Your assistant curates. Rovyn plays.

Your podcast app knows what's popular. It doesn't know what you're trying to figure out this week. Ask ChatGPT or Claude instead — Rovyn turns the answer into a ready-to-play queue, and your assistant learns from what you actually played.

Get Rovyn — join the TestFlight Connect your assistant TestFlight until launch. The link opens Apple’s free TestFlight app — no invite needed.

One real recording, both rounds — ask, listen, leave a note, ask again. Works once Rovyn is connected to your assistant — a one-time, two-minute setup.

No feed. No Discover tab.

Every podcast app ships a feed that guesses. Rovyn doesn't guess: the shelf starts empty, and what fills it was asked for — an edition built for the thing you're actually trying to learn, sized to the time you actually have.

And because you tell your assistant what worked in your own words, the guessing problem doesn't creep back. The queue stops being something you manage and becomes something you open.

How it works

  1. Ask for what you want to learn.

    In the assistant you already use.

  2. Get a ready-to-play queue.

    One link, one tap.

  3. Tell your assistant what worked.

    In your own words.

  4. Get better picks next time.

    The next queue arrives adjusted.

Ask for something specific

You Using Rovyn: two 40-minute drives a day this week. Interest rates from zero, in order, with one voice who disagrees.
A five-part course on interest rates
C Curated by your assistant · 5 episodes · 3h 24m
1 · What interest actually is
The Long Ledger · 38 min
4 · Everyone has this backwards
Contrary Motion · 51 min
The disagreement you asked for — he thinks episode one is wrong.
+ 3 more, paced to finish on Friday

In order, paced to the week — and the disagreement you asked for arrives labelled.

Your feedback shapes future picks

You say what you thought
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 queue arrives adjusted
Interest rates, part two — no primer
C Curated by your assistant · 4 episodes · 2h 51m
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 note reaches your assistant in your own words — not summarized, not scored. The tenth edition knows you better than the first.

Between editions

You can work the app on your own: search covers the open directory and everything you already have, and you can follow a show from a result or straight from the player. Following and searching are yours; suggestions stay your assistant's job.

Editions can download over Wi-Fi in the background, so a queue is often on your phone before you head out, and finished episodes clean up after themselves. Drive mode makes the whole thing glanceable when you're behind the wheel.

Open by design

Rovyn speaks Cueback, a protocol specified apart from the app that implements it — Apache-2.0, published at github.com/tinkon/cueback. Assistants that speak MCP and support OAuth sign-in can connect; the ones with step-by-step setup are on Connect.

The protocol is licensed for anyone to implement; the Rovyn service is ours, hosted and run by us. Rovyn hands your assistant the brief going out and the receipts coming back — nothing is routed to an ad network, because there isn't one. Read the privacy policy.