Your assistant is the editor.

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant for a podcast playlist — it arrives in Rovyn as a ready-to-play edition, with a one-line editorial why on every episode.

Join the TestFlight beta Connect your assistant The iPhone app is in TestFlight until launch. Invites go out by email, usually within a day.

Every edition is curated by the assistant you chose.

How it works

1 · Ask

Tell your assistant what you're after

"Two hours on fusion energy — intermediate level, include a skeptic." It searches, picks, and explains every choice.

2 · Receive

It arrives as an edition

One link, one tap. The goal is the title, your assistant is the byline, and every episode carries its why.

3 · Listen

Your feedback shapes the next one

Worth my time, not a good pick, or a note in your own words — passed on as you wrote it. The next edition is better because you said so.

What becomes possible

Three things an editor who can read the request does that a ranked feed cannot.

The commute
You Two 40-minute drives a day this week. Build me a course on the history of interest rates — in order, starting from zero.
A five-part course on interest rates
C Edited by your assistant · 5 episodes · 3h 24m
1 · What interest actually is
The Long Ledger · 38 min
Assumes nothing. Start the Monday drive here.
2 · Usury, and the first rate caps
The Long Ledger · 44 min
Picks up exactly where episode one stops.
+ 3 more, paced to finish on Friday

Sequenced to be heard in order — not a page of search results you have to sort yourself.

The other side
You Everything I read about housing density agrees with me. Add someone who thinks it's wrong — and tell me why they're in there.
Housing density, objection included
C Edited by your assistant · 2 episodes · 1h 34m
The case for building up
The Zoning Desk · 43 min
The argument you already hold, stated at its strongest.
What upzoning does to a street
Contrary Motion · 51 min
The contrasting perspective you asked for — she thinks the episode above is wrong.

The disagreement doesn't slip in unannounced. It arrives labelled, with a reason for being there.

The correction
You finish an episode and say so in your own words
1 · What interest actually is
The Long Ledger · 38 min · finished
"Too introductory. I already know what a bond is — skip the 101 next time."
The next edition arrives adjusted
Interest rates, part two — no primer
C Edited by your assistant · 4 episodes · 2h 51m
1 · Term premium and the shape of the curve
Macro Table · 46 min
Straight to the mechanism — you said skip the 101.
+ 3 more, all past the basics

Your sentence reaches your assistant exactly as you typed it — not summarized, not scored.

This works because nothing else is competing for the shelf: no Discover tab, no ads, nothing ranked by what would keep you listening. What you asked for is the only input — so there's no algorithm to argue with, just an editor to correct.

“Where every other podcast app puts Discover, Rovyn puts an empty shelf, waiting for what you ask for. The assistant is the editor; the app is the catalog, player, and feedback system.”

Rovyn speaks Cueback, an open protocol for handing AI-curated content to the app that plays it, and the whole backend is designed to be self-hostable.

Your assistant works for you, so Rovyn hands it what the job needs: the brief going out, receipts and your own words coming back. Nothing is routed to an ad network, because there isn't one. Read the privacy policy for the specifics.