RecallPod has a new address: recallpod.feetham.us. This one keeps working for now.
Invite-only podcast app
Listen without the ads. Remember what you heard.
RecallPod plays the shows you follow with the ads cut out, then asks you a few questions about each episode. Anything you miss comes back two days later, so the good parts stick.
6:30 of ads removed
What happens to each episode
Everything below runs on its own. You follow a show, and new episodes show up ready to play.
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The ads come out
When a show posts an episode, RecallPod transcribes it, finds sponsor reads, inserted ads and promos for other shows, and cuts them at natural pauses. If it isn't sure something is an ad, it leaves it in.
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You listen
It plays with your screen off and keeps your place. Marks on the timeline show each cut and where the quiz answers are.
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A short quiz
Five to eight questions on facts, main ideas and reasoning. Each answer comes with a one-line explanation and a button that replays the 30 seconds where it came up.
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Misses come back
A question you miss returns in Review two days later. Get it right and it's cleared. Miss it again and it waits two more days.
Why a quiz helps you remember
Pulling an idea back out of memory strengthens it more than hearing it again. RecallPod is built on two of the best-supported findings in learning research.
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A 2013 review of ten popular study techniques gave its highest rating to only two: practice testing, and spacing practice out over time. The quiz after each episode is the first. The two-day review is the second.
Source: Dunlosky and colleagues, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2013.
What to expect
- On your phone
- Made for Android. You install it from Chrome in a couple of taps, with no app store. It also works in a desktop browser.
- Signing in
- Enter your email and type the code that arrives. There's no password to make or forget.
- Your shows
- Follow up to 15 podcasts. New episodes are usually ready within an hour of release.
- Your progress
- Your place in each episode, your quiz scores and your review list are yours alone.
Quick check
Earlier on this page: a week later, how much of the passage did the students who practiced recalling it remember?
Request access
RecallPod is a small, invite-only app, and every request is read by a person. Leave your email. Once you're approved, you'll get an email, and you sign in with that same address.
Your sign-in codes will come from Cloudflare, which runs the sign-in page. They sometimes land in spam.