I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket
I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket launched on January 27, 2025 with 226 votes, #166 of 6,142 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
An iOS podcast player built using the Racket programming language. This project demonstrates using Racket, a functional programming language, to create a mobile application for listening to podcasts. It is designed for developers interested in exploring alternative languages for iOS development and for podcast listeners looking for a Racket-based option. The standout feature is the unconventional technology choice, showing how Racket can be applied to practical mobile app development rather than traditional systems like Swift.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
I made a podcast player for iOS. It's called Podcatcher and it's live on the iOS App Store! As with most things I've made in the past several years, it's implemented using a combination of Racket and Swift. This approach continues to be a very fun and productive way for me to write apps, and working on these projects has allowed me to refine it further. For example, I've recently added async support to Noise and made it compliant with Swift Concurrency while maintaining backwards-compatibility with the existing implementation based on Future s. Why a podcast player? Because I listen to podcasts a lot (like a lot, a lot, a hundred hours a month a lot) and the podcast player I used to use…from defn.io
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