How much do you value your time?
We sit through every new episode of the podcasts you follow so you don't have to. You just enjoy the 10 minutes that matter — and all the time you saved.
So what will you do with that time? A nap? Dinner with friends? Start that side project, or enjoy that sunshine?
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DistillCast — your podcasts, distilled
Episodes
HARD THINGS
ROBBINS
FERRISS
Your private feed, right in the podcast app you already use
back in your pocket if you follow for a year — same episodes, none of the filler.
Your podcasts are already here.
Point DistillCast at the shows already in your app. If it has a public feed, we can distill it.
10 podcasts or 4 three-hour ones.
Those hours add up to something.
Keeping up with everything you follow can run 15 to 20 hours a week. Those are the hours DistillCast gives back, without making you drop the podcasts you love.
You'll recognize yourself.
10 podcasts in your app, more than any week can hold. Now you actually hear all of them, ten minutes each.
The shows you love run three hours. You want the whole argument, not a clipped highlight — but not every week holds a three-hour block. Get the whole story on the drive to work.
Between work, family and everything in between, the listening time you used to have is gone. You still want to keep up. Ten minutes is a school run, not a weekend.
The core wisdom and the key moments. None of the fluff and chit-chat.
Don't take our word. Hear it.
Check out sample distilled recaps from the episodes our listeners are enjoying.
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Start with your shows — or borrow our taste.
Already have a queue? Bring it with you. Starting fresh? Pick an interest and we'll give you a thoughtful place to begin.
Import your subscriptions or search for any public podcast. We'll catch every new episode automatically.
Don't have a list ready? Start with a collection of worthwhile podcasts around a topic you care about.
Either way, your first distilled recaps begin appearing in your private feed.
What "distilled" actually means
No new app, no chatbot, no reading. A shorter version of the same episode, in your ears.
The same podcasts you already follow. One-click import, or start from a curated shelf — either way you're set up in under a minute.
Each new episode is transcribed, and the key moments get pulled out. Filler and ad reads don't make the cut.
In a real voice, in a private feed only you can see. Press play like any episode.
What you actually get
The key points and takeaways, in order. Not a teaser, not a trailer.
Subscribe once in the app you already use. Every recap shows up there on its own.
Loved the recap? One tap to the original, at the source, in full.
Prefer to skim? Set it up once and the written version lands in your inbox.
Pick the voice, tune the length, tone and depth, and tell it what to focus on.
New episodes are caught and distilled automatically. Nothing to check.
Not in the mood to listen? Read it instead.
Every recap is written out in full, not just spoken. Read it on the page, skim it in your inbox, or keep the transcript — whatever suits the moment.
Plays in your podcast app like any other episode.
Rahm Emanuel opens with a comparison that reframes how you think about both the U.S. and China simultaneously. His argument: the two superpowers are no longer competing by projecting strength. They're competing by exporting their domestic dysfunction onto everyone else. China's largest export, in his telling, is not…
Emanuel's immigration argument will likely frustrate people across the political spectrum, which is probably the point. He refuses the frame that the crisis is fundamentally about one party's failure, and he names the Democratic Party's specific error with a directness that is uncommon from someone who may run for…
Full transcript included · read it here, in your inbox, or export to Markdown.
And it all stays, worth returning to.
Your private feed is for listening. Your library is for finding the idea you half-remember hearing three weeks ago.
- Search every recap by show, guest, topic, or a phrase you remember.
- Rate, tag and keep notes on the ones that earned it.
- Jump to the original the moment an episode deserves the full three hours.
- Take it with you — export to Markdown, Obsidian or Readwise, any time.
We distill it. We don't just trim it.
Anyone can cut an episode short. DistillCast gets to the heart of it — the real key moments, the turns that actually matter — with our own intelligence models, tuned to listen the way you would. What lands in your feed is faithful to the episode, not a scrape of the first five minutes.
Nobody sees your feed but you.
Secret URL, only for you. No public catalog, no cross-user access.
Regenerate your feed URL in one tap and the old link stops working at once.
Export everything — full JSON, per-episode Markdown — whenever you want.
You already do this with email.
You don't read every message start to finish. You skim, catch what matters, and move on. DistillCast brings that to podcasts: every episode becomes a distilled 10-minute recap, so you get the ideas and the three hours back.
The key points and takeaways in about ten minutes, in your ears.
It plays in the podcast app you already use. No new app, no chatbot.
Want the whole episode? Every recap links straight to the original.
Questions people ask first
Is this a podcast I subscribe to? +
Yes. It's your own private feed, made only from the podcasts you picked. Subscribe once, and every recap shows up there.
What does it actually do? +
It watches the podcasts you follow, and when a new episode drops it turns that 30 to 180 minute episode into a distilled 10-minute recap. The core points, without the time.
I only follow a few podcasts. Is it worth it? +
Especially. If your four podcasts are three-hour epics, one week is 12 hours you can't spare. Even saving 2 to 3 hours a week pays for itself many times over — one more thing handled for you, automatically.
Will I stop hearing full episodes? +
No. Your subscriptions are untouched. This is a separate catch-up feed.
What if it summarizes the wrong things? +
You tell it what to care about. Set the length, tone and depth, and write in plain words what to focus on — "AI strategy and macro; skip the sponsor reads and small talk." You can set that per show, pick from six voices, and hear a sample before anything runs.
Who can see what I listen to? +
Only you. Your feed lives at a secret URL, there's no public catalog and no cross-user access. If the URL ever leaks, regenerate it in one tap — the old one stops working immediately. Export or delete everything whenever you like.
What does it cost? +
Free during the private beta. No card, no catch. See the planned pricing →
- It's on us. Enjoy your recaps free while we're in beta. We never ask for a card.
- We'll keep you posted. A friendly heads-up before you run low, and we're always adding capacity.
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