Lysten: Podcast Player

Name: Lysten: Podcast Player
Rating: 9.5 (6 reviews)

Easy to use, Privacy focused

GratuitOffers In-App Purchases

1.6.0for iPhone, iPad

9.5

6 Ratings

Ambi Studio AB

Developer

15 Mo

Size

Apr 28, 2024

Update Date

News

About Lysten: Podcast Player

With no registration or complex settings, you can start listening right away with a simple search. Follow your favorite shows and automatically get a list of episodes to listen to.

Share episodes and shows with anyone, irregardless if they have the app downloaded or not. Any iPhone and iPad user will get an AppClip to get them started listening right away. Tap the share button to invite your friends and loved ones.

Lysten is a light-weight and privacy focused Podcast Player. We don't collect any analytics or metrics, your followed Podcasts and episode progress are synced using your private iCloud account. This means that there's simply no way for us to see what you follow, listen to or anything else you might do in our app.

Features:
- Interactive widgets showing your feed and unfinished episodes. Catch up where you left off with a tap.
- Download episodes to listen offline, long press an episode and select Download.
- No registration, sync is made using your iCloud account
- Extremely lightweight
- Sleep timer, set, enjoy & sleep
- Play speed, adjust the play rate to your preference
- Podcasts and Episodes are indexed in Spotlight
- SharePlay support, listen to episodes with friends and family
- Privacy focused
- Written in 100% SwiftUI

If you run into any trouble you can reach out to us at support@ambi.se or on Mastodon:

Privacy policy: https://ambi.se/privacy
Terms of use: https://ambi.se/terms

Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version 1.6.0

Last updated on Apr 28, 2024

Vieilles Versions

- Adds background to scrub popover
- Adds Marquee to player, meaning long titles will nog scroll by smoothly
- Fixes a bug where episode sharing was broken
- Fixes main thread freeze on interactive RSS refresh
- Fixes so player no longer covers tab and nav bar
- Design fixes to small, large and full screen players

Version History

1.6.0

Apr 28, 2024

1.5.2

Dec 19, 2023

This update a bug that could make the app crash on start.

1.5.1

Oct 22, 2023

Hej,

This update fixes a bug that could make Lysten crash when playing an episode.

1.5.0

Oct 6, 2023

Hej,

This update adds the following:

- Downloads; Long press an episode and select Download
- Adds interactive widgets. There are two types, either it shows your feed or the latest episodes you listened to but didn't finish.
- Adds support to change sort order in Podcast view
- Adds support to only show downloaded episodes

1.4.0

May 23, 2023

This update brings both fixes bugs and introduces some new fancy features. Here's what's new:

- Fixes so the player no longer covers tab bar or navigation bar
- Makes sure loading indicator isn't shown while playing episode
- Adds SharePlay support
- Adds SharePlay button to episode detail view
- Adds a link to the show view in the episode detail view
- Fixes bug where the cover art didn't always instantly update when changing episode
- Minor bug fixes

1.3.1

Mar 15, 2023

Fixes a bug where some users were unable to restore purchases

1.3.0

Mar 14, 2023

Hej,

This update has a ton of stuff, you better get comfortable before you try to read these release notes.

Features:
- Player speed can now be adjusted to your preference
- Sleep timer can now be set
- When playing an episode we automatically queue the next 20 episodes too. More is always better, right?
- Episode detail can now be opened directly from the player
- Adds a paywall

Fixes:
- The player could occasionally fade in and out, this should now be fixed
- Fixes a bug where the moving bars in a playing episode could sometimes act weird
- Adds lysten: scheme that opens app, fallback if universal linking fails
- Fixes a bug where the share-button could sometimes bounce around

Thanks for using Lysten!

/ Sofia & César

1.2.0

Mar 9, 2023

This update has a ton of changes, here is the most important details

- An episode detail view has been added. This is where you find show notes.
- Progress sync has been improved. It will now sync faster and consume less space on your iCloud
- Code for refreshing RSS-feeds has been improved, consuming less power and giving a better user experience
- Fixes a bug where episode count sometimes was wrong in podcast detail view
- Fixes one of the crashes that occurred when Lysten was in the background
- You can now stop the player, hold your finger on it and select Stop

Thanks for using Lysten!

/César & Sofia

1.1.1

Feb 24, 2023

Fixes a crash that occurs when the app is in the background

1.1.0

Feb 12, 2023

- Adds AppClip support. You can now share Podcasts & Episodes with other users. If they have an iPhone or iPad Lysten will be installed and the linked content will be shown. Pretty cool!
- Share buttons have been added in context menus, podcast view and in the player
- We removed the fullscreen player, the player is now always "floating" and can be moved around
- Easier to search and find podcasts in the new search view
- You now follow podcasts from the Podcast detail view. We think this makes it much more intuitive.
- You can now import your shows from other Podcast apps. Simply export an XML / OPML file and share it with Lysten.
- Improves performance by downscaling images and caching them locally
- Fixes a weird bug where we only showd 2 episodes in "The Talk Show" by John Gruber. Sorry John. If you happen to read this, ping us on mastodon and we'll get you a beer.
- Makes the podcast name selectable in the large player

Thanks for taking the time to read our release notes! Please consider leaving an App Store review while you're here :)

1.0.0

Jan 17, 2023

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