Questions, answered.

Daypart is a radio station that you don't have to run. You tell it which podcasts, stations and music you like and roughly how your day is shaped — then you press play, and a continuous, sequenced broadcast comes out, tuned to the hour you're in. The whole point of radio is that you abdicate the decision; Daypart gives that feeling back, built entirely from audio you choose.

A podcast app hands you a wall of episodes and asks you to choose. A playlist plays the same fixed order every time. Daypart does neither. It programmes — it assembles a fresh, time-aware sequence of talk and music that fits the part of the day you're in, segues between pieces, and hands off to live radio the way a real station does. There's nothing to scroll and nothing to pick.

It's the radio-industry word for a named stretch of the broadcast day — breakfast, drive time, late night — each with its own mood and pace. Daypart gives every station six of them in a fixed order: Breakfast, Mornings, Afternoons, Drive, Nights and Sleep. You move the boundaries between them to match your life; the app keeps the day whole, with no gaps.

Only once, and only lightly. Add a few sources, nudge the dayparts to suit your hours, and you're done — from then on it just plays. You can come back and adjust the shape whenever you like, but you never have to.

Three kinds of source, all from the open audio world: podcasts via their public RSS feeds, internet radio from public station directories, and independent & Creative Commons music from libraries like the Free Music Archive and Jamendo. You point Daypart at the ones you want; it weaves them together.

No — and that's deliberate. The big commercial catalogues don't permit their tracks to be mixed into a third-party broadcast, so Daypart doesn't touch them. Working only with audio that's free to be broadcast is exactly what lets the app behave like a radio station instead of a playlist. It's a feature, not a limitation.

If it publishes an open RSS feed — which the vast majority do — yes. Paste or search for the feed and Daypart learns its release schedule, so a new episode drops into the right daypart on the day it lands rather than getting lost in a list.

Your station — the sources and the shape of your day — lives on your device, so the app opens instantly with no connection. Playing the audio itself streams from each source, so you'll want a connection for that, just as you would in any podcast or radio app.

Almost nothing — because there's almost nothing to happen. Daypart has no accounts and no servers. Your sources, your dayparts and your listening all stay on your phone. There's no analytics and no tracking; we have no way to see what you play. The only thing that leaves your device is the request to fetch a podcast or stream you've chosen, sent straight to that source. The full detail is in the privacy policy.

None. Open the app and it's yours immediately. Because everything is on-device, your setup rides along in your own encrypted iCloud backup — so a new phone picks up where the old one left off, without us ever holding your data.

We'll confirm pricing closer to launch. Whatever the model, it won't be funded by advertising or by selling data — there's no data to sell, and ads have no place in a station that's meant to feel like your own.

Daypart is coming first to iPhone. If you'd like to hear when it's ready, the App Store listing is the place to follow along.