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

Lifetime subscription. Used this app for many years. Doesn't work at all. Would go into detail about what isn't working, but others have covered it thoroughly in their comments. I've cleared cache, deleted files, uninstalled, and reinstalled multiple times, but, still it doesn't work. Hopefully I can use the web application to see my podcast list so I can subscribe to them in a working program. Disappointed. (Edit: 9/24/23 - most recent app update appears to have fixed the recent major issues.)

I've been using Pocket Casts for a while (lifetime subscriber). It's probably the most complete podcast app as far as features go. I also enjoy the stats page. I've tried other apps but I always come back to this one. However, the sync feature simply doesn't work for me. My phone and tablet are constantly getting out of sync. It's quite annoying. For this particular reason, I cannot give this app more than 3 stars. Also, I don't know that I would use this app without the lifetime sub.

Stopped working after the latest update. When I click "Podcasts" in lower left corner, the screen is blank. Clicking on the blank screen does nothing. I've tried restarting the app and restarting my phone. I guess I need to find a new app for podcasts. I used to love this app. Been using it several years. I'm not eligible for tech support because I'm not a Plus user. Definitely not going to pay for an app that doesn't work!

What's new

* Updates:
* Enable copying logs from in-app logs viewer
* Remove email login from watch app
* Bug Fixes:
* Fixed auto archive settings getting lost when switching languages
* Improved handling of enabling/disabling new episode notifications
* Fixed the artwork not appearing on the onboarding page
* Improved multi-select toolbars setup on podcast details screen
* Various performance improvements