FCZP

FCZP, short for Fully Customised Zenerative Podcast, is an iPhone app that produces podcast episodes about recent news and trends for an individual listener. Instead of a fixed show catalogue, FCZP builds episodes around the topics a person follows, so the feed holds content chosen for them. It is published by Wonseok Jeong in the Magazines & Newspapers category and is meant for people who prefer listening to the news over reading it.

FCZP's generative technology creates each episode from sources such as news sites and blogs, and can produce episodes in multiple languages. The result is delivered as a podcast-style recording with a dynamic, conversational presentation rather than a flat text-to-speech reading of an article. FCZP tracks what a listener plays and learns from those listening habits, refining the episodes and recommendations it sends to the feed over time.

The main capabilities are curated recent news tailored to a listener's interests, interactive episodes, content recommendations based on listening preferences, and real-time content that keeps up with the latest news. FCZP lists its interface languages as French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. The App Store privacy summary says purchases, contact info, search history and identifiers may be linked to the user, with diagnostics collected unlinked.

FCZP is free to download with two in-app purchases, Light at $9.79 and Pro at $29.00. The app runs only on iPhone and requires iOS 17.0 or later; it is also listed for Apple Vision with visionOS 1.0 or later. FCZP is published by Islingbourne, with a copyright line dated 2024, and its terms of use and privacy policy are hosted on Notion pages.

Use cases

• Catching up on the news by listening instead of reading
• Following news in a language other than the source's
• Getting a personal feed without browsing podcast directories