Thoropod
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Thoropod 1.13.223 MB · released November 10, 2026 · A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later
To install
- Open
Thoropod-1.13.2.dmgand drag Thoropod to Applications. - Open it from Applications. macOS asks once whether to open an app that came from the internet; the app is signed and notarized, so that is all it asks.
- The Setup Wizard takes it from there: a transcription model, the speaker models, and an AI provider.
The guide has the rest.
New in 1.13.2
Thoropod 1.13.2 lets you choose where new podcasts are kept.
- A default podcast folder of your choice. Settings › Storage now has Choose…, which sets the folder new podcasts go into, such as one on an external disk. Reveal opens it in Finder, and Reset goes back to Thoropod's own folder. The podcasts you already have stay where they are, and you can still pick a different folder for any one podcast when you add it.
Check the download
SHA-256 of Thoropod-1.13.2.dmg:
27eb6ffff797fd6bdb5faf926639601d2e6c4bc92b7652e8556614a2a7bc84cbIn Terminal: shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Thoropod-1.13.2.dmg
Earlier versions
1.13.1 October 28, 2026 · 23 MB
Thoropod 1.13.1 makes the Setup Wizard simpler.
- The Speaker models page just installs the models. Whether to find speakers right after transcribing is still in Settings › Transcription.
- The Other Macs page now says up front that its settings are optional, for when you have a lot of episodes and more than one Mac.
1.13.0 October 28, 2026 · 23 MB
Thoropod 1.13.0 makes choosing an AI model simpler and safer.
- AI solutions. Settings › AI Solutions is now a list of ready-to-use setups, each a provider, a model, and an effort level. Copy & Paste with your chatbot is built in and is the default for new podcasts. Add AI Solution… explains the choices, checks your API key, suggests an inexpensive model, and offers a prompt you can paste into your own chatbot for help getting an API key or setting up Ollama. Pick a solution for each podcast in its Analyzer tab. The models your podcasts already used are on the list for you.
- A check before paid runs. The first time in a session you analyze or summarize with a paid model, Thoropod asks you to confirm, showing the model and an estimate of the tokens (and the cost, where Thoropod knows the price), or lets you select another.
- How many analyze jobs at once is now a simple choice from 1 to 6 (4 by default).
- Quitting while an episode is being transcribed no longer crashes.
1.12.0 October 28, 2026 · 23 MB
Thoropod 1.12.0 can sum up an episode in about a minute, to read aloud.
- Summaries. After an episode is analyzed, Summarize writes about 150 words that tell what the episode is about, using its show notes, its transcript, and what the analysis found. Thoropod uses the model you picked in the Analyzer tab. You'll find Summarize All after Analyze All in the toolbar, and Summarize, Re-summarize, and Delete Summary in an episode's context menu. The summary shows at the top of the episode panel's Analysis tab, with how many words it has, how long it takes to read aloud, and a Copy button. The status box has a new Summarized line.
- Summaries are optional and made on this Mac only. They are not included in packages, published sites, or podcasts shared with thoropod.com, and a podcast that uses Copy & Paste analysis can't make them.
1.11.1 October 27, 2026 · 23 MB
Thoropod 1.11.1 shows the values themselves in a dimension's column.
- Words in the episode list's columns. A dimension of terms or people that you show as a column in the episode list now shows each episode's values, such as "random pursuit" in a Game column or the guests' names in a Guests column, instead of how many there are. The column sorts from A, and hovering over a cell that is cut off shows all of it. Number and True/False columns are unchanged.
1.11.0 October 26, 2026 · 23 MB
Thoropod 1.11.0 can publish a podcast to a site of your own, and marks the transcripts that were made before Thoropod kept the timing of each word.
- Publish to a site of your own. A site that takes Thoropod's packages (one you run, or one run for a podcast's fans) gives you an address and a token; add them in Settings › Sharing › Sites. Package › Publish to a Site… then sends the podcast there: its transcripts, its analyses, and who said what, with the speakers' names but never their voices. After the first time only what changed is sent, and the sheet says what that is before you send it. Turn on Keep this site up to date and Thoropod publishes by itself after a batch of jobs or a feed refresh, once it has been quiet for a minute. Sharing with thoropod.com is unchanged.
- Older transcripts get a blue check. A transcript made before word timing shows a blue check instead of a green one in the episode table, sorts just after the green ones so you can select them together, and the episode panel says "before word timing". Transcribe those episodes again to get subtitles and speaker turns that follow each word.
1.10.3 October 16, 2026 · 22 MB
Thoropod 1.10.3 finishes the second round of repairs from the Mac app review and starts the third. Nothing changes in how the app is used; the work is in what happens underneath while jobs run, Macs come and go, and a podcast is edited.
- An edit never loses to a job that was already running. Renaming or merging speakers, renaming values, changing alias rules, and importing a package each take their turn on the podcast, and a transcription, speaker finding, or analysis that finishes afterward checks the file it is about to replace. If that file changed meanwhile, the newer edit is kept and the job says to run it again. A job that fails late cannot mark a newer result failed. A result committed after an edit uses the aliases and speaker names as they are then, whether it was made here or on another Mac.
- Removing or renaming a podcast waits for its work. New work on it is refused, running jobs are cancelled and drained, and late results for it are dropped rather than recreating its folder. Other podcasts keep going.
- Accepting jobs from other Macs: each upload belongs to the job that declared it, a job starts only once every input is in, and Delete, Decline, and turning Accept jobs off close the uploads first, so a slow upload cannot land in a job that reused the id. Turning it off waits for the running job; Settings shows Stopping meanwhile. A job's files are limited to 4 GiB in all, a transcript or speaker file to 128 MiB, and an episode's audio to 12 hours.
- Sending jobs: a job in the middle of being placed on another Mac is counted and cancelled like any other, and Stop releases its reservation there.
- Numbers from outside are checked. Durations, counts, and confidences read from feeds, transcripts, speaker files, packages, and other Macs' replies are bounded before use. A bad value in an old file no longer stops the app, and one unreadable transcript is skipped while the rest load.
1.10.2 October 13, 2026 · 22 MB
Sharing work between Macs now requires Thoropod 1.10.2 or later on both Macs and a one-time pairing. Set the same shared secret in Settings › Network on both Macs. On the worker, turn on Accept jobs and copy its pairing code. On the sender, open Network, click Pair, paste the code, and choose which jobs to send. All job choices start off.
- Remote processing now uses encrypted connections that verify each paired Mac's identity. Discovering a Mac sends no shared secret or episode data.
- Network jobs require a shared secret. Keychain failures block access, and failed secret changes preserve the working value and display an error.
- Package imports validate file names and contents before changing the library, and reject unsafe paths and links.
- Remote results are checked for expected files, size, and episode identity before they are applied.
1.10.1 October 12, 2026 · 20 MB
The guide in Help › Thoropod Help is rewritten in plainer words: the first run, installing, the trial and the license, the player, naming speakers, packages, sharing with thoropod.com, and sharing the work with other Macs.
Everything else is as in 1.10.0: Add Podcast opens on the podcasts shared at thoropod.com, Export Package shows its progress in the Activity bar, and a package too large for the site is kept in Downloads to send to a friend.