Thank you to the unnamed person in Mexico who, yesterday, became Crest's first paid user!
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Well, my Product Hunt launch is absolutely bombing lol #buildinpublic #app
Crest: The podcast app that flows, without piling up | Product Hunt
Crest is a podcast player built around a simple idea: your queue should feel like a river, not a to-do list. New episodes flow in automatically. Older ones drift away when fresh ones arrive. No backlog guilt. No phantom obligations. Just the podcasts you actually want to hear, right now. One-time purchase. No subscription. No ads. No account required. Your listening stays on your device. It's podcast listening the way it should've always felt.
Oh so Stage Manager on the Mac is actually very good #Mac
Honestly, I just wanted a podcast experience that felt like entertainment again. Recently I’ve felt like podcast apps looked more like to-do lists. Crest is my attempt at fixing that.
If this is resonating with you, Crest is available now on Android and iOS. Try for free, then unlock unlimited podcasts subscriptions with a one-time $2.99 in-app purchase.
There are plenty of escape hatches — you can Save an episode to ensure it never gets removed from your Queue. And you can browse a show’s back catalog and manually queue up an episode you missed.
There are some sensible default rules, and you can customise the rules for each show. You can change:
1. Whether episodes go to the start or end of the queue
2. How many episodes of a show you want to keep in your queue
3. An age limit for episodes
Crest quietly keeps things organised by cleaning up old episodes to make way for new ones. No more having to archive episodes manually.
Something I’ve been working on recently — inspired by @tg — is a podcast app called Crest.
The idea is to eliminate the idea of a backlog, thereby lifting the guilt I feel every time I see my queue and am confronted with how behind I am on my podcasts.
Crest just… lets things go.
I got so fed up with podcast apps making me feel guilty for not keeping up that I built my own.
It's called Crest 🌊 The idea: episodes flow like a river, not pile up like a to-do list. Each show gets one slot in your queue by default. New stuff goes to the end, not the front. Private by design, no ads, no recommendations.
It's now in public beta on iOS — would love for people to try it and tell me what they think!