LevelCast עברית

A podcast app for iPhone

The host and the guest, at the same volume

The host is loud, the guest answers quietly, and on a drive that means a hand on the knob every few minutes. LevelCast evens them out while the episode plays, on the phone itself.

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What happens to the volume during an episode
  1. 01

    The host is loud, and the guest answers quietly

    Each was recorded on a different microphone in a different room, and sometimes the guest is on a remote call. So every voice reaches the episode at its own level.

  2. 02

    You turn it up for the guest, then the host comes back shouting

    So you turn it down, and a minute later you turn it up again. A whole episode goes by like that, one hand on the wheel and one on the knob.

  3. 03

    LevelCast evens them out as it plays

    The quiet voice comes up and the loud one comes down a little while the episode plays. All the processing happens on your phone.

  4. 04

    And you can drive all the way without touching the volume

    The episode sounds like two people sitting in the same room, and both hands stay on the wheel.

The demo

Listen for yourself

The same minute of a Hebrew podcast, once as it is and once after levelling. Switch between the versions right as the guest starts talking.

Without levelling · Gap between speakers 7.1 dB
With LevelCast · Gap between speakers 2.9 dB
Without levelling7.1 dBGap between speakers
With LevelCast2.9 dBGap between speakers

And the overall level actually went up. Before levelling it was -20.7 dBFS, and after it -18.1 dBFS. So the gap closed without the episode getting quieter.

What exactly was measured in this minute

What else is inside

A few more things that help on a drive

  • Intro skip

    The app spots where the intro music ends and offers to jump straight to the conversation.

  • Pace matching

    When one person talks slowly and the other rushes, the slow one is sped up a little and the fast one slowed down, so a single speed works for both.

  • Capture a moment

    Hold the back button on your steering wheel to save what was just said, along with a transcript. You send it later, once you've stopped.

  • Transcript as you listen

    The episode is transcribed while it plays, and you can search it for a word. This works on devices that support speech recognition in the episode's language.

  • Download before you go

    Episodes download in the background, so you can keep listening when there's no signal.

  • Sleep timer

    When time runs out the sound fades slowly instead of cutting off mid-sentence.

All features

The LevelCast player playing an episode of the fictional show Two Microphones
Picking the levelling strength: off, normal or strong
The moments inbox, with a captured clip and its transcript

No server in the middle

The audio never passes through us

The app finds the episode in the producer's open feed and plays it straight from their server, and the processing happens on your phone. There's no account to open and no server holding copies of episodes.

How it works

From the blog

Why it happens, and what you can do

A whole drive without touching the volume

LevelCast is a podcast app for iPhone, in Hebrew and English. It finds shows in Apple's podcast directory, and you can also paste in a feed address by hand.

Hear the difference Coming soon to the App Store