diff --git a/static/js/podcasts-web.js b/static/js/podcasts-web.js
index 03f5add..c505aff 100644
--- a/static/js/podcasts-web.js
+++ b/static/js/podcasts-web.js
@@ -23,17 +23,27 @@
  * Radio and podcasts never play at the same time: starting an episode stops
  * the radio (app.js stopPlayback), starting a station puts the episode away.
  *
- * In the app (and the desktop app) window.DioraNative exists and this file
- * does nothing. Written without ?. and ?? so old WebViews can still parse it.
+ * In the app window.DioraNative exists and this file does nothing. diora
+ * desktop has a DioraNative too (books, radio) but no podcast part of its own:
+ * it sets window.DIORA_PODCAST_HOST and this file is its podcast host, fitted
+ * into the phone layout it already shows:
+ *   dock: 'existing'   use native-radio.js's #nui-dock instead of a bar in the web radio bar
+ *   styles: 'ui-only'  only the podcast page's own CSS, not the browser layout
+ *   radio: false       native-radio.js provides the radio hooks (__dioraRadioNow …)
+ *   deviceName, deviceKind   how the shared player lists this device
+ * Written without ?. and ?? so old WebViews can still parse it.
  */
 (function () {
   'use strict';
-  if (window.DioraNative) return;
+  const HOST = window.DIORA_PODCAST_HOST || null;
+  if (window.DioraNative && !HOST) return;
   if (typeof IS_AUTHENTICATED === 'undefined' || !IS_AUTHENTICATED) return;
   if (!document.getElementById('tab-podcasts')) return;
+  const OPT = Object.assign({dock: 'bar', styles: 'web', radio: true, deviceName: '', deviceKind: 'web'}, HOST || {});
 
   const UI_SCRIPT = '/static/podcasts/native-podcast.js';
-  const UI_STYLES = ['/static/podcasts/podcast-ui.css', '/static/podcasts/podcasts-web.css'];
+  const UI_STYLES = OPT.styles === 'ui-only' ? ['/static/podcasts/podcast-ui.css']
+    : ['/static/podcasts/podcast-ui.css', '/static/podcasts/podcasts-web.css'];
 
   // ---- storage ------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -890,31 +900,34 @@
 
   const radioPlaying = () => typeof isPlaying !== 'undefined' && !!isPlaying;
 
-  window.__dioraRadioNow = function () {
-    const st = typeof currentStation !== 'undefined' ? currentStation : null;
-    if (!st) return null;
-    return {
-      name: st.name || '',
-      logo: radioLogo(st),
-      track: typeof currentTrack !== 'undefined' ? currentTrack : '',
-      playing: radioPlaying(),
-      buffering: false,
-      saved: radioSaved(st.url),
+  // diora desktop: native-radio.js already shows the radio in the shared bar.
+  if (OPT.radio) {
+    window.__dioraRadioNow = function () {
+      const st = typeof currentStation !== 'undefined' ? currentStation : null;
+      if (!st) return null;
+      return {
+        name: st.name || '',
+        logo: radioLogo(st),
+        track: typeof currentTrack !== 'undefined' ? currentTrack : '',
+        playing: radioPlaying(),
+        buffering: false,
+        saved: radioSaved(st.url),
+      };
     };
-  };
-  // Stop keeps the station (like a paused episode): the bar stays with ▶.
-  window.__dioraRadioToggle = () => (radioPlaying() ? stopPlayback(false) : togglePlayStop());
-  window.__dioraRadioSave = () => saveCurrentStation();
+    // Stop keeps the station (like a paused episode): the bar stays with ▶.
+    window.__dioraRadioToggle = () => (radioPlaying() ? stopPlayback(false) : togglePlayStop());
+    window.__dioraRadioSave = () => saveCurrentStation();
 
-  for (const name of ['stopPlayback', 'updateNowPlayingUI', 'saveCurrentStation']) {
-    const fn = window[name];
-    if (typeof fn !== 'function') continue;
-    window[name] = function () {
-      const r = fn.apply(this, arguments);
-      if (r && typeof r.then === 'function') r.then(radioChanged, radioChanged);
-      else radioChanged();
-      return r;
-    };
+    for (const name of ['stopPlayback', 'updateNowPlayingUI', 'saveCurrentStation']) {
+      const fn = window[name];
+      if (typeof fn !== 'function') continue;
+      window[name] = function () {
+        const r = fn.apply(this, arguments);
+        if (r && typeof r.then === 'function') r.then(radioChanged, radioChanged);
+        else radioChanged();
+        return r;
+      };
+    }
   }
   // The radio stopping is news for the shared player too.
   if (typeof window.stopPlayback === 'function') {
@@ -931,7 +944,7 @@
 
   // Player sync: the station another device played last becomes the current
   // one here, without playing (the bar shows it with ▶).
-  window.__dioraAdoptStation = function (st) {
+  if (OPT.radio) window.__dioraAdoptStation = function (st) {
     if (!st || !st.url || radioPlaying() || typeof currentStation === 'undefined') return;
     currentStation = {url: st.url, name: st.name || '', id: st.id || null};
     currentTrack = '';
@@ -964,7 +977,7 @@
     let id = '';
     try { id = localStorage.getItem('diora_device_id') || ''; } catch (e) {}
     if (!id) {
-      id = 'web-' + Array.from(crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(12)), b => b.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('');
+      id = OPT.deviceKind + '-' + Array.from(crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(12)), b => b.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('');
       try { localStorage.setItem('diora_device_id', id); } catch (e) {}
     }
     return id;
@@ -981,7 +994,7 @@
 
   const DEVICE_ID = deviceId();
   // Short, it stands in the bar ("läuft auf Chrome · Windows").
-  const DEVICE_NAME = browserName();
+  const DEVICE_NAME = OPT.deviceName || browserName();
 
   const sync = {
     state: null,        // the server's state, as last taken in
@@ -1362,7 +1375,7 @@
     clearTimeout(retryTimer);
     if (source) source.close();
     const seen = Math.max(sync.state ? sync.state.seq : -1, sync.later ? sync.later.seq : -1);
-    const q = new URLSearchParams({since: String(seen), device_id: DEVICE_ID, device_name: DEVICE_NAME, device_kind: 'web'});
+    const q = new URLSearchParams({since: String(seen), device_id: DEVICE_ID, device_name: DEVICE_NAME, device_kind: OPT.deviceKind});
     source = new EventSource('/podcasts/player/stream/?' + q);
     source.onopen = () => { retryMs = 1000; };
     source.onmessage = e => heard(parse(e.data, null));
@@ -1603,7 +1616,8 @@
 
   // ---- page set-up -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-  document.documentElement.classList.add('dpw');
+  // The browser layout (podcasts-web.css hangs off html.dpw); diora desktop keeps the phone's.
+  if (OPT.styles !== 'ui-only') document.documentElement.classList.add('dpw');
 
   for (const href of UI_STYLES) {
     const link = document.createElement('link');
@@ -1615,24 +1629,27 @@
   // The dock the page puts its player bar in (native-radio.js builds it in the app):
   // here it is part of the radio bar at the bottom, in place of its "now playing",
   // so radio and podcasts share one bar.
-  const dock = document.createElement('div');
-  dock.id = 'nui-dock';
-  const bar = document.getElementById('now-playing-bar');
-  if (bar) {
-    bar.insertBefore(dock, bar.firstChild);
-    document.documentElement.classList.add('dpw-in-bar');
-  } else {
-    document.body.appendChild(dock);
-  }
+  // diora desktop: native-radio.js builds the dock (on DOMContentLoaded) with the tab bar.
+  if (OPT.dock !== 'existing') {
+    const dock = document.createElement('div');
+    dock.id = 'nui-dock';
+    const bar = document.getElementById('now-playing-bar');
+    if (bar) {
+      bar.insertBefore(dock, bar.firstChild);
+      document.documentElement.classList.add('dpw-in-bar');
+    } else {
+      document.body.appendChild(dock);
+    }
 
-  // The page keeps clear of the bar, whose height changes with the screen.
-  const placeDock = () => {
-    const h = bar ? bar.getBoundingClientRect().height : 0;
-    document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--dpw-bar-h', Math.round(h) + 'px');
-  };
-  placeDock();
-  if (bar && window.ResizeObserver) new ResizeObserver(placeDock).observe(bar);
-  window.addEventListener('resize', placeDock);
+    // The page keeps clear of the bar, whose height changes with the screen.
+    const placeDock = () => {
+      const h = bar ? bar.getBoundingClientRect().height : 0;
+      document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--dpw-bar-h', Math.round(h) + 'px');
+    };
+    placeDock();
+    if (bar && window.ResizeObserver) new ResizeObserver(placeDock).observe(bar);
+    window.addEventListener('resize', placeDock);
+  }
 
   // Escape closes what the podcast page has open: a sheet, the player, notes,
   // a podcast, choosing several (its back handler) — never the tab itself.
@@ -1696,8 +1713,12 @@
     if (typeof _currentTopTab === 'undefined' || _currentTopTab !== tab) showTab(tab);
   })();
 
-  // The page (copied from the app) comes last, once all of the above is in place.
+  // The page (copied from the app) comes last, once all of the above is in place —
+  // with an existing dock, also after the page's own DOMContentLoaded work built it.
   const script = document.createElement('script');
   script.src = UI_SCRIPT;
-  document.body.appendChild(script);
+  if (OPT.dock !== 'existing') document.body.appendChild(script);
+  else if (document.readyState === 'loading') {
+    document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => setTimeout(() => document.body.appendChild(script), 0));
+  } else setTimeout(() => document.body.appendChild(script), 0);
 })();
diff --git a/static/js/sw.js b/static/js/sw.js
index b45d5fc..b784aa0 100644
--- a/static/js/sw.js
+++ b/static/js/sw.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * diora service worker — caches the app shell for offline use.
  */
 
-const CACHE = 'diora-v67';
+const CACHE = 'diora-v68';
 const SHELL = [
   '/static/css/app.css',
   '/static/js/app.js',