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 really wanted this app to be the Google podcast replacement. It's dead simple to use and navigate, with a really nice, clean interface. I LOVE that. But some podcasts are missing (Rezvilla Highside/Lowside, etc), and since the last update a couple of my daily podcasts aren't updating at all. Sadly, I'm moving over to an app that I don't like nearly as much, but has all the content this one is missing. Hopefully these issues will be worked out in the future. Until then, I can't recommend.

Please bring back the old speed control. Some people talk slow, and some people talk fast. So I change my speed settings quite a lot with different podcasts. But no one ever talks slow enough to require 4x speed. After the update, it requires multiple taps to return to 1x. Actually, it doesn't. It goes to 1.5x. Please add a features to customize the default speed templates. PS: I would've sent this as feedback, but I didn't find the button in your app.

It's important to point out that until I specifically found and enabled the option for background activity, the app was extremely buggy with it's sleep timer. A prompt on install would be helpful, I don't think I missed any prompt. Beyond that, the app is very useful, non intrusive with it's ads and has a great filter system for finding new podcasts. I love it.

What's new

We’ve got some exciting new features for you! Now, you can use an advanced setting to cache playing episodes, improving your streaming experience and reducing playback jumps. Plus, there’s a handy new download episode action button in the Now Playing shelf list.

Our bug-fixing ninjas have also been hard at work. Sharing episodes with multi-selection now works seamlessly, and deselected chapters sync correctly across all platforms. Enjoy these updates and keep on listening!