Quiet by default
Five clear rooms. Contextual controls. No dashboard of distractions between you and the next episode.
Independent Android preview
Less noise.
More listening.
A quiet podcast player shaped around your habits—not an algorithm’s. Direct feeds, deep personalization, offline listening and identity you own.
- No ads
- No tracking
- No required Google services
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01 / The idea
Personal without
being invasive.
Independent at runtime
RSS, local storage and Android system services. No required Play Services, Firebase, advertising or tracking SDK.
Yours to shape
Choose any accent color, switch light or dark, pick from 15 distinct typefaces, or import your own font.
Identity you hold
Create a local key or connect an Android signer. Your public profile can travel; listening data stays local unless you choose otherwise.
Make it yours
One color.
Infinite moods.
The interface derives its emphasis from one chosen hue. Try it here—the page and the miniature player respond together.
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Room for another voice
Woopod Radio · Episode 12
18:4242:07
Playback speed 1.25×
02 / Five rooms
Everything has
its place.
Swipe left or right across the screen, or use the labeled navigation. Each room keeps its own position while playback continues.
01
Library
Subscriptions, episode search, archives, custom artwork and per-show settings.
02
Player
Artwork, progress, resume, skip controls and speed without unrelated clutter.
03
Playlist
A full-width listening order. Hold the handle for 1.5 seconds, then rearrange; quick movement remains scrolling.
04
Discover
Podcasts and episodes across directories, regions and publisher archives.
05
You
Profile, appearance, downloads, transfer tools and the settings that stay out of your way.
03 / Documentation
What woopod
can do.
Available nowPartialRoadmap
50 documented capabilities
Library & subscriptions7 capabilities
Available
Direct RSS & Atom subscriptions
Paste a secure feed URL or supported Apple Podcasts link, preview every playable episode, then subscribe. The publisher feed remains the source of truth.
Available
Complete, refreshable episode lists
Pull down from the top of Library to check every active and archived subscription with live progress. New entries merge without discarding older episodes omitted by shortened feeds. Episode numbers appear before titles, and search narrows shows or episodes locally.
Available
Archive without unsubscribing
Move a quiet subscription out of the everyday Library while preserving its catalog, progress, artwork, offline files, queue entries and OPML export. Restore it at any time.
Available
Artwork that arrives quickly
List thumbnails, preview art and Player art use separate sizes and app-private caching. Import a local image to override a show’s cover; restore the publisher image later.
Available
Per-podcast settings
The cover-side menu contains artwork override, default playback speed, automatic offline retention and archive/restore. More show-level settings can be added without crowding the episode list.
Available
Listening prompts
Short original lines rotate while the Library overview is visible. Choose Another quote from the Library menu. No quote service or network request is involved.
Available
Intentional deletion
The red Danger zone asks twice, recommends an OPML backup and clearly separates subscription deletion from queue, progress, appearance and identity.
Listening & playback11 capabilities
Available
Background playback & resume
Media3 keeps audio playing outside the app. Position checkpoints restore listening after restart, and the mini-player returns you to the full Player. Its long episode title shares Playlist’s title scroll speed setting; 0 stops movement in both.
Available
Precise controls
Play/pause, seek, 15-second rewind and 30-second forward use large theme-colored targets. Buffering, retry and playback errors stay visible.
Available
Speed, globally or per show
Adjust from 0.5× to 2.5× in Player’s top-right menu. A podcast can retain its own default and apply it as episodes change.
Available
Standalone Playlist
Equal-height cards reserve two title lines. Long titles scroll left on the second line; Settings controls speed from 0 (off) to 100. Tap a card to play; hold for Move to top/bottom, Favourite, Played and Remove. Hold an action or episode handle for 1.5 seconds to reorder.
Available
Played history that stays useful
Mark episodes manually or let completion do it. Library and Archived mark individual episodes without adding noise to podcast cards; Discover can identify previously heard shows. Durable local history survives unsubscribe and can be reversed without changing progress.
Available
A Player that fits
The poster adapts to available height so the episode title, timeline, transport buttons and action rail remain together on one non-scrolling screen.
Available
Timestamped bookmark notes
Save a private thought at the current playback time, reopen notes in chronological order and tap one to seek back. Notes remain in an independent local database.
Partial
Create a clip link
In Player, tap Scissors. Drag the timeline’s start/end handles, select Start or End, then slide the ruler for fine adjustment. Enter exact times reveals optional seconds or mm:ss input with millisecond precision; Use current position applies to the selected endpoint. Choose any valid portion of the episode—there is no clip-length cap. Woopod reads the actual episode length first; the timeline, fine ruler and typed times stop at that end. Exact times display as mm:ss or hh:mm:ss, and length reads in hours/minutes/seconds. Listen with restart/play-pause or check the final five seconds. A thin green playhead follows the audio on the slider in both the editor and preview, remaining at its position when paused. Create clip opens an editable local preview; Share and Copy share link are available there once sharing details are ready. Comments allow up to 280 Unicode characters and 1,024 UTF-8 bytes. The link includes the feed address and public comment, so use public podcasts only. Older episodes automatically recover their feed from saved details or podcast directories and cache it for next time. If recovery fails, the visible header offers feed entry while local preview still works. Browser playback depends on the companion deployment; creating a link does not post a message or upload audio.
Partial
Player action rail
Podcasting 2.0 value recipients produce a conditional Bitcoin action. Generic funding links do not masquerade as Bitcoin support. The comment icon opens publisher discussions: read public Mastodon-compatible threads inside Woopod or open the publisher’s service to reply. Share opens Android’s share sheet for the full publisher audio link. Scissors creates unlimited-length timed clips with native listening and an editable preview before sharing. Browser clip playback still depends on the companion deployment; public Woopod chat remains planned.
Available
Descriptions & chapters
Tap a title for show notes. Timestamped notes and inline feed chapters become individual rows; tapping a time loads the episode and seeks to that point with feedback.
Partial
Richer listening context
Inline chapters, descriptions and timestamped private notes work now. External chapter files, embedded media chapters and transcripts remain to be added.
Roadmap
Sleep timer
A timer and recurring listening schedule are part of the product scope, but are not in the current preview.
Audio tuning7 capabilities
Available
Skip silence
You → Audio can shorten quiet gaps while preserving your chosen speech speed. It works with streamed and downloaded episodes; all audio effects default off.
Available
Sound between episodes
An optional short chime marks automatic advancement to a different queued episode, with a brief pause before the next episode resumes. Manual selection and replay do not chime.
Available
Volume boost
Raise quiet recordings by 0–12 dB. Peak limiting protects against digital clipping; strong boost can reduce dynamics. Automatic loudness leveling remains future work.
Available
Mono audio
Combine all channels so either ear receives the full conversation. Mono takes precedence over surround and disables its slider while enabled.
Available
Five-band equalizer & presets
Choose from 20 saved curves: Flat, Speech, Warm Voice, Vocal Clarity, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Classical, Acoustic, Electronic, Dance, Hip-Hop, R&B, Metal, Bass Boost, Treble Boost, Bass Cut, Treble Cut, Loudness and Late Night. Adjusting a band marks the curve Custom. The five sliders span −12 to +12 dB; presets keep your other audio controls unchanged.
Available
Bass
A separate 0–12 dB bass control works with the equalizer on or off. Headroom compensation keeps tonal changes from blindly increasing already loud peaks.
Available
Surround / stereo width
Widen stereo sound from 0–100%, best heard through headphones. Centred voices stay centred; mono recordings cannot gain missing stereo detail. Reset audio returns all these controls to their original defaults.
Discovery5 capabilities
Available
Podcast and episode search
One field accepts podcast names, episode titles, people, topics or a feed link. Whole-word matching prevents short searches such as “AI” from matching unrelated letter sequences.
Available
Multiple independent sources
Results combine gPodder, fyyd and Apple across multiple storefronts. Sources finish independently, so one failure does not erase useful matches from the others.
Available
Dig deeper
Continue into more regions, additional directory pages and up to five publisher RSS archives per pass. Existing results remain while coverage grows.
Available
New horizons by default
Saved subscriptions stay out of Discover unless Include subscriptions is enabled from the three-dot menu. Search your existing collection in Library.
Roadmap
Curated paths
Categories, suggestions and verified author/person discovery are planned. Current discovery is keyword and feed-link based.
Offline & cleanup5 capabilities
Available
Download any episode
Save audio for local playback. Ready files transparently replace the network source; partial, failed and binned files never masquerade as playable downloads.
Available
Keep the latest N
Set 1–100 newest episodes per podcast, or zero to disable. Replacements must finish before older files move to the Bin, and the current Player item is protected.
Available
Network rules
Wi-Fi-only is the default. Cellular can be allowed deliberately; roaming downloads remain disabled.
Available
Flexible checks
Choose manual, 1/3/6/12/24-hour intervals, or a daily local time. Android may delay background work for battery or network conditions.
Available
A recoverable Playlist Bin
Playlist’s three-dot menu opens locally stored finished episodes. Restore returns audio and its card to Playlist. A shared slider in Settings and Bin keeps files for 15 min, 30 min, 1 h, 6 h, 12 h, 1 d, 3 d or 7 d.
Appearance & accessibility5 capabilities
Available
Any accent color
Choose hue, saturation, brightness or an exact hex value. Woopod derives readable surfaces and selection states for light and dark appearances.
Available
Typography with personality
Fifteen genuinely different bundled families work offline. Import a TTF or OTF up to 10 MB, preview it in the interface and remove it later.
Available
Poster visibility
Hide or show podcast artwork in search and Playlist when you want an even quieter interface.
Available
Your navigation order
Hold any bottom destination for 1.5 seconds and drag left or right. Labels, taps, internal jumps and horizontal swipes share your saved order.
Available
Named actions, generous targets
Controls carry accessibility labels, key actions use 48 dp targets, drag reordering has TalkBack alternatives, and long screens reveal a translucent back-to-top action.
User & identity5 capabilities
Available
Create an identity on-device
Choose a display name, receive a random DiceBear Stack avatar, and generate a fresh secp256k1 key locally. The default profile description is “#woopod clan.”
Available
Explicit secret backup
The nsec stays hidden and red until requested. A secure dialog explains that there is no password reset, supports user-triggered copying and recommends a password manager.
Available
Connect an Android signer
Amber/NIP-55 connection keeps the signing key in the signer app. Woopod can display the public identity without silently requesting event-signing permission.
Available
Portable public profile
Verified kind-0 profiles are read from Woopod and purplepag.es. Local accounts can publish independently and retain per-relay acknowledgements.
Partial
Publisher comments
Tap the chat icon in Player or Episode comments in an episode’s details. Feed-provided discussion links choose the publisher’s official conversation. Woopod reads public Mastodon-compatible posts and replies with loading, retry, refresh and back-to-top controls. Content warnings hide the post text until revealed. Replies open on the original service using your account there. Other services use external links; feeds without discussion metadata explain that no thread is available. Publisher-disabled comments are respected. This is separate from the planned public, unencrypted Woopod chat.
Roadmap
More identity-powered actions
Remote QR sign-in, private-key import, native comment posting, reviews and per-show completion posts remain planned. Listening is not published automatically.
Transfer, data & independence5 capabilities
Available
OPML in and out
Import nested subscription files or export a standard OPML 2.0 document through Android’s picker. Duplicates are skipped; large imports checkpoint progress and can resume.
Roadmap
Full backup & cloud backup
OPML moves subscriptions only. Progress, queue, settings, notes and local achievements need a separate encrypted full-backup format and independent provider strategy.
Available
Large-library storage
Podcast and episode records live in incremental SQLite storage rather than one giant preference value. Migration is transactional and metadata edits do not rewrite episode catalogs.
Available
No required Google runtime
The app includes no Google identity, Firebase, ad or tracking SDK. AndroidX, Media3, system DownloadManager and WorkManager do not require a Google account to run.
Roadmap
Expanded ecosystem
Android creates clip links now. Their bounded browser player, listening statistics, badges, widgets, radio, alarms and advanced social discovery remain future work.
No documented capability matches that search.
04 / Icon language
Small symbols.
Clear actions.
Every active interface icon is named below. Color communicates state: the chosen theme color means active or available; soft gray means not yet selected.
Play
Start an episode or select it from Playlist.
Pause
Pause the current audio without losing position.
Back 15
Rewind the active episode by fifteen seconds.
Forward 30
Advance the active episode by thirty seconds.
Add to Playlist
Gray at 50% when absent; theme-colored when the episode is queued. Tap again to remove.
Drag handle
Small gray handles at 50% opacity keep Playlist quiet. Hold for 1.5 seconds to reorder episodes or action rows. The action menu is one panel dismissed by tapping outside.
Move to top
In the Playlist card’s long-press menu, move this episode to the first queue position.
Move to bottom
In the Playlist card’s long-press menu, move this episode to the final queue position.
Remove
Long-press a Playlist card and choose Remove from playlist to remove that queue entry.
Favourite
A compact status indicator for a saved favourite. Toggle it from the Playlist card’s long-press menu.
Download
Save an episode for offline listening.
Cancel download
Stop a queued or active transfer.
Ready offline
The audio is stored locally. Tap to move the file to the Bin.
Restore download
Return an episode from the Bin to offline playback.
Played / unplayed
Theme-colored means played; soft gray means unplayed. Tap to reverse the state.
Bin
Open finished local audio, restore it to Playlist or confirm permanent deletion.
Bookmark note
Save a private thought at the current episode time or reopen an earlier note.
Share
Open Android’s share sheet for the current episode’s full publisher audio link, title and podcast name.
Bitcoin / value
Appears only when a feed supplies Podcasting 2.0 funding or value destinations.
Create clip
Choose start/end without a length cap, listen to the boundaries, and create an editable local preview before sharing. Browser playback depends on the companion deployment.
Episode comments
Read the publisher’s public discussion or open its service to reply. Available in Player and Episode details. A separate public, unencrypted Woopod chat is planned; messages will be signed by their authors.
More
Open contextual Library, Playlist, Discover or podcast settings.
Back to Library
Leave a podcast’s episode view for its parent collection.
Back to top
Appears after scrolling; smoothly returns a long view to its beginning.
Expand section
Reveal or collapse a populated group in You.
Archive show
Hide a subscription from everyday Library without deleting it.
Restore show
Move an archived subscription back into Library.
05 / Independence
Your phone.
Your feeds.
Your choice.
Woopod is designed to work without an account gate, ad network or required Google runtime. Public profile actions are separate from local listening. Nothing is published merely because you pressed play.
- Direct publisher feedsRSS and Atom stay usable without a directory.
- Private by defaultProgress, queue, settings and downloads remain local.
- Portable subscriptionsStandard OPML import and export through your chosen storage.
06 / What comes next
A clear path,
not a promise cloud.
Planned work is shown as planned. Priorities can change as the app is tested in real listening.
- Now
Polish the listening core
Accessibility, large libraries, playback reliability, Playlist gestures and full device verification.
- Next
Social, only with consent
Native comment posting, per-show completion-post controls, remote signing and transparent relay status.
- Then
Listening intelligence
Transcripts, sleep controls, loudness leveling, per-podcast audio overrides, statistics, badges and organization.
- Next
Complete the browser clip player
Android can select and share clip times and a public comment. The companion website resolver and bounded player are the next integration.