Autohop

Intelligence

The podcast player that
learns you.

Autohop Intelligence learns your shows' release patterns and derives useful listening insights. Release learning runs on your iPhone; supported listening records use your private iCloud database only when you enable Sync.

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The idea

The longer you use it,
the smarter it gets.

Many podcast players rely on broad polling or server-side feed infrastructure. Autohop Intelligence is different: it watches how your specific shows actually behave on your iPhone, builds a model of each one, and uses that model to be watching near the right time.

No Autohop account required. Learning happens on your phone; listening records move only through your private iCloud database if you explicitly enable iCloud Sync.

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Entirely on-device

Every learning step, schedule estimate, and playback decision happens on your iPhone. No servers, no accounts, no cloud processing.

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Private by design

Autohop Intelligence does not send its learned release model to us. Optional iCloud Sync stores supported listening records only in your private iCloud database.

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Always improving

The system refines itself as more episodes accumulate. A podcast you've followed for a year can be estimated more precisely than one you just subscribed to.

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Works silently

It learns automatically from feed releases and adapts selection without a tuning step. Background checks run only when iOS grants execution time.

Autohop Intelligence · Feature 1

Release Radar

Standard feed refresh usually means checking on a broad recurring schedule. Autohop Intelligence studies when each podcast actually publishes and builds a personalised priority schedule. When Autohop is active or iOS grants background time, likely releases are checked before ordinary feeds.

Learns frequency, weekdays, and likely publish times from eligible episode history
Adapts as schedules change, giving recent reliable observations the strongest influence
Uses HTTP validators when podcast servers support them, avoiding a full unchanged feed transfer
A show that goes quiet naturally backs off to slower checks; a new episode snaps it back to full sensitivity immediately
Selection and cadence adapt automatically; actual background timing remains controlled by iOS

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10:00am — Window openswatching

10:05am — 304 Not Modified

10:10am — 304 Not Modified

10:15am — 304 Not Modified

10:17am — New episode founddownloading

Expected releases receive the next useful refresh opportunities instead of waiting behind ordinary feeds.

Autohop Intelligence · Feature 2

Schedule Memory

Some feeds — hourly news bulletins, rolling updates — only ever show one episode at a time. There's little history in the feed to learn from, so Autohop remembers what the feed can't tell it.

Persists the publish times it has observed for each show, building its own history even when the feed exposes none
Derives the show's real schedule from that remembered history — an hourly bulletin gets watched hourly, automatically
Until enough history exists, the feed is checked at your Radar sensitivity, backing off automatically while nothing new appears
The longer you're subscribed, the more precisely each show's release window can be estimated

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Feed shows: 1 episode

Autohop remembers: 6:00, 7:00, 8:00…

Schedule learned: hourlywatching

Even one-episode feeds get a real schedule — learned, remembered, and used.

Autohop Intelligence · Feature 3

Listening Insights

Autohop keeps a private, on-device record of your listening and turns it into a Stats page that actually tells you something — when you listen, what you listen to, and exactly how much time Autohop's audio engine has handed back to you.

Browse 7 Days, the current or previous month and year, or Lifetime — each showing time listened, episodes finished, and your current listening streak
A listening heatmap and a 24-hour listening clock show the shape of your weeks and days at a glance
Top Shows ranks where your hours actually go, with rank movement against the previous period — tap any show for a detail card: episodes finished, time saved on that show, your share of listening, and how soon after release you typically get to it
Time Saved breaks down the minutes returned by variable speed, Trim Silence, skips, and auto-skip — feature by feature

This Month · Stats

🎧 42h 18min listened

⏱️ 9h 06min saved by Autohop

✅ 118 episodes finished

🔥 23-day listening streak

Stats stay local unless you enable private iCloud Sync.

Autohop Intelligence · Feature 4

Drift Detection

The more shows you subscribe to, the harder it is to notice when one has quietly stopped earning its place. Autohop's Stats page includes Shows You're Drifting From — a private view of the subscriptions you keep abandoning, with the evidence to back it up.

Classifies how each episode actually ended — finished, abandoned mid-listen, or archived unplayed — and scores each show on real outcomes
Blunt, specific insights: "Archived 6 of the last 8 unplayed", "You usually stop around the 12-minute mark"
Built to avoid false alarms — high-volume feeds your episode limit naturally cycles through are never flagged
Never acts automatically — tap a flagged show for its detail card and a shortcut to its settings, hide it from the list, or unsubscribe. Your call.

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Show you forgot about

Archived 6 of last 8 unplayed

That interview pod

Stops around the 12-min mark

Finished · partial · unplayed — every flagged show carries its completion bar.

Capabilities

What Intelligence does today.

Autohop Intelligence is a shipped system — one that works together, learns over time, and keeps the learning private.

Capability	Status	Where it appears	Privacy note
Per-show estimated release windows	Available	Release Radar / Feed Refresh Schedule	Learned on-device
Conditional feed requests (304 aware)	Available	Feed refresh	Uses podcast feed servers only
Schedule learning for single-episode feeds	Available	Release Radar	Observed locally per device
Listening heatmap & 24-hour clock	Available	Stats	Local unless iCloud Sync is enabled
Drift detection for fading shows	Available	Stats	Derived on-device from listening history
Per-feature time-saved breakdown	Available	Stats	Local unless iCloud Sync is enabled
Entirely on-device release-window learning	Available	Release Radar	No Autohop server account
No account required	Available	Whole app	Optional iCloud Sync uses your Apple ID

A podcast player that gets
smarter every day.

Autohop Intelligence is built in — no separate account or premium tier. Release-pattern learning begins as feeds are refreshed after you subscribe.

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The podcast player thatlearns you.

The longer you use it,the smarter it gets.