Thoropod
Know your favorite podcast inside out.
Thoropod turns any podcast into a reference library. Transcribe episodes on your Mac, track the guests, films, and running jokes you care about, and find that bit you half remember.
Download Thoropod 1.13.223 MB · A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later
For superfans and podcasters
Which episodes had that guest? Where did the running joke start? What was that movie they recommended three years ago? Thoropod helps you find the answers for any show, including the feeds you pay for.
If you make the show, search your own back catalogue for past guests, topics, and conversations without listening to eight hundred hours again.
How it works
- Subscribe. Paste a feed address or the show's website.
- Download. Keep episodes for offline listening, or stream them. You can also let Thoropod delete the audio after transcription.
- Transcribe. Turn episodes into searchable text on your Mac.
- Name the speakers. Thoropod finds the voices in each episode. You give them names.
- Analyze. Choose what to track: guests, films, books, characters, running bits. An AI model reads the transcripts and tags each episode.
Browse by what you care about
Each category you track, called a dimension, gets a tab. Pick a guest and a film to find episodes that feature both. If the AI gives you John Smith and Jon Smith, merge them once and Thoropod remembers the correction.
Find the words. Hear them again.
Search across the show's transcripts or read along as you listen. See who said what, and click any line to jump to that moment in the audio.
Put names to voices
Name a host or guest and Thoropod looks for their voice in other episodes. It groups similar voices and suggests names from the analysis, so you can check matches and confirm them in batches.
Tell the AI what to look for
Describe what you want to track in plain English, from guest names to movie ratings. Use Anthropic or OpenAI with your own API key, or run a model on your Mac with Ollama. Thoropod shows what it will send and estimates the cost before you start.
On your Mac
Transcription and speaker detection run on your Mac. Cloud analysis sends text to the provider you choose. Use a local model to keep that on your Mac too.
Put your other Macs to work
Share transcription and speaker detection across Macs on your network. Thoropod sends each job to a free machine. Finally, an excuse for that Mac Studio Ultra.
Share your work
Export your transcripts, speaker names, and analysis for a friend. Or start with a shared podcast package and tweak it to suit you.
Thoropod. For the real sickos.
Download Thoropod 1.13.223 MB · A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later