I’m sharing my first iOS app, Refeed. It all started when my wife would send me podcast links, but I wouldn’t listen to them because they weren’t in my podcast player.

Refeed solves that problem by giving users RSS feeds to share that include episodes from other podcasts.

The app builds a new RSS feed from the items in the source RSS files. The original metadata is mostly kept.(1)

The best part is that the episodes that are recommended to me show up in my podcast player of choice, and it totally preserves the analytics and distribution of the Podcast Publishers.

Let me know what you think!

(1) I’m currently proxying the enclosure url (the link to the podcast episode file) through a server, preserving the request headers. I’m hoping to be able to track “subscribers” to the feeds. We’ll see how that goes.