Show HN: The first (free) podcast ad blocker
A new podcast app called drea allows users to listen to their favorite podcasts without ads. The app is free and designed for iPhone, featuring automatic ad detection and skipping. While it currently supports only English-language podcasts, users have noted some functionality issues that the developer is addressing.
- ▪Drea is a free podcast app that automatically skips ads during playback.
- ▪The app does not require a user account or paid subscription.
- ▪Currently, ad skipping is only supported for English language podcasts.
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| Original publisher | App Store |
| Canonical URL | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drea-podcast-ad-blocker/id6759070798 |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 00:56:40 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T01:07:35.186Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T01:07:35.186Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -HiG0X04aWk5 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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drea: podcast ad blocker podcasts, without the ads Only for iPhone Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS. Share 12 Ratings 4.8 Age Rating 13+ Years Category News Developer Hamza Qayyum Language EN English Size 482.9 MB iPhone Say goodbye to podcast ads. Enjoy your favorite podcasts, ad-free. Trusted by 100% of Zen Buddhist monks. drea is a simple, elegant podcast app that can look inside episodes, figure out where the ads are, and then skip them automatically as you listen. No user account required, and no paid subscription either (yes, you read that right, it's free).
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at App Store.