Apple Podcasts is one of the best podcast apps on the iPhone, packing unique features like automatic transcripts. However, until now, I've never used it as my primary podcast player. That's because it ...

Throw a stone in any major city and you’ll likely hit someone who has a podcast. (As of 2025, there are just around five million of them.) And it makes sense—the cost of production and barrier to ...

It is simple to start a podcast now — but there's so much to decide that it doesn't seem all that simple, plus it's extremely easy to make one people won't listen to or that you get bored making. Here ...

If you’re an avid podcast fan, you’ll notice that there are (broadly speaking) two types of shows: non-narrative and narrative. Non-narrative podcasts are more freewheeling, constructed around ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel turns the camera on himself to ask a simple question: Why are you seeing his face? Using YouTube’s takeover of podcasts as a starting point, he explores ...

With iOS 26 (currently in beta), Apple has finally caught up with rival podcast apps like Overcast by adding more fine-grained playback speed controls to the Podcasts app. While competitors have long ...

Apple has finally caught up with rival podcast apps like Overcast by adding an Enhance Dialogue feature to the Podcasts app in iOS 26 (currently in beta). The new audio processing option isolates ...