Simplecity Apps

Our apps

Two audio apps, both built on the same principles: fast, local-first, no account, no ads and no tracking.

Shuttle Podcasts

Shuttle Podcasts home screen, showing subscriptions and episodes in progress. The Shuttle Podcasts player, with playback speed, trim silence and voice boost controls. Searching for a podcast in Shuttle Podcasts and subscribing to it.

Shuttle Podcasts is a podcast player for people who actually listen — on commutes, at the gym, doing the dishes — rather than for people who want another social feed. It is built around your subscriptions and your download queue, and it is designed to keep working when your connection does not.

There is no account to create. You subscribe to shows, the app fetches their feeds, and everything about your library stays on your device. Released on Google Play in 2026, with an iOS version in development.

Features

  • Offline downloads — download episodes automatically or on demand and listen with no connection at all.
  • Variable playback speed — speed up or slow down playback, with fine-grained control and per-show settings.
  • Silence trimming — automatically shorten the gaps and pauses in speech, so a long interview takes less of your day.
  • Voice enhancement — level out quiet and loud speakers so dialogue stays intelligible in a noisy environment.
  • Sleep timer — fade out and stop after a set time, or at the end of the current episode.
  • Android Auto — browse your subscriptions and queue safely from the car's display.
  • Private by design — no account required, no listening profile, no advertising SDK.

Platforms

Android — available now on Google Play.
iOS — in development, including CarPlay support.

Shuttle Music Player

The Shuttle Music Player now playing screen with full-bleed album artwork. Browsing the Shuttle Music Player library by artist, as a grid of album artwork. Editing artist, album and year tags for eleven songs in Shuttle Music Player.

Shuttle Music Player is a local music player for Android, built for people who keep their own library. If your music is a folder of files rather than a streaming subscription — bought downloads, ripped CDs, bandcamp purchases, recordings that were never on a streaming service — Shuttle is written for you.

First published on Google Play in 2013 and rebuilt from the ground up as Shuttle 2 in 2020, it scans your files, respects your tags and folder structure, and plays them back properly. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed.

Features

  • Gapless playback — continuous albums, live sets and mixes play the way they were recorded, with no silence between tracks.
  • Tag editing — correct artist, album, track and artwork metadata directly in the app, writing changes back to your files.
  • Folder browsing — navigate your library by directory as well as by artist, album and genre, for collections that tags alone do not describe well.
  • Android Auto — browse and control your library from the car.
  • Chromecast — send playback from your library to a Chromecast device on your network.
  • Equaliser — per-device tone control with presets and a manual band editor.

Platforms

Android — available now on Google Play.

Everything we publish

All of our Android apps are listed on our Google Play developer page, published under the developer name SimpleCity, which we have used since 2013.

If you need help with either app, the support page lists the right address to write to. Our approach to data is described in the privacy policy, and the licence terms for our software are on the terms page.