Podcast Player - Castbox

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4.8
300K reviews
10M+
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Editors' Choice
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Teen
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About this app

With Castbox, you can find all your favorite shows, get the latest episodes, discover more recommendations, and customize your listening experience.

Castbox is the best FREE Podcast Player & Podcast App on Android.

Our OPML Import feature makes it easy to transfer your subscribed podcasts from other apps to Castbox. This ensures that you don't miss a beat in your podcast listening and can continue enjoying your favorite shows without interruption. Try it out today and discover why Castbox is the ultimate podcast app.

The best free podcast player and podcast app to find, save, download, and listen to your favorite podcasts (such as Crime Junkie, Stuff You Should Know, The Daily), FM, radio and audiobooks.

Castbox is an easy to use free podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigate interface. With a wide category of podcasts, you can stream or download your favorite podcasts anywhere, anytime for free.

Access over 95 million audio content including podcasts, audiobooks, FM radio and more on your android devices. Discover popular podcasts on various topics:

- News & Politics podcasts: CNN 10, NPR News Now, Fox News Radio Newscast, The Overcast by The Seattle Times;
- Music-related podcasts: Dissect from Cole Cuchna & Spotify Studios, Defected Radio, Capital FM;
- Games & Hobbies podcasts: Wolverine: The Lost Trail from Stitcher;
- Sports podcasts: The Ringer MLB Show, MLB Network, The Chicago Audible;
- Technology podcasts: The Overcast Podcast, This Week in Google, Google Cloud Platform Podcasts;
- Talk Shows: Sincerely, X from TED and Audible, By The Book from Stitcher, Luminary from Luminary.fm
- Business podcasts: Youpreneur FM Podcast;
- Sleep: Sleep With Me, Guided Sleep Meditations, Sleep and Relax ASMR

Castbox is perfect for a variety of situations.
- Listen to daily news updates from your favorite commentators as you drink your morning coffee.
- Flip to your favorite channel during your daily commute or drive with Waze and listen on your way to work or school.
- Plug in while you are running, at the gym, or just walking your dog and make the most out of every minute.
- Unwind at the end of the day and relax before bed with a story or meditation to ensure a good night’s sleep.
- Import your favorite podcasts with OPML from Google podcast, Overcast, iHeartradio, Pocket Casts, Podbean, Podcast Addict, Spotify, Stitcher, the Podcast app, Tunein, and apple podcast app!

Castbox is proud to present you all of the popular podcasts:
Fox News, Freakonomics Radio from Stitcher, Call Her Daddy, Phil in the Blanks by Dr. Phil, Bill O'Reilly, Today, Explained from Vox and Stitcher, S Town, The Luminary Agent Podcast, BBC iPlayer Radio, Criminal, Heaven's Gate from Stitcher, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, ESPN Radio, My Favorite Murder, NPR, Radiolab, Serial, Sleep with Me, Stuff You Should Know, Sword and Scale, TED Radio Hour, TEDTalks, The Dave Ramsey Show, LeVar Burton Reads from Stitcher, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Tim Ferriss Show, Wolverine from Marvel and Stitcher, Luminary podcast from Luminary.fm, Luminary Business with Todd Staples, Olympik iPlayer Podcasts, You are dead to me by BBC Sounds, Friday Night Comedy from BBC iPlayer Radio, Brexitcast by BBC Sounds and iPlayer Radio, Comedy of the Week by BBC iPlayer Radio, the Doorstep Murder by BBC iPlayer Radio, Fall of the Shah by BBC Sounds, Waze by davchti, Waze Out Radio by Waze Out Radio, KVR Music Tracker, Tracker, VGM Tracker, The Christie Tracker, TV Tuners, Sales Tuners, Is The Tuner On?, Tuner, Life Tuner
Updated on
May 22, 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
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Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.8
290K reviews
Diana Staresinic-Deane
May 26, 2024
Good but glitchy. When it works, it's great, but it often doesn't work. Despite being on the correct settings, Castbox "forgets" to enable earbud controls and allowing notifications and driving directions to override podcast play, forcing me to toggle the selection switch on and off to get it to work again. This is especially annoying if I'm on the road and have to pull over to fix it. The app randomly crashes for no known reason and has to be restarted.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
May 27, 2024
Sorry for such inconvenience. For the Bluetooth related issue, please check this article and set it up: https://helpcenter.castbox.fm/portal/en/kb/articles/bluetooth-issues. And when you have the crash issue, please go to the app Settings > More > About > Contact us > Submit report via email and send the screen recording to contact@castbox.fm
John Darling
May 23, 2024
Seems like it wants to do everything BUT play podcasts. I don't want to "engage with the community" and I dont want all the other "features" it's trying to provide at the expense of a clean & intuitive UI. Downloading random podcasts took forever to figure out how to stop. The controls are not intuitive. You have to click through 3 screens to find settings but by God, your "inbox" is front and center. Hard to use while exercising/driving because controls are tiny (to make room for ads).
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
May 24, 2024
Hi, sorry for that. On the guidance page, you can uncheck the suggested podcasts. Also, to fully disable the auto-download feature, please go to the app Personal tab > Settings > Auto download > New Episodes > turn it off. We have forwarded your request to our development team and product team. For more info, please reach us at contact@castbox.fm.
Travis Babb
May 22, 2024
After searching through a half dozen podcast players, this is clearly the right choice. Intuitive GUI, automatically allowed me to pause from lock screen, skip ahead is 30 sec (standard) but skipping backwards only goes 10 sec (which I LOVE when just missing something small) and all ads are very unintrusive. The last podcast player you will ever need!
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