Shuttle Podcast Player: No Ads

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About this app

Shuttle Podcasts is a free podcast player that skips ads inserted into episodes, with no account and no login 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 login or account.
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

104 reviews
Ezana Assefa
November 4, 2026
11/4/26 update: after a few app updates, everything seems to be working well. great and responsive devs! 10/18/26 update: very buggy. a podcast will play for about 15 mins and then just randomly stop. I'll have to force stop the app through settings and reopen it and even then, the podcast will resume only about 50% of the time.
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SimpleCity
November 4, 2026
Thanks for the updates. I am making some architectural changes and I hope to get things much more stable in the near future.
Oscar Gerdsdorff
October 23, 2026
I've been listening to podcasts for quite some years by now, and each year the whole ad business gets worse and worse, so I was really happy to be able to try this one-click-setup solution out! I've listened to English and Swedish podcasts and it works... pretty good at times, other times not at all. When it doesn't work I do use the in-app function to report it though, which will in some way will hopefully make it more accurate in the future. Overall, I'd say it gives you a better experience!
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Delta
October 22, 2026
This app is fantastic, it's Google Podcasts reborn with ad-skip. UI looks great, ad-skip just works, import and export is seamless. I wish we could have more granular control of the smart skip though (intros, outros, sponsor-reads). I would also like to have labels / folders / groups for my podcasts, putting together different podcasts so I can select one playlist and have it autoplay. I don't want to individually select episodes to a queue, just one-click "play this group". Oh and webapp??
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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