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...
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&#...
If you want to skip podcast ads without stabbing the +30s button four times per break, you have more options in 2026 than ever before. A new generation of apps can detect ad segments inside an episode...
If you want to block podcast ads at the network level — meaning across every device on your home Wi-Fi, without installing anything per-device — Pi-hole and AdGuard Home are the two big open-source op...
Pocket Casts is one of the most-loved third-party podcast players around. Great queue management, cross-device sync, brilliant playback controls. But if you've searched for "how to block ads ...
If you've decided you want to cut podcast ads on your iPhone, two names come up first in 2026. Filtr, the new system-wide content filter app from the developer behind Wipr. And AdGuard, the long-r...
For a long time, using an ad blocker felt like one of those small ethical questions you don't really want to answer. The publisher loses revenue. The site you wanted to read got served. You knew t...
Apple Podcasts is the most-used podcast app in the United States. It is also one of the worst for ads. There's no built-in ad blocker, episode ads are dynamically inserted into nearly every major ...
Podcast ads in 2026 are longer, more numerous, and harder to skip than they were three years ago. This is the complete guide to blocking podcast ads — every path that actually works, every path that d...
YouTube has become one of the biggest podcast platforms in the world. Lots of shows now publish a video version of every episode to YouTube as their primary distribution. That's good for the shows...
"Ad-free" can mean a few different things. Some shows run zero ads at all because they're funded by public-broadcasting underwriting or listener donations. Some run a few short ads on th...
Spotify Premium is famous for one thing: no ads. Spotify also has the biggest podcast catalogue of any music app. So it's easy to assume that paying for Premium means ad-free podcasts too. It does...