Projects Case study
Podkipedia: type any topic. Get a podcast.
A free iOS app, live on the App Store, that turns any Wikipedia topic into an hour-long, two-host AI episode — researched, written, and narrated entirely on your iPhone. No server, no account, no data collected.
The product
Podkipedia starts from an observation: Wikipedia is the best summary of almost anything, and most people would rather listen than read. Type a topic — caffeine, the Voyager probes, the history of jazz — and the app researches it on live Wikipedia, writes a full conversational episode, and produces it with two distinct voices: Ava, the curious host who asks what you're wondering, and Jordan, the expert who explains it clearly. Real back-and-forth between two hosts, not one voice reading a list.
How an episode gets written
There's no one-shot prompt behind it. Episodes are written in stages — outline, drafts, banter, editorial review — and playback streams while later segments are still being generated, so listening starts before the writing finishes. Wikipedia Today mode turns the day's featured article and "Did you know…" items into ready-made episodes, multiple topics can be combined into one episode, and episode length is adjustable. Saved episodes live in an on-device library with full transcripts, lock-screen playback, and speed control from 0.75× to 2×.
On-device all the way down
Generation runs on on-device Apple Intelligence, with devices without it falling back to bundled on-device models — including one I trained specifically for this job; the full pipeline is its own case study. Narration is on-device text-to-speech. No server, no account, no cloud AI — the App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected," and that's the whole list. An hour of multi-voice audio per episode, produced on a phone.
Free, and staying that way
Podkipedia is free — no sign-up, no subscription; the landing page says it outright: "SUBSCRIPTION NEVER." The privacy stance is the same architecture-first position behind FileComb, Killstamp, and BookKit: if the computation can happen on the device, it happens on the device, and there's nothing to leak.
Podkipedia is live on the App Store today, alongside Killstamp, Blue News Network, and pocket/grammer. Its promo site is podkipedia.com. Not affiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.