Press kit
Everything here is free to use. Use the boilerplate that fits your word count, the screenshots, and the logo. If you need anything not here, reach out to Michael.
Boilerplate
Two sentences
Bard is a fiction podcast player made for audio drama and actual play. What's a niche on other podcatchers is, on Bard, an elevated experience.
One paragraph
Bard is a fiction podcast player made for audio drama and actual play, made by a librarian on the weekends with love. Its own indexer filters out everything that's not fiction - there aren't any talking heads, here. It's this constraint that makes the rest work: a recommendation engine that's best in class, suppresses shows that are made with AI, and a better-than-the-others listening experience for audio fiction.
Screenshots
Captured on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. Click any of them for the full-size PNG. Podcast artwork belongs to the shows, not to Bard.
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Discover (PNG, 495 KB)
Swiping right follows the show and deals the next suggestion.
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Listen (PNG, 716 KB)
The home screen, built around the one question a story app has to answer: what were you in the middle of?
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Player (PNG, 456 KB)
The full player, with chapters, sleep timer, and the usual transport controls for long-form listening.
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Show page (PNG, 645 KB)
A serial, so Bard says so and offers to start it from the beginning. Episodes list oldest first for the same reason.
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App icon (PNG, 512px)
The quill mark on Bard's navy. Please don't recolor it or set it on a light background.
The one line worth stealing
You can't listen to Joe Rogan on Bard.