Podcast AdBlock

Android's podcast ad blocking story is quieter than iOS's, but the tools that exist are, in a couple of cases, better than what iPhone users can get. Android's open networking stack means ...

Switching podcast apps is a bigger deal than most guides admit. Your queue, your playback speeds per show, your history, the muscle memory of exactly which corner of the screen the skip-forward button...

Overcast is the podcast app of choice for a lot of the people who care most about podcasts. It's built by one person, it's still updated after twelve years, and its Smart Speed feature is quie...

AdGuard and 1Blocker are the two most-installed content blockers on iOS. Both do a solid job on general web browsing. Both are advertised as "podcast ad blockers" in some corners of the inte...

If you've noticed you keep reaching for the volume knob mid-podcast, you're not imagining it. Podcast ads, particularly programmatic ones inserted via dynamic ad insertion, have quietly climbe...

Spotify serves ads on podcasts even for many listeners who thought they had them turned off. The ad load has climbed steadily over the last three years, and the mechanics of how Spotify inserts ads (d...

drea arrived in the podcast ad blocker category with the most disarming pitch possible: it's free, it needs no account, and there's no subscription hiding behind a trial. This review covers ho...

Adblock Podcast is the most ideologically interesting app in the podcast ad-skipping category: it charges you a subscription, then hands part of it back to the shows whose ads you skip. This review co...

There are two honest ways to remove podcast ads: pay for a feed that never contains them, or use a tool that finds the ads in the audio and cuts them out of your listening. Everything else you'll ...

Searching for a podcast ad blocker lands you in a confusing market: some tools are full podcast apps, some are feed services bolted onto your existing app, and some are browser-era blockers that don&#...