Pocket Casts - Podcast Player

Automattic, Inc

In-app purchases

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.

Ratings and reviews

I'll be nuanced here. The app works great, except it doesn't handle situations gracefully. One day I was listening to a 2hr podcast and every time I got into the car it started from the beginning. I used the skip controls on the car. No response. I pressed pause then play. It restarted. On the phone, I had to open the app on the phone while driving to try to work the controls. The issue? It thinks there is a corrupted header. If it can play and download, it can fast forward or rewind. Excuses!

This app used to be great, I used it every day when I'm on my long commutes, while I'm working, cooking, taking a walk. Never had any issue. It does take a lot of space on my phone so every 6 months or so I'd have to uninstall & reinstall the app. No big deal. But in the past few weeks it's not refreshing, nothing will download, everything just goes into 'queued for download' and I'm needing uninstall and reinstall every other day. Even then it still doesn't work.

Volume through a headset is too low to hear. Everything else is fine through the headset but this app. To respond to the developer. It is all podcasts. You support page had nothing on it. No I haven't tried other headphones but I tried other podcast apps and they work. The issue is with either the os, your app or something in the headphones just doesn't like your app.

What's new

Trick or Treat Updates!

Unveil the secret artwork in your episode listings with a magical artwork setting! Let your playback align with your listening pace and skipped over chapters. Forget those slow searches in history and the phantom episodes on your downloads page — they’ve been ghosted away. And Android Auto users, treat your drive with a new progress bar in the browser view!

Enjoy the updates, and happy spooky listening!