Why KinCasts

If your podcast app wears you out

This one was built the other way round. It does less, on purpose, so that listening to your show is the first thing that happens.

The Shows screen: a grid of four shows with their artwork.

Just the good stuff.

A recommendation is only as good as whoever is making it.

Your Recommended list is personal: every show on it was put there by someone in your group who has heard it. Known good, from people you know.

The More screen: Settings, Import, Export, Help and About in one short list.

Simple on purpose.

Other apps give you a library to manage: follows, saves, downloads, queues and shelves.

Add a show from the list your group trusts, and listen. That is the whole app. Five tabs, each named for what it holds.

The Home screen: a list of your own episodes, ready to play.

Your shows come first.

Other apps open on a storefront: promoted shows, things to try, things to buy.

KinCasts opens on your own episodes, ready to play. Nothing is promoted, because nothing is for sale.

A show's page, with a round button on its artwork and a Share with My Group button.

One tap to add. One to remove.

Follow, save, download and subscribe: four words for what should be one thing.

Tap + on a show and it is yours. Tap − and it is gone. Found one worth passing on? Share it with your group from the same page.

The Search screen with a show's name typed in, and that one show found.

Heard about a show?

Someone says "you have to hear this one."

Type its name, and there it is. Open it and tap +. It does not have to be on your group's list, and it does not need anyone's permission.

The Listen screen: a large Listen button, and buttons to jump back and ahead.

A quiet place to listen.

You came to hear your show, and the app wants to show you six others first.

One screen, with big controls: listen, back 30 seconds, ahead 30, two minutes either way, and the speed you like.

The Settings screen: Use Cellular Data, Downloaded Episodes Only, Storage Limit and Check Every.

Downloads on your terms.

Hundreds of old episodes arrive on their own and fill the phone, or eat the month's data.

KinCasts downloads over Wi-Fi unless you say otherwise, and you set how many hours it keeps. Four settings, each with a line saying what it does.

Start with the people you trust.

A family, a circle of friends, a club. Start a group, invite them, and pass along the shows worth hearing.

Start a group

The shows in these pictures are made up for the demonstration. The iPhone app is in private testing and is not on the App Store yet.