Pocket Casts - Podcast Player

In-app purchases
4.0
72.2K 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.
Android Wear: 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
Oct 3, 2022

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4.0
72.2K reviews
Alan Davis
October 7, 2022
Pocketcast is an amazing app, I've been using it since it was a paid app. My only issue is that the images (the show art work) for each episode stays the same even if each episode has different art thumbnails. At first I thought it was the fault of the podcast providers, but I checked spotify, Amazon music, and a few other podcast apps and the artwork for the same podcasts change depending on the episode. The "Use embedded podcast artwork" function is unresponsive, it's a useless feature.
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Automattic, Inc
October 11, 2022
Hi Alan, thanks for your feedback. I've added your suggestions to our list of feature requests.
Andrew (ohthembones)
October 8, 2022
Still no Google assistant support which means you still can't set pocket casts as your default podcast player in the Google home app. Something Spotify offered a few weeks after they started doing podcasts. Chromecast is unreliable as well. It often just stops playing for no reason and it's just this app, I don't have problems with any others. Without either of those things implemented or working well I'm looking for a replacement. Heck, the free Google podcast player is now more reliable.
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Automattic, Inc
October 14, 2022
Hi, Andrew! I get your frustration, but just for context, for both, we're limited by what Google makes available to us. On the other hand, services like Spotify have the resources to, for example, build their own Chromecast receivers. If we get the resources, or if Google makes any changes, we'd definitely make changes to improve both points!
Brian
September 28, 2022
Good but could be better. I've used many other podcast apps in the past. I've stuck with this cause of reliability and somewhat ease of it. The worst part of this, is the search functionality, it'll take a while to search for a podcast. It makes me wanna switch to a different podcast app just to explore new ones. The stats are a cool thing to see and cute little facts. Search and better discover page would make this a way better app
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Automattic, Inc
September 28, 2022
We're always working hard to improve the app. Thanks for your download and feedback.

What's new

You know the drill! After a big version, there's always an ugly duckling that squashes bugs away and improves things, and here we are!

By the way, Norwegian friends, this also fixes the confusion we made with "venstre" and "gjenstår". The first is "left" as the direction, and the second is "left" as the remaining time.

And that's how you learn Norwegian by reading release notes!