WavCast

New in 1.1: synced transcripts, chapters, and on-device AI summaries that stay on your iPhone. Plus a full Apple Watch app. Podcasts, radio, and news in one player.

WavCast is a free, ad-supported radio and podcast player built for listeners who want it all in one app. Stream thousands of live radio stations from around the world, follow your favorite podcasts, catch up on local headlines, and take it with you in the car, on your wrist, and offline. No account required.

LIVE RADIO Browse stations by genre, country, or city, with 27 major US metros one tap away, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, and Dallas. Save favorites, see what you've recently played, and discover top stations from your region with one tap. Recently Played logs the songs your stations broadcast, so you can find that track hours later. Wake up to any station with the built-in radio alarm.

PODCASTS Search any podcast by name, topic, or host. Follow a show with a single tap, from the search results, the show page, or the player you're listening on. New episodes flow into your inbox automatically. Build an Up Next queue with Play Next or Play Last, and let smart playlists organize what's unplayed, in-progress, or downloaded. Download episodes for offline listening, sort shows into folders, and bring your existing library with OPML import and export.

CHAPTERS AND TRANSCRIPTS Jump between chapters with full chapter artwork, on the player, the lock screen, and CarPlay. Read along with synced transcripts and tap any line to jump to that moment. Search inside a transcript, or across every transcript in your library at once.

ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE Summarize an episode before you commit an hour to it. Generate chapters for shows that don't publish their own. Turn a saved moment into a shareable clip with a written caption. All of it runs entirely on your iPhone using Apple Intelligence, so your transcripts never leave the device. Requires a device with Apple Intelligence enabled.

BUILT ON PODCASTING 2.0 Support your favorite shows directly with funding links and Value4Value, handed off to your own Lightning wallet. See who hosts and guests on a show, and find the podcasts they recommend. Add private, subscriber-only feeds with a username and password stored securely in your keychain.

CARPLAY A full CarPlay app with your library, new episodes, radio, and recently played, plus Now Playing with chapter artwork. Everything stays one tap away while you drive.

APPLE WATCH A dedicated WavCast app lives on your wrist. Now Playing shows the current artwork as a blurred background with full transport controls: play, pause, and skip forward or back. Up Next surfaces your podcast queue so you can skip ahead with a tap. Stations lists your favorite radio, so you can start listening without reaching for your iPhone. The Digital Crown adjusts volume.

LOCAL NEWS A quick scan of headlines from your city or region. Tap Detect My City for location-aware coverage, or pick a region manually. Topic chips let you focus on what matters.

DESIGNED FOR LISTENING Background audio that survives lock and app switching. AirPlay to your speakers. Lock-screen and Dynamic Island controls. Sleep timer. Silence trimming that speeds through dead air. A 10-band equalizer with presets, volume boost, and crossfade. Per-podcast playback speed and intro and outro skipping. Customizable skip intervals. Listen together over SharePlay. Widgets for Now Playing, Continue Listening, New Episodes, and Radio Favorites. Siri and Shortcuts support, plus Spotlight search across your library.

PRIVACY FIRST No account required. Your library syncs privately through your own iCloud account. We don't run our own analytics and we don't sell your data. Ads may use your device identifier only if you allow tracking, and you can always decline the prompt, or remove ads entirely.

REMOVE ADS, ONE-TIME PURCHASE WavCast is supported by light ads in a few places. If you'd rather not see them, Remove Ads is a single one-time purchase that ties to your Apple ID and works across every device signed into the same account.