YourPods Downloads & RevenueYourPods: Podcast Player · App Store
YourPods: Podcast Player is #12 in News Paid in United States and charting in 10 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperA Secret Company, LLC
CategoryNews
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (2)
Version26.9
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)500+ worldwide
YourPods: Podcast Player update history & changes
Last change · 17 events since 23 Jan 2026Full timeline ↓✏️Description updated✏️New iPad screenshots📦Updated to version 26.9📈Entered the top 10📈Hit #1🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: Digicity: City Builder📦Version 26.8
Full timeline · 17 events
- ✏️YourPods: Podcast Player: description updated· 8 countries
- ✏️YourPods: Podcast Player: new iPad screenshots· 10 countries
- ✏️YourPods: Podcast Player: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 10) · 10 countries
- ✏️YourPods: Podcast Player: description updated· IT
- ✏️YourPods: Podcast Player: description updated· DE
- 📦YourPods: Podcast Player updated to version 26.9Make YourPods yours.
Rearrange Home, choose your tabs and pick your Quick Actions. Settings → Home Screen reorders or switches off sections, and adds Downloaded, Unplayed, In Progress and one for each podcast group. Settings → Tab Bar reorders tabs and adds Notes, Downloads, History or the Player. Nothing moves until you move it.
NEW
- Favorites: star any episode. They get their own tab, Home section, Library filter and swipe action
- Downloads is a real screen: play from it, and group by podcast, date or size
- A play button on every episode row, Up Next in the full player, and Library sorting
- Per-podcast episode order, multi-select, and Undo for bulk actions that lasts 30 days
- Playback speed per show, with a default for everything else
- Audio effects, per show or as your default: Trim Silence, Voice Boost and Normalize Loudness
- CarPlay: choose the three controls on Now Playing — speed, chapters, sleep timer, favorite and more. CarPlay is translated into all five languages
- Shared clip links play just the clip
- A new Playback setting decides how close to the end an episode counts as played
- Icons for podcast groups, and on iOS 27 a Glass Style that follows the system setting
- With YourPods Pro, your Home, tab bar, favorites and per-show settings sync across devices
FIXED
- Hiding an episode no longer counts it as played. New subscriptions stop showing hundreds of "played" episodes, and your library is repaired on first launch
- Pressing Next near the end marks the episode played — from headphones, CarPlay and the lock screen too
- Playback recovers by itself after iOS restarts audio, and a dead stream says so instead of retrying forever
- On gPodder, Nextcloud and YourPods Sync, episodes you finish or un-mark elsewhere now show the same here, and finished ones drop out of this device's Up Next
- An older position on the server can no longer overwrite newer progress
- Pro: podcast groups survive sync, notes no longer duplicate or go missing, and Play Next keeps its place across devices
- Removing downloads automatically after a week or a month now works. Nothing is removed retroactively: the clock starts with this update
- Failed downloads can be retried, and an error page is no longer saved as the episode
- OPML import puts every podcast in its folder
- Passwords for protected feeds are no longer sent along when a feed hands its audio to another server
- A library that merely can't be opened at launch — phone still locked after a restart, disk full — is no longer reset
- CarPlay honours Hide Played and keeps Up Next current
- Episode titles no longer show "&"
- P3's description now says exactly what it does: remove tracking redirects before playback
FASTER
- Refresh checks ten feeds at a time and remembers unchanged ones between launches
- The Now Playing widget uses far less battery, and its progress bar moves continuously
- Home, Up Next and the mini player do far less work while audio plays
The first launch after updating converts your library. Give it a moment.
Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Get help or request features: https://asc.is/support/… more - 📈YourPods: Podcast Player entered the top 10Top Paid · News · AU
- 📈YourPods: Podcast Player hit #1Top Paid · News · DE
- 📈YourPods: Podcast Player entered the top 10Top Paid · News · GB
- 📈YourPods: Podcast Player entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · News · DE · Top Paid · News · US
- 📈YourPods: Podcast Player hit #1Top Paid · News · JP
- 📈YourPods: Podcast Player entered the top 10Top Paid · News · CA
- 🆕YourPods: Podcast Player first spotted by AppInsider#59 in Top Paid · News · Canada
- 🆕YourPods: Podcast Player: its developer released another app: Digicity: City Builder
- 📦YourPods: Podcast Player version 26.8No release notes
- 🆕YourPods: Podcast Player: its developer released another app: NowThis: Tasks for Nextcloud
- 🆕YourPods: Podcast Player released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
5.0 ★
2 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#12
News PaidMeasured
YourPods: Podcast Player at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-05. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A privacy-focused, ad-free podcast player for Apple devices that offers local-only storage or self-hosted sync options for users who want control over their listening data. The app has recently launched and is currently ranking #2 in the US News Paid category, indicating strong initial traction among privacy-conscious listeners.
Similar apps: Overcast, Pocket Casts, AntennaPod
YourPods: Podcast Player on the App Store
App details
App ID
6757721236
Publisher
A Secret Company, LLC
On the store since
Jan 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
6
NL EN FR DE IT ES
Size
27 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment
App privacy Measured
YourPods: Podcast Player declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
YourPods: Podcast Player downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where YourPods: Podcast Player's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NewsPaid | #12 |
 United Kingdom | NewsPaid | #7 |
 Germany | NewsPaid | #25 |
 South Korea | NewsPaid | #29 |
 Japan | NewsPaid | #70 |
 Brazil | NewsPaid | #35 |
 Australia | NewsPaid | #45 |
 India | NewsPaid | #47 |
| Canada | NewsPaid | #61 |
 Italy | NewsPaid | #62 |
Apps near YourPods: Podcast Player on the chart
News Paid, around #12.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
2 ratings
Measured
Ratings
2
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.1★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of News apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about YourPods: Podcast Player
From recent reviews.
About YourPods: Podcast Player
YourPods delivers a smooth and secure podcast experience across all your devices—even your vehicle. Native playback on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple CarPlay. No ads. No tracking. Ever.
We believe your listening habits belong to you, which is why we give you total control over your data. Listen using a secure, local-only account to keep your library lightning-fast and 100% private right on your device. For self-hosters and privacy purists, YourPods offers seamless, native integration with gPodder-compatible servers (like Nextcloud gPodder Sync, NextPod, and RePod). Sync your entire library across devices on your own terms—without ever relying on Big Tech corporate clouds.
Now in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch.
PRIVACY YOU CAN SEE
P3 — Privacy Preserving Playback strips tracking redirects from episode URLs before your device ever connects.
SYNC YOUR WAY
Choose how your data travels — or keep it local:
- Vault Mode: Everything stays on your device. No account or server required.
- Nextcloud / Self-Hosted: Bring your own gPodder-compatible server for full control.
- gpodder.net: Free public sync with no server setup required.
- YourPods Cloud: a free account syncs subscriptions and listening positions across your devices. YourPods Pro adds the web player, queue sync, stats, and notes sync — optional, never needed to use the app you bought.
POWERFUL PLAYBACK
- Per-podcast Listening Profiles: playback speed, skip intro, skip outro, auto-download, and AutoPilot queue management
- Chapters read straight from the audio file, with chapter artwork — plus auto-extraction from show notes
- Transcripts (SRT, VTT, JSON, Markdown, RTF, plain text), with search
- Notes: annotate an episode while you listen, then export to Markdown, Obsidian, or Nextcloud
- Trim silence, and a sleep timer with DriftOff Mode
- Download episodes for offline listening
- Smart episode notifications with per-podcast controls
- Hide episodes to declutter without marking them played
NATIVE APPLE ECOSYSTEM
• One purchase: buy it once, use it on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
• Apple Watch Freedom: a full player on your wrist — download episodes for fast, offline, phone-free workouts.
• Siri & Shortcuts: a complete actions catalog for hands-free listening and your own automations.
• CarPlay: a beautifully integrated CarPlay UI.
• Home Screen widget, Dynamic Island, and Lock Screen: feels like an app Apple designed themselves.
TECHNICAL
YourPods is open source. No advertising identifiers. No third-party analytics. The Privacy Manifest declares exactly what data is collected — and in Vault Mode, the answer is nothing. View the full data transparency screen in Settings.
• Private Feeds: securely add password-protected premium RSS feeds (like Patreon). Stored locally with their credentials, never sync'd to any server.
• Sync Backend: optimized for the gPodder Sync Nextcloud app (apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpoddersync). Standard gPodder services may work, but ar
We believe your listening habits belong to you, which is why we give you total control over your data. Listen using a secure, local-only account to keep your library lightning-fast and 100% private right on your device. For self-hosters and privacy purists, YourPods offers seamless, native integration with gPodder-compatible servers (like Nextcloud gPodder Sync, NextPod, and RePod). Sync your entire library across devices on your own terms—without ever relying on Big Tech corporate clouds.
Now in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch.
PRIVACY YOU CAN SEE
P3 — Privacy Preserving Playback strips tracking redirects from episode URLs before your device ever connects.
SYNC YOUR WAY
Choose how your data travels — or keep it local:
- Vault Mode: Everything stays on your device. No account or server required.
- Nextcloud / Self-Hosted: Bring your own gPodder-compatible server for full control.
- gpodder.net: Free public sync with no server setup required.
- YourPods Cloud: a free account syncs subscriptions and listening positions across your devices. YourPods Pro adds the web player, queue sync, stats, and notes sync — optional, never needed to use the app you bought.
POWERFUL PLAYBACK
- Per-podcast Listening Profiles: playback speed, skip intro, skip outro, auto-download, and AutoPilot queue management
- Chapters read straight from the audio file, with chapter artwork — plus auto-extraction from show notes
- Transcripts (SRT, VTT, JSON, Markdown, RTF, plain text), with search
- Notes: annotate an episode while you listen, then export to Markdown, Obsidian, or Nextcloud
- Trim silence, and a sleep timer with DriftOff Mode
- Download episodes for offline listening
- Smart episode notifications with per-podcast controls
- Hide episodes to declutter without marking them played
NATIVE APPLE ECOSYSTEM
• One purchase: buy it once, use it on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
• Apple Watch Freedom: a full player on your wrist — download episodes for fast, offline, phone-free workouts.
• Siri & Shortcuts: a complete actions catalog for hands-free listening and your own automations.
• CarPlay: a beautifully integrated CarPlay UI.
• Home Screen widget, Dynamic Island, and Lock Screen: feels like an app Apple designed themselves.
TECHNICAL
YourPods is open source. No advertising identifiers. No third-party analytics. The Privacy Manifest declares exactly what data is collected — and in Vault Mode, the answer is nothing. View the full data transparency screen in Settings.
• Private Feeds: securely add password-protected premium RSS feeds (like Patreon). Stored locally with their credentials, never sync'd to any server.
• Sync Backend: optimized for the gPodder Sync Nextcloud app (apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpoddersync). Standard gPodder services may work, but ar
Latest updates
26.9
Make YourPods yours.
Rearrange Home, choose your tabs and pick your Quick Actions. Settings → Home Screen reorders or switches off sections, and adds Downloaded, Unplayed, In Progress and one for each podcast group. Settings → Tab Bar reorders tabs and adds Notes, Downloads, History or the Player. Nothing moves until you move it.
NEW
- Favorites: star any episode. They get their own tab, Home section, Library filter and swipe action
- Downloads is a real screen: play from it, and group by podcast, date or size
- A play button on every episode row, Up Next in the full player, and Library sorting
- Per-podcast episode order, multi-select, and Undo for bulk actions that lasts 30 days
- Playback speed per show, with a default for everything else
- Audio effects, per show or as your default: Trim Silence, Voice Boost and Normalize Loudness
- CarPlay: choose the three controls on Now Playing — speed, chapters, sleep timer, favorite and more. CarPlay is translated into all five languages
- Shared clip links play just the clip
- A new Playback setting decides how close to the end an episode counts as played
- Icons for podcast groups, and on iOS 27 a Glass Style that follows the system setting
- With YourPods Pro, your Home, tab bar, favorites and per-show settings sync across devices
FIXED
- Hiding an episode no longer counts it as played. New subscriptions stop showing hundreds of "played" episodes, and your library is repaired on first launch
- Pressing Next near the end marks the episode played — from headphones, CarPlay and the lock screen too
- Playback recovers by itself after iOS restarts audio, and a dead stream says so instead of retrying forever
- On gPodder, Nextcloud and YourPods Sync, episodes you finish or un-mark elsewhere now show the same here, and finished ones drop out of this device's Up Next
- An older position on the server can no longer overwrite newer progress
- Pro: podcast groups survive sync, notes no longer duplicate or go missing, and Play Next keeps its place across devices
- Removing downloads automatically after a week or a month now works. Nothing is removed retroactively: the clock starts with this update
- Failed downloads can be retried, and an error page is no longer saved as the episode
- OPML import puts every podcast in its folder
- Passwords for protected feeds are no longer sent along when a feed hands its audio to another server
- A library that merely can't be opened at launch — phone still locked after a restart, disk full — is no longer reset
- CarPlay honours Hide Played and keeps Up Next current
- Episode titles no longer show "&"
- P3's description now says exactly what it does: remove tracking redirects before playback
FASTER
- Refresh checks ten feeds at a time and remembers unchanged ones between launches
- The Now Playing widget uses far less battery, and its progress bar moves continuously
- Home, Up Next and the mini player do far less work while audio plays
The first launch after updating converts your library. Give it a moment.
Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Get help or request features: https://asc.is/support/
26.8
Store changes
What YourPods: Podcast Player changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
9 screenshots (was 10)
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