Episodes, without a storefront
Your shows live on your own server, which does the fetching. Lindale shows what has arrived, marks what you have heard, and plays it, inside the same player as your albums and your books. No charts, and no autoplay carrying you into something adjacent.
Your shows
The server does the fetching
Your subscriptions and your download schedule live on Audiobookshelf. Lindale keeps no second subscription list and contacts no podcast directory of its own, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to keep in step.
A wall of shows
Show artwork in a grid, newest arrivals first if you like. Open one and the episodes are a list, with dates, lengths and descriptions that stay readable instead of being cut to one line.
Unplayed, started, finished
New episodes are marked, part-heard ones show how far you got, and finished ones step back without vanishing. That state goes back to the server, so a show you dip into on the phone looks the same on the Mac.
If nothing you have added holds any shows, there is no Podcasts section at all. Sections follow what is really on a server rather than what kind of server it is.
Listening
Three hours, no waiting
A long episode starts as soon as the beginning has arrived rather than after the whole file, remembers where you were, and picks up there.
Speed, skips and a timer
Faster without the chipmunks, and a skip that jumps thirty seconds instead of a whole episode. The speed is set per show, because an interview is not a documentary. There is a sleep timer as well, for the ones you listen to horizontally.
What is not there
What a podcast listener might reasonably expect and not find:
- Subscribing to a feed happens on the server, not in the app
- Audiobookshelf is the only provider so far, so no RSS feeds of your own inside Lindale
- No chapter markers or ad skipping
- No downloading an episode for offline listening. An episode needs the server within reach
- No CarPlay
Requirements
- macOS 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or tvOS 26, or later
- An Audiobookshelf server you can reach over HTTPS, with your shows on it
- Same rules as any source: no plain HTTP, self-signed certificates fine, your API key in the Keychain
Lindale is not on the App Store yet, and it will be free when it gets there. Say hello if you want to hear when that happens.