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 or SD card, 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.

📥 How the files get there is up to you: copied from a computer, saved from a cloud drive, dropped onto an SD card — or downloaded by the app itself, which follows ordinary podcast RSS feeds (Premium). Either way, point it at the folder and press play.

🔖 Point it at a folder of episodes and 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.

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📚 WHAT IT DOES
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📂 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

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✨ PREMIUM
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🎧 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.

📡 PODCAST RSS FEEDS — follow a show by pasting its RSS address or an Apple Podcasts link, or import an OPML list from another app. 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. They are ordinary files once they land, so they play like everything else and keep working offline.

📖 A LIBRARY TO START FROM — 87 shows grouped by the age they tend to suit and tagged by language, each with its artwork, so following one is a tap rather than a hunt for an address. It sits with the other setup controls, and it checks itself weekly so it does not offer you something that has gone.

ℹ️ Without Premium the app plays normally at 1x while it is open, pauses when you leave it, and uses the standard teal look.

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🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN
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🚫 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.