Stay on top of your favorite podcasts with Updates—a clean, minimalist app that puts fresh episodes front and center. Smart sorting, CarPlay support, iCloud sync, and effortless playback make it easy to listen your way—no queues, no clutter, just podcasts.
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🚀 Hey Product Hunt!
Super excited to share Updates — a new iOS podcast app for savvy but casual listeners who want a clean, premium experience without the clutter.
It’s built around one simple idea:
Keep up with the shows you care about, with zero fuss.
It handles three key listening flows:
🗞️ News — play or save the latest episode
🎬 Serial — jump into the next unplayed episode
📚 Evergreen — browse or search the back catalog
No algorithmic noise. No discovery pressure. Just a focused, calm experience that puts your podcasts front and center.
✨ Key Features
• Minimal home screen that shows what’s new — hence the name
• Smart playback order for episodic vs. serial shows
• Clean, lightweight design that gets out of your way
• Thoughtful extras: iCloud sync, CarPlay, Home Screen widget, App Shortcuts, Control widget, chapters, show notes, and more
🔐 Premium Features
• Pin podcasts
• Filter updates
• "Unlimited" saved episodes
• Override publisher’s episodic/serial setting
🎯 Who it’s for
People who want to listen, not manage. No need to triage every episode or dodge Netflix-style carousels — just open the app and press play. Bonus: daily news won’t drown out your slower-updating faves.
🛠️ Why I built it
Honestly, I've been scratching my own itch with this app. But based on feedback from beta testers (who were either too polite or really into podcasts), I hope others might want it too. If not, I’ll just go back to pretending I didn’t spend hours obsessing over this app. Would love your thoughts, and happy to answer any questions! 🙌
Cheers.
Jonas Salling
@salling_the_clicker Loving the idea, thinking about more themes though? Congrats!
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@orimiles Thanks! I’m aiming for lightweight styling in the app, but giving users the option to adjust the theme color is definitely something I’m considering.
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@orimiles Just submitted 1.2 to App Review, and it adds appearance settings for app icon and accent color. Thanks!
Congratulations on the launch, Jonas! Great to see Updates finally out in the wild!
I appreciate the clarity and focus of an app that dares to cut clutter, optimizes clearly for specific use cases, and sticks firmly to its vision without becoming yet another algorithmic audio app. That approach feels almost revolutionary!
I've been beta-testing Updates since the first TestFlight builds in November. CarPlay, widgets, shortcuts, and the other extras were feel thoughtfully integrated from the start. Just waiting on a sleep timer—then it's complete!
As an avid podcast listener, Updates covers nearly all my needs. For anything else, I still have plenty of fallback options.
GO GO GO Jonas and Updates!
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@markpasternak Thanks, Mark! The addition of a sleep timer does make sense, IMHO — just didn’t make the cut for the first release. Waiting on user feedback to help decide where to take things next!
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Last Chance! Feel free to drop any questions, feedback, or hot takes — I’m always up for a chat.