Privacy policy
Last updated 5 September 2026
PodPoder has no accounts and no analytics. Your podcasts, where you stopped in each episode and your settings are kept on your device and nowhere else. This page explains the few moments when something does leave it, and who sees what when it does.
Who is responsible
PodPoder is published by Andrés López Pascual, the controller for the little data this policy describes. Questions about it go to [email protected].
What stays on your device
The podcasts you add, the episodes you have played, the position you stopped at in each one, and your theme and language choices are stored in a database on your device. There is no PodPoder server to send them to: the app has no backend and no account to attach them to.
Deleting the app deletes all of it.
What leaves your device when you use the app
Three things reach other people’s servers, and only while you use the feature that needs them:
- Search. What you type in the search field is sent to Apple’s iTunes Search API, which sends the results back. Apple’s privacy policy governs what Apple does with it.
- Feeds and artwork. Opening a podcast fetches its RSS feed, and its images, from the servers its publisher chose. Those servers see your IP address, as they would with any podcast app or web browser.
- Audio. Playing an episode streams it from the publisher’s server, which likewise sees your IP address and how much of the file you asked for.
None of these requests carries an identifier of you, of your device or of your library. PodPoder adds nothing to them.
The TestFlight beta
While PodPoder is in beta it is distributed through Apple’s TestFlight. Apple passes on the email address you used to accept the invitation, together with crash reports and the tester counts TestFlight collects. They are used to fix crashes and for nothing else, and Apple’s own privacy policy governs TestFlight itself.
Leaving the beta in TestFlight ends that. Write to us and your address is removed from the tester list.
This website
podpoder.com sets no cookies and loads no third-party script. Cloudflare, which hosts it, counts page views at its edge without writing anything to your device and without building a profile, and keeps short-lived server logs for security, as any host does. Your theme and language choices are kept in your browser’s local storage, on your machine, because you asked for them.
What PodPoder never does
- No account, no sign-up, no password.
- No advertising, and no ad or attribution SDK.
- No analytics inside the app.
- No selling, renting or sharing of data with anyone.
- No profile of what you listen to.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you may ask what data is held about you, ask for a copy, ask for it to be corrected or erased, and complain to your data protection authority. In practice the only thing that can be held is a beta tester’s email address, so a request is usually answered by deleting it. Write to [email protected].
Children
PodPoder is not directed at children and asks for no personal information from anyone, of any age. Podcast feeds come from their publishers, and their content is theirs.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. A change to what leaves your device is announced in the release notes of the version that makes it.