Fountain 1.0 Has Arrived!
Our biggest design and user experience upgrade to date brings usability improvements across the app along with powerful new social features.
Today we’re excited to launch a brand new look for the Fountain mobile app. We’ve spent the last few months listening to your feedback to get a deep understanding of the improvements you would like to see.
We hope you will agree that the resulting design and user experience upgrades we have made across the app make Fountain look and feel great to use. Along with the stylish new user interface, we’ve also added some powerful new social features to help you discover more great podcasts and join in the conversation with other listeners.
LIBRARY
- Customise your library view for quick access to episodes, shows and your queue
- New content cards that bring improved readability with larger artwork and fonts
- New filter for ‘continue listening’ to see episodes you haven’t finished
- New search feature to quickly find anything in your library
- Swipe to remove an episode from your library
PLAYER
- Background image blur that transforms based on the episode you’re listening to
- Scroll or tap the icons at the bottom of the screen to view the show notes, read the comments, access chapters and follow along with the transcript
- Sats counter that displays the total value that you have sent while listening to the episode
- Improved sleep timer that gives you an “end of episode” option
BOOSTING AND STREAMING SATS
We have updated the design of the boost and stream menus to make them easier to use. We now display the dollar value of the sats you’re sending, with more currency options to be added in the future.
CLIP EDITOR
Clips have always been a big part of Fountain as we believe it’s a great way of hearing the best moments from podcasts without having to listen to the whole episode. But let’s face it - making clips could have been easier. The new clip editor makes it quicker and easier to make perfect clips.
- The circular design of the new clip editor gives you greater accuracy and control over the start and end position
- The audio transcript serves as a reference to let you know exactly where you are
CLIP PLAYER
Exploring clips also wasn’t a great experience, so we’ve built a completely new clip player that allows you to scroll through a stream of clips.
- The new “stories” browser at the top of the home feed shows you the latest clips from people you follow as well as any clips that they have interacted with recently
- Tap through to the episode, user profile and any hashtags related to that clip
HOME FEED
One thing we listening to your feedback was that while Fountain’s sense of community is unique, we could do a better job of surfacing conversations that are happening on the app and making it easier to join them. As well as introducing the new “stories” browser to the top of the home feed, we’ve completely redesigned the home feed to make it less cluttered and easier to browse.
- See podcasts, music, clips and playlist activity from accounts you follow
- View replies and tap through to read the full conversation
- Check the stats for every post and see who liked it and who replied to it
PLAYLISTS
We’ve made some big changes to our playlists feature so that you can add different types of content to your collections. Every Fountain user can create up to three playlists for free but you will be required to upgrade to Fountain Premium in order to create more.
- Add your favourite episodes, tracks and clips to playlists
- Earn sats for the playlists you create when other listeners like them
- Added comment functionality for playlists
CONNECT STRIKE
We have partnered with Strike so that you can top up your Fountain wallet instantly using your preferred currency. Once you have connected your Strike account from your Fountain wallet, you can deposit funds from your Strike account without ever leaving the Fountain app.
FEEDBACK
Although we've launched Fountain 1.0 I know we still have an incredible amount of work to make Fountain the best podcast listening experience it can be.
As always with my posts here I would really appreciate people's feedback on the new design, features, and also just general ideas about what you would love to see from your podcast app.
Thanks!