Under the Fold
Weekly · investigative
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Every podcast. Everything switched on.
Podcasting quietly grew a set of open standards — chapters, transcripts, live shows, cross-app subscriptions, and a direct line from you to the people who make the show. Most apps support a few. Vibral is built to support all of them, properly.
Ad-free. No subscription. No feature behind a purchase. Supporting the app — or the shows — is always invited and never required.
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1.5× · SmartSleep
01 · Library
It opens to something you can play.
The shows you follow, with the episodes you have not heard. What is playing sits in the bar at the bottom of every screen, with a pause button and a line showing how far in you are — so it is never something you have to go back and find.
Three filters: Unplayed, Downloads, Shows. Search is at the top and stays out of the way.
02 · Discover
Discovery nobody paid for.
Vibral searches the Podcast Index — an open, independent catalog of millions of podcasts that no single company controls. No promoted slots, no placement deals, no shows quietly buried because they publish somewhere else.
Live shows come first, because they are the only thing on the screen that expires. Everything else is a real recommendation with a real reason attached.
Discover
Live now
The Saturday Signal
On air · 1,240 listening
Popular this week
Structure
Fortnightly · design
Two Takes
Weekly · film
Field Notes
Weekly · reporting
03 · Episode
Chapters and transcripts, treated as content.
When a show publishes chapters, you get a real table of contents — every chapter with its own timecode, and the one you are inside of lit in amber. When it publishes a transcript, the text follows the audio and you can jump to any line, or read the whole thing instead of listening.
Show notes keep the paragraphs and links the publisher wrote, rather than being flattened into one gray block.
04 · Support
Pay the show, not the middle.
Shows that publish a value tag can be supported straight from the episode. Vibral shows you how many people the show splits with — ten, on this one — and hands off to your own wallet or the show's own funding page.
Voluntary, and never a prerequisite for anything. Vibral opens your wallet or your browser and never sends or confirms a payment itself.
One email, the day it ships.
Vibral is in final testing. Leave an address and you will hear from us once — when it is downloadable — and never otherwise.