There is one ordered list. Episodes you add and episodes the app suggests live in it together — not a queue plus a separate recommendations shelf. When you tell it to stop suggesting, it stops. Nothing else changes.
Priorities, in order: simplicity, correctness, speed. Features are added reluctantly. If a change adds a concept you have to learn, it has to justify itself first.
TestFlight, iPhone only, iOS 18 or later. Not on the App Store.
Why one list
Two lists means two modes, and two modes means a switch — plus every bug that lives in the seam between them. A separate autopilot playlist was considered and rejected for exactly that reason. Most of the mode-switching trouble in comparable apps starts there.
So there is no queue mode and no autopilot mode. Turning autopilot off means the app stops adding suggestions. It does not change how anything plays.
What fills it
An episode's place is decided by both how much you like the show and how new the episode is — neither signal on its own. That is what makes "new toward the top and things you actually finish toward the top" a real blend rather than one rule beating the other.
"New" is measured against each show's own rhythm. A monthly show's four-day-old episode still reads as brand new; a daily show's yesterday is already old news. One show can't take over the top of the queue, either — every episode already taken from a show makes its next one score lower.
You can always ask why
Every suggestion carries the reason it's there — you favourited the show, it's fresh for that show's cadence, you finish these, you usually listen around now. Press one and you get the actual numbers behind it, not a slogan.
Anything the app learned, you can overrule. Pin an episode, reorder, delete, or switch suggestions off entirely. What you did explicitly always beats what it worked out about you.
It keeps your place
- Starting an episode doesn't consume it. Half-listened episodes stay in the queue for later, and the app won't quietly drop one you'd started.
- An episode leaves the queue when it's finished, or when you say you're done with it. Those are the only two ways.
- Downloads, offline playback, and lock-screen and CarPlay controls.
- Trim silence and a clarity boost for quiet recordings, a sleep timer that fades rather than cutting, and a listening history you can actually read.
What it knows about you
Nothing that leaves your phone. There is no account to make, no server of mine to hold anything, no analytics, no tracking and no ads. Your listening history is used to order your queue and shown back to you on a stats screen — and that is all it is for.
Full detail on the privacy page, including the three places the app does make a network request and what each one sees.