FluidCast
Your Podcasts, Everywhere
FluidCast is a podcast player built around two things most apps treat as an afterthought: actually working the same way across every device you use, and telling the difference between an ad break and the episode itself.
It's now fully cross-platform — iOS, macOS, Apple Watch, Android, Windows, and Linux all released.
What it does:
Cross-device sync — playback position, queue, and library stay in sync everywhere you listen
On-device AI ad detection — detects and skips ads inline without sending any audio off the device (Apple Intelligence on iOS/macOS). Worth being upfront about the edges: ads at the very start of an episode are a genuinely hard case, since the model needs a few seconds of audio before it knows what it's hearing
CarPlay support
Folders for organizing subscriptions
Advanced queue editing
Bookmarks
Episode transcripts
Apple Watch app
Free tier + Pro subscription ($2.99/mo or $17.99/yr, one-month free trial). 4.5 stars on the App Store. I'm the solo dev — product, support, and marketing all handled by one person.
What would make you switch podcast apps at this point — is it a missing feature, or just inertia?
1 Comment
What stood out to me is that you're treating interruptions as part of the listening experience rather than just another playback feature.
Cross-device sync is expected today. Knowing when not to make someone listen to an ad—while keeping everything on-device—is a much more distinctive reason to switch than adding another podcast player feature.