Google Podcasts

Google LLC

About this app

With Google Podcasts, you can play the latest episodes from your favorite shows, explore podcast recommendations just for you, and manage your listening activity.

Discover podcasts that you'll love
• Subscribe and listen to all your favorite podcasts.
• Explore show and episode recommendations just for you.
• Browse popular and trending shows in comedy, news, history, music, business, TV & film, education, health & fitness, technology, arts, science, sports and more.

Customize your listening experience
• Listen at faster playback speeds or skip over silences.
• Queue up episodes for a seamless listening experience.
• Easily keep track of your listening history, downloads and subscriptions.

Listen wherever you are
• Listen on multiple devices – phone, laptop, smart speaker – without losing your place.
• Stream episodes for instant playback or auto-download episodes to listen offline and on the go.
• Discover podcasts using Google Search and Google Assistant.

To find out more, visit our Help Centre: https://support.google.com/websearch/topic/9739148?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=3036132&p=podcasts&visit_id=637190448011338458-2709322194&rd=1

Ratings and reviews

I know rating an app that is discontinued is kind of pointless, but I just want to express my frustration that you're trying to make me use YouTube music for podcasts when it doesn't even work for music. I'll be using stitcher. (ETA: stitcher is gone. I guess I won't be playing any podcasts.) Also why was I asked if this app teaches piano? Of course it doesn't.

You're doing to this app the same as you did to Play Music; Taking a perfectly functional, good app, and trying to force the use of YouTube Music by needlessly sunsetting it. I know there are plenty of Podcast apps I could be using, but they're all bloated with ads and clunky interfaces. Google is slowly killing its own apps to force us all into YouTube Music, so they can force ads and subscriptions on us to nickle-and-dime us just to get basic functionality.

This app worked just fine, Google. What are you killing it for!? YouTube music is god awful for podcasts. I try to make a playlist, it bloats my queue with other podcasts from the first channel I selected. I try to search for an old podcast it gives me a bunch of other casts that have little to do with what I wanted. I'm never using for podcasts again. I'm switching to Spotify or whichever else still has all my channels.

What's new

Google Podcasts now supports adding podcasts by RSS feed! Open the app and navigate to Activity, and then to the Subscriptions tab. Select the three dots in the top right corner and then "Add by RSS Feed." Once added, the podcast will appear along with your other subscribed shows, including at the top of the Home tab.