PolyPod
scott saunders Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
PolyPod is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by scott saunders. Rated 4.8/5 from 6 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 19, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.8
- 6 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 131 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 19
- 2026 · v1.7.1
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About PolyPod
Build your language-learning habit with podcasts you enjoy. PolyPod is a podcast player that counts how long you listen in each language. Find something you want to hear, press play, and watch your comprehensible input hours add up. LANGUAGES Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Each language keeps its own total. SEE YOUR CONSISTENCY GROW - Listening time is counted automatically, and it's real time: 10 minutes of audio at 2x counts as 5 minutes. - Set a daily goal and follow your streaks, weekly summaries and total hours. - Today's Listening builds a plan around your daily goal. - Home screen and lock screen widgets. MAKE LISTENING WORK FOR YOU - Playback from 0.5x to 2x, bookmarks, an up-next queue and a sleep timer. - On-device transcripts that follow along as you listen (Pro). FIND YOUR NEXT LISTEN - Discover podcasts in your target language, get For You recommendations, or add any podcast by its RSS feed. KEEP YOUR RECORDS - Export your listening sessions as a CSV file to log your hours in another tracker. FREE AND PRO PolyPod is free for one language, with tracking, goals, streaks, the full player and your last 30 days of history. Pro adds all 8 languages, transcripts, downloads and offline listening, cloud sync, unlimited RSS feeds and your full history. Guides and help: polypod.app Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://polypod.app/privacy-policy/
Ratings & reviews
4.8
6 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.7.1 · Updated October 19, 2026
## What's New - New episode alerts: get a notification when a podcast you follow releases a new episode. Mute any podcast with the bell beside Following. - Smarter Up next: when your queue runs out, PolyPod plays the next episode in the same language and in the podcast's order, from where you left off. Offline, it picks from your downloads. - Badges to celebrate: tap to reveal a new badge, share it as an image, and open any badge on its own full-screen page. - Today's goal is now a ring on Home, and a Goal complete banner with confetti marks the moment you reach it, on any screen. - Progress has a new Streak card showing your week, and Top podcasts rows (Pro) tinted with each cover. - A daily tip on Home, with Show me to point you straight to the feature. - Pro members: tap PRO to see everything Pro has given you. - Optional anonymous analytics ## Improvements - Bookmarks: add or edit notes, delete them from the episode page, and find them all in Library. - Downloads always sits in Library, with Delete all for each podcast. - Discover search keeps loading as you scroll, says when nothing matches, and previews a pasted feed link in one tap. - Transcripts follow along as you listen, with a button back to the current line. - Tap the player's episode title or podcast name to open its page. - Clearer VoiceOver labels and bigger tap targets throughout. ## Fixes - Lock screen and headphone skip buttons now use your skip intervals. - Custom feeds keep the link you pasted, so they keep refreshing. - Start fresh now removes downloaded episodes too.
App privacy
The developer, scott saunders, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: App Functionality
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