Shuttle Podcast Player: No Ads

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106 reviews
Content rating
PEGI 3
5K+
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About this app

Shuttle Podcasts is a free podcast player that skips ads inserted into episodes, with no account needed. It shows no ads of its own either, so you can listen to a podcast without ads getting in the way.

Skip ads in podcasts with Smart Skip

• Finds the ads inserted into an episode by comparing several copies of it, then skips past them on your phone with a soft chime.
• Changed your mind? Undo a skip right after the chime, or keep the ads for any show with one tap.
• Host-read sponsor messages stay in, so a show's own sponsors are still heard.
• It won't catch every inserted ad, and it never guesses from a transcript.
• Fair to creators: the full episode still downloads from the publisher's feed, so the show is counted and paid. The file is never altered or re-hosted.
• Free on a show of your choice, which you can swap every 7 days. Shuttle Plus turns Smart Skip on for every show.

A simple, minimal podcast player

• An ad free podcast app: no ads in the app, no clutter.
• A podcast app with no account. No sign-up and no login, just open it and listen.
• Optional sign-in to sync subscriptions and listening progress across your devices and the web player at shuttlepodcasts.app.
• Material 3 design that takes its colors from the artwork.

An offline podcast player for your commute

• Download episodes for offline listening on the train, on a flight or anywhere without signal.
• Auto-download new episodes of the shows you choose; played auto-downloads are cleared for you.
• Streams when you'd rather not download.

Android Auto and Chromecast

Take your shows in the car with Android Auto, or send them to the living room with Chromecast.

Chapters

Chapters with their artwork, plus next and previous chapter controls, when a show provides them.

Add any podcast RSS feed

Find and subscribe to shows, or paste any podcast RSS feed, including password-protected private feeds. Import your subscriptions from any app that exports OPML, and export them again whenever you like. Nothing to set up.

Playback your way

• Variable playback speed, and trim silence to skip the dead air.
• Voice Boost for clearer voices at lower volumes.
• Sleep timer, up-next queue, background playback and a home-screen widget.
• New episode notifications for the shows you choose.

Shuttle Plus

The player is free. Shuttle Plus unlocks Smart Skip on every show you follow, monthly, yearly or as a one-off lifetime purchase. Sign in and the same purchase also covers Shuttle Podcasts on iPhone. Prices are shown in the app before you buy.

What listeners say

"If you want a simple podcast player without all the bloat and visual noise, this is the app for you." Nick Carter, Google Play review

A solo indie app

I'm Tim, an Australian developer, and you may know my earlier app, Shuttle Music Player. When my favorite podcast app shut down, nothing else hit the spot, so I built a simple, fast podcast player for myself and kept polishing it.

Download Shuttle Podcasts, from the maker of Shuttle, and hear your shows with fewer ad breaks.
Podcast player that skips inserted ads. Ad free, offline, no account needed.
Updated on
Oct 30, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Financial info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

102 reviews
J.
July 11, 2026
I like how simple and responsive it is, just wish it were a little more powerful, eg. adjustments to volume or EQ per podcast, and also skipping X number of seconds at start or end of each podcast, again, a per podcast setting. also some small bugs with ui, like tapping playback bar doesn't always work. also I had to remove 2 stars because there aren't forward and back buttons, like skip to next podcast or previous one. idk how
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SimpleCity
September 11, 2026
Thanks for the review J. I will definitely think about how I might integrate some of those suggestions. I'd love to chat on the Discord (https://discord.gg/) if you have some time, to find out the why behind volume/eq for different podcasts.
David Wilson
August 27, 2026
So I love the Google podcast UI clone of it basically my only issue is, I can't mark all titles from a certain pointed as played which makes moving from another app annoying. I also wish it would just play the next episode of whichever podcast I'm playing without having to go and add it to the queue. Other than that it's a well made app with a clean UI which is rare for podcast app I feel like.
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SimpleCity
August 28, 2026
Thanks for the kind feedback David. I'll consider those feature requests, keep an eye out for updates (usually about one per month at the moment).
Sandy Nair
May 8, 2026
Absolutely love this app. My only gripe is that in able to mass check and action podcast episodes. I follow a lot of news podcasts and if I go on holiday or get busy, I want to ability to check a bunch of episodes and archive or mark them as complete so they dont sit on my library any longer (since the news is already outdated). Besides that it's been an amazing experience and it's already the best podcast app I've used in a long time even though I'm just a beta tester.
2 people found this review helpful
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SimpleCity
May 10, 2026
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review. I'll consider your request for batch episode actions, seems useful to me

What’s new

• Home shows one row per show, picking up serials where you left off
• Latest episode only: hide a show's older episodes when a new one arrives
• For you shows wider cards with a short show description
• Fewer, longer auto-chapters that follow changes of topic
• Lighter, calmer typography and more room between episodes
• Search shows an error with Retry and ranks your region's language first
• Fixed a crash on the Explore tab