Castria
Extroverted Developer, LLC Entertainment iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Castria is a free Entertainment app for iPhone and iPad by Extroverted Developer, LLC. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 16.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 48 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 20
- 2026 · v2.0.2
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About Castria
Castria is the podcast app that skips the ads for you. Press play and the ads, sponsor reads, and commercial breaks skip themselves. No fast-forwarding, no guessing where the show comes back. Just the show. Premium subscriptions remove an app's own ads, but not the ones inside the episode. Castria skips those, and skipping ads on your phone is free. Around the skip is a full podcast player: playlists, offline downloads, AI summaries, searchable transcripts, and sync across your devices. TOP FEATURES • Ads skip themselves: on every episode, hands-free, from the moment you press play • You stay in control: see every ad Castria found and why, keep a sponsor you want to hear, or turn skipping off in one tap • AI episode summaries: see what an episode covers before you commit • Tap-to-jump topics: go straight to the part you came for • Searchable transcripts: read along, search any word, tap to jump to that moment • Offline downloads: ad-skipping still works with no signal, and each show can auto-download, keep the newest few, or delete after playing • Playlists: build your own, in any order you like • Bring your shows: import from another app with an OPML file, or preview a show before you follow it • Sleep timer, speed up to 5×, and trim silences • Resume on any device: iPhone, iPad, and the web on one account • See your time saved: the minutes and ads Castria has skipped for you, by day, week, and month For serious podcast listeners: the more you listen, the more time you get back. The core is free: ad-skipping, the full player, and the AI features. And Castria shows no ads of its own. CASTRIA PREMIUM (optional, with a free trial) • Faster ad-skip: ads are found on our servers before you download, so your phone does none of the work • CarPlay: a dedicated app with Listen Now, Up Next, Playlists, and Shows (iOS 26.4 or later) • Apple Watch: your queue and Now Playing on your wrist, with ads skipped • Smart playlists that fill themselves • 20 GB of cloud storage for your saved episodes FAIR TO CREATORS Castria plays the publisher's own episode file and skips the ad segments as you listen, the same as fast-forwarding by hand. We never modify or re-host the audio. Don't interrupt what you're doing just to fast-forward through an ad. Castria skips them for you. Castria Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly to your Apple Account. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://castria.app/privacy
What’s new
Version 2.0.2 · Updated October 20, 2026
Finding and following shows is easier, and your episode lists got a big upgrade. - One search for everything: shows, episodes, topics and what was said. Tap a topic or transcript match to start playing right at that moment. - Shows is now a grid of artwork. Tap a show for its episodes and settings in one place. - Up Next, Timeline, Saved, Downloads and playlists share one redesigned list, with Play all, Shuffle all, sorting, and filters for Unplayed, In progress and Downloaded. - See where you left off: started episodes show a progress bar and the time left. - Long episode titles are shown in full, so episodes that only differ at the end are easy to tell apart. - Your Saved list, and its order, now syncs across your devices. - Clearer ad labels: Castria shows "N ADS FOUND" until your copy of the episode is ready to skip them, including in CarPlay. - Downloads say when they're waiting for Wi-Fi, and Castria asks before saving on cellular when you've chosen Wi-Fi only. - Premium: episodes from shows you don't follow get their ads found by our servers too. Fixes: BBC episodes download again; replaying a finished episode no longer jumps to the end; episodes you marked played stay played; fewer unexpected sign-outs; switching accounts keeps each account's data separate; and many CarPlay and ad-skipping improvements.
App privacy
The developer, Extroverted Developer, LLC, 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:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Location: Coarse Location
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Search History: Search History
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
- User Content: Customer Support, Other User Content
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address
Used for: App Functionality
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