Bard is a podcast player for fiction - anthologies, audio dramas, actual plays, horror serials, full-cast epics. These types of podcasts don't fit the mold most podcast players are built around. Bard organizes your shows the way you actually immerse yourself in these fully-cast productions, as seasons and series you work through. It's a better listening experience for people who binge stories. CURATION AND LIBRARIANSHIP Bard's index is curated by a librarian and categorized into genres, game systems, and types of performance. No chat shows, no news, no true crime. To discover new shows you swipe through recommendations like it's a date with a book. The recommendation engine is tuned by what you play, shelve, and rate: genre, game system, tone, and the shows you passed on. The award winners are here, but the biggest shows do not need the help, so smaller series and new work get a nudge. VERIFIABLY HUMAN The limelight is reserved for stories performed by people. Where it can be verified, AI-generated production is flagged and pushed down. BUILT FOR BINGEING - Episodes oldest-first, with season filtering - Continue listening, recently added, and all caught up, at a glance - A shelf for episodes saved for later, and for shows you set down partway - Playback speed and sleep timing - Your position syncs across devices - Import the shows you already follow from an OPML file FREE, AND BARD PRO The whole player is free: follow unlimited podcasts, discovery, the shelf, and cross-device sync. It is supported by small visual ads that promote only fiction podcasts, never anything else. Bard Pro adds offline downloads and removes those ads. Monthly or annual. Ads inside episodes come from the shows themselves, so no player can remove those, and Bard does not pretend otherwise. MADE BY ONE PERSON Bard is made by one librarian on weekends. Feedback goes straight to them, gets read, and gets a response. Bard Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: $4.99 per month, or $44.99 per year. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple ID and renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://playbard.fm/privacy
Entertainment · iPhone, iPad · Free
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