Playapod

4.4
766 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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About this app

Playapod 2 is here and has tons of great features you have been requesting such as the Now Playing Media Bar, News & Blog Subscriptions w/ Text-To-Speech, Video Playback, Custom Groups, and much more. Playapod is the best way to listen to your favorite podcasts and features cross-platform device syncing, episode tracking down to the second, offline listening, fast performance, no ads, and more!

Playapod 2 Features:

• Now Playing Media Bar
Quickly access whatever is currently playing by tapping on the media bar at the bottom of the screen. It’s always on with quick access to play/pause. Tap the bar to bring up the full media player view.

• News & Blogs
Add news and blog feeds which will be played using text-to-speech. Text based feeds get turned into podcasts with progress bar history, current position, and bookmarking. Very unique feature!

• Video Playback
Full-screen video playback is now supported! Tap on the video to toggle full-screen mode.

• Content Details
Scrolling list of media items displays the description in addition to name, flags, date, size, and duration. Length of description can be configured in settings globally or per subscription.

• Recommendations
Pick a subscription to get back personal recommendations of other shows that are similar.

• Custom Groups & Filters
Filter content by Subscription (Favorites, Category), Media Flags (New, Listened, Downloaded, Bookmarked, Favorited), Media Type (Audio, Video, Text), and Order (Ascending, Descending). Save filters into Groups for quicker access.

• External Media Files
Add media files such as audio, video, and text files for playback.

• Subscribe to Anything
Playapod adds more feed formats to include RSS 1.0 (RDF) / RSS 2.0 / Atom Feeds that contain audio, video, and text.

• High Performance
Completely redesigned the refreshing of subscriptions for faster performance while removing duplicate content.

Playapod Core Features:

• Cross Platform Syncing
Sync all your podcast subscriptions and episode progress between multiple devices and across all platforms! Just sign-in with your favorite social network or with e-mail.

• Precision Progress Bar
Progress bar displays exactly the portions of episodes that you have listened down to the second. You'll never forget where you left off or what you skipped over!

• Bookmarking
Bookmark your favorite parts of any episode so you can quickly go back and listen again. Bookmarks are time-coded and cloud synced across all your devices.

• Playlist
Create a custom playlist of podcast episodes for all-day playback. Drag and drop reordering makes it easy to organize your favorites.

• Sleep Timer
Listen at night with the sleep timer that slowly fades the audio out to silence which reducing the chances of waking up.

• Integrations
Android Auto, Google Cast, Android Widget, & Bluetooth. Toggle media playback and skip forward/backward quickly using notification screen and remote media controls.

• Listen Offline
Download entire podcasts and listen on the go without a network connection or cellular data charges.

• Free & No Ads
Free download with no advertising! There are no bulky 3rd party ad networks that are known to kill battery life, slow performance, and consume network bandwidth.

• Push Notifications
Get new episode notifications so you stay on top of your favorite shows.

• Import Podcasts
Quickly bulk import a list of podcasts with OPML files (Outline Processor Markup Language XML Files).

• Advanced Configuration
Lots of settings to customize and tweak the behavior of the Playapod app.

• Customer Support
Our developers listen to your feedback and quickly fix all reported issues. E-mail our team from the settings screen or contact us on Facebook or Twitter.

Playapod Blog:
https://blog.playapod.com

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/playapod/

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/playapod

YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ywVOy88B8Bk

Website:
https://playapod.com/
Updated on
Feb 13, 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
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
723 reviews
Sandy Solomon
April 29, 2025
This might be the perfect podcast app. No ads, clean interface, playlists, auto-downloads, extensive database of podcast sources. No annoying pop-up ads that you have to flick away. This could be the holy grail of podcast apps. My only criticism is that you can't see your subs in grid view as the Google play profile screenshot suggests. if I am incorrect about this please show me how.
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Russ Irvine
July 11, 2025
Icons said episodes downloaded. Setup playlist for long drive. Did not know it was actually streaming until it cost 6 month download budget. Also poor filtering options. Not a good player.
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A Google user
September 24, 2018
Simple to use and light. Good but could be great. Really unintuitive menus. Have to scroll a lot and a lot of unnecessary tapping to go from one display to another. No reason for it to jump from played eposide to Playlist instead of directly to "downloads" really annoying that if you're listening to an old episode, the feed can't quickly jump to the latest chronological episode. It's good but needs some polishing to be great. Looking forward to this app in its full potential.
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TMSOFT
September 24, 2018
Thank you for your feedback! We are continually working on updates and new features based on customer feedback so we appreciate it.

What’s new

- Improvements to clarify when podcast is being previewed vs playing a subscribed podcast
- Bug fixes and library updates

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About the developer
TMSOFT, LLC
91220 Overseas Hwy Unit 1038 Tavernier, FL 33070-5052 United States
+1 703-679-8676

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