Pocket Casts - Podcast App

In-app purchases
4.6
84.9K 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.

Still not convinced? Allow us to walk you through our free podcast listening app:

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
Jun 20, 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

4.6
80.9K reviews
Chris Morgan
June 23, 2025
edit 3/8: OK, after reinstalls I'm more comfortable with the UI and remedied a few bugs, but it's still a mess. As a longtime user, the new UI is downright mind boggling. A Rosetta Stone to translate between the versions would be helpful. Beyond that, it's glitchy. For instance, I sub to the NPR news brief podcast. I only ever want the most recent in my up next. I changed settings that seemed to correspond (auto archive > ep limit) but up next is full of previous eps.
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Tim Delaney
June 23, 2025
It won't play downloaded podcasts while phone is in airplane mode, making it useless. I think it's started injecting ads into my podcasts and I suspect that's part of the problem. If it can't pump ads in my ears it won't play my content. But I want to listen when flying or hiking. And I don't want it burning my cell data.
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Automattic, Inc
June 25, 2025
Hi, Tim! We do not add any ads to episodes. Any ads you hear will be from the podcast author themselves or their hosting provider. We have more information on that here: https://support.pocketcasts.com/knowledge-base/ads-in-episodes/ As for playing your downloaded episodes, please reach out: https://support.pocketcasts.com/contact-us/
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 a real page-turner: we’ve added shiny new notifications you can actually control. The follow button is now easier to catch (no more hide and seek), and the full screen Player won’t vanish at the flick of a wrist. We also fixed jittery bottom sheets and made sure even podcasts without a time stamp know when to wrap it up.