Pocket Casts - Podcast App

In-app purchases
4.4
85.3K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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About this app

Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful free podcast app, an app by listeners, for listeners. Our free podcast player app provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. Podcast addict? Discover new podcasts with our hand-curated podcast recommendations for easy discovery, and seamlessly enjoy your popular and favorite podcasts without the hassle of subscribing.

Here’s what the press has to say:
- Android Central: “Pocket Casts is the best podcasts app for Android”
- The Verge: “The best podcast player for Android”
- Named Google Play Top Developer, Google Play Editors’ Choice, and recipient of the Google
- Material Design Award.

BEST PODCAST APP
- Material design: Your podcast player app has 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 5x.
- 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.
- Used Google Podcast in the past? Pocket Casts is the perfect next step

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 and subscribe to our podcast player app on iTunes and beyond. Explore top charts, networks, and categories with ease.
- 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.
- Looking for an Apple podcast app for iPhone or for Android? Pocket Casts is your go-to choice.
There are many more powerful, straight-forward features that make Pocket Casts the best podcasts app for android. So what are you waiting for? Visit pocketcasts.com for more info about the web and other platforms supported by Pocket Casts.

Download Pocket Casts, the best free podcast app for Android.
Updated on
Jul 18, 2025

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.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
81.3K reviews
Adam Burgess
July 15, 2025
It does work but, my goodness, is it inconsistent. At least once a day it just won't display my podcasts and / or will queue downloads but won't actually download them. When this happens, there's also no consistent solution - I've tried closing and re-opening the app, checking for updates and resetting my phone but nothing works. It does eventually work again if I wait long enough, but it's infuriating when trying to quickly download an episode you know is available.
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Automattic, Inc
July 16, 2025
Not being able to play or queue downloads is frustrating! Thanks for trying the troubleshooting steps. This sounds like a known issue with downloads that will be addressed in the next app update. If the update doesn't resolve the issue, reach out to our team via https://support.pocketcasts.com/contact-us/, and we will be more than happy to assist!
T Parton
May 23, 2025
Probably the best podcast app, been a user for years. One small annoyance, unsure if this is a bug or new feature as it's only just started happening, but podcasts I have set to "play next" are now taking the place of any episodes I'm partway listening too, instead of next in the queue, so having to go into my queue and select the episode I was halfway through. Hoping just a bug cause it's kindof annoying
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Shane Carlson
June 22, 2025
(Android 15) app is extremely unresponsive, episodes from various podcasts take ages to load, while other apps load content in the blink of an eye. The search function for finding podcasts is also garbage. Half the time it will show only episodes and not podcasts, even when doing a search like "serial", where I know there is a podcast of that name.
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Automattic, Inc
June 23, 2025
Thanks for your feedback! Please update to the newest version of the app and test search again. We'd be happy to investigate the issue with slow loading times further if you can send us your app logs via the app at Profile > Help & Feedback.

What’s new

This one’s got range! Transcripts now join the party in episode details, and Smart Categories are showing off what’s hot based on your clicks. Discover got a design refresh, landscape mode is back (we missed you), and we squashed bugs from clingy downloads to ghost notifications. Even the navigation bar stopped showing up uninvited.