Ondes

📻 Ondes — a private, open-source Android podcast player. 0 ads, 0 trackers, 0 account. Background playback, variable speed, offline downloads & Android Auto — everything stays on your phone.

A private, open-source Android podcast player. 0 ads, 0 trackers, 0 account — background playback, variable speed, offline downloads & Android Auto, all on your phone.

Most podcast apps make you the product: ads between episodes, trackers logging every tap, an account before you can listen. Ondes does none of that. Search a show, paste any RSS feed, or import your OPML — then listen anywhere: on your phone, from the lock screen, or hands-free in the car.

🚫 0 ads · 0 trackers · 0 login — every subscription, download and setting stays on your phone ⏩ 0.8×–3× speed, skip silence and a volume boost — finish a 60-minute show in 40 💾 Offline downloads that survive the app being closed — your commute, your flight, your dead zones 🚗 Android Auto — browse and play hands-free 🌍 5 languages, light & dark, Material You

Features 🎧 Background playback with lock-screen & notification controls (Media3 / ExoPlayer + MediaSession) 🚗 Android Auto — browse Continue listening / Subscriptions / Downloads and play hands-free in the car ⏯️ Play / pause, configurable skip intervals, scrub ▶️ Auto-play the next episode — continuous playback through your list ⏩ Variable speed (0.8×–3×), remembered as your default, with per-podcast speed overrides 🤫 Skip silence & volume boost for clearer speech over road/train noise 🔖 Chapters — tap to jump (Podcasting 2.0 podcast:chapters) 📝 Rich show notes — formatted HTML with tappable links & mm:ss timestamps that seek 😴 Sleep timer — fixed durations or stop at end of episode 💾 Offline downloads (WorkManager — survives app being closed), optional Wi-Fi-only and auto-delete when finished 🔄 Background refresh + new-episode notifications for your subscriptions, with optional per-podcast auto-download 🔖 Resume where you left off — playback positions saved per episode ✅ Auto mark-as-played, "Continue listening" on the home screen 🔍 Discover podcasts (iTunes search) or paste any RSS feed URL, with a first-run interest picker 📚 Subscriptions library with pull-to-refresh, plus filter episodes within a show ♿ Accessibility — merged TalkBack list items with custom actions for every episode operation 🧾 Up-Next queue — a persistent, reorderable play queue ("Play next" / "Add to queue") 💼 Own your data — OPML import/export and a full local backup/restore (subscriptions, progress & settings), all on-device 🌍 Localized in 5 languages — English, French, German, Spanish & Portuguese ⚙️ Settings for playback, downloads, updates, your data and appearance 🎨 Material You dynamic theming, light/dark/system theme, edge-to-edge 🚫 No ads, no analytics, no login