We snuck in a last minute Halloween update to fix issues with playback speed and the sleep timer. Apologies and email [email protected] if you're still experiencing issues.

Apologies for ~5 minutes of downtime due to a failed deployment just now. Everything should be back up and running.

RETURN OF THE PUMPKIN

You may see delays in feed updates over the next couple hours as we update our servers. Everything will be caught up in time for Monday morning commutes in Germany.

2025.10 now in the App Store! - Fix watch app playback speed slider issues - App size improvement - Fix some appearance and accessibility issues - Changes to Castro Plus - Fix an issue where now playing button text might be cut off - Many crash fixes. Seriously so many

Happy International Podcast Day. We have a small bug fix update 2025.9.2 out today to celebrate!

Release 2025.9.1 out today featuring a new chapter UI and lots of bug fixes for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass!

Here's a little Liquid Glass for your iOS 26 release day. - Add more playback speed increments - iOS 26 / liquid glass support - Major improvements to app size - Many other small fixes and improvements More to come but I figured we should get this out.

Bug fix release 2025.8.1 available now! - Fix some issues where audio interruption was not properly handled - Fix an issue on iPhones where entering the episode details page would reset your spot in the list - Many other small improvements and crash fixes

It's here! 🚀 Castro now syncs across devices and has a brand new iPad app. Grab the update now! 📱🔄📱

We added a country chart to Explore so you can easily see popular shows in your country. Available now, no update needed. Happy Fourth of July weekend! 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪

Servers back online. Good news we have recorded over 2,147,483,647 podcast events since ~2015. Unfortunately, recording #2,147,483,648 was a bit of a struggle and happened to fall on a holiday. Everything is good now and the servers are catching back up.

We have to do a database migration and the servers are going to be in maintenance mode for a few hours overnight. Apologies for the short notice. Be back soon.

Small 2025.5 release out today with a fix for sideloading and some crash fixes. I am also answering questions today on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/CastroPodc...

Podcast episodes containing the phrase "chicago pope" by week over the last 10 years.

Weekly podcast episodes mentioning the pope over the past year.

People are consistently amazed that when you email Castro support you just get a prompt response from a person.

2025.4.2 out now! Small quality of life release: - add option to disable lock screen scrubber - fixes for dragging around multiple items in the queue - fixes for some visual issues from the last release - & other small bug fixes

2025.4.1 Out Today! Total revamp to push notification settings allowing you to easily set a push notification per podcast. Full notes here: www.reddit.com/r/CastroPodc...

Number of podcast episodes about tariffs per day over the past year. 😬

Castro 2025.3.2 Released today with a really solid set of bug fixes and small improvements: - Explore UI Improvements - Fixed an issue where VoiceOver wasn’t properly reading podcast titles in search - Various fixes for deep links - Add progress indicator back to bottom nav - Many more fixes

Castro 2025.3.1 available now! Episode Search! Search for a topic or a person and get related episodes in any podcast. • Entirely rewritten search page • Major changes to how the queue works • Improve background processing so app doesn’t load so much at startup

Arguably we are an old kid, but we moved back to the block and people are noticing.

Sorry for some issues with explore and charts today. They're coming back now.

Update 2025.2.1 out today! 🚀 Release notes: - Improved transcript dialog with search, speaker filters, jump to timestamp, etc - Rewrite event processing to prevent missing episodes, fix crashes, and make everything work better - Fix an issue with the navigation bar title visibility (cont'd)

Castro after 1 year. No reflections, just results: castro.fm/blog/state-o...

New App Store video! 🚀

Castro 2025.2 is out today! 🚀 This release brings our initial podcast:transcript support. Other Changes: - Storage page improvements - Fix an issue where streaming could leak storage space, and fix several related bugs with disk space usage - Minor bug & crash fixes

Early in the season there were more podcast episodes about the Chiefs but since the playoffs started there are more conversations about the Eagles. 🏈

Barbie wins every month except when Oppenheimer won best picture 😂 .

Graph of the number of podcast episodes mentioning DeepSeek each day. 🤔

Apologies for some issues with our search service over the past day. It should be slowly getting back to normal now.

Releasing a new update 2025.1 today. Apologies if you didn't get the last one, I'm not sure what happened, Apple somehow lost track of it. It seems this new one is getting out to everyone.

New update 2024.12.1 now available! - Fixes several issues where Castro would slowly accumulate storage space over time - Updated storage page with more granularity - Fixes an issue where Castro might stop sending push notifications for certain shows - Various other bug fixes

Merry Christmas to all who love podcasts 🎁🎄🎅

Big holiday update out today. - Skip Outros - Storage Page - iOS 15 Fixes - Holiday Icons Read more here: castro.fm/blog/holiday...

There was a brief service outage earlier, apologies, all should be good now.

Castro 2024.11.2 available now! - Fix incorrect season number on episode details in some cases - Make the app more American - Fix up social media links - Bug and crash fixes - App Store stuff