LouPodcast player for iPhone
Your shows, minus the ad breaks.
Lou finds the ad breaks in each episode and skips them while you listen. No tapping, no scrubbing. The episode just keeps going.
Download on the App Store
How it works
Press play. Lou handles the ad breaks.
Follow your shows
Search for a show, paste its feed link, or import the shows you follow from your current app.
Lou scans the episode on your phone
Lou transcribes the episode on your phone and marks where each ad break starts and ends. With Scan ahead, new episodes are ready before you press play.
The ad breaks are skipped as you listen
Lou jumps past each ad break and tells you what it skipped. Tap Undo if you want to hear it.
What Lou skips
Ad breaks for everyone. The rest with Lou Plus.
Choose what Lou does with each kind of segment. Auto skips ahead automatically, Tap shows a skip button, and Off plays as normal.
| Kind | Free | Lou Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Ad breaksSponsor reads, commercials, and PSAs | Auto on 10 episodes every 30 days, then Tap | Auto on every episode |
| IntrosHow a show opens: theme song, tagline, welcome | Plays as normal | Auto, Tap or Off, show by show |
| Recaps and previewsCatch-ups on previous episodes or teasers for upcoming ones | Plays as normal | Auto, Tap or Off, show by show |
| Self-promosPlugs for the show's own extras, like a book or live event | Plays as normal | Auto, Tap or Off, show by show |
| Cross-promosPlugs for other shows or a guest's project | Plays as normal | Auto, Tap or Off, show by show |
| OutrosHow a show closes: sign-off, closing theme | Plays as normal | Auto, Tap or Off, show by show |
| CreditsThe names of who made the episode, usually at the end | Plays as normal | Auto, Tap or Off, show by show |
Lou finds likely ad breaks, and it can miss one. When it does, skip forward like in any player. Every skip can be undone.
A full podcast player
Everything you listen with, in one app.
- Latest
- Every new episode from the shows you follow, in one list.
- In Progress
- Episodes you paused, waiting right where you left off.
- Queue
- Line up what plays next and reorder it any time.
- Scan ahead
- Lou downloads new episodes in the background and finds the ad breaks before you press play.
- Import
- Export your shows from another app and bring them all into Lou.
- Private feeds
- Paste a feed link, even a private one from a membership, and follow it like any other show.
Works with CarPlay and AirPlay.
Privacy
The audio stays on your phone.
Lou transcribes each episode on your phone and sends the text, never the audio, to Lou's server, which uses OpenAI to find the ad breaks and other segments, such as intros. Lou does not sell your data or track you across other companies' apps or websites.
Read the privacy policyHear the episode, not the ad breaks.
Download on the App StoreFree to download. Import your shows from your current app.