Pocket Casts - Podcast App

In-app purchases
4.5
84.4K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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About this app

Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful podcast app, an app by listeners, for listeners. Our podcast player app provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. Podcast addict? 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 podcasts app for Android”
The Verge: “The best podcast player 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 our free podcast listening app:

BEST IN SHOW
Material design: Your podcast player app has 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 5x.
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 best podcasts app for android. So what are you waiting for?

Visit pocketcasts.com for more info about the web and other platforms supported by Pocket Casts.
Updated on
May 8, 2025

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

4.5
80.4K reviews
Emily Colley
May 2, 2025
Overall a great podcast app. I have tried a few after unsubscribing from Spotify and most are junk. This app has a nice interface and is easy to use. The discover feature however is limited and only shows a select amount of each genre of podcast, meaning I have to search for podcasts outside of the app. I wish there was a feature that recommended podcasts based on your subscriptions or listens.
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Dafydd Stone
May 3, 2025
The app is pretty good in most regards but I'm having issues with not being able to skip forward/rewind or scrub along the timeline with multiple different podcasts and it always starting from the beginning when I pause and close the app and then reopen to resume at a later point. Just really frustrating.
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Automattic, Inc
May 4, 2025
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. Sorry to hear about the skipping/resume issues. Please contact our support through the Pocket Casts app via "Profile > Help & Feedback > Get in touch" so we can help!
Toby Mallinson
April 18, 2025
Pocket Cast worked well enough until it didn't. I've been using it for several years. I've always found it to be overcomplicated and unintuitive. Today it glitched without warning and has irretrievably deleted all my subscriptions and lists. I've emailed support and found that only paying subscribers get support. This would be fair enough if the app wasn't prone to catastrophic failure. I'm now setting up on AntennaePod. Update - I've uninstall and reinstalled and got my lists and subs back.
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Automattic, Inc
April 20, 2025
We're sorry to hear you experienced this issue with your subscriptions and lists. While support priority is given to paid users, we appreciate you updating the review with the reinstall solution. We're always working to improve the app's reliability.

What’s new

Kalimera, Greece! We’ve added support for Greek, so Pocket Casts now speaks your language.

Ever notice episodes not showing their video sometimes? We fixed that bug! Everything should stay in sync now.