Anycast

Anycast is a mobile podcast player that uses AI to make podcasts accessible across languages. Its core feature is AI transcription in more than ten languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese, which it displays as bilingual subtitles so listeners can follow along in their own language or use the subtitles to learn a new one; transcripts can also be exported. The app includes an AI chat feature that lets users ask questions about an episode and receive summaries, insights, and answers drawn from its content, rather than needing to search or re-listen manually. It also supports standard podcast-management features like RSS feed subscriptions and OPML import and export, so users can bring over existing subscriptions from another app, and it surfaces podcasts from dozens of countries to help listeners discover shows outside their usual language or region. Anycast is available as native apps on iOS and Android. The site lists a pricing page but does not disclose specific plans or costs, and the product appears to be an early-stage, community-supported project: it links to a GitHub repository star count and a Telegram group rather than a company page, and lists a personal email address as its only contact.