If you live in Telegram and do not want yet another app just for podcasts, Yourcast 2.0 is built for you. The Telegram bot lets you search for a show, tap to subscribe, and have new episodes arrive as audio right in your chat, and its new 2.0 update adds AI summaries with tap-to-jump timestamps.
Yourcast (Credits: Product Hunt)
Yourcast is not new. The bot first launched in 2022 and even reached the Product Hunt front page back then. Version 2.0 is its biggest update yet, and it is aimed squarely at listeners who already spend their day inside Telegram and would rather keep their podcasts there too.
What Yourcast 2.0 Does
The core idea is simple. Search for a podcast inside Telegram, subscribe with a tap, and new episodes are delivered automatically as audio files in your chat. You can see the file size before anything uploads, browse trending shows around the world and in your language, and add your own channels.
Version 2.0 adds several features on top of that foundation. AI summaries now come with timestamps you can tap to jump straight to that moment in the audio, so you can skim an episode before committing to the full listen. You can also ask questions about any episode, and the bot will answer from its content.
Feeds that break now repair themselves, according to the maker, which should cut down on the dead subscriptions that plague podcast apps. Files up to 2 GB are supported, and you can import your existing subscriptions via OPML instead of rebuilding your library from scratch.
Yourcast 2.0 Pricing and Languages
Yourcast is open source under the GPL v3 license, and the free tier covers 10 episodes a week on demand. Payments are handled inside Telegram using Telegram Stars for anything beyond that, though the launch listing does not state specific paid prices, so check the bot itself for current rates before paying.
The bot works in six languages: English, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Hebrew. It is available through Telegram at t.me/yourcastbot, with no separate app to install.
For podcast fans who already treat Telegram as home base, that is the whole pitch. No new app, no new account, no feed to rebuild. Your shows arrive where you already are, and with 2.0, you can now jump to the good parts before you even press play.
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