iPX

iPX

iPX checks your podcasts, downloads new episodes, and gives everyone at home their own account to listen from in the browser. It runs on your own server.

Browse the directory

  • 99% Invisible
  • Hackaday
  • Clarkesworld
  • Accidental Tech Podcast
  • Daring Fireball
  • Ologies
  • Oxide and Friends
  • xkcd
  • The Sporkful
  • Acquired
  • Construction Physics
  • Dwarkesh Podcast

New episodes, ready to play

iPX checks your podcasts through the day and downloads new episodes as they come out. Skip the ones you don't want by keyword, or leave out explicit ones. Old episodes are cleared to stay within the space you give it, but never one someone has pinned.

99% Invisible's episodes in a table with each one's size and date, and the downloaded one's file beside it, ready to play, save, share or delete.

Pick up where you left off

The player keeps your place in every episode, on every device.

The player along the bottom of the page: the episode playing, back and forward, and how far in it is.

All talk, no dead air

Radio has a name for silence on air: dead air. Turn on DeadAir for a show and its long silences shrink to a pause as short as you like. Everyone still talks at their own pace; the episode just ends sooner.

Tune out the noise

Your feeds bring in more than anyone has time for. A Signal listens across all of them for one subject: give it a name, the words to listen for, and a sentence saying what you mean if the words are not enough. What fits lands in a list of its own, starting with the last month, and it keeps listening. To use Signals you will need an API key from typesafe.ai.

A Signal called Space, picked out of the noise of eight feeds: episodes and posts about galaxies, Artemis II, Mars and a rocket launch from Hackaday, Universe Today, NASA's Houston We Have a Podcast and Ars Technica.

See what others listen to

iPX servers can share which podcasts their listeners follow, and the directory gathers them in one place. Browse the directory to find something new and subscribe in one click.

The directory's most subscribed shows, each with its cover and how many people subscribe.
BitTorrent too
Some shows publish their episodes as torrents. iPX downloads them like any other, shares them back for as long as you choose, and a slow one never holds up the rest.
Subscribe to a whole list
Some people publish lists of podcasts they recommend, as OPML. Give iPX a list's address and it keeps a folder of those shows up to date as the list changes. Your own subscriptions move in and out the same way.
Sign in your way
Everyone signs in with a password, or with the single sign-on you already use, Cloudflare Access or Authentik. An admin adds people and decides who else is one.
Blogs too
Any RSS or Atom feed works, so the blogs you read sit beside the shows you listen to, and iPX keeps track of what you have read.

Since 2004

iPodderX was one of the first podcatchers, a Mac app by Ray Slakinski and August Trometer, from the year podcasts got their name. iPX is that app rebuilt to run on your own server.