Post #3936673
2026-07-19 03:32 UTC
What to try in this build
Earshot Plus is live for testing: Monthly ($2.99), Yearly ($19.99), Lifetime ($49.99), plus a tip jar. Free tier includes 10 podcast subscriptions; Plus removes the limit. You can also change plans after subscribing — try it.
TestFlight purchases are FREE and fake — you will never be charged. Test subscriptions renew on a fast clock and expire after a few renewals on their own; that's TestFlight, not a bug. Nothing carries over to the App Store release.
Feedback we'd love:
1. The purchase flow with VoiceOver — every option and price clear?
2. Hit the 10-podcast limit, then upgrade. Does the unlock feel right?
3. Change your plan (Monthly to Yearly, or to Lifetime). Clear and smooth?
4. Delete, reinstall, Restore Purchases. Did Plus come back?
Also in this build: two crash fixes from the Swift 6 rebuild (Lock Screen artwork, feed date parsing), faster VoiceOver navigation on the paywall, and a thank-you for supporters in Settings.
Requires iOS 18 or later. Devices on iOS 17 won't be offered this update.
Send feedback through TestFlight or the usual channels. Thank you for testing!
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A week went by and nothing changed. No new build, no little box appearing next to something, no toggle behaving differently than the day before. After months of small surprises, the quiet felt almost loud.
She didn't know the whole thing had been taken apart and rebuilt underneath, every moving piece now made to answer to one strict foreman who won't let two of them grab the same wire at once. She'd have no word for it. She just knew the app stopped doing two small things it used to do.
Locking her phone mid-episode with the artwork up used to, once in a while, drop the whole thing. Rare enough she never caught it happening, just noticed the silence and reached to restart. That stopped.
The other she'd never have named. Now and then a show's episodes came in scrambled, last week's stacked on this week's, and she'd sort it in her head without thinking. A crack older than her whole time with the app, finally sealed.
And one thing was new, the only new thing all week: a quiet line down in the settings, a way to actually pay for it. Renata's nephew built this, and she'd been running on his work free for most of a year, which sat wrong with a woman who has never let a debt go unpaid.
She didn't tell Renata. She found the button and settled it. Earshot Podcasts https://testflight.apple.com/join/u8dj5UTr
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@serrebi@serrebiradio.com 2026-07-19 15:08
@payown@dragonscave.space Good pricing IMPO, although $50 for a podcast app's lifetime is hard to swallow, but I kind of get the pricing, even if I don't like parts of it.