fails says so at the bottom of the list you started it from.
• Hourly news bulletins listed as stations play as recordings, with progress and skips.
• iPhone stays upright; a landscape layout comes later.

Fixed

• The car’s offline message goes away by itself once the phone is back online.
• A show Apple lists twice on one feed is one search result.
• Episode notes no longer show the word “null”.
• An episode without its own cover shows the show’s in My episodes.
• The New badge fits its words in every language.
• Identify song says when Shazam found no song, which may be talk.

New

• Podcast search uses your App Store country, so shows listed only there turn up — like CBC’s Power & Politics.
• Search ▸ Advanced ▸ Store country picks another country’s store.
• A radio song links to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Shazam.
• Settings shows the release date beside the version.

Improved

• The sleep timer’s − and + show their step.
• After the sleep timer stops playback, Start resumes it.
• The Podcasts tab counts new episodes up to 99.

Fixed

• Station descriptions with accents read correctly.
• A show’s “Latest” no longer says yesterday for today’s episodes.
• A station that cannot play says why, in words and in your language.

New

• Radio has two parts: My stations and Search.
• Radio search remembers your last query and sorts by plays, votes, country or name.
• Advanced radio search by country, language, genre and quality.
• On Mac, Space plays and pauses.

Improved

• A paused episode shows a play button.
• My shows says how many episodes are new.
• A failed search offers Retry.

New

• PodPoder in the car: on CarPlay and Android Auto, My episodes and Radio show with their covers and play with a tap.
• Android Auto skips back and forward.

Improved

• A stream that stalls reopens itself.
• The header says when you are offline.

Fixed

• The iPhone status bar is readable on the light theme.
• More station logos show.

New

• The sleep timer fades to silence over its last 10, 30 or 60 seconds; choose the length, or Off, under Fade out.

Improved

• More podcasts load: feeds with small format errors or older text encodings, and large feeds on slow connections.

Fixed

• On Android, playing a podcast or a station no longer closes the app.

New

• Playback speed from 0.5× to 3×: tap the speed beside the sleep timer in Now playing, for every show or, with Only this show, just the one playing.
• The app’s own volume, below your device’s, with a mute that keeps your level.

New

• PodPoder comes to Android: search any podcast, keep the ones you like, and play in the background with lock-screen controls.
• A sleep timer, and every episode resumes where you stopped.
• Turn the cover over in Now playing for the episode’s details, people and chapters; read the transcript as it plays.
• Live radio, with what is playing now.