Podcast Player App - Castbox

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.3
281K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
Content rating
Teen
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About this app

Castbox is the best FREE Podcast Player & Podcast App on Android with over 24 million downloads, 280K reviews, 2 Billion episodes downloaded and Winner of Google Play Best 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.

The podcast player Castbox is a Winner of Google Play Best App! (Best Daily Helper and Best Hidden Gem)
Castbox is an Android Excellence App!

★ 🌟 Nominee of Google Play Fan Favorite App
★ 🏆 Winner of "Most Entertaining App" from Best Apps by Google Play
★ 🎊 Winner of "Top Trending Apps" from Global Best App by Google Play
★ ☝️ Winner of the Best Music + Audio App by TabbyAwards

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 to choose from, 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 in 27 different countries on your android devices. Discover popular podcasts on various topics including:

- 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, and if you love to listen, learn, or be entertained, you can find the best time to do so.
- 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
Mar 14, 2023

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
You can request that data be deleted
4.3
281K reviews
Jessicah Jones
March 19, 2023
I used to LOVE this player. It had a bunch of ads, which was annoying, so I paid for the ad free version. I didn't mind, because I liked the underlying product and people should be paid for good work. Recently, however, it's been very buggy (with EVERY episode of EVERY different podcast so I know it's the player). I finally got so fed up I switch to the Google podcast player, which is way inferior but at least works as intended. Happy to share more but I'm out of room. Please give me an email.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
March 19, 2023
Hi, sorry about this issue. Could you please kindly take a screen recording or a video regarding the whole process of the "Bug" issue, and send it to contact@castbox.fm? It would be very helpful for us to locate the issue and make the app right for you. Thank you very much for the support! :-) - Fiona
Jackie Olcott
March 17, 2023
I used to love this app. But now I think I'm going to look for a different podcast player. I've been having a terrible time where I will pause a podcast, and then when I hit play again, it has skipped back around 10 minutes. Also, the rewind 10 seconds/fast forward 30 seconds does more than 10 or 30 seconds. I haven't been able to figure out yet how off it is. Anyways, it's been very frustrating trying to get through listening to my favorite podcast, as it is a few hours long.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
March 17, 2023
Hi, sorry about this issue. Could you please kindly take a screen recording or a video regarding the whole process of the "Playback" issue, and send it to contact@castbox.fm? It would be very helpful for us to locate the issue and make the app right for you. Thank you very much for the support! :-) - Fiona
Jeff Simkowski
March 8, 2023
Podcasts now download completely after recent updates and were playing fine (thank you!). However, as of this latest update, I need to clear the app cache (45-62 MB) after a few hours. This wasn't an issue until the last two updates. I did notice that this coincides with new episodes appearing in my podcast list for new episode arrivals. Hopefully this is addressed as well. Bumping from 1 to 3 stars for now.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
March 9, 2023
Hi, thank you so much for adding 2 stars and giving us another chance! For the cache issue, could you go to the app "Personal" page - "Settings" - "Mobile Data Usage", and turn all options including "Show Episode Covers" off to see if it helps? If anything else, please reach us at contact@castbox.fm and we'll try our best to help you then.

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