Make a listener card in a few taps.

Podcast Aura turns the shape of how you listen into a single shareable image, the same instinct behind year-end music wrapped cards but built as an always-on web toy instead of a once-a-year recap. Instead of pulling a fixed year of streaming data, Aura asks you to describe your own listening style through a listening mode - Commuter, Deep Dive, Night Owl, Rabbit Hole, Calm Reset, or Speed Demon - and a handful of sliders for playback speed, queue chaos, curiosity, and offline stash. The result is a named listener type, like Rush Hour Cartographer or Receipt Gremlin, paired with a short caption and a generated card image.

Everything happens on-device, right in your browser tab. Moving a slider redraws the canvas instantly using the same page already loaded in front of you - there is no server call to compute your card, no account to create first, and nothing about the process depends on The Podcast App knowing anything about you in advance. The entire card state, including which preset and slider values you chose, is encoded directly into the shareable link itself, so anyone who opens that link renders the exact same card locally in their own browser rather than fetching your data from a database somewhere.

Sharing is built around how people actually pass images around: Share card opens your device's native share sheet, Copy link grabs a URL that reproduces the identical card for whoever opens it, and Download PNG saves a fixed image that will not change even if the original creator later tweaks their sliders. One-tap buttons post straight to X, Reddit, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and Facebook, and a ready-written caption sits right next to the card so you are not stuck writing your own copy. Anyone who opens a shared link can also remix it - moving a slider there only changes their own copy, never the original card.

The privacy angle is straightforward because there is nothing to protect: Aura never reads your real playback history, never connects to your Podcast App account, and never sends analytics about your actual listening back to a server. What ends up in a shared card is only what you deliberately chose to represent about yourself, summarized into a caption and a visual style, not a log of what you actually played and when. That is also why people enjoy comparing auras with friends - like swapping a music wrapped card, it turns a listening habit into a quick, low-stakes way to compare listener personalities without anyone handing over real private data to do it. Two people can start from the same six sliders and land on completely different names, captions, and colors, which is exactly the kind of small, low-stakes comparison that makes a card worth sending in a group chat in the first place.