Pocket Casts - Podcast Player

In-app purchases
3.6
77.1K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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About this app

Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful podcast platform, an app by listeners, for listeners. Our podcast player provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. Find your next obsession with our hand curated podcast recommendations for easy discovery, and seamlessly enjoy your favorite shows without the hassle of subscribing.

Here’s what the press has to say:
Android Central: “Pocket Casts is the best podcast app for Android”
The Verge: “The best podcast app for Android”
Named Google Play Top Developer, Google Play Editors’ Choice, and recipient of the Google Material Design Award.

Still not convinced? Allow us to walk you through some of our features:

BEST IN SHOW
Material design: Your podcasts have never looked so beautiful, colors change to complement podcast artwork
Themes: Whether you're a dark or light theme person we've got you covered. We even have you OLED lovers covered with our Extra Dark theme.
Everywhere: Android Auto, Chromecast, Alexa and Sonos. Listen to your podcasts in more places than ever before.

POWERFUL PLAYBACK
Up next: Automatically build a playback queue from your favorite shows. Sign in and have that Up Next queue sync to all your devices.
Trim silence: Cut silences from episodes so you finish them faster, saving hours.
Variable speed: Change the play speed from anywhere between 0.5 to 3x.
Volume boost: Increase the volume of voices, while decreasing background noise.
Stream: Play episodes on the fly.
Chapters: Jump between chapters easily, and enjoy embedded artwork that the author has added (we support MP3 and M4A chapter formats).
Audio & video: Play all of your favorite episodes, toggle video to audio.
Skip playback: Skip episode intros, jump through episodes with custom skip intervals.
Wear OS: Control playback from your wrist.
Sleep timer: We'll pause your episode so you can rest your weary head.
Chromecast: Cast episodes straight to your TV with a single tap.
Sonos: Browse and play your podcasts directly from the Sonos app.
Android Auto: browse your podcasts and filters to find an interesting episode, then control playback. All without ever touching your phone.


SMART TOOLS
Sync: Subscriptions, Up Next, listening history, playback and filters are all securely stored in the cloud. You can pick up where you left off on another device and even the web.
Refresh: Let our servers check for new episodes, so you can get on with your day.
Notifications: We'll let you know when new episodes arrive, if you like.
Auto download: Automatically download episodes for offline playback.
Filters: Custom filters will organize your episodes.
Storage: All the tools you need to keep your podcasts tamed.

ALL YOUR FAVORITES
Discover: Subscribe to any podcast in iTunes and more. Browse by charts, networks and categories.
Share: Spread the word with podcast and episode sharing.
OPML: Jump on board without any hassle with OPML import. Export your collection at any time.

There are many more powerful, straight-forward features that make Pocket Casts the perfect podcasting app for you. So what are you waiting for?

Visit pocketcasts.com for more info about the web and other platforms supported by Pocket Casts.
Updated on
Mar 28, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.6
73.3K reviews
Naomi Colvin
March 21, 2024
updating rating from 2 stars to 1 because six months later, the problems have not, in fact, been solved and just keep happening. I just opened the app for the first time in a while and guess what! immediately I had to force quit to make podcasts actually show up. I've switched to podcast republic. I don't like it as much but at least it *works*
8 people found this review helpful
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Automattic, Inc
March 24, 2024
Thanks for your feedback. That's definitely not the experience we'd like you to have. If you don't have any downloaded files within Pocket Casts, we'd like you to give reinstalling the app a try. Alternatively, you can reach out for support here https://support.pocketcasts.com/contact-us/ and we'll be happy to help you from there.
Jeremy Henderson
March 23, 2024
Nothing worse than being on a long drive, listening to a downloaded podcast when suddenly the app completely stop playing and crashes every time you try to restart it. I've been using this for 8 or so years and like others are saying, it's getting that buggy, more features over functionality feeling. As a result I starting to look for another app for podcasts.
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Automattic, Inc
March 25, 2024
Hi, Jeremy! Are you using Android Auto when the app crashes? In any case, we'd love to look into this issue further for you, so please do reach out: https://support.pocketcasts.com/contact-us/
Daryl Naskale
March 8, 2024
I liked this app a lot when I started using it a few years ago and recommended it frequently, but it's had problems lately. It's just got that glitchy feel, it freezes up, fails to load, sometimes the audio disappears. If it wasn't buggy and feeling like it's getting worse if anything it would still be a great app. Love it when it works. 😕
20 people found this review helpful
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Automattic, Inc
March 14, 2024
Howdy! That doesn't sound great, and we'd like to investigate these matters further. Can you please contact us via https://support.pocketcasts.com/contact-us/? Thank you!

What's new

Now, you can navigate to a podcast by tapping on the episode in the player. Seeking playback speed control? You’ll find additional options to adjust it via notifications. Still craving more control? We’ve added a toggle option to display podcast artwork embedded in show notes. Last but not least, bookmarks have undergone improvements—no more unresponsive descriptions, incorrect timestamps, or failing to play when episodes are not shown in the episodes list.

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