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INTRODUCING SMARTKEEP — YOUR INTELLIGENT ARCHIVER Never miss archiving an episode again. SmartKeep is CastKeeper's fully automatic archiver, completely at your control. Head to any subscribed podcast in your Library, enable SmartKeep, choose your storage destination, and let it run. Four options to fit how you collect. Zero effort to keep collecting and full sync across your devices! Love an episode and never want it to disappear? Lock it. Episodes locked by SmartKeep stay in your archive forever — and every episode you archive manually is always locked by default. Your storage, your podcasts, your rules. SmartKeep is included with your one-time purchase — no subscriptions, no ongoing costs. We'd rather see people collecting podcasts than collecting subscriptions. Other improvements in this release: • Smart Summaries for episodes start faster • AI Chapters tuned for better chapter names and more accurate markers • Fixed an issue where transcription and AI Chapter generation would queue unexpectedly when a device was connected via USB-C • General UX refinements and performance improvements
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CastKeeper: Your Podcasts. Yours Forever. Featured in Podnews, The Virginian-Pilot, Daily Press, Hampton Roads Business Journal, and loved by users across the world. Some people collect vinyl. Some collect baseball cards. You collect podcasts — let's keep it that way. Episodes get pulled. Shows move. Feeds vanish. If you love a podcast, you should be able to keep it. Forever. Archive audio and video podcasts, transcripts, chapters, artwork, notes, and metadata to storage you control: iCloud Drive Dropbox External USB drives S3-compatible storage Your own cloud When someone says "Sorry, that episode isn't available anymore," you can politely smile… and press Play. Meet SmartKeep SmartKeep is CastKeeper's fully automatic archiver. Enable it on any subscribed show, pick a storage destination, and let it run — zero effort, full sync across your devices. Love an episode? Lock it and it stays forever (everything you archive manually is locked by default, too). SmartKeep is included with your one-time purchase. No subscriptions, ever. We Mind Our Own Business Some apps know everything you listen to. CastKeeper would rather not. No account. No ads. No subscriptions. No creepy tracking. Tracking Prevention cuts podcast analytics requests, because your podcast player shouldn't have a side hustle. Listen Smarter AI summaries Smart chapters Searchable transcripts Live Captions Episode translation Timestamped notes Powerful search It's almost unfair to the pause button. A Podcast Player That Actually Plays Podcasts Audio and video playback, CarPlay, Picture in Picture, Mini Player, Sleep Timer, and private sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Everything you'd expect — plus the part where your library doesn't randomly evaporate. Built for Everyone VoiceOver, Dynamic Type with dyslexia-friendly fonts, Live Captions, keyboard navigation, high-contrast display, and accessibility features throughout. Buy It Once No "Premium." No "Premium Plus." No "Premium Ultra Max Podcast Infinity." Just CastKeeper — a one-time purchase for all your devices, including Family Sharing. Your podcasts. Yours forever.
What's new · 2026.5.3
INTRODUCING SMARTKEEP — YOUR INTELLIGENT ARCHIVER Never miss archiving an episode again. SmartKeep is CastKeeper's fully automatic archiver, completely at your control. Head to any subscribed podcast in your Library, enable SmartKeep, choose your storage destination, and let it run. Four options to fit how you collect. Zero effort to keep collecting and full sync across your devices! Love an episode and never want it to disappear? Lock it. Episodes locked by SmartKeep stay in your archive forever — and every episode you archive manually is always locked by default. Your storage, your podcasts, your rules. SmartKeep is included with your one-time purchase — no subscriptions, no ongoing costs. We'd rather see people collecting podcasts than collecting subscriptions. Other improvements in this release: • Smart Summaries for episodes start faster • AI Chapters tuned for better chapter names and more accurate markers • Fixed an issue where transcription and AI Chapter generation would queue unexpectedly when a device was connected via USB-C • General UX refinements and performance improvements
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