Modcast - Podcast Player
Podcasts with video, transcripts & Apple TV sync
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Details
- External ID
- 1269676
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Modcast - Podcast Player
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3258772542988956
- Tags
- Audio, Entertainment, Video
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Modcast plays your podcasts -- including video episodes -- with transcripts, bookmarks, chapters, and a sleep timer. Your playback position syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV, so you never lose your place. Free to download, with an optional Modcast Plus upgrade. No account, no data collection -- your listening stays yours.
Enrichment
- Niche
- cross-device and desktop control utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- podcast player with video and transcripts for listeners
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A standard podcast player is straightforward, but seamless multi-device state synchronization across iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS with video playback and transcript alignment involves substantial platform-specific Swift/iCloud engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/SwiftUI development utilizing AVFoundation with AVPlayer for video and audio playback, CloudKit or a custom WebSocket backend for low-latency playback state sync, and parser pipelines for RSS podcast namespaces (podcasting 2.0 transcripts/chapters). Developing a polished tvOS interface synchronized seamlessly with iOS demands specialized Apple ecosystem expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 218 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #114 of 219 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
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