Really Simple Podcast Player

🎧 Point it at a folder. Press play. That's the whole app. 📵 READ THIS FIRST: this app plays audio files from a folder on your device, and it does not need to stay connected. Once episodes are on the device they play with the network off — on a plane ✈️, in the car 🚗, or anywhere with no signal. 🔖 It lists them in order, remembers where you stopped in each one, and picks up exactly there next time. No account, nothing to sign in to. 📥 How the files get there is up to you: copied from a computer, saved from a cloud drive, or downloaded by the app itself from ordinary podcast RSS feeds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📡 PODCAST FEEDS, RSS AND OPML (PREMIUM) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📡 Follow a show by pasting its RSS address or an Apple Podcasts link. Episodes download into a folder you choose, one folder per show, over Wi-Fi only. You set how often to look and how far back to go. 🔁 Coming from another podcast app? Import your whole subscription list as an OPML file and follow all of it at once. You can export that list again whenever you like, so your subscriptions stay yours to take elsewhere. 📚 Or start from the built-in library: 136 shows in English, Dutch and Irish, grouped by the age they tend to suit and tagged by language, each with its artwork. Following one is a tap rather than a hunt for an RSS address. It checks itself weekly, so it does not offer you a show that has gone. 💾 Downloaded episodes are ordinary files once they land. They play like everything else, and they keep working with the network off. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎛️ WHAT IT DOES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📂 Pick any folder on your device with the standard Android folder picker 🎵 Plays mp3, m4a, m4b, mp4, aac, ogg, opus, flac and wav files 🔖 Remembers your position in every episode, separately ✅ Marks episodes played automatically near the end 🖼️ A shelf of cover art — tap a book to open it, no menus to read 🎨 Uses embedded artwork, or a cover image in the folder ⏪ Back and forward 30 seconds with one tap; skipping episodes needs a hold ⭐ Hold a cover to star a favourite and keep it at the front of the shelf 🔍 Search by podcast or episode name once your shelf gets big 😴 Sleep timer, including "stop at the end of this episode" 🔐 Parental volume limit protected by a PIN 🙈 Hide books you don't want on the shelf ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ PREMIUM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📡 PODCAST RSS FEEDS, OPML AND THE LIBRARY — everything the PODCAST FEEDS section describes. 🎧 BACKGROUND PLAYBACK — keep listening with the screen off or while using other apps, with lock-screen and notification controls. 🌈 COLOURS AND BACKGROUNDS — six colour schemes and six backdrops, so the app can look like yours, not ours. ⚡ PLAYBACK SPEED — 0.25x, 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x and 4x. The speed control stays hidden until you turn it on in Settings, so it can't be changed by accident. ⭐ FAVOURITES AND UP NEXT — hold any episode to star it or queue it. Starred episodes gather into a Favourites shelf you can play straight through, and Up Next decides what follows the episode playing now, across every podcast. ℹ️ Without Premium the app plays the files you already have, at 1x while it is open, pauses when you leave it, and uses the standard teal look. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚫 No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no usage analytics. 📱 Your folder choice, playback positions and listening stats are stored only on your device and are deleted when you uninstall. 🤝 The app sends nothing unless you ask it to. Following a show connects you directly to whoever publishes it — no server of ours sits in between, and we are never told what you follow. 🐞 Crash reporting is off by default. You can turn it on in Settings to help get faults fixed, and a crash report contains the technical details of the failure and nothing about what you listen to. 📲 Requires Android 8.0 or newer.