Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Anshul. I built SageCast because I couldn't find a Mac podcast player that did three things together: 1. Transcribed episodes locally — without uploading my audio to someone's server. 2. Let me chat with the transcript using my own AI keys, not someone else's API budget. 3. Let me capture time-stamped notes mid-listen and scrub the audio to fix the timestamp. Existing apps were either cloud-first (transcription happens server-side, with quotas), keyless (one model, no choice), or free-tier-then-pay. None of them seemed to respect the simple idea that podcast listening is a local activity and the data should stay local. What's in this version: • Whisper transcription on-device via WhisperKit. Pick the model size; "small" is the sweet spot for most Macs. • Chat with the transcript. Bring your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or Grok. The app proxies nothing. • Time-stamped notes. Markdown export. Full settings backup as one JSON file you can move between Macs. • Public radio via Radio Browser, in the same player. • OPML import from Apple Podcasts / Overcast / Pocket Casts. • Free, open source under MIT (https://github.com/anshulg8/sage...). No account, no telemetry, no upsell. Two honest caveats: • Apple Silicon only — I don't have an Intel Mac to test on. • Not Apple-notarized yet (the $99/yr Developer Program is coming once it's worth it). Easiest install is the Homebrew tap, which strips quarantine so first launch is silent: brew tap anshulg8/sagecast brew install --cask sagecast I'd love feedback — what's missing, what's annoying, what you'd build instead. Reply here or ping @anshulg8.

SageCast

Local-first podcast player with on-device AI

Local-first podcast player with on-device AI